Category: education

Family, Not Preschool, Is the Secret to a Good Education

“I was so worried my son wouldn’t pass his kindergarten entrance exam,” one of my friends recently told me, noting that his child hadn’t attended preschool. “That’s my pet peeve!” another friend sputtered at the mention of preschool. She noticed that many schools today want to make sure kids know their letters before entering kindergarten,…


Back to School 2022

Commentary As parents prepare to send their children back to school, many will have made decisions about their child’s education that will not only put them on a different trajectory, but also impact the public education system, which is being used in too many districts to indoctrinate more than educate. Stories about drag queens in kindergarten, forcing…


Barbara Kay: Parents in Every Province Should Be Badgering Politicians for Charter Schools

Commentary Growing old has its compensations. One is institutional memory. Having been educated in an era when “Western civilization” was not a trope to be spat out like a bad oyster, I was free to absorb the cultural glories of the past without shame. At my Toronto public high school, Latin was obligatory. I loved…


Biden Administration and Florida Agriculture Commissioner to Approve Christian School Lunches

PUNTA GORDA, Fla.—The Biden administration and Florida’s agriculture commissioner say they intend to approve applications for funding to continue to serve free meals for low-income children at Grant Park Christian Academy—just days before the school was to begin a new school year and a lawsuit was to be heard in federal court over the lunch…


Father-of-5 Leads Parents Suing School Board for Asking Students Their Gender Pronouns, ‘About Their Sex Lives’

Outraged parents launched a lawsuit against Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) in Virginia for teaching inappropriate, sexualized material to children, and other violations of state constitutional rights protecting parents and children. America First Legal on July 21 served discovery requests seeking answers from LCPS, School District Superintendent Scott Ziegler, and several other school board officials on…


Education Is in Shambles

Commentary The single most bizarre aspect of the pandemic policy response was the shutting of schools, public and private. One country never did that—Sweden—and the results were fabulous: zero deaths and zero educational losses. That this was the right choice should have been obvious from the beginning. COVID was never a serious threat to kids,…


Analysis: Deep-Rooted Marxism in American Education Corrupting Youth—With Sheri Few

We explore the deep root of Marxism in American education. At the same time, is a deep transformation taking place in American education? Parents are fighting back against critical race theory (CRT) being taught in classrooms. But it’s worth exploring where this all started, of communism in education: where teachers are either tools of brainwashing…


PREMIERING NOW: How Teachers Unions Exploited COVID to Grab Funds While Keeping Schools Closed—Corey DeAngelis

This episode will premiere on Tuesday, Aug. 2, at 7:30 p.m. ET. “You had the teachers unions lobbying the CDC to make it more difficult to reopen schools in person so that they could hold children’s education hostage to secure multiple multibillion-dollar ransom payments from the taxpayer. And it worked for them. They received about…


How Teachers Unions Exploited COVID to Grab Funds While Keeping Schools Closed—Corey DeAngelis

“You had the teachers unions lobbying the CDC to make it more difficult to reopen schools in person so that they could hold children’s education hostage to secure multiple multibillion-dollar ransom payments from the taxpayer. And it worked for them. They received about $190 billion in supposed COVID relief.” At the FreedomFest conference in Las…


PREMIERING 7:30 PM ET: How Teachers Unions Exploited COVID to Grab Funds While Keeping Schools Closed—Corey DeAngelis

This episode will premiere on Tuesday, Aug. 2, at 7:30 p.m. ET. “You had the teachers unions lobbying the CDC to make it more difficult to reopen schools in person so that they could hold children’s education hostage to secure multiple multibillion-dollar ransom payments from the taxpayer. And it worked for them. They received about…