but the secret is …. I have a small piece which might be published soon. And it’s freaking my out and not going well. And it’ll take a chunk of the next two month. But I’ll still be here.

School wrapped up well. Graduation went well. Pulled a week at Canal Winchester … and the hit the road. Not going well but Friday was awesome. It’ll do. Fill the gaps. So let’s talk about the kids:

THE KIDS ARE NOT WHOLLY OWNED BY THE LEFT:  There’s always a price.

WHEN THE UNBELIEVABLE IS TRUE:  When the stories become true.

Student repeatedly slaps teacher in face while cursing at her: ‘Ain’t nobody even coming’

HOW CORRUPT ARE AMERICA’S GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS? How about this corrupt? Grading for Equity’: Promoting Students by Banning Grades of Zero and Leaving No Class Cut-Ups Behind

THIS SEEMS LIKE A THING SCHOOLS SHOULD DO MORE OF. AND NOT JUST FOR GIRLS. THE GENTLEMAN’S VERSION WOULD ALSO BE OF USE. PERHAPS MORE SO WITH SO MANY SINGLE PARENT FAMILIES:  Charm School for Feral Girls.

Are Poor Schools Underfunded? It’s More Complex Than You’d Think.

Some of us have known this for a LONG time: Nearly Half of All Masters Degrees Aren’t Worth Getting

College students can’t — or won’t — read, say profs. Ours are being passed in elementary school without it.

It’s Astral Codex so it’s GOTTA be good: A Theoretical Case Against Education

FIXED, DISMANTLED, THE EARTH SALTED… BUY STOCK IN SALT COMPANIES:  Why our educational system needs to be fixed.

But apparently it’s NEVER too latre to beat the crap out of a substitute teacher. NOT RIGHT:  Elderly Indianapolis teacher, 74, left with horrific injuries after being beaten by 6ft 280lb ‘man child’ student in the classroom as cops refused to arrest him

related: LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES: School Committee members explain why they want National Guard’s help at Brockton High.

Literacy or Loyalty?

CONSEQUENCES MATTER: ANALYSIS: Eliminating failing grades incentivizes laziness.

CHRONICALLY ABSENT STUDENTS NEED AN ALTERNATIVE

JOANNE JACOBS: Why Joe College can’t read.

for some reason I think this might belong here too: MARK JUDGE: The Left and ‘the fury of the fatherless.’

Same church, different pew: IS HE WRONG? Schools as ‘Epstein Islands’: Former history teacher goes scorched earth against ‘indoctrination’

And the holiday is Christmas. Let there be no mistake about that. The celebration of heavily armed Jews is already well under way. Winter Solstice still five days off (although it IS the last day of our school.) Zarathosht Diso is the 26th. So Christmas it is.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: ‘B’ is for below grade level (and chronically absent). “Achievement is down and absenteeism is way up, yet report cards show the same grades — or higher — as before the pandemic, concludes False Signals, a new report by EdNavigator and Learning Heroes. No wonder ‘families believe that everything is back to normal or will be soon.’ No wonder demand is low for tutoring and summer school.”

“My fifth-grade science project was to type everyone’s blood in my class. My oldest son’s fifth-grade science project, four decades later, was the equivalent of number-painting a comic book.”

I keep hoping we’ll get there. The problem is SO obvious to me becasue I don’t have an Ed. degree. K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Fed up with horrible student discipline, states bring back suspensions, expulsions.

CAN’T IMAGINE WHAT THEIR PROBLEM IS – THEIR UNION DOLLARS ELECTED THOSE OFFICIALS:  Teachers are quitting in droves because they’re scared of student violence — and a lack of punishment.

Dropping this here. The Intellectual Life: Hope for the Rest of Us Tl:dnr: No matter how many letters follow our names, no matter how we spend our time from nine to five on Monday through Friday, we, too, can lead an intellectual life. Sertillanges urges us to “learn to make the best use of that limited time; plunge every day of your life into the spring which quenches and yet ever renews your thirst.” May we all learn to plunge ourselves into that spring no matter our age, occupation, or vocation, whether our intellectual playground is the classroom or the lecture hall, the home or the courtroom. 

