UN Spotlights Radical Mahmoud Khalil As Keynote Speaker at UN Education Conference

August 20, 2025 — bunkerville

The United Nations wants every girl in the world to know that the true purpose of education is to prepare for revolution. And we give the UN $18 billion for this nonsense.

  • US Contribution:
    The US is the largest single contributor to the UN, providing $18.1 billion in 2022, according to The Heritage Foundation. This includes both assessed and voluntary contributions. The UN’s total funding exceeds $74 billion, with the US being the largest contributor. 
     
    As it marks its 80th year, the United Nations is facing a major budget shortfall. The situation could worsen as the United States – the UN’s largest funder and debtor – reassesses its ties to the organization.Jul 31, 2025

I know Trump has his hands full right now,  but before his time runs out, could we please have him address the whole UN nonsense? He is the man for the job.

From  Hot Air:

UN-Backed Feminist Education Program Features Syrian Mahmoud Khalil Praising Terrorist Icon and Urging Student “Revolution”

A refresher on this Muslim fellow first: After more than three months in ICE detention, Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil returned home to the New York area after a federal judge ordered his release. NBC News’ Maya Eaglin has more.

Earlier this week, I attended Transform Education’s From Classrooms to Revolution, featuring Columbia University’s Mahmoud Khalil.

What’s troubling is that Transform Education is part of UNGEI, the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative. Instead of focusing on education, the event promoted student “revolution” as a moral duty and necessity. 

Khalil praised PFLP terrorist Ghassan Kanafani as an inspiration, framed education as “resistance,” and lauded Columbia’s militant campus activism and mutual aid networks that supported students during arrests. He described carving protest chants into his prison bunk, hailed students as the “moral compass” of radical change, and even preached about “positive masculinity.” 

Quotes by Kanafani:

“Imperialism has layed its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin America. Wherever you strike it, you damage it, and you serve the World Revolution.”

Given the militancy of Columbia’s protests, it’s alarming that a women’s education program would choose Khalil as its keynote speaker.

Now I remember a time when education was presented as transformative, but the transformation was supposed to be internal to the student. Before one went out into the world to transform it, young people needed to expand their own minds, learn how to think and analyze, understand the complexities of history, and learn how to think in general. 

Khalil was famously the spokesman for the Columbia student “occupiers” who vandalized the campus and harassed Jews. His icons are Marxists, and his goal is to decolonize the West. 

How very UN of him. 

On top of it all, the very idea that the United Nations is promoting revolution is bizarre. It is, after all, an organization of sovereign nations. It happily includes some of the worst regimes in the world and even gives them spots on its human rights commissions, so it would be interesting to have the Secretary General specify exactly which countries the UN is trying to foment revolutions in. 

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PA Governor Shapiro Awards $5 Million to Philadelphia Mosque Amid Controversy.

April 8, 2025 — bunkerville

The media’s darling, Pennsylvania’s Governor Josh Shapiro makes a surprise move. The media often speculates that Shapiro would have been a much better choice in running against Trump last fall. Whenever his name appears in the press, the prefix usually starts “popular” Josh Shapiro. Now in this eye opening move, he grants big bucks to the fans of Islam, an important decision in his desire to ride the wave to the 2028 Presidential race. What we need in PA is more Muslim schools. Sure. Especially give this money to fund a school in a mosque that is already controversial.

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has awarded Philadelphia’s Al-Aqsa Islamic Society a $5 million grant from the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program, marking the largest grant under the program awarded to a Muslim organization to date.

According to WHYY, Shapiro announced the grant at an iftar dinner on March 25 at the organization, telling a few dozen community members that organizations such as Al-Aqsa “are more important than ever before” as “we’re facing tumult overseas, and we’re facing a lot of rising hate here at home.”

Shapiro said, “So I’m really proud that we’ve been able to work together with your leaders here to invest $5 million in making this place an even greater center of activity in the community.”

Chairman of the board of Al-Aqsa Islamic Society Asif Hussain said that one goal for the funds is to expand the center’s school. The group is looking to add classrooms and teachers to meet local demand, and increase attendance from 300 to 3,000. Source

Here is a portion from the transcript of the video below from the

Pakistani American News:

However, this decision has sparked controversy due to past incidents involving the mosque. In 2020, sermons delivered by guest Imam Abdelmohsen Abouhatab contained antisemitic remarks, referring to Jews as “the vilest of all people” and labeling them “enemies of Allah.” The Al-Aqsa leadership promptly condemned these statements and collaborated with the Anti-Defamation League to address the issue.

