THIS IS WHAT ARE WE PAYING THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO TEACH OUR KIDS?????

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With Affirmative Action Program Under Scrutiny, UNC Backs Racially Exclusionary Scholarships

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is facing a discrimination complaint over several racially exclusionary initiatives, just weeks after it was hit with a separate complaint over a minorities-only fellowship program.

The initiatives include three scholarships that are available only to black students, as well as a "Well-Being Initiative for Women Faculty of Color" available only to "BIPOC" women, per the program's website. In August 2022, the university also hosted a "BIPOC New Student Meet and Greet" at its school of public health, which touted the event as an example of "inclusive excellence."

The complaint, filed late last month by the economist Mark Perry with the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, argues that these programs violate Title VI and Title IX, the laws that prohibit race- and sex-based discrimination at federally funded institutions. It could spell additional legal headaches for the embattled university, which is awaiting a verdict from the Supreme Court on its affirmative action program.

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With Affirmative Action Program Under Scrutiny, UNC Backs Racially Exclusionary Scholarships

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is facing a discrimination complaint over several racially exclusionary initiatives, just weeks after it was hit with a separate complaint over a minorities-only fellowship program.

The initiatives include three scholarships that are available only to black students, as well as a "Well-Being Initiative for Women Faculty of Color" available only to "BIPOC" women, per the program's website. In August 2022, the university also hosted a "BIPOC New Student Meet and Greet" at its school of public health, which touted the event as an example of "inclusive excellence."

The complaint, filed late last month by the economist Mark Perry with the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, argues that these programs violate Title VI and Title IX, the laws that prohibit race- and sex-based discrimination at federally funded institutions. It could spell additional legal headaches for the embattled university, which is awaiting a verdict from the Supreme Court on its affirmative action program.

 

So  Racists & Sexists...its a Twofer!

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Wharton's Majoring in Woke Capitalism. Some Are Taking an Elective in Dissent.

The nation’s first business school was founded in 1881 by Joseph Wharton, an industrialist who made a killing in mining and manufacturing, the sorts of “dirty” industries that ESG proponents disfavor. Now, the school that bears his name will have the distinction of becoming the first prominent institution to offer an ESG degree.  

Skeptics, including former faculty and alumni of the school, many of whom spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of recriminations, fear the MBA program could serve as progressivism in business sheepskin clothing. One recent graduate warned against a one-sided presentation of left-wing politics used “to justify increasing the power of the state in markets and firms while demonizing capitalism.”

Observers suggested the school’s embrace of ESG could not only presage similar curriculum changes at business schools nationwide, but also change the character of the corporate C-suites that the school’s graduates tend to populate. The thinking is that ESG-focused students will matriculate to ESG-focused executive positions in an already socially conscious corporate America, creating a feedback loop that could have an indelible impact not just on U.S.-style capitalism, but on America itself. 

“By creating a major [in ESG] at Wharton you are helping to legitimize it,” said another graduate. 

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Major University Pays More Than $18 Million To Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Staff

• The University of Michigan (UM) pays more than $18 million per year to fund 142 diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) staff members, according to UM emeritus professor Mark Perry.
• UM increased its DEI staff 53% between the 2018-2019 and 2022-2023 academic year.
• “Those misguided and expensive DIE resources could be better spent by reducing tuition instead of feeding new layers of costly administrative bloat that end up getting passed along to students in the form of higher tuition and fees,” Perry told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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Harvard Medical School offers course about healthcare for LGBTQIA+ 'infants'

The course promises to 'focus on serving gender and sexual minority people across the lifespan'

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Supreme Court Justice Scalia was 'basically' a member of Ku Klux Klan, Emory law professor claims

An Emory law professor, Darren Hutchinson, claimed Monday that the late conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who was known to be an "originalist" in his interpretation of the Constitution, was "basically" a member of a White supremacist group – the Ku Klux Klan.

Scalia served on the Supreme Court from 1986 until his death in 2016. He famously maintained a close relationship with Ruth Bader Ginsberg – a progressive judge who viewed the Constitution as a live document, with judicial opinions that were generally in stark contrast with Scalia's.

Hutchinson, who joined Emory as a social justice fellow in April 2021, is academically focused on critical race theory, according to his curriculum vitae.

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Minnesota Poised To Ban Christians, Muslims, And Jews From Teaching In Public Schools

 

New licensing rules in Minnesota that require teachers to ‘affirm’ students’ transgender identities will meet immediate court challenges from civil liberties advocates.

 

Minnesota will soon ban faithful Christians, Muslims, and Jews from teaching in public schools by requiring that every state-certified teacher “fosters an environment that ensures student identities such as … gender identity … are … affirmed.” Once the new requirements clear a final procedural hurdle, they will be immediately challenged in state and possibly federal court, a civil liberties lawyer told The Federalist on Tuesday.

