I took a poll on Twitter earlier this week asking if I should write an essay on the teaching of Critical Race Theory in America’s government schools. Ninety-three percent of the respondents said “yes.” I’ve been writing in a “white heat” since then and I hope to have something for you this Tuesday, but the problem (once again) is that I now have too much material. I feel a compulsion to keep writing, but that might mean that I may not have it for Tuesday. Fingers crossed!
DUMB & DUMBER NO. 40
K-12 EDITION
VERY INTERESTING. Turns out school closings last year had more to do power politics and the teachers’ unions than with, ya know, science: “It’s Time to Face the Facts on School Closings.”
If you were a school superintendent considering whether to keep your district open in-person or move to online, how would you decide? Most people would suggest you look at COVID-19 case numbers in your community. Perhaps you would consider the vaccination rate, and if you had students with auto-immune disorders or other risk factors, maybe you would consider that. Most Americans would find these sorts of considerations reasonable.
As it turned out, this was far from what happened in American schools last year. An analysis of school-closing data on the nation’s 150 largest school districts reveals something entirely different. Rather than the progress of the disease in a local community, the most important predictor of remote schooling was a school district’s historical propensity to prioritize the interests of its teachers over the competing interests of its students.
Turns out the children from poorer, multi-ethnic backgrounds were screwed, basically, by those places that had strong teachers’ unions. I recommend that you read the whole thing.
NOT QUITE ORWELLIAN, BUT A LEVEL OF RATIONALIZING, POLYMORPHIC LOGIC THAT I FIND DISTURBING. We won’t know the damage done to America’s children for quite some time, but damage there will be: “Masks Are Changing How Kids Interact.”
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN . . . ??? “As student violence surges, educators say mental health issues are 'absolutely through the roof' and draining teachers.”
"First-graders slapped a teacher in the face, second-graders slapped a teacher in the face, middle schoolers corralled around a teacher and shoved her," she said. "Every single day I get a story from an educator."
FROM AMERICA’S INTELLECTUAL ELITE. Just so you know, but this “professor” teaches America’s future K-12 teachers. Oh, yes, and don’t forget that Critical Race Theory is NOT being taught in the government schools, according to the Education Establishment.

THIS ARTICLE IS FULL OF SEXIST SNARK BUT EVEN BAD ADVERTISING IS GOOD ADVERTISING: “Moms for Liberty has turned ‘parental rights’ into a rallying cry for conservative parents.”
The three-dozen women who showed up at the Brevard County school board meeting last week wore identical "Moms for Liberty" T-shirts, declaring they don't "Co-PARENT with the GOVERNMENT." . . .
In 10 months, Moms for Liberty has grown to 135 chapters in 35 states, with 56,000 members and supporters, according to the organization’s founders. The group hopes to one day have chapters in all 3,143 counties or equivalents in the United States.
WHATEVER. Maybe the libertarian Reason Foundation should spend less time trying to “reform” the system and more on encouraging parents to #Just-Walk-Away: “The First Step to Rightsizing Education Spending is Reforming Teacher Pensions.”
THEY NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAD IT TO BEGIN WITH: D11 dissolves Department of Equity and Inclusion.
CORRECT: PRIVATE SCHOOLS HAVE BECOME TRULY OBSCENE
REASON #1,583 TO CONSIDER HOMESCHOOLING:

ANOTHER REASON WHY HOMESCHOOLERS REALLY NEED TO SEND THEIR KIDS TO A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL, ‘CAUSE, YA KNOW, OF ALL THE REALLY COOL SOCIALIZATION THAT THEY WOULD OTHERWISE MISS OUT ON. California School Creates ‘Transition Closet’; Allows Students To ‘Swap Out’ Of Clothes ‘Parents Approve Of.’
SORRY, PETE, BUT YOU ARE A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR, AND JUST A LITTLE BIT CREEPY: Buttigieg: Kids will be killed if teachers aren't allowed to teach about sex, gender
HIGHER ED EDITION
SELF-PARODY ALERT: “Academic union allows members to self-identify as black, disabled, or opposite sex.”
NO, THIS NOT A GRIFT AS SOME ARE SUGGESTING. Kendi is simply cashing in on the delirium of the new religionists. And, as P.T. Barnum once said, “there’s a sucker born every minute,” well at least in Michigan that’s apparently true. “EXCLUSIVE: UMich paid Kendi $20k for a one-hour virtual event.”
COMING SOON TO A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL NEAR YOU: 1 + 1 = racism: “Colleges offer 'social justice' math classes for students, future teachers”
DON’T CELEBRATE TOO SOON. It’s not a victory unless the professor never teaches again. “VICTORY: VT replaces prof who apologized for being White on syllabus”
ISN’T IT NICE THAT YALE CARES SO MUCH ABOUT YALE STUDENTS EVERYWHERE? “Yale says COVID restrictions apply to students in other states”
HOW IS THIS NOT GOVERNMENT INDOCTRINATION? WHY NOT HAVE THEM READ MARX AND LENIN AND BE DONE WITH IT? 'Anti-racist' education set to become prerequisite for admission to California colleges
#JustWalkAway APPLIES TO ALL LEVELS OF EDUCATION: Brace yourselves: It looks like the great college exodus may have finally begun!
“Colleges across America face a daunting challenge: Their student head count has shrunk more than 5% since 2019, according to a national estimate, as debate over the value of higher education intensified during the public health crisis and economic tumult. That’s an enrollment loss of nearly 1 million students.
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE? Unhinged University Administrators Compare IVF Pregnancy To Rape.
PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS EDITION
YES! Next question: Are Law Schools Now Woke Factories?