University of Delaware: PC Indoctrination program

Dear dorm residents,
agree to this, or take a hike:

“[a] racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality.”

thank you,
the administration

RELATED: NAME (National Association for Multicultural Education) national convention in Baltimore:

• "The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: Dismantling White Privilege and Supporting Anti-Racist Education in Our Classrooms and Schools." Taught by a professor from St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, this session "is designed to help educators identify and deconstruct their own white privilege and in so doing more deeply commit themselves to anti-racist teaching and critical multicultural teaching."

• "Talking About Religious Oppression and Unpacking Christian Privilege." This session, taught by a team of professors, "will examine the dynamics of Christian privilege and oppression of minority religious groups and nonbelievers as constructed and maintained on three distinct levels: individual, institutional and societal. A historical and legal lecturette will be presented and participants will engage in interactive learning modules."

• "Beyond Celebrating Diversity: Teaching Teachers How to be Critical Multicultural Educators." Taught by NAME regional director Paul Gorski, founder of the activist group EdChange, this session will start from the premise that multiculturalism's greatest danger "comes from educators who ostensibly support its goals, but whose work - cultural plunges, food fairs, etc. - reflects a compassionate conservative consciousness rather than social justice. This session focuses on preparing teachers, not for celebrating diversity, but for achieving justice in schools and society."

hat tip to Neal Boortz...

Conservative student with goofy hair hounds liberal professor who's running for congress

story here, with links to youtube video.

basically, this guy Dennis Lennox, a student at Central Michigan University, thinks there's something wrong with a college professor, in this case, Gary Peters, running for congress. it's probably the ideological thing. no...make that DEFINITELY.

my thoughts:

a) the professor is within his rights. anybody can run for congress, and nobody has to step down from their current job to do so.

b) Lennox's tactics are bullshit, but in this new world of "macaca" what partisan can complain of videotapers trying to catch missteps or goading candidates into embarrassing statements?

c) it's just the way it is. Peters needs to deal with it.

this whole new direction is one that i feel we're eventually going to regret. we want our candidates for office to be forthright and spontaneous, but technology is going to force them into becoming hyper-managed and robotic.

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"Not a terrorist": Miami public school teacher (muslim) attacks Homestead Air Reserve base

he wanted to commit "suicide by cop", authorities say..

Teachers molesting students: why do we let this go on?

after other lame reasons are cited in this article as to why school administrators allow these incidents to be resolved quietly--"fear public embarrassment", "want to avoid the fallout from going up against a popular teacher", the article gets to what i think is the main reason: the teacher's union.

so, what happens?

Too often, problem teachers are allowed to leave quietly. That can mean future abuse for another student and another school district.

"They might deal with it internally, suspending the person or having the person move on. So their license is never investigated," says Charol Shakeshaft, a leading expert in teacher sex abuse who heads the educational leadership department at Virginia Commonwealth University.

this line in the article really caught my eye:

It's a dynamic so common it has its own nicknames - "passing the trash" or the "mobile molester."

exactly who uses these phrases? teachers? administrators?

Kansas State University professor Robert Shoop refers to "passing the trash" here...

here's how a Hoover Institute study described the process:

Often, as a way to save time and money, an administrator will cut a deal with the union in which he agrees to give a bad teacher a satisfactory rating in return for union help in transferring the teacher to another district. The problem teacher gets quietly passed along to someone else. Administrators call it “the dance of the lemons” or “passing the trash.” Howard Fuller, the superintendent of Milwaukee public schools from 1991 to 1995, explains: “Administrators found they needed to trade bad teachers because it’s easier than getting rid of them. We had one teacher who put a student’s head down the toilet. He simply got moved to another school.”