Barrington
I’ve been railing for years against the public policy inclination coming down from the state Department of Education to have schools actively lie to parents about their children’s expressed gender identity. Social media can sometimes give the impression that the tide is turning, and it may be, but we should expect progressive strongholds in Rhode…
John DePetro and Justin Katz review the ominous signs of change in Rhode Island.
An entirely plausible interpretation of events sounds crazy, suggesting we all have an interest in pushing back and enforcing accountability for those who’ve brought us to this point.
Barrington resident William Jacobson has an update on his Legal Insurrection site about the growing pushback of parents against the school department’s decision to reduce academic opportunities for advanced students. The content is somewhat encouraging. Jacobson notes the national attention the story is attracting, provides video from a school committee meeting that shows more than the…
We hear that “parents [in Barrington] are really upset,” but they’re not nearly upset enough.
John and Justin marvel at the inability of RI insiders to address the obvious problems facing the people they say they represent.
The Omicron count has begun in Rhode Island! One: The case was detected in a woman in her 20s who lives in Providence County. The individual recently returned to Rhode Island from New York and had previously completed their primary vaccination series. She did not receive a booster shot, according to the health department. Two:…
Welcome to modern America (or Rhode Island, at least). An unspecified “threatening message” in a girls’ bathroom at Barrington High School has cautious administrators increasing the presence of police until the schools dismiss for Christmas break. In turn, panicked teens are getting themselves on television by petitioning for distance learning because they are (some say)…
Identity politics is a great destroyer. Not only does it pit neighbor against neighbor based on superficial qualities like skin color, but it acts as an ideological litmus test. To its practitioners, one either bends the knee or is non-personned as a “hater.” Look at what’s happening in Barrington. This is from a Sarah Doiron…
Parents Defending Education has released the Barrington school department’s response to its Access to Public Records Act (APRA) request concerning some teachers’ encouraging students to testify on a bill that seeks to ban Critical Race Theory (CRT) in Rhode Island schools: It appears from the documents that the administration was completely unaware both that students…