Challenging Progressive Policy Week in Education

MIKE LACHANCE SEP 16, 2023 8:00 AM

In some ways, it looks like the pendulum is starting to swing back in the other direction.

• School Board in California Votes to Allow Only State or U.S. Flag to be Flown Over School Buildings
• Washington University ‘Transgender Center’ Will No Longer Prescribe Puberty Blockers or Hormones to Minors
• Ibram X. Kendi’s ‘Anti-Racism’ Think Tank at Boston University Firing a Third of its Employees

In other ways, things look pretty much the same.

• Oberlin College Removes Women’s Lacrosse Coach Who Publicly Claimed College Targeted Her For Objecting To Men Playing Women’s Sports
• Washington College Protesters Shout Down Conservative Princeton Prof’s Speech
• New York Officials: Schools Have a Duty to Put DEI at ‘Center of Their Educational Decisions’

All leftism, all the time.

• Geoscience Students See Field as Too Ableist and Too White, According to Survey
• Academic Paper Suggests Art Therapy Needs ‘Decolonization’
• U. Texas at Austin Students Protest the Elimination of Diversity Offices

Public pressure can change things.

• Law Firm Changes Diversity Award Criteria After Scrutiny
• First Circuit Court of Appeals Hears Oral Argument in School Secret Social Transitioning Case

The amount just keeps going up.

• Columbia Prof Wants Education System to Pay $2 Trillion in Reparations for Blacks

Why should they have to do that?

• Harvard Prof Says Students in the Military Keep Silent About Service to Avoid Backlash From Classmates

What a horrible development.

• UPenn to Host Anti-Israel Hate Fest During Jewish Holidays

Right out of a horror movie.

• Man Pleads Guilty to Buying and Selling Human Body Parts Linked to Havard Medical School Scandal

This is awesome.

• Murray State College to Offer Bachelor’s Degree in Gunsmithing

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