“We have lots of parents who are upset by this sort of thing in schools already,” said Doug Seaton, president of Minnesota’s Upper Midwest Law Center, in an interview. “They’re going to be even more upset with how their teachers are going to be licensed. Their teachers are going to have to be faced with hiding their beliefs or getting denied [for a state teaching license].”

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State University Hosts Workshops to Help Nonwhites Survive 'Racial Battle Fatigue'

At Northern Illinois University, they’re trying to right racial wrongs. Hence, the school will host monthly equity workshops this semester.

 

The school website explains:

 

The Faculty Academy on Cultural Competency and Equity (FACCE) initiative is an opportunity for all faculty and instructors at NIU to join an engaged community of fellow educators in learning and professional development. Participants will…hear from our NIU faculty experts on how to make their classrooms and pedagogy inclusive and accessible to all current and future Huskies.

Spring ’23’s first session — Resistance: Understanding and Rethinking Resistance for Equity in the Classroom, on January 27th — will work thusly:

[It] will explore the concept of resistance and the various manifestations of resistance that can arise in classrooms like, White guilt, White Fragility, and White Fatigue.

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Florida’s Public Universities Are Spending Millions In Taxpayer Dollars On Woke Education Initiatives

• Public universities in Florida are spending approximately $28 million to fund diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and critical race theory (CRT) programs on campus.
• The report was compiled at the request of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to determine how much state funding was supporting DEI and CRT.
• The funds were used to support university departments, activities and courses.

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George Washington University Professor Accused of Anti-Semitism Says Zionism Is a Mental Illness

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 “Re-imagining Undergraduate Mathematics…with Structural Disruptions”: Vanderbilt Professor Denounces the Math Field as Racist

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Florida’s Public Universities Are Spending Millions In Taxpayer Dollars On Woke Education Initiatives

• Public universities in Florida are spending approximately $28 million to fund diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and critical race theory (CRT) programs on campus.
• The report was compiled at the request of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to determine how much state funding was supporting DEI and CRT.
• The funds were used to support university departments, activities and courses.

I'd like to say I'm shocked. I'd really like to...but  I can't.  If they were Not dong  this THAT would be shocking.

 

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 “Re-imagining Undergraduate Mathematics…with Structural Disruptions”: Vanderbilt Professor Denounces the Math Field as Racist

Related

Sep 19, 2017

A well meaning math teacher finds herself trumped by a post-fact America.

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Watch Right To The End. Trust Me!

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 “Re-imagining Undergraduate Mathematics…with Structural Disruptions”: Vanderbilt Professor Denounces the Math Field as Racist

BTW

Just Equations

Luis Leyva

Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education

Vanderbilt University

 

Dr. Leyva is a 2020 Postdoctoral Fellow with the National Academy of Education and Spencer Foundation. He was recently distinguished with the 2021 Faculty/Staff Award for Equity, Diversity & Inclusion in Vanderbilt University-Peabody College. Leyva’s contributions to the field of mathematics education have been recognized as a 2019 honoree in Lathisms (an online showcase of Latinx mathematics education researchers, American Mathematical Society & Mathematical Association of America), the recipient of the 2018 Early Career Publication Award from the Research in Mathematics Education special interest group of the American Educational Research Association, and awardee of the 2015 Dissertation Fellowshipfrom the National Academy of Education and Spencer Foundation. Dr. Leyva is the director of the PRISM (Power, Resistance & Identity in STEM Education) Research Lab at Peabody College. The lab’s research serves to hold an “intersectional prism” up to historically marginalized students’ narratives of experience to illuminate and disrupt multidimensional forms of oppression in undergraduate STEM education.

 

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College Founded in 1892 Offers Dorm for Transgender Students

College dorm life is interesting — it introduces burgeoning adults to people of all types. But some students would prefer not to be among those who are different. And at a school on the East Coast, some won’t have to be.

 

At New York’s Ithaca College, a specialized housing provision has been made. Established in 1892, the institution is keeping up with the times. Hence, its “Open Pages” residential community.

If you’re something other than “cisgender,” you’ll be right at home at the 20-bed facility.

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Teacher Makes BLM Protest Signs With Four, Five-Year-Olds In Daycare Training Video

A teacher made Black Lives Matter signs with her students in a video guide promoted to North Carolina daycare workers.

In the video, the teacher makes the sign after reading a children’s book titled “20 Protesters Who Changed America.” The book includes a page on San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who took a knee during the national anthem before football games in protest of police brutality against black Americans.

 

“Colin took a knee to support Black Lives Matter,” the teacher said. “This way his way of spreading the word and showing people that things are not fair right now. Things need to change.”

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Jan 25, 2023

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Lessons in Preferred Pronouns Should Start in Pre-K, Largest Teachers Union Says

The nation’s largest teachers union recommends that educators begin teaching the concepts of preferred personal pronouns and gender identity starting in pre-kindergarten. 