Governor Shapiro, who is Jewish, emphasized his commitment to inclusivity and support for the Muslim community during a recent iftar dinner at the mosque. He stated, “I’ve got their back and I’m going to protect them and I’m going to do everything in my power to ensure that their rights are protected here in the commonwealth.”

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Hundreds Of UCLA Students Convert to Islam; Attend Massive Group Prayer to Allah

May 3, 2024 — bunkerville

It’ll be interesting when the kids find out Muslims aren’t too keen on multiple genders, queer identities, dope, alcohol and promiscuous scantily dressed women.

Wait til they find out how they treat women and the death sentence that comes with leaving.

Another comment:

They‘re not “converting”, they’re participating in the group-think of the crowd. They’re desperate to belong. Give them a quick trip to Iran or Afghanistan & they’ll learn quickly their “free-minded” beliefs won’t fly w/Islamists – no rights for women, no gays or trans allowed, no free speech, ….

H/T: Townhall

Treatment of women by the Taliban - Wikipedia

Just before police officers moved in and dismantled defiant pro-terrorism protest encampments at UCLA, students said Muslim prayers as the sun set over the campus. 

The pro-terrorism students chanted “Allahu akbar” during the prayer and chanted “Allah is the greatest” of all gods.   

From the Tweet:

This is not a university in some Islamic country. This prayer was held at UCLA in California. Perhaps some think this is a harmless prayer, something that we can understand as freedom of religion. And just that is a mistake that could destroy the West.

I note the women have caught on that they are to sit together in the back.

For anyone interested in how the world is viewing the student unrest I will share a couple of reports. The news oozes with the opinion of the U.S. is cracking down on students and against free speech. But it gets even worse.

Meanwhile the world is incensed with Biden’s latest stumble. Biden insults two of our most important allies and friends. Japan and India. Xenophobic he says, this after all the trouble Europe and the U.S. are having over our out of control immigration policies. This was one of the kinder reactions out there in the foreign media. Some are actually calling him senile.

‘Not A Joke, India Is…’ Biden Humiliates India, Triggers Massive Criticism | Details-

Times of India

 

Back to our story-

No where is there descriptive discussion of the attacks on Jewish students that caused the crack down finally. It was the violence. Not the banning of Free Speech! 

This from the British “The Telegraph.” I expected more from them. This was the before the police were finally called in a day or two later. Yet the headline?

‘Horrific acts of violence’ erupt with police at UCLA pro-Palestine protest

From Germany.. a bit more balanced with comments regarding the Jewish students plight. Yet then launch a couple of women saying how peaceful the whole thing was.

Of course we should expect the regular haters, China and Iran, but it doesn’t stop there. The world is watching.

From India:

Biden Red Faced As Iran, China Cite Campus ‘Rights’ Violations; ‘Don’t Need Lessons…’

China and Iran slam the Biden administration over worsening human rights abuse in the United States as pro-Palestine protests grapple several universities. Both, China and Iran condemn Biden Govt for suppressing pro-Palestine demonstrators using brute force. Biden spokesperson hits back at China and Iran saying U.S not interested in taking a human rights lesson from the Iranian regime, or the People’s Republic of China for that matter.

U.S. On The Boil: Iran Pounces On Biden After India’s Jibe As Palestine Protests Grip Universities

The usual suspects.

A comment from abroad:

Between US actions abroad, a former presidents persecution and politicians profiteering from sanctions and weapons sales topped with protecting Israel, the US had damaged it’s own currency and standing more than any country could have dreamed. Worse again the US has united all their enemies together and shown unequivocally what happens when the President isn’t competent. I find it incredible the desperation oozing from the US on every front from Ukraine – Israel – ICJ – UN. All the time sending money abroad as the US sinks economically with a reputation in tatters.

Now we can add his senile remark that has the world ablaze with the arrogance of Biden.

More to be said. The sun is setting on the U.S. if we don’t get adults on to the stage.

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Northwestern Reaches Controversial Agreement with Pro-Palestinian Protesters

May 2, 2024 — bunkerville

Northwestern is developing future “employees from hell” with the capitulation to the terrorists in their demands. Mocking civilized society, it is almost laughable that the old adage the”the inmates are running the asylum” indeed comes true.

