There are issues here. Of course there are issues ANYWHERE and I wonder how much of what I’m seeing here is because I’ve been here for three years so I’m privy to a bit more. Things are said in my presence that wouldn’t have been two years ago. Another convenient school has upped their building sub money to more than $30 a day more than I’m getting here. $30 per day, five days a week, four weeks a month for nine (make it with to allow for breaks.) 30×5=150. 150×4=600. 600×8=4,800. Probably worth the move. So I’ll pick up some gigs there over spring break and after this school wraps up (a two-week difference) and try to position myself for the offer.

In the meantime ….. the entire gig saddens me to the point of tears regularly. I try not to focus on it.

Jason Riley reports that according to an annual survey of school leaders “schools saw a 56% increase in ‘classroom disruptions from student misconduct’ compared with a typical school year before the pandemic.”

Instapundit readers know what I think about about all this.

I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: Pandemic school closures damaged children — and it’s not getting better.

New Study Shows COVID Poses Exceptionally Low Risks to Kids, Further Discrediting School Closures

THE WHOLE DAMN THING IS A MESS: Public schools facing dramatic surge in unruly students

a reminder of this thing: DAVY CROCKETT EXPLAINS WHAT’S WRONG WITH BIDEN’S STUDENT LOAN GIVEAWAY: Not Yours to Give.

Now to go off-topic to pad this thing out with some interesting stuff:

You Can Eat Better Than King Henry VIII, Thanks to Globalization and Burger King

a great series on Title IX and sports and education: Title IX: The New Shimmer of Statutes

Keith Lowery: History Is Not a Cartoon

Welcome To Our Crazy Years. “But you don’t get Hitler because of Hitler. There are always potential Hitlers out there. You get Hitler because of Weimar, and you get Weimar because the people charged with maintaining a liberal polity are too corrupt and incompetent — or crazy — to maintain a liberal polity.”

These are rare in this day of remote learning but here we are. And IMHO th schools screwed up. Yes we got 3-4 inches of snow in the area but by the time the busses needed to start running for MOST districts the temp was over 32 and a gentle rain was dissipating the accumulation. A two hour delay woulda been fine. Maybe they just wanted to get the days off the state allows.

And speaking of “the state,” “education,” and “allowing” things:

Ol’ Klaus Schwab of the WEF is going viral for a clip where he talks about revolutionizing education like a freaking Bond villain

“Professor George has put up one of the greatest tweets ever. Today’s American universities are strongly religious places with many, many rituals.”s Tom Wolfe wrote in his epochal 1976 article, “The ‘Me’ Decade and the Third Great Awakening:” “It is entirely possible that in the long run historians will regard the entire New Left experience as not so much a political as a religious episode wrapped in semi military gear and guerrilla talk.” (That line was written with early ‘70s radical chic in mind, but reverberates quite nicely today, given Antifa’s current love of paramilitary cosplay.)

THIS will end well: Minnesota Poised To Ban Christians, Muslims, And Jews From Teaching In Public Schools

The 12 most useless college majors, according to experts. I minored in two of these. One third of them are arts. And several are feeder programs for bigger and better things.

The NAACP Has a Demand: Teach Our Kids to Read Cf: Baltimore.

The Educational Ship Comes to a Shuddering Halt

This IS an issue in MANY schools. I’m in the middle of it. Personally I think they’re God’s gift to substitute teachers. IF the classroom teacher specifically references it in the lesson plan I of course follow their directive. But if left to my own devices (see what I did there?) I’ll allow them. Students seem to like me but the admiration is misplaced. “You let us listen to music while we work.” Yes. Yes I do. But if I was the one up here imparting wisdom and trying to shovel some smartness into that skull foll of mush I would NOT be letting you apply those tuneful soporifics! Wacko Leftist Lady Calls DeSantis ‘Authoritarian’ For Opposing Cell Phones In Classroom

I’ve been the building sub in my current location for over 1 1/2 years. I’ve always felt welcome and accepted but recently it’s becoming a bit much. I’m seeing more and more of how the sausage is made. Hearing the grumbles from the faculty. And the student body is disgruntled as well but aren’t they ALWAYS? I have a feeling it may be nearing a breaking point. Something’s going to happen. It might be race related. It might hinge on discipline issues or enforcement of school rules (dress code, phone use, behavior.) But it’s in the air. Seemed to tick up a notch AFTER Christmas break (not what the school calls it but what it was for me.) Time will tell. And hopefully I’m wrong.