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

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University of Cincinnati professor formally reprimanded over ‘biological women’ remark

A University of Cincinnati women’s gender studies professor has been ordered to complete free speech training after she failed a student for referring to non-trans female athletes as “biological women,” according to a report.

Adjunct instructor Melanie Nipper was formally reprimanded for giving student Olivia Krolczyk zero out of 20 points on her Women’s Gender Studies in Pop Culture final project for using what the teacher called the “exclusionary” term, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported.

Krolczyk took to TikTok in May to share her outrage and confusion in a video that went viral, prompting a response from the university weeks later.

“Please note that this is to be considered a formal reprimand for your actions. A copy of this letter will be placed in your permanent records,” the university told Nipper, according to the June 14 document obtained by the Enquirer.

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Building an Antiracist America': Top Pennsylvania School District Pushes Teachers To Infuse Critical Race Theory Into Their Lessons

Pennsylvania school teachers must 'know and acknowledge that biases exist in the education system' before they can teach in the state

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Stanford University to Offer Course on Taylor Swift's Lyrics. No, Really.

Once upon a time, the purpose of college was to facilitate the pursuit of obtaining top-level expertise for application in adulthood, specifically in a career path. Be it in the classroom, or for SEC schools on the football field, the idea was taking the topic at hand to a higher level, thus assisting the student’s plans to go higher in life. Given the cost of college these days — for example, one year’s worth of tuition and fees at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, for an undergraduate currently runs $58,416 — it behooves even the most deep pockets-blessed student to utilize their time and money wisely. Go for that which demonstrates the best chance of providing gainful employment after graduation, especially now that the Supreme Court has declared itself the king of killjoy by letting the kiddos know that, yes, you do have to pay back your student loans.

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LGBTQ identification skyrocketing at Brown University…and around the fruited plain?

 

New survey data published in Brown University’s student newspaper provides further evidence that the recent rapid increase in LGBT identification is driven by social pressures. The Brown Daily Herald reported:

Over the past decade, LGBTQ+ identification has increased across the nation, with especially sharp growth at Brown. The Herald’s Spring 2023 poll found that 38% of students do not identify as straight — over five times the national rate.

In 2010, “just” 14% of the student body at Brown said they were not heterosexual. Today, 38% proudly assert their non-heterosexuality…almost triple the rate of a mere 13 years ago. This does not bode well for Brown, the Ivy League…or America.

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LGBTQ identification skyrocketing at Brown University…and around the fruited plain?

This trend of an exponentially increasing number of young people identifying as LGBTQIIA+

 

We're gonna need  a bigger alphabet  27 letters just ain't cuttin it.

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‘Woke or KKK’: NYU Hosts Whites-Only ‘Antiracism’ Workshop for Public School Parents

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Ball State University Trans Ally Training Includes ‘Cisgender Privilege Checklist’

A transgender allyship training manual from Ball State University, located in Muncie, Indiana, includes a “cisgender privilege checklist,” as well as a list of recommended pronouns and “gender identity across cultures.”

The training guide, created by the school’s counseling center, also features a section on  “trans terminology” and a “Trans/Intersex Ally Quiz.”

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Teachers Union Sues Tennessee Over Law That Prohibits Teaching Of Critical Race Theory

The Tennessee Education Association (TEA), along with several teachers, filed a lawsuit against the Tennessee Commissioner of Education and members of the State Board of Education over a law that prohibits the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in K-12 classrooms, according to a Wednesday press release.

In 2021, Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a bill into law that banned K-12 educators from teaching tenets commonly associated with CRT in the classroom, including that the U.S. is fundamentally racist, one race or sex is inherently superior to another race and that a person is inherently privileged or oppressed due to their race. The TEA and five state teachers filed a lawsuit alleging that the law is “unconstitutionally vague” and interferes with educators’ ability to provide a “fact-based” education, according to a union press release

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University Of Chicago Offers Course ‘Queering God’

The University of Chicago (UChicago) is offering a course entitled “Queering God,” according to the university’s 2023-24 course catalog.

