“I think we’ve got everything out of there, sir!” “All right–close it up again.”
I give up. What does “public education” have to do, to chase the public out? The insults, the abuses, the waste, the low expectations, the purposeful indoctrination of children into the politics of perversion–how much farther does it have to go, before the people cry “Enough! No more!”
Chicago–whose teachers’ union, a few years ago, made a pilgrimage to Venezuela to “learn” (God help us) from dictator Hugo Chavez–has announced a plan to eliminate “high-achieving programs” in 11 schools (https://jonathanturley.org/2023/12/19/achieving-equity-through-mediocrity-chicago-moves-to-eliminate-high-achieving-school-programs/). The city’s Far Left gasbag mayor promised that he wouldn’t do that–but what’s the promise of a Democrat politician worth? Shame on anyone who believed him. So they’re gonna do it anyway.
As Jonathan Turley succinctly explained it, “Major cities with failing public education programs are erasing performance gaps in their schools by decapitating the top performers rather than elevating the performances overall.”
It’s what they always do. So much easier on the union! They can’t make everybody rich, but they can always make everybody dumb. That’s… “equity”!
What do we expect to get out of public education anymore?
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This is what Marxists always do — bring down everyone to equal levels of squalor and declare it “equality,” or, nowadays, “equity.” There’s an old Russian joke about Boris and Ivan, who are both poor farmers but Ivan has a goat and Boris doesn’t. One day an angel comes to offer Boris help and asks him to name anything he wants, no matter how extravagant. Boris answers, “Kill Ivan’s goat.”
A perfect explanation of the mindset.
Glad to see you here.
Simply wonderful, that they control our public education!
It is hard to think of anything more unAmerican than this than maybe Colorado removing Trump from the 2024 ballot.
If Dems get their way, we’ll go full Third World.