Special edition roundup of higher-ed news. Connecting the dots reveals an astonishing picture of massive conservative winning that corporate media is trying to sweep under the news cycle rug.
The Demoralized DIEvy League is beyond saving. Brown still has a head of DEI. The president and corporation appointed him to lead a "healing" initiative after their incompetence got 2 students shot and killed on campus in December - no one was held accountable: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/brown-corporation-trustees-paxson
So what happened? - ugh - reality - as Ayn Rand famously said - One can ignore reality but one can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality - while the education system tried to do away with meritocracy the rest of the world didn't - oops - a mismatch as they say
A perfect example of the problem with grade inflation - a SCOTUS member who went to Harvard and cannot define a woman. She has no business whatsoever being on the SCOTUS and yet she is there with two others with similar "pedigrees". Its what the democrats have been doing for decades, passing people through and giving them high positions in government to wreak havoc on our country.
Unfortunately the auditions for useful idiots continue. They produce a big crop of them and not all of them are entirely successful. But the point is to get a couple through now and then, like a rot that spoils.
The institutions also discovered that as the ‘mismatched’ students flunked out and headed for home, the tuition dollars went with them. The under-prepared students took seats that better prepared, non-DEI students could have filled and paid for.
It’s surreal hearing the leaders of some of our most elite universities acting like they JUST discovered the previously unknowable fact that humans have individual differences that impact their performance in school, regardless of race. After hearing ordinary, “uneducated”Americans shout the same thing from the rooftops for a decade or more. It’s like the cream that rises to the top of those institutions is simply the people who are best at pretending with a straight face.
I really think that was a part of why the leftists rejoiced in Charlie Kirk’s death. He had the gift of getting young, educationally indoctrinated kids to talk with him, and finding out as they did that their beliefs were a mile wide and an inch deep. He wasn’t doing it to humiliate them. He wanted them to see that there was no there, there.
This is a textbook regarding DEI. I printed for reference.
I will illustrate this abomination with a parody, which I hope will make the point. (please, understand, this is a fabricated story).
France and England, who lost respectively to Spain and Argentina in semifinals, complained to FIFA, that this is the quintessential argument for applying DEI in World Cup soccer: “it is not fair”.
France and England complained to FIFA that “it is not fair” for Spain and Argentina to possess the ball 80% of the time, and, as a result, the 2 Spanish speaking nations, to reach the cup final. This amounts even to “racism”.
They demanded, “for fairness”, that, at least in World Cup soccer tournament, the game to be played WITH 2 BALLS, each team with their own ball, of different colors.
It is believed, from informed sources, that FIFA will consider this suggestion next month.
This, of course, could be applied to American football, too.
You can thank CNN, NBC, CBS, WAPO, NYT, The Atlantic, Time magazine etc, etc, etc.... if it is a corporate news outlet it is elite owned and it is directly lying or lying by omission to support the Globalist paradigm, keep people misinformed and destroy what Trump is doing and unfortunately, I think many people are still asleep to that fact. "You can fool a person easier than you can convince them that they have been fooled"...Mark Twain
Your assignment, should you decide to accept it is to give one persom a wake-up call every day.
Jeff: "...Recognizing that college transcripts are increasingly unreliable measurements of competence, 81% of employers now prioritize skills over degrees, leading to a surge in “skills-based hiring” and the dropping of degree requirements by major corporations..."
This is being accelerated by the rise of AI. Many of the jobs in the corporate world will be eliminated by AI. Students would be much better off going to a "trade school" or apprenticeship in a skilled trade. These jobs are going to be begging for new blood and will pay top dollar.
One resource available to parents and students is a program that can be purchased on Amazon called "The Preparation" by Doug Casey. Anyone with children may find this helpful.
Yep. As a homeowner, I often need the services of a skilled electrician, plumber etc. and have no choice but to pay a LOT for their much needed skills. If they are good, these guys make a fortune.
My local garage man lamented recently that he cannot find good help among the younger generation. Students graduating from tech schools in auto mechanics get scooped up by manufacturers and the small garage owners cannot compete with the salaries offered. Perhaps more young people will choose this field to help even out the supply of workers.
I know a young man who completed such training in auto mechanics and is trying to decide his future with it. Especially since he wants to get married. Would you tell me some of the companies (manufacturers) you heard about where he would receive a good salary? Thanks!
I have a relative who is headed to college this fall. His dream is to work on cars. His further dream is to own his own shop, hence the business degree track. So there is hope.
I got that college degree and then a law degree. My SS is close to $3.000. Different strokes. I did ok. Even when I was in school, many years ago, the leftist bias was obvioius. I ignored it.
I had a small student loan as an undergraduate freshman, and a great state scholarship that paid all fees except about $43 a quarter. I worked at least 20 hours a week, and my parents helped a little, during those first two years. Then I spent 3 years in the Army, and when I returned to school, I had another state scholarship and the GI Bill and work -- no loans. After I had worked for some years, I went to law school. Again, I worked. I did borrow $30,000 for law school tuition. Paid it back in five years. I would have had to borrow much, much more if I were trying to do that these days, and would have a much longer repayment period. No question, it's much harder now.
My son's home Improvement business is GROWING. NEVER to be replaced by robots OR college degrees!!!! - unless you THROW AWAY your house if anything needs repair.
At one time I was acquainted with a young woman who worked as a welder in our local shipyard that built ships for the US Coast Guard and for the off-shore oil platforms. Mind you, that is a very difficult and physically demanding job. One had to work in the heat while wearing "leathers" to protect from the welding sparks but the pay she earned was worth it. She was quite independent as you might imagine.
Yes! I just wrote a comment in the main section that we have accidentally been doing what that program advocates for the past 2.5 years! One son had his pilot license at 17 and is now at 19 a real estate developer and investor. My other son had his own woodworking and retail biz since 14yo. He is now 16 and getting his drone pilot license. His goal is to get a helicopter pilot license when he's eligible at 18, so we figure the drone license helps with that. They are both participating in Toastmasters to assist their public speaking abilities and volunteering. The 16yo has also started his own quintet composed of 3 violinists, one cellist and one violaist. They plan to start performing by the end of summer. Oh, and he just composed his first violin duet. It is amazing what kids can do when you say yes to their ideas and give them resources and tools.
The Preparation prepares kids and parents with a framework for how to gain skills.
Wow that is fantastic! I love hearing stories like that. It is amazing what kids can do with a little encouragement and challenges to face. Just as an example, my first son memorized Psalm 119 when in kindergarten and recited it to his class.
I started with the idea I picked up from the movie "Stand and Deliver" that a child will rise to the level of your expectations... and beyond. The problem with institutional schooling is that expectations are based on the lowest common denominator and the system makes sure they rise only to those expectations. Young minds are like sponges and capable of more than we can imagine. Just out of curiosity, how did you get started on this path with your children?
I love that your son did that at such a young age, Phil! Good for you!! That was a great and inspiring movie.
We have always homeschooled. Due to vax injuries, there were quite a few learning disabilities that needed addressed. I kept taking the path less traveled... focus on therapies and diet to correct the issues, follow their passions for the learning. Can't claim we did it all right. But it is working. And started doing this because there was a family at the homeschool conference that the kids were selling actual books they had published. One of them was teaching math classes. I asked the mom the second year I saw them what/how she did it, and she told me they switched gears to creating skills and a business in high school. I sat with that then realized how much sense it made and how we could teach all the high school stuff via their passions. It isn't ALL the high school stuff in the normal sense. There will be some gaps. But they can think critically and know how to problem solve. And kids coming out of public school have a lot of shallow knowledge. My boys have some shallow, but lots of deep knowledge about more focused areas. My older son is wicked smart in general economics and finance concepts as well. And we do a ton of historical and political discussions via current events, my husband's job, and Tuttle Twins/Connor Boyack. The boys are now immersing themselves in religion/religious history. We did a lot of world/travel schooling prior to "high school", using places we visited as our curriculum.
I disagree with your one sentence: "....going to be begging..." They already are. Navy contractors will train on the job for welders, electricians, pipe fitters, etc. High school grads can train for free to be Air Traffic controllers, many other examples. Not going to...we are already here.
Good catch! And speaking of "welders", I already posted this comment but it fits very well here:
At one time I was acquainted with a young woman who worked as a welder in our local shipyard that built ships for the US Coast Guard and for the off-shore oil platforms. Mind you, that is a very difficult and physically demanding job. One had to work in the heat while wearing "leathers" to protect from the welding sparks but the pay she earned was worth it. She was quite independent as you might imagine.
That's awesome. My friend builds Navy ships and is in a navy contractor association. He said there is a big need for these types of workers. They can practically pick where they want to live with on the job training and great pay.
Thank you for the heads up on the book. I have three young grandchildren and my children (their parents) should read it. I went to school for a trade as I could not get to college and I made as much or more than a lot of my degreed contemporaries throughout my career.
Actually, I know of a few master welders with their own shops who are training people on weekends for free or $20 (just to cover materials used). There is one welder in Tucson who will also sign off on your training to get a certification if you go through him. All FREE. He accepts responsibile senior high schoolers if their parents sign off liability.
Check around your locality & see if skilled trade business owners are offering such. Put the word out.
CRT and its strong-arm policy of DEI was denied and excused and promoted by proponents of the Transforming-community all concurrently. But then these erosive forces of the LEFT became defined and rejected by an emboldened, voting public that ran into it everywhere at every level and layer of government, corporate, and institutional level (in Every Western country). Has Napolitano and the movement truly reflected and changed course to now suddenly better serve academia, students, and society? Or is this more simply the messaging being changed and the push being relaxed for the moment for political, funding, and PR issues? The passionate Leftist Zeal can cool a bit and change course in its route to ruination of human society, but trust that the mission has not changed, only perception and style. It will again remanifest in a more aggressive form when opportunity arises
“Or is this more simply the messaging being changed and the push being relaxed for the moment for political, funding, and PR issues? “
Their delving into their endowments to fund things and hold them steady, which they themselves said was not sustainable, is a desperate act to ride out Trump’s term. Like telling each other “we will hold you up and support you until we get back in power, at which time you will reward us handsomely financially for doing so” and they truly believe this will all be over soon and they can go back to DEI business as usual. Taxpayers will reimburse their generosity during these times.
Of the many reasons I hope conservatives win 2028, this is one of the biggest ones. To create such a loss on their gamble that the pain reverberates through history.
I agree, and they are waiting and hoping that Trump will be derailed by the midterms and eventually the gauntlet will again be taken up by the progressives in 2028... and I might add that Trump has not destroyed the globalists either. He has just driven them back into the darkness from whence they came. At night when it is dark and quiet, I can almost hear them on the breeze, whispering and scheming like Gollum in the cave near Mordor. We will need Trump's legacy to continue for a few more terms in order to completely disarm these vermin.
Ms. Napolitano’s UC system, as well as other universities, depend/s on corporate funding for major (public-private) projects. If, for example, the graduates cannot perform basic math, the corporations become less willing to hang their name on a shiny new super computer lab at a failing institution.
