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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 […]
Confidence in American Colleges In Free Fall
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jerry Newcombe At one time, America was among the best educated nations in the world. James Madison of Virginia, a key architect of the Constitution, said, “A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.” But a recent Gallup Poll earlier this month has found that American faith in college today has dropped […]
Experts Pick the Top 5 Conservative Colleges in the Country
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council As the state of universities continues to worsen with leftist ideology becoming entrenched in institutions of higher education, conservative parents are left wondering where they can send their children for education, not LGBT indoctrination. The Washington Stand reached out to a number of prominent conservative educators to ask for their recommendations on the […]
Recent left-wing attempts to subvert maths curricula hold some awkward historical parallels
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities If you were an author of school textbooks and wanted to teach a small child that 2+2=4, how would you choose to do so? Perhaps you might draw a picture of two easily-understandable items like apples, next to another two apples, followed by a final illustration of four apples, […]
Movie Review: The Sound of Freedom
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel From seemingly out of the blue, an independent film about child sex trafficking has eclipsed some heavyweight Hollywood productions for the summer box office draw. In actuality, we learn the film was produced some five years ago and it took all this time and struggle to get it to the big screen. […]
Gallup Poll Reveals Americans’ Plummeting Confidence in Public Schools
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Kerry McDonald Americans have soured on public schools, but there are alternatives. Americans have soured on public schools. That’s the takeaway from Gallup polling results released earlier this month showing that Americans’ confidence in public schools is at a low point, with only 26 percent of respondents indicating a “Great deal/Fair amount” of confidence in […]
Today’s Reserve Officer Training Corps. Cadet Summer Training Camp Fiasco!
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Royal A. Brown III Unbelievable! I was a member of an Army Senior ROTC Summer Camp training staff over 3 summers at Ft Riley, Kansas as a G3 Training Officer and a Regimental Commander and these kind of problems didn’t exist—of course this was before the Army and rest of military became totally WOKE. […]
California’s Largest School District Slapped With Complaint Over ‘Black Student Achievement Plan’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Parents Defending Education (PDE), a parental rights organization, filed a civil rights complaint Tuesday to the Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (OCR) against California’s largest school district over its “black student achievement plan” that allegedly discriminates against students on the basis of race. The complaint, obtained by the Daily Caller […]
Pray for America’s Children
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Unearthed Video Shows Teachers Union President Ranting And Raving On Stage, Calling Students ‘Our Babies’ By: Reagan Reese, Daily Caller, July 14, 2023: A recently unearthed video shows the head of the largest teachers union wailing on stage during a keynote address, calling students “our babies.” During the National Education Association’s (NEA) […]
Is There Any Such Thing as Legislation Anymore?
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Ryan M. Yonk and Laura Arce The attention given to the recent decision in Biden v. Nebraska rests fundamentally on political differences that have become increasingly stark, and that will no doubt continue to be the source of much disagreement. At its core, the question asked is primarily one of the wisdom of a […]
MICHIGAN: A Muslim & Vice-Chair of the State’s GOP Board Rola Makki speaks out against ‘inappropriate books’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier A reader sent us the following comments and the below video. Rola Makki, who is featured in the video, is a resident of Dearborn, Michigan. H/T JW. This brief video of Rola Makki the Michigan GOP (MIGOP) outreach vice-chair is a Muslim acclaimed to be a wonderful speaker and a gift […]
Education Game-Changer
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy John Droz, Jr. Last week, for the first time, a major state formally rebuked one of the core elements of the Left’s scheme to undermine our education (see below). If other states are paying attention, this could be the beginning of an extraordinarily significant awakening and rejection of the stranglehold that the Left now has […]
The Chinese Military Is Training Kindergarteners For War In Bootcamps Across The Country
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The Chinese military is training kindergarteners to handle firearms and fight like soldiers in boot camps across China this summer, according to dozens of school social media accounts reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The boot camps feature combat training for boys and girls with a wide variety of toy […]
Nation’s Largest Teachers Union Votes To Officially Promote Child Sex Changes
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D. The push to influence children (5–12 years old) is intensifying and morphing into varied methods to achieve goals the WOKE and LBGQT servants want. Parents be damned! Morality and family unit integrity be damned! The educational setting is no longer concerned preparing students to become critical thinkers; to learn and […]
Make Public Libraries Safe for our Kids Again
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Church Militant Library shelves are chock-full of LGBT propaganda. Public libraries are no longer a place for kids or even adults, for that matter. They have become hubs of X-rated material designed to sexualize children and debase human sexuality to the lowest common denominator. This past Sunday afternoon, a good friend, part of the Church Militant Resistance […]
Go See ‘Sound of Freedom’ for the Truth on Millions of Trafficked Children
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Catherine Salgado The movie Sound of Freedom will finally come to theaters the week of July 4, based on the stories of real-life heroes and their work to free children from the hellish and lucrative world of child trafficking. Toward the end of the trailer above, actor Jim Caviezel (who played Jesus in the […]
Taking Back America’s Colleges and Universities
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jim Banks The Fairness in Higher Education Accreditation Act attacks wokeness at its core. I started the House Anti-Woke Caucus in January to build a coalition that identifies and roots out wokeness from the federal government and American public life. Our first task has been to identify areas where a small action could have […]
Supreme Court Says You Can’t Fight Racism with Racism
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council “Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.” That was the conclusion of the majority in the Supreme Court case Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. The court concluded that it violates the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection under the law for colleges and universities to consider a student’s race in their […]
Protests at Moms for Liberty Summit Fueled by SPLC ‘Hate Map’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Moms from across the country have gathered in Philadelphia this weekend for a jam packed Moms for Liberty Joyful Warriors National Summit. The event will be headlined by former President Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R), and other political luminaries — but the real stars are the moms in attendance. They […]