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Many colleges no longer teach critical thinking. They teach censorship. And victimhood. These ideas make students depressed and anxious.
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A Florida school district that banned student cell phone use this school year is reporting fewer problems and better grades.
Broward County Public Schools banned any phone use, including at lunchtime, according to WTVJ-TV.
“I’ve noticed a lot more creativity with students, I think their attention spans are a little longer, they have excellent conversations in their groups, those conversations are lasting longer, our class discussions are definitely a lot longer and they’re a lot deeper because no one’s really focused on checking their phone,” Dan Katz, who teaches drama and law at Fort Lauderdale High School, said.
School board member Allen Zeman said fights are down 17 percent from the same point a year ago.
The Idaho State Board of Education banned “DEI ideology” in all of the state’s higher education institutions, which going forward will be required to adhere to “political neutrality” instead of indoctrinating students.
The College Fix reported that the board approved three resolutions last month, each targeting a different facet of left-wing educational control. Taken together, they require colleges and universities to “establish and maintain equality of opportunity for all students regardless of personal identity characteristics”; prohibit any offices, policies, or initiatives “dedicated to DEI ideology”; protect staff and students alike from being required to recognize “preferred pronouns”; require “political neutrality” of schools; require curriculum information be made available to the public; and more.
Every day millions of parents put their children under the care of public school teachers, administrators, and support staff. Their trust, however, is frequently broken by predators in authority in what appears to be the largest ongoing sexual abuse scandal in our nation’s history.
Given the roughly 50 million students in U.S. K-12 schools each year, the number of students who have been victims of sexual misconduct by school employees is probably in the millions each decade, according to multiple studies. Such numbers would far exceed the high-profile abuse scandals that rocked the Roman Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts of America.
U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor blocked a Biden administration guidance on forcing widespread recognition and accommodation of LGBT ideology on public education by redefining federal nondiscrimination language, siding with Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton’s legal challenge to the rule change.
In 2021, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) under President Joe Biden issued a guidance to educators that its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) interprets Title IX, the longstanding set of rules against sex discrimination in public education, to also cover “sexual orientation and gender identity,” and will “fully enforce” this interpretation “in education programs and activities that receive Federal financial assistance from the Department.”
A whistleblower has come forward with explosive claims that race-based admissions policies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have severely degraded the quality of its medical school, prompting a stern warning from tech mogul Elon Musk about the potential for patient deaths due to medical incompetence.
Long hailed as a premier institution, UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine has seen a precipitous drop in its standards, according to damning evidence and interviews conducted by the Washington Free Beacon.
The institution, which annually attracts up to 14,000 applicants, accepted just 173 in 2023, a record-low acceptance rate of 1.3 percent. The median matriculant took difficult science courses in college, earned a 3.8 GPA, and scored in the 88th percentile on the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT).
In November 2021, during a typical admissions committee meeting, concerns were raised about an African American applicant whose academic credentials significantly lagged behind UCLA’s stringent standards.
Warren Smith, the teacher behind a viral video skewering LGBT activists’ narrative that critics of gender ideology are “transphobic,” has been fired, he announced this week in a follow-up video detailing his ordeal.
Smith originally went viral in February for a video of his response to a student asking if he still liked Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling’s work “despite her bigoted opinions.” Smith engaged the student in a Socratic dialogue dissecting the premise that Rowling’s vocal opposition to the gender-fluidity movement constitutes bigotry, inviting a reconsideration of the pervasive leftist assumption.
The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is currently negotiating a new contract with the public school system, with audacious demands that have been leaked to the public. Among these demands are substantial wage increases for its members, with a proposed 9% increase each year through fiscal year 2028. This would result in an average salary of $144,620 for teachers by the 2027-2028 school year, which is more than double the median household income in Chicago.
The union is also seeking additional benefits such as a $1,000 per student per semester stipend for teachers and counselors when they are assigned a number of students above contractual limits, as well as a retirement bonus of $2,500 for employees with more than 30 years of service.
The long-awaited return to normal has started in America.
Google swiftly fired 28 employees who occupied their boss’s office in protest against a corporate contract with Israel. Educational institutions such as Vanderbilt University and Columbia University have suspended or expelled student protesters who occupied buildings and spaces illegally. Pomona College, American University, and the University of Georgia have similarly suspended student activists for causing disruptions.
American institutions are no longer willing to put up with selfish, entitled, and unrealistic direct actions. That is a good thing. The nation went crazy in 2020 and has taken four years to regrow a backbone against the tiny, vocal minority trying to upend American values and our daily lives.
Schools across America many times are run by managers who come with baggage from the extreme-left ideologies of higher academia.
Their plans often include spreading those ideals to students – whether or not they or their parents want such indoctrination.
But one such plan, in a school in Minnesota, has been taken down a notch, according to a new report from Mat Staver, chief of Liberty Counsel.
The dispute developed in Osseo, Minnesota, where officials scheduled a “gay pride” indoctrination class for all students, prepared scripts from which teachers were to read word-for-word, under a scenario that required teachers to take part regardless of their religious beliefs and rights, and more.
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