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14 Dec, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Yes, because the biggest issue over the last year was teacher burnout. They definitely earned more breaks and there is no need to keep kids in school to make up for the enormous learning loss.

Enough.

Fund students, not systems.
Everyone has burnout from the pandemic. Most professions had to adjust to how they did business and deal with enormous strain. But no other profession had their unions insist and receive constant special treatment to the point where they actively harmed their customers.
Teachers' Unions spent all of 2020 fighting to keep schools closed while extorting concessions like insane funding levels and vaccine preferences. Those closures were not scientifically justifiable and did enormous harm to children. They didn't seem to care.
And those same unions/officials focused on ways to change curriculums to take away basic education and replace it with political indoctrination. It became more noticeable to parents with kids learning from home.

That all led to a lot of justifiable resentment from parents.
And keep in mind, closures also made things extremely difficult for working parents that relied on schools during their workdays. No one cared.

Now we finally have kids back in schools and it's apparent they are looking for any opportunity to screw kids over yet again.
It's become clear that teachers' unions, which represent teachers, just don't prioritize the well-being of kids. As such, parents are just tired of it and feel like they deserve to get more from our education system.

And they are right.

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13 Dec
Implication here that education is underfunded is wrong. The amount we are spending on "education" over the next 5-10 years is obscene and indefensible. Shortage of supplies is purely based on waste and misallocation of funds.
Here is a comparison of how much countries spent per student on public education (K-12) in 2017. The US was already third. Then during the pandemic, we added the equivalent of another ~10K per active student to school budgets (purely based on teacher union lobbying)
And if you want to understand where the money is going, much like why college tuition rates skyrocketed while spending on actual teaching has stayed consistent, it's on administration costs. Number of administrators that drain the system has skyrocketed while adding little value.
Read 5 tweets
6 Dec
I think a lot of non-political people are slowly waking up to the fact that left-wing radicals have become a dominant force within several major institutions and are now using those positions to dictate a lot of our political and cultural conversations.
That's why a term like latinx, which is still only being used by ~2% of Hispanic speakers and that ~40% of Hispanics find offensive, is now regularly featured in news headlines and among academic discussions.
It's why neo-racism has become mostly normalized to the point where you now have major media figures writing and promoting obviously bigoted nonsense without consequence. It's why a morally bankrupt bigot like Kendi has become a prominent speaker and author.
Read 7 tweets
6 Dec
The problem with these people is they believe this alternate reality they have created for themselves and their colleagues, which thus allows to them justify almost anything in service of what they view as a just cause.
Anyways, the Milbanks of the world are going to keep throwing these tantrums and get even louder/more extreme as they lose their influence because most people recognize their version of this fight doesn't match reality.
Milbank is upset over negative coverage of Biden this year as his administration has created and failed to deal with multiple crises. Americans don’t approve of Biden performance, but Milbank believes the press should only say good things re him bc of these hypothetical enemies.
Read 5 tweets
30 Nov
Enes Kanter didn't suddenly start speaking out last week. The guy has risked his personal safety and his family by actively and continuously standing up against one of the most brutal dictators in the world. @EnesFreedom 's dad spent 7 years in prison because of it.
@EnesFreedom He has shown more courage than all his critics could ever dream to have. And now he is rightly calling out the hypocrisy of those that exaggerate the issues here while profiting from much worse abuses elsewhere. That makes those who promote such selective outrage uncomfortable.
People who experience life elsewhere and know the reality outside the US also know that America is the freest and most tolerant country on earth so it bothers them when others ignore that context and make it seem like our problems are much worse than they actually are.
Read 4 tweets
28 Nov
I swear I think this account is a parody sometimes because it shows just how little intellectual depth is required of Professors at some Ivy leagues.

dangerous to Democratic institutions because they advocate for free speech and intellectual diversity on college campuses.
These guys want a bubble where they can indoctrinate kids with their extreme beliefs without interference or pushback. They view any challenge to that environment as a threat to the society they want to create and cannot be tolerated.
Since he deleted...
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24 Nov
Want to bet that the same people that spent the last week writing articles declaring our system is racist based on the outcome of a case that had little to do with race will now ignore the Arbery verdict, which had a racial element, because it undermines their conclusions?
How many of these takes did we get over the last few days?

All about a case that had nothing to do with race. Yet the Arbery trial was just ignored by the same people because they knew that the outcome wouldn't allow them to promote their smears.
These weren't random people. These were major outlets and leading politicians that tried to divide us by lying and insisting the KR was all about race while ignoring a case that actually did have racial elements.

Shameful. People should not forget it.
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