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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.

Government School = Masked Terror

14 Wednesday Oct 2020

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Sadly, almost all schools in the former America require children to cover their Image-of-God faces with training burkhas. The public concentration camps are upping the enforcement of the unconscionable.

The board unanimously approved a motion from board member Cameron Nuessle for “the district to give clear guidance to schools on defiance and insubordination with respect to wearing a face covering.”

Superintendent King Laurence said refusing to wear a mask could fall under the Code of Conduct’s infraction of defiance or, with repeated violations, insubordination.

A “King” issues his decree. This particular petty tyrant replaced a goon who was canned for making death threats in re a coverup of something about a computer. Not to worry! That thug, rather than being arrested, drifted into another cushy government make-work position elsewhere. But, your kids … their adherence to normalcy is defiant insubordination. This, from a “school” system with all the self-reported performance characteristics one would expect.

No masks required at the little HOME schoolhouse!

The “Schools” Have Formulas

05 Monday Oct 2020

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The more one probes the school, the more chaotic and idiotic the scene becomes – by design.

Diversianity is the new religion of public education, replacing God with satan’s little numbers game. Since 1965, the war has raged, changing the character of the country and the classrooms. And the schools have a formula for defining exactly what they mean by this lunacy:

The analysis comes amid mounting pressure to integrate New York City’s public schools, including almost weekly student protests demanding districtwide action. New York City is one of the most segregated school districts in the country, with only 28 percent of schools in the city considered diverse, widely defined as no one group exceeding 50 percent and no two groups exceeding 80 percent. City schools on the whole are 41 percent Latino, 26 percent black, 16 percent Asian and 15 percent white.

They’ve gone a little too far in NYC. Oops! Suddenly, they have too few White students, though the concern is that too many of the too few still group together in defiance of the formula.

None of this bullshit has anything to do with helping anyone learn anything unless it’s the importance of homeschooling. Of course, they have formulas to literally prevent that: I lost the link, but there’s an openly-stated plan to reduce literacy in the public schools. Seriously. They keep tinkering with the number of classes – four, five, whatever – but they do classify how well children (and adults) read. A ridiculous number cannot. The goal is to have everyone (EVERYONE) read at the second, or “Basic” level. That’s one step below “proficient.” It’s as Carlin said: people just smart enough to do the paperwork, but dumb enough to passively accept the system.

One would assume that the planners themselves read on the border of proficient and advanced and are content to allow some advanced readers to excel past level two. (There’s no way to stop the smart kids and the cretins assume the high-achievers will someday join the planner class anyway).

This, all of it, isn’t just bad news for writers. It’s a warning bell for all civilized society. It’s ringing loudly and constantly. Do you hear it?

Another Reason Globos Hate Private Schools

24 Thursday Sep 2020

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In addition to teaching more, private schools tend to keep families intact better than the converged government schools. Families, of course, are unnatural and oppressive according to the nation destroyers.

Family is no different, with different types of schools putting young people on distinctive paths towards family formation and marital stability. Until now, however, we have known little about how different types of schools are linked to students’ family life as adults. The limited research that exists in this area indicates that religious schooling is associated with higher rates of marriage among young adults, but we know less about how different forms of schooling are related to the risk of divorce in adulthood or to non-marital childbearing throughout one’s life.7

In this report, we examine how enrollment in American Catholic, Protestant, secular private, and public schools is associated with different family outcomes later in life.8 We analyze nationally representative data from the Understanding America Study (UAS) and the National Longitudinal Survey 1997 (NLSY97) to explore the links between adults’ prior schooling and their odds of marrying, divorcing, and having a child outside of marriage.

Men and women who have been educated in a private school tend to be more likely to be married, less likely to have ever divorced, and less likely to have had a child outside of wedlock.

The entire REPORT.

The authors conclude: ” students who attend private schools are more likely to forge successful families as adult men and women.” One would suspect that, as with other matters, homeschooled (or unschooled) children do even better by these metrics. Home (school) is where the heart is; the family too.

 

Testing Out

20 Sunday Sep 2020

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I’ve always enjoyed the Andover Townsman, but this editorial has me scratching my head.

Not stressing over a high-stakes college admissions test is to a high school junior what sleeping late is to a Saturday morning. If the apparent demise of SAT and ACT scores as benchmarks of young human potential were reduced to an analogy once favored by the authors of those exams, maybe it would look something like that.

