Schools
Guns Are The Problem
Is that sign saying no guns, or no prohibition on guns? The usual suspects are once again calling for stricter gun control if not outright bans on private ownership of guns, rhetoric justified by the most recent school shooting. Wherever you land on the gun debate, I submit this knee-jerk response, and the uproar it causes, […]
Wednesday short takes – Mass school buses and rockets
Let’s get the old blood pressure up, shall we? Fox has an article headlining a license-less woman who is unable to get her kid on a bus to school and can’t afford to Uber him dozensof times a week. The school district says it is unable to provide busing from more than K-6 grades to […]
Virginia Military Institute DEI Head Quits
Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive VMI Cadets VMI’s lurch to woke has been reported here in the past. All has not gone well there since then. VMI Superintendent resigns after losing the confidence of Gov. Ralph “Coonman” Northam over allegations of racism VMI Alum Defy Woke Policy Military college’s chief of diversity quits amid debate over […]
Two schools stand up to their radicals… a little
Remember last month when appeals judge Kyle Duncan was shouted down at Stanford when he attempted to speak there? One of the highlight items was that not only did students shout him down, but the associate DEI dean Tirien Steinbach participated and essentially took the side of the hecklers. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-TX, brought down […]
Ft. Gordon Youth Challenge Academy class cancelled
Military.com reports that on the third day of a youth academy sponsiored by the Georgia Guard, things got a bit out of hand last October: A massive brawl broke out on a parade ground at Fort Gordon in Augusta one afternoon last fall, when about 70 teenage recruits of the Georgia National Guard’s Youth Challenge Academy slugged it out. Some used […]
Art history prof Mohammed firing update
Some of you may remember this from last month – art history professor Erika Lopez Prater was fired from Hamline U. after showing the above painting of Mohammed in her art history class. Erika López Prater said she took many precautions before showing a 14th-century painting of the prophet to a global art history class, […]
State U wants YOU…r bets
According to the New York Times, multiple US universities have partnered with on-line sports betting companies and at least a dozen have signed deals with brick-and-mortar casinos. The National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) says researchers estimate about three-quarters of college students gambled in the past year, and 6% have a gambling problem. In 2018, […]
Parents charged thousands of dollars for school information requests
Parents have come forward with stories that they were charged thousands of dollars for public requests made to their respective schools. These requests involve school curriculum and other public records request related to what the school is doing. One of these schools charged a mother $74,000 for her request to review school curriculum. From Fox […]
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