I wonder how many of those parents who are happy that in-person learning is coming back to schools when they find out that teachers are having students pledge allegiance to the “inclusive” LGBTQ&c. pride flag and even “pledgeallegiance to the queers”?
Teacher mocks the American Flag and suggests to students they can say the Pledge of Allegiance to the pride flag: pic.twitter.com/1QTS5xjPln
Flag shenanigans in schools isn’t anything new, but sooner or later they will start punishing students for not enthusiastically pledging themselves to the “inclusive pride flag” (or future even more inclusive pride flag) enough.
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 on…
Elite education is segregated again, but this time it’s woke so it’s spiffy and stuff…
“Brentwood School was in the national news a couple years ago because a female teacher was accused of sexually preying on male students.
“Now the elite private school in Los Angeles, with a reported tuition of nearly $38,000, is bragging about something it should also be ashamed of: racial segregation.
“It’s not just separating the races from each other at the same ‘Dialogue & Community-Building Sessions,’ part of its yearlong initiative on diversity, equity and inclusion that started last month.
“Brentwood is hosting completely different virtual meetings by race and ethnicity over the next two months.
“They start later today with six meetings for faculty, staff and ‘parents & families.’ Whites and blacks have their own meeting in each cohort. Parents and families for ‘Hispanic & Latinx’ (woke whitespeak for Latino) and ‘Asian & Asian American follow on Wednesday.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have decided that the best way to control and prevent disease is… wokeness. Oh, and it’s very, very intersectional.
Apparently, healthcare isn’t equitable if you use doubleplus ungood words, or even just perpetuate “violence” with words.
And, of course, you are supposed to use preferred terms and pronouns based on… criminality?
“It may have delighted generations of children, but The Tiger Who Came To Tea reinforces gender inequality which causes violence against women and girls, a campaigner said yesterday.
“Rachel Adamson, of Zero Tolerance, a charity working to end men’s violence against women, said Judith Kerr’s 1968 classic was ‘problematic’ because of its ‘old fashioned’ portrayal of women and family dynamics.
“The book sees an uninvited tiger join a young girl and her mother for tea before eating all the food in the house, drinking everything, running the taps dry and leaving.
“The girl’s father then comes home and takes her and her mother to a cafe.
“Miss Adamson did not call for the book to be banned but said it could be used to ‘raise a conversation’ in nurseries.”
Most people understand that when a woman is raped by a man, they might be frightened of being in a vulnerable position when men are around. The head of Scotland’s biggest rape crisis center thinks that women who were raped by someone with a penis and don’t want to be around someone who has a penis are the real monsters here because it’s transphobic to fear being raped by a “woman” with a penis.
“THE head of one of Scotland’s biggest rape crisis centres has suggested ‘bigoted’ rape survivors should be re-educated about transgender rights as part of recovering from their trauma.
“Mridul Wadhwa, a transgender woman [sic], said people would not truly recover unless they addressed their ‘unacceptable beliefs’ because ‘therapy is political’.
“She [sic] said: ‘We will work with you… but please expect to be challenged on your prejudices.’
“The comments imply rape survivors may be treated differently according to their political views.”
In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
With the fall of Kabul and the triumph of the Taliban in Afghanistan, let us look back upon another time defeat was snatched from the jaws of victory, when William F. Buckley, Jr. discussed the fall of Saigon with David Butler, David, Greenway, and Fox Butterfield.
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: Dumbing down the kids for Social Justice!
First, a little mood music:
A diploma, even a high school diploma, used to be an indicator of achievement and ability. Used to. But that isn’t “equitable”. To achieve “equity” and make everyone equal than everyone must get a diploma and that diplomas be made equally valueless.
“For the next five years, an Oregon high school diploma will be no guarantee that the student who earned it can read, write or do math at a high school level.
“Gov. Kate Brown had demurred earlier this summer regarding whether she supported the plan passed by the Oregon Legislature to drop the requirement that students demonstrate they have achieved those essential skills. But on July 14, the governor signed Senate Bill 744 into law.
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“Charles Boyle, the governor’s deputy communications director, said the governor’s staff notified legislative staff the same day the governor signed the bill.
“Boyle said in an emailed statement that suspending the reading, writing and math proficiency requirements while the state develops new graduation standards will benefit ‘Oregon’s Black, Latino, Latina, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Tribal, and students of color.’
“‘Leaders from those communities have advocated time and again for equitable graduation standards, along with expanded learning opportunities and supports,’ Boyle wrote.”
Honors programs used to be advanced classes where the best and brightest could go beyond what regular classes taught in order to better realize their own abilities and capacities. Used to. Now an “(un) Honors College” is being established as San Jose State University.
“Higher education honors programs have traditionally been designed to give high-achieving students a chance to push themselves further and deeper academically at the collegiate level, but in today’s age of equity, one university aims to turn the idea on its head.
“San Jose State University is working to launch what has been temporarily dubbed the ‘(un) Honors College’ as scholars work to design a model that best fits their vision.
“The effort aims to attract the ‘region’s BIPOC communities,’ stated Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Vincent Del Casino when he announced the undertaking last September.
“BIPOC stands for Black, Indigenous, People of Color.
“The large public university nestled in California’s Silicon Valley already offers various traditional honors programs.
“The new program would not replace them, Del Casino stated, but instead push ‘past historical conversations about honors education and toward a dialogue about how we create radical, new learning spaces responsive to and inspired by the complex and intersectional diversity of our local communities and our students.’
“‘Maybe what we end up with doesn’t have the word “honors” in it at all.’”
“An Atlanta mom filed a federal complaint against her daughter’s Atlanta elementary school after she learned that the school was separating students on the basis of race.
“In the discrimination complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, parent Kila Posey claims the principal at Mary Lin Elementary School, a K-5 school in the Atlanta Public Schools system, put a segregation policy in place because she thought it was best for all students.
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“Posey, who is vice president of operations for the parent teacher association, according to the school website, first learned of the separation after she contacted Briscoe to request that her daughter be placed in a specific classroom with a certain teacher. Briscoe replied by saying that would not work because the teacher’s classroom wasn’t for Black students, Posey claims.
“‘She said that’s not one of the Black classes, and I immediately said, “What does that mean?” I was confused. I asked for more clarification. I was like, “We have those in the school?” And she proceeded to say, “Yes. I have decided that I’m going to place all of the Black students in two classes,”’ Posey said.”
Some anti-White groups believe that White people are actually evil mutant albinos that only originated a couple of centuries ago, and that they have been engaged in a conspiracy to cover up the “fact” that all of history’s great civilizations were run by Black individuals, from ancient China to classical Greece. Some anti-White groups believe that White people are soulless monsters created by Yakub. But apparently White people are actually ancient aliens… or something.
yt people are probably aliens from some loser ass planet that they fucked up. then they traveled the universe and found earth and was like, “oh wow! look at all these colored mfs. let’s take over the world and treat the darkest ones THE WORST.” and now we’re here in a pandemic
mfs can’t even stay i the sun for more than 5 minutes without dying. and the sun literally gives humans energy. they ain’t from here. they don’t belong here.
I’m not sure portraying White people as super-intelligent beings from an advanced civilization who came to colonize and uplift the natives is really much of an attack or put down against White people.