The course is listed as a religious studies course and proposes a series of questions about God. Students who sign up for the course will consider ideas such as “Is God queer?” and “What does queerness have to do with Judaism, Christianity, or Islam?” the course description shows.

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Ohio State medical school orders mandatory DEI training for rehab staff

The staff in the rehabilitation services department of Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center are required to undergo diversity, equity, and inclusion training, according to internal documents obtained by a medical watchdog group.

According to an internal memo, the university medical center is requiring all staff in the rehabilitative services department to attend a workshop on "DEI Foundations" or "Implicit Bias" during fiscal 2024. The memo was obtained by Do No Harm, a medical watchdog group, and shared exclusively with the Washington Examiner.

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School board members object to parent reading from graphic book available to students

 

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Princeton anti-capitalist class teaching Black people should be considered handicapped due to systemic racism

The curriculum claimed Black Lives Matter activism was a 'disability justice' movement

A Princeton University class curriculum slated for the upcoming fall semester claims that Black people can be considered "disabled" due to the purported systemic racism they face, according to information in a course descript

 

A class taught by a professor who specializes in women, gender and sexuality studies – Satyel Larson – featured a book called "Permission to Maim." The book argues that Black people, along with other groups the author – Jasbir Puar – deemed to be oppressed by systemic racism, can be considered "disabled" since the supposed structures in place limit their agency in society.

"Black Lives Matter and the struggle to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine are not only movements 'allied' with disability rights, nor are they only distinct disability justice issues. Rather, I am motivated to think of these fierce organizing practices collectively as a disability justice movement itself, as a movement that is demanding an end to so many conditions of precaritization that debilitate many populations," the book stated. 

"These movements may not represent the most appealing or desired versions of disability pride. But they are movements anchored, in fact, in the lived experiences of debilitation, implicitly contesting the right to maim, and imagining multiple futures where bodily capacities and debilities are embraced rather than weaponized," it continued. :snip:

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Parents 'baffled' after school asks students to choose from dozens of pronouns: 'Very confused and upset'

UK school asked students to pick from pronouns including zie, zim, zir, zis, zieself

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Back to (What Kind of) School: Education or Indoctrination? - Cal Thomas

As millions of children return to public school, it’s a good idea to again examine what they are being taught and what is being left out. It also offers an annual opportunity for parents to ask if their kids are being educated or indoctrinated.

At the recent convention of the National Education Association in Orlando, Florida, reports told of delegates waving rainbow signs proclaiming: “freedom to teach” and “freedom to learn.” The demonstrators oppose parental concerns over what they regard as pornography in certain books, an opposition that has tarred them as “book banners.” Peculiar how it’s “academic freedom” to introduce books that promote behavior and ideas many parents oppose, but “censorship” to object to them.

The NEA adopted two amendments supporting “reproductive rights” for women. “Forced motherhood is female enslavement” read a second amendment. This is appropriate for prepubescent children, or students of any age? The delegates continue to favor the LGBTQ-plus agenda, which professes to advocate for sexual and gender equality under the law. They also approved a measure supporting “asylum for all.”

How is any of this preparing children to compete with China and other nations in math, reading, and science?

 

It isn’t.

The New York Times reported last October: “U.S. students in most states and across almost all demographic groups have experienced troubling setbacks in both math and reading. … In math, the results were especially devastating, representing the steepest declines ever recorded on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as the nation’s report card, which tests a broad sampling of fourth and eighth graders and dates to the early 1990s.”

The COVID-19 pandemic is blamed for some of the decline, but as the NAEP notes, the trend has been headed downward for many years.

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Back to (What Kind of) School: Education or Indoctrination? - Cal Thomas

How is any of this preparing children to compete with China and other nations in math, reading, and science?

It isn’t.

The New York Times reported last October: “U.S. students in most states and across almost all demographic groups have experienced troubling setbacks in both math and reading. … In math, the results were especially devastating, representing the steepest declines ever recorded on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as the nation’s report card, which tests a broad sampling of fourth and eighth graders and dates to the early 1990s.”