“When you look at elementary school students, many people think they are too young to talk about pronouns,” said panelist Matthew Powell, a member of the National Education Association’s Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Committee, during a webinar last summer.

“However, by asking students their [preferred] pronouns at a young age,” Powell added, so-called education support professionals “can make room for students who may be exploring gender identity and show everyone [that] gender identity should not just be assumed.” 

The Daily Signal reviewed the contents of the NEA-hosted panel discussion, held remotely June 23. The title of the webinar was “Using Pronouns to Create a Safe, Welcoming, and Inclusive Environment.” 

 

According to audio and video available online, panelists exchanged pointers on how to teach students from preschool through college about using preferred personal pronouns.

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Arizona State University Puts Urinals in the Women’s Restrooms

 

An Arizona State University (ASU) student who serves as vice chair of the East Valley Young Republicans discovered that the university is putting urinals in women’s restrooms.

Rachel Hope tweeted on Jan. 26, “ASU caves to the far left by putting men’s urinals in the women’s restroom!! 🤢🤡.” Along with the tweet she displayed a video of entering a women’s restroom and encountering a urinal inside a stall next to a toilet.

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Schools To Host Black Lives Matter At School Week Which Teaches Kids About ‘Trans Affirmation,’ ‘Restorative Justice’

• Several of the nation’s schools are preparing to celebrate “Black Lives Matter at School” week which features curriculums on “restorative justice” and “globalism.” 
• With lesson plans, reading, documentaries and activities, students learn about activism and “structural racism.” 
• “Any education leader interested in building awareness on the history and struggles of the African American community should seek meaningful policy solutions rather than virtue-signaling,” Wenyuan Wu, executive director of Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, a group that focused on combating racial discrimination, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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Schools To Host Black Lives Matter At School Week Which Teaches Kids About ‘Trans Affirmation,’ ‘Restorative Justice’

• Several of the nation’s schools are preparing to celebrate “Black Lives Matter at School” week which features curriculums on “restorative justice” and “globalism.” 
• With lesson plans, reading, documentaries and activities, students learn about activism and “structural racism.” 
• “Any education leader interested in building awareness on the history and struggles of the African American community should seek meaningful policy solutions rather than virtue-signaling,” Wenyuan Wu, executive director of Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, a group that focused on combating racial discrimination, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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The national group suggests schools start the week teaching about “restorative justice, empathy and loving engagement,” the curriculum showed. Lessons include “Who You Gonna Call, exploring alternatives to policing” which asks students to read articles that detail how to rely on community organizations rather than the police and participate in a workshop that discovers “viable alternatives to policing.”

Even out  nutcases (the City Council) voted this idea down.

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The University of Pennsylvania has become the poster child for ‘woke’

The University of Pennsylvania (UPENN), which Benjamin Franklin helped found in 1751, has become the poster child for what the radical left has done to America’s once outstanding universities. It’s been in the news repeatedly over the last few years, not because of the quality of its faculty and students but because it is at the forefront of woke economic, academic, diversity, and athletic policies. Examples of its woke degradation are that it took money from China for the Biden “think tank,” attempted to fire legal scholar and distinguished teacher Amy Wax for “wrongthink,” and slapped normal America (and women) in the face by allowing Will “Lia” Thomas, a moderately good male swimmer, to become dominant against women.

UPENN is a private institution with almost 40,000 employees (including almost 4,800 faculty members) and almost 22,500 students. For an undergraduate, tuition and living costs exceed $80,000. The school also has a $20 billion endowment.

When Obama’s second term ended, UPENN created the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement and made Joe Biden a professor. At the time, no one could have mistaken Biden for a scholar. So why did UPENN do this?

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Is Your Child Being Forced to Sit Through 'Silent Lunch' at School? You'd Better Find Out!

I don’t know how many parents are aware but at Keith Junior High School and other schools, they have always been heavy on the students not speaking but now they are forcing noiseless lunches.

Recently my child was in trouble in school with some other children. They were forced to write an essay and denied recess due to “talking.” The story isn’t about worked up children forcing conversation. These are brief conversations like the offering of a pencil sharpener as “breaking the rules.”

How do other parents feel about this? Why are they forcing our children to have a military experience at school? Why are they unable to socialize or even offer a kind gesture of a pencil sharpener? My son was forced to do these things for doing what I teach him to do every day! Do other parents find these schools are becoming a little much when it comes to our children?

Keep me anonymous please! Never know with these schools and retaliation. I have children in the public school system. Just want to see if I can get a few parents to speak out and voice their opinion. Most parents are not even aware of this silent lunch rule. The school claims it’s so children don’t choke! Seriously?

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Woke teacher forces students to pledge allegiance to the Pride flag

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Woke teacher forces students to pledge allegiance to the Pride flag

Fire It.