(As in “Ow, that smarts!”)
We’ve had some time to digest the results of Common Core–years, in fact–and now we know: it’s been a spectacular success! By now at least half our college-bound high school seniors can pass this test.
You don’t hear much about Common Core lately. “Gender-Affirming Care” has been grabbing all the headlines. But whatever’s occupying center state, we know we can rely on our national teachers’ unions to finish the job!
The “Red” is communism.
A California judge has upheld a decision by the Temacula Valley Unified School District to “restrict false and divisive CRT (“Critical Race Theory”) lessons (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/surprise-court-makes-commonsense-ruling-woke-critical-race/). He found the “teaching” to be false and divisive” (Gee, ya think?).
CRT “teaches” that all white people are “oppressors” and all non-whites their victims.
Why did this wind up in court? Because the local teachers’ union, and assorted “activists” sued to overturn the board’s decision. They wished to continue CRT teaching. The judge said no.
The plaintiffs also sued the board for requiring “teachers” to inform parents of their students” “gender transition ideas.” They lost that one, too.
Do you still think the teachers’ unions are your friends?
So that’s a big win for sanity and decency–and the (ahem!) “educators” had to walk away defeated. Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
Imagine how bad this picture would be if the kids were older.
Brockton, Massachusetts–Rocky Marciano’s home town–I spent a few weeks there, back in the 1970s: a very nice blue-collar town.
It must have changed some. The Brockton school board has called on the governor and the mayor to bring in the National Guard to restore order in the high school.
The details are kind of sketchy, but we are told that the school is becoming unmanageable due to “violence and drugs” among the students. I’ve had teaching assignments that could be described that way, but never to the point where they had to call in the National Guard. It must be worse than anything I’ve ever seen–and that was bad enough.
Brockton is waiting for the governor’s decision.
Public education is broken. It has to be replaced. And until it is, the kids are better off at home.
Today’s George Washington’s birthday. He’d be appalled if he could see us now. “I went through winter at Valley Forge for that?”
Really–is this an ongoing scientific experiment, authorized by our beloved Leaders, to see how much abuse our republic can take before it collapses altogether?
(It’s the winter of 1777 and Washington tries to rally his battered troops by showing them glimpses of their country’s future. “Come on, boys! This is for President Joe Biden!” Half the army drops dead on the spot. The other half flees in terror…)
“So what am I supposed to do with this?”
British “educators” discovered, a few years ago, that children in the touchscreen generation were too weak to grip pencils. Or do much of anything else, when you come right down to it.
Now it’s six years later. I wonder if they took the touchscreens away and went back to pencils, erasers, paper, rulers, etc. [Laughs hysterically. Has to be shoved into a straitjacket.]
Do you like the way we’re heading?
You’re never too young to learn to spy on others!
Folks, this ship is going down and you don’t want your family on it when she does.
Now we hear that public education has teamed up with the Dept. of Homeland Security to train “teachers” and students to spy on one another (https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/02/dhs-is-training-teachers-to-develop-student-disinformation-informers-i-know-i-took-the-training/). It’s a 12-week training course to create a “K-12 surveillance program” aimed at “disinformation” and “violent extremism.”
This is the Biden regime, so we don’t know what they would define as “disinformation” or “extremism.” Anything done by anyone who isn’t them?
And guess what they’re calling it! Dig this: “Media Literacy.” What the devil is that? And how does Homeland Security reach its tentacles into local schools?
Out, out, out! Get your children out of there before it’s too late! Abandon ship! Under no circumstances should these persons be allowed anywhere near children.
Unless you really like Critical Race Theory & Teaching, grooming kids for sex with adults, and promoting transgender, racial animosity, satanism, etc… Then I guess you’ll like the public schools.
Your school tax dollars at work! For girls who say they’re boys. Or whatever.
You know public education is doing its thing whenever you see tampon dispensers installed in boys’ rest rooms.
Brookfield High School, in Connecticut, got a taste of pushback a few days ago when they set up a tampon dispenser in a boys’ rest room (https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/brookfield-high-tampon-dispenser-vandalized-18637010.php). In just 20 minutes, the dispenser was torn from the wall and broken into pieces. The principal was very much put out. “A student or students,” school officials said, was disciplined for it. They’re not telling us which.
Well, we’ve told you, haven’t we? “Public education” is completely sold on transgender and means to force it down the parents’ throats. The only meaningful response is to pull the children out of those public schools.
Once upon a time, parents, not students, would have put a stop to this. But now parents are afraid the (ahem!) School Officials would sic the FBI on them–which has actually happened here and there.
Public education, people, is not your friend.
Are you going to wait until they cancel all our history?
(Man, I’ve got to get some oomph today! I need to write my Newwithviews column, which I forgot to do last week. But first this…)
The Stamford, Connecticut, school district has voted, 5-3, to remove the Columbus Day holiday from its school calendar (https://nypost.com/2024/01/29/news/connecticut-school-district-facing-backlash-after-stripping-veterans-day-columbus-day-from-holiday-calendar/). While they were at it, they also canceled Veterans Day.
The reason given was that the school year is too long, so let’s get rid of these two days off. The public is not happy with the school board’s decision. And that’s putting it mildly.
Well, folks, the ball’s in your court. Keep your kids home on Columbus Day–what’s the school board going to do then? Better yet–keep ’em home, period. Don’t let the teachers’ union and a pack of self-anointed “educators” turn them into good little brainless leftids.
Boarded up and out of use
[Thanks to Susan for the news tip.]
Public schools are shutting down all over the country. In 2021-22, 755 schools closed. Edsource.org has the numbers here (https://edsource.org/2023/as-enrollments-decline-state-leaders-should-help-districts-mitigate-school-closure-pressures/688265), provided by the National Center for Education Statistics, 2023.
Why are these schools being closed? It is usually attributed to “declining enrollment,” but that doesn’t answer the question of why there is “a shrinking student population.”
We’re in favor of Christian homeschooling, big-time: public education in America today, as practiced by teachers’ unions and left-wing “educators,” is a moral disaster–unless, of course, you think their promotion of “transgender” is a good thing. To say nothing of their racial shenanigans.
Families have been fleeing Blue states like California, chased out by rising taxes and crazy classroom policies–could that have something to do with it? Just askin’.
Our public education system is a mess, and more and more people know it. Get your kids out of the clutches of those teachers’ unions.
Did he read them before or after he was sworn in on them?
Remember, a few weeks ago, the county school board chairman in Fairfax Co., Virginia, having just been re-elected, took his oath of office on a stack of “gay” books already banned in many school libraries. Remember that (https://www.foxnews.com/media/virginia-county-school-board-member-sworn-in-stack-lgbtq-books-featuring-graphic-content)?
Well, now there’s a petition to have him recalled from office (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2792605/news-fairfax-parents-petition-school-board-chair-recall/). Well, hey–when you swear an oath, you swear on what’s sacred to you–right? Fairfax parents (who elected this glob in the first place) now know what’s sacred to him. So they want him out of there.
Probably nothing will come of it. When I used to cover school board elections, as an editor and a reporter, the candidates ran without ever mentioning any party affiliation. School board wasn’t supposed to be about politics. Bringing politics into a school board election would have been considered unseemly.
Well, this kiddie-groomer ran openly as a Democrat (as if we didn’t know!) and was re-elected to his office.
Parents, this is what you’re going to get and keep on getting for as long as you subject your children to public education. Get it through your heads: These “educators” think your children are their property, to do with as they please. And what pleases them is evil and corrupt.
Pull your children out of public school. It’s the only way.