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Axios: Education 'intimidation' bills have spiked since 2021
"The climate around the intimidation bills has intimidated educators into self-censorship in schools." Guess what? Anyone with a job they want to keep self-censors themselves at work. Let's see what Axios has uncovered. Justice and race reporter Russell Contreras writes:
PEN America is the source, huh? No wonder they put "parents' rights" in scare quotes and say it's just a guise. And if critical race theory is rarely taught in schools, who cares if it's banned?
Racially Discriminatory Youth Programs At Six Private NY Medical Schools Challenged by Equal Protection Project
“‘Erecting additional barriers for some races and ethnic groups in and of itself is unlawful discrimination,’ Jacobson told DailyMail.com. ‘Imagine if the roles were reversed, and these programs explicitly favored Asians and whites — there would be universal outrage and these medical schools would never accept such funding.'”
The Equal Protection Project (EqualProtect.org) of the Legal Insurrection Foundation has challenged numerous racially discriminatory programs done in the name of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, including a program for high school and middle school students at the public SUNY Buffalo Medical School.
EPP now has filed claims (full embed at bottom) over similar programs at six private medical schools in New York State: Albany Medical College, Einstein College of Medicine, Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.
The complaints are all similar in structure because they work off of the same New York State funding program, which has discriminatory guidelines. But there is no requirement that the schools take the funding, they could just say No instead of engaging in discrimination. Each Complaint, of course, has school-specific screenshots, links, and documentation.
Here are excerpts from the University of Rochester Complaint:
Finally, Fox News ran another encouraging, anti-establishment, counter-revolutionary story Tuesday headlined, “Chicago area teacher fired after parents erupt over social media posts featuring 'Satan worship,' 'psychosis’.” The sub-headline added, “The Illinois grade school art teacher said on social media he'd been 'violent' during 'psychosis and mania' episodes.”Until very recently, Kristopher “Kris” Martin was an elementary art teacher who taught at four different elementary schools on a rotating basis in Illinois’ Homer Community Consolidated School District.
Early last week, Libs of TikTok started a parental firestorm by tweeting a collection of images from the Kris’s social media accounts, ‘hints’ of trouble that the school district’s background checkers somehow missed, including this one where Kris literally hailed Satan:
Of course, Mr. Martin is an open transsexual who insists that other people use ungrammatical she/her pronouns. And not coincidentally, according to his own social media bio, he suffers from some pretty profound mental illnesses too:
Psychosis is a tough one. People afflicted with psychosis often hear voices telling them to do things, are unable to separate reality from their fantasies, and otherwise act much like they were possessed by Old Testament demons.
Other social media posts depicted literal Satan worship. Some included references to violence, such as “Kill the Poor,” or directed profanities at police. It was not a good look for the school district, and altogether added up to enough red flags that Kris should never have been within a hundred yards of a school, much less teaching art to elementary kids.
Anyway, parents were not amused after finding out about the teacher’s demonic posts. On Sunday, in an emergency meeting that drew large crowds of parents, the School Board unanimously voted to immediately fire the art teacher. Good thinking.
But parents remain upset, wondering how the district’s background screening process failed so badly in this case.
This story is not over.
The firing of the satanic, wokecompetent teacher took less than a week from the time parents, alerted by Libs of TikTok’s initial post, began researching the teacher’s social media accounts. A fact not lost on parents was that they had to do what should have been the school board’s due diligence work. But the story shows that parents are starting to get the idea, and that it’s getting harder for psychos to successfully nestle into woke gender identity politics.
And so the counter-revolution wins another battle. Be encouraged.
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Several school staffers and the school resource officer approached her and requested that she sign an NDA, a legal agreement meant to guard against sensitive information being leaked, Longacre said. She was not allowed to enter the school to discuss signing the document, her lawyer said.
“They were like, ‘Just sign it. What’s the big deal. Just sign it,’” attorney Janelle Davis told the Post.
Ultimately, Longacre refused to sign the NDA.
“There is no way to know how many parents signed the NDA without asking any questions,” Longacre told the outlet. “I shared my story because I want to encourage other parents to speak up when something seems off.”
Longacre also said she felt “backed into a corner” and as if the school was hiding information from her.
“They were like, ‘Just sign it. What’s the big deal. Just sign it,’” attorney Janelle Davis told the Post.
Ultimately, Longacre refused to sign the NDA.
“There is no way to know how many parents signed the NDA without asking any questions,” Longacre told the outlet. “I shared my story because I want to encourage other parents to speak up when something seems off.”
Longacre also said she felt “backed into a corner” and as if the school was hiding information from her.
Finally, to lift your spirits back up a little, how about some great news from the counter-revolution? The Washington Times ran a story yesterday headlined, “Explicit books removed from K-12 school libraries but only after a public reading at school board.”
After unsuccessfully waging a two-year war with the Indian River County School District Board, trying to get them to remove 156 pornographic books from district school libraries, a local chapter of Moms For Liberty strategically took advantage of a new Florida law at last Monday’s meeting.
Florida’s terrific House Bill 1609, passed earlier this year, contains lots of great stuff, such as requiring schools to teach that males and females are binary options, and these two genders are immutable biological characteristics. Which of course was a totally uncontroversial science fact until about ten minutes ago.
But deep in HB 1609 was this terrific, tiny little nugget of potentially-explosive power:
Now we’re talking.
So the local Moms for Liberty chapter organized 30 people to come to the school board meeting and, during public comment, read explicit passages from 30 different library books, all of which the school board voted to retain in February 2022. It was hard to listen to it in video clips. And the school board couldn’t take it either. All the readings were stopped by School Board Chair Peggy Jones after various amounts of time.
