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Video Catches School Officials Plotting to ‘Trick’ Ohio Parents, Teach Critical Race Theory Even if Banned
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Discover The Networks Fox News reports that shocking video has surfaced of Ohio school officials discussing how they can push Critical Race Theory (CRT) covertly, working around school policies already in place and “tricking” parents. “It should be a parent and school partnership, and it’s really not,” said Protect Ohio Children Coalition co-chair Cathy Pultz, a former […]
The Rise of the Single Woke (and Young, Democratic) Female
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Joel Kotkin and Samuel J. Abrams Soccer Moms are giving way to Single Woke Females – the new “SWFs” – as one of the most potent voting blocs in American politics. Unmarried women without children have been moving toward the Democratic Party for several years, but the 2022 midterms may have been their electoral […]
The School Board Queen: How a Florida Mom Is Shaking Up U.S. Education
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Christian Ziegler My wife – Bridget Ziegler – is a Rockstar. Anyone who has gotten to know her, already knows that, but for those that haven’t yet… Bloomberg headed down to Sarasota to spend a couple days diving into her story and how she became one of the leading Conservative School Board Members in […]
‘Cripple Children’: Parents Protest Against Gov. Katie Hobbs’ Move To Scrap Key School Choice Program
/in Education, Featured, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Reagan Reese With signs reading “education for all” and “support for all students,” a coalition of about 150 parents protested Tuesday over newly-elected Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs’ plan to dismantle the nation’s largest school choice program, parents told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Hobbs’ executive budget released Jan. 13 called on state legislators to […]
Florida College Presidents Pledge To Not Fund Critical Race Theory, Diversity Initiatives On Campus
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The Florida College System (FCS) presidents said on Wednesday that no state funds will be used to support diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) or critical race theory (CRT) initiatives on campus, according to Florida’s Voice. The presidents confirmed in a collective letter that none of the system’s 28 institutions would use […]
Why Only 16% of Gen Z Are Proud to Be an American, and What We Should Do About It
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jarrett Stepman Only 16% of Gen Zers are “proud” to live in the United States. That finding comes from a recent Morning Consult poll, which assessed generational attitudes about the United States. The poll shows that there has been roughly a 20-percentage-point drop of pride in country every generation since the Baby Boomers, 73% of […]
Team Biden Joins the School Library Wars, Launching Federal Investigation
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council “Whoever succeeds in telling the stories to the children gets to control the future.” That was Kirk Cameron’s answer to people wondering why he’s joined the debate over America’s libraries. As parents everywhere fight to keep graphic content out of their children’s hands, Texas officials are warning the battle is taking an ominous turn. […]
Arizona Governor’s Plan To Undo Nation’s Largest School Choice Program Will Harm Students, Advocates Say
/in Economy, Education, Featured, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Reagan Reese Newly-elected Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs’ plan to undo the nation’s most expansive school choice program could affect thousands of students and families who are already utilizing the state’s voucher program, school choice advocates told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Hobbs’ executive budget released Jan. 13 asked state legislators to reverse the […]
The Graves of Academe: USC School of Social Work Bans ‘Field’
/in Culture Wars, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Featured, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch “Shall Paper live, or Ink/Since Brass and Marble Can’t Withstand/This Iron Age’s Violating Hand?” — Johannes de Bosco The University of Southern California (that’s USC to you and me) has been thrust into the limelight yet again. In 2019, and for several years following, it was in the news as a major […]
An Intellectual Feast for Contrarians
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Craig J. Cantoni A new book questions the conventional wisdom about immigration, diversity, assimilation, and the causes of prosperity. Caution! Don’t be seen reading the following book in public. The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move to a Lot like the Ones They Left, by Garett Jones, 2023, Stanford Business Books, 213 pages. […]
University of Michigan: ‘Palestinian’ jihad supporters call for destruction of Israel, ‘There is only one solution’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch Why is anyone surprised? This is the entrenched orthodoxy on college and university campuses all over the country today. Note also the charged word “solution,” used quite deliberately in this context. At the University of Michigan, a call to murder Jews. pic.twitter.com/UoA0LUft1h — Blake Flayton (@blakeflayton) January 13, 2023 Michigan University rally […]
How to Stop School Shootings
/in Education, Featured, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Lee Williams My heart sinks every time I see breaking-news graphics announce another school shooting. It’s like a gut-punch – the lost lives, the suffering of the wounded, the horrors the First Responders must encounter, and the families that will never again be whole. The blame and blood-dancing usually start before the bodies are […]
Professor Instructs Class To Watch Gay Porn To Learn If They Are Bisexual
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Sick. Imagine spending tens of thousands of dollars (and in many cases your taxpayer dollars) for an education like this. Professor Instructs Class To Watch Gay Porn To Learn If They Are Bisexual By: Alexa Schwerha, Daily Caller, January 13, 2023: A Pennsylvania State University sociology professor reportedly instructed straight students […]
Only 4% of Students in South Bronx School Can Do Math
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report The highest taxes in the nation ….These leftists are killing us. ”Last year, only 4% of PS 333 students taking the state math tests passed, and 10% passed the state reading tests.” And data shows that only 37.9% of all New York school students were proficient in math — Principal Victoria Najera branded […]
Muslim Brotherhood Blasphemy Cops on a Minnesota Campus
