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

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Columbia Medical School Launches Workshops on 'Disrupting Racism' and Microaggression Management

On Wednesday, the Columbia University Irving Medical Center released “Disrupting the Effects of Racism.”

According to the article, there’s a repugnant reality for medical-minded minorities:

As all medical students know, medical school is a challenge. But for Black students and others underrepresented in medicine, racism is an additional challenge.

The idea of “underrepresentation” is interesting — concerning skin color, what’s the exact right amount of representation? The same as the general populace?

Whatever the correct degree, Jean-Marie Alves-Bradford — associate clinical professor of psychiatry and director of the Office of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion in the Department of Psychiatry at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S) — surmises the insufficient state of such results in racist victimization:

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College Students Can Look Forward to Courses in 'Ecofeminism,' 'Community Activism' and 'Queer Desires'

School is a place where students should learn not what to think, but how.

 

Hence, philosophy is an excellent addition to academic basics.

As for college, many would insist the four-to-six-year foray should train young adults for a career.

 

Yet, it appears that over the last decade or two, secondary education has flirted with favoring philosophy over real-world prep.

Apropos of that — per Campus Reform — here’s a round-up of upcoming collegiate courses nationwide.

At California’s Humboldt State University, they’ll soon be studying Community Activism.

The class will cover “organizational and activist skills” via “hands-on projects.”

Such comes courtesy of the school’s Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

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Gigantic Teachers' Union Sues Mom for Asking What the Local Public School Is Teaching Her Daughter

Bryan Preston

Aug 05, 2021

There was a time when parental involvement in our kids’ education was seen as a good thing that all parents should do. We were invited to meet our kids’ teachers and even participated in class once or twice a week. This was all part of making sure our kids obtained the education our tax dollars paid for.

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Rhode Island mom Nicole Solas wanted to know what her daughter was being taught in kindergarten. So she asked the school for copies of the curriculum. She is entitled to that, as a parent and as a taxpayer. Public school curricula are public documents.

Instead of accommodating her, the school fought her. That naturally raised her suspicions, so she asked for more and more, about 200 public information requests, and got more and more of a runaround from the school. The school even tried to stick her with a bill for $74,000 as a way of making her go away.

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Exclusive: Radical Fairfax County ‘Summer Learning Guide’ Tells 2nd Graders, ‘I Feel Safe When There Are No Police’

Virginia’s most populous school district, Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), is pushing a “Summer Learning Guide” for second graders that includes the message, “I feel safe when there are no police,” according to a document leaked to Parents Defending Education (PDE).

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EDUCATIONNEWS Are These 7 LGBT ‘Kids’ Books in Your Child’s Classroom or School Library?

Warning: Some content may be inappropriate for children. 

Children are learning about gay marriage, preferred pronouns, and gender identity, thanks to woke children’s books.

“I have a girl brain, but a boy body,” the book “I Am Jazz” says. “This is called transgender. I was born this way.”

 

 

“I Am Jazz” was published in 2014 and authored by Jessica Herthel, a transgender rights advocate, and Jazz Jennings, the honorary co-founder of the TransKids Purple Rainbow Foundation and star of the TLC reality-TV show “I Am Jazz.” 

 

The book is based on the true story of Jazz Jennings, a male who from a very young age identified as a female. 

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California University Eyes 'Radical' BIPOC Honors Program Based on Equity Instead of Grades

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California University Eyes 'Radical' BIPOC Honors Program Based on Equity Instead of Grades

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China's Eating Our STEM Field Lunch

 

 

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F-Bombing Teacher Tells Kids Trump Is a 'Sexual Predator' and 'Parents Are Dumber' Than They Are

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University Will Punish Unvaccinated Students by Cutting Their Internet Service

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College's Equity Plan Creates Affirmative Action Toolkits and 'Diversity' Curriculum, Prioritizes Hiring LGBT

At Michigan State University, Powers That Be are eyeing a school-wide revamp.

Via its “Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Report and Plan” document, a wealth of changes are prescribed.

As reported by Lansing State Journal, a 33-member committee created the 77-page offering, which forces different “voices and communities (together) at the table at the same time.”

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Michigan State to require two equity and inclusion courses to graduate

 

A 77-page diversity lists dozens of goals to infuse progressive ideology into every aspect of campus life.

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LA Teacher's Union President: 'Our babies may not have learned all their times tables' but 'they know the words insurrection and coup'

John Sexton

Aug 30, 2021

You may remember Cecily Myart-Cruz, president of the LA Teacher’s Union. Myart-Cruz was one of several union leaders around the country who pushed to keep teachers from returning to school last fall and even earlier this year. While the union demanded teachers be fully vaccinated before returning to classrooms, a private UTLA Facebook group warned teachers not to post photos of their spring break vacations because it might not look good.

Last week Los Angeles Magazine published a story based on an interview with Myart-Cruz. If you’re thinking she might have had second thoughts about shutting schools down for 18 months, think again:

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After settling into in a swivel chair and slowly removing her zebra-print face mask, the 47-year-old lightning rod for controversy calmly sets her hands on the table and begins issuing a series of incendiary statements that almost seem aerodynamically designed to grab headlines and infuriate critics. Like this one: “There is no such thing as learning loss,” she responds when asked how her insistence on keeping L.A.’s schools mostly locked down over the last year and a half may have impacted the city’s 600,000 kindergarten through 12th-grade students. “Our kids didn’t lose anything. It’s OK that our babies may not have learned all their times tables. They learned resilience. They learned survival. They learned critical-thinking skills. They know the difference between a riot and a protest. They know the words insurrection and coup.” She even went so far as to suggest darkly that “learning loss” is a fake crisis marketed by shadowy purveyors of clinical and classroom assessments.

