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Feds to Cut $600 Million B.S. Bucks from B.S. Schools

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Stop the waste and stop the thievery!

How did we ever come to this? Our own government is robbing us blind, and has been for years and years. Thanks to President Donald Trump, we now have the Dept. of Government Efficiency (DOGE). But have they come in time to put out the fire?

The Trump administration now means to cut $600 million from “social activism grants” for training teachers in such Far Left standbys as Critical Race Theory and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/18/doge-cost-cutters-should-audit-these-education-department-programs-next/). Up for grabs are “billions” of taxpayer dollars spent frivolously or even maliciously.

Frivolous? Oh! You mean for, like, “Kindergarten Global Citizenship”? That sort of thing? Or to “develop asset-based anti-racist mindsets”? OK, gotcha!

Now Donald Trump is busting up the party, calling the whole Education bureaucracy “a con job” that ought to be “closed immediately.”

He’s never been more right! And we have to support him. He’ll get these thieves’ hands off our money; but they won’t go quietly and he will need our help.

‘Teacher’ Obsessed with Vampires and Dirty Doings with Kids

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Is this their idea of a teacher?

What the heck? You might get lucky and your kids will never, ever run across a “teacher” like this one: “obsessed” with vampires (oh, for cryin’ out loud) and taking obscene pictures of the children in his care (https://www.breitbart.com/pre-viral/2025/02/09/report-leftist-vampire-obsessed-afterschool-teacher-accused-sexually-abusing-girls-nyc/).

No, he hasn’t been fired yet. Are you kidding? He got away with these capers for three years and nothing happned. It was left up to the children’s parents to sue the school district.

Mr. Wonderful had a partner in crime who helped him conceal his activities.

Go ahead, send your kids to public school. It’s possible that nothing bad will happen. Roll the dice, parents. Go ahead and roll the dice.

‘Can You Name a Book? Any Book?’ (2018)

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“Books? Oh, yes, we have books!”

We have the costliest and most intrusive “education” regime in world history–and what do we get out of it?

Illiterates. Stunatas.

‘Can You Name a Book? Any Book?’

Writing and reading–without them, there’s no civilization. The best we can do is hand down stories by word of mouth; and if you’ve ever played “telephone,” you know how the message gets distorted over time.

Is it necessary to ask, “Well, then, what the dickens are they learning in those public schools, if they don’t read?”

I think we all know the answer to that question.

Fight Breaks Out at Graduation Ceremony

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Yee-hah, public education! Ain’t it grand?

Hamilton High School in Memphis, TN, was having its graduation ceremony a few days ago when a fight broke out among the student body (https://wreg.com/news/local/fight-between-students-breaks-out-at-hamilton-high-graduation/). Somehow “gang signs” started it. We didn’t have gang signs in our high school.

Police had to intervene, arresting and removing the battling students: hauled them off to the cop shop while they were still in graduation robes. The ceremony continued after the brou-haha was quelled.

One of the police officers was injured in the melee.

Hello? Where are these kids’ fathers? I don’t like to imagine how my father would have dealt with me, had I dared to get into a fight in the middle of freakin’ graduation.

What did some of these characters get up to, during the regular school year? Obviously “school officials” didn’t know how to handle them. What–just give ’em a diploma and kiss ’em goodbye? Is that how it works?

I’m afraid that’s exactly how it works.

Chicago Parents Sue Teachers’ Union

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“Let my people go!”

“Why should I? We’ve got a good thing goin’ here!”

[Thanks to Susan for the nooze tip.]

A Chicago public school teacher makes an income roughly twice that of the average Chicago taxpayer. Nevertheless, in January of 2022, Chicago’s teachers went on strike–supposedly to protect themselves from COVID–and shut down the schools.

Now a group of parents is suing the teachers’ union for that (https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_ede07ed0-eaca-11ee-b493-f3806ce592c8.html#:~:text=The%20lawsuits%2C%20filed%20by%20attorneys,cope%20with%20additional%20financial%20strains.).

Hey! I’ve got a question that I haven’t heard anyone ask.

