I've just started an anti-'Woke' Substack website: 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' as a showcase for my work. Here is the link: http://grahamcunningham.substack.com/
Hope you find it interesting and reciprocate with a FREE subscription to help get it off and running.
(I've kicked it off with 4 articles from my archive and will add to it every month or so.)
It would be a good thing to hear of an inspiring deed done by Americans that benefitted others or other countries. in the past by the U.S. that benefitted others besides those in the U.S.
I started seriously researching Marxism and Russia's history, again, in 2018 after learning that CRT was in K-12s on the east coast.
As i did, I kept running across random facts about the U.S. I'd never heard before that were very positive and actually made me feel proud to be an American. I already felt that way, generally, but not like this. There are actual examples of American Exceptionalism. The first one was reading that, in WWII, the Germans first referred to the U.S. soldiers as 'mongrels;' the U.S. was about 165 years old and had no air force...Germany had evolved on the same land for 7,000 years, and were the most deeply educated advanced culture in the history of the world.
At some point Germans remarked, "The U.S. soldiers are the most unapologetically aggressive fighters, and SIMULTANEOUSLY, the most humane ppl we have ever encountered. " At some point they deduced that this was due to the effects of the principles that the U.S. COnstitution had on soldiers, and therefore, the rest of the citizens must be the same way.
When you get the organizations working with schools project up and running, I have a looooong list of them for you, mostly Minnesota, some national, some in NY
I think your work it terrific. It always give me a fresh and new perspective on issues. I’m happy to pay the nominal fee for reading your well thought out articles with interruption. Thanks again.
I think it’s sad and personally offensive for President Biden to proclaim that the transgender community is the heart and soul of this nation. What an adult does is freedom of choice in America, but sexualizing our children crosses the line. Don’t try to normalize any of it.
You are leaving out private schools that do not have to hire state certified teachers. While I agree that the problem you identify is very real and very bad and will take serious change and time to fix, if parents have real school schoice that includes setting up their own little schools with teachers of their choice, it is still very worth pursuing.
Karlyn, I made the comment drawing on 25 years of homeschooling experience which included talking to other parents who were choosing private education. At that time, I was aware of small Christian schools who were able to, and did, hire teachers without state certification. Considering also that I homeschooled in 8 different states, there were likely differences in regulations from location to location. My four children have been adults for more than a decade and it was not pertinent enough to me at the time to make notes about those schools. So no, I cannot give you an example. I simply know that they did exist. And I know that parents are willing to make that kind of effort anywhere that regulations do not make it impossible.
In addition, there are organized homeschooling co-ops such as Classical Conversations that make use of the training and experience of parents for teaching subjects which make homeschooling less daunting.
While still not answering the specific question, this article points to a real possibility that such a school exists:
"Schools across Texas hired roughly 43,000 new teachers last year, and more than 8,400 did not have a state certification."
"About 40% of the uncertified new teachers last school year were at charters, according to TEA data. Such campuses are public schools but operate independently and have more flexibility on some requirements, such as around certification."
Not surprisingly, the article doesn't mention private schools at all. And since certification affects accreditation, schools do not advertise that they have noncertified teachers, at least not openly on the internet.
While there are elements of truth to this narrative, I don't believe reality can be described in such absolute good vs. evil terms. My local school district enacted a political lightning rod gender identity policy during the pandemic, but there are going to be a mix of teachers in every school, and your legions of woke young teachers will concentrate in urban centers.
This morning I was reading about victim and oppressor consciousness in "Coddling of the American Mind." This type of thinking energizes tribalism,.. On the other hand, "common humanity" identity politics, according to the book's author, can still work. Polarizing right wing legislation like abortion bans and detransitioning legislation ramp up the tribalism and put us on a dangerous path... Where are our common humanity leaders?
There is not a mix of teachers. The 90% figure I use in the article is directly related to which political party teachers support. 9 out of 10 of them support the Democrats and the teachers unions. 1 out of 10 is not a mix.
And no, it is not true that this is concentrated in urban centers. Give me the name of any school district in the country in any area and I will find the ideology there within 15 minutes.
I appreciate how organized and methodical you are with resources. They provide real solutions with real impact. Keep it up!
Thank you Yuri! Keep up the good work yourself! We should collaborate sometime!
I've just started an anti-'Woke' Substack website: 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' as a showcase for my work. Here is the link: http://grahamcunningham.substack.com/
Hope you find it interesting and reciprocate with a FREE subscription to help get it off and running.
