Dumb and Dumber (Nos. 36 & 37)
Watching the Education Apocalypse in Slow Motion
DUMB AND DUMBER (NO. 36)
K-12 EDITION
MORE, PLEASE: “Video: School Board Served with $200 Million Lawsuit in Middle of Meeting Over Mask Mandate.” Remind me: which president of the United States told his followers to “punch back twice as hard”?
NO REASON THAT TEACHERS CAN’T #JUST-WALK-AWAY AS WELL PARENTS AND STUDENTS: “Why I’m Leaving My California Teachers’ Union.”
ANOTHER “DOMESTIC TERRORIST” JOINS THE 21ST-CENTURY ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT. This is not the 1980s or 1990s anymore. America’s moms have been radicalized in recent years and they have no interest in listening to non-principled, compromising neocon “reformists” such as Chester Finn and Bill Bennett : “Top 3 Reasons I'm a Gov't School Abolitionist.”
MANY PRIVATE SCHOOLS ARE WORSE—MUCH WORSE—THAN THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS: Parents Revolt at Westminster Schools in Atlanta Over ‘Critical Social Justice’ Political Activism, File IRS Complaint.
SERIOUSLY, WHO REALLY WANTS TO LIVE IN A SOCIETY THAT CANCELS HALLOWEEN? “Seattle school cancels Halloween over ‘equity,’ says Black kids don’t celebrate.”
SOME ARE CALLING THIS “GROOMING.” WHAT WOULD YOU CALL IT? Austin, Texas Elementary Schoolers Told To Keep Pride Week ‘Community Circles’ ‘Confidential.’
“Five-year-old students were told to keep conversations about LGBT topics “confidential,” sparking backlash online about whether parents were informed about the school’s agenda.”
One activity for elementary students drew the ire of parents in the district and online. AISD’s Doss Elementary encouraged students to keep specific conversations between students and teachers regarding LGBT issues “confidential.”
Pre-K through second-grade students were reminded, “What we say in this room stays in this room. And third to fifth graders were asked to participate in ‘community circles’ that are “confidential,” according to documents posted to Twitter.
ADOPTING A POLICY FROM THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY CIRCA 1959, WHICH, BY THE WAY, THE CCP DROPPED IN THE 1980s WITH THE HOPE THAT AMERICA’S MAOISTS WOULD ADOPT IT: Colorado school district ditches valedictorian honors for high school graduates
SERIOUSLY, DO YOU REALLY WANT THESE PEOPLE TEACHING YOUR CHILDREN? School Officials Sing ‘F*ck You,’ Misspell ‘Allowed’ In Vid Promoting LGBT
YES, YES, AND YES!!! A THOUSAND TIMES, YES! GOP congressman says it's time to abolish Department of Education, OSHA
SOME PRIVATE SCHOOLS ARE CONSIDERABLY WORSE THAN THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS. Texas Private School Defends Political Violence, Tells White People: ‘Re-Educate Yourself’
I WILL CONFESS TO YOU THAT I’M NOT ENTIRELY SURE WHAT I THINK OF THIS. On the one hand, I’m a strong Second Amendment person. On the other, there is something seriously problematic about guns and learning. Better solution: #JustWalkAway: Texas School District Now Allowing Teachers To Carry Firearms
THE PEOPLE BEHIND THIS SHOULD BE FIRED IMMEDIATELY AND WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE. School district spied on conservative parents' social media, got some fired
A New York school district has caused outrage among parents after it was discovered that the district set up a program to monitor the social media of conservative parents and then took that info to the parents’ employers in hopes of having the parents fired.
MAYBE IF INDIANA FOLLOWED TEXAS AND ALLOWED TEACHERS TO CARRY GUNS, THEY WOULDN’T HAVE TO SMACK THE KIDS UPSIDE THE HEAD! Parents, students rally for former 'Teacher of the Year' caught slapping high schooler in hallway
IT’S A COMEDY SHOW WITHOUT THE COMEDY. (Not surprisingly, said teacher has deleted the Tweet, so no need to click on the link. Still, even with just the headline, you get the point.): “Teacher explains how disciplining your students is oppression.”
HIGHER ED EDITION
NO KIDDING, SHERLOCK: “Boston Campuses Are Among the Worst for Free Speech.”
WHY WOULD EMPLOYERS WANT TO HIRE COLLEGE GRADUATE WHO ARE UNEDUCATED, SNOWFLAKES, AND PURITANICAL PRUDES? “No college degree? More employers than ever just don't care.”
THE FIRST COMMANDMENT OF AMERICAN EDUCATION REFORM: ABOLISH THE “ED” SCHOOLS: “Woke teaching programs create K-12 'Social Justice Educators'.”
WELL, THAT WAS EASY: “Students support diversity quotas...until it comes to football.” Watch the video at the link.
DEFINE ABOLISH: Professor: We need to abolish white people
SORRY, BUT NO-HOW, NO-WAY WILL I LET SOME 19-YEAR-OLD “EDUCATION” MAJOR ADDRESS ME BY MY FIRST NAME. Not gonna happen. I’d like to be able to say that this only happens at third-tier universities, but that would not be true. And by the way, since when did University of Toledo become a “top” university? Top university proposes policy that students and staff 'must' call others by their 'chosen first name'
SEEN AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY-PURDUE UNIVERSITY INDIANA (IUPUI). Real or satire? That we have to ask is a problem.