Accountability is when their money is pulled!!!! Don't expect humble retractions. (Though I hear some apologies) Just dismantle their architecture. Built on FALSE premises, it falls like a house of cards when TRUTH exposes!!!!
A combination of the scheming of the British Empire (Globalist Elites) and the fact that they have, through our now defunct Federal Education System, dumbed down and propagandized the last three generations of high school graduates. They have been fooled into hating America.
Although this is good news about higher education being forced to get rid of d e i, here in Washington state it's going strong at the elementary school level. 20 and 30 something teachers and the entire Administration and School Board are all in, our library has a huge sign with a land acknowledgment, Giant rainbow Flags everywhere in her school, larger than the American flag. A huge sign at the door to the library titled: "racism" with definitions below. Assemblies and books on how white people are bad, have been bad throughout the centuries, how black and brown people and also rainbow people have been marginalized. This is what the small children are growing up learning in Washington State. When I talked about patriotism in class and Flag Day, one first grader responded: "but what about the rainbow flag"? That is where we are in WA State. I am finally out - retired after 40 years. It's going to take a LOT before WA State rights itself. Hopefully I will be moved to another state in a couple of years. I am being priced out of retirement there...
That is absolutely shameful that Washington State is still a bastion of wokeness. I am surprised, as when I was young in the 1970's it was a good place to be. I now live in Florida, having lived my formative years in Delaware, after high school lived in the Northern California mountains until I was mid thirties and mistakenly moved back to Delaware to be with my aging mother where I suddenly had a wife, children and a mortgage. I finally got out of there ten years ago and moved to Florida. It is a good state to live in for seniors. You should put it on your list of places to check out if you decide to relocate. If you have any questions, here is my email: stargonefishin@gmail.com.
University of Notre Dame still has a DEI office. It's now named after a nun who taught there. The Sister Thea Bowman Center. If you google DEI Center at Notre Dame, it comes up.
It's a very difficult time to be putting young adult children out into the world. It's a challenge to guide and counsel them on next steps when none of the same framework exists from when we were at the same stage of life. My best advice to them is to find a way outside of the higher education system. And definitely avoid all school related debt like the black plague! Be a person of character and a hard worker. Be receptive to instruction and sometimes even reproach. I think those things are becoming more and more rare, and will always make you of value to an employer.
Being at several graduation parties in June most of the graduates were seeking trade jobs. This was a small pool of 15 or so kids mostly boys in central WA but they all were talking/ sharing that college was a waste of time, energy and money. I agree with Jeff that the pool of American kids wanting to expose themselves to higher education BS is very much dwindling and the parents are sick of losing their child to the crap after footing the bill.
He is indeed Mark1. I just wish he’d interview my partner, Tom Haviland about the embalmer clots. I reached out to him through his website 8 months ago.
Actually, I know of a few master welders with their own shops who are training people on weekends for free or $20 (just to cover materials used). There is one welder in Tucson who will also sign off on your training to get a certification if you go through him. All FREE. He accepts responsibile senior high schoolers if their parents sign off liability.
Check around your locality & see if skilled trade business owners are offering such. Put the word out.
That’s the real challenge. One answer is Classical Christian schools, or homeschooling with a curriculum informed by CCS. I am all for a renaissance in skilled trades and trade schools, but we will need people who are interested in learning to read, write, and think critically and logically, who appreciate Western civilization, and have a strong grounding in the virtues and ethics that make a civilization worth having and preserving.
My child went to med school thru the USAF. This morning I saw some dean of a med school not being able to define a woman. Hoping my child didn’t get caught up in this absurd nonsense and knows what defines a woman!!
Mike Rowe has a scholarship program for high school grads that want to get a skilled job in the trades. There will always be a need for skilled plumbers, electricians, etc. I just paid 600. to my plumber yesterday for a 2 hour job! Then again, the trick is to find that needle in a haystack "hard worker."
There is also the College of St Joseph the Worker. It is a Catholic college in Ohio where the students get a degree in Catholic Studies, but spend much of their time learning and working at a trade. The work they perform is paid work and they use that money for their college costs. When they graduate, they have a Bachelor's degree, a trade and best of all no college debt.
My son's friend's Dad (HVAC professional) did diagnosis when my AC quit Sun @2 am in Oklahoma. New thermostat needed. Least automated:$280; FILTER: (Lenox has odd sizes) $170!!; +labor(2 trips to my house -Sun eve & Mon am, 2 trips to store - 3 1/2 hrs) ALL Total: $840. I KNOW he did NOT mark up 'parts'. I was shocked, but grateful for 'friend discount.'
My grandkids have gone the law enforcement route. One's a correctional officer, another a sheriff's deputy, another is a 911 operator/dispatcher, another is a cop. We back the blue!
Our son and one grandson went the Sheriff's deputy route; the son after the AF - he had offers from Boeing, Rayethon etc - but, he was so burnt out on jet repairs during Middle East actions, he said even dealing with drunks and druggies was a break. Once, he had to sit on the floor bewteen pilots after the jet was shot up, to hold a gyroscope instrument in his hands to keep it working for the entire 10 hour flight back to Germany - he said the hazard pay bonus was great, but he was done. He's now coming up on his 20 yr retirement from the sheriff's dept and his son is 1.5 ys in but g.son also has mechanic & welders certifications to fall back on.
"person of character and hard worker" BINGO! When my dad taught on-the-job-in-retail-sales positions in high school (70's it was called DECA), he told them that 90% of what makes you successful in any job is how you get along with people. Many jobs NOW, did not exist THEN. Adaptation. Learning.
I recently discovered a wonderful song (on The Burnett Sisters Band CD "Long Way From Home") called "Walk On Boy", and needless to say, from an early time! Here's Google's AI Overview take on it: "Walk on boy" is the title and repeating chorus of a classic 1960 American folk/country song, famously covered by Doc Watson. Metaphorically, it means to keep pushing forward through life’s hardships, as you ultimately have to bear your own burdens and responsibilities. The song, written by Mel Tillis and Wayne Walker, is a coming-of-age story that uses the phrase "walk on boy" as a form of tough-love encouragement. The lyrics deliver three main thematic lessons: Self-Reliance: The chorus emphasizes that "Ain't nobody in this whole wide world / A-gonna help you carry your load," meaning you must ultimately be responsible for your own struggles and journey. Life Lessons: The narrator recalls his father's advice to work hard and treat a good woman well. Mythological Connection: The song nods to the classic American folk legend of John Henry (the steel-driving man). The narrator adopts the persona of John Henry's son, stepping into his father's hard-working footsteps."
Mike Rowe Works Foundation. Teaching young people how to work, how to think, how to use their hands and brains. These are the young people that will save our country, not the Ivy league marginal student that complains they can't start at the top.
I know of a few master welders with their own shops who are training people on weekends for free or $20 (just to cover materials used). There is one welder in Tucson who will also sign off on your training to get a certification if you go through him. All FREE. He accepts responsibile senior high schoolers if their parents sign off liability.
Check around your locality & see if skilled trade business owners are offering such. Put the word out.
Well if Mr x was in the presidency, they would still be supporting what he is doing because he is America first and that is what we need right now. It's not so important as to the person in the office as it is to what they are doing for the country.
We’ve been living in Obama’s America. You know, the one he created with his people and brought fundamental change…. 🤮
My son who taught in a private high school for the past two years was appalled that his high school students couldn’t write legibly, a simple paragraph with correct spelling and grammar. In HIGH SCHOOL! And the pandering of the school administration to complaining parents was ridiculous. Parents need to stop enabling inflated grades so their kids “excel” 🙄 Inflated grades? Exactly what has been happening. Good riddance. Let’s all go back to reality and teach kids to read and write.
My daughter forwarded a Note or Substack by Justin Deschamps reporting on recent research that shows how beneficial learning to write in cursive is to developing minds.
My oldest grand was just starting to learn cursive writing when the vid swooped in. Her mom bought books to teach her how to write in cursive. Her handwriting is beautiful.
My daughter taught for 10 years until 2017, when she left to pursue her original love of nursing which had been interrupted by having her children. Last September she went back to teaching again...6th grade science. She was appalled and shocked at the changes, both in schools and in students. Her 11 year olds would have been starting school just as the covidemic struck, and now she has observed that 1) they don't like to read anything more than a few lines, 2) many of them can barely read 3) they can't write 4) they have no ability to organize, think or write coherently 5) they have no standards of excellence 6) they care very little about learning 7) They don't really want to learn.
To be fair, I'll note that a certain segment of her students were wonderful and DID want to learn and worked hard. The problem students tended to be males, especially males from families originating in Ukraine (the area where her school is located has a big group of Ukrainians) and also some with Middle Eastern backgrounds, or mixed Middle Eastern/American backgrounds. She blames the parents for a lot of this if not most, and that is a whole other story: terrible parenting. The best students were of course Asians, Indian (from India) girls (but not the Indian boys), Hispanic kids, and good old regular American kids. The good students were highly distressed by the behavior of the badly behaved and rude problem students. The school administration did nothing but make excuses for the problem students because they were clearly afraid of the kids' parents. No one ever got kicked out of school, and all were passed on to the next grade even if they failed everything. Oh...wait a minute...no one actually failed because you had to give at least a D, and were pressured to give a C so it made the parents happier.
So for my daughter, the situation was untenable. One year was more than enough. She taught with a bright, enthusiastic girl just out of college, and the school assigned her a group of problem students with supposed learning and behavior issues. This last year, her first year of teaching, was it for her, she hated it. She has left teaching.
Another issue is that the school curriculum is online mostly, and each kid has a Chromebook instead of a real book. They sit in front of them like zombies, and some of them constantly try to sneak over to over websites. They don't do their work. They don't do homework. They have the attention span of a gnat. Then when my daughter gave them well deserved zeros for doing zero work, some of the parents were angry their kid got a zero and wanted a meeting to find out why. She would say 'He got a zero because he didn't do any work." But they parents didn't accept that and just made excuses, actually expecting for her to "be nice" and give the kid a grade anyway because "this was an exception". No, with some kids it was a rule. They don't do or don't finish their work. How does one grade that? Behavior at school and respect for the teachers and adults is a whole other matter I won't go into, but suffice it to say it's pretty dismal. I could go on and on, and all of it is depressing and doesn't bode well for society.
My daughter is a very good teacher, but one year back in today's environment took her out again. She went back to nursing. I am encouraging her to write an article about all that she saw and experienced last year in her supposedly good school in a good area. It would be distressing reading.
Thanks for your comment, I have heard similar stories. I don’t blame good teachers for quitting when they are prevented from actually teaching. When people keep whining about teachers not being paid enough, I think they’re mostly barking up the wrong tree. It’s more about not being able to do their jobs like they want to do them because of parents and admin interfering as well as students who don’t want to be there and are constantly coddled. This is part of why we are homeschooling too. I don’t want to deal with all of the fallout from the poorly behaved and unmotivated students.
