Failing at the Basics Week in Education

MIKE LACHANCE OCT 5, 2024 8:00 AM

While students are being force fed a steady diet of social justice and DEI, they’re not getting the basics. This is a problem.

• Walz’s Minnesota: Almost 70 Percent of Eighth Graders Not Proficient in Math
• Profs at Elite Colleges Shocked to Learn Students ‘Don’t Know How’ to Read Books

Maybe this is part of the problem.

• Supposedly ‘Family Friendly’ Furry Group Meets at Southern Illinois U.
• Faculty Members at Arizona State U. Condemn ‘White Ownership’ of Shakespeare
• School in Washington State Gets Tagged With Swastika, Principal Calls it a ‘Symbol of Peace’

The Equal Protection Project is becoming very active.

• Our Legal Challenge To UVA BIPOC-Only Program: “It’s Indefensible in 2024 to be Discriminating Against Somebody on the Basis of Their Skin Color”
• U. Virginia BIPOC Alumni-Student Mentoring Program Challenged By Equal Protection Project
• Equal Protection Project Calls On American Bar Association To Fully Comply With SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling

This is still happening.

• Portland State U. Considers Divestment After Anti-Israel Protesters Trash School Library
• Harvard’s Antisemitism Problem is Worse Than Most People Know
• Protesters at UC-Berkeley Shout Down Conservative Israeli Lawmaker’s Talk

Some schools are now going neutral.

• New Stanford President Declares ‘University’s Purpose is Not Political Action or Social Justice’
• Anti-Israel Students Object to Yale’s ‘Institutional Neutrality’ Proposal

This looks like the beginning of something.

• Boise State U. Women’s Volleyball Team Forfeits Game Against Opposing Team With Male Player
• More College Female Volleyball Teams Won’t Play San Jose State Due to Male Player

This guy again?

• Columbia Student Suspended For Saying Be Grateful He’s Not ‘Murdering Zionists’ Now Suing for Anti-Palestinian Bias

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