The state of public education

[Dove]

Well Squish needs to go and be with kids her own age too... so hopefully Dovey finds a play group where she can have some socialisation.

 She is around kids her age. Her cousins and a few kids in thr neighborhood.



 Every week she goes with my exs mother and gets to play with 3 of her cousins (she calls them sister cousins...all her age) and a few kids who are friends with them and here where we lives she has buddies in the neighborhood.



 Public school is a terrible place for a child to socialize. It really is.

[Frood]

[DKG]

Most Ivy League schools have LGBT rates that far surpass national averages, according to the latest polling numbers by the educational institutions themselves.



Brown University made headlines in early July 2023 when it reported that 38% of its student body identified with a sexuality other than straight — doubling its numbers from 2010 — far above the national numbers for Generation Z (1997-2004), which Gallup determined to be 19.7%.



After a review of five other Ivy League school's self-reported numbers, Brown is not an anomaly by any stretch of the imagination, but it is indeed a front runner.



As reported by the New York Post, numbers have soared at the once prestigious institutions, which now routinely publish their gender and sexuality censuses as a point of pride.



The Daily Princetonian reported shockingly high numbers, similar to Brown University. The school's bisexual, "queer," gay, asexual, lesbian, unsure, and pansexual numbers represented more than 35% of the school's respondents.



An astounding number of asexual students (5%) are represented at the school, a rate that is 50 times the national average (0.1%).



As well, nearly half of those surveyed identify as politically left, with slightly liberal, very liberal, and leftist/socialist totaling 45%. Just 11% identified as right of center.



According to Yale Daily News, around 29% of its responding student body identified as something other than straight, as the school boasted that it "welcomed the largest and most diverse class in University history."



More specifically, 14% said they were bisexual, 6% gay/lesbian, 8% "questioning," and 1% asexual.



Politically, 74% "characterized their political leanings as leaning left."



Over at Harvard, the 2023 class had about a 21% non-straight population, according to the Harvard Crimson. But the school is ready to outdo itself, as the class of 2025 will increase that number to 29%. That rate is a more than 18% increase from the class of 2017, which was represented by an 89.9% straight student body.



The Cornell Daily Sun reported its latest numbers at 21% of 589 students who responded as not identifying as straight. Of students who were asked, 69% were virgins, while 65% identified as either somewhat liberal or very liberal. Just 13% were conservative.

[DKG]

A team of researchers at Oregon State University blamed the "rise of online fascism" for students' sarcastic and mocking responses to their woke identity survey, according to a June paper published in the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies.

The researchers' paper, "Attack Helicopters and White Supremacy: Interpreting Malicious Responses to an Online Questionnaire about Transgender Undergraduate Engineering and Computer Science Student Experiences," accused the students of "tamper[ing] with the study outcomes and/or harass[ing] the researchers" by submitting responses that allegedly included "slurs, hate speech, or direct targeting of the research team."

When asked about their gender, 24% of respondents claimed to identify as "a helicopter or aircraft," including an "Apache Attack Helicopter," "pansexual attack helicopter," and an "F-16 Fighter Jet." Other students replied, "There are only two genders," "a human being," and "I'm just here for the gift card."

Respondents were then asked about their "racial/ethnic identities."

One student replied, "What else do you want to know? What I ate for breakfast? This question is unnecessary."

"Come on man, these questions are stupid," another student wrote.

Students were also instructed to list any disabilities.

"Like all transgenders, my disability is the inability to come to terms with biological reality. Madness, essentially," one student replied.

Another respondent stated, "My country is run by communists."

Researchers blamed the students' sarcastic responses on the "larger trends of online radicalization into white supremacist and fascist conspiracy movements."

The team of researchers claimed that the students' answers negatively impacted their mental health.

[Herman]

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will pay $80,000 in a recent settlement agreement with a graduate student who accused the school of wrongfully issuing "no-contact orders" against her and instructing her peers to report her "harmful rhetoric."

Maggie DeJong and Alliance Defending Freedom filed a lawsuit against the school after the student claimed she was discriminated against for sharing her Christian and conservative political views.