I remember the old days when a theater would hold 2-3 days of auditions, the committee would put there heads together and cast the show and then you start rehearsals. Whole process took 4-5 days. We began auditions in June. Couldn’t cast so show postponed to January. We auditioned this weekend and we STILL can’t cast the show. I’ll not be directing again.

We DID have a wonderful young man audition. Parents are Eastern European (or Western Asian?) and he’s home schooled. Had a home schooled young man at my table last month as well. This is NOT your father’s homeschooling. And that’s a GOOD thing. Speaking of schooling:

The government schools (K-12) aren’t teaching anything: Math professors: Incoming students can’t even add fractions, subtract

NOWHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION IS THERE A PROVISION FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO CONTROL EDUCATION: Federal Education.

CHAOS IN THE SCHOOLS: California Students Can No Longer Be Suspended for ‘Willful Defiance’:  Could Nationwide Change Be Next? It’s closer than you might think.

TEACHERS ARE #JUSTWALKINGAWAY TOO:  We’re Making Teaching Miserable for Teachers Yes. Yes we are.

Looking forward to heading back. I’ve had the incoming seniors since 8th grade. Might be pleasant. Already been asked to present one with his diploma! Not sure about the “building sub” thing. Haven’t been asked (formally) so my PLAN is to pick up days at HTHS as they become available. I’ll pick up BHS if available the night before. And if I have NOTHING at 6am I’ll drive down to HTHS and see what opens up (figure there’s about a 25% chance) and if nothing there I can pick up other schools as needed spur of the moment (OR take the day off OR drive a little.) Don’t WANNA miss days because that impacts my summer comfort level.

Of course it ain’t all gonna be beer and skittles.

PROF JENKINS: Leftists are wrong. Western culture is not white supremacy.

WATCH: Detroit students got suspended so they returned with a thug who mag dumped a pistol in a bus loading zone full of students Ohio has a program for CC in schools. Thinking about pursuing.

AMERICA’S GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE A NATIONAL DISGRACE, AND THEY CAN’T BE REFORMED. Ergo, the only meaningful solution is #JustWalkAway: Even with 5 extra years of education, a quarter of 12th grade students would still remain undereducated at graduation

Some GOOD news: The Phonics Resurgence

and some not: Schools Have No Constitutional Obligation to Try to Keep Students from Having Sex in the Parking Lot

And speaking of driving: A SENSIBLE RESPONSE TO A CRAZY CITY GOVERNMENT: Metro Atlanta rideshare company will let you hire an armed driver.

GOOD: Armed Woman Stops Uber Eats Driver’s Home Invasion Attempt.

WHAT CAN’T GO ON FOREVER, WONT. The government schools are a total mess, but let’s make one thing very clear: this is the result of policies promoted by the teachers’ unions and the “ed” schools: Teachers sound alarm on growing problems in schools as colleagues leave ‘in droves’

Brutal new research shows how the government ruined higher education

Not sure if this is “science” or “education” or both. I KNOW it’s effecting law as well. Professor says ‘junk citations’ have created ‘distrust’ in academic research.

Teachers “all over” are decrying this: “Equitable grading” a trainwreck in the making.

Study Shows that Teachers’ Race Does Not Affect Students’ Outcomes.

“Social-Emotional Learning” Is a Dangerous Fad

Putting this here in an “Ed” post because at one of the schools I sub for this has been a growing problem since the before times – and it’s NOT getting better: RAYMOND IBRAHIM: Bedlam at City Council: Somali ‘Culture’ Takes Minneapolis by Storm. “That Somalis felt comfortable enough to enact their culture here in America is connected to the unwavering Rule of Numbers: the more non-Westerners, especially Muslims, grow in the West, the more phenomena endemic to their nations—in this case, a breakdown of law and rise in thuggery—grows with them.”

And now it’s time to hit the road!