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1 in 4 High School Students Identify as Homosexual
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Almost Half Students at Ivy League University Identify as LGBTQ+ — Doubling the Share. The poison fruit of radical LGBT education in schools. At one Ivy, The number of heterosexual students went down 25.2% and homosexual students went up 26% from Fall 2010 to Spring 2023. 1 in 4 high school […]
American Students Are Now Absent At Record Rates After Missing Months Of Classroom Instruction During The Pandemic
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller American students have been missing class at record rates following the COVID-19 pandemic, which kept them from in-person learning for months, according to a Friday report from Stanford University education professor Thomas Dee in partnership with The Associated Press. More than 25% of students missed at least 10% of classes during […]
Weekend Read: Revolutionary State of Mind
/in Education, Featured, Healthcare, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Peter Hitchens Editors’ Note: The debate about legalization may not really be the debate. Smoking tobacco is legal, but restricted. Advertising is banned and its use is now severely frowned upon in today’s culture. Even the tobacco companies themselves must fund education against their own product. But marijuana gets a pass. It is an […]
Los Angeles Schools Create Sex Clubs In Elementary School to Indoctrinate Children Into LGBTQ
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report SICK AND EVIL! ‘LGBTQ+ Liberation’: Los Angeles Schools Create Guide For Elementary ‘Rainbow Clubs’ The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) created a guide to organizing “Rainbow Clubs” for elementary school students, which included lessons on “LGBTQ+ liberation,” activism, and “protest art.” The district explains in a document that the groups are “for LGBTQ+ […]
Nature’s Proximal Origin [Covid] Paper Was a Work of ‘Fraud and Scientific Misconduct,’ Say Scientists Demanding a Retraction
/in Education, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jon Miltimore A trove of recently published documents reveals that authors of the Proximal Origin paper believed that the lab leak scenario was not just possible, but likely. A growing number of people, including prominent scientists, are calling for a full retraction of a high-profile study published in the journal Nature in March 2020 that explored the […]
A Cartoon Graveyard – An Analysis of the Left’s Postmodern Attack on Excellence
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Conlan Salgado There is an old idea that excellence in any discipline is difficult to achieve. Perhaps that idea suggests another similar, though unconnected one: that those who have achieved excellence are difficult to enslave.In the movie 13 Assassins, Shinrokuro Shinmada says, “Ruling is convenient, but only for rulers. The people must learn to […]
Parents need to wake up to the danger of trans ideology, says child psychiatrist
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities This is an excerpt from the introduction to Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist’s Guide Out of the Madness, the latest book by American psychiatrist Miriam Grossman. When I graduated from medical school, I took an oath. I stood up, raised my right hand, and vowed to prevent disease […]
Let’s Get Serious About Eliminating The Department Of Education
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Dr. Thomas Patterson “The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2023”. If you’ve read this far, you have completed HR899, introduced by Rep.Thomas Massie. Abolishing the DOE isn’t a new idea. The department was created in 1979 by the Carter administration, fulfilling a campaign promise to the NEA, the teachers union, which […]
Team Biden Outmaneuvered by China?
/in Education, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Eric Rozenman U.S. policy toward China appears to be suffering from a belief in magic – that, for instance, withdrawing from Afghanistan would be a great idea; that Putin would be happy with a “minor incursion” into Ukraine; that the Chinese spy balloon was “silly;” that the mission of education and the military should be to ensure “equity,” […]
Happy 111th Birthday, Milton Friedman, Your Wish Has Come True
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jay Greene and Jason Bedrick On the occasion of his “eleventy-first” birthday, the hobbit Bilbo Baggins famously disappeared. On July 31, we celebrate[d] what would have been the 111th birthday of another man who was diminutive in size but larger than life in spirit: Milton Friedman. Were he to reappear today, he would likely […]
Education Game-Changer Follow-up
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy John Droz, Jr. How You Can Do the Same Thing in Your State I received a LOT of positive feedback (and essentially nothing negative) from my recent post: Education Game-Changer. Thank you for your support! It was also gratifying that several people asked me to outline how this came about so they could do something similar […]
Report: 143 K-12 Schools in the U.S. Have Chinese Communist Party Ties
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council A new report has revealed that at least 143 K-12 schools in the U.S. currently have or have had past ties to a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) program known as “Confucius Classrooms.” Experts say the CCP effort to infiltrate schools with communist propaganda is part of a concerted effort to “subvert” […]
NEA Head and MSNBC Pounce on Florida Curriculum that Teaches Some Slaves ‘Developed Skills’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Discover The Networks Friday on MSNBC’s The Last Word, guest host Ali Velshi and National Education Association (NEA) President Becky Pringle lied about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) for a provision in the state’s social studies standards about “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” Pringle stated that teaching […]
ASU Is Nothing to Crow About
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel We published an interesting interview with Tom Lewis, the generous benefactor who had to withdraw his significant contributions to ASU because of militant left-wing bias among its faculty. In that interview, he has high praise for Michael Crow, although he admits he does not think Michael Crow knows what is going on […]
Hobbs Sets Off War Of Words Over Arizona ESA Program
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Cameron Arcand Editors’ Note: It is one of the defining issues of our time: the limits to personal liberty, especially absent any broadly accepted moral code. It seems many are their own God, making up their own moral code or copying one from social media. Democrats, i.e., the Left, like to sell themselves as […]
Philanthropist Halts Higher Ed Donations After ‘Radicalized’ Faculty Protest Kirk-Prager Event
