of a very weird year. Covered a class yesterday at a school which hasn’t used subs all year. And the faculty and staff thought EVERYONE had been going sub-less. I felt like Powers Boothe in “Red Dawn.”

So what’s going on elsewhere?

High school students could be fully trained plumbers and electricians by age 20. Sat in a class yesterday and listened to a counselor advise a student who has no business going to college how to get into college. Sad, really

Principal sends white parents a ‘tool for action’ telling them to become ‘white traitors’ and then ‘white abolitionists.’ Haven’t run into this …. yet. Wonder what I’ll do when I do.

I tutored for the boards here in Ohio a few years back and saw this in its early stages: How the College Board Mangles the Teaching of History.

Wait! There’s COVID in the schools?? In Report Affirming Nearly No Transmission In Schools, CDC Slips In Shocking Data About Asymptomatic Spread

Researchers: CDC Misrepresented Scientific Research To Keep Schools Closed At Kids’ Expense

I got mine, but not all states are making good decisions. School Staff Need Vaccines, Too

Well. Yes. Your Kids Would Be Better Off Feral Than Going To Schools That Make Them Anti-American Racists

There are a few solutions on the way, if the existing power structure doesn’t strangle them in the crib. New college promises real-world STEM training, traditional liberal arts education in 3 years at low cost.