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OUTSTANDING MOVIE!
From World Affairs Brief, 6/24/22
CRT Built Into Civic Bill: According to National Review the Biden administration is pushing the Civics Secures Democracy Act (CSDA) so they can push Critical Race Theory (CRT) on every public school in the country. Over a six-year period, this $6 billion pot of competitive grant money will create a de facto national curriculum — just like Common Core. States desperate to tap into the federal gravy train will have to tailor their civics and history grant proposals to the Biden administration’s liking. West Point is already pushing CRT down the throats of cadets.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a Maine education policy that made K-12 schools with religious instruction ineligible for taxpayer-backed tuition aid, continuing the conservative majority court’s general trend of ruling for religious interests.
Jodi’s article: Private School, State Reimbursement: Family Choice
Jeff was joined by Jodi Taylor, board chair of the Alaska Policy Forum. They discuss why her family moved to Alaska, how she met her husband Treg Taylor (the current attorney general), a recent article about the state reimbursing parents for some private school classes, how this has been going on for several years, the benefits of the program, and how education can be improved in our country.
“MORE THAN HALF of our students are NOT proficient readers by third grade,” yet we have the highest cost per student in the country! – Jodi Taylor
Her oldest daughter attends BYU.
Jodi Taylor – Episode 243
This is what’s going into the hearts and minds of the current generation of gamers.
…some games seem sweet and innocent at first with cute characters and fun challenges, but after the player gets more involved, it can evolve into something darker down the road.
By Pamala Samash Jun 09th 2022
During the quarantine time, many kids started to play online video games.
We had personal experience with this ourselves and so my oldest daughter and I did some research, engaged in some of these games, and talked with people who played them. I felt I needed to share this information.
OK GROOMER: Teachers EXPOSED as Demonic Proponents of Pedophilia and Child Sacrifice
DeSantis: “Here I stand” vs Disney
Is Disney grooming your children? In this special report we look into the “Secret Gay Agenda” of Disney employees to indoctrinate your children. Also Governor Ron DeSantis is fighting back!
March 31, 2022
Many readers have noted the extent to which the teachers’ unions idea of “science” has dictated federal, state and local governments’ policies regarding school closures, masking, and other Covid-related issues.
There has been quite the kerfuffle lately about how the teachers’ unions got to essentially write the Centers for Disease Control’s national policy on school closures. Allegedly, it went so far as the unions having been able to actually dictate the wording of the policy memorandum issued by CDC.
Vote NO on Anchorage school bonds: Focus must be students, not buildings – Alaska Watchman
by Jodi Taylor
Alaska is ranked dead last in the U.S. in national reading scores for both low-income and upper/middle-income students. And before you think that the rest of the state is dragging ASD [Anchorage School District] scores down, guess again. ASD is ranked 22nd in the state in language arts out of 54 school districts.
States with the lowest eighth-grade reading scores 2022:
- Oklahoma
- Hawaii
- Nevada
- Louisiana
- Mississippi
- Texas
- West Virginia
- Alabama
- Alaska
- New Mexico
Second lowest in ‘quality’:
Public School Rankings by State 2022
States with the highest per pupil spending 2022:
- New York ($24,040)
- Connecticut ($20,635)
- New Jersey ($20,021)
- Alaska ($17,726)
CLAY: For everybody out there who has argued, “Oh, the kids don’t really mind wearing masks….”
Rumble — Kids at a Las Vegas elementary school burst out into cheers after learning they no longer have to wear a mask to school
Kids Burst into Cheers – No More Masks!
3:38:30 “…something very insidious at work.”
3:59:10 So sad!
4:05:55 8th-grader: “We don’t need to freak out again.” “There’s a healthier way, taking vitamin D….”
4:10:45 “Mental health is a bigger threat now than Covid for our young people.”
Parents pleas start at 2:15:00
The primary oppositions to mandatory masking were that:
1. Parents are the best at deciding personal health choices for their children and not a one-size-fits-all bureaucracy;
2. Typical masks do not work well against COVID-19 transmission;
3. Optional masking has worked successfully all summer in Anchorage Summer School, with only one publicized case out of 9,000 students;
4. Masks are potentially damaging to the physical and mental health of children;
5. The Centers for Disease Control has been so wrong so often and so political they cannot be trusted (the primary justification for the newest CDC mask recommendation was a single Massachusetts event that was not school related, and the school environment has many special safeguards);
6. The World Health Organization does not fully agree with the CDC;
7. Even the CDC reports that fewer than 1 in 200,000 or .005% of children infected have died from COVID-19, which is less than the children who die from influenza (the flu) most years, and we have never mandated masks due to the flu;
The only non-tyrant with common sense, who tells the truth about their ‘woke’ agenda is top-left, Dave Donley.
Dave Donley, Carl Jacobs, Kelly Lessens, Andy Holleman, Dora Wilson, Margo Bellamy, Pat Higgins
Anchorage Christian Schools, on the campus of Anchorage Baptist Temple in East Anchorage, never enacted a mask mandate last year.
With a student body of about 550, another 140 have applied to attend this fall, after the school absorbed about that many more at the beginning of last year’s classes. The school can accommodate up to 900.
JANUARY 19, 2021 AUTHOR: SUZANNE DOWNING
World Affairs Brief, January 1, 2020 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
2020 IN REVIEW: THE BIG PICTURE
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How did this false pandemic happen?
Let me assure you this phony pandemic didn’t destroy our liberty overnight. Its conditions were set decades ago when we allowed the lure of free public education to capture America’s children and systematically indoctrinate them in social justice, political correctness, evolution, and false promises of what government power can do to create equality and a more “just world,” without freedom and judgment.
5:35 “For many students, the consequences of not being in school are far greater than the health risks of dealing with covid.”