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Rob Bluey Tom Lewis is among America’s most generous philanthropists. Over more than 20 years, his T.W. Lewis Foundation has funded causes helping children and families, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations like The Heritage Foundation. But he’s now taking a different approach with colleges and universities after a controversy at Arizona State University. Lewis pulled his funding following […]
Intellectual Dysfunction
/in Education, Featured, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Theodore Dalrymple When did things begin to go wrong? The Garden of Eden is one possible answer, of course. But we nevertheless look for more proximate answers to a question such as “When did transgender ideology become an unassailable orthodoxy in large parts of the academy?” Personal memory is deceptive when trying to answer […]
Former ‘Teacher Of The Year’ Facing 150-Year Sentence For Allegedly Grooming Student
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller A second victim has been identified in additional sexual misconduct charges against former 2022 San Diego “Teacher of the Year,” Jacqueline Ma, according to a recently amended complaint. Police initially arrested and charged the 34-year-old teacher from Lincoln Acres Elementary School in March after engaging in sexual misconduct with a 12-year-old student, according to […]
If Schools Taught Reading, Writing, and Math we Wouldn’t need Affirmative Action
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Karen Schoen Speak out and your career is over. It is much easier to yell race as an excuse for students not doing the required work. Affirmative Action is a quest for mediocrity just look at the administration. What problem they created did they solve? Much easier to blame race. I was thinking about […]
Weekend Read: DEI and the End of the Constitutional Order
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Christopher F. Rufo Critical race theory was never designed to reveal truth—it was designed to achieve power. The American Mind is pleased to present this excerpt from the new book America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything by Christopher F. Rufo. Copyright © 2023 by Christopher F. Rufo. Reprinted by permission of Broadside Books, […]
‘We Have Goals’: West Point Head Dodges Question About Race-Based Goals For Academy Student Makeup
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Micaela Burrow The superintendent for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point defended racial admissions goals while denying that the academy has quotas for race or gender at a hearing Wednesday. Indiana Rep. Jim Banks pressed Lt. Gen. Steven Gilland on the difference between a “quota” and a “preference” in admissions at a hearing […]
America’s most left-wing university launches ‘Journal of Right-Wing Studies’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities A band of academics from America’s most left-wing university have just launched a new journal for “right-wing studies”. What could possibly go wrong? If one were to write a detailed chronology of the cancel culture phenomenon, the University of California, Berkeley, would feature prominently. This fact is somewhat ironic […]
Radicals Threaten to Kill, Dismember School Board President for Adopting Parental Rights Policy
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council A local school board president has been inundated with threats that left-wing activists will dismember her, murder her children, and slaughter her pets. Her crime? Saying that teachers should not keep parents in the dark if their children begin to identify as transgender. The new Chino Valley (California) Unified School District […]
College Towns Across America See Massive Democratic Shift
/in Education, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Arjun Singh College towns across the United States have come to overwhelmingly support Democrats, which is damaging the Republican Party’s ability to win elections in key swing states, according to a new report. The American Communities Project (ACP), which has sought to develop a demographic profile of every county in the United States, has […]
Newsom Imposes $1.5M Fine on California School District for Rejecting Textbook Discussing LGBT Activism
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council On Thursday, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) announced that he would be levying a $1.5 million fine on the Temecula Valley Unified School District (TVUSD) over the school board’s recent decision to reject a state-endorsed textbook intended for elementary schoolchildren that discusses the infamous gay rights activist Harvey Milk. “We’re going to purchase […]
You Are Whatever You Say You Are – or – How The West Was Lost
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch At a school in Great Britain, one more example of the insanity that has gripped large parts of the Western world was recently on display. One pupil, a 13-year-old eighth grader, questioned another pupil’s decision to identify as a “cat.” This innocent inquiry was overheard by the teacher, who went into a […]
Legislature Forms Committee Looking Into ASU Free Speech Concerns
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Cameron Arcand Following a free speech controversy at Arizona State University, the state Legislature is forming a new joint committee to examine “freedom of expression” in the state’s public universities. ASU shut down the T.W. Lewis Center for Personal Development after its main donor, Tom Lewis, pulled funding after a controversial event featuring conservative […]
Britain’s Shakespearean Constitution
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Adam Tomkins When teaching constitutional law in the United Kingdom, one of the first challenges is to reflect on where the British constitution gets its authority. We say, for example, that it is not merely a rule that the Prime Minister must be a member of the House of Commons, but a constitutional rule. […]
Obama Comes Out, Pushing Gay Porn in School Libraries
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Long time Geller Report readers know full well the sexualization and promotion of perverse sexual practices to children in our public schools is nothing new. It all began with Obama. Everything terrible thing the government is doing to the American people (and the world) was put in place during the Obama […]
Montana State Library Commission Cuts Ties With American Library Association Over New ‘Marxist Lesbian’ President
/in Education, Featured, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Joshua Arnold The Montana State Library Commission voted Tuesday to withdraw from the American Library Association based on that organization’s new president, who is a “Marxist lesbian” by her own description. The lopsided vote (5-1, with one abstention) represents the first time a state entity has withdrawn from the 147-year-old nonprofit. “Our oath of office and resulting […]