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The Many Defects of Systemic Racism Theory
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Skirmish – Liberato.US Yesterday, I told you how schools are lowering educational standards in the name of fighting systemic racism. Today, I delve more deeply into systemic racism as a theory. As I wrote 11 years ago, “The bootstrapping quotient in structural racism advocacy is very high. The fewer overt racist acts there are, […]
VIDEO: Involved Parents Are America’s Most Wanted
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Round One in Virginia goes to Team Parents. On day one, Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) announced a hotline for parents to report divisive material in the schools. In no time, that hotline began to expose woke ideology. “There were reports of a school in Fairfax County teaching a high school level […]
The Deliberate Treachery of Lower Standards
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Skirmish – Liberato.US I have a niece who, when she was six, said, “Mommy, those people have low standards.” If she were still six these days, she’d be really upset because, everywhere you turn, people are trying to lower standards. A Minnesota middle school abolished failing grades. No more “F’s” because they are systemically […]
TAKE ACTION AGAINST: U.S. Sec. Ed. Miguel Cardona Who’s Behind Labeling Parents as Domestic Terrorists
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Royal A. Brown III Miguel Cardona, Secretary of Education solicited a National School Board Association letter comparing parents to domestic terrorists. Conservatives must hold every level of government accountable. We have a tip sheet for how Sentinels can submit FOIA requests to their local school boards and government. The Sentinel’s Dave Trabert reported: NSBA labels parents […]
Free Enterprise Club Responds to ASU Cancelling Event Featuring Congressman Andy Biggs and Jason Chaffetz
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy The Editors The Arizona Free Enterprise Club has released the following statement in response to the decision by ASU and Michael Crow to cancel a fundraising event featuring Congressman Andy Biggs and former Congressman Jason Chaffetz to benefit the Political History and Leadership (PHL) program at ASU: “It is outrageous that Michael Crow and […]
CFACT Collegians Make The Grade For Liberty, Mid-Term Grade A+
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow It’s winter break for many of CFACT’s Collegians activists, and so it is time to take a peek at their “mid-term grade” for the year. We’re happy to report that CFACT’s student leaders have earned an A+ for their great efforts! Of course, at CFACT, we do not lightly […]
Wokeness has captured universities, says Jordan Peterson as he resigns
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities Sick of intellectual corruption, the world’s best-known psychologist abandons academia. “I recently resigned from my position as full tenured professor at the University of Toronto,” Jordan Peterson wrote in a bombshell op-ed for the National Post last week. The Rockstar psychologist’s fame long ago outgrew the halls of Canada’s oldest college, where he […]
MSNBC commentator says ‘All Your Kids Belong To Us’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report The Left is trying to destroy traditional America. Rational Americans must come out in droves in 2022 and 2024 to take down the Left or we will lose this country forever. The American way of life depends on us stopping this effort to destroy the family. Parents are at the center […]
Florida House Committee Passes Bill Banning Gender Ideology Discussions In Schools
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller A Florida House committee passed a bill banning discussions about gender ideology and sexual orientation in primary level classrooms on Thursday. The House Education and Employment Committee overwhelmingly passed the ”Parental Rights in Education Bill,” also known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, to prohibit teachers from discussing LGBTQ-related issues with primary level students. […]
Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest in Phoenix, December 2021
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Ellie Fromm Editors’ Note: The Prickly Pear welcomes this review by Ellie Fromm, a new citizen journalist and young patriot committed to the values we share as America-loving citizens: faith, family, a strong work ethic and devotion to liberty and individual sovereignty. Ellie represents the best in her generation who will lead this nation […]
Biden Admin Threatens COVID Funds over Arizona’s School Mask Mandate Ban
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Cole Lauterbach Arizona has two months to let schools force mask mandates or risk losing its share of COVID-19 aid from the federal government. In a letter from the U.S. Treasury Department sent to Gov. Doug Ducey’s office Friday, the Treasury reiterated its position stated in October 2021, warning that the state is using […]
California District Pays Nearly $170k For Curricula Teaching Children To Become Leftist ‘Co-Conspirators’
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Spencer Lindquist This California school district isn’t just indoctrinating children, it’s teaching them how to be leftwing revolutionaries. California’s Jefferson Elementary School District will be the first district in the United States to implement ethnic studies courses in all of their elementary and middle schools, and their new curriculum for this includes teaching children […]
The Forgotten 15.9 Million People
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Craig J. Cantoni The rest of the story about race and poverty You probably won’t be surprised by the following poverty rates by race/ethnicity: Asians: 8.1% Non-Hispanic Whites: 8.1% Hispanics: 17.0% Blacks: 19.5% U.S. Average: 11.4% Year: 2021Source: https://www.federalsafetynet.com/us-poverty-statistics.html You might be surprised, however, by the following absolute numbers of Americans in poverty, especially […]
VIRGINIA: Youngkin Signs Executive Orders Banning Critical Race Theory And Mask Mandates On First Day As Governor
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report It’s why he was elected. He made good on it. Executive orders banning critical race theory and mask mandates on first day as governor By Ryan King | Washington Examiner | January 15, 2022: Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin started his term with a slew of executive orders Saturday to address key campaign issues. […]
Penn State Professor Forces Students to Explain Why the Taliban Aren’t Terrorists
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch My latest in PJ Media: There are so many ridiculous things being taught in American colleges and universities these days that a professor who defends the Taliban may seem staid and conservative compared to some of his colleagues, but that’s just a sign of how far American academia has fallen. Christopher Cook, a […]
