Category: Big Education
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Your Minnesota Tax Dollars As Work
U of M professor, clad in a terror scarf, calls for “dismantling” the US: I seek to dismantle the United States. I hope you seek to dismantle the United States. And if that isn’t your politics…OK? (Hahahahahah). I speak as if everyone has this commitment. And the thing is, you should have this commitment. This…
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In Defense Of The Brain
It’s not news to anyone who’s been following the subject – education is in crisis. And the mainstream conservative response seems to be “let it burn!” If you talk with a lot of mainstream conservatives, the kids should be heading straight out into apprenticeship programs and becoming electricians, HVAC techs, plumbers, truckers… And I get…
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Payback
Minnesota schools failed during the pandemic. Some might say they collapsed. Governor Klink isn’t gonna let that happen again: Aside from trying to deal with the deficit he created, he’s trying to pay back his cronies in the Teachers Unions.
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The Press Conference I’d Like To See: Take 2
TAKE 2: A couple of key paragraphs disappeared from this one on Friday, the first time I tried it… SCENE: A press conference at the Minnesota State University system. Spokesperson Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK stands nervously in front of a podium, facing a gaggle of barely-engaged press, and Mitch BERG of Shot in the Dark/AM1280/HotAir. BIRKENSTOCK: So,…
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Schooled
Joe Doakes, looking at Como Park through his rear-view mirror, emails: Harvard is pushing back against President Trump’s demands for reform. President Obama praised them for resisting. He is joined by several Thoughtful Republicans Of Moderate Bona fides On Neither Extreme Side (TROMBONES, the new and more acceptable word for people formerly known as RINOs)…
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DOGE: Making Australia Australian Again
I’ll admit it – two months of DOGE has made me a little inured to stories about outlandish things that the Federal Government spends our money on. Promoting DEI in Serbia? Transgender comic books in Peru? Yaaawn. Get back to me when you’ve got something interesting. So when I heard that there…
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No, Seriously. Don’t Ever Change.
Namecalling during the 2024 Presidential election turned out not to be a “wonder weapon” for the left. Turns out bullying, castigating and defaming people doesn’t win them over. It’s a lesson most people learn by middle school. The Minnesota left still hasn’t learned it, oddly enough: Hmm. Making it a crime to tell the truth,…
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Your Tax Dollars At Work
University of Kansas prof says that men who don’t vote for Harris/Klink should be… Well, it’s all right here. Go for it. Not that this is news, necessarily. The University issued one of those “Oaaaaakaaaay, we’ll look into it, because hypothetically that’s not the kind of thing we approve of here, if it happened…” statements…
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Outcomes
Look – it’s not like there’s any reason at all, ever, that I’d vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I am not better off than I was four years ago, and likely either are you. But in addition to the whole “communist” thing, she appears to have been exactly the kind of soulless bureacratic…
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Not To Be Left Behind
Hamline University in Saint Paul is an exquisitely expensive instution that seems to be not quite as prestigious as Saint Thomas, and always a couple of degrees behind Macalester in terms of the impeccability of their leftist orientation. But they aren’t to be left behind. Here’s their “pro-Palestine” neo-Brownshirt “encampment”, as a rainy night ended…
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Open Letter To Campus Protesters And Their Faculty/Administration Simps
Everything that needs to be said about you – those who deny the use of the institution for which the majority of the students, and the taxpayers, pay (and pay, and pay and pay and pay) was said almost six decades ago… …by the best president of my lifetime (and yours, if you’re over 37…
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A Modest But Emphatic Proposal
It’s high time we stopped calling Ivy Leaguers like this Columbia spokesbeing: …as “our best and brightest”. By the way – at “Mitch Berg University”, students who infringe other students rights – Jewish, conservative, liberal, communist, I don’t care – by depriving them of the use of the campus they pay to attend will be…
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The Kristallnacht Theme Park
