Tag: education follies

Whole School Board Has to Resign

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Not knowing they were being live-streamed, thinking the camera and microphones were off, the school board governing the Oakley Union Elementary School District, California, lit into the parents whose taxes pay for the wretched schools. And now they’ve all had to resign (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56156795).

These schools have been closed during the reign of King COVID, and parents have begun to think they’re getting a raw deal: not satisfied with the “remote learning” provided to their children.

So of course one genius on the board quipped that the parents just want their baby-sitters back–so they can take drugs all day, suggested another. Plenty of profanity employed, too.

Oakley, a suburb of San Francisco, has a population of about 43,000. In just a few days, some 7,000 residents had signed a petition calling for the whole board’s ouster. The members resigned before the petition could become unanimous.

Yo, public! Your public schools exist to enrich teachers’ unions and to turn your children against their country and their families. That’s what they do. Anything else is just an afterthought. Look how those school board members despise the people who pay for the schools. As soon as they thought the mike was off–kapow!

You’re already staggering along with “remote learning.” Take it one step farther and school your kids yourself. You can’t possibly do a worse job than the public schools. And if the cost is too high–and it’s getting lower all the time–families can form homeschooling co-ops to share the expenses. And there are Christian schools.

I mean, why would you ever want your kids “educated” by people who despise you?

‘A Victim of… Musical Chairs’ (2018)

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I wonder how this lawsuit turned out. If I were the judge, I would have jailed the plaintiffs and their lawyer for wasting the court’s time.

A Victim of… Musical Chairs

You’d swear people are forgetting how to be human. I hated school, but I did enjoy the games–musical chairs, huckle-buckle beanstalk (what fun that was!), duck-duck-goose… Little did I know, or even suspect, or imagine, that “forcing” kids to play with other children “of disparate build” and abilities exposes everyone but the school janitor to unbearable mental anguish and emotional trauma blah-blah-blah.

They’re trying to turn us into Eloi. So they can be Morlocks and eat us.

Why Do We Have to Pay for Evil, Stupid Public Schools?

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Once upon a time, schools were owned by the communities whose members paid for them. Somehow that went away. Now the schools are owned by Far Left fanatics who hate the rest of us–but we still have to pay: all the responsibilities of ownership, but none of the privileges.

East Side Community School, in New York City, has abused children and parents by sending out to “white” parents a kind of DIY Self-Hatred Kit to “convert themselves from white supremacists to white abolitionists” with the help of a handy-dandy “list of white identities” (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/pure-racism-new-york-city-principal-sends-home-white-identities-list-parents-convert-white-traitors-stage-whiteness/). The long-term objective, explains the principal, is “dismantling whiteness and not allowing whiteness to reassert itself.”

As usual, it’s the liberals who are the most virulent racists of them all. You’d almost suspect they were trying to recruit for what is a largely imaginary “white supremacy” movement. Trying to get people to hate each other. Because then the Left can manipulate and rule them. Especially with schools and colleges filling their skulls with racist mush.

Gee, what would happen if a school principal sent such a hate-filled message to black kids’ parents? Think he’d keep his job for another half an hour?

To white people, to black people–we can get along! We can be friends, we can be good neighbors. We’ve all seen it done! It’s just that the Democrat Party race hustlers don’t want us doing it, and are trying to keep us from living in friendly peace with one another.

But we can still do it if we try. We have to ignore the race hustlers, reject them, spit on their shoes.

And while we’re at it, we need to correct the towering injustice of making us pay for schools whose teachers and theorists and administrators all hate us and want to trash our county, turning our children against us. It’s intolerable, that we should have to pay for this! That we should have no say in who teaches at our schools, and what is taught. Those ought to be things for us, the owners, to decide!

Please, please, please! Pull your children out of public school. The system is way too far gone to be reformed. It must collapse, and be replaced by something  better. Meanwhile there’s Christian school and home school: those are something  better.

Don’t let Far Left race hustlers teach your children to hate each other.

“It’s Only Normal” Not! (Book Review)

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Back in 2004, in Waco, Texas–thought you were safe in a blue state, didn’t you?–Planned Parenthood was pushing this poisonous little text as part of “sex education” in the public schools.

https://chalcedon.edu/resources/articles/its-only-normal-not

The message was, there’s no such thing as an abnormal or morally wrong sex act, as long as, ahem, “nobody gets hurt,” etc. You name it, it’s “normal” and the kids should be doing it.

I have a particular reason for remembering this book. I was describing it on the phone to a liberal family member, huge fan of Planned Parenthood: but It’s Perfectly Normal was strong medicine, even for him, so he took refuge in a popular liberal tactic of debate: “There’s no such book as that! You’re making it up!”

“I have it here on the table, right in front of me,” I said. “If you were here, you could see it and touch it.”

“No, no, you’re just making it up…”

Of course that was 16 years ago, and the trick of denying basic reality had not yet quite taken hold on liberals.

But they’ve got it down to a science now. Don’t you just have to laugh when leftids talk about “science”?

‘”Care Bears” for College Students’ (2017)

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These are supposed to be not children anymore, but young adults. College students. But it’s getting harder and harder to tell them apart from 5-year-olds.

