Effingham County, Georgia, is a coastal area just north of Savannah, mostly rural, and about three-quarters white (see 2020 census data here). It has a county-wide school system, whose website lists 8 elementary schools, 3 middle schools, 2 high schools, and a “college and career academy.R[...]
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January 9th, 2023 - 10:23 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Universities shouldn’t teach intolerance
But Hamline University, in St. Paul, Minnesota, is a private college; so they can do that, and they just did. Writing for CNN, David M. Perry, a journalist and academic, says (here), “Last fall, Hamline University … hired Erika López Prater, an art history professor, on an adjunct basi[...]
Don’t raise kids in Arizona
The importance of education doesn’t need to be explained or defended here. Arizona is known as a retirement haven. Low cost of living is part of what attracts older folks on fixed incomes. They don’t like paying school taxes, and don’t have school-age children, so they don’[...]
December 20th, 2022 - 12:48 am § in Schools & Colleges
GOP governor wants kids indoctrinated, not educated
Businessman Glenn Youngkin got elected governor of Virginia by pretending to be a moderate Republican, which he’s not. He was helped by a clumsy Democratic opponent who said, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” Gong! (The Democrat happens[...]
Should this teacher be fired?
Vivian Geraghty was an English teacher at a Masillon, Ohio, middle school. The school adopted a new policy requiring teachers to address students by their preferred pronouns. NBC News says (here), “About a week before she resigned, two of Geraghty’s students requested that she use names [...]
December 16th, 2022 - 2:33 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
(Video) Democracy is messy …
… especially when people have strong opinions on subjects they know nothing about. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Why conservatives attack CRT
Critical race theory is an academic subject in graduate schools. Graduate-school subjects obviously aren’t taught in grade schools, but conservative culture warriors have hijacked the term to refer to teaching schoolchildren about slavery, racial discrimination, and mistreatment of black peopl[...]
December 1st, 2022 - 2:29 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Educators, say “no!” to nutty parents
Vaccinating kids doesn’t put a microchip in their bodies that allows the government to control their brains. It just doesn’t. That’s a fact. Believing otherwise doesn’t make it true. I don’t see any point in trying to educate those parents, explain the truth to them, o[...]
DeSantis-appointed school board fired by Parkland voters
Lori Alhadeff is a locomotive even Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis can’t stop. After her 14-year-old daughter was killed in the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas school massacre, she became a safe-schools and gun-control activist, and was elected to the Broward County School Board in 2018. In August 2022, D[...]
GOP White House hopeful viciously attacks teachers
Mike Pompeo, who was Trump’s secretary of state, wants a big promotion. He wants to be president. A reporter asked him who the most dangerous person in the world is. I know what you’re thinking, and everyone else is thinking it, too. Having dealt with foreign policy, this presidential ho[...]