SJWs Predict Teacher Exodus In Indiana Over Parental Oversight Bill

By William Teach February 18, 2022 – 6:45 am

I remember back when I was in grade school and high school all those years ago: parents were involved. They met with teachers, they saw administrators, they spoke to the school boards and the boards listened. None of the schools or employees attempted to hide the curriculum, nor did they tell the kids all sorts of crazy stuff. They just taught. Now

Indiana teachers predict mass exodus over CRT-inspired bill granting parental oversight

Teachers in Indiana are predicting a mass exodus from the profession if a state bill restricting how educators teach critical race theory-related lessons is passed.

“I cannot imagine that we’re going to have anything other than a huge exodus of teachers if this legislation goes through,” Jim Lang, a journalism teacher at Floyd Central High School, told the Indy Star. “And I think the problem is going to be, you’re not going to have enough people to fill the positions, or some of the folks you’re going to bring in aren’t going to be qualified.”

The bill passed largely along party lines in the state House last month and was referred to the Senate Education and Career Development Committee to progress.

House Bill 1134 would prohibit educators from promoting “certain concepts as part of a course of instruction” that “compel a school employee or student to adhere to certain tenets relating to the individual’s sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, national origin, or political affiliation.”

The Star described the bill as one that would ban educators from teaching that any sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, national origin or political affiliation is superior or inferior to another, or that any individual should feel psychological distress due to their sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, national origin or political affiliation.

Why are they teaching this stuff in the first place? This has no place in K-12. It’s no wonder so many kids are coming out of the 12th grade unable to truly speak, write, do math, or anything.

If the bill is passed, parents could file complaints if teachers break any of the restrictions, which in some cases could lead to lawsuits against schools. Additionally, the bill would allow the state’s secretary of education to suspend or revoke teaching licenses if educators “willfully or wantonly” violate its provisions around promoting divisive concepts, according to the Star.

Teachers do not like this. They do not like parents or anyone else having influence on what they’re teaching someone else’s children. And, in fairness, most teachers are probably not the crazy. They’re just trying to do their job. But, hey, if the crazies want to quit? Like the ones who keeps showing up on Libs Of Tiktok

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1493713299308830720

Let them quit. Most actually won’t, because they do not want to give up their above private sector salaries or their benefits. Though, if they do, it would be a great time for Republicans to get into teaching.

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Climate Crisis (scam) Today: Unknown Deep Sea Creatures And Minecraft Indoctrination

By William Teach February 17, 2022 – 3:00 pm

“Science” today means you discover something and immediately link it to the climate cult beliefs

Deep-ocean creatures previously unknown to science may be fighting climate change

As the deep ocean faces growing peril from climate change, seabed mining and other threats, scientists have discovered that seafloor sediments are home to vast populations of previously unknown organisms that may play a crucial role in carbon sequestration and marine food webs.

When researchers analyzed DNA sequences taken from sediment samples from around the world, they were astonished to find that nearly two-thirds were new to science, representing entire families of undescribed life forms, according to a study published Feb. 4 in the journal Science Advances.

“It highlights a very large knowledge gap for the ocean,” said Tristan Cordier, lead author of the study and a senior researcher at NORCE, an independent Norwegian research institute. “We don’t know at all what these bugs are doing, and their role in carbon storage, the carbon cycle and biochemical cycles are largely unknown.”

“Hey, look, lots and lots of new sea creatures!”

“Cool, what’s their relationship to anthropogenic climate change?”

Meanwhile, how about some indoctrination of kids?

How Minecraft Is Teaching Kids to Face the Threat of Climate Change

In classrooms all over the world, children are being taught about the world they’re going to inherit. Large-scale erosion, melting ice caps, population growth and deforestation fill the pages of geography textbooks, but for some students in elementary school, it’s not only hard to imagine — it’s terrifying.

And then they wonder why the kids are anxiety ridden messes. That’s what happens when you use a pseudo-science to scare kids.

As educational resources go, it’s hard to find one with more student enthusiasm than Minecraft.

