The left, in case you hadn’t noticed, is fighting hard to deny parents control over the content of education.
Fight them. Essential background:
washingtonexaminer.com/politics/…
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Between 2019 and 2021, the overall percentage of students who met state (of WA) standards on the math portion of the exam fell by 20 percentage points.
Wowwww.
Not good.
What the hell, people?
Folks who saw my appearance on @thecoastguy’s @GBNews show, here are some links:
Encyclosphere.org – @ks_found’s website
EncycloReader.org – a (soon) OSS encyclopedia reader
EncycloSearch.org – an OSS encyclopedia search engine
The fact that this was not admitted before November 2020 is a major scandal.
The KSF (encyclosphere.org), a 501(c)(3), is now raising money from larger donors (mostly my richer friends and acquaintances). Let me know if you’re interested in giving $5K or more; we’ll have to meet in person for mutual due diligence.
I’ll be on with Neil Oliver (@thecoastguy) this Saturday at 8 p.m. to discuss Internet liberty and free speech (I guess; we’ll see). Looking forward to it.
I’m a connoisseur of media bias charts like this. But what we need in addition is an Establishment meter. NYT and AP are 100%; Fox is 75%; Epoch Times is 50%; Daily Wire is maybe 25% (I’m open to debate).
Now just hear me out.
If I were an evil genius bent on world domination, I wouldn’t be backing the likes of Schwab, Gates, and Soros, who have little public trust. I’d be backing the leaders of the coming backlash against them.
Blackrock—the unimaginably wealthy and powerful corporation that most people have never heard of (because they effectively control the media?).
DuckDuckGo’s Gabriel Weinberg (@yegg) and crew need to read this.
This message began life on a website I own (startthis.org) and was pushed up to Twitter by a plugin.
I just learned of the recent passing of my thesis adviser at Reed College, Marvin Levich. A great old man and wonderful teacher. RIP.
reed.edu/reed-magazine/articles/…
While people were freaking out about Covid, child sex trafficking got worse.
So, while you’re off looking at a war in Ukraine, maybe don’t forget about the most vulnerable victims of all.
Why advocates say COVID caused more human trafficking among children
The older and wiser one grows, the more obvious it becomes that the loss of respect for authority, obligation, and duty has been a disaster for the West.