The Consequences of Obsessive Category Disorder
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Craig J. Cantoni In the name of diversity, America’s racial classifiers obliterate diversity. Long ago, long before the diversity movement and the sprouting of departments of diversity and inclusion in academia, government, media, and industry, I lived in a San Antonio barrio, where my friends and neighbors who were Mexican nationals and Mexican Americans, […]
VICTORY: City of Asheville Agrees to End Discriminatory ‘Black Only’ Scholarships and Grants
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Judicial Watch The City of Asheville, North Carolina, settled our federal civil rights lawsuit after agreeing to remove all racially discriminatory provisions in a city-funded scholarship program. The city also agreed to remove racially discriminatory eligibility provisions in a related program that provides grants to educators. The City Council approved the settlement on January 11. In October 2021, […]
VIDEO: All Trails Lead to Cardona in Parents-as-Terrorist Flap
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Healthcare, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council For Joe Biden, the uproar his administration caused by calling parents “domestic terrorists” has been a controversy he never could shake. Since October, when Attorney General Merrick Garland threatened to sic the FBI on moms and dads who spoke up at school board meetings, the administration has been on the losing […]
The Legalized Sexualization Of America’s Young Children
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Marilyn Quigley Let’s peek in on a typical classroom scenario approved by the National Sex Education Standards (NSES). Mr. Smith’s 7 and 8-year-olds are answering true-false questions: 1) “Sexual intercourse should be ONLY between a cisgender male and cisgender female.” 2) “There are only two genders.” 3) “Cisgender boys who identify as girls must go […]
1619 Project Author Gets Historical Facts Wrong
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jerry Newcombe Nikole Hannah-Jones is the New York Times Magazine reporter who wrote the 1619 Project which is being used in many schools across the country. The 1619 Project postulates that America began in 1619, when the first black slaves were brought here—not 1776, when the founders declared independence. Hannah-Jones made an historical faux […]
Class Warfare: States Head into 2022 Fighting Curriculum
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council While school districts are fighting to over when students should come back to school, other leaders are trying to make sure critical race theory isn’t there when they do. State legislatures are gearing up to kick off their 2022 sessions, and a slew of conservatives have one goal in mind: shut […]
Mark Levin: Critical Race Theory ‘is Louis Farrakhan Dressed up as Scholarship’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Discover The Networks At the opening of his radio show on Sunday, conservative talk host Mark Levin blasted Critical Race Theory (CRT), which he said was a symptom of a bigger problem Democrats and other left-leaning entities using the American education system to promote a political philosophy, calling it “Louis Farrakhan dressed up as scholarship.” “They want […]
American Traitors: Academics Working for China
/in Education, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Gordon Chang It took a federal jury in Boston less than three hours to return guilty verdicts on all six felony counts against Charles Lieber, the former chair of Harvard University’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Lieber, “one of the country’s top research chemists” according to the New York Times, lied to the FBI about his […]
High School Teacher Locks COVID-Positive Child in Car Trunk
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report And you’re still sending your children to government schools? If so, you’re unfit to be a parent. High school teacher charged after locking COVID-positive 13-year-old child in trunk to ‘quarantine’ Sarah Beam, a high school teacher, has been charged with endangering a child after she locked her child in the trunk […]
It’s Time To Abolish The Teachers Unions
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Larry Sand A disaster for students and good teachers alike. “All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management.” The above caveat about government unions – usually known by […]
How To Remedy The Campus Groupthink That Targeted Us
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Christina Crenshaw Academic freedom, free thought and free speech are under assault on our nation’s college campuses. And it’s not just conservative white men, or the Federalist Society at Ivy League schools such as Yale University, that are under attack. It is also women, including women of color, who are caught up in this new […]
DESANTIS CALLS OUT BIDEN: For failing to ‘shut down the virus’, importing it from across the border & trying to mask young kids.
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Featured, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report If our election laws are not overhauled, Governor DeSantis will route President Biden in 2024. And DeSantis would wreck Biden in the debates. It would not be pretty. It would be the political version of Tyson vs Spinks. “This is insane.”@RonDeSantisFL calls out @JoeBiden for failing to “shut down the virus,” […]
STRIKE! Chicago Teachers Unions Votes Not To Return To Schools, Abandons Children
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report At the last minute, leaving parents and the district in a bind. Teachers insist they will only teach remotely, putting students last (Chalkboard Review). From another story: Mayor Lori Lightfoot said teachers who do not come into work tomorrow will be put on no pay status (Twitter). I have one word for parents […]
Whatever Happened to the Boy Scouts?
/in Education, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Walter Block It was once an honor to earn a merit badge in the Boy Scouts. Becoming a Star Scout was a privilege, a Life Scout was something fantastic, and an Eagle Scout was the very tip of the apex. Few achieved that pinnacle, and those who did treasured it for their entire lives. […]
100 Reasons to Homeschool Your Kids
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) From fostering creativity and freedom to providing impressive educational outcomes, homeschooling is an increasingly appealing option. This is my 100th article at FEE.org, so here are 100 reasons to homeschool your kids! Homeschoolers perform well academically. Your kids may be happier. Issues like ADHD might disappear or become less problematic. It doesn’t matter if […]