Education

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Beware what follows Bob.

By Justin Katz | February 9, 2022 |

Bob Walsh, who has been the executive director of the National Education Association of Rhode Island as long as many of us have been paying attention, or even been present in the state, has announced his impending retirement. Some on the conservative side are understandably happy to hear the news, but I’d caution a bit…

Romeo and Juliet

Once you go deplorable, you’ll know that we’re adorable.

By Justin Katz | February 8, 2022 |

To begin with, let me apologize for the subject line.  Once it occurred to me, I couldn’t let it go. If you’re of a certain age, you may recognize the sexual undertones of the phrase, which I began thinking about after stumbling across a Twitter exchange between apparent progressive Liz Gledhill and known conservative Nicole…

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Politics This Week with John DePetro: Old Disguises Wearing Thin

By Justin Katz | February 7, 2022 |

John DePetro and Justin Katz talk about the ways in which people are beginning to see through Rhode Island insiders.

A water drop and ripples

The pizza assignment is an unlabeled example of “pleasure-based sex ed.”

By Justin Katz | February 7, 2022 |

Erika Sanzi shared a post on Parents Defending Education about a school assignment to teach kids about sexual consent.  Working in groups, students design a pizza that their partners will like by communicating with non-verbal cues.  Everybody likes cheese, but not everybody will want olives.  Here’s step number two: “Now mirror these preferences in relation…

Justine Caldwell, House Education, 2/2/22

Representative Caldwell and Senator Mack are lying to their colleagues and to Rhode Island about sex ed.

By Justin Katz | February 4, 2022 |

About one hour and fifty-five minutes into Wednesday’s hearing of the Rhode Island House Education Committee, Democrat Representative Justine Caldwell (East and West Greenwich) jumped in with her cat from the comfort of her home to ask Democrat Senator Tiara Mack (Providence) a question about “pleasure-based sex education” legislation, of which Mack is obviously a…

A water drop and ripples

Rep. Kislak is playing the standard, destructive Marxist game.

By Justin Katz | February 3, 2022 |

Online and in testimony, enough people spoke out against legislation that would mandate the sexual grooming of school children that legislators clearly felt the heat.  To my experience, they often sign onto these bills with next-to-no thought — like people signing a meaningless petition on their way into the local pharmacy.  “What’s this do? OK,…

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Is the General Assembly setting up schools to groom children for pedophiles?

By Justin Katz | February 2, 2022 |

If that question seems like hyperbole, think it through. Either our legislators are deeply sick or criminally susceptible to manipulation by people who are.

Luca Signorelli, The Preaching of the Antichrist

Don’t Ivy League professors understand the power of ideas implicitly?

By Justin Katz | January 31, 2022 |

Brown sociology professor Hilary LevyFriedman presents us with an interesting philosophical and sociological question: Like, seriously: “Not a single kid has died in a mass reading, yet they’re banning books instead of guns.” As far as I can tell, the quoted text is an uncited retweet of BlackKnight10k, whose deep insight has had a healthy…

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The American Federation of Teachers is abusing its access to children for politics.

By Justin Katz | January 28, 2022 |

Parents and other Americans have plenty of reasons to oppose the activities of teachers unions, but Randi Weingarten and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is adding one more, and it’s a doozy of abuse of access: In a partnership announced this week, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) said it will purchase licensed copies…

North Kingstown's redacted equity audit

Why are North Kingstown schools afraid to share their anti-racist plans?

By Justin Katz | January 27, 2022 |

Secrecy and radicalism in North Kingstown’s equity agenda suggests that parents are being deceived and their children’s education is being undermined for an ideological goal.