Tag: education

California Parents Protest School District’s Mandatory Mask Mandates

As the school season begins in August, face-to-face classes are resuming in school districts of Los Angeles, but parents and students who want to return are faced with mask mandates. From the start of school this fall, the California government requires all K-12 students to wear a mask to school, regardless of whether they are…


‘Education’: A Tale of Two Dictionaries

I’d like to ponder something I’ll call “A Tale of Two Dictionaries,” and in particular how those two dictionaries define a specific word: “education.” The results are enlightening. A Modern Definition The first dictionary is the modern dictionary. I’ll cite two examples from this “modern dictionary.” The first is the Merriam-Webster dictionary, which defines education…


Liberty University Enacts Temporary Measures to Slow COVID-19 Spread

Liberty University on Thursday said it will shift to online instruction and halt indoor gatherings, as part of its “temporary mitigation measures” to slow the spread of COVID-19 on campus. The evangelical Christian university in Lynchburg, Virginia, said the temporary mitigation period will last from Aug. 30 through Sept. 10, during which all residential classes…


Pennsylvania Republicans Reject Governor’s Request to Impose Masking on Schools and Child Care Facilities

Leaders of Pennsylvania’s Republican-led legislature rejected Democratic Governor Tom Wolf’s request that they call the legislature back into session and pass a mandate to require all schools and childcare centers to make children wear masks. Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman and House Speaker Bryan Cutler hand-delivered a letter to Wolf’s office Thursday in response…


Arizona School Board Member Apologizes for Cursing at Meeting

The head of the Scottsdale (Arizona) Unified School District (SUSD) Governing Board—one of four members facing a recall election by petition—is in hot water for using an expletive at a public meeting. “I apologized during the board meeting, as well as to individual parents who have written in and in the news. To be clear,…


Rutgers Football Player Enters Transfer Because of University’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

A defensive back on Tuesday said he is leaving the Rutgers University football team because of the Big Ten school’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. “The University of Rutgers [sic] has made the COVID vaccine mandatory to attend school and play football, therefore I have no other choice but to enter my name into the transfer portal,”…


Boston Parents Protest Mask Mandate in Massachusetts Schools

Several hundred people rallied for medical freedom in Boston on Wednesday as the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) authorized a mask mandate in public schools through October 1. Protesters demonstrated near the Park Street subway station, and then marched to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health while shouting slogans like “my child,…


4 Arizona School Board Members Face Recall Over Mask Mandate

Four members of the Scottsdale (Arizona) Unified School District Governing Board face recall petitions after voting Aug. 17 to require masks be worn inside school buildings in response to a recent uptick in CCP virus infections among students. The two petitions name SUSD Governing Board President Jann-Michael Greenburg and members Julie Cieniawski, Patty Beckman, and…


Chinese Regime’s English Language Broadcaster Makes Cartoon Targeting American Kids, Promotes Critical Race Theory

Recently, Wisconsin-based nonprofit Mythinformed, which works to limit the effects of authoritarian ideology, posted a tweet warning that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Beijing is “promoting woke ideology” targeting American children, referring to a cartoon video created by the regime’s English-language broadcaster China Global Television Network (CGTN) in September 2020. CGTN promoted critical race theory (CRT) in…


Chinese Regime’s English Language Broadcaster Makes Cartoon Targeting American Children, Promotes Critical Race Theory

Recently, Wisconsin-based nonprofit Mythinformed, which works to limit the effects of authoritarian ideology, posted a tweet warning that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Beijing is “promoting woke ideology” targeting American children, referring to a cartoon video created by the regime’s English-language broadcaster China Global Television Network (CGTN) in September 2020. CGTN promoted critical race theory (CRT) in…