Will Students Return To Public Schools After The Pandemic?
By Will Flanders and Cori Petersen of the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty; submitted by RealClearEducation. “She’s a happy kid, a good student, and the virtual learning was a disaster for us,” said Erin Haroldson of Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, whose eight-year-old daughter was receiving virtual education from her local public school last spring. When…
Minority Students Crushed By Lockdowns; 600% Increase In Math Failures, 500% English
Authored by James Bovard via the American Institute for Economic Research (emphasis ours) In August, I reported here on how Montgomery County, Maryland, was seeking to shut down private schools as part of their Covid-19 strategy of abolishing all risk by abolishing all freedom. As more individuals have recently tested positive for Covid, the county…
Students At UK University Demand The Word “Black” Be Banned From Lectures & Textbooks
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Students at Manchester University have demanded that the word “black” when used as a negative expression such as the word “blackmail” should be banned because it is “divisive.” Yes, really. The complaint was prompted by a university study surround issues affecting Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME)…
44,000 School Buses Use “FirstACTS” To Secretly Identify And Track The Behavior of 5 Million Students
By MassPrivateI A Scottish company called FirstGroup uses 44,000 First Student school buses to secretly monitor the behavior of more than 5 million students. First Student school buses come equipped with mirror grids,Wi-Fi, two-way radios and surveillance cameras. Just as the transportation industry continuously improves passenger bus safety, we at First Student also look for ways…
New Mexico Public Schools Are Missing Over 12,000 Students
Authored by Linnea Johnson via The Organic Prepper blog, Public schools have had a chance to evaluate student attendance data and have found “missing students” between the Spring and Fall semesters of this school year. You might ask why they are suddenly so concerned about this fact. Is it because they are concerned about students…
Are Students Liberal? Yes – But Not Everywhere
Submitted by RealClearEducation, authored by Samuel Abrams, professor of politics at Sarah Lawrence College and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. This article is part of a series of opinion essays on the topic of free speech on campus, coinciding with the launch of the 2020 College Free Speech Rankings… When it comes…
Sound Money Scholarship Winners Announced – 6 Outstanding Students Earn Thousands in Tuition Assistance
By Jp Cortez Eagle, Idaho (November 6, 2020) – Six outstanding students beat out more than 100 of their high-school and college peers in making the best case for sound money through an international, gold-backed scholarship competition… …and the winners walked away with a total of $7,500 in scholarship awards for their exceptional, thought-provoking essays. For…