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Host of School's Free Speech Event Issues Language Guide Prohibiting 'Man,' 'Woman,' and 'Mother'

Florida International University is trying to make the world a better place.

 

Hence, it’s employing a tried and true weapon in the war over what is: words.

 

The school’s issued an Academic & Student Affairs “Inclusive Language Guide” so it can teach everyone what terms to exclude.

And it comes courtesy of a sensible source: FIU’s Office of Social Justice & Inclusion.

The handbook begins, “Language is a way of communicating, acknowledging and validating identities, ideas, concerns, requests and culture. Inclusive language communicates our values.”

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Host of School's Free Speech Event Issues Language Guide Prohibiting 'Man,' 'Woman,' and 'Mother'

Florida International University is trying to make the world a better place.

 

Hence, it’s employing a tried and true weapon in the war over what is: words.

 

The school’s issued an Academic & Student Affairs “Inclusive Language Guide” so it can teach everyone what terms to exclude.

And it comes courtesy of a sensible source: FIU’s Office of Social Justice & Inclusion.

The handbook begins, “Language is a way of communicating, acknowledging and validating identities, ideas, concerns, requests and culture. Inclusive language communicates our values.”

 

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Right: “I want to know how to best support gay people.”

Wrong: “I want to know how to best support gays.”

 

Hey What about Gay Duck Billed Platypuses! I'm Offended On Their Behalf!

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Proof that modern academic leftism is insanely stupid

I quickly realized as I shepherded my children through public school and college that leftists in education are incredibly uninformed to the point of abject stupidity. My kids became used to the fact that I would become almost incoherent with rage when I read through illiterate and factually inaccurate lessons or assignments from their teachers. However, I have never come across anyone as spectacularly uninformed as Dr. Linda ManyGuns who works at Mount Royal University, in Alberta, Canada. Dr. ManyGuns has declared war on oppressive capital letters.

What you must appreciate before getting into Dr. ManyGuns’ truly astonishing dive into stupidity is that she really is a faculty member at Mount Royal University, in Calgary, a public university with a $99 million (Canadian) endowment and over 14,000 students. Just this April, Mount Royal University proudly announced that she was its new “associate vice-president of indigenization and decolonization,” responsible for “providing vision, strategy, leadership and direction to advance indigenization and decolonization commitments.”

Dr. ManyGuns is a woman with a long, successful academic career as both a student and educator. In addition to the obvious qualification of being a “Blackfoot woman” and an elder for “the Buffalo Women’s Society and part of the Beaver Bundle Society,”

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State University Seeks Professor of 'Structural Racism, Oppression, and Black Political Experiences'

College has certainly changed.

 

Not long ago, a perusal of university classes would turn up offerings such as Biology, English Literature, Government, Statistics, Algebra, Economics, Marketing, and International Business.

These days, it appears course loads are taking a more political form.

Case in point: a University of Pittsburgh job listing.

The ad lays it out: “Faculty.Professor.Assistant – Full-Time.”

The area: Political Science.

As for the type of teacher, UPitt’s leading the charge for social justice:

Assistant Professor – Structural Racism, Oppression, and Black Political Experiences

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Missouri conservative group confronts student senator as he takes down and throws away flags from 9/11 display

A student senator at Washington University in St. Louis is being accused of removing American flags from a 9/11 memorial display and throwing them in the trash.

In a video posted by Young Americans for Freedom, the student can be seen gathering small American flags into bags and attempting to carry them away. A total of 2,977 flags were placed on the lawn representing each murdered 9/11 victim.

Late Saturday, Washington University officials condemned the removal of the flags but declined to say whether the student would be disciplined, according to Student Life, the university's student newspaper. The paper identified the student as Fadel Alkilani, vice president of finance for the student union.

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‘Death To America’ tweets Kansas University student body president

 

 

“Death to America.”

Shout the Iranian mullahs? No, so says the University of Kansas student body President, Niya McAdoo. And she has no plans to apologize.

Both the @KUPresident and the student senate Twitter account retweeted a September 3rd post reading, “Happy Friday everybody. Death to America.” Replete with a laughing emoji. Because there’s nothing funnier than that.

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Parent Calls Out ‘F— Police,’ ‘F— Amerikkka’ Posters in California High School Classroom

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Massachusetts Wants ‘Woke’ Activists to Set School Curricula

Bills proposed by the state legislature would empower left-wing interest groups to determine what kids learn in schools.

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University shuts down anti-racism training that separated students by race

Texas Tech University has reportedly shut down an anti-racism diversity training that separated students, faculty and other participants by skin color.

“Upon reviewing materials from the ‘Deeply Rooted Conversations’ discussion series, we learned that some of the content does not align with our university values, and we have discontinued this program,” Matt Dewey, a spokesman for Texas Tech University, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The racially segregated session, part of the “Deeply Rooted Conversation Series,” was first brought to light by Young America’s Foundation through a public records act request.

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University shuts down anti-racism training that separated students by race

Texas Tech University has reportedly shut down an anti-racism diversity training that separated students, faculty and other participants by skin color.

“Upon reviewing materials from the ‘Deeply Rooted Conversations’ discussion series, we learned that some of the content does not align with our university values, and we have discontinued this program,” Matt Dewey, a spokesman for Texas Tech University, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The racially segregated session, part of the “Deeply Rooted Conversation Series,” was first brought to light by Young America’s Foundation through a public records act request.

 

Score one for the good guys!

Now the question is What made them think this was a good idea?