DUMB AND DUMBER (No. 30)
K-12 EDITION
THIS IS ONE REASON WHY THEY’RE CALLED “GOVERNMENT” SCHOOLS: Principals advised on how to get parents and students arrested
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING IS THE LATEST THING IN THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND IT’S WICKED: Stop scaring kids.
“She cites asking 11-year-olds if they’ve drafted a suicide plan, telling children they are oppressors or privileged and teachers announcing their own sexuality to elementary children (‘Mommy, what does ‘pansexual’ mean?’).”
DID YOU KNOW THIS? Now that you do, will you do anything about it? Red State Public Schools Encourage Kids To Go Transgender Behind Their Parents’ Backs.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP COMES TO EDUCATION—AND IT’S A GOOD THING, TOO! (I recommend listening to Kerry McDonald’s podcast on this topic, which is embedded in the link.) Teacher and Mom of Four Launches Mask-Free Learning Center in Response to Parent Demand
The coronavirus response over the past two years has transformed education, putting parents back in the driver’s seat and inspiring education entrepreneurs to create new K-12 learning models. There are signs that entrepreneurship flourished during the pandemic response, as employment disruptions prompted individuals to launch new businesses. A new Brookings Institution report, for example, shows that the number of individuals who founded online “microbusinesses” ballooned in 2020.
In the education sector, more teachers are leaving district schools to create microschools, run tutoring programs, and imagine other exciting learning options. Homeschooling has skyrocketed and many parents are forming learning pods and co-ops, often hiring outside facilitators to lead various programs. Education-focused “private membership organizations” that offer maximum autonomy are also sprouting across the country.
THERE ARE ALWAYS TWO STANDARDS, ONE FOR THE RULING CLASS AND ONE FOR THE PLEBEIANS: N.Y. School Board Photographed Unmasked Inside for Legislative Event, Parents Livid.
AT THIS POINT, PARENTS HAVE TO ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT HAPPENS TO THEIR CHILDREN IN THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS: Psycho Libs Keep Reminding Us Why Public Education Should Be Defunded.
The child sex groomers are at it again, this time in Connecticut. John F. Kennedy Middle School created their own pizzagate scandal by “accidentally” giving out an assignment to 8th graders that asked them to make code words for sex acts using pizza toppings and then build a sex pizza with all their favorite sex acts. (I’d like to remind you that 8th graders are 13 and 14 years old.)
The assignment pretends to be about teaching consent but is really just an excuse for creepy adults to encourage underage kids to have sex with each other.
WHEN PRINCIPALS BECOME SECURITY GUARDS: VA Principals Coached On How To Get Warrant To Arrest Anti-Mask Kids
WHEN SCHOOL SECURITY GUARDS BECOME POLICE OFFICERS: School Security Official Step-By-Step Guide To Arresting Parents, Too
APPARENTLY, THIS MOM HAS BEEN READING EDWATCHDAILY.COM (and you should, too)!!! “Mom gets standing ovation after calling for 'mass exodus' from public schools.”
Florida mom Quisha King called for a "mass exodus" from the public school system, arguing that school systems left parents with no other choice for fighting left-wing ideas.' . . .
"I really think at this point the only thing to do is have a mass exodus from the public school system – that's it," King said. In response, she received prolonged applause, and many in the audience stood to their feet at the Leesburg, Virginia, event.
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WALK AWAY FROM CALIFORNIA, AS FAST AS YOU CAN: “Newsom signs controversial bill requiring ethnic studies for all CA students to graduate.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed into law Friday afternoon a bill requiring students to take ethnic studies classes in order to graduate. Critics contend the controversial bill opens the door to teaching critical race theory in the classroom.
You are living in a fantasy world if you think CRT is not already in the California schools.
HOMESCHOOL EDITION
THE REVOLUTION IS HERE; IT IS NOW: “Home schooling exploded among Black, Asian and Latino students. But it wasn’t just the pandemic.”
As the new school year approaches, millions of parents are eager to deliver their children back to teachers and put remote schooling — which wrought anger, frustration and financial turmoil for parents who needed to return to work — behind them. But for other parents, particularly parents of color, the pandemic and last summer’s national reckoning over race prompted them to pull their children from traditional schools entirely, moves that helped fuel an explosion in popularity of home schooling.
The percentage of schoolchildren in home-school has nearly tripled since mid-2019. By May of this year, the U.S. Census Bureau found more than one out of every 12 students were being home-schooled.
Even more remarkable are where those gains came from: Even though home schooling has often been considered the domain of religious White families, the most significant increases were seen among Black, Latino and Asian households.
HIGHER ED EDITION
STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES. I’m sorry—I really am—but I have to ask: are all Georgetown students this dimwitted? “Video: College students see socialism as 'good thing,' would abolish private property rights.”
An online video shows students at a prestigious American university near the nation's capital touting the benefits of socialism and supporting the abolition of private property rights.
After watching this video, I’m starting to think that the quality of education and students at Georgetown is not what we’ve been led to believe:
AH, NOW I KNOW WHY GEORGETOWN STUDENTS AREN’T SO WELL EDUCATED: “Georgetown professor takes heat after mocking parental involvement in schoolkids’ education.”
SHAMEFUL: “Hong Kong University says 'Pillar of Shame' statue honoring Tiananmen Square dead must come down.”
SERIOUSLY!?!?!?!? How exactly does that work? Duke official apologizes for being ‘insensitive’ to CCP.
WHAT THE HELL DOES THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY HAVE TO DO WITH ANY AMERICAN UNIVERSITY? When did the CCP get a veto power at American colleges? Syracuse U. dean apologizes for email calling Tibet a country separate from China.
WOULD AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES BE BETTER WITH MORE OR FEWER ADMINISTRATORS? Pretty sure we all know the answer. “EXCLUSIVE: ONU denies College Republicans’ ‘Back the Blue’ apparel design.”
PATHETIC, HILARIOUS, OR BOTH? You choose: Illinois College Students Want Hate-Crime Culprit Expelled — Until They Find Out Who She Is.