My son made it two years. Gifted to teach. Beyond our wildest imaginations. He found his calling so to speak. The kids adored him. He could relate to them and speak their language. He showed them respect and listened. Kids with no friends were given a friend in my son. They talked real life with him and he was respectful and accountable about it to the principal. The parents were worse than the kids. Like you stated too, not all were like this. But the ones that were surely disrupted the ones who weren’t.
The issues came from the top down. Absolutely. When you have a vice principal who tells his teachers that if a parent has a problem with their kids’ grades he will not have the teacher’s backs - that’s a problem! When you have the administration of the school telling teachers to pass kids who don’t show up for their finals - that’s a problem. When a teacher has to push through kids who are special needs but the parents won’t deal with it - that’s a problem.
Then on the flip side, my son said there were so many kids dealing with the sudden deaths of their parents and being raised by grandparents or being moved around and around - it’s heartbreaking.
My son would have kept teaching because he loved those kids, who by the way cried and cried when he told them he was leaving….if it had not been for such poor leadership. He hand wrote a letter to each of his students (120 of them!) encouraging them in each of their strengths and telling him what he appreciated about each of them in their personal letter. I know cuz I helped fold and stuff them all. I was shocked he did that. Those are the kinds of teachers we are loosing in today’s messed up world. Sad.
She should document her experience. Problem is top-down. It was for my Mom teaching in 1976. She began teaching music 1st-12th in 1967 with a wonderful principle. She did the work of .... many - teaching, directing, private lessons, costume! making, etc - Then, when having difficulty supervising 50 jr high BOYS on metal folding chairs AFTER their PE class - with NO support from new principle, she quit. 60 yrs ago! principals reneging on supervisory discipline so teachers can TEACH. I was so fortunate to have fine schools - and parenting.
This as you describe is the perfect example of why I think we are in for a hard time going forward. What is described by you is structural and the adverse consequences will linger and stretch out in time. Your post illuminates. Thank you.
Behavior was already going downhill, but the pandemic accelerated it. The same with education. Even when they went back in person, the masks and 6 foot distancing did a lot of harm to learning.
A friend's husband is a teacher in Colorado, and they are still hardcore DEI, he can't correct students. I must send her this article. Pray it filters down to K-12
Colorado, a once beautiful, functioning state, has been overrun by fantasyland libtards and ANCHOR BABIES who have infested local governments in the greater metro areas. As a Native Coloradan, I grieve for the old trust-based civilization that respected hard work, virtue and practical answers. Our carpetbagger politicians (mostly East Coast prep school trustees funders) have imposed a huge deficit in their funding free lodging, food, education and medical services. Clearly they are counting on illegals’ votes (whether citizens or not) and ANCHIR BABIES who still think of themselves as Mexican. Nit American.
Thank you for your empathetic comment! My husband & I were in a very bumpy back road and my over-eager autotext kept changing words!
One issue Westerners understand—unlike the East Coast carpetbaggers—is the scarcity of water. Colorado’s nitwit politicians aided by libtards welcomed countless illegals to our state without sufficient water to support large populations. Especially populations who reproduce at hyped speed.
It's funny you mention trust funders, many years ago, in the early 90's my husband and I bought a small condo in Sante Fe, NM. At one time, NM and Colorado were overrun with us Texans. The Santa Fe New Mexican said they were missing the Texans because we were respectful of their ways. Californians (sorry to pick on you, I know there are some good ones) just said, "Oh, we can't build on the ridgeline, we will litigate". We sold it in the early 2000's, about the time direct flights from LA started. I, too, miss the old Colorado.
I wonder if it’s not related to the increase in vaccines. I home schooled my kids, who are reasonably successful adults now, and am helping my daughter home school my granddaughter.
She is having trouble learning to read. It’s significant enough that I recognize that it’s brain damage. Socially, she’s completely normal. Until it was time to teach her to read, we didn’t know she was brain damaged.
With her little brother, it was obvious early on. He was born perfectly normal and was still meeting milestones at his 10 week checkup when he got his first round of vaccines. He fell off a cliff. He’s 5 now and we are committed anti vaxxers.
Now, we believe she was also affected, just not as obviously until it was time to teach her.
Maybe other kids like her are in the schools and are not recognized as brain damaged because they don’t show social signs of autism, but the brain damage is there, nonetheless, just not manifest in the same way.
I have heard of vaccine damaged children being helped via nutritional balancing. Their bodies were able to detox and began showing improvement. Analytical Research Laboratories..Dr Eck. Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis. Arizona.
Yeah, we’ve been working on that for years with both of them. He’s especially difficult because his food aversions are so bad as to be an eating disorder. We have tinctures and things like that to help, but I sure wish he’d eat beef. I just know that would help him enormously.
When I was in high school, our biology teacher spent a good deal of time trying to awaken us teens to the concept of "nutrition", and one of her comments was that "baby food is one of the best sources." Could(?) be your grands would accept some version of beef under that form? Failing that, I'm for pushing the fish! Wishing your family the best.
I've read recently that Fiji water can help with trapping & assisting the body with excreting some of the excess metals (like in vaxxes). Rainfall in Fiji filters through layers of ancient volcanic rock, which naturally gathers electrolytes (like silica, calcium, and magnesium). This unique mineral composition gives the water its distinctively silky, slightly sweet mouthfeel. It gets a bit expensive, but it does taste great.
Also, good vitamins D & E is helpful.
And if you can get them to consume them, little broccoli sprouts (the small green plants could be ground up in smoothies) - broccoli sprouts contain - Sulforaphane (is a sulfur-rich, phytochemical compound found in cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, kale, and Brussels sprouts. It acts as a powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory, helping your body neutralize toxins, protect DNA, and reduce cellular stress)
I'll look and try to find the articles, but I have a huge stash.
My 8th grade ELA students didn't know the part of speech, which really helps when writing cohesive essays! No grammar or spelling is being taught in public schools.
A lack of knowledge of grammar is behind the idiotic notion that you can just make pronouns up without understanding how they fit into the language (grammatically speaking), or what their function is.
FYI -Before it entered Latin to become the modern English term for mass destruction, "apocalypse" was an Ancient Greek word, apokálypsis. Its literal, pre-Latin meaning is "uncovering," "disclosing," or "lifting of the veil"
There's a lot of evidence that kids having access to online learning tools is helping rot kids brains. There was the famous headline of a month ago or so that gen Z is stupider than millenials - along with evidence that full time computers in the classrooms were a big factor.
I'm certainly not saying that's the ONLY factor. Vaccine damage, horrible food, wifi signals interfering with the kids ability to remember, 3rd world immigration dumbing down the gene pool, parents not having control of the kids, any and all of these can be factors.
Grade inflation, by the IVY leagues, no way! And you want to know why little Johnny with his degree is working at Starbucks! But, still has to pay his school loan. These colleges should have warranties, say 6 mos. Johnny can't find a "real" job, Johnny gets his school loan reduced or removed. Schools can DEI all they want, but if Johnny can't get a job, his education is FREE!
But I also fear a return to another practice that was unfair to many students: “Yale is also now considering a proposal to require that net grades given to students must conform to a curve averaging to 3.0.”
Why can’t a student receive the grade they earned? Many students receive a lower grade than they truly earned because of enforcing “a curve”. Make one wrong cross eyed movement towards your professor or disagree with their views, and you will quickly end up on the cutting floor to fulfill the grading curve whether or not you deserve it. Such a curve prevents the opposite of happening, a truly intelligent and competent group of students all scoring high in a class because every last one of them earned it on merit.
I say grade on merit period and let the chips and curves fall where they may. Trying to enforce a DEI quota OR a grading curve quota is unfair to all students. Both are extreme.
True it can be gamed both ways. But … back when I was in college for computer science (80s) I had a particular operating system design class graded on a curve. I can say for certain of the 14 students in that class, 13 were beyond exceptional, with mad skills, and we had only one “under achiever” among us. One. I may have gotten one of the higher grades in that class, but I watched several other fellow students receive a grade far beneath their performance because of the grading curve. It was unfair to them. I have never liked curves ever since, and I see no logic behind them whatsoever after having witnessed that. It’s just the other extreme of the DEI quotas.
But yeah, admit all lower achievers to the class and you can game the curve that way too, DEI in disguise.
I agree with you about grading on a curve. It’s ridiculous to limit the higher grades to a certain percentage. If more students actually earned that grade, why shouldn’t they get it also?
I had a teaching colleague in engineering school who took the historical performance of past students into account for current grades: "Yes, you might be an excellent student, but do you really hold a candle to Thomas Perkins, back in '65?" I don't think perfect impartiality is possible, but I thought that was a fair way to "unite students across generations."
I think a class of kids where a large fraction are truly doing "A" work is pretty rare these days.
In that rare case, having a handful of students get "B"s that should have gotten "A", and a few students get "C"s that should have gotten "B" is not going to harm them much.
It's going to be much better for them overall than for their 4.0 averages to be lost in a sea of students with 4.0's.
But Johnny did get a job at highly political companies like Facebook and Twitter. And of course all the DEI drenched employers like government, education, healthcare, etc.
In fact, you can spot where these people are employed. They are at places you don't frequent anymore due to their removal of standards for their products and services.
It wasn’t a mistake -as she tries to cover her arse. It was a flat out lie. They all knew what they were doing. Obama promised to fundamentally change America- and he used his people to do it. Now they are running for cover with their whiny - it was a mistake excuse.
I looked her up...obviously a political appointment, a juicy reward for service under Obama, of course. Here's a short description I found:
"This was actually a controversial appointment at the time because Janet Napolitano did not come from a traditional academic leadership background. She had never been a university president, chancellor, provost, dean, or tenured professor before becoming president of the University of California in 2013."
Her salary was $570,000/year plus a big goodie package.
Well it’s because they truly believed the only reason there weren’t more minorities in more elite positions of society and academics was because the white man was standing on their heads holding them down. They really believed if they gave them easy access to more reputable positions they would excel just as well as anyone else. But that wasn’t true. Would it have been nice if it were? Sure. But they blamed the wrong cause for the perceived imbalance. First of all, the problem lay at the K-12 levels. Everything is built on a foundation. When that foundation is weak you have to strengthen it before looking to anything else. But that foundation is only strengthened by the community that underlies it. If the community is weak and incompetent, so their schools will be. There’s a reason private schools are used by elites.
Second, the white man actually wasn’t holding them down at all, there just weren’t as many truly capable of that merit. The “why” to that should have been addressed and it wasn’t. Instead, they put lipstick on a pig and said it could do just as good of a job as any other doctor or professor, or whatever. Just give them the same credentials and they will fly! They couldn’t fly at all. That was Obama’s contribution.
And this: how many of those poor or minority kids came from fatherless homes? Compared to their white counterparts from the same side of the tracks? It's another factor, not the only one but a big strike against a kid, especially boys.
It's the nationwide version of that feminist bookstore in Portland. Once the local college cut their monopoly on the feminist literature required by certain classes, the bookstore went under.
Interestingly enough, NBC's "Law and Order" did several episodes back in the day on the consequences of admitting students to universities and private high schools based on "quotas" and "relaxed" admission standards. Needless to say, someone always got murdered.
