Once again, Black Lives Matter’s rears it’s ugly head in Educational Matters, now just being euphemistically called “Equity”. Different name, same thing – not equal opportunity but equal outcomes. And how to best achieve that “lofty” (/sarc) goal?
Barrington, Rhode Island, public schools are among the best in the state. Many parents move to the district, and tolerate the higher taxes, because of the academic rigor that sets their children up for attending Ivy League schools or receiving academic merit scholarships. However, all of that academic appeal is being chipped away after the district brought in a so-called “equity and inclusion” agenda.
De-leveling, or a system of universal learning, was first implemented in Barrington on the most vulnerable students—the students with learning disabilities and Individualized Education Programs (IEP).
So, chop the top classes for the smartest kids, chop the bottom classes for those that need help, and you end up with “universal learning” in which there is just the group/Collective where there are no Individuals – just a mass of kids that are inseparable from one another. Just a cog in the teachers’ socially engineered classrooms because in Equity, nobody can be better than anyone else, no one can be worse than anyone else…even though all know that can’t be true.
And that silly “Civil Rights Movement” back in the 50s, 60s, and 70s? Yeah, the newest Educational Fad kicks that right to the curb. As the saying goes – Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever! White Racists fought for it then, now BLM Racists fight for it now:
Oakton Community College, a small college in the Chicago area, has now established a special academy for black men only, dubbed the Emory Williams Academy for Black Men.
As a member of the Academy, you will join a community designed for Black male-identifying students who are on a journey to advance their education and achieve their goals. Whether you want to earn your associate degree and transfer to a four-year school or kick-start a career with training, the Academy will meet you where you are and help you thrive.
The Academy is led by dedicated Black faculty and staff. You’ll be supported every day by a group of committed professors and student-success coaches—and your fellow scholars. [emphasis mine]
That website also describes its values like so:
We embrace the diversity of the Black men of our academy and honor the multiple representations of Blackness and maleness in our community. We advance equity by acknowledging the harm perpetrated against Black men by systemic racism in all levels of their education, and intentionally disrupting it here at the College.
…no whites need apply.
Just wait until they find out that some of their Black Men have no sense of what “Maleness” really means because of their chromosomal makeup…and accuse the real men of Toxic Masculinity and Patriarchy! Let the Identity Politics begin!
And who knew that the Alton (NH) Selectmen had trained an Ohio School Board – you don’t tell constituents to shut up at meetings (Alton paid a 5 digit amount for damages + legal fees to learn that themselves):
Parents continue to fight for a say in their children’s education, often against hostile administrators. Three cheers, then, for Ohio mother Ashley Ryder for successfully challenging a policy that limited what parents could say at school board meetings. Ms. Ryder sued the Big Walnut Local School District Board of Education in an Ohio federal court in March. She said it had violated the First Amendment with a policy that allows the presiding officer at school board meetings to “interrupt, warn, or terminate” any public statements he deems “abusive,” “personally directed” or “antagonistic.” In late April the board settled with Ms. Ryder and agreed to end its restrictions on speech.
Ms. Ryder’s experience illustrated how the school board had abused the policy to silence critics. The Ohio mother believes schools should provide mental-health services for students, and she criticized newly elected school board members about the veracity of their statements on the issue. “Now that you’ve made a complete 180, my question for the board is this: Were you lying to your base to get elected, or are you lying now to the parents?” Ms. Ryder asked at a February meeting.
At that point, School Board President Doug Crowl interrupted Ms. Ryder, told her to “zip it for a minute,” and refused to allow her to complete her prepared statement. He then instructed other parents that “public participation is to explain to us your position, not to make accusations, not to call names,” and that “any personal attacks, name-calling, I will call out.”
Reasonable people in government have no problem in being admonished or being called out for mistakes. Tyrants and hubristic/full of themselves do and will use their Powers to retaliate. Kudos to Ms. Ryder for standing up and taking them on. Be Brave, Do Something.
