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The best way to fight THAT wokeness... All parents pull their kids out of that school the very next day. Defund is the only solution sicko's will understand.
If the school loses even 50% of their students it would make the news(the real news), and spread like wildfire on socials. How do you justify paying people with no students? Federal funds are dependent on attendance. Even the feds won't pay for an indoctrination institution if no one is being brainwashed...
Generally both parents work. What do you do with the kids that get pulled?
When your daycare turns into a grooming facility, it doesn't matter what the excuses are to stay, you have to protect your kids. That's literally the main job of a parent.
$200k/year is plenty to run a 20-student school.
Teacher Who Went Viral For Teaching Critical Thinking Gets Fired
Warren Smith Used Socratic Method To Break Down JK Rowling Debate
Warren Smith went viral (after a retweet from Elon Musk) at the beginning of the year when he posted a discussion with a pupil about the Harry Potter author, JK Rowling.
The pupil asked Mr. Smith whether he still liked Rowling’s work despite her “bigoted opinions”. ...
I admire Rowling for standing up for what she believes in and for championing free speech. She is fortunate to be rich enough to be able to do so but, even so, most people in her position would not and do not raise their heads above the parapet.
Mr. Smith’s viral video used the Socratic Method to guide his pupil to think critically about the author. It was a masterclass in asking and answering questions to try to establish the truth.
“We’re going to treat this as a thought experiment. I’m not going to say what is right or wrong or which way to think. The whole point is to learn how to think not what to think.”
A week ago, Mr. Smith was fired from the same school in which the viral video took place. He had been teaching there for four yours. Whilst we don’t know the exact reason he lost his job, in a recent update, he suggests it was because of the backlash to his videos. ...
If Warren was fired purely based on his opinions and way of teaching, this is a disgrace. So long as he didn’t violate any terms of his contract or bring the school into disrepute, then going against the herd and thinking critically should be encouraged. In fact, it should be the norm.
then going against the herd and thinking critically should be encouraged. In fact, it should be the norm.
That would be true if he was really teaching in a school. But it's not because he was hired to indoctrinate in a government propaganda institution.
All those new institutions that had been built by right-wing progressives to uplift the masses, to educate and train them to high intellectual and physical standards for example, were gradually repurposed by left-wing progressives into institutions for the prevention of Hitlers. One of the best ways to do this is to make sure that the graduates, especially the white males (judged most likely to become Hitlers), are as unfit, untrained, weak, incapable, ignorant, and neurotic as possible. Over many decades the schools have gradually become institutes of exquisitely refined psychological tortures designed to do just that on an industrial scale.
Finally, enjoy some more great news in the conservative counter-revolution. Florida is leading again. Politico ran the story yesterday headlined, “‘Microschools’ could be the next big school choice battle. Florida is on the cutting edge.” The sub-headline explained, “Florida just enacted a little-noticed provision that would make it much easier for these schools — which typically have less than 30 students — to get established.”
A concept developed during the pandemic, which we were calling “pods” or “co-ops,” this homeschooling alternative involves a pack of parents banding together and hiring a full-time teacher to teach a small, multi-age group of kids at places like someone’s house, business, church, or rented movie theater.
Politico called the new Florida law referenced in the article “quiet” because it was just a zoning change. It pre-empts local government zoning regulations, allowing small private schools to use existing spaces at places like movie theaters, homes, and churches without having to get local permits or approvals.
Two years ago, Florida passed laws transferring state public school funds to parents, to use for private school tuition and expenses. The funds can also be used for pods, now widely called “microschools.” Politico reported that participation in these state-funded scholarships boomed to an estimated 217,000 students since Florida opened the new voucher program to all students regardless of income.
In a micro-school scenario, parents hire their pod teachers based on merit, not diversity. Microschool teachers reportedly earn +25% more on average than when they worked at comparable public school positions, with less work, fewer students, better students, no unions, and zero politics.
At least in Florida, public schools are being forced to compete. They may soon have to start hiring better teachers and treating them well.
The Empire has not been idle in the face of this new free-market threat. Local governments across the country have weaponized zoning regulations against homeschoolers to defeat homeschool pods, making it illegal to operate them anywhere. But Florida and Utah have both now deleted that tool, leading the nation in re-establishing the country’s original school format, the one-room schoolhouse.
Florida’s just-passed law would also allow private schools to expand, growing into alternative locations to allow more students, bypassing local regulations.
It would be an understatement to say this one new law could finally trigger the long-awaited revolution in education. Progress, and lots of it.
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