Category Archives: Education

Quick Takes – Racial Segregation in Academia: Parent-Teach Dialogue Sessions; Racial Affinity Housing; Internships

Posted on September 2, 2021 by The Political Hat

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.      The focus this time: Your kind don’t belong here…      First, a little mood music:      Carrying … Continue reading →

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Scotland Where Toddlers Are Transgender and Crayons Are Trans-color

Posted on August 17, 2021 by The Political Hat

     Ah, Scotland, the modern day lad of a totalitarian nanny state that has decided that if your pre-school toddler wants to be transgender, then the government will make sure they can be transgender… and make sure that those pesky lesser … Continue reading →

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Firing Line Friday: Sex Education

Posted on July 30, 2021 by The Political Hat

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.      Now-a-days “sex education” means teaching the transcendental “truth” of transgendersim, normalization of sexual activity and younger and younger … Continue reading →

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Quick Takes – Woke Learning: Indigenous Creationism; Critical Race Collective’s 5 Tenets; Not Really Math

Posted on July 29, 2021 by The Political Hat

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.      The focus this time: The woke way of knowing.      First, a little mood music:      Science … Continue reading →

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It’s Not The Funding, It’s The Pedagogy

Posted on July 28, 2021 by The Political Hat

     There is much to complain about “new” methods of teaching mathematics, regardless of if it’s under the moniker of “common core” or not. As has been noted here before, many of these methods can serve as useful shortcuts… to those … Continue reading →

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Dallas Justice Now: Imagine Premier Universities Free of White People

Posted on July 26, 2021 by The Political Hat

     Segregation and racial exclusion used to be racist. Used to be… Now-a-days, it is a moral imperative to achieve “justice”, as seen by the so-called “Dallas Justice Now” which wants White parents to achieve “equity” by sacrificing the “privilege” of … Continue reading →

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Quick Takes – Academia On White People: Original Sin Of Whiteness; Privileged Ways Of Knowing; Spirit Murderers

Posted on July 22, 2021 by The Political Hat

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.      The focus this time: (Not quite) Kinderheim 511.      First, a little mood music:      A Catholic … Continue reading →

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Woke Racial Guilt

Posted on July 21, 2021 by The Political Hat

     Critical Race Theory is a Critical Theory as applied to race, and an integral party of Critical Theory is the “praxis”, i.e. implementation, through action. Making some children feel guilty because of their race is a central part of implementing … Continue reading →

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Toward a Critical Race Theory of Education

Posted on July 15, 2021 by The Political Hat

Funny how the proponents squeal about how Critical Race Theory isn’t taught in schools but banning it being taught in schools is an attack on Critical Race Theory.   It’s almost as if they forget all their decades of books … Continue reading →

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Star Chamber Equity

Posted on July 14, 2021 by The Political Hat

     Sexual abuse proceedings against men in college had for some time now devolved into, at best Kangaroo Courts, and at worst unabashed Star Chambers. But now a court has dismissed the idea that colleges are biased against men… by declaring … Continue reading →

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