Yale Law Students Tried to Throw Pro-America Party, Here's What Happened

At top-ranked Yale Law School, a second-year student and member of both the Native American Law Students Association and the conservative/libertarian Federalist Society sent an email inviting classmates to an event: “We will be christening our very own (soon to be) world-renowned NALSA Trap House… by throwing a Constitution Day Bash in collaboration with FedSoc.”

The student added that the event would include “American-themed snacks” such as “Popeye’s chicken” and “apple pie.”

Within minutes of the email’s mass distribution, the student’s wokerati classmates were already signaling intense aggrievement. Some immediately concluded, with all the charity of Ebenezer Scrooge, that “trap house” necessarily connoted a nefarious blackface party.

The president of the Black Law Students Association quickly wrote in an online forum available to all second-year Yale Law School students: “I guess celebrating whiteness wasn’t enough. Y’all had to upgrade to cosplay/black face.”

If the story were to end there, it would be unfortunate, but hardly newsworthy. But it didn’t.

Twelve hours after the email’s distribution, the student was summoned to the Office of Student Affairs and presented by the law school’s associate dean and diversity director with a laundry list of already filed grievances.

The diversitycrat, a former Obama White House flunky, lamented how the student’s affiliation with FedSoc, a very mainstream right-of-center outfit often criticized by frustrated legal conservatives such as this columnist, “triggered” some classmates.

The administrators not-so-subtly hinted that the student could face serious professional consequences, such as not being admitted to the bar association, if he did not apologize. The diversitycrat then drafted herself an “apology” letter, Soviet-style, and oh-so-kindly “offered” the student the chance to send the apology in lieu of “character-driven rehabilitation.”

But the key takeaway from this sordid ordeal is how the diversitycrat responded to the student’s demurring and suggestion to instead let his classmates reach out to him individually: “I don’t want to make our office look like an ineffective source of resolution.” And there lies the rub.

The diversitycrat’s line gives away the entire game, exposing how the very act of mass-hiring professional “diversity” personnel — especially on campus, but also in the corporate world, where it usually goes under the heading of “diversity, equity and inclusion” — necessarily leads, without additional firm guardrails in place, to witch hunts such as this.

The great irony is that, at a campus such as Yale’s, the near-ubiquitous and oppressive leftism means there is sufficient social opprobrium to deter most perceived “deviations” such as this. On-campus leftists ought to be comforted, in other words, by their own side’s ability to self-police the commons.

But they won’t because the objective is not to “win” the campus wars. They’ve already done that. The objective is to make the other side feel pain

https://www.westernjournal.com/yale-law-students-tried-throw-pro-america-party-happened-12-hours-later/

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Threatening messages reportedly directed at Rhode Island teacher who opposes Critical Race Theory

A Rhode Island middle school teacher said she's facing harassment after openly opposing the teaching of critical race theory .

Ramona Bessinger, who teaches at Esek Hopkins Middle School, claimed that the racial ideology led to taunting from students and colleagues alike. One student called her "America" because she is white, and a staff member accused her of having "white privilege," she said.

After speaking out about teaching policies centered on the ideology and whistleblowing on the school's alleged encouragement to participate in "white educator affinity groups," Bessinger was notified on Oct. 5 that she had to attend a "pre-disciplinary hearing" Wednesday — not for her views, but for violating a school safety procedure during a lockdown.

Photographs, allegedly of Bessinger's classroom whiteboard from when she was not present, appear to show threatening messages including "F*** ya b****," "Bye you fired," "b****," "Fire Ms. Bessinger," and many other scribbled phrases suggesting she leave.

Bessinger also reportedly called the police to her school Wednesday because she felt unsafe.

She was interrogated at her Wednesday hearing for the alleged lapse in safety protocol, Legal Insurrection reported .

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/threatening-messages-reportedly-directed-at-rhode-island-teacher-who-opposes-critical-race-theory

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Australia: ‘I’m just busting to come back to school’: Sydney’s youngest students back in classrooms

Before kindergarten student Maddy Wong had even left her mum’s car and said goodbye this morning, she was making announcements to her head of school through the car window. “I’m just busting to come back to school!” she yelled out to him.

Daniel Sandral, head of the junior school at MLC School in Burwood, rushed forward to open the door and say welcome back. “I’m busting to come to school,” Maddy repeated, as she put her backpack on. “Because my teacher is coming back and I miss my teacher.”

Mr Sandral and deputy head Joanne Sharke were dressed in unicorn onesies and waiting at the school entrance from 8am on Monday, to greet each kindergarten and year 1 student individually as they were dropped off in the school car park.

“We thought nothing could be more magical for a little girl than turning up to school to see a unicorn,” Mr Sandral said. “I have been longing for this moment.”

Elsewhere in Sydney, balloons, posters and smiling teachers welcomed thousands of students through the gates, as kindergarten and year 1 students became the first primary school children to attend school full-time since the end of June.

Some clung to their mothers and there were a few tears, but others were running onto campus before their parents had a chance to wave them off.

MLC mother Rebecca Lim said her daughter Charlotte was “so excited to see her friends again”. “She’s been missing everybody,” she said.

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet was among the parents resuming the school drop-off routine. He took his son William and said he saw “massive queues” and “excited parents”.

“We know that for many kids, they’ll be anxious with the first day of school... [But there] is a lot of excitement,” he said. “Many of our children have gone through a very difficult time, not being able to interact and play with their friends.”

Education Minister Sarah Mitchell said there were “lots of happy smiling faces across Sydney” as she thanked teachers for all their work over lockdown, preparing for a safe return and getting vaccinated.

She said the public school staff vaccination rate was at about 90 per cent on Monday, ahead of the November 8 deadline.

“The learning from home that they [teachers] have done over the last term has just been extraordinary. The way that they’ve adapted, been flexible and really made sure that they had the strong delivery of education,” she said.

“I think that everybody across the state knows that we owe our teachers a lot of gratitude for everything that they’ve done. But now, obviously we’re back and it’s exciting to be back in the classroom and having students return.”

At MLC, Mr Sandral and Ms Sharke said this first week back would entail additional numeracy and literacy lessons to check student progress, but their welfare was the ultimate concern. “At the end of the day I think the biggest challenge has been not being with their peers and the socialisation,” Mr Sandral said.

Ms Sharke has designed a wellbeing program for the rest of the year, so that each day starts with time for students to re-connect with their friends and teachers; they will spend time playing get to know you games and reacquainting themselves with the school site.

“We’ve got lots of different activities, circle time where they can talk about their experiences and feelings. We don’t really know what life’s been like for them... we are very conscious the girls have been away for a long time,” she said.

“I think it’s important we take the time to understand their feelings around coming back - school has been the ‘unsafe place to be’ all this time’ so it’s making sure they’re comfortable.”

Year 12 students also had the option of returning to school full-time on Monday ahead of their HSC, while the rest of students will return full-time from next Monday, October 25.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/i-m-just-busting-to-come-back-to-school-sydney-s-youngest-students-back-in-classrooms-20211018-p590w2.html

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