America Has An Existential Civics Education Crisis That More ‘Civics Education’ Will Only Make Worse
“So 'allowing alternative teacher certification' and banning CRT may be the best recommendations in the report. But we need a heck of a lot more. Republicans have been appointed watchmen against these kinds of threats by their voters for decades, only to sleep while anti-American barbarians have taken over the country.” - The Federalist, 6/14/21
The Revolt against Left-Wing Schooling
“For conservatives, too, this newer revision of American history threatens their own view of what good public schools can do, which is to help students from diverse backgrounds cohere as a people. Instead, this education is taken to be an attempt to further enjoin students into mutual antagonisms, or to pronounce that they are permanently locked into these by the American system itself. No wonder conservatives find it 'demoralizing.' That seems to be the point.” - National Review, 6/14/21
Supreme Court Seeks Biden Administration Views on Harvard Admissions Policies
“The Supreme Court asked the Biden administration to weigh in on a legal challenge to Harvard University’s race-conscious undergraduate admissions policies. The justices, in a brief written order on Monday, asked the U.S. Solicitor General’s office to submit the federal government’s views on an appeal that argued Harvard unlawfully discriminated against Asian-American applicants.” - Wall Street Journal, 6/14/21
Why It’s Impossible To Teach History Only Using ‘The Facts’
“There’s not anything essentially wrong with spending more time discussing racial or social history. If done professionally and factually, it’s still history. But it also means students will get less of other forms of history (typically political, military, religious, or economic), many of which are necessary to understand their nation’s story as it relates to their duties as citizens.” - The Federalist, 6/14/21
The Money Not Everyone Wants
“California Community College system budget officers are at odds with faculty members and their union over what is usually a cause for celebration -- an increase in state funding. Faculty members are in favor of a budget proposal by the state Legislature that includes $170 million for the hiring of 2,000 full-time faculty members, which would make the system less reliant on adjunct instructors. But the system’s number crunchers are wary about the long-term implications of such a funding decision.” - Inside Higher Ed, 6/14/21
Stith: “The Best Community College System In the Country”
“In the past year, the North Carolina Community College system said goodbye to one president and gained another. After former president Peter Hans took up his new role as the head of the University of North Carolina system, the community college system began its search for a new leader. In December 2020, Thomas Stith was elected to be that new leader. Stith officially began his work as the community college system president on January 11.” - The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, 6/14/21
Loudoun County Parents Rally Against Critical Race Theory ‘Indoctrination’
“There is a war in Loudoun County, Virginia, but no troops are on the ground. Instead, parents and teachers are fighting for the next generation amid a critical race theory clash that has boiled over into a national controversy. Like-minded community members, with planning help from The Heritage Foundation and Parents Against Critical Race Theory, came together Saturday to sign petitions, wave signs, deliver speeches, and connect with one another for an 'Education, Not Indoctrination' rally.” - The Federalist, 6/14/21
The Imperative of A Boring Judiciary
“If we really are in a jurisprudential or political crisis, the answer lies among our laws’ authors: our legislators and, frankly, us, the people who elect them. Our failures have been aggravated by judges who think they know better, engaging in illegitimate lawmaking masquerading as textual interpretation. But the solution is not more illegitimate lawmaking.” - Law & Liberty, 6/14/21
Anatomy of the Woke Madness
“Do we revert to the norms of the civil rights movement where the content of our character alone matters, not the color of our skin? Or have we sunk so deeply into the woke quicksands, that we cannot thrash our way up to the air, and thus suffocate from the ancient pressures of the bog that have always destroyed civilizations?” - American Greatness, 6/13/21
We can’t fight racism if Whites see any remedy as a threat and an insult
“But the racial equity controversy also illustrates the unwillingness of many Whites to tolerate even modest efforts to account for racial discrimination in America, past and present. It’s an unmistakable example of 'White fragility,' the intense discomfort that many Whites feel at any suggestion that we have benefited from our race, or that we harbor unconscious racist attitudes instilled by a predominantly White culture.” - Washington Post, 6/13/21
Perhaps you missed the anti-Israel disruption at UC Irvine this week.
As a part-time teacher at UC Irvine 1998- 2016, I observed her incompetence. The problem didn’t start under her tenure, but she has done nothing to improve the climate for Jewish students on her campuses in the face of the anti-semitic onslaught brought on by pro-Palestinian thugs. Last Wednesday night was the latest example when Students for Justice in Palestine, Muslim Student Union and others once again disrupted a pro-Israel event. It’s all on videotape.
Conservatives should cheer whatever Middlebury or CMC do or do not do as regards punishment. These are, after all, private institutions. Alumni contributors, future applicants to the schools, and prospective employers will mete out their own punishments in the future. This is as it should be.
Those bastards!!!
Are there any sources for the information on the students’ sanctions? Every university I’ve worked at has been bound by FERPA and getting the outcome of conduct sanctions out of them literally took a court order.
If I was not so lazy, I would look up much worse punishments that students have received simply for supporting Trump or his wall.
If your parents are paying $61,917 per year, there really should be no stifling while junior is roughing up two or more professors in the parking lot.
It’s even worse than that — it’s a pro-forma opposition to criminal thuggery when it is employed to advance a desired political agenda. Yes, money speaks, we’ve all seen it, but this is something different and far more sinister.
It’s not even “blaming the victim” as much as having contempt for the victim.
A temporary letter? The Middlebury administration is a lot tougher than I expected them to be.