Students are actively engaging with lessons, racing to their desks to use the open-play platform in exciting and innovative ways — all under the supervision of teachers who’ve connected the dots between curriculum and creation. It’s fair to say that Minecraft has blurred the line between game and tool better than almost any other popular game of the past decade.

Despite having been used as an educational tool for a while now — Minecraft Education was published on Nov. 1, 2016, and the NSW Department of Education has since provided free access to Minecraft: Education Edition to all NSW Government schools — the game is starting to shine even more brightly as a resource for educating students on the issue of climate change.

Great way to indoctrinate kids into their doomsday cult, eh?

Oh, and

Dude is too afraid to debate.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 17, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful urban center where Other People do not need fossil fueled vehicles to get around, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Maggie’s Farm, with a post on yellow pads.

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Canada’s Justice Minister Threatens Freedom Truckers And Donors

By William Teach February 17, 2022 – 10:30 am

You really have to wonder if the Supreme Court of Canada will jump in at some point and declare these threats and actual actions against the protesters and donors

Canada’s Justice Minister: Trump Supporters ‘Oughta Be Worried’ About Frozen Bank Accounts

Canada’s Justice Minister, David Lametti, has told Trump supporters who donated to the “Freedom Convoy” to “be worried” about having their bank accounts frozen.

Speaking with CTV News, when Lametti was asked if regular citizens who donated to the “Freedom Convoy” protests in opposition to the vaccine mandates should be worried about having their assets frozen by the government, Lametti singled out pro-Trumpers. The reporter asked:

You just compared people who may have donated to this to the same people who maybe are funding a terrorist. I just want to be clear here, sir. A lot of folks say, ‘Look, I just don’t like your vaccine mandates and I donated to this, now it’s illegal, should I be worried that the bank can freeze my account?’ What’s your answer to that?

“Well, I think if you are a member of a pro-Trump movement who’s donating hundreds of thousands of dollars and millions of dollars to this kind of thing, they oughta be worried,” responded Lametti.

Lametti also said that truckers could lose their trucking license if they participated in the protests or if their company permitted them to participate in the protest. (tweets with videos of all this at the link)

You’d think that the Justice Minister would understand the Canadian Constitution and its Declaration of Human Rights, right? How soon till someone files a suit against the Canadian government, especially Justin Trudeau? Because this is some rather dangerous stuff, government taking away people’s constitutionally guaranteed rights because they do not like what they are protesting. Might it be a Canadian Constitution group? Maybe the Parliament does something

(Breitbart) Far-left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced another round of heckling and widespread laughter in Parliament on Tuesday, prompting audible cackling at his use of the term “responsible leadership” after invoking the never-before-used Emergencies Act against anti-mandate protesters this week.

During question time on Tuesday in Parliament, Trudeau initially faced a demand from Conservative Party interim leader Candice Bergen to give lawmakers a date on which they would deliberate on the use of the Emergencies Act, given that – contrary to Trudeau’s unilateral invocation – the law requires parliamentary input. Trudeau ignored the question.

Of course he did

“The scope of these measures are time limited and geographically targeted. They are reasonable and proportionate to the threats they are meant to address,” Trudeau responded, “and they are fully to be complied with the charter of rights and freedoms to reassure all Canadians that this is the right thing to move forward.”

For those cheering this on, remember, you and your group could be the next ones where your rights and freedoms are suspended on a whim.

And, if you read the article, you’ll see that Trudeau jumped to martial law fast, like at the snap of the fingers.

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Student Warmists Want Schools To Divest From Fossil Fuels

By William Teach February 17, 2022 – 7:15 am

I wonder if they will enjoy their tuition, room and board, etc, going up to offset this if it actually happens?

Student Campaigners at Five Major Universities File Legal Complaints Against Fossil Fuel Investment

Student climate groups at Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Vanderbilt, and MIT have filed complaints with attorneys general in their respective states arguing the schools have violated state law by investing in fossil fuels.