The whole time schools were closed because the teachers were on strike, was everybody still paying school tax? Talk about getting Nothing for your money! And having to keep the kiddies home, say the parents’ lawyers, meant *unexpected costs, *unpaid leave from work, and *additional financial strains.”

And when you looked into it at any depth, it was just about Chicago politics, with the teachers’ union aspiring to be a power broker (Ya mean it isn’t?).

People, people! Public education, teachers’ unions, DEI officers, “school officials” pulling down six-figure incomes–these are not your friends. 

Don’t wait for Pharaoh to let the people go. Just go.

‘State DMV Goes Ballistic Over “KUMQUAT” License Plate (2016)

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Gasp! Kumquats! Suddenly I don’t feel SAFE anymore–!

Most Americans believe government to be a necessary evil. But more and more it’s coming to look like an un-necessary evil. Like f’rinstance:

State DMV Goes Ballistic over ‘KUMQUAT’ License Plate

And this was eight years ago, man! They’ve had all this time to recruit more and more ignoramuses into all levels of government.

And then there are the voters out there who think a kumquat is some kind of racist thingy.

Our education system needs some work.

‘When Is an “F” Not an “F?”‘ (2019)

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Gee, how can you keep failing schools from shutting down?

The answer is obvious: lower the standards!

When is an “F” not an “F”?

North Carolina was confronted by a problem: “Damn! Too many of our public schools are failing!” What to do? Well, no sense riling the teachers’ unions. Just change the definition of failure! The “F” mark used to be “60”; so they lowered it to “39”.

What happens when it gets down to “0”?

‘”Pooperintendent of Schools” Seeks Revenge on Cops Who Busted Him (2019)’

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Remember this one? Six-figure salary and all, the superintendent of schools for Kenilworth, NJ, was arrested for taking a dump on Holmdel High School’s athletic field… as part of his daily jog.

‘Pooperintendent of Schools’ Seeks Revenge on Cops Who Busted Him

Naturally he sued the Holmdel Police for arresting him and exposing him and his family to public ridicule and shame. Gee, I could’ve sworn that was a do-it-yourself job! I mean, did he have to dump his load on public property… every ding-dong day?

I never heard any more about this lawsuit, so I guess he didn’t get the million dollars he was demanding.

Our public “educators”–teaching by example?

Convicted Prostitute Was on School Sex Ed Council

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I can’t take much more of this. Here’s a happy little lizard instead.

So who’s “educating” your children, these days?

In the Godley (holy cow) Independent School District, Texas, a woman who was twice convicted for prostitution served on “several positions” with the district–and has been removed from her seat on the district’s “sex education council” (https://www.breitbart.com/education/2023/11/30/video-convicted-prostitute-booted-texas-schools-sex-ed-council/).

Please–no wisecracks about going to a real professional.

An ordinary background check didn’t turn up the convictions because her activities were deemed, under Texas law, misdemeanors instead of felonies.

It still didn’t sit well with the parents. They turned up the information for themselves and got rather upset by it. The woman said she had several “businesses”… without revealing the nature of her business. In the end, the school board had to let her go: too big a backlash, as it were.

Garbage Education: ‘Equitable Grading Practices’

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Was Portland, Oregon, ever not a city full of fools?

Portland’s latest caper is “equitable grading practices” in which a grade of “0,” achieved by failing to hand in work, or getting caught cheating, won’t be a zero anymore but will count as a grade of “50 percent” (https://freebeacon.com/campus/portland-school-district-workshops-equitable-grading-practices-that-outlaw-zeros-for-cheating-missing-work/).

Its purpose is to correct “racial disparities,” in case you haven’t already guessed.

It’s supposed to go into effect in 2025. Teachers are being re-trained in special “equity workshops.”

The school district has declined to comment.

Do you have to be still alive, to get a 50? No comment.

This is your school tax money, folks. Reward cheating. Reward those who don’t bother to do the work assigned. Train the kids to be useful idiots. And you’ll pay for it, as you always do.

Get your kids out of public education while you still can.