Category: Big Education
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Government By Platitude
Governor Walz released… …well, he called it his “education plan”, earlier this week. Those of us who work in business – which significantly, has never included anyone in our executive branch – can identify what this…thing, is. It’s a two page list of platitudes. One and a half when you leave out the header. None…
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Bigotry Of Bizarre Expectations
Kind of a good news, bad news situation here. But maybe not in the way you think. A teachers union president in Washington State refers to reopening schools as a “white supremacist” initiative. The good – or “good” – news: this is an example of the type of rhetorical, social and policy overreach one can…
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Memory
Memory is a survival trait. Squirrels remember where they buried the nut, so they can eat it laterto survive the winter. Those that don’t, die. Children remember burning their finger, so they treat firerespectfully. Those who don’t, burn to death. Conservatives remember past public policy disasters, so we can avoidrepeating them. We use monuments and…
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The Fix
Macalester students, forced to “study” remotely, get not a dime’s worth of break on their tuition. Their institutions’ president has other priorities: Now might be a fine time for conservative entrepreneurs to start getting into the higher ed business.
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He/She/Whatever Who Forgets History Is Susceptible To Democrat Drivel
It’s possible that the collapse of public education isn’t a plot to make society dumber and more susceptible to totalitarian meddling. But it’s hard to figure how they’d do a better job of it if they were trying: Nearly 20 percent of millennials and Gen Z in New York believe Jews caused the Holocaust, according…
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Cop Out
The Defund the Police movement hitches it’s wagons into the western suburbs. In the apparently halcyon days of April 2018, students and school officials of the Hopkins School District gathered together in what was called “National Walkout Day” in memory of the horrific tragedy of the Columbine school shootings 19 years earlier. Students spoke of…
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Choice
A friend of the blog writes: Just had an online meeting with our kid’s teacher. Expectations were laid out and kid is expected to be on time and we can expect a daily schedule that has the kid doing school work live, on line from 9-3:30. (There are breaks built in as there are during…
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Urban Progressive Privilege: The Free Market Of Ill-Informed, Class-Privilege-Sodden Twaddle They Are Pleased To Call “Ideas”
I listen to NPR so you don’t have to. And there are some reasons it’s worth it. I mean, that’s where you get Live From Here with Chris Thile. Well, for now, anyway. Otherwise, there’s… …well, a lot of racial virtue-signaling. I suspect the most lilywhite of America’s organizations is fearing a lot of backlash…
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Badly Conceived
The governor’s hybrid school plan troubles me. I’ve been informed integrated schools are neccessary so white students get the rich diversity of Black Latino and Asian students in the classroom to share their experiences. Will students coming to school on even-numbered days be carefully selected to balance racial and gender diversity? I’ve been informed slow…
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Wage Terrorists
Teachers unions typically threaten to strike if they don’t get more money. It’s like strapping a bomb to the kid and saying, “Pay us the money or the kid gets it.” This Time It’s Different. They strapped a bomb to themselves and are saying, “Close the school or the teacher gets it.” Millions of parents…
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Focus
Education Minnesota has released its legislative priorities. And it’s focused on students like a dog chasing a squirrel: Minnesota’s teachers’ union Education Minnesota recently posted its 2020 resolutions, laying out its three priorities for the new year: 1. Get out 100% of the educator vote2. Take back the state Senate3. Win full funding for Minnesota…
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Some Pathological Liars Are More Equal Than Others
Famous not-actual-Native American Elizabeth Warren, who was not fired from a job for being pregnant, didn’t actually send her kid to public school. But it took other people, in every case, to make that info public. The school thing? Oh, yeah: Sarah Carpenter, a pro-school choice activist who organized a protest of Warren’s Thursday speech in…
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#MeThree
This is from a few years ago – but the sentiment is growing, at least among our self-appointed idiot elite. It’s from Roxane Gay, a feminist professor who, for some reason, got a writeup in the NYTimes: Men can start putting in some of the work women have long done in offering testimony. They can…
