The Texas text book decision, however, will have minimal immediate impact nationwide. Even as the Texas Board of Education was meeting yesterday, there was a communist indoctrination happening on a Chicago Community Colleges (CCC) campus.
The "Social Justice Student Expo" was a brazen display of communist and socialist propagandizing and youth recruitment by the far Left, with the full blessings and accomodations of the CCC. Grade schoolers, high schoolers and college students were encouraged to attend.
So while it's nice that some text books will be brought back from the Leftist clutches, the real problem remains: Leftist teachers and professors will continue to spew their Leftist ideology in classrooms. Events like the "Social Justice Student Expo" will continue. The film and music industries will keep putting out Leftist messages. After decades of Leftist propagandizing in public schools and universities, there are already many millions of Americans whose political sympathies are closer to Mao and Stalin than to Jefferson and Franklin. The Texas Board of Education decision of May 20, 2010 is something to celebrate, but it isn't big enough to merit opening the champagne.
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Texas Board of Ed Decision Impact Will Be Minimal
Will American school children now be saved from textbooks filled with Leftist propaganda? Maybe, sort of, little by little, for a while anyway. Don't be overly optimistic about this news.
Last night, the Texas Board of Education made a historically significant decision. Robert Moon reports at Examiner.com:
In a stunning break from the standard public "education" protocol of relentlessly brow-beating children with leftist misinformation against America, white people and Christianity, Texas has forced the textbook industry to start including multiple sides of the story. Through intense negotiations and petty partisan bickering, the Texas Board of Education (which has a huge influence over how textbooks are written in the U.S.) has reversed the trend of erasing our Founding Fathers from the curriculum--a core part of the leftist agenda...
The Texas text book decision, however, will have minimal immediate impact nationwide. Even as the Texas Board of Education was meeting yesterday, there was a communist indoctrination happening on a Chicago Community Colleges (CCC) campus.
The "Social Justice Student Expo" was a brazen display of communist and socialist propagandizing and youth recruitment by the far Left, with the full blessings and accomodations of the CCC. Grade schoolers, high schoolers and college students were encouraged to attend.
So while it's nice that some text books will be brought back from the Leftist clutches, the real problem remains: Leftist teachers and professors will continue to spew their Leftist ideology in classrooms. Events like the "Social Justice Student Expo" will continue. The film and music industries will keep putting out Leftist messages. After decades of Leftist propagandizing in public schools and universities, there are already many millions of Americans whose political sympathies are closer to Mao and Stalin than to Jefferson and Franklin. The Texas Board of Education decision of May 20, 2010 is something to celebrate, but it isn't big enough to merit opening the champagne.
The Texas text book decision, however, will have minimal immediate impact nationwide. Even as the Texas Board of Education was meeting yesterday, there was a communist indoctrination happening on a Chicago Community Colleges (CCC) campus.
The "Social Justice Student Expo" was a brazen display of communist and socialist propagandizing and youth recruitment by the far Left, with the full blessings and accomodations of the CCC. Grade schoolers, high schoolers and college students were encouraged to attend.
So while it's nice that some text books will be brought back from the Leftist clutches, the real problem remains: Leftist teachers and professors will continue to spew their Leftist ideology in classrooms. Events like the "Social Justice Student Expo" will continue. The film and music industries will keep putting out Leftist messages. After decades of Leftist propagandizing in public schools and universities, there are already many millions of Americans whose political sympathies are closer to Mao and Stalin than to Jefferson and Franklin. The Texas Board of Education decision of May 20, 2010 is something to celebrate, but it isn't big enough to merit opening the champagne.
Dangerous School Intersection in Rogers Park
School starts tomorrow, Tuesday, September 4. When will 49th Ward Alderman Joe Moore decided that it's past time to put a traffic light at the intersection of N. Greenview and W. Pratt? Before or after a tragedy?
Joe Moore and the Teachers Unions
People are telling me that the teachers union is working overtime for 49th Ward Alderman Joe Moore's re-election bid. The union is making a lot of phone calls, urging voters to keep Moore in office. A couple of the folks who mentioned this to me are teachers themselves, and they note the hypocrisy of Moore bragging about The Chicago Math and Science Academy (CMSA) public charter school on Lunt. The hypocrisy: The teachers I've spoken to say that CMSA is not a union shop.
Rehabilitation and new construction have taken place at all public schools located in the 49th Ward during Joe Moore's time in the City Council and The Chicago Math and Science Academy, a public charter has opened in Rogers Park.
Chicago Police: Failure To Communicate
The Chicago Police are lying to me. I know, I know. You must be as shocked as I am.
There was a "large fight" involving "high school kids" at or very near the intersection of N. Broadway and W. Thorndale in the Edgewater neighborhood. At least some of the kids involved attend Nicholas Senn High School at 5900 N. Glenwood Avenue.
Senn lies within Police Beat 2013. The corner of W. Thorndale and N. Broadway lies along the northeastern edge of Beat 2013.
Although residents nearby confirmed a "large fight," both CPD and Senn H.S. principal Richard Norman denied such an event took place, even as they stood in what amounted to a high-security scenario at 3:15 p.m. on Friday, March 9.
Last Friday I was in a friend's car riding northbound on N. Broadway. I noticed a lot of police cars, both marked and unmarked, zipping through traffic with lights on, some with sirens. I saw at least 20 squad cars and several officers on foot. Traffic was heavy, I had my camera, so I jumped out of the car. "See you later guys, I said, "there's something going on here."
