#Letters to the Editor — Dec. 29, 2021

#Letters to the Editor — Dec. 29, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor — Dec. 29, 2021” The Issue: Nikole Hannah-Jones’ argument against parents deciding what children are taught in schools. How hypocritical of New York Times reporter Nicole Hannah-Jones to tell parents they should have no say in what children are taught in schools, while she attempts to revamp curricula to suit her…

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#’1619 Project’ head Hannah-Jones questions parents’ role in schooling

#’1619 Project’ head Hannah-Jones questions parents’ role in schooling

“#’1619 Project’ head Hannah-Jones questions parents’ role in schooling” Nikole Hannah-Jones, the New York Times reporter who spearheaded the controversial “1619 Project,” questioned Sunday why parents should have a say in their children’s education amid the national debate over critical race theory. The 1619 Project, which debuted in 2019 to mark the 400th anniversary of…

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#Indiana school administrator on leave after viral CRT video

#Indiana school administrator on leave after viral CRT video

“#Indiana school administrator on leave after viral CRT video” An Indiana school administrator who went viral for explaining how critical race theory is covertly taught in schools — like “social snake oil schemes” — says he’s now been placed on leave, had his email access cut and is banned from entering school buildings. Tony Kinnett,…

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#UFT finally gets something right, standing up for safe schools

#UFT finally gets something right, standing up for safe schools

“#UFT finally gets something right, standing up for safe schools” For all our criticism of the United Federation of Teachers and its leader Michael Mulgrew, we appreciate the union’s strong stand against the transfer of school safety duties from the NYPD to the Department of Education. The UFT’s Delegate Assembly on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a…

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#School banned my ‘Proud Zionist’ t-shirt

#School banned my ‘Proud Zionist’ t-shirt

“#School banned my ‘Proud Zionist’ t-shirt” An outraged Park Slope teacher says he learned the hard way that it’s OK to wear Black Lives Matter t-shirts to work at his “woke” Brooklyn school — but not pro-cop or pro-Israel garb. Jeffrey Levy, an English as a Second Language teacher at MS 51 in the liberal…

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#Teachers, Democrats fight against parental rights

#Teachers, Democrats fight against parental rights

“#Teachers, Democrats fight against parental rights” If you assumed that teachers unions, Democratic officials and education technocrats began the new school year humbled by the parental backlash against their harmful pandemic-era tactics (closing schools and embracing ideologically motivated efforts to rewrite school curricula among them), you would be mistaken.  This week, Randi Weingarten, the head…

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#Virginia voters vs. leftist agenda: Goodwin

#Virginia voters vs. leftist agenda: Goodwin

“#Virginia voters vs. leftist agenda: Goodwin” When it started, the Virginia gubernatorial race looked as if it would be a strictly local affair with little national meaning. The commonwealth has gone from red to purple to blue in recent years, its status confirmed when Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump by 10 points.   With well-known Democrat…

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#WaPo’s partisan ‘fact-checking’ and more

#WaPo’s partisan ‘fact-checking’ and more

“#WaPo’s partisan ‘fact-checking’ and more” This fact-check We say: Count on Glenn Kessler, The Washington Post’s partisan opinion writer who pretends to be a neutral “fact checker,” to come to the Democrats’ aid yet again, this time over their plan to have banks send the IRS info about Americans’ bank accounts. It’s perfectly legit to…

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