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The Fall of Dalton

22 Tuesday Dec 2020

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At this point, it’s almost a safe bet to write off the “elite” private academies along with the utterly failed government “schools.” Another example:

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The Dalton School in Manhattan is having a race meltdown. It’s absolutely insane. Teachers are holding the school for ransom with demands, but they’re so extreme the school will crumble if they give in. But they’ll crumble if they don’t, too!

Here are some of the demands:

The hiring of twelve (!) full time diversity officers

An additional full time employee whose “entire role is to support Black students who come forward with complaints.”

Hiring of multiple psychologists with “specialization on the psychological issues affecting ethnic minority populations.”

Pay off student debt of incoming black faculty

Re-route 50% of all donations to NYC public schools

Elimination of AP courses if black students don’t score as high as white

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Read the entire insane, anti-White, anti-Western thing. Then, if you even suspect your child is committed in such an institution, it’s time to homeschool or unschool. Those options, or miserable failure.

Coast to Coast Assaults on Learning

23 Monday Nov 2020

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And excellence.

I’ve been warning Asians I know that they’re next. A few (I don’t know) appear to have received the message, at least regarding their kids and the schools.

When one angry Asian-American parent responded “Trust me, you’ll never catch up. If you need to lower-standards to get in, you’ll never beat us,” a near physical fight broke loose.

Another Asian parent screamed, “First you blame white people, now you blame us!? Grow up! Study harder or go home!”

Studying probably won’t help overcome what nature put into place. Fred Reed just wrote about one of the noted schools – may have to recap that for FP news this week. Diversity = lower academic standards and results.

School Distancing – Column Rerun

21 Saturday Nov 2020

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There obviously was no new column this week. My apologies. Here, find a post from April about the schools in the age of COVID. History is currently repeating and, thus, so does:

The Coronavirus Hysteria May Be The Best Thing That Ever Happened To The Schools

Hello, beloved readers! Kindly join me for an updated exploration of one of my favorite pet subjects, the terminal decline of America’s government schools. Before we get too deep, as the title suggests, I think the current and ongoing closure of the public schools because of the Chinese chest cold and ensuing mass hysteria may be one of if not the best thing that has happened to these institutions since their inception and near-instantaneous corruption. Mind you, this one is a little long and a little link-heavy. But, it’s one of my most important articles yet. If you value your children, your grandchildren, and the future of society, then the following is of great importance. Besides, under house arrest, you likely have all the time in the world.

We Have A Problem

Now, pick a measure – any measure. If it’s a positive, as in laudatory of excellence, then the US ranks far outside the international elite. If it’s negative – school shootings, wasted money, bullying, teen pregnancy, suicides, etc. – then the US is probably the number one country. Within the states, there is a wide variance between performance levels. Worldwide, there are myriad ranking systems. The US is far off the mark in all of the serious assessments. For my purposes, I picked one:

The Center On International Educational Benchmarking (CIEB) at the National Center On Education And The Economy has posted its Top Performing Countries list for 2018. The top countries are Canada, China, Estonia, Finland, Hong Kong, Japan, Poland, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. Notice anyone missing? There are many good (or very bad) reasons for the absence. According to the CIEB, the US ranks just outside the leaders in reading, and just above the world average. The findings regarding science are similar. However, in mathematics, the US ranks well below the international average and ridiculously below the number one nation, China. This dismal performance comes in spite of the US’s massive expenditure per pupil, per year. For 2015, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the US was second ($12,800) in spending only to Norway ($15,100). Norway also failed to make CIEB’s top ten. For reference: China spends approximately $2,400 per child per year (based on 2017 Chinese junior high expenditure and a 2020 Yuan to Dollar conversion). 

Contrary to what the idiot politicians and the make-work educrats say, it is not the money that holds back American children. It is the very (hellish) school system itself. It has been, for over a century, specifically designed to produce failure. Adding more money to the US school budget, in an attempt to boost performance, is akin to the old adage about extinguishing a fire with gasoline. All of this, I have written about extensively, before. My second CFF column was education-related. See, also: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE. That’s in addition to over 250 articles and posts, 8% of the total volume, at my blog. I even set up an education resources page, which has only been viewed about a dozen times. And I also wrote a novel (which you should buy) about these matters. And, here we go yet again.