Jonathan Turley gives us his best in his post that reveals the demands met:

Northwestern University has agreed to a controversial settlement with pro-Palestinian protesters encamped on its campus this week, including a commitment for scholarships for Palestinians, Palestinian faculty appointments, and special housing for Muslim students.

The protesters will also be allowed to continue their protests while agreeing to stay in a particular area of campus.  It will also put the students and supporting faculty on bodies to review any university investments and purchases, a major demand from supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

The Daily Northwestern reported the details of the deal and noted

“the University has committed to provide a conduit for students to engage with the Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees. It will also re-establish an Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility this fall, which will include students, faculty and staff.

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In addition, the University committed to some support for Palestinian students and faculty in the agreement. NU will ‘support visiting Palestinian faculty and students at risk,’ and will provide the cost of attendance for five Palestinian undergraduates to attend Northwestern.

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The University also committed to providing an ‘immediate temporary space for MENA/Muslim students’ — a longtime demand from students on campus — and will provide and renovate a house for MENA/Muslims students as soon as possible. The final house is expected to come in 2026.”

It also includes a commitment of the university to intervene with employers to guarantee that students suffer no consequences for participating in protests in their jobs and internships.

Well worth the full read.

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Northwestern University reaches agreement with pro-Palestinian protesters

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The Focus is on the State Elections, but the Battle for our Kids Souls is at the School Board Level

November 8, 2023 — bunkerville

While the various elections yesterday were focused on the “big ones” – elections of various state House, Senate and Governors races, it is the small town school boards that deserve our attention. The battle for the soul of our children is taking place. In Lancaster County Pennsylvania, the outcome could not be more telling of the state of our moral decline. Add the major issue of home schooling which requires local school board to support each student’s home schooling to the tune of $9,000. per year and you reach a flash point.

Is hard core pornography to continue being allowed in the libraries?  The choice could not be more clear.

The material in question isn’t simply “if you see it you will know what it is.” No, that is too simple. What there is are detailed descriptions of perverse sex acts, with suggestions of performance that are enough to make one sick. I have seen it. This is not just about literature or a book, but rather information entitled Sex Education.

The Democrats are running their slate of five ….. the GOP theirs. The GOP want the books gone. The Dems are accusing the GOP of being the usual Nazis at the ready to burn books. Lost in the shuffle is this is not simply “Sally has two Mothers.” But that is how the argument is being portrayed.

Worse the PA headlines read:

Transgender rights, book banning hot topics in Lancaster County school board races…

This was a year ago:

Banned and challenged because it was considered to be sexually explicit and degrading to women. In the Hudson City (OH) Schools, Moms for Liberty challenged titles for language and “sexually explicit” material. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’ was the 10th-most-banned book in 2022, according to the American Library Association. Sep 30, 2023

and there we are.

Philly Burb:

Inside this year’s fight over Pa. school board seats and what happens in the classroom

A wave of right-wing parental rights activists won school board seats across Pennsylvania two years ago, some pushing forward with controversial policies centered on gender identity, race and political expression.

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The movement has injected unusual energy into what are typically quiet, off-year elections. Conservative activists are banding together in groups such as Moms for Liberty, while their opponents are coordinating — sometimes in bipartisan teams of Democrats and moderate Republicans — to beat back what they see as the rise of extremism.

Leaders in Moms for Liberty, a group that has advocated for book bans and against mask requirements in schools, are pursuing school board seats in counties across Pennsylvania. A Bucks County venture capitalist who dumped half-a-million dollars into the 2021 school board races is preparing to pour unknown sums into this year’s contests. And even in local board contests where partisanship typically doesn’t play a major role, slates of candidates have formed to highlight sharp ideological and political differences.

Moms for Liberty among conservative groups named ‘extremist’ by civil rights watchdog

More than two years into a conservative push against teaching about Black history, literature and gender identity in public schools, the Southern Poverty Law Center has concluded that a dozen so-called “parental rights” groups behind the movement are extremist.

The civil rights organization particularly focuses on the largest of these, the nonprofit Moms for Liberty, in its annual Year in Hate & Extremism report for 2022, saying that it advances an anti-student inclusion agenda.

The SPLC has put it and similar organizations on its list of anti-government extremist entities, drawing comparisons between them and parent groups that attempted to re-segregate public schools during the civil rights movement.”

They really are seeking to undermine public education holistically and to divide communities,” said Rachel Carroll Rivas, deputy director for research, reporting and analysis at the SPLC. Carroll Rivas said her organization has received numerous calls from parents and educators who are concerned about the sudden appearance and tactics of Moms for Liberty activists in their schools.