This young woman took her 18mo old twins for a scheduled vaxxination and the next day the babies were turning blue and she rushed them to Emergency where they were diagnosed with adverse vaxxine reaction. and 4 days later the babies were dead.
The woman went to RFK Jr's Children's Health Defense for help. She went public with her children's vaxxine tragedy, and now she is in jail charged with murder!
The Evil's spin? The crazy woman murdered her children and is trying to blame it on the vaxxination.
And when Cabal controlled media reports this story, they LEAVE OUT the part about the babies being diagnosed with adverse vaxxine reaction!
This tragic woman's 2 babies died from being vaxxinated and she spoke out, and they put her in jail!
"...jump to conclusions based on emotional factors"
Sorry Robird, but when Cabal-controlled media consistently OMITS the crucial fact that the babies were diagnosed with adverse vaxxination reaction, you know this poor woman is being set-up.
All you have to do is look at the Big Pharma cabal timeline: 1) The mom is the plaintiff in a racketeering case against the AAP. 2) Mom gets arrested and charged with murder a year after her babies die. 3)In lieu of #2, the AAP asks for the case to be dismissed.
The charges come from Boise ID prosecutor after what is described as an extensive investigation, with “ several” autopsies described. Results of the post mortem examination of the children are not released.
Better to wait for clarifying information than jump to conclusions based on emotional factors.
The deaths occurred several days after the ER visit. No information regarding the treatment or follow up instructions, no information as to why the children were released home if they were in critical condition at the time of the visit.
Enough lack of facts to reserve judgement in this case.
Based on the left’s complaints about America and racism, you would think white Caucasian people dominated the globe, but statistics show Caucasians are only about 16% of the world’s population. Since other countries use a grading system, how can anyone believe grades are racist?
Ditto for the Jews who are accused of being responsible for every foul thing happening in the world -- they make up maybe two tenths of one percent of the entire world's population.
Countries that are primarily white may make up 16% of the world's population, but most of those countries have very large minority groups. The US is down to about 60% white, and less than half of the population under age 18 is white. That's not even counting many longtime illegals or any recent "migrants".
About the only countries that are 80% white or more are in Eastern Europe.
Now let’s move to the next level- holding public schools accountable to 98% graduation rates of kids with sub-8th grade reading and math skills. That’s the biggest fraud happening in America right now.
Great observation. The role of teachers unions and the failures of primary and secondary education under the leadership of AFT I suspect is a significant motivation to eliminate standardized testing and degrade college admission requirements. This is a “ dot” Jeff Childers seems to have passed over. College education failures are the end product of an entirely dysfunctional system starting at the Kindergarten level.
IMHO, the failure starts with graduate schools of Education Administration. These turn out PhDs who run our school districts. They then hire the staff that hires, promotes, and trains teachers. Not sure how much power the local school board has over them...a lot in some cases, but not so much in others. And in any case the school boards are also dominated by Marxists--they just happen to think they are "progressives" never having studied anything important in school!
When I lived in the Puget Sound I took all forecasts of 50% chance of rain, and adjusted to 80-90%. Your best chance for dry days is the summer season Pacific high pressure "bubble" that may shunt a summer storm to the North.
Hopefully they stop lessening the bar for nurses. When I was teaching, they asked me to make my classes easier because “everyone who wants to make good money being a nurse should be able to.” I refused and my defense was simply, “do you want these unqualified people just wanting a better paying job being responsible for your family members in the hospital? I don’t.” But here we are today. High school students get multiple times to retake tests, and can turn an entire semester of homework in after the term is done and still get an A in the class. I hope they nix that.
My daughter's best friend was shocked in her first college class that she couldn't retake tests. She went all through high school (she went to a trade high school then decided she didn't like her trade so went to college) retaking tests until she passed. She failed out her first semester of college. But she learned from that, buckled down, and now is an accountant in a major company. But her introduction to real education was a shock to her.
When I attended Pace College (now 'University') in the 60s, there was a teacher known for grading using only As and Fs, and he taught a course every BBA student had to take. He was, himself, a Pace graduate and his philosophy was "You're not going to poison the value of MY degree by going out there unprepared!"
To this day, I still use the tools and techniques he honed to a razor's edge in that class.
My wife is a diploma nurse graduate of Kings County School of Nursing, and her 3-year coursework there was strictly sink-or-swim: win or go home. I would risk my life on the judgement of ANY of the (all) girls she graduated with. The BSNs that came out of Hunter College? Not on your life!
Haven't read all the replies, but just in case no one mentioned it, remind me what is the size of Hahvahd's endowment fund???? Seriously, they need to put their money where their mouth is. They have the largest endowment fund of any university, why do they get any federal or state money at all??? Forget eat the rich, eat the universities!
I once added up all the Ivy's endowments...the total just about matches total student debt. Student debt problem solved by tapping those who created it! You're welcome!
57 billion dollars. Nonsense that the cannot devote $250 million per year to research they find compelling and essential. 0.43% of the endowment, not even the earnings at 1% interest per year. But begging for tax dollars. Shameful.
Good morning! I just picked up my phone, opened your newsletter and when I got to "If necessary, I’ll draft a bulletproof, non-partisan version. They really won’t like that one." I had to stop and go right to comments to say:
Yes! Please!!! Do it!! We need a non-partisan version to go viral like Sophie Cunningham.
The Demoralized DIEvy League is beyond saving. Brown still has a head of DEI. The president and corporation appointed him to lead a "healing" initiative after their incompetence got 2 students shot and killed on campus in December - no one was held accountable: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/brown-corporation-trustees-paxson
So what happened? - ugh - reality - as Ayn Rand famously said - One can ignore reality but one can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality - while the education system tried to do away with meritocracy the rest of the world didn't - oops - a mismatch as they say
A perfect example of the problem with grade inflation - a SCOTUS member who went to Harvard and cannot define a woman. She has no business whatsoever being on the SCOTUS and yet she is there with two others with similar "pedigrees". Its what the democrats have been doing for decades, passing people through and giving them high positions in government to wreak havoc on our country.
And members of our Senate & Congress approved these failures.
The senate is deeply corrupt and we will not be able to rid ourselves of them without restoring our elections. Either that, or the 2A solution.
Probably a money spigot turned up full blast is involved.
Unfortunately the auditions for useful idiots continue. They produce a big crop of them and not all of them are entirely successful. But the point is to get a couple through now and then, like a rot that spoils.
Yes, it's really simple. Government people, as a whole, never admit mistakes; they deflect their incompetence onto the crisis at hand.
Education is finding that, because of a drop in confidence from their inane policies, money is drying up and donations are stopping.
Education finally asked the correct question. When money was flowing into their system, what were our policies?
The institutions also discovered that as the ‘mismatched’ students flunked out and headed for home, the tuition dollars went with them. The under-prepared students took seats that better prepared, non-DEI students could have filled and paid for.
It’s surreal hearing the leaders of some of our most elite universities acting like they JUST discovered the previously unknowable fact that humans have individual differences that impact their performance in school, regardless of race. After hearing ordinary, “uneducated”Americans shout the same thing from the rooftops for a decade or more. It’s like the cream that rises to the top of those institutions is simply the people who are best at pretending with a straight face.
how we can have roughly 50% of the country completely out of touch with reality and lacking any common sense is simply amazing
As the late, great George Carlin said, paraphrasing, "Think of how stupid the average person is, then realize half the people are stupider than that”.
the Man on the Street interviews are really painful to watch - sorta like seeing the beach pictures from the 70s v 2026
I really think that was a part of why the leftists rejoiced in Charlie Kirk’s death. He had the gift of getting young, educationally indoctrinated kids to talk with him, and finding out as they did that their beliefs were a mile wide and an inch deep. He wasn’t doing it to humiliate them. He wanted them to see that there was no there, there.
A truer word was never spoken. And if the education system doesn't get cleaned up, they will only get more stupid as time goes by.
This is a textbook regarding DEI. I printed for reference.
I will illustrate this abomination with a parody, which I hope will make the point. (please, understand, this is a fabricated story).
France and England, who lost respectively to Spain and Argentina in semifinals, complained to FIFA, that this is the quintessential argument for applying DEI in World Cup soccer: “it is not fair”.
France and England complained to FIFA that “it is not fair” for Spain and Argentina to possess the ball 80% of the time, and, as a result, the 2 Spanish speaking nations, to reach the cup final. This amounts even to “racism”.
They demanded, “for fairness”, that, at least in World Cup soccer tournament, the game to be played WITH 2 BALLS, each team with their own ball, of different colors.
It is believed, from informed sources, that FIFA will consider this suggestion next month.
This, of course, could be applied to American football, too.
You can thank CNN, NBC, CBS, WAPO, NYT, The Atlantic, Time magazine etc, etc, etc.... if it is a corporate news outlet it is elite owned and it is directly lying or lying by omission to support the Globalist paradigm, keep people misinformed and destroy what Trump is doing and unfortunately, I think many people are still asleep to that fact. "You can fool a person easier than you can convince them that they have been fooled"...Mark Twain
Your assignment, should you decide to accept it is to give one persom a wake-up call every day.
As "El Gato Malo" has said many times before, "the cold mackerel of truth arrives, all wet and slappy" 😂😂😂
I read the bad cat pretty regularly, yet somehow I’ve missed that particular nugget of comedy gold. Amazing! 🤣
As with so many thing in life, I am now reminded of yet another Monty Pythons bit that seems apropos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8XeDvKqI4E
OMG! This skit was made for the bad cat!! Thank you for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great quote.
Jeff: "...Recognizing that college transcripts are increasingly unreliable measurements of competence, 81% of employers now prioritize skills over degrees, leading to a surge in “skills-based hiring” and the dropping of degree requirements by major corporations..."
This is being accelerated by the rise of AI. Many of the jobs in the corporate world will be eliminated by AI. Students would be much better off going to a "trade school" or apprenticeship in a skilled trade. These jobs are going to be begging for new blood and will pay top dollar.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/north_america/americas-current-economy/more-evidence-skilled-labor-is-rising-in-value/
One resource available to parents and students is a program that can be purchased on Amazon called "The Preparation" by Doug Casey. Anyone with children may find this helpful.
Yep. As a homeowner, I often need the services of a skilled electrician, plumber etc. and have no choice but to pay a LOT for their much needed skills. If they are good, these guys make a fortune.
My local garage man lamented recently that he cannot find good help among the younger generation. Students graduating from tech schools in auto mechanics get scooped up by manufacturers and the small garage owners cannot compete with the salaries offered. Perhaps more young people will choose this field to help even out the supply of workers.
Statistics show that it IS trending strongly.
I know a young man who completed such training in auto mechanics and is trying to decide his future with it. Especially since he wants to get married. Would you tell me some of the companies (manufacturers) you heard about where he would receive a good salary? Thanks!
I have a relative who is headed to college this fall. His dream is to work on cars. His further dream is to own his own shop, hence the business degree track. So there is hope.