And how long might it be before this becomes reality here in the US (if it hasn’t already happened)?
It’s a conversation many have had at least once in their life. A friend or family member shares that he or she is struggling with same-sex attraction. No doubt there are countless opinions on the most loving way to respond in these moments, but a new law in Canada mandates the response to be given. Affirm the same-sex attraction—or risk jail time.
Yes, Canada’s “conversion therapy” ban requires parents, pastors, counselors, friends, and others to affirm a person’s gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation, or face jail or prison time.
Canada has surrendered “to the political sphere to let them decide how we can counsel, how we can love our LGBT neighbors in the name of Jesus, and how to teach our own kids what a biblical view of sexuality and gender looks like,” says Jojo Ruba, the communications director for the Calgary, Alberta-based Free to Care.
And make no mistake – this is a political decision by the politically powerful. In this case, Canada’s LGBTQRSTUV lobby that, like here in the US, is far more powerful than its numbers would belie. After all, didn’t President Asterisk basically just tell us that we must do the same thing simply on his-say-so. We here in NH already have had these sexuality missionaries ban therapists from even talking to those that would seek them out; in essence, taking away Free Speech to keep their sexuality ideology intact (and our “esteemed Governor” being in favor of it.
And this one, she’d be fired as well. Good on Florida’s Parental Rights Law:
A Florida teacher claims that she was fired after discussing her status as a “pansexual” with students earlier this Spring. Cape Coral middle school art teacher Casey Scott claims that students were curious about her sexual orientation and that she had the conversation with them back in March, which she followed by telling the students to draw pictures showing their sexual orientations.
“The subject matter angered some parents and students who wrote to administrators to voice their displeasure,” the New York Post reported. “Scott, who was working on a probationary basis and not part of the teachers union, was eventually told not to return to campus and that her contract was being terminated.”
“A discussion happened in class and because of that, now I’m fired,” Scott claimed in an interview with NBC2. “I like anyone despite male, female, non-binary, transgender.” The Lee County School District said that Scott was fired from Trafalgar Middle School because she did not follow the mandated curriculum.
Scott reportedly displayed the pictures that her students drew of their sexual orientations for everyone at the school to see and was told to take them down.
NO teacher should be talking about their personal sexuality or sexual practices in a classroom. From my perspective, for ANY grade and not just the K-3rd. I would make the claim that even older, perhaps even those in high school, do not have the emotional wherewithal (on average) to totally grok what that level of intimacy really does to one’s emotions, especially to girls. Does that sound sexist? Too bad – even with the decades of the Left’s propaganda that such an act is merely physical exercise. It isn’t – not even close.
Oh, and that story two times above? Yeah, I knew that it already has started here in the US – of course in California. Except this starts with medical staff
California Senate Committee Advances ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Bill Despite Opposition
A California Senate committee voted 8-2 this week in favor of Senate Bill 923, the Transgender Inclusive Care Act, which would force all health care providers to promote “gender-affirming care.” The proposed legislation would require health care providers to compel their staff to complete “evidence-based cultural competency training” for the purpose of providing “trans-inclusive” health care to patients who identify as transgender, gender nonconforming, and intersex (TGI).
…Eight Democrats on the committee voted in favor of SB 923, including Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) who introduced the legislation. The two Republicans on the committee Sen. Melissa Melendez (R-Lake Elsinore) and Sen. Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) voted against the bill.
…Dozens of California parents of gender dysphoric teens, as well as multiple associations representing medical professionals, also opposed the bill. The legislation would apply to all staff and contractors working for health care providers, including health insurers, Medi-Cal, and PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) organizations.
Once again, the Left has decided that what you and I are allowed to speak, say, believe, or do is wrong. While a founding Pillar of our Republic, the Right of Conscious is no longer a highly valued attribute – that’s an Individual thing and we will only be allowed those things/ideas that provide for and enhance a Collectivist mindset.
Go read the link to see how the Democrats ignored everyone against this bill.