The COVID-19 pandemic is blamed for some of the decline, but as the NAEP notes, the trend has been headed downward for many years.

 

As James Lindsay has pointed out The Goal of Woke/Progressive (cultural marxism) is NOT to produce educated students, its to produce Marxists Activists. What we have been seeing on college campuses is the result of 30-40 years of Progressive (Marxists) indoctrination. Thing is they don't have to Get All the students. 10-15% an another 40-60% will follow along because they want to Fit In with the Cool Kid, and no one has ever taught them to Think for themselves, exposed them to the Other Side. 

I don't know how many times some kid will say "I Didn't Know This!" Know One Ever Told Me This!"

 

 

 

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I don't know how many times some kid will say "I Didn't Know This!" Know One Ever Told Me This!"

 

I am constantly amazed at what todays 'educated' youth do not know.

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I am constantly amazed at what todays 'educated' youth do not know.

Nov 9, 2022 New Discourses Bullets

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 26 Education is being stolen from our kids and our society. In fact, for the most part, it has been stolen already. The way it's being and been done is through using something that is known as the "generative themes" approach, which derives from the work of the Marxist educator Paulo Freire. Generative themes are supposed to generate particular kinds of political conversations in the context of presenting some other kind of educational lesson. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay shares (with permission) Jennifer McWilliams's example (https://www.jennifermcwilliamsconsult...) of a seemingly benign and innocuous second-grade word problem in mathematics class to show how a simple subtraction lesson can be turned into any number of political conversations about poverty, race, sex, gender, sexuality, family, parental authority, and environmental issues or climate change by a manipulative teacher-activist using the Freirean generative themes approach. This is what we are up against. This needs to stop.

 

 

Apr 20, 2022 New Discourses Bullets

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 3 School choice is an important component not only of liberty and improving educational outcomes but also of defeating the Woke Marxist influence in our schools and upon our children. It isn't so easy as making the money follow the child or the backpack however. School choice legislation has to be smart, and it has some challenges in need of clever solutions before we blunder ahead into a trap the Woke Marxists are setting for us. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, James Lindsay spends a few minutes breaking down the challenges and pitfalls of bad school choice policy by explaining how it will fail to solve the essential problem and might even walk our communities and our children into a Woke trap even worse than what we currently see in the public schools.

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Why send your kids to debauched universities?Understand exactly what they're being taught

 

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Why send your kids to debauched universities?Understand exactly what they're being taught

 

 

Feb 11, 2020

One of best defenders of the Cross tells why it's critical for kids to learn apologetics early and how caring parents can help.

 

Feb 2, 2020

Kids need apologetics now more than ever before! Learn surprising statistics about the youth exodus, what we can do about it, and helpful resources that we can use to train our children in their faith and thinking.

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Meet the Avowed Marxist Who Decides What Books Go in Your School Library

Emily Drabinski, a self-described Marxist, is president of the American Library Association (ALA) and says that “public education needs to be a site of socialist organizing. Libraries really do, too.”

 

Rogue journalist — and I mean that as a huge compliment — Karlyn Borysenko just spent three days “undercover at the largest socialist conference in the country” and brought back hidden audio recordings that might do Project Veritas and O’Keefe Media Group founder James O’Keefe proud.

Saying that “it’s all fun and games until someone infiltrates a socialism conference,” Borysenko snuck into the Socialism 2023 conference at the Chicago Hyatt Regency over the weekend — complete with the obligatory purple hair, oversized black glasses, red knit cap, and COVID virtue-signaling face mask. “The Socialism conference is live-streaming some of their sessions,” she explains in her introductory YouTube video. “I’m getting the stuff they’re not live-streaming.

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America’s Institutions of Higher Indoctrination: A New Study Shows the Continued Decline of Free Speech on Campuses -Jonathan Turley

Harvard University has long prided itself on being the place for “curve-breakers,” a super-achieving university that leaves other schools as distant seconds. The recent ranking of schools by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) on free speech in higher education certainly fulfilled that reputation, but not in the way most would want. 