"We are adults and if there are children out there. I understand that. I understand that. But we don't want to be reading that aloud," Indian River County School Board Chairwoman Dr. Peggy Jones said. If you don’t want it read aloud at a School Board meeting, what on Earth is it doing in the library?
At one point, the School Board even cut off the microphone when Pastor John Amanchukwu refused to stop reading pornographic passages from the book, “Thirteen Reasons Why.” After they ordered him to stop, cut the mike, but Pastor Amanchukwu continued reading in a loud voice anyway, the school board finally ordered the police to haul him out.
Pastor Amanchukwu explained his passionate stance to the Times:
Indeed.
After the meeting, and realizing that the new law required the books’ removal, the Board members unanimously agreed to remove all the books read during the meeting, overriding the district’s existing review procedures.
Now — after fighting with parents for two years — the school board is asking, hey, what was the big deal? Parents could’ve just quietly let them know about the obscene content and they would’ve promptly taken care of it, of course. "You could just pick up the phone and call the superintendent and say, 'Hey, here's an excerpt from this book. And let's get it taken care of that way because things have changed,'" Teri Barenborg, Vice Chair of the Indian River County School Board, lamely explained.
Hahaha! I haven’t laughed that hard in months, maybe not even since Bob Peters fell off his bike wearing his ridiculous helmet. They really should put training wheels on that thing.
I’d like to shake the hand of whoever put that section in HB 1609. Brilliant.
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Dr. Kimberlee Armstrong, Chief Academic Officer of Portland Public Schools, is informed by “her own experiences as a low-income student with unstable housing and the ensuing impacts of that.” She is accordingly “passionate about cultivating a culture of learning, progressive programs, and sustainable intervention/preventative work.” In the DEI aficionado’s latest social engineering initiative, schoolchildren in the city would no longer be subject to most grading criteria — yet another relic of White Supremacy™ — under a proposed policy change.
Via KGW8 (emphasis added):
*This is more rubbish in the vein of the “waking up early is white supremacy” narrative.
There are many angles converging here.
First is the obvious and often-discussed Social Justice™ bigotry of low expectations. Rather than attempting to lift up the students who are below proficiency, they simply lower the standards into the dirt.
Then, with a flick of the progressive wand, everybody suddenly makes the Dean’s List. Just as every cross-eyed, obese suburban kid who couldn’t kick a ball if his life depended on it and spends every game spaced out, playing footsie with himself at midfield, gets a soccer trophy.
Via KGW8 (emphasis added):
*This is more rubbish in the vein of the “waking up early is white supremacy” narrative.
There are many angles converging here.
First is the obvious and often-discussed Social Justice™ bigotry of low expectations. Rather than attempting to lift up the students who are below proficiency, they simply lower the standards into the dirt.
Then, with a flick of the progressive wand, everybody suddenly makes the Dean’s List. Just as every cross-eyed, obese suburban kid who couldn’t kick a ball if his life depended on it and spends every game spaced out, playing footsie with himself at midfield, gets a soccer trophy.
Appeals court reinstates wrongly imprisoned student's lawsuit against college for hiding evidence
Astudent who spent 16 months in prison before a second jury exonerated him of sexual assault will get another chance to hold his public university accountable for withholding evidence during his first criminal trial, then refusing to give him a conduct hearing to clear his educational record.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated most of a trial judge's ruling that dismissed Darold Palmore's lawsuit against Clarion University – since renamed Pennsylvania Western University, or PennWest Clarion, after a merger – and officials including the campus police officer who withheld security footage.
The three-judge panel unanimously remanded Palmore's malicious prosecution, Brady due process, 14th Amendment due process, Title IX, negligence, and breach of contract claims for further proceedings.
The ruling is all the more remarkable because Palmore, a D.C. native who had planned to go to law school after his expected graduation four years ago, has represented himself throughout the two-year civil case against Clarion, albeit with guidance from sympathetic lawyers.
But it's a double-edged sword. Palmore, who also goes by Darryll, told Just the News the remand means he'll have to quit his current position for an Amazon warehouse contractor.
Chicago Teachers Union Head Turns Into a Rambling Mess When Confronted With Her Hypocrisy
For background, local journalists recently discovered that Stacey Davis Gates is sending her son to a private school after he was seen listed on a website that tracks high school sports. Gates has long been a fierce opponent of school choice and has described the ability for children to attend private schools as being "the choice of racists."
CNN's Abby Phillip, to her credit, challenged Gates on the matter. With just a few simple questions, the union boss was left stammering, spouting allegations of racism while having no actual defense for her own decisions.
Judge Blocks Blue State School District Policy To Hide Pronouns From Parents
A U.S. District Court judge ruled on Thursday that a school district policy requiring teachers to keep preferred pronouns from parents undermines their constitutional rights and “conflicts with knowledgeable medical opinion,” according to the decision.
Two teachers, Elizabeth Mirabelli and Lori Ann West, filed a lawsuit against the Escondido Union School District (EUSD) in April after the school board adopted a policy that says if a child identifies as a “new gender, or wants to be addressed by a new name or new pronouns during the school day,” then teachers must withhold it from parents unless given permission by the student, according to the ruling. Judge Roger T. Benitez expressed concerns about the constitutionality of such a policy and ordered that the district be enjoined from enforcing it until the lawsuit has made its way through the courts.
In the Maryland sub-reddit, the progs are all over Moms for Liberty for getting books banned from public school libraries.