Dumb and Dumber (Nos. 85 & 86)

Watching the Education Apocalypse in Slow Motion

DUMB & DUMBER 85

K-12 EDITION

APPARENTLY NEW YORK CITY HAS A REAL ZOMBIE PROBLEM:

• Night of the Living Ed: Zombie Public Schools, Drained of Pandemic Lifeblood, Haunt the Land

• Moms horrified by zombie-like addicts at NYC-run drug injection site across from pre-school

NEWS FLASH: THERE IS NO RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MONEY AND EDUCATION: Test Scores Continue Slump Despite Billions In Federal Funding To Prevent Learning Loss

SANITY REGAINED: Alaska High School Sports Association Bars Boys From Competing On Girls’ Teams

DUMBING DOWN EDUCATION TO THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR: ‘We’re Not Fixing Anything’: School District Split Over Cutting Honors Classes For ‘Racial Equity’

AMERICA’S GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE NOT ONLY IMMORAL, BUT THEY ARE INCOMPETENT AND CORRUPT AS WELL. Schools Spent Millions In COVID Bucks On Educational Software. It Was Barely Used

AND YOU ARE SENDING YOUR CHILDREN TO GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS . . . WHY? They are nothing but indoctrination factories: Blue State Officials Vote To Shove ‘Climate Change’ Education Into Math Class

AT WHAT POINT DO YOU SAY, “ENOUGH”? School allegedly forces girl, 11, into same bed with boy

SUE UNTIL THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS SAY “UNCLE”: School district won't display straight-pride flag alongside Progress Pride flag, dad sues

THIS IS WHY THEY’RE CALLED GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS: Woke 'weaponization': Biden threatens school lunch money

THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SYSTEM IS A NATIONAL DISGRACE: U.S. students' math scores plunge in global education assessment

AT THIS POINT, YOU MIGHT AS WELL HOMESCHOOL: Florida school district adding 4-day weekends to help increase student attendance

THE WHOLE THING IS IMPLODING: Teachers are quitting in droves because they’re scared of student violence — and a lack of punishment.

THE REDNECK INTELLECTUAL DOESN’T WRITE THE HEADLINES, HE JUST REPORT THE NEWS: “Grooming? Woke Schools Brainwash Kids Using the Same Tactics Deployed by Pedophiles.”

GOOD: “Publisher Aims To Fight Indoctrination Through Children’s Biographical Books About ‘Heroes Of Liberty’.”

HOMESCHOOLING EDITION

ANOTHER REASON INCLUDES THAT PARENTS DON’T WANT THEIR CHILDREN EXPOSED TO THE NEGATIVE “SOCIALIZATION” THAT GOES ON IN THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS (AND WHO SAID “SOCIALIZATION” WAS A VIRTUE, ANYWAY?): Nearly Half Of Homeschool Parents Cite ‘Liberal’ Public Schools As Motivating Factor: POLL

HIGHER ED EDITION

ANALYSIS CORRECT: HATRED OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION STOKES THE CAMPUS ANTISEMITISM CRISIS

HOW MUCH FURTHER IN THE SEWER CAN AMERICA’S UNIVERSITIES GO: UCSD’s Marxist-inspired Che Café accused of being haven for sexual predators.

THE HARD PART WAS GETTING IN, AND THAT’S IT: Nearly 80% Of Yale Grades Were A’s

GRADE INFLATION IS EVERYWHERE: HBCU Professor Fired For Complaining About Grade Inflation

I’VE ALWAYS ADMIRED, AT LEAST IN THEORY, THE IDEA IF NOT THE REALITY BEHIND DEEP SPRINGS COLLEGE: “Deep Springs College brings rigorous academics to a ranch in the high California desert.”

YES, THIS IS A PROBLEM: “When Academic Freedom Proves a One-Way Street.”

HARVARD IS NOW IN A STATE OF REPUTATIONAL DEFLATION:

• Early admissions at Harvard down 17% amid increased antisemitism on campus

• Students rejecting early Harvard acceptance as antisemitism stigma plagues Ivy League institution

MY FUNERAL ORATION FOR HARVARD (in case you missed it last week): Au Revoir, Harvard

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DUMB & DUMBER 86

K-12 EDITION

I’D BET THE HOUSE THAT THERE WILL BE AN ESCALATION. It’s coming and you can’t stop it. To repeat for the 4,958 time, you CANNOT reform the government schools: ‘Expect Escalation’ in Left’s Desire to Control American Kids and Institutions