(I've kicked it off with 4 articles from my archive and will add to it every month or so.)
Excited to see how this developed Graham!
Thanks Karlyn....will you free-subscribe to it?
Sure!
Thanks...that's a big help - a link to a well established site like yours.
Regarding content ppl might want to see...
It would be a good thing to hear of an inspiring deed done by Americans that benefitted others or other countries. in the past by the U.S. that benefitted others besides those in the U.S.
I started seriously researching Marxism and Russia's history, again, in 2018 after learning that CRT was in K-12s on the east coast.
As i did, I kept running across random facts about the U.S. I'd never heard before that were very positive and actually made me feel proud to be an American. I already felt that way, generally, but not like this. There are actual examples of American Exceptionalism. The first one was reading that, in WWII, the Germans first referred to the U.S. soldiers as 'mongrels;' the U.S. was about 165 years old and had no air force...Germany had evolved on the same land for 7,000 years, and were the most deeply educated advanced culture in the history of the world.
At some point Germans remarked, "The U.S. soldiers are the most unapologetically aggressive fighters, and SIMULTANEOUSLY, the most humane ppl we have ever encountered. " At some point they deduced that this was due to the effects of the principles that the U.S. COnstitution had on soldiers, and therefore, the rest of the citizens must be the same way.
Just a thought.
When you get the organizations working with schools project up and running, I have a looooong list of them for you, mostly Minnesota, some national, some in NY
I think your work it terrific. It always give me a fresh and new perspective on issues. I’m happy to pay the nominal fee for reading your well thought out articles with interruption. Thanks again.
I think it’s sad and personally offensive for President Biden to proclaim that the transgender community is the heart and soul of this nation. What an adult does is freedom of choice in America, but sexualizing our children crosses the line. Don’t try to normalize any of it.
You are leaving out private schools that do not have to hire state certified teachers. While I agree that the problem you identify is very real and very bad and will take serious change and time to fix, if parents have real school schoice that includes setting up their own little schools with teachers of their choice, it is still very worth pursuing.
Cool, give me an example of a private school that is hiring teachers outside of the standard teaching pool.
One single example.
Karlyn, I made the comment drawing on 25 years of homeschooling experience which included talking to other parents who were choosing private education. At that time, I was aware of small Christian schools who were able to, and did, hire teachers without state certification. Considering also that I homeschooled in 8 different states, there were likely differences in regulations from location to location. My four children have been adults for more than a decade and it was not pertinent enough to me at the time to make notes about those schools. So no, I cannot give you an example. I simply know that they did exist. And I know that parents are willing to make that kind of effort anywhere that regulations do not make it impossible.
In addition, there are organized homeschooling co-ops such as Classical Conversations that make use of the training and experience of parents for teaching subjects which make homeschooling less daunting.
While still not answering the specific question, this article points to a real possibility that such a school exists:
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2022/09/22/1-in-5-new-texas-teachers-werent-certified-last-year/#:~:text=Texas%20allows%20a%20variety%20of,courses%20in%20their%20related%20fields.
"Schools across Texas hired roughly 43,000 new teachers last year, and more than 8,400 did not have a state certification."
"About 40% of the uncertified new teachers last school year were at charters, according to TEA data. Such campuses are public schools but operate independently and have more flexibility on some requirements, such as around certification."
Not surprisingly, the article doesn't mention private schools at all. And since certification affects accreditation, schools do not advertise that they have noncertified teachers, at least not openly on the internet.
While there are elements of truth to this narrative, I don't believe reality can be described in such absolute good vs. evil terms. My local school district enacted a political lightning rod gender identity policy during the pandemic, but there are going to be a mix of teachers in every school, and your legions of woke young teachers will concentrate in urban centers.
This morning I was reading about victim and oppressor consciousness in "Coddling of the American Mind." This type of thinking energizes tribalism,.. On the other hand, "common humanity" identity politics, according to the book's author, can still work. Polarizing right wing legislation like abortion bans and detransitioning legislation ramp up the tribalism and put us on a dangerous path... Where are our common humanity leaders?
There is not a mix of teachers. The 90% figure I use in the article is directly related to which political party teachers support. 9 out of 10 of them support the Democrats and the teachers unions. 1 out of 10 is not a mix.
And no, it is not true that this is concentrated in urban centers. Give me the name of any school district in the country in any area and I will find the ideology there within 15 minutes.