“Pennsylvania has really become an increasingly large focal point for extremism, and many school board members are running simply to inflict a political agenda on kids and our communities,” said Susan Spicka, executive director of Education Voters of PA. “It’s something that can be really dangerous for our communities, if people don’t pay attention.”

She noted that Pennsylvania has the third-highest number of school library book bans in the nation and more than two dozen Moms for Liberty chapters.

Clarissa Paige, who heads the Northumberland County chapter of Moms for Liberty, said conservative groups like hers are the ones trying to rid school districts of politics and make sure classroom instruction stays trained on the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic.

So there we have it. Those who oppose masks are right wing extremists. Those who oppose outright pornography are extreme. Those who want girls safe in locker rooms are extreme as well as wanting them to play on biological girls only sports. Those who don’t want teachers advocating transgenderism are extreme.

While cities like Philadelphia, Pittsburg and Harrisburg get most of the attention, Pennsylvania is comprised of a large number of rural counties. Agriculture is the number one industry. With the large urban centers the voices of conservatives are overwhelmed.

There were substantial voting lines yesterday, similar to what I have seen at national elections. Other than a few judges and local government positions what was at hand was deciding the issue. Do we care enough for our kids to demand that parents have the right to raise their children.

These five very dangerous individuals according to the SPLC won the GOP School Board positions in an overwhelming blow out!

Meet your 2023 Republican Party victorious candidates for school board in the Elizabethtown Area School District!. In the video you will hear Tina WILSON, Lynda SHRUM, Menno RIGGLEMAN, James GILLES, and Kelly CARTER share an overview of their platform and motivation for running.

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Biden Spent $1 Billion To Get Schools Electric Buses; Michigan District Says Theirs Hardly Work – Update

May 25, 2023 — bunkerville

Bankrupt!

Democrat-Connected Electric Bus Company Touted By Biden Regime Files for Bankruptcy

Nine Billion more bucks will be spent that was approved in the November infrastructure bill for more of this electric bus fiasco. Once you have all these free buses from the government, just wait for the expenses to maintain them coming down the pike. Get on the horn with your local school board.

To set the stage, we have our gal Harris out on the stump gushing on the wonders of the new bus technology.

Here we go:

Michigan’s fourth-largest school district is having “significant” performance issues with its expensive electric buses, issues that come after the Biden administration spent $1 billion to “transform America’s school bus fleet” with electric models.

During an April 19 presentation to the Ann Arbor Public Schools Board of Education, the district’s environmental sustainability director, Emile Lauzzana, highlighted a number of issues with the district’s electric bus fleet. Those buses, Lauzzana said, have “a lot of downtime and performance issues” and aren’t “fully on the road,” despite the fact that they are “approximately five times more expensive than regular buses.”

The infrastructure upgrades required to use the buses, meanwhile, were “originally estimated to be only about $50,000” but “ended up being more like $200,000,” according to Lauzzana. “I have a number of colleagues in different states who are facing similar challenges,” the district official lamented. “For the school bus market, it’s been challenging for us.”

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Electric bus company Proterra, which the Biden administration has lauded as “pretty amazing,” saw Philadelphia remove 25 of its buses from the roads in 2020 due to structural problems. Those buses cost the city $24 million. Another Southern California city waited months in 2021 to repair nearly a dozen buses from its electric fleet, more than a third of which were out of service at the time. Ann Arbor Public Schools’ electric buses also use Proterra batteries and drivetrain technology.

Still, those issues did not stop Biden from setting aside $9 billion for electric school buses and local transit vehicles in the Democrat’s November 2021 infrastructure bill. Biden is also not the only prominent Democrat who is spending big on “clean” buses. Michigan Democratic governor Gretchen Whitmer plans to create a $150 million electric school bus program through her 2024 state budget. Even Ann Arbor Public Schools is refusing to step away from electric buses—Lauzzana during his April presentation said the district is committed to purchasing “additional electric buses,” despite its ongoing challenges. For conservative group Michigan Freedom Fund, that commitment is misguided.

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Are Our Schools Nothing More Than Prisons?