Three of the school's professors have been ordered to undergo First Amendment training as part of the settlement agreement. Additionally, the university has been required to revise its policies and student handbook to protect students' political, religious, and ideological views.

In February 2022, school officials issued "no-contact orders" against DeJong after some of her peers reported her comments about religion, politics, critical race theory, Black Lives Matter, Marxism, censorship, COVID-related regulations, and the criminal justice system.

Students accused DeJong of "harassment" and "discrimination," claiming her rhetoric had "harmed and offended" them, according to the ADF's lawsuit.

Examples of DeJong's so-called "harmful rhetoric" included social media posts where the student shared others' quotes, including one from January 6, 2021, that read, "Storming the US Capitol is a set back for our cause. It undermines the purpose of the PEACEFUL protest. To the very small minority of protesters trying to break into the Capitol, please stop. We are better than this; we cannot destroy this country like BLM riots!"

DeJong also shared a quote from pastor and author John MacArthur: "Those who dare to take an unpopular stand, declare truth in a definitive way — or worst of all, express disagreement with someone else's teaching — will inevitably be marked as troublesome. Compromise has become a virtue while devotion to truth has become offensive."

DeJong was prohibited from having "any contact" with the peers who reported her and was never allowed to defend herself.

[Herman]

Harvard University was ranked as the worst college in the nation for free speech, according to a report released Wednesday by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.

FIRE's new report, "2024 College Free Speech Rankings: What Is the State of Free Speech on America's College Campuses?" found that Harvard earned the lowest possible score — 0.00. It was the only college to receive an "Abysmal" speech climate rating.

[Herman]

How did nearly every major college campus turn into the Third Reich overnight, with large gatherings of belligerent rally-goers chanting genocidal slogans against Jews? It didn't happen overnight. Over a generation, we've imported the Muslim world to our college campuses. Not surprisingly, we also imported some of the slogans, chants, and values undergirding it.

Is this what we really need for our civilization?


The ubiquitous pro-Hamas rallies we've seen on nearly every major college campus over the past week are not the typical "end the occupation" rallies. They began these celebrations immediately after the Hamas slaughter in southern Israel on October 7 and before Israel even announced its intention to attack Gaza.

In the 2021-2022 academic year alone, the United States admitted close to 100,000 new students from countries that are almost exclusively Muslim, many of which are infested with terrorist organizations.
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[Herman]

Cornell University professor Russell Rickford is defending himself after admitting he was "exhilarated" when Hamas terrorists invaded Israel to torture, rape, and murder more than 1,400 innocent people.

On Sunday, Rickford spoke at a pro-Palestine rally in downtown Ithaca, New York. During his speech, the history professor appeared to celebrate Hamas' terrorism because the attack upset the "balance of power" in the region.

[Herman]

Bill Maher slammed so-called "elite colleges," and said potential students should skip attending college because "as recent events have shown, it just makes you stupid."

Maher is referencing the more than 30 student-run organizations at Harvard placing blame on Israel for the surprise attack by Hamas terrorists earlier this month and the anti-Israel protests on American campuses.

The liberal talk show host of "Real Time with Bill Maher" said, "There are few, if any, positives to come out of what happened in Israel, but one of them is opening America's eyes to how higher education has become indoctrination into a stew of bad ideas."

"Among them, the simplistic notion that the world is a binary place where everyone is either an oppressor or oppressed," he explained. "In the case of Israel, oppressors being babies and bubbas, the same students who will tell you that words are violence and silence is violence were very supportive when Hamas terrorists went on a rape and murder rampage worthy of the Vikings. They knew where to point the fingers, at the murdered and then it was off to ethics class."

Maher quipped that college kids are expected to be foolish, but "mixing Jagermeister and tomato juice isn't the same as siding with terrorists."

"The 34 student groups at Harvard signed a letter that said the apartheid regime is the only one to blame, proving they don't know what constitutes apartheid," Maher added. "They don't know much of anything, actually."

Hamer said of progressive college students, "They've convinced themselves Israel is the most repressive regime in history because they have no knowledge of history or even a desire to know it. And actual history doesn't come up in their intersectionality of politics and gender-queer identities class."