“Universities have a duty to promote the public interest in exchange for their tax-exempt charitable status, and that duty is incompatible with fossil fuel investments,” said Alex Marquardt, a staff attorney at the Climate Defense Project, which assisted the student-led campaigns in preparing the complaints. “The law can be a powerful ally in fighting climate change, but only if people are held accountable for actually following it.”

Each of the five states has passed some version of the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act, which requires a university’s investments to be consistent with its “charitable purpose.” In letters signed by student groups, alumni, faculty, and climate scientists, activists argue that the hundreds of millions of dollars universities have invested in fossil fuels are at odds with universities’ charitable status.

So, for the most part, fancy pants high earner students. Here’s an idea: turn off the heating and cooling systems in the dorms and classrooms, in the faculty rooms and offices, which are most likely powered by fossil fueled. End school travel that uses fossil fuels. Allow no private, fossil fueled vehicles on school property. Make the climate cultists practice what they preach.

“Our universities are amongst the world’s wealthiest and most prestigious institutions of higher education, and their investments in the fossil fuel industry — an industry whose actions place the health and future of students and the entire planet at risk — amount to nothing less than complicity in the climate crisis,” said Princeton alumna Anna Liebowitz. “Thus, our campaigns are coming together and collectively calling for an end to fossil fuel investments in higher education and the world at large.”

It’s a cult.

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Surprise: California Voters Want To Reinstate The Tough Penalties They Voted To Get Rid Of

By William Teach February 17, 2022 – 7:00 am

See, Californians were cool with their virtue signaling when crime didn’t hit their own lives

Poll: California voters want to reinstate tougher penalties for some crimes, change Prop. 47

Amid a recent uptick in some criminal activity, the majority of California voters in a new statewide poll reported concern over state crime rates and said they would support reinstating penalties for certain thefts that a 2014 ballot measure reduced.

Seventy-eight percent of voters surveyed in a UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Times said that crime has risen statewide over the last year, and 65% said it has increased locally. Most also said they would support changes to Proposition 47, which reduced some theft and drug felonies to misdemeanors as a way to reduce incarceration rates and save the state money.

The ballot measure raised the threshold for the value of goods stolen to trigger a felony from $400 to $950, and reclassified some offenses as misdemeanors. Fifty-nine percent of survey respondents said they would support amending Proposition 47 to let certain property crimes be prosecuted again as felonies, while 30% favor leaving the law unchanged.

Of course, these are the ones who didn’t abandon California when their idiotic votes started negatively affecting their own lives. The question now is, can these people who realized they voted like idiots and enable lots and lots of crime do anything? Can they get this on the ballot, or, will the elites who have private security so the crime doesn’t hit their own lives spike this?

Still, voters across the political spectrum support changing the law. According to the poll, 88% of “strongly conservative” voters said they want to amend Proposition 47, while 64% of “moderate” voters and 41% of “somewhat liberal” voters said the same. Those who identify as “strongly liberal” voters largely support Proposition 47, with 67% saying they’d rather keep it as is.

So, strongly liberal people are idiots, and would prefer crime.

Legislators in both political parties, however, have already introduced a handful of bills to modify Proposition 47, including one that would lower the value of goods stolen back down to $400 to qualify a theft as a felony. Another proposal would allow prosecutors to pursue charges where stolen goods are recovered, even if the theft did not occur in that jurisdiction, and a third would repeal Proposition 47.

A proposed ballot measure would similarly permit prosecutors to pursue charges across jurisdictional lines and add sentence enhancements for significant property loss. It would also allow prosecutors to charge those with two or more prior theft convictions with a felony instead of a misdemeanor.

Of course, allowing prosecutors to do this and having the uber-leftist prosecutors actually do it are two different things.

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To Solve Climate Crisis (scam), We Need To Be Forced Into A “Culture Of Sustainability”

By William Teach February 16, 2022 – 3:25 pm

Once again, it’s interesting that this so often comes down to forcing Everyone Else to comply, you know, with the things the climate cultists won’t do on their own

EDITORIAL: Addressing climate change requires more than just individual actions
As we grapple with climate change, we need to create a culture of sustainability to minimize the effects

New Jersey recently received $15.4 million to expand electric vehicle charging stations, hoping to create a more electric-centered infrastructure. This investment signals the importance of moving to carbon-neutral emissions and trying to mitigate humans’ impact on the global environment, especially as the effects of climate change have already been causing problems.