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Very Stale Education News

18 Wednesday Nov 2020

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In-person learning suspended until further notice in New York. That might have well been the announcement forty years ago. With the exception of a few magnet schools, which the diversity-ites are currently destroying, there hasn’t been any learning in the Rotten Apple’s “schools” for several generations.

All New York City Public Schools will temporarily close to in-person instruction beginning Thursday due to increasing coronavirus cases, school officials announced.

“Buildings are CLOSED for in-person learning until further notice. All students who were learning in school buildings part of the week will transition to remote learning every day,” said officials via social media.

Code orange! Better get those sick people into nursing homes. I mean, get those kids on the screens. One will note the absence of any of this stupidity at the local homeschool.

Even More “Schools” Closing

14 Saturday Nov 2020

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I knew about the ones in Detroit. Then came a batch in Georgia. Now, according to the election-certifying(!) AP, it’s a nationwide thing – in response to a third wave of Hoax-Infinity.

Facing equally grim conditions, school systems around the U.S. and abroad are taking similarly tough action. Boston, Detroit, Indianapolis and Philadelphia are among those that are closing classrooms or abandoning plans to offer in-person classes later in the school year, and New York City may be next.

Such decisions are complicated by a host of conflicting concerns — namely, safety versus the potential educational and economic damage from schooling children at home, in front of computers, under their parents’ supervision.

Virus transmission does not appear to be rampant within schools themselves. Instead, many of the infections that are proving so disruptive are believed to be occurring out in the community. Educators fear things could get worse during upcoming holiday breaks, when students and staff gather with family and friends or travel to other hot spots.

The nation has entered “an extremely high-risk period,” said experts at PolicyLab, a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia team that develops guidance. They shifted their advice this week, advocating online-only instruction for areas with rapidly rising rates, at least until after Thanksgiving.

Extremely high-risk … of what? The under eighteen set is essentially immune and does not appear to transmit the hoax. Or, could they be admitting that the high-risk comes from the schools themselves? Is it like with school shooting? Could “schools” cause hoax transmission? We may never know. However, we do know that most kids in the fading US haven’t seen much of their “schools” this year. Let’s hope that trend continues and becomes permanent. Just as there are no school shootings at homeschools, the eager-to-learn “homies” don’t have to worry about the scamdemic (any more than the general population). Homeschool! Or, since we’re getting away from the concept of classes, how about Unschooling?!

Unsafe to Return

12 Thursday Nov 2020

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My argument as well as to the public “schools,” especially in Detroit. COVID closes the “schools” again – is there anything the little wonder bug can’t do?

Detroit Public Schools are halting in-person learning through at least Jan. 11, as COVID-19 continues to spread in the community.

“All classes will be held online starting Monday, November 16 due to the rapid increase in the COVID-19 infection rate in Detroit,” the district said in an announcement. “Face-to-face learning and learning centers will remain open this Thursday and Friday to provide families time to rearrange educational support for students.”

Detroit was one of many districts that chose to return students to classrooms this fall while many other districts adopted an online-only approach. The schools gave parents the option of online or face-to-face learning.

Critics of Detroit’s decision, including a group within the Detroit Federation of Teachers, have argued that it was unsafe to return.

A minor correction: technically, the face-to-face learning ceases in Detriot years ago. (Those truly intelligent students surely learned on their own while hiding their faces as much as possible). Coupling what we know about the UK study on Corona regression, especially in a place like Detroit, and what I’ve previously noted about their “performance,” it may be possible that for this school year DPS will post NEGATIVE marks across the board. I assume that might mean that children outside of Wayne County may see their education and intelligence dip a little due to the proximity of this academic black hole.

Given the astronomical sums spent per student per year by the DPS, they could afford to pay the Federated Safety Loafers to stay home, stay quiet, and stay out of sight – while purchasing effective homeschooling for all the students who would have it. I’m confident they will reach that conclusion by January 11 … of maybe 2159.

The Kids Are Not Okay

11 Wednesday Nov 2020

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In the government schools under the hoaxdemic. This isn’t just limited to the UK. In fact, I know of case after case of this kind of stuff in the US (nothing but cases of it, really).

The Ofsted inspectors said older children have lost their “stamina” for reading. The watchdog also warned that older kids might show loss of concentration when returning to school, noting that fights on social media started during the lockdown are now “being played out in the classroom.”