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Why Blue America Is Doomed
Math is racist. Achievement is supremacy. Winston. Seattle Public Schools adopt program that turns math into yet another grievance studies program: In October, Seattle public schools unveiled a “framework” to inject “math ethnic studies” into all K-12 math classes, teaching “how math has been and continues to be used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color.”Students will be asked…
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Surprising Precisely Nobody
College Republican display at the U of M’s annual “Paint the Bridge” party vandalized. For the fourth year in a row: The group said their panel, which included text reading, “Donald Trump The Wall,” “Draining the Swamp,” and “America FIRST mentality,” was covered up within a day. I wonder, sometimes, if the Democrats wonder what…
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The Future Is Orwellian
I went to a pretty unheralded little college in the middle of nowhere. And it was one of the great experiences of my life. It wasn’t that I learned things that directly helped me in the job market; my BA in English with minors in History and German didn’t kick open the doors of corporate…
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That Moment When…
…you see a headline on social media that you just swear has to be from Babylon Bee, but it’s not: St. Paul school board members aren’t paid enough, St. Paul school board members say But sure enough, it’s a real story. Or as real as the mainstream media gets, anyway. Of course, they preside over…
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The Wrong Profile
The unqualified David Hogg couldn’t get into a junior college in Florida on his merits, but Harvard grabbed him because he’s got the right Social Justice profile. Kyle Kashuv – who survived the same shooting – got into Harvard on his merits. Or so he thought. Kashuv explains in this twitter thread: 1/ THREAD: Harvard…
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Tipping Point
Seen on (and observed about) a snowflake protest sign: You guys, the campus socialists might have one-upped Westborough Baptist 😂 pic.twitter.com/SGcTNfJ9OP— Daniel G. Weldon II 🌴☀️ (@DanWeldonFL) April 24, 2019 It’s an astute observation – but Big Left’s control over the entire education system is a lot more dangerous than Westboro, even with their platoon…
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But Of Course I Trust The Media…
NYTimes reporter tweets: I'm a New York Times reporter writing about #exposechristianschools. Are you in your 20s or younger who went to a Christian school? I'd like to hear about your experience and its impact on your life. Please DM me. — Dan Levin (@globaldan) January 24, 2019 Gosh – what do you suppose his angle is…
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Pick Your Scandals
Sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church is the flavor of the month. Sexual abuse of children in public schools is SQUIRREL! Other sources confirm this problem is big—“far more common” than you want to believe. Further, just like the Catholic problem, public schools “continue to conceal the actions of dangerous educators in ways that allow them…
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Why Do Liberals Want Children To Be Murdered (Even After They’re Born)?
Obama’s education secretary urges people to boycott schools “until gun laws are changed”: Duncan said in an interview Saturday that the idea was intended to be provocative but that an aggressive approach like a school boycott is needed if gun laws are ever going to change. He has school-age children and said if this idea…
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As Foretold By Thomas Sowell
It was about four years ago that Thomas Sowell – one of America’s most irreplaceable public intellectuals – called out the Federal Government for jamming policies down onto schools that led, among many other things, to Nik Cruz killing 17 people last winter. As with all things Sowell – read the whole thing.
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The Only Rule Of Academic Club Is “Never Talk About Academic Club”
A university student is under investigation for blowing the whistle on a hack “professor” who believes conservative students are “evil” – her words – and is acting on the belief: Siena College student Zack Butler is currently under investigation for allegedly violating the school’s code of conduct and could face punishments as severe as expulsion.…
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Watching The Bubble Pop
There are no worthless degrees [1] – only dumb, entitled or inflexible people. My BA in English set me up pretty good for a life where I changed careers 2-3 times before I turned 40, and taught myself to work in a STEM-related field (and doing very well, thankewverymuch). But my major advisor, the late…