April 11, 2023 — bunkerville

 

by Mustang

When was the last time you drove past a public school building?  Tell me, what did you see?  Here’s what I see: large brick buildings sitting behind an extensive fencing system, part hurricane, part wrought iron; some of them have concertina wire strung along the top.  Sophisticated gates admit or discharge vehicles and pedestrians.  We pay uniformed men to note these comings and goings.  The young guards often play with the female students on high school campuses — because they can. 

Let us now think about what is happening inside these structures.  Whatever it is, it isn’t about learning or mastery of lessons.  That hasn’t been true in this country for more than sixty years.  Currently, American schools lag behind those in most other countries.  Do we ever wonder why?  More particularly, do we ever wonder why given the insane amount of money we spend on education each year?

 

Here is what else that’s true: the teachers in these schools are incompetent and ideologically driven.  Their primary goal is to produce a certain kind of citizen: one who thinks the way the adults around him most desire.  The students/inmates hate these schools with great intensity.  Were it not for the law, which forces attendance, only the teachers would be in school.  The students see the schools as prisons — precisely what they are.  They look like it, smell it, and the people inside act like it.

It is not missing on these students — or, if one prefers — inmates, that we keep them inside these structures against their will, much like we keep prisoners inside against theirs.  And we seriously wonder why there is no learning — and indeed no mastery of lessons inside our schools.  We may also wonder why so many of our children are psychotic, confused, hopeless, and suicidal.

Bunk includes this clip to add to the conversation with Mustang’s thoughtful post:

 

 

The greatest danger to America’s children is not whether some people may rush inside those “prisons” with firearms and shoot them; it is that their adults institutionalize them at all and rob them of their sense of wonder.     

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Inside the Classroom – The Goal? Confuse the Children

March 20, 2023 — bunkerville

 

By Mustang

The newest problem reads as follows: “A Minnesota elementary school teacher joined the internet hall of shame after she posted a video that summed up her goal when it comes to promoting gender ideology on students.”  The story originates from a place called Valentine Hills Elementary School.  This is where Kourtney Ryan earns a living by confusing children about such  things as gender identity, and brags about it.  Actually, one might classify this as a form of child abuse.  Here she is …

 

So if our goal is to make everyone look the same, so that we somehow don’t notice physical differences which, for at least 3 million years, has made males attractive to females and vice versa (until Greek men wearing short skirts found themselves attracted to little boys), then in an effort to anticipate future problems, how will opposite sexes “meet up?”

Well, for starters — insofar as Kourtney is concerned — there isn’t enough alcohol is a single’s bar that would make this twit physically or sexually attractive before the onset of alcohol-induced unconsciousness.

Second, though, why is it that Democrats want a sexless society but clamor and shout and rattle their drums whenever anyone (like me for example) thinks we should ignore skin color altogether? 

Shouldn’t we be happy to allow men and women to continue to attract one another in traditional ways, and — if we are to change anything about human differences, shouldn’t that be skin color?  A colorless society should be our goal, not confusing our children. 

As an aside, we seem to have far too many problems originating from the state of Minnesota, which after watching “Little House on the Prairie,” I never saw coming.  It’s enough to make one ask, “What???”

 

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Teachers Union Prez Randi Weingarten Melt Down and Our Kids

March 2, 2023 — bunkerville

by Mustang

If anyone wonders about whatever happened to the America they were born into, they don’t have to look any further into our public school classrooms.  To be clear, many things are happening inside our public schools, but education isn’t one of them.  And should you ask yourself why parents — the people who are paying for this abomination — aren’t complaining, it is because they, too, are products of this disgrace. Just this week we got a look at the Head of the National Teachers Union and her view of the problem.

“National teachers’ union boss Randi Weingarten channeled Howard Dean in a maniacal speech on the steps of the Supreme Court on Tuesday that went viral among critics who labeled it a “meltdown.” Free money. Student debt”

 “This is what really pisses me off,” the former president of New York City’s United Federation of Teachers screamed.

Perhaps this might be one too?

Education as a Battleground | Imprimis

Hillsdale’s president is Larry Arnn and claims the problem with the American education system is reflected in the chart above.  Depicted are the growth in students, increase in teachers and growth in administrators.  I’m not saying he’s wrong, but that isn’t American education’s only problem.  If anything, it’s only the tip of the iceberg.

I want to talk about the problems, but instead of laying those out for your consideration, I think I’d rather tell you what I think needs to happen to fix those problems.  Of course, you may disagree with my point of view, but at least you’ll be thinking about the problem — and that would be a nice change.