Harvard was ranked dead last as the country’s most hostile school for free speech. It received a score of 0.000 — and even that was subject to grade inflation; its actual score was -10.69. 

Harvard’s dismal ranking is of little surprise to most of us in the free-speech community. While Harvard recently committed itself to "having a conversation" about free speech, any conversation may prove strikingly one-sided. A Harvard Crimson study found that most departments had effectively purged their ranks of conservatives. Only 1.46% of the faculty now self-identifies as “conservative,” while 82.46% of faculty surveyed identify as “liberal” or “very liberal.” This, in a country that has split down the middle between Republicans and Democrats.

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‘Bang!’ School That Punished Boy for ‘Finger Gun’ Gets Skewered

‘It is shocking such a menace was allowed to remain free’

 

Constitutional expert and legal pundit Jonathan Turley, the George Washington University professor who has testified before, and represented Congress, on Tuesday cited the case of a student, 6 years old, who “not only engaged in a game of cops and robbers but actually added ‘bang, bang’ to the game.”

 

He was suspended by his school.

The student was identified only a J.B., and Turley warned, “It is shocking that such a menace was allowed to remain free in our society.”

He was, of course, being sarcastic over society’s penchant for digging deep into the book of punishments for students who engaged in such play-acting.

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Chicago medical school teaches students that white people ‘avoid social accountability’

— Recordings of a class at a medical school in Chicago showed a professor telling students that white people "avoid social accountability" and that ascribing health outcomes to individual behavior ignores "structural influences."

The recordings were of "Principles of Professionalism, Health Care, and Health Equity," a class at the medical school of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. The recordings, along with a syllabus of the class, were obtained by the medical watchdog group Do No Harm and shared with the Washington Examiner.

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Participation Trophy Triumph: Modern Students 'Earn' Good Grades by Simply Demanding Them

Do young Americans better appreciate things when they work for them? In some cases, the data may be scarce; free is increasingly the new costly. Such seems a solid takeaway from a new report.

 

Intelligent.com conducted a late-August survey concerning students and their marks. The organization questioned 288 high school teachers and college professors. The study's findings point to a peculiar approach to making all A's: insisting upon them. Gen Z students are purported practitioners of "grade grubbing" -- "begging or threatening their instructors for a higher grade than they've actually earned."

Per the report, "Forty-four percent of educators say students often ask for better grades" than they should rightly be awarded.

More than four in 10 educators surveyed say students "somewhat" (26 percent) or "very often" (18 percent) ask them to change their grades to a higher score that they haven’t earned. Additionally, 24 percent say this happens "every so often" and 25 percent say it happens "rarely." Only six percent of respondents say students "never" ask them to improve their grades.

Ivy League University Ditches Standardized Testing, Will Judge an Applicant's 'Background' and 'Voice'

School Bans Expensive Coats to Protect its Poorer Students' Feelings

College Schools Students and Staff on Microaggressions' 'Death by a Thousand Cuts' and the 'Myth of Meritocracy'

A Medical School Dissects Its Honor Society Because Grades May Be Racist

Colorado University Hosts Teacher Training to Fight the 'White Supremacy' of 'Productivity'

Professor Insists Anti-Cheating Rules Aren't Fair to 'Black and Latinx' Students

New York University Students Demand They Be Given the President's House — and Straight A's

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School District Shows Videos Depicting Whites as Mosquitoes

New Prague Schools staff in New Prague, Minnesota, was shown videos depicting whites, in a not so tongue in cheek manner, as mosquitoes. I used to see things that the left would do and think, “Wow, these people are really lost.” Then it dawned on me that they do these simple-minded things not because they’re stupid, but because they think we are.

These videos are so ridiculous that you can tell their only intent is to inflame and divide.

“Just imagine, instead of being a stupid comment, a microaggression is a mosquito bite,” one of the videos on “microaggressions” states. In other words, any snide comment that white people make to anyone of color, even if they’re friends, is a “microaggression.”