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

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First Plagiarism, Now Lying: What’s Happening to America’s Universities?

Here’s another good reason not to plunk down $126,584 (that’s the total for four years of tuition unless it goes up between now and 2027) to send your kid to Rutgers. Long considered to be one of America’s premier universities, the beloved alma mater of Mr. Magoo is now a sinkhole of woke indoctrination, with academic standards sinking lower than Old Joe Biden’s ethics. A professor at Rutgers Law School has lied openly in an academic paper and has refused to back down, knowing that she will face no consequences from an administration that is as corrupt and compromised as she is.

In this, of course, Rutgers is like virtually every other university in America today. First, there was the remarkable public self-immolation of the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania during a congressional hearing; then Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, was forced to resign after her repeated plagiarism was revealed, although she claimed that her resignation was due to “personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus,” and many in the academic establishment and elsewhere bought her nonsense.

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‘SEAHORSE BIRTHS’: Abortion Doula Normalizes ‘Pregnant Men’ Giving Birth in Lecture to Catholic University Students

A self-declared “abortion doula” spoke this week to Catholic University of America students about her experiences coaching women through delivering or aborting babies, as well as coaching “pregnant men” to deliver in what she called a “seahorse birth,” according to audio of the class lecture obtained by The Daily Signal. 

A Catholic University nursing student described Tuesday’s lecture to The Daily Signal, saying the guest speaker said she also practices Reiki, a controversial Japanese method of spiritual healing and self-improvement.

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Proposal wants Michigan school librarians to 'advance racial and social justice'

The Michigan Department of Education requests public comment on draft revisions to the state’s school librarian standards, expanding what future librarians would learn to include some advocacy for social and racial justice

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University of Colorado Boulder professor dresses like butterfly to fight ‘climate anxiety’

‘Just the knowledge of what’s happening to our planet, it feels almost disabling’

A theatre professor at the University of Colorado Boulder fights her “climate anxiety” by dressing and performing as a butterfly.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Girl, 14, Blows Up School Board Meeting

14 Year Old EXPOSES Overpaid Corrupt Superintendent & School Board. Tax Payers Are Getting Destroyed

 

- Superintendent Making $400k Per Year

- Every Councilor $100k Per Year

- Every Principal $100k Per Year

- Every Media Specialist $100k Per Year

- Every Director $100k Per Year

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Bay Area elementary school where just 4% of students are proficient in math and 12% in English spent $250K on 'Woke Kindergarten' program where third-grade teacher was told to 'disrupt whiteness', and whose non-binary creator wants to abolish police

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Kids Get Schooled on Radical Politics Students at a public elementary school in Brooklyn are learning revolutionary theory from a Black Lives Matter coloring book.

Children at a Brooklyn public elementary school are being taught revolutionary politics and communist terms from a Black Lives Matter coloring book, The Free Press has learned. 

Last week, teachers at PS 321—the kindergarten through fifth grade school in Park Slope—supplied students with the coloring book, What We Believe, as part of a lesson for Black History Month. The book uses drawings and worksheets to promote the 13 tenets of the Black Lives Matter movement, under titles like “Queer Affirming,” “Transgender Affirming,” and “Restorative Justice.” Principle number 2, “Empathy,” is described as “engaging comrades with the intent to learn about and connect with their contexts.”

The coloring book also lists Black Lives Matter’s “national demands,” including “mandate black history & ethnic studies,” “hire more black teachers,” and “fund counselors not cops.”

One parent of a PS 321 fourth grader, whose grandparents fled Communist China before moving to the U.S., said she and her husband were “shocked” that the book used the word comrade—and that it appeared to promote political propaganda.

“Using the word comrades comes from Communist times,” said the parent, whose 10-year-old daughter attends the school, also known as William Penn. “They are using words that I don’t think are appropriate for elementary school.”

She said she first discovered the coloring book on Tuesday, February 13, when a snow day forced her daughter to learn from home.

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He Endorsed Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Then He Landed a Professorship at Columbia University.

During a Jan. 5 interview with socialist podcast Revolutionary Left Radio, Islamic scholar Mohamed Abdou declared his support for Hamas and "the resistance." The terror group's "dedicated few," he said admiringly, worked in "stealth mode" on Oct. 7 to defeat a "larger enemy" in Israel.

 

Just days later, on Jan. 16, Columbia University's Middle East Institute extended a "warm welcome" to Abdou, the Ivy League school's latest visiting professor in modern Arab studies.

As part of that role, Abdou teaches a weekly class on "Decolonial-Queerness & Abolition," where his students discuss "transnational feminist discourses" and "queer of color critiques." The self-described "Muslim anarchist" has also emerged as a friend to Columbia's anti-Israel community. In a Feb. 11 social media post, Abdou revealed that he organized a protest in which Columbia students interrupted a panel featuring Hillary Clinton. One demonstrator called the former secretary of state a "war criminal" who "will burn" before chanting, "Free, free Palestine."

"Really proud of these students & deeply honoured to have been a part of organising this," Abdou wrote.