‘Care Bears’ for College Students

Care Bears posters are supposed to help young adults (it only hurts when I laugh!) cope with the stresses of life. Like life as a good-for-nothing college student was anywhere near as stressful as holding down a job or raise a family, or both! Besides, haven’t they got Play-Doh and lollipops to get them through the day? I mean, how stressful can it be, getting a degree in Gender Studies?

‘When an Accusation’s All It Takes’ (2017)

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This experience left me with an unshakeable distrust of “authority.”

When an Accusation’s All It Takes

Of course, this has been greatly refined at the highest echelons of public life. It’s so much simpler up there: leftists can do no wrong, and conservatives can do no right. Evidence? Don’t make me laugh! We don’t need no stinkin’ evidence! So conservatives get railroaded, but when it comes to massive election fraud for the benefit of Democrats, the courts won’t even look at the evidence. Take it away, we don’t wanna see it!

Once you experience it for yourself, you don’t forget it.

SF Schools: Acronyms Are Racist!

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Do you ever get the impression that America from north to south, from east to west, is governed by idiots and lunatics?

The San Francisco–that’s that city where they poo on the sidewalk–Unified School District, having just decided to rename 44 of its schools Because Racism, is now proposing to get rid of acronyms… because acronyms are racist, too! (https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/school-renaming-SFUSD-acronyms-racist-15919053.php)

These little flutters, by the way, will cost millions of dollars of public money. And the flippin’ schools aren’t even open! Because COVID.

And so, for instance, VAPA–“Visual and Performing Arts”–has been replaced by SFUSD Art Dept. Honk if you have noticed that “SFUSD” is an acronym, too.

What does this accomplish? Oh, please–what a question! Acronyms, we are told, are hard to understand for people who don’t speak English. That makes ’em racist.

Can we secede from San Francisco? In case whatever they have is catching.

‘Stupid Authorities Crash Down on 9-Year-Old for Calling Brownies “Brownies”‘ (2016)

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See? This is one of those things we normal people should have put a stop to, years ago. But because we let all this wicked foolishness go unchallenged, we’re in the mess we’re in now–lorded over, lock, stock, and barrel, by the Far Left Crazy. Who stole our presidential election.

Stupid Authorities Crash Down on 9-Year-Old for Calling Brownies ‘Brownies’

Yes! Activate the full panoply of government! A 9-year-old child has called brownies “brownies”! It’s a racial incident! Police! County prosecutor! State Division of Making Mountains Out of Molehills! Everybody’s gotta get into the act. Make sure the siren’s working!

We let stuff like this go by. We didn’t stop it. We didn’t toss out of office those addle-pated “officials” responsible for it. We’re normal people, we have lives to lead, families, jobs, etc. We don’t have time to try to kick out a county prosecutor. We don’t have time to see what kind of loonies run our school system and find out how we can get rid of them.

That’s why we woke up this morning with the enemy holding all the cards–and probably a derringer, too, aimed right at us.

We are in very deep trouble now.

‘Which is Stupider, Government or Public Education?’ (2015)

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It’s never, never wrong when they do it!

For leftids, everything is a one-way street. Only white people can be Racists. Only white men can be Sexists. And only non-leftids can be guilty of bullying.

So you know, when libs talk about “anti-bullying,” what they really mean is they get to use the apparatus of government to bully anyone they please. This is especially flagrant in what we laughingly call “public education.”

Which is Stupider, Government or Public Education?

Yowsah, yowsah! If a… “teacher”… decides you’ve “bullied” someone, she can fine your parents and even hand out other punishments, like “community service” (humiliation by means of forced labor) or “counseling” (treating you like you’re evil or crazy because you’re not like them).

And you wonder why our country’s so screwed up?

SF to Rename Lincoln High School (Because!)

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A country that loathes its own history is not long for this world.

The crazies and commies who run San Francisco’s school district have decided to rename 44 schools that were named for prominent persons in American history… because those names are now “inappropriate” (https://nypost.com/2020/10/16/san-francisco-may-change-inappropriate-names-of-44-city-schools/).

Abraham Lincoln High School will be renamed because–well, I don’t know! You’d think the president who issued the Emancipation Proclamation, and freed the slaves, might be cut some slack. But no–Honest Abe wasn’t woke enough. Please don’t ask me to explain this; I am not a psychiatrist.

Also on the docket for erasure are George Washington, without whom we wouldn’t even have a country, Theodore Roosevelt, and Thomas Edison because he used animals in some of his experiments. Senator Dianne Feinstein had a school named after her, but she’s probably headed for limbo because… in 1986… she “replaced a vandalized Confederate flag.” That cancel culture has a long memory!

This project is to cost $10 million–and probably much more than that: you know how these things go. The school board approved it without a public hearing–they had a suspicion that the public might not like it.

“I may not be able to read or write, but I graduated from Al Sharpton High School!”

We can hardly wait to see the new names. Who will be deemed worthy to have a San Fran school named after him or her? Actually, I can probably stand to wait a really long time for that.

And remember, boys ‘n’ girls! The Dominion voting machines say most of us voted for this schiff.