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Schooled

By Mitch Berg

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) who agree that yes, racial discrimination is bad, and viewpoint discrimination is bad, and antisemitism is bad, but is that any of the federal government’s business, particularly at their elite private Ivy League alma mater?

Harvard’s defenders have a point. But so does Trump.

The purpose of federal student loans is to help poor kids go to college. The purpose of federal research grants is to subsidize schools who can’t afford to hire good people. Why should grandma pay income tax on her Social Security to subsidize leftist hatred at a billion dollar private school?

Trump should announce that henceforth, student loans and research grants will be based on need – individual and institutional. Harvard can subsidize its own students and researchers to hate whomever they like on their own nickel.

Joe Doakes

I’d love to see schools fill out a FAFSA form and spend a few weeks waiting to see if they get qualified.

This entry was posted by by Mitch Berg on Thursday, April 17th, 2025 at 4:27 am and is filed under Big Education, Big Left, Education. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

8 Responses to “Schooled”

  1. bosshoss429 Says:
    April 17th, 2025 at 7:57 am

    It looks like the IRS is moving to remove Hahvud’s tax exempt status. They can’t have it both ways. If you want to be a private institution and make your own rules, then do do, but don’t ask for public money!

  2. John "Bigman" Jones Says:
    April 17th, 2025 at 8:01 am

    Leaping Lizards, are great minds thinking alike – Trump, Doakes and Hinderocker?

    Powerline has a post up comparing Harvard to Bob Jones University. Amazing stuff coming from a Harvard Law School alum.

  3. dcs Says:
    April 17th, 2025 at 8:06 am

    Ahhh, FAFSA! I remember the years when I wasted my time filling it out knowing full well I wasn’t going to get any aid for my children.

  4. Greg Says:
    April 17th, 2025 at 8:52 am

    Harvard is howling: “The federal government can’t tell schools what to do!!”

    The DOJ/DOE response: Dear Colleague.

    As an aside, how many Minnesota High Schools are under federal consent decrees? From an AI generated query:

    Owatonna High School was involved in a consent decree related to alleged harassment of Somali students. The U.S. departments of Education and Justice reached a settlement with the Owatonna school district in 2011 over these allegations, under which the district agreed to provide annual reports to the federal government for three years.

    The settlement stemmed from a complaint filed in 2010 by the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, alleging that Somali students were harassed at the high school.

    Also:

    WASHINGTON – The Departments of Justice and Education, together with six private student plaintiffs and the Anoka-Hennepin School District, filed a proposed consent decree today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, resolving complaints of sex-based harassment of middle and high school students in the school district. Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 each prohibits sex-based harassment, including harassment based on nonconformity with gender stereotypes and sexual harassment.

  5. gl whisler Says:
    April 17th, 2025 at 9:22 am

    Sadly, “TROMBONES” is worse than that memory test your doctor gives you. I think it’s a great acronym but I can’t remember anything past the “M”.

  6. bosshoss429 Says:
    April 17th, 2025 at 2:08 pm

    The new party of libidiots is PANICAN.They are panicking about the tariffs.

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    April 18th, 2025 at 12:14 am

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  8. MattSkosh Says:
    April 19th, 2025 at 3:02 pm

    Compliments to Mr Berg on “TROMBONES”.
    Next up, “FRENCH HORNS”?

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