Dumb & Dumber (Nos. 28 & 29)
Watching the Education Apocalypse in Slow Motion
DUMB AND DUMBER (No. 28)
DUMB & DUMBER IS ALWAYS A BAD COMBINATION: “Teachers Union Boss Accidentally Endorses School Choice While Rushing To Support Masking in Schools.”
STAND YOUR GROUND YOUNG MAN! Lunatic teachers should be not be teaching children. Teacher yells at student for Thin Blue Line mask: 'That's the new confederacy flag!'
MORE CHILD ABUSE: Parents: you have a moral obligation to pull your kids out of the government schools. NY high school student spent hours out in the cold after she refused to wear a mask
SERIOUSLY, WHY ARE YOU STILL SENDING YOUR CHILDREN TO A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL? School threatens to ARREST unmasked students for 'trespassing'
THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE THE BEST ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE #JustWalkAway MOVEMENT: Schools Nationwide Bitterly Clinging To Masks And Vax.
NO. THEY. ARE. NOT. Not now, not ever:
WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT (ANY GOVERNMENT FOR THAT MATTER) AND TWITTER? If it turns out that the government (or its surrogates) is telling Twitter what to do and Twitter is doing what the government says, does that constitute censorship? Disturbing: Twitter Purges Conservative Education Publication and Staff Amid Teachers’ Union Pressure Campaign.
Twitter has some serious explaining to do. On Thursday, the social media platform suspended the account of the conservative education publication Chalkboard Review.
It also suspended the individual accounts of several staff members. In all cases, these suspensions came out of left field and Twitter provided no warning or reason for the removals, according to Chalkboard Review Executive Director Tony Kinnett.
The publication was founded in 2020 and publishes content focused on education policy. Its articles and viewpoints often come from a conservative or libertarian point of view. Chalkboard Review has argued in favor of school choice, criticized public schools, called for transparency, highlighted outlandish examples of educators-gone-woke, and fought back against the teaching of Critical Race Theory in schools.
However, Chalkboard Review also publishes counterarguments and lots of rather uncontroversial content. Indeed, the last article the account had tweeted before its suspension was ominously entitled “5 Books to Inspire Teachers.”
We still don’t know why Twitter has purged the publication and several of its personnel. It could be a mistake by the tech giant. Yet that seems far-fetched given the fact that it was not one account, but four, that were banned. What’s more, the suspensions took place hours apart throughout the day on Thursday.
Kinnett pointed out that the surprising crackdown comes amid a push from teachers’ unions and other establishment education interests to silence dissident voices critiquing them.
WE CAN NOW ADD TWITTER TO THE EDUCATION DEEP STATE: Twitter suspends, then restores anti-CRT education account
THE COMMON GOOD REQUIRES THAT HOMESCHOOLING BE BANNED:
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HIGHER ED EDITION
WHAT’S THE TITLE OF THAT JOHN RAWLS BOOK . . . JUSTICE AS FAIRNESS? SD Gov. Noem Signs Transgender Athlete Ban
BRUTAL BUT TRUE: The Last Leg Universities Stand On Is Collapsing
Universities are dying.
They have long ceased being the best way to gain knowledge.
More recently, the degrees they confer have ceased being the best way to signal employability; the only exception being jobs that legally require them. (Such jobs are increasingly stodgy, unattractive, bureaucratic, backwards, and subservient to tyrannical governments).
The final leg universities stand on is the mythology of social status. That’s it. That’s what gives them what waning power they have.
ARE YOU READY? HERE IT IS: THIS YEAR’S TEN WORST COLLEGES FOR FREE SPEECH IS OUT TODAY!
THE SURVEILLANCE STATE HAS COME TO AMERICA’S COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: “Surveillance on campus: Universities give students tools to report on each other's COVID violations or 'bias incidents'.”
MATHEMATICS AT CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. The Chinese Communist approves.
TRUE, BUT ON THE OTHER HAND, STATE LEGISLATURES DON’T HAVE TO FUND COLLEGES EITHER: State Lawmakers Can't Ban Critical Race Theory at Colleges