"The fact that college presidents who usually love to speak out about anything couldn't find their voice to condemn the worst attack since the Holocaust," Maher declared. "There's a lot about who really controls colleges and why if ignorance is a disease, Harvard Yard is the Wuhan wet market."

Maher proclaimed that "illiberal nonsense flows" in colleges, adding, "Supporting all black, that is segregated dorms, segregated graduation ceremonies, and orientation programs which occur on hundreds of campuses is illiberal."

"Elite schools should no longer be called elite, just too expensive," he stated.

Maher concluded, "To to the older folks, I say college today is not the college you remember. And to the younger people, I say, Don't, don't do it. You don't need four years and a lifetime of crippling debt to learn to hate America when you can just watch 5 minutes of 'Selling Sunset.'"

[DKG]

A video of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology student interrupting a mathematics lecture so that he can launch a rant against Israel and the United States has gone viral. What shocks viewers the most is the reaction of the MIT professor.

Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman shared the eye-opening video of the MIT math lecture from Thursday morning on the X social media platform.

The video shows a student interrupting a math lesson at MIT. The professor actually allows the student to disrupt the class for everyone else with an anti-Israel diatribe.

The student stands near where the professor is explaining a math problem.
The professor addressed the disturbance by politely asking the student if he could wait until he was done solving the mathematics problem.

The professor asked the disruptor, "Can I just finish this line?"

Once the professor finishes the mathematics problem, he walks away from the blackboard, and then the pro-Palestinian student goes on an anti-Israel tirade.

"As you witness an ongoing genocide of Gaza in MIT silence – I'm joining hundreds of students city-wide walking out of class," the student begins. "Because we stand for the liberation of Palestine against active genocide that is perpetuated by MIT, Israel, and the United States."

The student then unfurls a Palestinian flag and then leads a few fellow students with chants of "Free, free Palestine!"
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[Herman]

The National Assessment of Educational Progress's 2022 assessment revealed that grade 8 students' history scores last year were the lowest they had been since the NAEP began monitoring in 1994. Significant declines in academic ability were also observed amongst public grade-schoolers in reading and mathematics as well as in other subjects. Such damning figures cast doubt on whether students are learning anything in public classrooms with ATF-linked educators.

[Herman]

The director at a sexual assault center at a Canadian university has come under fire after signing an open letter that claims there were no women raped during the October 7 Hamas attacks against Israel.

Samantha Pearson, director at the University of Alberta's Sexual Assault Center, was just one individual among several who signed the letter that was written by two politicians, according to the Daily Mail.

The two authors of the letter are Sarah Jama, a member of Ontario's provincial parliament, and Susan Kim, a city councilor in Victoria. They wrote, "We, the undersigned, residing in so-called Canada, urge Canadian political leaders to end their complicity in the ongoing massacres and genocide in Gaza, Occupied Palestine."

The letter called on the MPs throughout the country to resign after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau refused to call for a ceasefire in the Middle East. The title of the letter was "Stand with Palestine: Call on Political Leaders to End Their Complicity in Genocide!"

[Shen Li]

Most people get A's.

Yale University is apparently handing about grades in the A-range like they are candy. An estimated 79% of all the grades given to undergraduates at the prestigious university fell within the A-range.

[Thiel]

Most people get A's.

Yale University is apparently handing about grades in the A-range like they are candy. An estimated 79% of all the grades given to undergraduates at the prestigious university fell within the A-range.

American universities risk going the way of Bud Light.

[Brent]

A former adjunct professor in Texas with decades of experience will soon return to the classroom after he was reportedly fired for teaching standard concepts regarding human sexuality and reproduction.

Dr. Johnson Varkey spent 22 years of his life teaching biological science to students at St. Philip's College, a community college in San Antonio, Texas. During that time, he more or less taught the same basic course and the same basic biological principles "without any complaints."

That all changed just over a year ago, when he was informed that an ethics complaint had been filed against him. He was then fired a few weeks later, even though he had not yet learned the nature of the accusations or been given an opportunity to defend himself against them.

Left to speculate, Varkey recalled that in November 2022, four students had walked out of his classroom after he explained that biological sex was determined by X and Y chromosomes.