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Oklahoma school district defends foot and toe-sucking video, says 'students volunteered to participate'

A video that has been described as "highly disturbing" shows students at Deer Creek High School in Edmond, Oklahoma sucking and kissing on people's toes during a school fundraising event. The school has also defended the activity in a statement. 

In the video, students are seen lying on their bellies while profusely licking and slobbering on the toes of people sitting down in front of them. 

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Investigation Reveals Gender, Abortion Services Masquerading as Health Centers in K-12 Schools

A trend of installing “health centers” in K-12 public schools has led to students being offered disturbing services without parental knowledge or consent, an investigation by a leading parental rights group has found.

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At Columbia, an Israeli-Designated Terror Group Teaches 'Palestinian Resistance 101'—And Lauds Plane Hijackings

On Sunday, a group of keffiyeh-clad individuals huddled around a computer to discuss the "Palestinian resistance." Charlotte Kates, a member of the Israeli-designated terror group Samidoun, praised Hamas's Oct. 7 terror attack for showing "the potential of a future for Palestine liberated from Zionism." Khaled Barakat, a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine activist, lauded airplane hijackings as "one of the most important tactics that the Palestinian resistance have engaged in."

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ASU Students Earn College Credit for Helping Illegal Immigrants at Charity Accused of Aiding Border Crossings

 

Students at Arizona State University (ASU) have the ability to enroll in a program that allows them to provide support services to illegal immigrants serviced by a Catholic Charities organization in exchange for school credit.

A university website reveals that any student enrolled in an ASU Health Sciences program and some students from the ASU School of Social Work are eligible to “provide aid to migrants looking for a better life” at Casa Alitas in what the university calls the MILAGRO Collaborative.

While the university claims the initiative began “as a group of faculty members volunteering individually to help with the influx of migrants,” it explains the program “evolved” into “a course for students across the Health Sciences.”

The ASU student participation in Casa Alitas was profiled by 13 News on Monday, when the outlet reported students “directly provide care and support” to illegal immigrants while teaching prospective healthcare professionals “how to help underserved communities.”

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UCLA Med School Requires Students To Attend Lecture Where Speaker Demands Prayer for ‘Mama Earth,’ Leads Chants of ‘Free Palestine.’

In a mandatory course on "structural racism" for first-year medical students at the University of California Los Angeles, a guest speaker who has praised Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel led students in chants of "Free, Free Palestine" and demanded that they bow down to "mama earth," according to students in the class and audio obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

 

Lisa "Tiny" Gray-Garcia, who has referred to the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks as "justice," began the March 27 class by leading students in what she described as a "non-secular prayer" to "the ancestors," instructing everyone to get on their knees and touch the floor—"mama earth," as she described it—with their fists.

At least half of the assembled students complied, two students said. Gray-Garcia, a local activist who had been invited to speak about "Housing (In)Justice," proceeded to thank native tribes for preserving "what the settlers call L.A.," according to audio obtained by the Free Beacon, and to remind students of the city’s "herstory."

The prayer also included a benediction for "black," "brown," and "houseless people" who die because of the "crapatalist lie" of "private property."

"Mama earth," Gray-Garcia told the kneeling students, "was never meant to be bought, sold, pimped, or played."

So began a long and looney lecture that shocked some students at the elite medical school and has led to calls for an investigation. Wearing a keffiyeh that covered her entire face, Gray-Garcia, a self-described "poverty scholar," led the class in chants of "Free, Free Palestine" as faculty and staff looked on in silence, according to people in the course and contemporaneous text messages reviewed by the Free Beacon.

One of the onlookers was Lindsay Wells, a pediatrician at UCLA and the director of the mandatory first-year course, "Structural Racism and Health Equity," who did not respond to a request for comment.

Gray-Garcia later referred to modern medicine as "white science" and inveighed against the "occupation" of "Turtle Island"—that is, the United States—before asking students to stand for a second prayer. This time, nearly everyone rose.

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Marxism: It's Why We Can't Have Nice Things — Like an Education

Remember when working hard and working smart was a ticket to the top? Well, apparently, in the world of the communists, meritocracy is somehow "racist." 

Marxism has reared its ugly mug again in the United States and — no surprise — it is happening once again where it hurts most: our schools.

 

The Seattle Public School district has decided to bulldoze its program for "gifted" pupils due to a bumper crop of those pesky white and Asian students occupying too many desks.

While some Seattle-area schools were busy snagging headlines by forcing students to eat lunch outside in inclement weather to avoid COVID-19, other officials began quietly culling their "Highly Capable Cohort" classes back in the 2021-2022 school year. The last "advanced placement" school will disappear in time for the 2027-2028 school year in favor of a new program that will be more “inclusive, equitable, and culturally sensitive.”

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How Seattle Public School's use of 'social identity wheels' could violate federal law

Teachers are told to continue to ask students to chart personal information but are prohibited from storing it without parental consent

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Students pray to 'Mama Earth' in required 'structural racism' class at UCLA med school

UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine recently had a pagan-like prayer to "Mama Earth" during a mandatory "structural racism" class that students took part in during a lecture.  

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College education in the US could soon top $100,000 per year at some schools

 Vanderbilt University has made headlines after reports revealed that some students will be facing a staggering cost of attendance nearing $100,000 per year.  