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch A Latina art teacher, a Shiite painting of Mohammed, and tolerance theocracy. The decision by Hamline University to purge a minority art teacher for showing a Shiite painting of Mohammed has traveled from the outskirts of a few blogs, and a student paper of the small private college in St. Paul, to […]
Universities Are Seeing An Enormous Spike In Antisemitism. Here’s Why
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Kate Anderson College campuses saw a significant spike in antisemitism over the past year as universities continue to miss the mark when it comes to protecting Jewish students from antisemitism, according to several Jewish experts and advocates. In the 2021-2022 school year, threats to Jewish identity on college campuses doubled from 114 incidents the […]
Elite University Department Bans Use Of Word ‘Field,’ Claiming It’s Too Racist
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Last week, it was American that was racist, now this. These people are nuts. Evil and nuts. Elite University Department Bans Use Of Word ‘Field,’ Claiming It’s Too Racist Elite University Department Bans Use Of Word ‘Field,’ Claiming It’s Too Racist By: Alexa Schwerha, Daily Caller, on January 10, 2023 The University […]
Radical K-12 Reform: Pay Homeschoolers
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities Governments should focus on funding effective education. What if we just cut through the morass of programs and take all the money being provided at the federal and state level and put it into individual student endowment accounts? The late 1970s in the United States was a time of […]
DeSantis Tackles Divisive ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ Programs on College Campuses
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Signal The average American university has more than 45 individuals with jobs devoted to promoting so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion. DEI programs push divisive identity politics as well as distorted narratives about American history. But Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is once again leading on this issue, taking a first step in clamping down on these […]
A horrifying report on sexual abuse in Chicago public schools sank without a trace last week. Why?
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities In what has become a familiar and dismal ritual, the Archbishop of Kansas City, released an apology for sexual abuse by Catholic clergy last week. He joined “bishops across the state of Kansas in offering his deepest apologies to the victims, their families, the faithful of the church, and the Kansas […]
America’s Systemic Racism Problem Is Mostly In Woke Education Bureaucracies
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report The left sees only race. That is the very definition of racism. By: Helen Raleigh, The Federalist, January 06, 2023 Public school officials caused harm to Asian students’ college applications by not notifying them of important academic achievements. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin began 2023 by asking the state’s Attorney General Jason […]
DeSantis Announces Plan To Squash ‘Equity’ At New College Of Florida And Restore Merit
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his plan to overhaul the ideological education system at New College of Florida (NCF) and restore its original mission. DeSantis will appoint six new members of NCF’s board of trustees: activist Chris Rufo, Dr. Mark Bauerlein, Dr. Matthew Spalding, Dr. Charles Kesler, lawyer Debra Jenks […]
Normalizing Jew-Hatred
/in Education, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Joel Kotkin The worst thing about the aftermath of Donald Trump’s repast last month with two open anti-Semites—Kanye West and Nick Fuentes—was not the predictable liberal outrage and conservative cowardice, but how the incident has been accepted as part of normal discourse. In an era where even the slightest deviation from the received norm […]
CDC Urges Teachers Change Their Terminology To Avoid ‘Gendered Language’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report The CDC is urging teachers to change their terminology by avoiding gendered language and using pronouns for their students. CDC stands for Center for Disease Control not mind control. Every once great American institution has been destroyed by the left. Trust your mind, not these fiends. The CDC is urging teachers […]
Why Are So Many Men Leaving the Workforce?
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Healthcare, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Ryan McMaken Last week, CNN featured a story called “Men are dropping out of the workforce. Here’s why” The article went on to tell us virtually nothing at all about why so many men are leaving the workforce. Although as many as seven million men have stayed out of the workforce for varying reasons, […]
Is Education Even Needed?
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Anand Ujjwal Why can’t young adults that want to study physics learn directly from engineers working in the field? Why can’t people who want to learn law learn directly from lawyers? Learning is a lifelong activity. Why should we suspend work for education? Why can’t both happen together? In precolonial India, the concept of […]
Indiana University ‘Distinguished Panelist’ is Deported Palestinian Islamic Jihad Top Dog
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch by Steven Emerson, IPT News, December 20, 2022: Every so often, Sami Al-Arian emerges to opine on some domestic issue, reminding us of two things: He’s an inveterate liar who continues to whitewash his years of service to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). And a disappointing number of American academics are willing to ignore that record […]
More Parents Opt for Public School Alternatives in Post-Covid World
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report I have often said, the law of unintended consequences are always on our side. And there are cracks where the light gets in. Weaponizing Covid into a Constitutional-crushing power grab by the Democrats is no exception. Shutting down schools for years didn’t just put parents in a vice and harm children, […]
Top School Principal Hides Students’ Academic Awards in Name of ‘Equity’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Is there anything more racist and denigrating? Minority children and their parents should be appalled at the vile bigotry of low expectation. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology By Asra Q. Nomani, NY Post, December 23, 2022: The high school had withheld notifications of National Merit awards under the […]
Here’s What’s In The ‘Obscene’ Books Being Removed From Schools Across The Country
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Through 2022, parents across the country have fought to have books deemed “age inappropriate” and “pornographic” removed from schools. Across 5,000 schools, more than 1,600 book titles were removed in the 2021-2022 school year, according to NBC News. The books most commonly removed from schools, including “Gender Queer: A Memoir” and “All Boys […]