Or maybe not. The point is it doesn’t matter anymore, now that colleges and universities are changing their admissions rules so that the scores are optional or not considered at all. For teenagers assembling college applications, whether the school of their dreams wants them as much as they want it now is less likely to be determined by mastery of algebra, logic problems and archaic vocabulary.

Then what does determine admission?

I get it, partly: the SAT, like almost all of the schools, is completely debased and nearly useless. Yet and still, as a recent California study demonstrated, it is still one of the best measures of how well a student may perform in college (what’s left of the colleges) – better than (worthless) HS grades even. Of course, those are just facts. Facts used to be viewed with logic – which, these days, is a problem.

“Pretty soon, all you’ll need to get into college is a pencil. Got a pencil? Get the fuck in there, it’s physics.” – George (Lord, we miss him) Carlin.

When Government Schools Kill – rerun…

18 Friday Sep 2020

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I needed a break thought it would be wise to revisit the schools and their ways. Here’s a golden oldie, from last year at TPC. The current events takeaway quote: “…here in the latter-day United States, the insanity is hardwired.” That does sum up 2020. 

When Government Schools Kill

 

“Nobody is killing me, my friends, by treachery, not using any force.” – Polyphemus, The Odyssey

I’m sure it’s happened, but I am unaware of any direct homicide of any student at the hands of a public school. The indirect killings, however, are legion. There are murders of other kinds too, and numerous beyond count. The schools kill creativity. They kill interest. They kill intellect. They kill souls or parts thereof. They kill critical thinking. They exterminate freedom. Honestly, it’s why they exist.

[2020 Update: Again, with the “schools shut down, we heard of no “school” shootings. Will the relative peace last?]

Most United States residents and most Americans still find this acceptable. It’s only when one or more children get gunned down at a school that any semblance of outrage arises. And then, it’s usually, by design, twisted around into further hatred of liberty. A maddening cycle.

Such was the case at Stoneman Douglas High School, in Broward County, Florida, on February 14, 2018. The school system, Broward County, the State of Florida, and the Imperial US government, with the great assistance of gunman Nikolas Cruz, murdered fourteen students and three adults. The system, as much as Cruz, did this with great malice and tremendous planning aforethought. 

One of the deceased victims was Meadow Pollack, an eighteen-year-old student. Her father, Andrew Pollack, along with Max Eden, published a new book, which sheds much-needed light on the matter. 

Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies That Created The Parkland Shooter and Endanger America’s Students

Please read a few excerpts from a recent New York Post article. The system knew, for years, that Cruz was a dangerous, crazed sociopath. “Why did the school allow him to remain enrolled despite his daily, deranged behavior for a full year? Not by negligence, but by policy.” Multiple policies dictate that students like Cruz must be tolerated, even at the expense of the safety of everyone else in the schools. 

Pursuant to these policies, records are kept. Pollack published notes from Carrie Yon, Cruz’s Eight Grade English teacher. I’ll relay two which, independent of everything else, scream out an alarm:

Sept. 11: After discussing and lecturing about the Civil War in America Nick became fixated on the death and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He asked inappropriate questions and was making shooting actions with his pencil. Some questions he asked were “What did it sound like when Lincoln was shot? Did it go pop pop or pop pop pop really fast? Was there blood everywhere? After the war what did they do with all the bodies? Did people eat them?”

Sept. 16: When we began to read the Odyssey Nick paid partial attention (in-and-out) until we came up to the gruesome scene when the giant eats Odysseus’ crew members, only then Nick was interested in the lesson and got my 100% attention.

And, no, the alarm isn’t that middle schoolers were actually studying the “Civil” War and reading Homer, remarkable as those revelations are. I placed double emphasis on certain words related to cannibalism. I’ve written before, and I imagine I’ll write again, that cannibals are the next great protected class of deviates. In this case, in these telling passages, we see early tangential inclusion. 

Inclusion and diversity – of anything, no matter how wicked – are parts of the mantra of the failed system. Combine those with fear (the driving force in public education), statism, hatred of all things Western, ignorance, and sheer stupidity, and you get a lunatic walking around, killing, with an AR-15, while the brave policeman hides under the staircase. 

How could Cruz legally purchase such a weapon, given his extensive record? Because the same policies dictated that all of his defects and criminal behaviors were covered up. Where’d he learn to shoot an AR-15? In the damned school! “Yet they not only allowed him to enroll in Marjory Stoneman Douglas, they literally gave him an air gun, shaped like an AR-15, and let him practice shooting.” All in defiance of expert recommendations. 