Step One: disband the U.S. Department of Education.  The federal government has no business involving itself in educating our young people.  Education belongs to the states.  But beyond that, everyone working at U.S.D.O.E. has an advanced degree in Education.  This makes them “educationalists.”  

We should not confuse this with “educator.”  For these people to receive their post-graduate degree, they must develop a new idea in their field of study.  One may recall such disasters as “new math” and “Ebonics” or using geography to brainwash our children with lies and half-truths about Islam.  We don’t need any more “good ideas.”  

Step Two: we must acknowledge that money is a limited resource.  Nationally, our demand for money exceeds its availability — so to get around this “limited resource problem,” the people responsible for education either increase taxation to support additional spending or borrow money to pay for new schools, unqualified teachers, educationalist administrators, and textbooks that are full of lies.

By the way, the average cost of building a school campus in the United States is $21 million.  I do not know what the annual maintenance costs are.  But there are presently 98,000 (or so) public school campuses in the United States.  By estimating all ancillary education costs in a single school year, the American taxpayer is spending an excess of $2.058 trillion.  

Now given that the average high school graduate is unqualified for an entry-level minimum wage job, and after factoring in the number of college-bound students who must first take remedial classes before earning any college credits, one must ask this question: is America getting its money’s worth?

If education was working in this country, given its 1.8 million classroom teachers, why is the overall dropout rate around 20%?  If 80% of America’s high school students graduate, why are they unqualified for most entry-level positions in America’s workforce?

Is the American education system working?  Why did you send your children to a public school if you think the answer is no?  Why are your grandchildren there now?  Why would you place something as important as education into the hands of a government that has not once demonstrated any competency in designing or managing it?

By the way, what do you see when you pass by an elementary, middle, or high school?  Here is what I see — and what most students see- brick buildings inside fenced-in areas with locked entries and armed police officers standing at the gate.  The only difference between school campuses and American prisons is the absence of concertina wire running along the top of the fences and guard towers at each corner of the property.  

These young people — your children — are “incarcerated” until they reach a certain age.  With that in mind, from their first year of middle school, how interested are these “children” in learning their lessons?  We know the answer to this question from 12 years of public education’s brainwashing mechanisms — over the past 100 years.

The government shut down the country for a while due to its concerns about COVID.  This brainless act should be enough to convince even the most doubting Thomas that the government cannot be trusted with anything “vital” to the interests of the United States.  What were the children thinking while we locked them up inside their homes?  Beyond surges in electronic media usage, not much.

We should have been thinking this: are there viable alternatives to expensive “this is the way we’ve always done it” educational systems?  Some would argue that no matter what we try, as an alternative, it couldn’t possibly be worse than what we have now.  Given our technology, should distance learning be on the table?  Small learning centers could replace large school campuses within the local neighborhood to accommodate very small children and those older kids whose parents do not have access to computers or internet connections.

What we have now is this: a one-size-fits-all system that only meets the needs of a few students.  A very few.  Sure, there is an essential skill set that all students need to have: reading/comprehension ability, written communications, essential mathematics, and basic science — but the problem is that no one is asking our youngsters what they want to do with their lives.  It is their life, after all.  Shouldn’t we wonder what excites their interests?

Academic cheating is endemic in this country.  Why is that?  Because students have no genuine interest in the things they’re taught, they resort to cheating to “get by.”  Now, if this is true (and it is), given the money we’re spending on this dead horse we call public education, should anyone be asking what we can do about it?

We could start by having a conversation about this.  No, not here in the blogosphere — but within our communities where conversations count.  It will be a difficult conversation, and there will be plenty of varying opinions — and a few angry “football fathers” and “cheerleading moms.”  But — ignoring the problem is not an option.
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Principal calls police on maskless four-year-old student

August 23, 2022 — bunkerville

Shawn, dad of a California four-year-old removed from school for going maskless, and attorney Tracy Henderson join ‘Fox & Friends First’ to recount the incident. This is not the biggest story of the day, but one of the more upsetting. The child will never forget the incident. How many other kids are dealing with the trauma of this total nonsense?

No need to rehash the proven disaster of Fauci and masks, let alone what happened to our kids in schools during Covid. The masks in school policies are still going on and it needs to stop. Kudos to this dad.

“Don’t ever let policy get in the way of doing what your heart believes is best for a student.”

Yes, still the best of the swamp today as well as back in January.

Refresher for you:

NBC: Force Kids to Put On Double Masks

January 6, 2022 — bunkerville

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