Category: Big Education
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Contempt
It was probably 15 years ago that I wound up running into a young Assistant US Attorney at a social event. We got to talking – as I am wont to do with, well, people. What quickly became evident in talking with him – early 30s, graduate of an Ivy League law school after having…
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Unquestionably
The U of M paid Nikole Hannah-Jones $50K to speak at the U – and complied with a demand to conceal the evidence (emphasis added by me): Hannah-Jones participated in a Dec. 6 “moderated discussion” as part of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs Distinguished Carlson Lecture Series. According to a contract obtained by Alpha News, the university paid…
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This Is Today’s DFL
This is what every family in the Minnesota public school system faces todaym. This person is running for the Centennial school board: This is the educational/industrial compex’s priority. This is on the ballot in two weeks. Never forget it. UPDATE: And the consequence of school board members like her aren’t remotely, uh, academic: “Fridays and…
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Buyin’ Time
You knew it was coming. And here it is — student loan “forgiveness,” baby: President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he will forgive $10,00 in federal student debt for most borrowers, fulfilling a campaign pledge and delivering financial relief to millions of Americans. Biden will cancel up to $20,000 for recipients of Pell Grants. “Both…
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The Right Indoctrination
SCENE: Mitch BERG is at REI, getting a handlebar cell phone carrier for hjs bike. He rounds the corner from the coffee cups, and runs into Avery LIBRELLE, who is shopping for…something? BERG tries to backpedal quietly away, but it’s too late. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Oh, shhhhhhhhure as I stand here today, it’s Avery… LIBRELLE:…
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Can The Center Hold?
I’m not one of those conservatives that bags on teachers as his default setting. My mother’s parents were teachers. My dad was a great teacher. My little sister teaches. Three out of four of them voted or vote GOP. Teachers are as individual as anyone else. Now, as an example, when bad cops – corrupt…
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Appeal To Ridicule
Senate majority leader Gazelka called it: the various metro teachers unions are making a grab for a chunk of the “9 billion dollar surplus”. Erin Murphy – Senator from the mean streets of Highland Pari, and living proof that the DFL is the party of misogyny – decided to chirp: Yeah, those damn teachers… …who…
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For The Children
Less anyone wonder why the teachers unit in Minneapolis is out on strike – besides grabbing “their share“ of the “surplus“ – their union boss spells it out pretty clearly: At least she was honest-ish.
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“Great Time For A Strike, Denise…”
Minneapolis teachers will likely be walking off the job. The timing…doesn’t seem great, from their perspective: I think Majority Leader Gazelka got this one right:
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Some Conclusions “Science” Needs To Make
I’m not sure there’s scientific evidence of any of these – but if someone gave me a seven figure government grant, I’m sure I could come up with some. School Kids “Walking Out Of Class” Is Not Spontaneous: Big Left must be trying to get people to the polls in nine months; the headlines are…
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Freedom Isn’t Free…
…and, according to some fairly disturbing college professors, isn’t really freedom, either.
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There’s A Part Of Me…
…that looks at an article like this, (and, for that matter, infuriating junior-high-level behavior like this among America’s future US attorneys) cheering on the demise of regard for academia outside, well, academia, and things “More, faster, now!”. But while it’s a fact that academia has tutyhis rned into a cesspool of leftist indoctrination, I get…
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The Modern Conundrum
I was told that if I voted for Donald Trump, school boards would be overrun with domestic terrorists. And they were right. “For those who got an issue with this critical race theory equity, this is something I fight for, for my children,” Austin reportedly said during the school board meeting . “How dare you…
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A Long Train Of Abuses And Usurpations
If society can’t trust its public institutions to do their jobs fairly and impartially, self-government is impossible. We’ll come back to that. In the generally outstanding Danish TV program Rita – about a middle school teacher fighting burnout – there was one particularly jarring moment, if you were an American parent; the eponymous teacher was…
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School Dazed
Over the past few weeks, the news that young men are rapidly heading toward being a superminority – 1/3 of the population – at America’s colleges and universities has seemed to come as a surprise to the bits and pieces of the media that have reported on it at all – like, for instance, this…
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Left on The Table
The National Education Association – the organization that actually does ruthlessly wield the money and influence Big Left attributes to the NRA – is tripling down on “social and economic justice” and Critical Race Theory. You can read the article (about the NEA’s attempts to silence opposition and extend the social justice curricula) at your…
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A Little Hope
This video’s been making the rounds. I’ve had at least a half dozen people refer it to me. It’s Brad Taylor, speaking last week at the Rosemount School Board, on how his education has already been given over to indoctrination: I give speaker points: the kid is excellent. All you folks moving to the third-tier…
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New Wrinkle
When last we met Rashad Turner, he was the firebrand leader of the Saint Paul chapter of BLM. What a difference a couple years can make: It would seem Turner started having misgivings about BLM for some of the same reasons I did – the organization joined with the Teachers union to piddle on the…
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“Investment”
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Does obtaining a Master’s Degree in Teaching make you a better teacher, or does it make you a better credentialed public employee union member now entitled to change salary lanes? Is a $2,500 tax credit good public policy? Joe Doakes Rhetorical question, right?
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All In This Together. Yuuup.
Vice President – and let’s be honest, future President, most likely after January 2023, so she has the statutory opportunity to “serve” two full terms of her own – Harris, expressing her deep empathy for working parents with kids at home: If homeschooling, charter school and private school activists don’t start using this in their…
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Logic
No less an authority than Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream informs me that public schools are hotbeds of systemic racism. No less an authority than President Trump informed me that racism is evil. Plainly, then, the conclusion must be obvious: public schools are evil. Minnesota spends more than $13 Billion per year promoting evil. We should stop doing…
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For Me But Not For Ye Yadda Yadda Bla Bla
California teachers union official who’s spent months claiming that schools are unsafe… …you already know where this is going, don’t you? Yet another Democrat official demanding compliance from the proles, while seizing special treatment for them and theirs. Right? Right. And you know he’s a Democrat, because, well, he’s white, and elected, and in Berkeley,…
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Bad News / Good News
The bad news: As I observed with Ann Bauer while filling in for Brad Carlson last week, lockdowns are killing kids – especially kids who are, like so many these days, predisposed to mental illness: Millions of American kids are struggling, and their chances for long-term improved mental health is predicated on the notion that…