 

According to a report from the New York Times, a letter sent to a newly-admitted engineering student at Vanderbilt totaled the cost of room, board, personal expenses, and a high-end laptop at $98,426. 

While this price tag at Vanderbilt is considered an "anomaly" by the Times, as only a small percentage of college students will pay a similar amount, the trend of soaring college admission costs still raises concerns. It is predicted that a dozen or so colleges may reach similarly high costs in the coming years as college tuition continues to rise. 

 

The average price of tuition, fees, housing, and food at a four-year public college stands at just over $24,000 according to the College Board. However, many students benefit from grants and financial aid, with 31% of students at four-year public schools paying nothing in tuition and fees in 2023. For private colleges, this figure drops to 18%. 

While private colleges like Vanderbilt have attempted to provide generous amounts of discounts and aid, there are still many students who will be required to pay an extraordinary amount of fees. Over 2,000 students at Vanderbilt University, who receive no aid, will soon be required to pay over $100,000 annually.  

To understand why the cost is so high and where this money is going, the outlet referenced the book "Why Does College Cost So Much" which highlights the role of administrative fees and increasing salaries for administrators and faculty. :snip:

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Quinnipiac Law Scholarship Excludes Heterosexual Males, Faces Title IX Complaint

Quinnipiac University School of Law is facing a federal civil rights complaint for a scholarship only open to women and LGBTQ+ students

 

The complaint, filed last week with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, comes from legal scholar Adam Kissel who shared a copy with The College Fix.

Kissel, a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation and former deputy assistant secretary for higher education in the Trump Administration, told The Fix the Goff Law Group Endowed Law Scholarship is “a blatant violation of civil rights.” Title IX prohibits educational institutions from discrimination on the basis of sex.

“The scholarship explicitly is to ‘benefit women students,’ excluding men in violation of Title IX. A law school should know better than to discriminate on the basis of sex,” Kissel said in a recent email. “Maybe this helps us understand why QU Law is poorly ranked.”

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Majority Of Colleges Tie Diversity, Equity And Inclusion To Graduation Requirements: REPORT

A majority of colleges and universities require students to take courses related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in order to graduate, according to a new report.

Speech First, a pro-free expression organization, examined the policies of 248 colleges across the country and found that 67% of them required DEI coursework to “satisfy general education requirements.” Students enrolled in these courses are “subjected to courses advocating far-left ideological perspectives and pushing far-left political advocacy,” the report notes.

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K–12 Public Schools’ Digital Policies Are Ripe for Persecuting Conservative Students

In February, a Fairfax County high school student read the news on his school-issued computer as Congress considered a bill authorizing $95 billion in foreign aid. Coming from a military family and having interest in serving our nation in the military himself, the student clicked on a Wikipedia link to the AK-47, a weapon mentioned in one of the articles he had been reading. An avalanche of harassment and prejudice against the student followed. This particular case provides a clear insight into the problem with public school districts’ Orwellian digital policies. These vague policies lack accountability mechanisms for administrators and teachers, and are vulnerable to implementation biases, particularly against ideologically conservative students.

 

The student, who had been excused from taking a math test that day, instead spent his time in class catching up on current events. As he clicked his way through the weapons used in the Ukraine-Russia conflict, the ones Americans are helping to buy, the school’s safety and security specialist arrived at the classroom. The student had no idea why he was there, and was surprised when the man called his name to escort him to the principal’s office.

There, one of the assistant principals informed the student that the teacher had been concerned because he was reading about the AK-47 and beckoned the security specialist to remove him from class. The teacher had not asked the student any questions, or redirected him to subject-based instructional material before the security specialist had arrived. Strangely, she had not even been in a position where she could physically view his personal screen.

 

Many of the district’s students and parents are unaware that Fairfax County Public Schools offers administrators, counselors, and teachers a program called Lightspeed Systems. It is essentially an unrestricted power for multiple school employees to surveille students’ computer screens in real time. While his classmates were taking their test, the teacher was spending her time figuratively watching over the student’s shoulder to see what he was reading.

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Liberal Students Are Struggling with Anxiety

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Elementary School Denies Request to Start Prayer Club, Approves ‘Pride Club’

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They/She/He/Me? DeWitt Public Schools Offer Pronouns Lesson to Kindergarteners and First Graders

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There Are School Walkouts Happening Over Furries. Please Shoot Me Into the Sun.

I thought this was satire—it’s not. A school in Utah is coming under fire for allowing “furries” to infiltrate their campus, reportedly licking and biting students. What the fresh hell is this nonsense? Over 70 students walked out Mt. Nebo Middle School over these shenanigans, with even some members of this bizarre subculture admitting that their activities should not be done during school hours (via Fox News😞

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Equitable Grading?

Grades are racist or something. 

 

So, school districts are rethinking the idea of grading altogether. Perhaps nobody should get A's, D's, or F's. 

Everybody is average, and average is all right with them. 

Dublin Unified School District (east of the Bay Area) is dropping the traditional grading system in favor of "Equity Grading," and it looks like they are at the forefront of a trend. The idea is to get kids to quit focusing on grades and make everybody feel better about themselves. :snip: