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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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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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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Yuma Hospital CEO: We’re Overrun by Migrants, $20 Million in Unpaid Health Care

February 7, 2023 — bunkerville

 

Fox and Friends does its thing in the morning, trotting out the clip showing the latest hapless souls being chased down the highway in the grand “Getaway.” The other option is the unloading of the busses with last nights delivery. What they and the rest of the media fails to show is the collateral damage done to our villages, towns and cities. Hospitals and schools are at the top of the list and it is time the impact is reported. Its fairly easy to find information on the impact on the major cities, but nothing on school districts. No doubt for fear of being called Zenophobic.

Hospitals? It is bankrupting our health system.

New York City: Anytime any one of the Public Schools in NYC is mandated to absorb one of 150 languages that has rolled into the city. Worth the read:

Enrollment in New York City Public Schools for Immigrant …

If you are new to NYC, you can register your child in the public school system at any time. You do not have to wait until the start of the new school year.

 
 

What to Know About the Migrant Crisis in New York City

https://www.nytimes.com › nyc-migrant-crisis-explained
 
Just three months worth. This before the major influx.
 
Oct 31, 2022 — More than 6,000 homeless students, which include migrant children, entered the city public school system between July 2 and mid-October, …
 
 
Miami?

 

Thousands of migrant children enroll in Miami-Dade County …

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Jan 17, 2023 — According to the district, close to 10,000 students have enrolled from countries like Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The biggest spike .

The Mayor of Miami recently stated on Fox that the number was 18,000.

 

Hospitals

“We just don’t have a payer source,” he said. “Everybody is sympathetic, and everybody lends a listening ear, but nobody has a solution.” 

After Obamacare the hospitals were already on the ropes. Now with this? The next domino to fall. Just one example.

 

(CNSNews.com) — Because of the influx of immigrants through the U.S.-Mexico border, a hospital in Yuma, Arizona, is often overwhelmed and, so far, has provided over $20 million in uncompensated health care, said Dr. Robert Transchel, president and CEO of Yuma Regional. He added that, “nobody has a solution.”  

On Sunday, Dr. Transchel told Fox & Friends Weekend, “We’ve been at this for well over a year now. We tracked our uncompensated care for a period of over six months, and we calculated that we’ve provided over $20 million in uncompensated care to the migrants crossing the border.”

 

 

It is often questioned why is Biden doing this? What we refuse to acknowledge. The destroying of what ever the school excellence that was available for American children and has been sacrificed, and the bankruptcy of our health care system looms. Worse, they are unloading thousands of these illegals into our smaller towns and villages. Here in Amish land we are awash in them. Just go to the local Walmart and you will hear the announcements in Spanish. Meats get Spanish as the first language in big print.

 

I will close with a highlight from one of Bunks earlier posts:

Biden: “An unrelenting stream of immigration is not a bad thing.” “Non Stop, Non Stop”

December 19, 2022 — bunkerville

Biden celebrates Whites becoming a minority in the United States. “Non-White DNA is the source of our strength.” The video was made during the Obama years. A time when Biden could still string a couple of sentences together.

Here is the video:

Joe Biden: “White Americans must be an absolute minority in USA with a non-stop stream of migrants!”

 

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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.”

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Refresher for you:

NBC: Force Kids to Put On Double Masks

January 6, 2022 — bunkerville

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Education and Politics – What Do They Have in Common?

January 19, 2022 — bunkerville

by Mustang

Public education in the United States is terrible.  How bad?  Really bad — and everyone knows it.  Despite spending $640 billion annually on public education, the United States produces the highest number of low-education citizens in the industrialized world.  That’s somewhat like spending $304,995 for an Aston Martin DBS and having the power train fall out an hour after driving it off the lot.

Most people fail to understand that a high school diploma simply means that the graduate is, at best, qualified for a minimum wage job.  It not only means that high school graduates begin their working lives at the bottom of the economic ladder, but also that unless they strive to increase their level of education, that’s where they will remain for their entire working life.

Classroom in Fort Christmas

So, the question is, considering how much we spend educating our children, why aren’t our schools doing a better job educating our children?  There are many reasons — and none of them make us happy.  So, as 62.5% of us are low-education citizens, we ignore the problem.  But if you happened to answer the question, “Because it benefits politicians to have low-educated voters,” you get a cigar.

According to a recent study published by the University of California (Riverside), low-education voters overwhelmingly embrace costly social welfare programs that ultimately work against their own short-and-long-term interests.  Low-education voters are five times more likely to support politicians who achieve elective office by appealing to issues of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual preference, social justice, and/or entitlement.

It’s probably a no-brainer to add that the more education one has, the more likely one is to vote responsibly — which is to say, not allowing themselves fooled by identity politics into voting against their own interests.  For example, a low-education voter doesn’t understand that by supporting an increase in the minimum wage, they also back increases in the cost of goods and services so that the minimum wage worker loses purchasing power.

In other words, they become financially worse off.  Today, the minimum wage worker has lost 21% of their purchasing power — but they’re too stupid to realize it.  Low-education voters are also less likely to realize that politicians are manipulating them (for the politician’s own benefit).  Not only that, no matter how dire their financial circumstances, low-education voters will continue supporting the race-baiters and gender warriors for most of their adult lives.

The preceding goes a long way to explain why politicians, particularly Democrats, see nothing wrong with maintaining the American education system as it now stands.  By “politicians,” I mean to say local (town council/school board), state, and federal representatives.

America’s education system demands a significant housecleaning, but before that can happen, voters need to martial their resources and clean the political landscape as well.  Is that likely to happen?  Not when 90% of registered voters cannot even name their school board representatives or those they voted for in the last statewide election.

Ah, those low-education voters.  They’re the gift that keeps on giving.

Photo credit: “Classroom in Fort Christmas” by Photomatt28 is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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AG Garland Son-In-law’s School Education Company: ‘Trump and Supporters are White Supremacists’

October 11, 2021 — bunkerville

If we thought the Pandora company was limited to teaching Critical Race Theory, add teaching that Trump and his supporters are “White Supremacists.” Add the claim that “murderous police officers” were examples of White supremacy.

25 percent of America’s kids are now subject to Pandora. An earlier post hashed out the details of Merrit Garland’s conflict of interest with his son-in-law’s company Pandora. The company that is infiltrating our children’s schools to spy on them and subsequently data collect on us as well. They call it collecting “actionable data?” The company provides “screeners” to the schools? To do what?

For a refresher check out an earlier post:

AG Garland – daughter married to founder of company providing critical race theory materials to schools

Over 50 of the largest 100 school districts and state agencies in the country use its platform. In total, more than 1,500 school districts are among its customers. Clients include the New York City Department of Education, Clark County School District in Nevada, Dallas ISD in Texas and the Hawaii Department of Education, among others.

Since March 2020, Panorama has added 700 school districts to its customer base, nearly doubling the 800 it served just 18 months prior, according to Feuer. […] Former Yale graduate students Feuer and Xan Tanner started the company in an effort to figure out the best way for schools to collect and understand feedback from their students (read more)

“By asking students to reflect on their experiences of equity and inclusion in school, education leaders can gather actionable data to understand and improve the racial and cultural climate on campus.”  ~ Panorama Education, Xan Tanner Co-founder

We are not talking chump change and how obsequious the program has become.

The additional funding back in September gives us this eyeful just how far they have come.

From Tech Crunch:

Panorama Education, which has built out a K-12 education software platform, has raised $60 million in a Series C round of funding led by General Atlantic.

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CEO and co-founder Aaron Feuer did say the company now serves 13 million students in 23,000 schools across the United States, which means that 25% of American students are enrolled in a district served by Panorama today.

Xan Tanner, co-founder of Panorama EducationAttorney General Merrick Garland’s son-in-law Xan Tanner is the co-founder of Panorama Education.

Fairfax Public Schools is all in:

Parents Defending Education​ said ​the school district is directing $23.3 million toward social and emotional learning initiatives, or SEL.

Part of the program involves an SEL screener through Panorama Education, Fox News reported.

Critics believe phrases like “social and emotional learning” and “culturally responsive training” involve the introduction of controversial ideas about race and identity, the report said. New York Post

Fox News:

The company is doing more than pushing the racist obsessions of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. It also tells public school districts across America the vile lie that Trump and his supporters are “white supremacists”:

An education company co-founded by Attorney General Merrick Garland’s son-in-law issued a “resource” for teachers this year that claims supporters of former President Donald Trump are White supremacists.

The educational workshop released by Panorama Education, co-founded by Alexander “Xan” Tanner, the group’s president, revolves around “systemic racism” and includes an article as a resource that states the Ku Klux Klan and attendees of Trump’s rallies are both “examples of white supremacy.”

The 2021 workshop in question from the group, titled “SEL as Social Justice: Dismantling White Supremacy Within Systems and Self,” includes a portion of “resources” for teachers, one of which links to a Medium article titled “How White Supremacy Lives in Our Schools, written by Altagracia Montilla, a self-described “freedom-dreamer, facilitator, and strategist committed to dismantling oppressive systems.”

In the article, Montilla wrote, “The rise in images of overt white supremacy in the media feeds into the confusion about white supremacy. While the Ku Klux Klan and MAGAs at half-empty Trump rallies (not that these are mutually exclusive groups) are in fact examples of white supremacy, they are not the only examples.”

The article also said “murderous police officers” were examples of White supremacy and claimed White supremacy “is everywhere, pertinent and pervasive, woven into the fabric of our society and reflected in every institution and organization in the U.S. including schools.”

“One of the purposes of listing characteristics of white supremacy culture in schools is to point out how schools consciously or unconsciously use these characteristics as their standards making it difficult, if not impossible, to open the door to other cultural norms and standards,” Montilla claimed, listing “Perfectionism,” “Worship of the Written Word,” “Paternalism,” “Defensiveness,” and “Right to Comfort” as “school practices that act as antidotes to white supremacy culture in schools.”

Montilla went even further in the piece, claiming that schools only “celebrate students who adapt or conform” to ideals that are rooted in White supremacy.

“The reality is while schools may say they’re invested in diversity and equity, they really only celebrate students who adapt or conform to the cultural norms rooted in white supremacy,” the Panorama Education approved resource stated. “Naming and identifying the characteristics of white supremacy culture in schools so we shift from accepting these characteristics as norms towards recognizing them as destructive — is the first step to working toward building schools that value all students.”

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Ben Domenech: Leftists Hate You And Your Baby

August 6, 2021 — bunkerville

How and why does the government and other entities find that children and the family structure gets in the way of their grand experiment? Killing off sixty-two million babies via abortion is not enough. Children and parents are a problem. Ben Domenech gives us the run down.

Domenech’s points are so well made and it dovetails nicely with a post written in 2017 entitled The Genetic Dead Ends Who Rule Europe.   

“Emmanuel Macron is the ninth current European leader whose loins have borne no fruit.”

Why do so many heads of State remain childless? Can they relate and have empathy and care about our precious little ones that bring us such joy and are the future of our Republic?  Ben takes it from here:

Baby Colt 3

“Baby Colt 3” by xopherlance is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

The Genetic Dead Ends Who Rule Europe is the title to an insightful and deliciously written piece about the fertility of the heads of European States. I have often pondered why Europe and many here in the States seem hellbent on losing our culture and identity ultimately giving away the very nature of the governance with the so-called open borders. Perhaps because many have no skin in the game for their offspring. Written in 2017, it is even more relevant in today’s world. Here we go:

When France decided to slit its own throat last week and elect the childless Emmanuel Macron as its president over the bustier and more fecund Marine Le Pen, it made him the ninth current European leader whose loins have borne no fruit.

In addition to France, childless men and barren women currently rule Italy, Germany, the UK, Scotland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.  Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, has likewise never fathered nor raised a seedlin’. (And it’s not as if he has a face that inspires female lubrication, so it’d be an uphill climb for him under any circumstances.)

At this point, the 39-year-old Macron will likely never become a father, seeing as his 64-year-old wife’s vagina stands a high statistical chance of having fossilized by now. Macron has described colonialism as a “crime against humanity,” although he apparently has no qualms about France being colonized by Muslims. He has also stated that there is no such thing as “French culture.” He is also persistently dogged by rumors that he’s had a long-lasting, rump-wrangling, man-on-man relationship with Radio France chief executive Mathieu Gallet.

During the campaign, Marine Le Pen accused Macron of being the lapdog of Angela Merkel, the former communist and nude sunbatherwho has never given birth, but has handed Europe over to be killed.  Under Merkel’s frumpy rule, Germany can currently claim the dubious bragging right of being the nation with the highest quotient of childless women in the world.

Current UK Prime Minister Theresa May also has a womb that might as well be a tomb, but at least it’s not from a lack of trying.  Same goes for Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon—she gave up after suffering a miscarriage. Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, who looks like Merkel with maybe a half-shot of testosterone and without the Grecian Formula, has likewise never used his genitals to generate a child. According to the latest results from a highly unscientific online poll, 100% of respondents think he’s gay.

When it comes to Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Xavier Bettel(pictured to right of his partner), there’s no denying it—he’s as gay as a fresh sprig of mistletoe pinned to a red-velvet winter’s vest. He currently bears the distinction of being the “only openly gay world leader” at the moment. And we can all safely assume that his life partner isn’t going to start poppin’ babies out of his rectum anytime soon.

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has never seen a boy or girl call him “daddy.” The only thing mentioned in the “Personal life” section of his Wikipedia page is that he “enjoys sports.” I cannot confirm whether or not Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is gay or not, but look at this picture and tell me he isn’t. What I can confirm is that a woman has never carried his sperm to term.

In stark contrast to the gaggle of fruits and the unfruitful who currently rule Western Europe, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Viktor Orban—who form a Triumvirate of Evil for anyone dumb enough to believe globalism’s a good thing—have graced the planet with a dozen children between them, which will undoubtedly lead to climate change and starvation in Africa, which will then force 100 million or so African refugees northward in search of freedom, social justice, and a better life.

The cobwebbed wombs and the blank-shooting scrotums that currently rule Europe obviously have no personal genetic stake in what happens to Europe after they die. To them, the Europeans of the future will be “all future generations” that inhabit Europe, not the biological descendants of those who’ve inhabited Europe for dozens of millennia.

A continent ruled by the sterile and inhabited by those who’ve been brainwashed or demoralized into choosing sterility themselves will have no posterity in the classical sense. Instead, they will be overrun by people from alien cultures who may not have developed much in the way of technology or philosophy but who at least possess the genetic wisdom to be fertile.”

Full article here:The Genetic Dead Ends Who Rule Europe  

Other than that all is well in the swamp.

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