A parent advocacy group filed a federal civil rights complaint against the Wellesley Public Schools in Massachusetts accusing the district of discriminating against white students and instituting race-based segregation.
Education
Pediatric organizations urge Ontario to re-open schools citing “mental health crisis”
“We are witnessing a crisis in children’s mental health with a dramatic increase in the utilization of acute mental health services. Schools play an essential role in the recovery process. In-person school provides students with routine and structure, accountability, socialization and recognition of abuse and neglect.”
Top CDC Official Steps Down Weeks After Emails Surface Showing Collusion With Teachers Union
Anne Schuchat, the CDC’s principal deputy director, was one of multiple government health officials included in emails between The American Federation of Teachers union, who repeatedly lobbied against in-person schooling, and the agency over the school reopening guidelines which were released earlier this year.
The COVID-19 Test No One Is Talking About: Make Sure Your Children Have It Before They Are Vaccinated
We are already seeing colleges and universities requiring the COVID-19 vaccine for students to attend classes in the fall. The vaccine is being tested for children under 16, and there may be school districts that attempt to require it in the fall. All of this pressure to vaccinate the young, given their relative resilience to severe disease and near-zero fatality rate from COVID-19, is unprecedented. The health bureaucracy is not nearly as insistent about the flu vaccine, even though it often makes children much sicker and often carries higher fatality rates in children.
France Bans Use Of Woke Gender-Neutral Language In Schools: ‘Is A Danger For Our Country’
France is continuing to crackdown on far-left attempts to make the country woke by banning the use of gender-neutral language in schools, saying that the push was a threat to the French language altogether and could push people to learn English instead.
TDSB considers letting LGBTQ students change names without parental approval
According to a report by the LGBTQS Community Advisory Committee, the committee has a table working with human rights groups to discuss the matter.
American Universities Have Lost Their Prestige
Nothing is stranger than the contemporary American university.
Not long ago, Americans used to idolize their universities. Indeed, in science, math, engineering, medicine and business, many of these meritocratic departments and schools remain among the top-ranked in the world.
School District Tells Principals To Create Fake Curriculum To Send Parents After Complaints Of Indoctrination
Faced with complaints from parents about the indoctrination of children, an official in Rockwood School District, Missouri instructed teachers to create two sets of curriculum: a false one to share with parents, and then the real set of curriculum, focused on topics like activism and privilege, according to a memo obtained by The Daily Wire.
Biden Administration Urges Supreme Court to Allow Schools to Censor Student Expression Online
The Biden administration and a Pennsylvania school district urged a skeptical Supreme Court this morning to let school districts suppress free speech by students on social media if they deem it potentially disruptive to school operations.
Potentially???
School Principal Privately Admits What ‘Anti-racist’ Curriculum Is Doing to White Kids
The head of an elite private school in New York City privately admitted to a teacher that the institution is “demonizing white people for being born.”
h/t Marvin
Virginia Eliminates Accelerated Math Courses Because Equity
Loudoun County school board member Ian Serotkin announced Tuesday that the “Virginia Mathematics Pathways Initiative (VMPI),” is a “a sweeping initiative by the Virginia Department of Education to revamp the K-12 math curriculum statewide over the next few years” by “eliminat[ing] ALL math acceleration prior to 11th grade.”
Anti-Asian Racism.
Morgan Zegers: ‘Young People Don’t Know The Reality of Communist Countries’
Zegers says the main reasons why socialist ideas take root in the minds of young Americans are:
- They do not know the reality of countries that suffered from communism or socialism.
- They are in a kind of comfort zone and convenience that prevents them from visualizing beyond the goodness of the capitalist system in the United States.
I Refuse to Stand By While My Students Are Indoctrinated
I am a teacher at Grace Church High School in Manhattan. Ten years ago, I changed careers when I discovered how rewarding it is to help young people explore the truth and beauty of mathematics. I love my work.
As a teacher, my first obligation is to my students. But right now, my school is asking me to embrace “antiracism” training and pedagogy that I believe is deeply harmful to them and to any person who seeks to nurture the virtues of curiosity, empathy and understanding.