I went to trade school when I was young and retired 16 years ago making over $100,000 a year. My Social Security check alone is over $2400 a month.
I got that college degree and then a law degree. My SS is close to $3.000. Different strokes. I did ok. Even when I was in school, many years ago, the leftist bias was obvioius. I ignored it.
Glenn, how did you pay for that college & law school? How long did it take to pay off loans?
I had a small student loan as an undergraduate freshman, and a great state scholarship that paid all fees except about $43 a quarter. I worked at least 20 hours a week, and my parents helped a little, during those first two years. Then I spent 3 years in the Army, and when I returned to school, I had another state scholarship and the GI Bill and work -- no loans. After I had worked for some years, I went to law school. Again, I worked. I did borrow $30,000 for law school tuition. Paid it back in five years. I would have had to borrow much, much more if I were trying to do that these days, and would have a much longer repayment period. No question, it's much harder now.
Yes!! We need more trades people! We need some small home repair jobs done & can't get anyone to do them!
My son's home Improvement business is GROWING. NEVER to be replaced by robots OR college degrees!!!! - unless you THROW AWAY your house if anything needs repair.
At one time I was acquainted with a young woman who worked as a welder in our local shipyard that built ships for the US Coast Guard and for the off-shore oil platforms. Mind you, that is a very difficult and physically demanding job. One had to work in the heat while wearing "leathers" to protect from the welding sparks but the pay she earned was worth it. She was quite independent as you might imagine.
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Yes! I just wrote a comment in the main section that we have accidentally been doing what that program advocates for the past 2.5 years! One son had his pilot license at 17 and is now at 19 a real estate developer and investor. My other son had his own woodworking and retail biz since 14yo. He is now 16 and getting his drone pilot license. His goal is to get a helicopter pilot license when he's eligible at 18, so we figure the drone license helps with that. They are both participating in Toastmasters to assist their public speaking abilities and volunteering. The 16yo has also started his own quintet composed of 3 violinists, one cellist and one violaist. They plan to start performing by the end of summer. Oh, and he just composed his first violin duet. It is amazing what kids can do when you say yes to their ideas and give them resources and tools.
The Preparation prepares kids and parents with a framework for how to gain skills.
Heather, Sounds very well balanced - good job!
Wow that is fantastic! I love hearing stories like that. It is amazing what kids can do with a little encouragement and challenges to face. Just as an example, my first son memorized Psalm 119 when in kindergarten and recited it to his class.
I started with the idea I picked up from the movie "Stand and Deliver" that a child will rise to the level of your expectations... and beyond. The problem with institutional schooling is that expectations are based on the lowest common denominator and the system makes sure they rise only to those expectations. Young minds are like sponges and capable of more than we can imagine. Just out of curiosity, how did you get started on this path with your children?
I love that your son did that at such a young age, Phil! Good for you!! That was a great and inspiring movie.
We have always homeschooled. Due to vax injuries, there were quite a few learning disabilities that needed addressed. I kept taking the path less traveled... focus on therapies and diet to correct the issues, follow their passions for the learning. Can't claim we did it all right. But it is working. And started doing this because there was a family at the homeschool conference that the kids were selling actual books they had published. One of them was teaching math classes. I asked the mom the second year I saw them what/how she did it, and she told me they switched gears to creating skills and a business in high school. I sat with that then realized how much sense it made and how we could teach all the high school stuff via their passions. It isn't ALL the high school stuff in the normal sense. There will be some gaps. But they can think critically and know how to problem solve. And kids coming out of public school have a lot of shallow knowledge. My boys have some shallow, but lots of deep knowledge about more focused areas. My older son is wicked smart in general economics and finance concepts as well. And we do a ton of historical and political discussions via current events, my husband's job, and Tuttle Twins/Connor Boyack. The boys are now immersing themselves in religion/religious history. We did a lot of world/travel schooling prior to "high school", using places we visited as our curriculum.
Love Casey's work on this. If I were young, I'd sign up for this in a heart beat,
I disagree with your one sentence: "....going to be begging..." They already are. Navy contractors will train on the job for welders, electricians, pipe fitters, etc. High school grads can train for free to be Air Traffic controllers, many other examples. Not going to...we are already here.
Good catch! And speaking of "welders", I already posted this comment but it fits very well here:
At one time I was acquainted with a young woman who worked as a welder in our local shipyard that built ships for the US Coast Guard and for the off-shore oil platforms. Mind you, that is a very difficult and physically demanding job. One had to work in the heat while wearing "leathers" to protect from the welding sparks but the pay she earned was worth it. She was quite independent as you might imagine.
That's awesome. My friend builds Navy ships and is in a navy contractor association. He said there is a big need for these types of workers. They can practically pick where they want to live with on the job training and great pay.
Thank you for the heads up on the book. I have three young grandchildren and my children (their parents) should read it. I went to school for a trade as I could not get to college and I made as much or more than a lot of my degreed contemporaries throughout my career.
Actually, I know of a few master welders with their own shops who are training people on weekends for free or $20 (just to cover materials used). There is one welder in Tucson who will also sign off on your training to get a certification if you go through him. All FREE. He accepts responsibile senior high schoolers if their parents sign off liability.
Check around your locality & see if skilled trade business owners are offering such. Put the word out.
Great idea. Today's parents (I'm a grandparent) have to get creative to give the next generation a leg up.
We Are All Connected
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/products_services/we-are-all-connected/
..."81% of employers now prioritize skills", furthermore 76.257% of all quoted statistics are made up.
I generally agree with that... although that means your figure is prolly made up too LOL (.257% is kindof a giveraway lol)
And no one will be held to account. They never do.
CRT and its strong-arm policy of DEI was denied and excused and promoted by proponents of the Transforming-community all concurrently. But then these erosive forces of the LEFT became defined and rejected by an emboldened, voting public that ran into it everywhere at every level and layer of government, corporate, and institutional level (in Every Western country). Has Napolitano and the movement truly reflected and changed course to now suddenly better serve academia, students, and society? Or is this more simply the messaging being changed and the push being relaxed for the moment for political, funding, and PR issues? The passionate Leftist Zeal can cool a bit and change course in its route to ruination of human society, but trust that the mission has not changed, only perception and style. It will again remanifest in a more aggressive form when opportunity arises
“Or is this more simply the messaging being changed and the push being relaxed for the moment for political, funding, and PR issues? “
Their delving into their endowments to fund things and hold them steady, which they themselves said was not sustainable, is a desperate act to ride out Trump’s term. Like telling each other “we will hold you up and support you until we get back in power, at which time you will reward us handsomely financially for doing so” and they truly believe this will all be over soon and they can go back to DEI business as usual. Taxpayers will reimburse their generosity during these times.
Of the many reasons I hope conservatives win 2028, this is one of the biggest ones. To create such a loss on their gamble that the pain reverberates through history.
Pray for more exposure of these FAULTY systems. More REALITIES to open eyes!!
I agree, and they are waiting and hoping that Trump will be derailed by the midterms and eventually the gauntlet will again be taken up by the progressives in 2028... and I might add that Trump has not destroyed the globalists either. He has just driven them back into the darkness from whence they came. At night when it is dark and quiet, I can almost hear them on the breeze, whispering and scheming like Gollum in the cave near Mordor. We will need Trump's legacy to continue for a few more terms in order to completely disarm these vermin.
Ms. Napolitano’s UC system, as well as other universities, depend/s on corporate funding for major (public-private) projects. If, for example, the graduates cannot perform basic math, the corporations become less willing to hang their name on a shiny new super computer lab at a failing institution.
🎵CRT, DEI, M-O-U-S-EEE. Dystopian Disneyland...
Accountability is when their money is pulled!!!! Don't expect humble retractions. (Though I hear some apologies) Just dismantle their architecture. Built on FALSE premises, it falls like a house of cards when TRUTH exposes!!!!
100%
Conservatives tend to let up on offenders, hopefully thinking that they've learned their lesson. Progressives are not daunted and never stop though.
But OUR lesson is that we need to destroy these movements totally and completely.
Just another psychodrama for the masses on Foxnews.
So, what do you think produced all these‘democratic socialists’ running for office lately?
A combination of the scheming of the British Empire (Globalist Elites) and the fact that they have, through our now defunct Federal Education System, dumbed down and propagandized the last three generations of high school graduates. They have been fooled into hating America.
Although this is good news about higher education being forced to get rid of d e i, here in Washington state it's going strong at the elementary school level. 20 and 30 something teachers and the entire Administration and School Board are all in, our library has a huge sign with a land acknowledgment, Giant rainbow Flags everywhere in her school, larger than the American flag. A huge sign at the door to the library titled: "racism" with definitions below. Assemblies and books on how white people are bad, have been bad throughout the centuries, how black and brown people and also rainbow people have been marginalized. This is what the small children are growing up learning in Washington State. When I talked about patriotism in class and Flag Day, one first grader responded: "but what about the rainbow flag"? That is where we are in WA State. I am finally out - retired after 40 years. It's going to take a LOT before WA State rights itself. Hopefully I will be moved to another state in a couple of years. I am being priced out of retirement there...
That is absolutely shameful that Washington State is still a bastion of wokeness. I am surprised, as when I was young in the 1970's it was a good place to be. I now live in Florida, having lived my formative years in Delaware, after high school lived in the Northern California mountains until I was mid thirties and mistakenly moved back to Delaware to be with my aging mother where I suddenly had a wife, children and a mortgage. I finally got out of there ten years ago and moved to Florida. It is a good state to live in for seniors. You should put it on your list of places to check out if you decide to relocate. If you have any questions, here is my email: stargonefishin@gmail.com.
Part and parcel of the Transnational gangsters attack on this country
Such soft targets…
And the people voting for them.
😂 Yes!
At least FoxNews will cover yet another liberal FAIL!!
They are the bread and circus show for imagined two parties.
There are no liberals, just oligarchs. Get your popcorn old Kat.
You’re an old retired professor; you are the quintessential liberal!!
Au contraire.
Labels are meant to control you and divide you. With age comes wisdom.
What's a liberal?
More / all should be held to account, but some finally are under Trump admin.
Reality is undefeated. The sooner people wake up to this fact, the better off we will be.
University of Notre Dame still has a DEI office. It's now named after a nun who taught there. The Sister Thea Bowman Center. If you google DEI Center at Notre Dame, it comes up.
It's a very difficult time to be putting young adult children out into the world. It's a challenge to guide and counsel them on next steps when none of the same framework exists from when we were at the same stage of life. My best advice to them is to find a way outside of the higher education system. And definitely avoid all school related debt like the black plague! Be a person of character and a hard worker. Be receptive to instruction and sometimes even reproach. I think those things are becoming more and more rare, and will always make you of value to an employer.
Being at several graduation parties in June most of the graduates were seeking trade jobs. This was a small pool of 15 or so kids mostly boys in central WA but they all were talking/ sharing that college was a waste of time, energy and money. I agree with Jeff that the pool of American kids wanting to expose themselves to higher education BS is very much dwindling and the parents are sick of losing their child to the crap after footing the bill.
