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All true. Like so many issues there is a reluctance to peel back the layers until you get to the root of the problem. It’s just not politically expedient. Peter Green just wrote a piece in Forbes about the “teacher shortage” and argues there’s no shortage. The talent pool is shrinking BUT many either aren’t going into the field or leaving the field because it’s gotten so bad. The 2 of you could have an interesting debate.

Worth a read.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2022/08/09/there-is-no-teacher-shortage-so-why-is-everyone-talking-about-it/

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What if you have Charter schools that now can get your money? Charter schools/PRIVATE Schools are not controlled by hugely WOKE unions.

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It doesn't matter for the reasons I specifically outline and enumerate in this article.

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What do you mean woke on the Right?

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the political right is just as woke as the political left.

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If woke were right I would have no problem with woke. The right is standing up proudly against the LGBTQ rads. The squishy Right is trying not to offend anyone. They are useless.

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So, you're saying you're a completely unprincipled person and only complain when the other side is doing what you want to do.

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Here is a lion of postmodernism, and a man who has impacted modern education by influencing two generations of intersectional radicals. Is there any wonder these people are grooming kids in schools. I agree with Karlyn wholeheartedly that it is too late to reform public education. Get your kids out of there and start new schools in new reactionary communities. https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/03/29/woke-hero-philosopher-michel-foucault-raped-children-as-young-as-8-years-old/

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Hi Karlyn. The opposite. I am a counter-cultural revolutionary. I do not have any problem with extremism. I had followed your work in the past and want to encourage you to fully join us in the dissident/reactionary community. Not being a cultural relativist or a postmodernist, I believe there is actual truth in the world that can be known by following the laws of nature. It does not bother me that woke-ism is a religion. If it were a true religion I might even join them. I am a seeker of truth like the the Sikhs, and like our own moral philosophers in the west. When we challenge woke from a relativist critique we lose the power of truth.

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Why not capture the state board of education and make the existing pool go through deprogramming to renew the license?

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It's too late. The teaching pool is already completely contaminated. You can make them unlearn everything they've ever been taught just by changing a licensure requirement now.

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