President Trump signed an executive order prohibiting federal funding for educational institutions that mandate Covid–19 vaccines for in-person attendance. Medical schools reliant on federal funds may want to reconsider.
One of the greatest risks of AI technology may be a degradation of the learning process itself, and thus a new intellectual dark age. It is up to teachers and teaching institutions to do all they can to avert such a catastrophic outcome.
Do you mean to say you’re still having to teach basic grammar even when your students are at senior level? Convince me that this isn’t a Monty Python sketch.
The current system promotes one group’s spiritual worldview, while restricting or excluding others – a clear form of institutional bias.
Explicit teaching, phonics and students on their best behaviour: why didn’t anyone think of this before?
Despite certain groups’ antipathy, standardised tests work very well.
This isn’t about hate. It’s about honesty. And if the only way these programmes can survive is by pretending there’s no criticism, lying about protest threats, and dismissing concerned parents as “bigots”, then maybe it’s time they were pulled out of schools altogether.
I have a sneaky suspicion that their real purpose is mostly to help children socialise and to keep them elsewhere so their parents can work.
It’s unclear when or if the Department of Education, in conjunction with the Justice Department, will investigate so-called “indoctrination” activities taking place in elementary and secondary public schools as Trump’s late January executive order pledges to do.
DEI programs consist primarily of grifters who do little. They encourage a ‘virtuous victimhood’ mentality in students, they attempt to re-educate those who are not part of the program and they fail to address real abuse.
We used to have outstanding early childhood education in this country. It was provided by mothers without qualifications, in homes without certification and at a cost to the taxpayer of precisely zip.
Why did no one bother to ask the questions I did on the actual day? When I was at school, that’s exactly what would have happened.
Oxford school culture under scrutiny after student assault.
Satire isn’t just comedy; it’s a form of critical thinking, and if people are falling for the most blatantly exaggerated nonsense, maybe we need to start teaching satire in English classes across the country and make it an NCEA subject before things get even dumber.
Imagine if those who proclaim to care deeply about Palestinian children such as yourself had called out Hamas decades ago for brainwashing Gaza’s children and training them to hate and become martyrs.
