Welcome back to Education Insanity, a weekly column updating you on the most insane events taking place in our nation’s schools. This is a collection of snapshots into the growing presence of critical race theory, the ideology that claims that America is irredeemably rooted in racism, and “woke” culture.
The following are all excellent examples of just how stupid those of the teaching profession have become under the guise of progressive liberalism. This from dailywire.com.
10. Notre Dame Students, Faculty Are Trying To Keep Chick-Fil-A Off Campus – Campus Reform
Students and faculty at the University of Notre Dame signed an open letter to the school opposing the addition of a Chick-Fil-A on campus. Two students opined in an op-ed for the student newspaper that they have “serious ethical concerns” with Chick-Fil-A.
9. A George Washington Univ Professor: Make Life ‘Hard’ For Unvaccinated People – The College Fix
George Washington University public health Professor Leana Wen appeared on CNN where she argued that life should be “hard” for people who have chosen not to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. “It needs to be hard for people to remain unvaccinated,” Wen said. “Right now, it’s kind of the opposite.”
8. Davidson College Offers ‘#AbolishThePolice’ Course – Campus Reform
Davidson College in North Carolina will offer a course called “#AbolishThePolice: Race and Policing in the U.S.” during the fall semester. The class description claims that the class will “enlist Black political and feminist theories and social and political philosophies to critically examine and think through issues of race, criminalization, incarceration, police militarization, predictive policing, surveillance, and domestic security.”
7. YouTube Censors Video Of School Board Meeting On Mask Mandates – Washington Free Beacon
YouTube temporarily censored a video of parents questioning the need for mask mandates at an Illinois public high school, even after the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that masks were unnecessary in schools. The video was reinstated less than 12 hours after it was taken down.
6. Illinois State University Gives $1,000 Scholarships To 100 Students Who Get Fully Vaccinated – Campus Reform
Illinois State University is offering a $1,000 scholarship and $100 gift cards to vaccinated students in hopes of encouraging more students to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The university will give out a total of $100,000 in scholarship money and $7,500 in gift cards uploaded directly to student’s IDs for campus purchases. Illinois State University is not mandating vaccines for students to return to campus.
5. OU Professor: Speech In Classroom Is ‘Different Than Freedom Of Speech’ – Campus Reform
University of Oklahoma Professor Julie Ward told The Oklahoma Daily that suppressing “disruptive” student speech is permissible and not considered a violation of the First Amendment. “Speech inside the classroom is different than freedom of speech,” Ward said. “It isn’t suppressing someone’s free speech if they are being disruptive or making it impossible for other students to learn.”
4. Elementary School Lecture Compares Immigrant Detention At Southern Border To Japanese Internment During WWII – Washington Free Beacon
A Maryland public elementary school taught children as young as six years old that the current detention facilities at the U.S. southern border are comparable to Japanese-American internment camps during World War II. The lecture proceeded to show students images of Asian activists holding signs that read, “Abolish ICE, “#DefendBlackLife,” and “#DefundThePolice.”
3. PA School District Shells out $68,000 On Diversity Investigation, Internal Reports Show District Went $428,000 Over Budget – The Daily Wire
A Pennsylvania school district spent $68,231.50 on a no-bid contract to conduct a “race-based discrimination [and] harassment investigation,” though a June 30 financial projections analysis indicates that the school district went $428,000 over budget. Upper Adams School District in Biglerville, Pennsylvania, hired a Philadelphia-based law firm, Fox Rothschild, to conduct the investigation.
2. Student Club At UNC Demands ‘Anti-Racist Alerts’ When ‘White Supremacists’ Come To Campus – Young America’s Foundation
A student club at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill is demanding that the university create “anti-racist alerts” to inform students when ‘white supremacists” come to campus. Examples of “white supremacists” given by the group include Corey Lewandowski, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, and pro-life groups.
1. Wisconsin School District Provides ‘Sexually Explicit’ Books To Third Graders; Material Teaches Students How To Use ‘Sex Apps’ – The Daily Wire
Students at Elmbrook School District in Brookfield, Wisconsin, have access to a slew of “sexually explicit” books via their school-provided computers, including content that dubs traditional views of marriage as “ignorant.” One of the books provided offers a play-by-play of how to use Grindr and other “sex apps.” A law firm claims that the school district violated state law by providing students with these materials.
What say you Def-Con News readers? Surprise? Shock? Aggravation? Bear with me. I have four positive take-aways from this article. Please continue reading:
a. I see significant encouragement here for Americans to rise up and take back our public school system. We can choose to become active within our local school boards. Demand video cams in every classroom. Full disclosure will keep parents aware and allow parents to monitor what and how our sons and daughters are being taught. After all, school tax dollars come from us, the parents. We should be entitled to determine and view what we’re paying for.
b. I see a proliferation of “private” school enrollment as well as the expansion of Home School Collectives with several families getting together to share expenses, ideas, work, and socialization. I also see the expansion of Select Team sports and organized community athletic-health programs run voluntarily and/or on a pay-for-play basis.
c. Church-based schools may begin to re-populate the landscape, perhaps growing to match and exceed what they had been in the 1960s when, for example, my hometown with a population of 100,000-plus had more than two dozen Catholic elementary schools, nearly a dozen Catholic junior high schools, and five Catholic high schools. Plus similar in make-up but much fewer numbers were the Lutheran schools, Non-Denominational Christian schools, and Jewish schools.
d. Finally, as more and more school age children leave public schools, our state representatives will become forced to propose and sponsor school tax relief initiatives and/or grants.
The above corrective measures are merely my ideas and are just a start of the great ideas parents will devise. These initiatives won’t occur overnight, of course, but the important thing to keep in mind is we are Americans and we don’t have to swallow the crap the progressive liberal democrat socialist communist fools are trying to feed use.
