***Note to readers: I will be publishing every other week for the next couple of months long-form essays for my ongoing series reinterpreting American history along with “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” “Dumb and Dumber,” and other features appearing interspersed during the weeks in between.
DUMB AND DUMBER (NO. 87)
K-12 EDITION
PRONOUNS ARE NOT AND SHOULD NOT BE ARBITRARY OR SUBJECTIVE. They refer to real things in reality, thus they serve an important role in human communication. Our present pronoun insanity is a particularly virulent form of nihilism. EXCLUSIVE: Majority of Americans Oppose Using Preferred Pronouns in Schools, Report Finds
ENDORSED: FROM ONE OF AMERICA’S LEADING EDUCATION ENTREPRENEURS. The owner of Certell, Fred Fransen, is a good and long-time friend and he is going to shake up K-12 and higher education for the better. He is an education revolutionary: “Making Your Mind.”
“SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING.” Learn and remember this concept. It’s the delivery mechanism for Critical Race Theory, Critical Gender Theory, and every other bad idea in America’s government schools. I suspect we’ll have a lot more to say about it going forward: “‘Social and Emotional Learning’ New Way for Educators to Sneakily Indoctrinate Kids.”
HIGHER ED EDITION
THE BUREAUCRATIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IS DESTROYING HIGHER EDUCATION: Vanderbilt has 1 administrator for every 2 students: analysis.
AGREED. America’s universities must be rebuilt from the ground up. There’s More to Education Than Free Speech
GOOD LUCK. Not sure it’s possible, but hope springs eternal: Decolonize Academia Now!
WHY ARE AMERICA’S INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER “EDUCATION” SO FULL OF RACISM? Only ‘students of color’ are eligible for new USC and Compton College ‘Faculty Prep Academy.’
SERIOUSLY, WHAT KIND OF PARENT WOULD SEND THEIR SON OR DAUGHTER TO A SO-CALLED “IVY” LEAGUE SCHOOL THESE DAYS? THE SCROLL: Cornell University vows to hold student ‘fully accountable’ for allegedly posting ‘Zionists must die’ on Instagram.
THEN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT RATHER THAN JUST TWIDDLING YOUR THUMBS FROM THE SIDELINES: EXCLUSIVE: Majority of Americans Oppose Using Preferred Pronouns in Schools, Report Finds
TRIMMING AT THE MARGINS: Amid National Backlash, Colleges Brace for Fresh Wave of Anti-DEI Legislation.
SAY IT AFTER ME: “WE CALL THEM GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS BECAUSE THEY’RE RUN BY AND FOR THE GOVERNMENT.” You should never call them “public” schools given that they’re obviously anti-public: BREAKING REPORT: Inside the Biden Admin’s New Strategy to Censor, Push Leftist Activism Into American Classrooms
DEI IS DEMONSTRABLY RACIST AND SHOULD NOT BE PERMITTED IN STATE UNIVERSITIES. What the government creates can be destroyed by the government. Still, the better solution is to promote a policy of separation of school and State at all levels: The Left’s Priesthood: How DEI Offices Weaponize Virginia Universities
MANY, MAYBE EVEN MOST, COLLEGE DEANS ARE DEANS BECAUSE THEY’RE JUST NOT THAT INTERESTED IN THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE. We shouldn’t be surprised, therefore, that they frequently make intellectual fools out of themselves and have to be corrected by undergraduates. “Princeton students call out dean’s Rittenhouse email for ‘factual inaccuracies, misconstrual, and virtue signaling’.”
GOOD, BUT IT NEVER—EVER—SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN THIS FAR: “‘Win for academic freedom’: College will not fire professor who defended rigorous math standards.”
DUMB AND DUMBER (NO. 382)
K-12 EDITION
KARMA+: Teacher who mocked conservatives over grooming accusations sentenced for child porn
WHY ARE THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS SO RACIST? Asian parents claim NY STEM program discriminates against their kids in favor of black, Hispanic students: suit
FINALLY, SOME GOOD NEWS. American K-12 education is on the verge of the greatest institutional realignment of the last 150 years. Ride the wave or drown: Thousands of Schools at Risk of Closing Due to Massive Drop in Enrollment
AMERICA’S GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE ACTIVELY INDOCTRINATING YOUR CHILDREN IN EXTREMIST, FAR-LEFT-WING IDEOLOGY. #JustWalkAway: Milwaukee Public Schools issues ‘best practices’ on how to ‘dismantle whiteness’ in classrooms.
LET’S HOPE THEY WIN AND WIN BIG. It is unfortunate, though, that innocent taxpayers ultimately pay the price. The better solution is to simply fire the principal. Today’s blacklisted American: Parents sue school and principal for punishing their son for being a football fan.
AMERICA’S GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE INDOCTRINATION FACTORIES WITH SMOKE STACKS THAT ARE POLLUTING THE NATION’S INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL CONSTITUTION: Leftist Group To Train Teachers On Using Palestinian Narratives At School
THERE ARE REALLY ONLY TWO WAYS TO DEAL WITH WOKE ADMINISTRATORS AND TEACHERS: YOU CAN EITHER SUE OR #JustWalkAway: “Defiant Student Sues Catholic School Over ‘Contrived’ Demand For ‘Ze’.”
HIGHER ED EDITION
AMONG OTHER THINGS, THEY SEEK TO MAKE THEIR WORK LIVES AS EASY AND PROBLEM FREE AS POSSIBLE: What Do College Administrators Do?
AND WITH GOOD REASON. The time has come to ask whether America’s universities are doing more harm than good for our young people: More Americans Have Lost Faith In The Value Of College
IMMORAL AND STUPID: White House Cancels $5 Billion In Student Debt For 74k Borrowers
FULL-COURT GOVERNMENT PRESS TO ELIMINATE ALL NON-LEFTISTS FROM AMERICA’S UNIVERSITIES. They’re trying to eliminate you and your ideas from American education at ALL levels. If you don’t view this as an ideological war then you deserve what you get: DHS sued over college program that linked conservative groups to neo-Nazis.
HARVARD—THE SO-CALLED “IVY” LEAGUE SCHOOL—IS A CLOWN SHOW. This is the true Harvard scandal that Claudine imposed on Harvard:
THE NEW AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT: “These universities are paying for menstrual products in men's bathrooms.”
And with that . . . I hope all of you have a great week!
My favorite was Cody (sp?) - e, em, er, ers, zers, donk, wonk, whatever - who urges us to use the correct pronouns to improve her mental health. Just think about that for a second. I am so done with Harvard.
> SAY IT AFTER ME: “WE CALL THEM GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS BECAUSE THEY’RE RUN BY AND FOR THE GOVERNMENT.” You should never call them “public” schools given that they’re obviously anti-public
Close ,but no cigar. They are socialist (govt-owned) schools. Distributed public: each individual. Collective public: an implicitly mystical or subjective public superior to individuals.