The Elephant in the Room Week in Education

MIKE LACHANCE JAN 13, 2024 8:00 AM

There was a common theme in quite a few stories this week. See how long it takes for you to notice it.

• Antisemitic Slurs Yelled at Jewish Players Cause Cancelation of Girls’ High School Basketball Game in Yonkers, NY
• Prominent MIT Jewish Computer Scientist Resigns, Citing Anti-Semitism
• Jewish Students Sue Harvard for ‘Enabling Antisemitism’ on Campus

The problem is everywhere.

• Dept. of Education Investigating Brown U. for Alleged Discrimination Against Jewish Students
• Social Media Posts Bashing Israel And Implying Jews “Weaponized Their Religion” Lead To Call For Barrington (RI) School and DEI Committee Member To Resign
• George Washington U. Prof Accused of Anti-Semitism Leaves School, Takes New Job in Qatar

The Claudine Gay saga continues.

• The Claudine Gay Story is Exposing the Truth About DEI
• Confirmed: Claudine Gay Forced Out at Harvard Because Of Plagiarism Scandal, Not Campus Antisemitism

So true.

• Conservatives in Academia “have been purged not so much by firing, but by not hiring”

Legal Insurrection gets results!

• NYU “Permanently Discontinued” Discriminatory Whites-Only “Anti-Racist” Parent Program After Equal Protection Project Legal Challenge

The left has learned nothing.

• Johns Hopkins Medicine Backtracks After Diversity Official Labels Whites, Males, Christians, and Others as ‘Privileged’
• U. Michigan Spending Over $30 Million Annually on 500+ DEI Jobs
• Middle Tennessee State U. Names Coordinator for Its Social Justice Journalism Concentration

She sure thinks a lot of herself.

• Nikole Hannah-Jones Gloats After 1619 Project Documentary Wins an Emmy Award

This is going to happen again.

• NYC Forcing Brooklyn Students to Go Remote as City Moves Nearly 2,000 Illegal Immigrants Into High School

We need more people to do it.

• Glenn Reynolds: Bill Ackman Frightening Leftists Because He’s Holding Universities Accountable

A wall you say?

• UC-Berkeley Builds a Wall to Keep Out Protesters Who Object to Construction of New Residence Hall

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