I KNOW NOTHING!
I snapped a couple of photos, spotted a young man who looked like a high school student. He was standing next to squad car, speaking with its occupants. As the car drove away, I approached him and asked if he knew why there were so many police swarming around.
"There was a big fight last week, high school kids," he said.
No reason this kid would lie about that, I thought. So I walked around, snapping more photos. I then approached a heavy female police officer (Officer Kuehn) and a heavy man (Richard Norman, principal of Senn since July 1, 2005). Both held walkie-talkies.
"Hi," I said to both of them, "I understand there was a big fight here last week. Is that why there are so many police in the area right now?"
There wasn't a fight," Officer Kuehn said flatly.
"I was just told by a resident there was," I said. "If not, why are there so many police here right now?"
"Well," Kuehn said, "it's a warm spring day out and kids are frisky."
"It's like this all over Chicago, so are there this many police swarming around every intersection near every high school in the city?" I asked.
"Nothing happened here," Kuehn said.
It was obvious that I would learn nothing here except that the truth was being covered up. So I walked a few yards away and approached three young men, probably high schoolers.
"Excuse me guys, do you know if there was a big fight here last week?" They looked at me funny for a second, but then one of them nodded and said yes, there had been. But at that moment both Kuehn and Norman approached.
"You can't talk with these guys," Kuehn said, and gave me some bull crap about being their guardian and I didn't have permission to speak to minors or high school students.
"You're telling me," I said, "that it's illegal for me to speak with a minor? I doubt that, and am I supposed to ask people for ID before speaking to them?" I was told to move along.
Do you think it's standard procedure for a couple of dozen squad cars to swarm around the neighborhod because it's a warm day and some kids might be "frisky?" Or for a principal to stand with a cop, walkie-talkie in hand, because some kid might have spring fever?
Calling Chicago Police did not prove any less frustrating. A woman who answered insisted that she knew nothing about what amounts to a major police activity, insisted that CPD cannot, does not and never has commented on anything having to do with juvenile. Ridiculous. And just try to find Superintendent Cline's phone number.
Nothing on the CAPS sites, either.
I am waiting for a call back from Alex in Alderman Smith's office. I hope they are more forthcoming than the Chicago Police Department or Principal Norman.
There was a "large fight" involving "high school kids" at or very near the intersection of N. Broadway and W. Thorndale in the Edgewater neighborhood. At least some of the kids involved attend Nicholas Senn High School at 5900 N. Glenwood Avenue.Senn lies within Police Beat 2013. The corner of W. Thorndale and N. Broadway lies along the northeastern edge of Beat 2013.
Although residents nearby confirmed a "large fight," both CPD and Senn H.S. principal Richard Norman denied such an event took place, even as they stood in what amounted to a high-security scenario at 3:15 p.m. on Friday, March 9.
Last Friday I was in a friend's car riding northbound on N. Broadway. I noticed a lot of police cars, both marked and unmarked, zipping through traffic with lights on, some with sirens. I saw at least 20 squad cars and several officers on foot. Traffic was heavy, I had my camera, so I jumped out of the car. "See you later guys, I said, "there's something going on here."I KNOW NOTHING!
I snapped a couple of photos, spotted a young man who looked like a high school student. He was standing next to squad car, speaking with its occupants. As the car drove away, I approached him and asked if he knew why there were so many police swarming around.
"There was a big fight last week, high school kids," he said.
No reason this kid would lie about that, I thought. So I walked around, snapping more photos. I then approached a heavy female police officer (Officer Kuehn) and a heavy man (Richard Norman, principal of Senn since July 1, 2005). Both held walkie-talkies."Hi," I said to both of them, "I understand there was a big fight here last week. Is that why there are so many police in the area right now?"
There wasn't a fight," Officer Kuehn said flatly.
"I was just told by a resident there was," I said. "If not, why are there so many police here right now?"
"Well," Kuehn said, "it's a warm spring day out and kids are frisky."
"It's like this all over Chicago, so are there this many police swarming around every intersection near every high school in the city?" I asked.
"Nothing happened here," Kuehn said.
It was obvious that I would learn nothing here except that the truth was being covered up. So I walked a few yards away and approached three young men, probably high schoolers.
"Excuse me guys, do you know if there was a big fight here last week?" They looked at me funny for a second, but then one of them nodded and said yes, there had been. But at that moment both Kuehn and Norman approached.
"You can't talk with these guys," Kuehn said, and gave me some bull crap about being their guardian and I didn't have permission to speak to minors or high school students.
"You're telling me," I said, "that it's illegal for me to speak with a minor? I doubt that, and am I supposed to ask people for ID before speaking to them?" I was told to move along.
Do you think it's standard procedure for a couple of dozen squad cars to swarm around the neighborhod because it's a warm day and some kids might be "frisky?" Or for a principal to stand with a cop, walkie-talkie in hand, because some kid might have spring fever?Calling Chicago Police did not prove any less frustrating. A woman who answered insisted that she knew nothing about what amounts to a major police activity, insisted that CPD cannot, does not and never has commented on anything having to do with juvenile. Ridiculous. And just try to find Superintendent Cline's phone number.
Nothing on the CAPS sites, either.
I am waiting for a call back from Alex in Alderman Smith's office. I hope they are more forthcoming than the Chicago Police Department or Principal Norman.
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