John Klar: The Delta children
Now that the scary-sounding-but-more-benign “Delta variant” looms, the AAP has moved to demand all children and school staff be masked. But this disease is just not very dangerous to children.
Mom rebels as elementary school creates ‘black classes’ to segregate children
Kira Posey filed a complaint to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights after learning her child and 11 other black students were placed into “black classes” at the Mary Lin Elementary School in Atlanta.
John Klar: Vermont’s education justice movement
Vermont is not a white supremacist state, and its children should not be taught that their skin color means they must feel guilt for crimes of the past in order to be decent human beings.
CRT town hall attracts 65 Vermonters in Brattleboro
At the Whetstone Church Hall earlier this month, Vermonters for Vermont Initiative hosted a town hall forum on critical race theory and equity teaching in schools.
AOE seeks feedback on state plan for ed. recovery, use of federal COVID-19 funds for education
The Vermont Agency of Education (AOE) is soliciting feedback from stakeholders and the public on the draft Building for the Future: Vermont’s Plan for Education Recovery and Beyond. The plan is a requirement of Vermont’s Act 74 and the Federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARP Act).
UVM professor at town hall meeting warns of efforts to indoctrinate young minds
University of Vermont professor Aaron Kindsvatter took to the stage this weekend to warn Vermonters that the education system at all age levels is being used to indoctrinate young minds into judging peers by the color of their skin.
Parents concerned about critical race theory in schools, poll says
According to the group, “38.1% of Republican voters say parents who oppose Critical Race Theory should remove their children from public school if CRT becomes part of their children’s curriculum – compared to 20.9% of Democrats and 22.9% of Independents.”
McClaughry: Missouri and New Hampshire school choice programs
Last week Reason.com published an update on school choice developments in the states. It’s not too late for Vermont to catch up.
Admission fraud shows why colleges should reward hard work, not race
Meritocracy ensures the proper functioning of our systems and institutions. Throughout history, various civilizations have concluded that merit-based systems best contribute to the flourishing of a society. Both the imperial and post-Mao Chinese states, as well as the United States, are clear examples.
Video: Gaslighting in Vermont
“I’d like to talk about something called ‘gaslighting.’ It’s happening right now in Vermont. It’s happening to people of any political persuasion who dare question the critical race theory and new racism being taught in Vermont schools.”
McClaughry: The teachers union’s new pupil indoctrination plan
The “remedy” of concerned citizens regaining control of curriculums only rarely succeeds. A better solution: let objecting parents send their children to independent schools, taking a large fraction of their public school equalized per pupil cost of education with them.
Stan Greer: The high cost of Big Labor’s prolonged school lockdowns
Powerful teacher union bosses saw shuttered schools as an opportunity to extract billions and billions of additional dollars from hard-pressed taxpayers for the unionized government schools that they largely control. The shakedown scheme succeeded to an extent they never could have imagined pre-COVID-19.