Electric vehicles are one avenue we can use to combat climate change, and they would help reduce carbon emissions. Despite those benefits, though, electric cars cannot be the sole option we have to remedy environmental concerns.

I wonder how many people are actually commuting in EVs in NJ right now. Who’s going to trust one on the Parkway and Turnpike during the morning and evening rush hour? There’s gotta be a lot of mistrust

Electric cars are great, but at least in the current economy, they remain out of reach for the majority of Americans as they are too costly. Despite the unattainable costs, another issue, and maybe even more pressing, is that electric cars rely on individuals. Individual actions can only go so far.

Wait, what? Too costly for the majority of Americans? Huh. Don’t expect that to change.

Instead of focusing on a singular individual action, we need to focus on creating a culture of sustainability both in the state and at Rutgers.

This culture of sustainability can take the form of various investments we make into local communities, but it must begin with a solid, reliable and expansive public transportation system.

Oh, hey, cool. The cult will simply force you out of your reliable, affordable fossil fueled vehicle and onto buses and such. I mean, hey, in some urban areas, like a NYC, this is easy. When I visit there or D.C., I don’t drive around, I’ll take the bus or subway. What if you want to cruise on down to the beach or up to the mountains? Not so easy on the bus, eh. It’s almost like they’re trying to limit where the citizens can travel. Heck, Raleigh has a decent bus system. But, I’d have to get to the bus stop, around a mile and a half away, then take the bus through all the stops, which then leaves me about a mile to 2 away from work. No, f’ing thanks.

Elsewhere, I mentioned New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern this morning. Guess what she’s about to do

(Yahoo News) New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been chosen to give the keynote speech at Harvard University’s spring commencement, the Ivy League school announced Monday.

Ardern is scheduled to address graduates at a May 26 ceremony at the campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard President Larry Bacow called Ardern “one of the most respected leaders on the world stage.”

“From climate change and gender equality to COVID-19, she has modeled compassionate leadership that has brought together empathy and science-based solutions to address the most challenging issues of our time,” Bacow said in a statement.

That’s over 9,000 miles to fly from New Zealand to Boston. In a fossil fueled jet. Will she be flying commercial or taking a private jet to yammer on about the dangers of ‘climate change’?

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 16, 2022 – 2:50 pm

…is a horrible old school fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Legal Insurrection, with a post on the Canadian parliament jeering Trudeau over emergency powers.

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Even Far Left San Francisco Has Had Enough Of Crazy Left School Board Members

By William Teach February 16, 2022 – 10:30 am

It looks like the parents, even uber-lefty parents, seem to want to prioritize the well being of their kids. I wonder if they will be demonized like all those parents who elected Glen Youngkin in Virginia, and all those being called terrorists by the teacher’s unions

San Francisco recalls 3 members of city’s school board

San Francisco residents recalled three members of the city’s school board Tuesday for what critics called misplaced priorities and putting progressive politics over the needs of children during the pandemic.

Voters overwhelmingly approved the recall in a special election, according to tallies by the San Francisco Department of Elections.

“The voters of this city have delivered a clear message that the school board must focus on the essentials of delivering a well-run school system above all else,” Mayor London Breed said in a statement. “San Francisco is a city that believes in the value of big ideas, but those ideas must be built on the foundation of a government that does the essentials well.” (snip)

The school board has seven members, all Democrats, but only three were eligible to be recalled: school board President Gabriela López, Vice President Faauuga Moliga and Commissioner Alison Collins. (snip)

Parents in the politically liberal city launched the recall effort in January 2021 out of frustration over the slow reopening of district schools, while the board pursued the renaming of 44 school sites and the elimination of competitive admissions at the elite Lowell High School.

“The city of San Francisco has risen up and said this is not acceptable to put our kids last,” said Siva Raj, a father of two who helped launch the recall effort. “Talk is not going to educate our children, it’s action. It’s not about symbolic action, it’s not about changing the name on a school, it is about helping kids inside the school building read and learn math.”