Patti - the Trump administration just injected $10M into Mike Rowe’s foundation.
https://mikeroweworks.org/
Mike Rowe is a great guy.
He is indeed Mark1. I just wish he’d interview my partner, Tom Haviland about the embalmer clots. I reached out to him through his website 8 months ago.
Keep pressing it. The squeaky wheel and all that …
It’s that pesky gag order Juju
He’s a great guy who “ stays in his lane” as he puts it.
Laura, why not shoot for the highest ratings out there? Try Joe Rogan.
We’ve tried so many times SHug
my friend Cornelia Mrose has done some great work on the calamari clots.
We love Cornelia!
I’m always happy to cross/post her videos with our team.
Always admired Mike Rowe and his mission.
Yes
Awesome! I had not heard this. I just sent to several kids to apply for scholarships. Thank you
Actually, I know of a few master welders with their own shops who are training people on weekends for free or $20 (just to cover materials used). There is one welder in Tucson who will also sign off on your training to get a certification if you go through him. All FREE. He accepts responsibile senior high schoolers if their parents sign off liability.
Check around your locality & see if skilled trade business owners are offering such. Put the word out.
Good thing. They’ve taken the money that they might’ve sent to the Ivy leagues and given it to Mike Rowe!
A great way to help high school grads! We need plumbers, welders and electricians!
I am hopeful that we will not lose all academics - we need people who have learned how to seriously think and study rather than simply relying on AI.
We still have great universities like Hillsdale College and Regent.
That’s the real challenge. One answer is Classical Christian schools, or homeschooling with a curriculum informed by CCS. I am all for a renaissance in skilled trades and trade schools, but we will need people who are interested in learning to read, write, and think critically and logically, who appreciate Western civilization, and have a strong grounding in the virtues and ethics that make a civilization worth having and preserving.
YES!!!!
True. If I saw universities as liberal indoctrination camps, I’d steer clear of them too!
Over a decade ago, I was sitting in my sister-in-law's kitchen talking about the scam that was college.
Imo, the colleges and the banks teamed up to put kids into lifelong debt by lying to them that a degree was the ticket to a decent standard of living.
I lamented that my children didn't listen to me.
She had a young man painting her kitchen. He was clear on the other side of the room, and he said "I'm listening to you".
Well, all right then! At least someone did. I hope I kept him out of debt.
Mrs. RW
My child went to med school thru the USAF. This morning I saw some dean of a med school not being able to define a woman. Hoping my child didn’t get caught up in this absurd nonsense and knows what defines a woman!!
Yes, Patti, It’s good to hear that critical thinking skills still exist in WA state - East of the Cascades. Thank you.
Mike Rowe has a scholarship program for high school grads that want to get a skilled job in the trades. There will always be a need for skilled plumbers, electricians, etc. I just paid 600. to my plumber yesterday for a 2 hour job! Then again, the trick is to find that needle in a haystack "hard worker."
There is also the College of St Joseph the Worker. It is a Catholic college in Ohio where the students get a degree in Catholic Studies, but spend much of their time learning and working at a trade. The work they perform is paid work and they use that money for their college costs. When they graduate, they have a Bachelor's degree, a trade and best of all no college debt.
I just received invoices from a plumber and yep! 2 jobs= about 3 hours about 1000.00 in time and parts
Good Plumbers are worth their weight in gold.
and the parts are massively overbilled.
My son's friend's Dad (HVAC professional) did diagnosis when my AC quit Sun @2 am in Oklahoma. New thermostat needed. Least automated:$280; FILTER: (Lenox has odd sizes) $170!!; +labor(2 trips to my house -Sun eve & Mon am, 2 trips to store - 3 1/2 hrs) ALL Total: $840. I KNOW he did NOT mark up 'parts'. I was shocked, but grateful for 'friend discount.'
Two toilets, installed, old ones hauled:$1600.
That seems rather excessive. Of course, it depends on the price of the new toilets.
Wasn’t even a toilet
They gave me a ‘deal’ of $100 off since there were two to install in one trip. 😏
Sounds like your plumber is smarter than you, just sayin'...
Good Plumbers are worth their weight in gold.
Good Plumbers are worth their weight in gold.
https://mikeroweworks.org/
Someone posted it above.
Might I suggest you blast that charge on yelp and any other review boards you can find? That charge is outrageous even by today's standards.
Supply and demand.
Yes! Criticism isn't harmful ..... it is given to help!
My grandkids have gone the law enforcement route. One's a correctional officer, another a sheriff's deputy, another is a 911 operator/dispatcher, another is a cop. We back the blue!
Our son and one grandson went the Sheriff's deputy route; the son after the AF - he had offers from Boeing, Rayethon etc - but, he was so burnt out on jet repairs during Middle East actions, he said even dealing with drunks and druggies was a break. Once, he had to sit on the floor bewteen pilots after the jet was shot up, to hold a gyroscope instrument in his hands to keep it working for the entire 10 hour flight back to Germany - he said the hazard pay bonus was great, but he was done. He's now coming up on his 20 yr retirement from the sheriff's dept and his son is 1.5 ys in but g.son also has mechanic & welders certifications to fall back on.
I pray for them both daily.
"person of character and hard worker" BINGO! When my dad taught on-the-job-in-retail-sales positions in high school (70's it was called DECA), he told them that 90% of what makes you successful in any job is how you get along with people. Many jobs NOW, did not exist THEN. Adaptation. Learning.
I recently discovered a wonderful song (on The Burnett Sisters Band CD "Long Way From Home") called "Walk On Boy", and needless to say, from an early time! Here's Google's AI Overview take on it: "Walk on boy" is the title and repeating chorus of a classic 1960 American folk/country song, famously covered by Doc Watson. Metaphorically, it means to keep pushing forward through life’s hardships, as you ultimately have to bear your own burdens and responsibilities. The song, written by Mel Tillis and Wayne Walker, is a coming-of-age story that uses the phrase "walk on boy" as a form of tough-love encouragement. The lyrics deliver three main thematic lessons: Self-Reliance: The chorus emphasizes that "Ain't nobody in this whole wide world / A-gonna help you carry your load," meaning you must ultimately be responsible for your own struggles and journey. Life Lessons: The narrator recalls his father's advice to work hard and treat a good woman well. Mythological Connection: The song nods to the classic American folk legend of John Henry (the steel-driving man). The narrator adopts the persona of John Henry's son, stepping into his father's hard-working footsteps."
Mike Rowe Works Foundation. Teaching young people how to work, how to think, how to use their hands and brains. These are the young people that will save our country, not the Ivy league marginal student that complains they can't start at the top.
I agree.
There is about a million openings for trade jobs by the American government.
I do greatly recommend to watch the show of a very popular man of my time.
Do you remember Dirty Jobs?
Mike Rowe has a foundation that gladly supports and pays for it.
mikeroweworks.org
I know of a few master welders with their own shops who are training people on weekends for free or $20 (just to cover materials used). There is one welder in Tucson who will also sign off on your training to get a certification if you go through him. All FREE. He accepts responsibile senior high schoolers if their parents sign off liability.
Check around your locality & see if skilled trade business owners are offering such. Put the word out.
Spot on! Good input!
Having in
It's actually past time for that.
“. If necessary, I’ll draft a bulletproof, non-partisan version. They really won’t like that one.”
YES PLEASE!!! I have many, many people to share that version with!!
You can amend/re-word it yourself and send to your friends.
He offered. I accepted.
Janet Napolitano is about as intelligent or patriotic as Randi Weingarten.
Kudos to Jeff for the awesome response to yesterday's C&C.
I'm looking forward to hearing Susan and Barbara's thoughts this morning on Promethean Action's Thursday brief at 10 am Central.
YESsssss!!! A Promethean man. Spread the word about them. They have a good handle on what is really going on.
It gets you out of the crazy/can't trust anything mode. LARGER picture. Grounding - lasting - PRINCIPLES.
They know history that has not been taught.
They seem to mostly be Trump promoters
They seem to mostly be America First supporters. Fixed it for you.
Thank you for fixing that.
Well if Mr x was in the presidency, they would still be supporting what he is doing because he is America first and that is what we need right now. It's not so important as to the person in the office as it is to what they are doing for the country.
Janet From Another Planet.
Loved the “frog in a blender” reference for her. Brought to mind the old Bass-O-Matic images
Haha, many moons ago, when Saturday Night Live was funny!
Yep, it used to be.
hahahaha
And the Bat-o-Matic in 1977! Hilarious.
https://youtu.be/iKllBHvpZcE?
Ouch. Randi is sui generis.
And not one to emulate.
We’ve been living in Obama’s America. You know, the one he created with his people and brought fundamental change…. 🤮
My son who taught in a private high school for the past two years was appalled that his high school students couldn’t write legibly, a simple paragraph with correct spelling and grammar. In HIGH SCHOOL! And the pandering of the school administration to complaining parents was ridiculous. Parents need to stop enabling inflated grades so their kids “excel” 🙄 Inflated grades? Exactly what has been happening. Good riddance. Let’s all go back to reality and teach kids to read and write.
My daughter forwarded a Note or Substack by Justin Deschamps reporting on recent research that shows how beneficial learning to write in cursive is to developing minds.
My children's private school only taught cursive- it helps with learning how to read.
Even lefty friends in California were teaching her kids and their friends to write cursive when schools threw it out.
My oldest grand was just starting to learn cursive writing when the vid swooped in. Her mom bought books to teach her how to write in cursive. Her handwriting is beautiful.
My daughter taught for 10 years until 2017, when she left to pursue her original love of nursing which had been interrupted by having her children. Last September she went back to teaching again...6th grade science. She was appalled and shocked at the changes, both in schools and in students. Her 11 year olds would have been starting school just as the covidemic struck, and now she has observed that 1) they don't like to read anything more than a few lines, 2) many of them can barely read 3) they can't write 4) they have no ability to organize, think or write coherently 5) they have no standards of excellence 6) they care very little about learning 7) They don't really want to learn.
To be fair, I'll note that a certain segment of her students were wonderful and DID want to learn and worked hard. The problem students tended to be males, especially males from families originating in Ukraine (the area where her school is located has a big group of Ukrainians) and also some with Middle Eastern backgrounds, or mixed Middle Eastern/American backgrounds. She blames the parents for a lot of this if not most, and that is a whole other story: terrible parenting. The best students were of course Asians, Indian (from India) girls (but not the Indian boys), Hispanic kids, and good old regular American kids. The good students were highly distressed by the behavior of the badly behaved and rude problem students. The school administration did nothing but make excuses for the problem students because they were clearly afraid of the kids' parents. No one ever got kicked out of school, and all were passed on to the next grade even if they failed everything. Oh...wait a minute...no one actually failed because you had to give at least a D, and were pressured to give a C so it made the parents happier.
So for my daughter, the situation was untenable. One year was more than enough. She taught with a bright, enthusiastic girl just out of college, and the school assigned her a group of problem students with supposed learning and behavior issues. This last year, her first year of teaching, was it for her, she hated it. She has left teaching.