Harvard and MIT disgraced the nation’s “elite academia” last year. Columbia says “hold my kombucha”: Yep – progs standing in the door of the schoolhouse, trying to keep the race they hate out. Is a single Democrat office-holder or leader anywhere going to condemn this? “Columbia University’s Public Safety and the NYPD cannot guarantee Jewish…
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Saint Louis Park Schools Seeks Word Salad Chef
Saint Louis Park Public Schools is looking for a new Assistant Superintendent. But not just any Assistant Super. Nosirreebob. This one is going to have some extra special administrator-fu (emphasis added): The first sentence of the position’s summary says, “the Assistant Superintendent proactively supports the Superintendent to create and communicate anti-racist structures and systems, works…
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EdMinn’s Curious Self-Indictment
Wait – didn’t the DFL in the Legislature spend most of April and May of last year doing the endzone happy dance celebrating having “fully funded” education? I do believe they did. So – what is up with this? Now, when you asked a DFL legislator or an EdMN partisan what “Full Funding” meant, the…
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Let’s Not Forget…
…who the real victim in the Claudine Gay flap at Harvard (according to the university’s governing “Corportation”) actually is. It’s Claudine Gay: “And she’d have gotten away with it, if it wasn’t for those darn meddling pouncing conservativesI”! And while Gay is gone, let’s remember that it’s not for the reason she should have been…
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Settler Projects
Among the “setter projects” that Americans established as we (yes) conquered the North American continent, along with representative democracy, were universities. And I’m thinking that those are among the “settler projects”… …that actually need to be dismantled. Or at least, it’s time for an actual honest-to-god McCarthy-style purge of Universities.
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Inconvenient
I wonder if the members of the DFL “coalition”… …will start to put together for themselves how much of that “alliance” is built on social gaslighting and browbeating by their white, pronouned, “progressive” overseers. (and, naturally, their “leaders” bellying up to the trough for their graft paymetns)?
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Junk Food For Thought
One the current tropes among the populist right is that “college is useless, and you should send your kids to learn a trade”. There’s a truck loaded with cinder blocks full of truth in there – for many 18 year olds, a year or two spent learning how to weld, be an electrician or mechanic…
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Fake News?
Someone claiming to be MN State Senator Grant Hauschild posted this on TWitter yesterday: This must be a Russian hoax. Hauschild,and the rest of the DFL caucus in the legislature, to say nothing of the Flanagan/Klink Administration, spent the whole first half of summer high-fiving each other over “fully funding education” (in between selfies of…
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Things I Didn’t Have On My Bingo Card For Today…
…or ever: Ryan Winkler is right. And the Minnesota Federation of Teachers has gone full Brownshirt. Notice that the “Resolution” says nothing about the Hamas Charter’s call for the extermination of the Jews “from the river to the sea”. Weird. Also – BDS is not “peaceful”. It’s just an unarmed form of belligerency.
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Erin Maye Quade Props Up The Overton Window With Berg’s 24th Law
Senator Erin May Quade assumes DFL voters aren’t that bright, critical or well-informed. She was commenting about the GOP Debate from Wednesday: Now, if you haven’t been in a coma or getting your news from the Strib for the past 20 years, you know: Maye Quade is counting on reaching “voters” know don’t know and…
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DFLiars: Flimmed And Flammed
Wait just a doggone minute. I read this earlier today: Now, wasn’t it just 2-3 months ago that Ken Martin, Governor Klink and Co-Governor Flanigan, the brodudes in the MNDFL Communications office and the chattering hamsters of the DFL Legislative caucuses telling us they’d “fully funded” education? Why yes.. It was: And yet they never…
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Best Of Hands
This is National Education Association primo Becky Pringle, speaking to the Red Guards in Shanghai in 1961. Just kidding. She’s speaking – er, “Speaking” – to a teachers convention. She walked on her applause for a solid minute. That’s just bizarre. OK – so it’s poll time. Who does Pringle most resemble: A: The austere…
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Your Private Catholic University Dollars At Work
University of Saint Thomas, as a matter of policy, apparently doesn’t tell young women if their assigned dorm roommate is is a bio-male who identifies as female: This, according to [UST Housing Director Zoe] Chang, is done as discreetly as possible in order to avoid upsetting parents. The video, OMG said in an email, documents…