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Education articles deliver critical analysis of education policy, public schools, universities, trends, and current events — examining their profound impacts on social life, public health, freedom of speech, personal liberty, child development, mental health, and individual freedoms.

We investigate issues like school mental health surveillance and universal screening programs, COVID-era betrayals by institutions, DEI indoctrination in medical and higher education, university science decline and credentialism, gender ideology in classrooms, parental rights erosion, failed public schooling, meritocracy restoration, alternative models (e.g., homeschooling), and pathways to reform that prioritize critical thinking, evidence-based teaching, and human-centered education over compliance and centralized control.

I, a Headteacher, Was Investigated by Counter-Terrorism Agencies

I, a Headteacher, Was Investigated by Counter-Terrorism Agencies

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My experience has compelled me to take my employer to the employment tribunal. My claims include discrimination, harassment, preventing me from making a protected disclosure, and constructive dismissal. Five days have now been allocated by a court for a hearing in November 2024.

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None So Blind: New York Wants Children Masked at Schools Again

None So Blind: New York Wants Children Masked at Schools Again

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New York City government’s worldview demands an unending alliance with “The Science™,” despite the “experts” involved in creating it being summarily discredited. Acknowledging that they misled the public would remove their unearned sense of superiority and obsessive dedication to pretending that progressive political views are “science” based.

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The New York Times Finally Admits to the Harm Done to Children

The New York Times Finally Admits to the Harm Done to Children

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If a normie like me could read and interpret the data available since March 2020 and know that not only would closed schools be incredibly harmful to the most vulnerable children, but that their risk from Covid was thousands of times less than an elderly person, then certainly the science desk at the New York Times should have been able to do so.

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A Solution to the Problem of Failed Public Schools

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The public schools in many (most?) parts of this country are indeed broken, and there’s no point in trying to “work within the system” to fix them. They’re too far gone. Meanwhile, our children are suffering. All children are suffering. Our only option is to bypass the “system” altogether, take matters into our own hands, and create our own schools, focused on excellence and open to everyone.

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Did Lockdowns Finish Off Public Schooling?

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The public schools cannot be fixed. The bureaucracy is over crowded. Union control is absolute. Awful ideas abound about everything. There is a tendency to rely on technology rather than time-tested fundamentals as the preferred solution to any problem. As a result, the amount of technology is overwhelming; The amount of basic reading, writing, and arithmetic – vastly underwhelming. 

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Chronic Absenteeism Worse in States That Closed Schools Longer

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This paper is exactly the type of analysis that is crucial to quantifying the effect of Covid Policy response on our children’s education. Unfortunately, it’s after the fact. Many warned of the devastating unintended consequences of school closures. Our politicized, polarized culture clouded the judgement of our education leaders when it really counted.

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Don’t Assume that Experts Know Something You Do Not 

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The “expert” class is nothing special in intelligence. If anything this is a clarion call to the general masses of the US to stop assuming the “experts” know something. You can use the same search engines as they do to learn facts, and together we far, far outstrip the intelligence of all the experts put together.

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What They Did to the Children

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The desired reset was achieved; we have reset our expectations regarding truth, decency, and the care of children. In an amoral world the happiness, the health, and the life of a child only carries the importance we are told to attach to it. To change that, we would have to stand against the tide. History will remember those who did and those who did not.

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The Joyful Warriors of Moms for Liberty

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Joy can be contagious. And those of us who have fought against what felt like the world in the past 3 years need some joy as we continue to advocate for not just our kids, but all of them. And for many moms across the country, covid was a line in the sand. They will not let it happen again. They will be vigilant in fighting for normalcy for their children that they never realized before had been at risk.  

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