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May 19, 2023

The Morning Report — 5/19/23

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Good morning, kids. They're coming for your children, and the way things are going you can add "on" and "in" to that first preposition. When you consider the absolute corruption that has allowed those with whom we had put our trust in, either via our votes or via our taxes, to protect our lives, our property and our freedoms, to then use that power to, for all intents and purposes enslave us, you have to wonder how that happened.

Hence, that first sentence. Is it nature, nurture or some combination of both that spawns individuals like Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray (in Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants' case, he's the way he is because someone peed in his mom instead of ejaculating, and that was before the dementia kicked in, but I digress). I'll go with the combo, but for sure without the nurture part of it, that is the almost 60 years of ever-increasing brainwashing and indoctrination in the schools, this country would be a much different place.

As it is, it's a miracle that we still have parents in this country who have led the way in revolting against the brainwashing machine, the shining example being Virginia. Which is why the junta at the highest levels colluded with the NASB to have the Justice Department, a name that can now officially be categorized as Orwellian, declare parents who dared speak out as "domestic terrorists."

Despite the constant haranguing that we need to spend more on education, that we're not spending enough on education, the fact is the more we have thrown at education – and since the 60s, it's got to be in the high hundreds of billions by now – the dumber and more anti-social children have become. This is especially true in the biggest of the big blue cities and states. Yet we always get the same tired bromide that red states and towns in "flyover country" have kids that are inbred morons because they don't spend enough or tax enough to pay for good schools. This is total bullshit as the test scores in basic skills show all too clearly. But I digress. At the same time, the teachers unions have become arguably the most powerful Democrat political lobbying group in the nation. Probably as big or bigger than any corporation or K-Street lobbying group. I'm sure that's merely a coincidence, right?

None of this is by accident. It is absolutely intentional. In the immortal words of Vladdy Lenin:

"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."

Well, Randi Weingarten and her predecessors and fellow travelers, most especially Billy Ayers have had well over 50. And now their foot soldiers are getting testy.

Democrat New Hampshire state Rep. Tommy Hoyt lashed out at a parent who urged him to support a proposed parents bill of rights in the Granite State this week, telling the person to “shut up.”

A “parent of four” emailed Hoyt imploring him to pass SB 272, a bill that seeks to establish a parents bill of rights that would prevent public schools from withholding information about their children, the NH Journal reported Thursday.

Hoyt responded to the message angrily, arguing that the [Chinese] COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that parents are “incompetent teachers” and shouldn’t be involved in their children’s education.

“Do you know why children’s results tanked during [Chinese] COVID. Their parents were incompetent teachers. Do your children a favor, let the teachers teach, and shut up. You’re clearly no professional,” Hoyt emailed the parent. 

The New Hampshire lawmaker confirmed the authenticity of the message to the NH Journal, telling the outlet he” probably could have used better words.”  

“The way I feel is that children’s test scores in school performance dropped off drastically was because they didn’t have teachers. And the parents that thought, ‘We can replace them and can tell them what to do,’ was not effective,” he explained. . .

. . . Corey DeAngelis, a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children, notes in a tweet that Hoyt is endorsed by the National Education Association — the largest labor union in the US — and won his seat in the statehouse by a mere 18 votes last year. 

Hoyt’s response to the concerned parent is reminiscent of former Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe’s 2022 campaign blunder, when he said in the final debate, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”

Republican Glenn Youngkin, whose campaign centered on education and parents’ rights, would go on to defeat McAuliffe in a state [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden won by 10 points. 

"Could have used better words . . . " had he known his actual words would be made public. In other words, "'Fuck you!', he explained." "Let the teachers teach and shut up." Well what the actual fuck are the teachers teaching? That America is illegitimate and inherently evil? Ditto if you're white, male, Christian and Jewish? Ditto free market capitalism? Ditto if you believe there are only two genders and that forcibly ripping the balls and boobs off your boy and girl and swapping them out is not normal? And on and on and on?

It's funny, as in disgusting, that they went after the parents in Virginia, and yet this is happening and . . . crickets.

In the small Colorado town of Woodland Park, nestled on Pikes Peak’s north slope, only 28.6 percent of students scored at grade level in math last year. Just 45.3 percent can read at grade level. So after taking over 18 months ago, the conservative school board immediately sought to recoup the learning loss.

But district leadership is now under siege — facing a deluge of integrated attacks from teachers unions resisting the board’s reform efforts. As the local union awaited a “crisis” designation and funding from the Colorado Education Association (CEA) — which recently condemned capitalism — other allied unions were coming to their aid.

Strangely, national legacy media are weighing in too. NBC News is setting up this school district as a poster child for “experiment(s) in conservative governance.” As reformers mount similar efforts to win and maintain school boards nationwide, they must watch the teachers union playbook unfolding in the Rocky Mountains. . .

. . . Let’s be clear: NBC News is exploiting controversy over education reforms in small-town America for its own agenda — misrepresenting and omitting key details to generate a false narrative of malintent and suspicion. But to what end? . . .

. . . Make no mistake: Union power over Woodland Park Schools has been unjustifiably strong for too long. That influence is diminishing and educational success in conservative Woodland Park jeopardizes their very existence. Teachers unions depend upon educational failures to expand membership, cement political power, and advance ideological agendas. . .

. . . The CEA resolution isn’t just a political statement. It affirms the anti-free-market mindset of the teachers unions, which oppose school choice and charters. Their resistance to a successful Merit Academy is a case in point. Why be concerned if you have a superior product?

Let’s be real: Any model exposing their failures is a threat. Capitalistic competition is deemed unacceptable to teachers unions because they simply aren’t about the kids. As longtime union boss Albert Shanker infamously said, “When school children start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of school children.”

That’s why teachers unions and national media care about Woodland Park, Colorado. If they successfully thwart this school board’s efforts to prioritize academic achievement, cut out ideological agendas, and address learning loss, it will signal that it’s open season on reform-minded school boards everywhere.

There's this article, "Uneducating America" from City Journal, that notes "The latest NAEP scores show that the nation’s youth are painfully ignorant about U.S. history and civics." Well, that's a feature not a bug.

Garland, Wray and all the others from previous generations at least have the knowledge of what our government, history and society have historically been, if not the respect for it, which had been burned out of their minds and souls long ago by the fires of lust for power and greed. Subsequent generations are being denied that knowledge because without it, they become that much easier to control.

As I said, it is a miracle that parents in Virginia and now even in Colorado have woken (pun intended) up. We shall see what happens next.

Have a good weekend. See you on the hobby thread tomorrow. Be there. Aloha.

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