Another issue is that the school curriculum is online mostly, and each kid has a Chromebook instead of a real book. They sit in front of them like zombies, and some of them constantly try to sneak over to over websites. They don't do their work. They don't do homework. They have the attention span of a gnat. Then when my daughter gave them well deserved zeros for doing zero work, some of the parents were angry their kid got a zero and wanted a meeting to find out why. She would say 'He got a zero because he didn't do any work." But they parents didn't accept that and just made excuses, actually expecting for her to "be nice" and give the kid a grade anyway because "this was an exception". No, with some kids it was a rule. They don't do or don't finish their work. How does one grade that? Behavior at school and respect for the teachers and adults is a whole other matter I won't go into, but suffice it to say it's pretty dismal. I could go on and on, and all of it is depressing and doesn't bode well for society.
My daughter is a very good teacher, but one year back in today's environment took her out again. She went back to nursing. I am encouraging her to write an article about all that she saw and experienced last year in her supposedly good school in a good area. It would be distressing reading.
Thanks for your comment, I have heard similar stories. I don’t blame good teachers for quitting when they are prevented from actually teaching. When people keep whining about teachers not being paid enough, I think they’re mostly barking up the wrong tree. It’s more about not being able to do their jobs like they want to do them because of parents and admin interfering as well as students who don’t want to be there and are constantly coddled. This is part of why we are homeschooling too. I don’t want to deal with all of the fallout from the poorly behaved and unmotivated students.
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My son made it two years. Gifted to teach. Beyond our wildest imaginations. He found his calling so to speak. The kids adored him. He could relate to them and speak their language. He showed them respect and listened. Kids with no friends were given a friend in my son. They talked real life with him and he was respectful and accountable about it to the principal. The parents were worse than the kids. Like you stated too, not all were like this. But the ones that were surely disrupted the ones who weren’t.
The issues came from the top down. Absolutely. When you have a vice principal who tells his teachers that if a parent has a problem with their kids’ grades he will not have the teacher’s backs - that’s a problem! When you have the administration of the school telling teachers to pass kids who don’t show up for their finals - that’s a problem. When a teacher has to push through kids who are special needs but the parents won’t deal with it - that’s a problem.
Then on the flip side, my son said there were so many kids dealing with the sudden deaths of their parents and being raised by grandparents or being moved around and around - it’s heartbreaking.
My son would have kept teaching because he loved those kids, who by the way cried and cried when he told them he was leaving….if it had not been for such poor leadership. He hand wrote a letter to each of his students (120 of them!) encouraging them in each of their strengths and telling him what he appreciated about each of them in their personal letter. I know cuz I helped fold and stuff them all. I was shocked he did that. Those are the kinds of teachers we are loosing in today’s messed up world. Sad.
God bless him! May he find a school that would appreciate his gifts!
She should document her experience. Problem is top-down. It was for my Mom teaching in 1976. She began teaching music 1st-12th in 1967 with a wonderful principle. She did the work of .... many - teaching, directing, private lessons, costume! making, etc - Then, when having difficulty supervising 50 jr high BOYS on metal folding chairs AFTER their PE class - with NO support from new principle, she quit. 60 yrs ago! principals reneging on supervisory discipline so teachers can TEACH. I was so fortunate to have fine schools - and parenting.
This as you describe is the perfect example of why I think we are in for a hard time going forward. What is described by you is structural and the adverse consequences will linger and stretch out in time. Your post illuminates. Thank you.
Schools giving kids computers or tablets has proven to be damaging. It needs to stop.
Behavior was already going downhill, but the pandemic accelerated it. The same with education. Even when they went back in person, the masks and 6 foot distancing did a lot of harm to learning.
Perhaps she should look at private schools or Catholic schools. They need good teachers.
I hope she’s homeschooling her own kids.
When tech perfects AI robot teachers, will they tolerate this IDGAF attitude from students?
Not if my tazer-modification suggestion gets adopted...
A friend's husband is a teacher in Colorado, and they are still hardcore DEI, he can't correct students. I must send her this article. Pray it filters down to K-12
Colorado, a once beautiful, functioning state, has been overrun by fantasyland libtards and ANCHOR BABIES who have infested local governments in the greater metro areas. As a Native Coloradan, I grieve for the old trust-based civilization that respected hard work, virtue and practical answers. Our carpetbagger politicians (mostly East Coast prep school trustees funders) have imposed a huge deficit in their funding free lodging, food, education and medical services. Clearly they are counting on illegals’ votes (whether citizens or not) and ANCHIR BABIES who still think of themselves as Mexican. Nit American.
Thank you for your empathetic comment! My husband & I were in a very bumpy back road and my over-eager autotext kept changing words!
One issue Westerners understand—unlike the East Coast carpetbaggers—is the scarcity of water. Colorado’s nitwit politicians aided by libtards welcomed countless illegals to our state without sufficient water to support large populations. Especially populations who reproduce at hyped speed.
It's funny you mention trust funders, many years ago, in the early 90's my husband and I bought a small condo in Sante Fe, NM. At one time, NM and Colorado were overrun with us Texans. The Santa Fe New Mexican said they were missing the Texans because we were respectful of their ways. Californians (sorry to pick on you, I know there are some good ones) just said, "Oh, we can't build on the ridgeline, we will litigate". We sold it in the early 2000's, about the time direct flights from LA started. I, too, miss the old Colorado.
I wonder if it’s not related to the increase in vaccines. I home schooled my kids, who are reasonably successful adults now, and am helping my daughter home school my granddaughter.
She is having trouble learning to read. It’s significant enough that I recognize that it’s brain damage. Socially, she’s completely normal. Until it was time to teach her to read, we didn’t know she was brain damaged.
With her little brother, it was obvious early on. He was born perfectly normal and was still meeting milestones at his 10 week checkup when he got his first round of vaccines. He fell off a cliff. He’s 5 now and we are committed anti vaxxers.
Now, we believe she was also affected, just not as obviously until it was time to teach her.
Maybe other kids like her are in the schools and are not recognized as brain damaged because they don’t show social signs of autism, but the brain damage is there, nonetheless, just not manifest in the same way.
I have heard of vaccine damaged children being helped via nutritional balancing. Their bodies were able to detox and began showing improvement. Analytical Research Laboratories..Dr Eck. Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis. Arizona.
Yeah, we’ve been working on that for years with both of them. He’s especially difficult because his food aversions are so bad as to be an eating disorder. We have tinctures and things like that to help, but I sure wish he’d eat beef. I just know that would help him enormously.
When I was in high school, our biology teacher spent a good deal of time trying to awaken us teens to the concept of "nutrition", and one of her comments was that "baby food is one of the best sources." Could(?) be your grands would accept some version of beef under that form? Failing that, I'm for pushing the fish! Wishing your family the best.
I so hate that for your grands Queen H.
I've read recently that Fiji water can help with trapping & assisting the body with excreting some of the excess metals (like in vaxxes). Rainfall in Fiji filters through layers of ancient volcanic rock, which naturally gathers electrolytes (like silica, calcium, and magnesium). This unique mineral composition gives the water its distinctively silky, slightly sweet mouthfeel. It gets a bit expensive, but it does taste great.
Also, good vitamins D & E is helpful.
And if you can get them to consume them, little broccoli sprouts (the small green plants could be ground up in smoothies) - broccoli sprouts contain - Sulforaphane (is a sulfur-rich, phytochemical compound found in cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, kale, and Brussels sprouts. It acts as a powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory, helping your body neutralize toxins, protect DNA, and reduce cellular stress)
I'll look and try to find the articles, but I have a huge stash.
oh my! Just Awful!!! 😭
My 8th grade ELA students didn't know the part of speech, which really helps when writing cohesive essays! No grammar or spelling is being taught in public schools.
A lack of knowledge of grammar is behind the idiotic notion that you can just make pronouns up without understanding how they fit into the language (grammatically speaking), or what their function is.
FYI -Before it entered Latin to become the modern English term for mass destruction, "apocalypse" was an Ancient Greek word, apokálypsis. Its literal, pre-Latin meaning is "uncovering," "disclosing," or "lifting of the veil"
I love etymology 😍😊
My daughter's Latin teacher had to teach them what direct and indirect objects were in English before they could even hope to learn them in Latin.
I didn’t understand that in junior high until I took Spanish. Then I finally figured it out.
There's a lot of evidence that kids having access to online learning tools is helping rot kids brains. There was the famous headline of a month ago or so that gen Z is stupider than millenials - along with evidence that full time computers in the classrooms were a big factor.
I'm certainly not saying that's the ONLY factor. Vaccine damage, horrible food, wifi signals interfering with the kids ability to remember, 3rd world immigration dumbing down the gene pool, parents not having control of the kids, any and all of these can be factors.
And critical thinking skills!!
Grade inflation, by the IVY leagues, no way! And you want to know why little Johnny with his degree is working at Starbucks! But, still has to pay his school loan. These colleges should have warranties, say 6 mos. Johnny can't find a "real" job, Johnny gets his school loan reduced or removed. Schools can DEI all they want, but if Johnny can't get a job, his education is FREE!
But I also fear a return to another practice that was unfair to many students: “Yale is also now considering a proposal to require that net grades given to students must conform to a curve averaging to 3.0.”
Why can’t a student receive the grade they earned? Many students receive a lower grade than they truly earned because of enforcing “a curve”. Make one wrong cross eyed movement towards your professor or disagree with their views, and you will quickly end up on the cutting floor to fulfill the grading curve whether or not you deserve it. Such a curve prevents the opposite of happening, a truly intelligent and competent group of students all scoring high in a class because every last one of them earned it on merit.
I say grade on merit period and let the chips and curves fall where they may. Trying to enforce a DEI quota OR a grading curve quota is unfair to all students. Both are extreme.
I agree. A curve will still hide an academic death spiral if all students are below par.
In fact they can game a curve by only admitting underachievers.
True it can be gamed both ways. But … back when I was in college for computer science (80s) I had a particular operating system design class graded on a curve. I can say for certain of the 14 students in that class, 13 were beyond exceptional, with mad skills, and we had only one “under achiever” among us. One. I may have gotten one of the higher grades in that class, but I watched several other fellow students receive a grade far beneath their performance because of the grading curve. It was unfair to them. I have never liked curves ever since, and I see no logic behind them whatsoever after having witnessed that. It’s just the other extreme of the DEI quotas.
But yeah, admit all lower achievers to the class and you can game the curve that way too, DEI in disguise.
I agree with you about grading on a curve. It’s ridiculous to limit the higher grades to a certain percentage. If more students actually earned that grade, why shouldn’t they get it also?
I had a teaching colleague in engineering school who took the historical performance of past students into account for current grades: "Yes, you might be an excellent student, but do you really hold a candle to Thomas Perkins, back in '65?" I don't think perfect impartiality is possible, but I thought that was a fair way to "unite students across generations."
I think a class of kids where a large fraction are truly doing "A" work is pretty rare these days.
In that rare case, having a handful of students get "B"s that should have gotten "A", and a few students get "C"s that should have gotten "B" is not going to harm them much.