The uber-lefty mayor of poop city, er, San Francisco, will now get to appoint their replacements till the November elections. Will she appoint other crazy leftists? Will news outlets demonize the parents who forced the recall? Meanwhile

Most Californians in new poll say state is headed in wrong direction

Most Californians in a new poll released Tuesday say the state is heading in the wrong direction.

A ??UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll, co-sponsored by The Los Angeles Times, found 54 percent of respondents believed the state is going in the wrong direction, as 36 percent believe it is going in the right direction, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Well, hey, this is what the majority of you in California voted for. Why are you upset?

Editorial: Schools are doing fine with masks. Dropping mandates now would be premature

It’s a relief to watch Omicron numbers fall off. California is lifting its indoor mask mandate for vaccinated people Wednesday, but not for schools — at least, not yet. State officials will reassess the situation Feb. 28, Mark Ghaly, California’s secretary of Health and Human Services, said Monday.

Ghaly is right to delay, though COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations have dropped dramatically since January. Attending school carries a higher risk of transmission than a stroll through the supermarket. Students and teachers are close together for hours each weekday. And though children are generally less likely to get seriously ill if infected, they can still pass infections picked up at school to vulnerable people at home and in their communities.

Looks like the editorial board of the LA Times is just not getting it. Pretty much no other nation is mandating that kids wear masks in schools. It is primarily Democrats here in the U.S.

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Seas Could Maybe Possibly We Feel Rise One Foot By 2050, Dooming Us All Or Something

By William Teach February 16, 2022 – 8:32 am

Seas only rose 8 inches during the entire 20th Century. Sea rise is not accelerating. To have a one foot sea rise by 2050 is simply scaremongering, but, that’s what this cult does best

Seas could rise up to a foot by 2050, posing ‘a clear and present risk’ to U.S.

Sea levels along U.S. coasts will rise by as much as a foot in the next 30 years as climate change accelerates, leading to a “dramatic increase” in millions of Americans’ exposure to flooding, scientists warned in a federal report published Tuesday.

Climate change driven largely by burning fossil fuels will raise average sea levels adjacent to the U.S. shoreline as much in the next 30 years as they rose in the previous century, according to the study led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Even more certain is the projection that melting ice sheets, heavier rainfall and higher storm surges from rising temperatures risk lives and billions of dollars of property and infrastructure, the scientists wrote.

Tens of millions of people already live in areas of the U.S. at risk of coastal flooding, with more moving to the coasts every year, the report noted. This population migration, combined with rising sea levels and other climate impacts, will increase their vulnerability and the risks of flooding for critical infrastructure affecting sectors such as transportation, energy, water and the military, according to the report.

While coastal cities such as Charleston, S.C., and West Palm Beach, Fla., are likely to experience an increase in damaging high-tide flooding as sea levels rise, the report also warned cities further inland such as Camden, N.J., are increasingly vulnerable to flooding that could overwhelm sewer systems.

“This is a global wake-up call and gives Americans the information needed to act now to best position ourselves for the future,” NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad said in a statement.

Warmists are more than welcome to act in their own lives. Yet, so few do more than minor, token actions in their own lives. This is a call for more Government control and more taxation. Nothing else. And the talking points went out.

There are about 5 pages of links about this bit of scaremongering at Google News. None of them ask relevant questions, such as

  • Can you prove this?
  • How is this different from previous Holocene warm periods, caused all by nature, where one would expect a foot or more of sea rise per century?
  • Why is there fudging of the numbers? You say up to 1 foot: can you be more specific? What’s the low number?
  • Who is held responsible if this doesn’t happen?

They won’t ask any questions

The federal government report said high tides and storm surge heights will increase, propelling damaging waters further inland, increasing flooding rates and turning once-dry places soggy.

“Sea level rise driven by global climate change is a clear and present risk to the United States, now and for the foreseeable future,” the report said.

And there it is: the notion that government must take more power and authority to Stop This.

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