Category archive: Political Correctness
The Latest Education Fad Inverts Justice
By Chuck Roger • June 21st, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér Something subtle and disturbing is happening under parents’ radar. Growing numbers of progressive educators are twisting a four-thousand-year-old concept in order to induce schoolchildren to adopt amoral worldviews. A trend gathering steam nationwide teaches conflict resolution based on “restorative justice.” Though traditionally applied in criminal situations, progressives are adapting [...]
Cultural Marxism in Education: The Gathering Revolt
By Chuck Roger • April 21st, 2010 4:01 am
Originally appeared in American Thinker, April 18, 2010. For decades now, American schools corrupted by cultural Marxism have been eroding the moral fiber and judgment skills of schoolchildren. Unless sensible parents and teachers put a stop to the indoctrination, today’s free speech-crippling political correctness, tolerance of immorality, and lack of knowledge of our country’s birth [...]
Unisex school restrooms? You knew this was coming
By Chuck Roger • April 13th, 2010 9:44 pm
Fox News reports that a group of enlightened progressives going by the name of the Maine Human Rights Commission is poised to make it illegal for Maine’s schools to have gender-specific restrooms. We, the unclean masses, simply must understand that… …forcing a student into a particular room or group because of his or her biological [...]
Welcome to the Machine: Cultural Marxism in Education
By Chuck Roger • March 31st, 2010 4:15 am
Originally in American Thinker, March 27, 2010. Welcome to the machine. What did you dream? It’s alright, we told you what to dream. – Roger Waters The education machine that keeps churning out newbies conditioned in mind-blunting nonjudgmentalism has laid the groundwork for a left-wing takeover. What reduced American education to its current state? In [...]
The American Association for the Advancement of Science advances nonsense
By Chuck Roger • January 13th, 2010 11:47 pm
The American Association for the Advancement of Science wants to: …allocate additional [science faculty] slots to U.S. racial and ethnic minorities [to protect universities from] likely lawsuits by groups seeking color-blind admissions policies. How long until we see the American Medical Association demand that medical schools “allocate additional slots to U.S. racial and ethnic minorities” [...]
The curious phenomenon of humans acting human
By Chuck Roger • January 13th, 2010 3:25 am
To most people, a 14-pound stack of statistics interspersed with dry, scientific text might initiate a regurgitation reflex. But not to hard science types. We love data. We seek it out, embrace it, analyze it. Data tell stories. Statistics spice up those stories. Take the well-worn liberal saw that women and men are the same. [...]
Illiteracy–what we get with ‘liberalized’ education pushed on America by ‘progressives’
By Chuck Roger • December 9th, 2009 2:11 am
High school grads can’t read or do math. According to progressives, the solution must be to respond to “students’ increasingly complex and diverse needs” instead of addressing what generated those “complex and diverse needs” in the first place. In Minding the Campus, Sandra Stotsky and Ze’ev Wurman report that some progressive organizations want to: …allow high school [...]
They call me Spruce
By Chuck Roger • January 26th, 2009 4:31 am
My wife goes by the name “Hyacinth.” I go by “Caspar.” We have no crime where we live. What respectable criminal would set foot onto a street named Puffin Way in Pleasing Fungus Beetle Meadows? Towns are discovering the magical power of names. Meet Fort Pierce, the “Sunrise City” of 41,000 on Florida’s Atlantic coast [...]