It's going to be much better for them overall than for their 4.0 averages to be lost in a sea of students with 4.0's.
Exactly. They should have admission standards and go from there. The students will not likely fall into a specified "curve". That's silly.
But Johnny did get a job at highly political companies like Facebook and Twitter. And of course all the DEI drenched employers like government, education, healthcare, etc.
In fact, you can spot where these people are employed. They are at places you don't frequent anymore due to their removal of standards for their products and services.
That is an excellent solution! CWallace
An A+ solution... and that's without inflating your abilities.
And the school is liable for the loan amount
That’s exactly right! He can’t actually do the job he went to college for so ya Starbucks it is
Good question: How much should something worthless actually cost?
I’ve been hearing about grade inflation much longer than since 2020.
“We do a student no good by admitting them if they’re not really ready,”
Dear Napolitano, anyone with half a brain knows this behavior is simply setting someone up to fail.
I don’t hesitate to call it racist & sexist.
It wasn’t a mistake -as she tries to cover her arse. It was a flat out lie. They all knew what they were doing. Obama promised to fundamentally change America- and he used his people to do it. Now they are running for cover with their whiny - it was a mistake excuse.
“We did the best we could with what we knew”
yeah, whatever 🙄🙄🙄
In other words you were making a decision that you were unqualified to make.
And not taking responsibility for a poor decision.
I looked her up...obviously a political appointment, a juicy reward for service under Obama, of course. Here's a short description I found:
"This was actually a controversial appointment at the time because Janet Napolitano did not come from a traditional academic leadership background. She had never been a university president, chancellor, provost, dean, or tenured professor before becoming president of the University of California in 2013."
Her salary was $570,000/year plus a big goodie package.
Ir wanted to know?
Well it’s because they truly believed the only reason there weren’t more minorities in more elite positions of society and academics was because the white man was standing on their heads holding them down. They really believed if they gave them easy access to more reputable positions they would excel just as well as anyone else. But that wasn’t true. Would it have been nice if it were? Sure. But they blamed the wrong cause for the perceived imbalance. First of all, the problem lay at the K-12 levels. Everything is built on a foundation. When that foundation is weak you have to strengthen it before looking to anything else. But that foundation is only strengthened by the community that underlies it. If the community is weak and incompetent, so their schools will be. There’s a reason private schools are used by elites.
Second, the white man actually wasn’t holding them down at all, there just weren’t as many truly capable of that merit. The “why” to that should have been addressed and it wasn’t. Instead, they put lipstick on a pig and said it could do just as good of a job as any other doctor or professor, or whatever. Just give them the same credentials and they will fly! They couldn’t fly at all. That was Obama’s contribution.
"...the problem lay at the K-12 level." Agree.
And this: how many of those poor or minority kids came from fatherless homes? Compared to their white counterparts from the same side of the tracks? It's another factor, not the only one but a big strike against a kid, especially boys.
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Same as are the jab sellers and promoters.
Nearly makes me think the whole deal was a racket.
Steenroid Yep, student debt for decades.
It's the nationwide version of that feminist bookstore in Portland. Once the local college cut their monopoly on the feminist literature required by certain classes, the bookstore went under.
https://www.opb.org/artsandlife/article/in-other-words-portland-oregon-feminist-bookstore-closing/
I find this to be interesting. In other words nobody wants nor needs that 💩
Right?? 😆
Yep, student debt for decades.
Interestingly enough, NBC's "Law and Order" did several episodes back in the day on the consequences of admitting students to universities and private high schools based on "quotas" and "relaxed" admission standards. Needless to say, someone always got murdered.
Hey Jeff, if you haven't heard about this, I would love to hear your lawyer perspective.
https://jennasside.rocks/p/mom-claimed-vaccines-killed-her-babies
This young woman took her 18mo old twins for a scheduled vaxxination and the next day the babies were turning blue and she rushed them to Emergency where they were diagnosed with adverse vaxxine reaction. and 4 days later the babies were dead.
The woman went to RFK Jr's Children's Health Defense for help. She went public with her children's vaxxine tragedy, and now she is in jail charged with murder!
The Evil's spin? The crazy woman murdered her children and is trying to blame it on the vaxxination.
And when Cabal controlled media reports this story, they LEAVE OUT the part about the babies being diagnosed with adverse vaxxine reaction!
This tragic woman's 2 babies died from being vaxxinated and she spoke out, and they put her in jail!
Thoughts Jeff?
"...jump to conclusions based on emotional factors"
Sorry Robird, but when Cabal-controlled media consistently OMITS the crucial fact that the babies were diagnosed with adverse vaxxination reaction, you know this poor woman is being set-up.
And DENIED BAIL?!??
Perfect. No more interviews from Andrea.
UPDATE!
Andrea Shaw was DENIED BAIL!!!
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/idaho-judge-revokes-bail-andrea-shaw-charged-murder-twins-died-8-days-after-vaccines/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
All you have to do is look at the Big Pharma cabal timeline: 1) The mom is the plaintiff in a racketeering case against the AAP. 2) Mom gets arrested and charged with murder a year after her babies die. 3)In lieu of #2, the AAP asks for the case to be dismissed.
The charges come from Boise ID prosecutor after what is described as an extensive investigation, with “ several” autopsies described. Results of the post mortem examination of the children are not released.
Better to wait for clarifying information than jump to conclusions based on emotional factors.
The deaths occurred several days after the ER visit. No information regarding the treatment or follow up instructions, no information as to why the children were released home if they were in critical condition at the time of the visit.
Enough lack of facts to reserve judgement in this case.
Based on the left’s complaints about America and racism, you would think white Caucasian people dominated the globe, but statistics show Caucasians are only about 16% of the world’s population. Since other countries use a grading system, how can anyone believe grades are racist?
Ditto for the Jews who are accused of being responsible for every foul thing happening in the world -- they make up maybe two tenths of one percent of the entire world's population.
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you can't look too hard at any of their slogans or reasoning, because it falls apart at the merest touch.
“The practice of grading literacy performances by a single standard,” Asao wrote, “is racist and White supremacist.”
A prime example of what you just said. This is typical of progressive pronouncements, backed by no evidence whatsoever.
It's more like 8%.
Countries that are primarily white may make up 16% of the world's population, but most of those countries have very large minority groups. The US is down to about 60% white, and less than half of the population under age 18 is white. That's not even counting many longtime illegals or any recent "migrants".
About the only countries that are 80% white or more are in Eastern Europe.
Now let’s move to the next level- holding public schools accountable to 98% graduation rates of kids with sub-8th grade reading and math skills. That’s the biggest fraud happening in America right now.
Great observation. The role of teachers unions and the failures of primary and secondary education under the leadership of AFT I suspect is a significant motivation to eliminate standardized testing and degrade college admission requirements. This is a “ dot” Jeff Childers seems to have passed over. College education failures are the end product of an entirely dysfunctional system starting at the Kindergarten level.
IMHO, the failure starts with graduate schools of Education Administration. These turn out PhDs who run our school districts. They then hire the staff that hires, promotes, and trains teachers. Not sure how much power the local school board has over them...a lot in some cases, but not so much in others. And in any case the school boards are also dominated by Marxists--they just happen to think they are "progressives" never having studied anything important in school!
And yes, the teacher's unions too!
And disinterested parents.
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Happy smoky Thursday here in Michigan. 🔥💨
Happy overcast Thursday here in the PNW! :-)
Mrs. the Knife"
Having thunder and lightning here on the coast; lightning strikes knocked out power in a few places.
I wonder if the storm will reach us here in the Puget Sound area, or will dissipate beforehand? I should check the forecast lol!
Mrs. "the Knife"
Well, I guess that answers that! Just heard a great roll of thunder nearly overhead!
Mrs. "the Knife"
When I lived in the Puget Sound I took all forecasts of 50% chance of rain, and adjusted to 80-90%. Your best chance for dry days is the summer season Pacific high pressure "bubble" that may shunt a summer storm to the North.
Oof - I’m wondering if that smoke will make its way down to NoVA. Yuck! Take care of your lungs! 🙏🏻
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Happy hot and muggy Thursday! 🥵
I prefer temps less than 80° 😉…I’ve got a ways to go for that…
Same.
Hopefully they stop lessening the bar for nurses. When I was teaching, they asked me to make my classes easier because “everyone who wants to make good money being a nurse should be able to.” I refused and my defense was simply, “do you want these unqualified people just wanting a better paying job being responsible for your family members in the hospital? I don’t.” But here we are today. High school students get multiple times to retake tests, and can turn an entire semester of homework in after the term is done and still get an A in the class. I hope they nix that.
My daughter's best friend was shocked in her first college class that she couldn't retake tests. She went all through high school (she went to a trade high school then decided she didn't like her trade so went to college) retaking tests until she passed. She failed out her first semester of college. But she learned from that, buckled down, and now is an accountant in a major company. But her introduction to real education was a shock to her.
When I attended Pace College (now 'University') in the 60s, there was a teacher known for grading using only As and Fs, and he taught a course every BBA student had to take. He was, himself, a Pace graduate and his philosophy was "You're not going to poison the value of MY degree by going out there unprepared!"
To this day, I still use the tools and techniques he honed to a razor's edge in that class.
My wife is a diploma nurse graduate of Kings County School of Nursing, and her 3-year coursework there was strictly sink-or-swim: win or go home. I would risk my life on the judgement of ANY of the (all) girls she graduated with. The BSNs that came out of Hunter College? Not on your life!
As a 3 year diploma nursing grad fifty years ago, can’t agree more!
Excellent!!!
I’m happy not all colleges have lowered the standards in every field!
“If necessary, I’ll draft a bulletproof, non-partisan version.”
I don’t think it will matter to those legions. Their goal is to find fault.
This video by a former military guy schooled in psy ops explains how the US population is being groomed into division.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azE7nqqQMmo
Mrs. RW
Divide and Conquer is the game.
Paranoids are out to get me.
Haven't read all the replies, but just in case no one mentioned it, remind me what is the size of Hahvahd's endowment fund???? Seriously, they need to put their money where their mouth is. They have the largest endowment fund of any university, why do they get any federal or state money at all??? Forget eat the rich, eat the universities!
The universities ARE the rich!
Not THOSE rich. Tsk tsk. 😆
I once added up all the Ivy's endowments...the total just about matches total student debt. Student debt problem solved by tapping those who created it! You're welcome!
57 billion dollars. Nonsense that the cannot devote $250 million per year to research they find compelling and essential. 0.43% of the endowment, not even the earnings at 1% interest per year. But begging for tax dollars. Shameful.
Absolutely disgusting! 57 billion! And can't even imagine how to make up their shortfall 🙄
Grading in higher education is like High School in Lake Woebegone where all students “were above average.”
Good morning! I just picked up my phone, opened your newsletter and when I got to "If necessary, I’ll draft a bulletproof, non-partisan version. They really won’t like that one." I had to stop and go right to comments to say:
Yes! Please!!! Do it!! We need a non-partisan version to go viral like Sophie Cunningham.