Brickbat: Kids Do the Darndest Things
In Florida, Orange County Public Schools has placed Howard Middle School teacher Ethan Hooper on leave while it looks into politically oriented videos he posted to TikTok that were shot in school and involved school students. One video indicated the school system was banning books including the dictionary. In another, white students bowed down to black students. Some of the students appeared to be amused by what was going on. "I am appalled at the behavior and judgment of the teacher who posted the inappropriate videos using his students as political props," said Superintendent Maria Vazquez in a statement. "This is not free speech — it is the exploitation of our students for political purposes and it will not be tolerated in our school district."
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Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day.
Discovery is to be disowned?
The ?blessings? of Commie-Education just keep coming.
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Kids do the darnedest things…under the direction of progressive ideologue nutjob teachers. This teacher was making disinformative videos using students as props with CRT adjacent racial essentialist concepts. Bravo for proving DeSantis right.
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The “Wise Latina” is skeptical of checks and balances against the dictatorship of experts.
“…Joan Biskupic writes up yesterday’s oral arguments from the two student loan cases that are currently before the Supreme Court:
Prelogar’s arguments were bolstered by the three liberals among the nine. Sonia Sotomayor, the senior justice on the left, warned that judges would seize greater power if agency authority to carry out acts of Congress were diminished.
Addressing Nebraska state Solicitor General James Campbell, who argued against the Biden administration, Sotomayor said, “What you’re saying is now we’re going to give judges the right to decide how much aid to give them. Instead of the person with the expertise and the experience, the secretary of education, who’s been dealing with educational issues and the problems surrounding student loans, we’re going to take it upon ourselves, instead of leaving that decision in the hands of the person who has experience with these questions.”
This is a nonsense argument from Sotomayor. First off, the question before the Court is not “how much aid” to give to students. The question before the Court is whether the statute it is examining — the 2003 HEROES Act — confers upon the executive branch the power to do what it’s trying to do. If it does, it does. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t. The amount of aid doesn’t enter into that calculation. Neither does the level of “expertise and experience” exhibited by the incumbent Secretary of Education. That Secretary could have the most sparkling mind in American history, or he could be a total moron, and, in both cases, the issue before the Court would be same: “Does he have the power to do it?” There is no provision within the United States Constitution that accords unlimited power to bureaucrats simply because some people consider them to be well-credentialed.”
There is also the problem that the Secretary of Education is a political appointee got the job as a political reward and has no real knowledge and basic competence, much less expertise in what their department does, like the current Secretary of Transportation has proven.
Thanks, good article.
You make public schools a culture not about benefiting students but a jobs program for adults and this is the mentality you end up with. Just teach the kids to read and then go home.
The racist math, General; don’t forget to teach the racist math.
“This is not free speech — it is the exploitation of our students for political purposes…”
But we’re told by the Left that this never happens.
To be fair it could be both free speech and political exploitation of children.
Apparently he said “gay”
Does anybody remember “Barack Hussein Obama Mnnnn Mnnnn Good”?
“In Florida”
The Florida legislature really ought to pass a law against that sort of thing.
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The MSM applauded that, yet they wanted to beat the crap out of Sandmann for wearing a MAGA hat.