Some children are showing signs of mental distress, raising concern about eating disorders and self harm, according to the Ofsted report. Others also reported a loss of physical fitness.

Disorder, disorder, disorder. They wouldn’t lose the stamina if they read and learned at home. The public schools are regression by design. Use the plandemic as a key and unlock the door to real education. Homeschool!

It’s Not “The Left” Coming For Christian Schools

24 Saturday Oct 2020

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It’s the devil and his followers. Rod Dreher makes a point while missing one.

I have pretty much decided to vote third party for president (American Solidarity Party). Trump has my state locked up anyway, so I’m thinking that I would like to cast a vote in favor of a party whose platform I really believe in, as opposed to voting for the lesser of two evils, and choosing between the evil of two lessers. Reading this AP story this morning, though, has reminded me again of the contempt the left has for people like me, and our institutions, which they will demonize as a precursor to destroying them. The story has re-centered me on the critical importance of the federal judiciary as likely the last thing standing between Christian schools and institutions, and the progressive mob. I’m going to be thinking about this all the way through to election day, and I hope you Christian readers — especially those in swing states — will too. Though my vote really doesn’t matter in my state, this issue might move it to Trump anyway, given the quality of his judicial appointments. If I were in a swing state, this AP story, and what it symbolizes, would seal the deal for me.

This is who the Democrats are. If the party’s leaders and activists didn’t despise traditional religion so much, I would be open to voting for them (as I’ve voted twice for Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards of Louisiana). But we can’t afford to look at the world through rose-colored glasses. If the Democrats take power and hold it, it will only be a matter of time before they come after traditional Christian (and Orthodox Jewish, and Islamic) schools on anti-discrimination grounds. When they say today that they would never do such a thing, don’t believe them. They’re relying on the Law of Merited Impossibility: It will never happen, and when it does, you bigots will deserve it.

This has little to do with politics and the courts. Christians are the last thing standing between their schools and the world. Just do not tolerate the garbage Rod is justly concerned about. Worry about other Christians, other Americans, not Jews, Muslims, and certainly not Judeo-Christians. And, in answer to his first update question, schooling at home is the final resort (though it should regularly be the first). “The left” isn’t coming, it’s already here, as it always has been and always will be. The time to resist is always.

“Murdering” Grades and Education in Public “Schools”

23 Friday Oct 2020

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Grades, you know, used to measure a student’s understanding of the material. No longer.

Instead of grading a student based on an average of quizzes, homework assignments and tests, grades will be given depending on how well they understand the material.

The San Diego Unified School District is changing the way students are graded after it was revealed minorities get worse grades compared to white students.

The board approved the new grading policy last week. It’s something it has discussed for years, but following George Floyd’s murder, it revisited the issue during a workshop in July.

“If we want to be an anti-racist school district, we’ve got to confront those issues,” said Board Vice President Richard Barrera.

Flim star Big Floyd’s “murder” is a great place to discredit the idiots behind this terminal decline in what already amounts to utterly debased education. This, of course, from a district that recently accepted an award from a hate organization founded to honor the memory of a child murderer (not Big Floyd’s “murder,” a real one).

While “Bell Curve” is a great response to this nonsense, there’s really no point. There’s no place for hate of our children, thus no place for them in these failed institutions. Homeschool.

Uh, brief commentary about private Christian schools tomorrow.

Diversity Killed The Academy

22 Thursday Oct 2020

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It had a lot of help.

Gregory Hood spills the beans on the death of the best public high school (still a government prison) in what passes for the United States.

Thus, we arrive at the current controversy about the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST). It’s not being renamed, though we can probably assume that’s next. Instead, the school, ranked by US News as the best high school in the country, has eliminated its admissions test because not enough blacks and Hispanics can pass it. TJ, as it is called, was going to have an admissions “lottery” for students who had a 3.5 GPA or better, but the Fairfax County Schools Board did not approve that part of the plan. Still, that might just be a stay of execution. A proposed “Holistic Review” instead of a lottery might be even worse.

So, for now, no one knows how TJ is going to select its students, but the old days of pure meritocracy are gone.

The days of AMERICA are gone. Read the whole sad but overly-informative piece. Then, flee any and all public “schools” and any private school that preaches DIEversity or other anti-Western hate. TJ wouldn’t recognize the place.