YES, AND A COMPLETE SEPARATION OF SCHOOL AND STATE IS BETTER THAN SCHOOL CHOICE: School Choice Is Better for Democracy Than Government Schooling

CORRECT. Parents Who Object to Pornographic Material in School Libraries Aren’t ‘Book Banners’

THE FIELD OF PSYCHIATRY HAS BECOME VODDO MEDICINE—ONLY WORSE! 'Disturbing Gibberish': New Trans Textbook For Psychiatrists Could Harm Millions Of Kids, Critics Say

DON’T WORRY, BE HAPPY! Buy hey, pretty sure the kids know how to put condoms on cucumbers. ‘Educational Homicide’ Zero Students Proficient In Math At 40% Of Baltimore High Schools

THE COLLAPSE OF THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SYSTEM IS COMING SOONER THAN YOU THINK: San Francisco Public School Has 11 Students, Spends $75,000 On Each

WHAT ONE WORD WOULD YOU USE TO DESCRIBE THIS TEACHER? Teacher Ignores Law to Indoctrinate Kids with LGBT Book, Gets Brutal Notice from State's Board of Education

RACISM NEVER ENDS WELL: “Parents Defending Education Files Civil Rights Complaint Over Middle School’s Plans For Racially Segregated ‘Affinity Groups’.”

FIRST THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS WERE DIAGNOSING YOUNG BOYS WITH ADHD/ADD AND THEN HAVING THEM PUT ON RITALIN.  AND NOW THIS: “‘Metastasizing Like A Cancer’ — Parents Across The Country Sue Schools Over Clandestine Transitions.”

HOMESCHOOLING EDITION

DISGRACEFUL! Biden Admin Set To Deport German Family Who Sought Asylum After Being Persecuted For Homeschooling

HIGHER ED EDITION

OH, OH!!! Methinks someone might be in a wee bit of trouble:

• Is Claudine Gay a Plagiarist? (This is no longer a question. We now know the answer, and it’s “yes.”)

• ‘Fraudulent’: Alan Dershowitz Reveals How Claudine Gay Ascended To Harvard’s Presidency

• Harvard covered up a secret plagiarism probe into president Claudine Gay during antisemitism storm — threatened The Post.

TIME TO TRANSFER: POLL: Nearly 3 in 4 Jewish students report experiencing anti-Semitism following Hamas attack.

CHANGE. And it all started with Tweets from Christopher Rufo, Chris Brunet, and yours truly: Is the pushback against the bigots in academia finally and actually becoming real?

HARVARD IS A JOKE, A VERY CRUEL JOKE: Harvard student unleashes on 'toxic culture' after decision to keep president

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION. You do know, right, that America’s universities are full of third-rate academics who are FOOT soldiers on the “long march through the institutions”? GWU faculty ignore Hamas atrocities, defend attack on Israel: ‘Right of resistance’.

DEFUND THE SO-CALLED “IVY LEAGUE”: College presidents expose the moral rot within their institutions.

END ALL TAXPAYER FUNDING TO HIGHER ED. THE SO-CALLED “IVY LEAGUE” IS INTELLECTUALLY CORRUPT AND MORALLY BANKRUPT. The so-called “Ivy League” is and has been damaging American culture for 60 years: Elite universities grew endowments by $65 billion while raking in taxpayer cash.

• Related: Higher Ed Has Become a Threat to America: Our corrupt, radical universities feed every scourge from censorship and crime to antisemitism.

WELL OF COURSE THEY ARE: Students for Justice in Palestine’s antisemitic rallies at UW-Madison claim to be 'part of' Hamas Operations

STRONGLY RECOMMENDING THAT YOU READ THIS ESSAY BY GLENN REYNOLDS (AKA INSTAPUNDIT). It’s really quite excellent: Reverse Speech Codes Aren’t the Answer: Fighting Campus Hate and Anti-Semitism at the Roots of the Problem.

THE SO-CALLED “IVY LEAGUE” PRESIDENTS ARE JUST A MUSH OF INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL CONFUSION: PRESIDENT MAGILL: GIVING ADMINS EVEN MORE POWER OVER FREE SPEECH AT PENN IS A TERRIBLE IDEA

HE QUESTION PRETTY MUCH ANSWERS ITSELF: Is Ivy League university “leadership” morally bankrupt? Bill Ackman says, Congressional hearing removes all doubt.

SWEET: UPenn loses $100,000,000 donation after president's testimony on antisemitism

DOES THAT SEEM RIGHT TO YOU: Elite universities grew endowments by $65 billion while raking in taxpayer cash.

Merry Christmas!!!