Rona Kelly, Cruz’s therapist, and Dr. Nyrma Ortiz, Cruz’s psychiatrist, knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that Cruz was crazy, with lethal ideations. It seems almost everyone on the East Coast of Florida knew. Yet, nothing positive was ever done. Even now I would bet that Cruz, awaiting trial and continuing to act out violently in jail, has yet to receive any neurological examination, to include an MRI or CT brain scan. The sinecures of the fraudulent industry know only enough to perpetuate themselves. They do not ever want to know the literal truth. Systemic solipsism of Luciferian proportions.

How can this be tolerated in an informed and civilized society? Well, it can’t. But, here in the latter-day United States, the insanity is hardwired. For fun, and if you have the time, consult the two one-star and sole two-star reviews on Amazon of Why Meadow Died. See what jumps out at you. I’d go further, but I’m not writing a book of my own about it and I trust your judgment. The one-stars are off-topic and personally vindictive. The two-star, from a “Dr. G,” smells of well-worn gun control hysteria. Note that.

Note also that this phenomenon of fostering, promoting, and defending dangerous psychosis is widespread. I personally encountered it during my year-long research for The Substitute novel. Rest assured that the same evil spirit resides in the Newton County “schools.” It lurks in all “schools.” For that and many other reasons, there is no reforming these institutions. 

It’s also my sad suspicion that there’s also no escaping more gun control (on top of the copious level we endure as-is). That’s why, a few weeks ago, I presented a short fictional (but factual) how-to about caching arms for future use.* I’m working on a similar story about how to easily and cheaply obtain weaponry after the fact. We’ll have that here in the near future.

For now, get your kids out of those educational abominations.

*2020 Update: I have another, related fictional-factual piece I’ve been sitting on…

Capital Offenses

16 Wednesday Sep 2020

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More stunning success from Amerika’s government “schools!” In the DC swamp, they spend $30,115 per year per victim, roughly three times the national collapsing imperial average. Yet, while it’s better performance than in Detroit, a supermajority of the kids can’t read or do math at proficient levels.

The public elementary and secondary schools in the District of Columbia spent $30,115 per pupil during the 2016-2017 school year, according to Table 236.75 in the Department of Education’s “Digest of Education Statistics.”

But only 23% of the eighth graders in the D.C. public schools were proficient or better in reading in 2019, according to the department’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, tests.

Similarly, only 23% of eighth graders in the district’s public schools were proficient or better in mathematics.

Yes, we can’t!

Nationwide in 2019, only 32% of eighth graders in public schools scored at or above proficient in reading, and only 33% scored at or above proficient in math.

Does that make you want to send your child to a public school?

Does it give you confidence this nation’s government-run schools are teaching young Americans to be thoughtful and well-informed citizens?

Hahahahaha!!!

CNS is a great site, though their voucher suggestion is a little misplaced and unnecessary and assumes the thieves in government have some right to handle the people’s money. Just close the damned “schools.”

Yeah! Where are all the kids???

16 Wednesday Sep 2020

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The government “school” follies roll on in Detroit, home of amazing single-digit academic performance numbers. The new abnormal classes are ZOOMing right along!

Karlotta Hicks was ready to teach online. Her handmade Zoom background featured numbers and the ABCs, kindergarten concepts she hoped would jog her first graders’ memories after nearly six months away from the classroom. She’d spoken by phone over the summer to the parents of her 14 students, letting them know that virtual classes would begin right after Labor Day at 8 a.m.

“It’s going to be as if the kids were in front of me,” she said confidently a week before classes began at Winans Academy for Performing Arts.

When class began on Tuesday, just one student appeared in her virtual classroom, and his audio wasn’t working. Across the country, hundreds of thousands of students and teachers were troubleshooting their way through glitch-filled first days of online learning. This was going to be tough.

“Tough” isn’t the word. “Terminal” might do it. They speak, concernedly, about getting the kids back to “normal.” We know what normal was – ridiculous, hideous failure. Don’t worry, I checked on the subject elementary school. Read the tale to scare Bram Stoker HERE. 

$16,000 per student per year, nearly twice the national average, begets a 2.7%, dead bottom state percentage ranking with 1.8% of 4th graders proficient in math… It’s not the money. It’s not the virus. It’s not voodoo. It is the system and the culture it “serves.” The same people who made this pathetic mess cannot fix it. $16K per year is more than enough to voucher the kids who want to succeed into stellar homeschool programs, private schools, or both at the same time. An apparently good teacher like Hicks might be needed in a real educational setting. There’s no might about the children.

Where are these kids? Academic hell.