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Georgia high school coach suspended after restraining student who had loaded gun
A Georgia high school coach was suspended after he defended himself and restrained a student who was in possession of a loaded weapon in school.
“I don’t feel like I did anything wrong,” Tri-Cities High School coach Kenneth Miller said, according to News 19. “I only adhered to what Fulton County School Board Policy says you’re allowed to do.”
Miller said that on Aug. 20, the school’s principal called him to her office about reports of students on campus with guns. “During that process, we located guns. We saved lives,” Miller told Fox 5.
Miller confronted one female student while in the presence of police officers. Miller and the officers were unaware the student, who eyewitnesses described as belligerent and aggressive, had a gun at the time of the confrontation.
The situation escalated when the student hit Miller with a stapler, News 19 reported. Miller then grabbed the girl and restrained her until officers stepped in and took her into custody.
Miller was initially fired, but the school district later reversed the decision to a suspension which has lasted months, News 19 reported.
“The district administration does not support Mr. Miller’s actions relating to this event and believes his conduct failed to meet the professional expectations it has for employees. Mr. Miller inappropriately intervened in a student matter being handled by school administrators and law enforcement. Mr. Miller acted outside of the scope of his authority and responsibilities,” Fulton County Schools said in a statement to Fox News Digital on Thursday.
“Mr. Miller’s conduct resulted in an escalation of a physical altercation with a student in crisis, which conflicts with district expectations to deescalate in these types of situations. Mr. Miller has not exhausted his due process rights at this time and remains on full, paid administrative leave.”
Miller’s lawyer called on school systems to support teachers who “get put in terribly dangerous situations.”
“Those teachers are our first line of defense against guns and other types of terrible violence that happens in schools,” Miller’s lawyer said.
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America tried exporting woke education — the UK fought back
An American school has been “downgraded” by officials. The cause? The school is accused of “placing more weight on teaching social justice than on subject-specific knowledge.” So apparently, pupils at the school spent more time being taught about “social justice” than tedious old skills like reading, writing and math. Teachers, meanwhile, were accused of clogging up lessons with “stridently expressed views on social justice” and creating a culture “where alternative opinions are not felt welcome.” All the time, educational standards have slipped.
Now which school could that be? It could be any number in Manhattan, especially the more elite ones like the disgraced Grace Church School.
But actually it is none of New York’s shakedown woke factories. The school in question is the American School in London. And the downgrading has been issued by the British schools inspectorate, Ofsted.
Unhappiness at the American School in London has been brewing for some time. Expat parents have been complaining increasingly bitterly in recent years. The school charges $43,763 a year, per student. For this, parents say that the school is teaching children all the usual American neoracism about “white privilege,” “white fragility” and the like. All part of that brilliant modern headlock whereby someone who is called a racist and objects to it is simply displaying more racism. It is a new twist on the old medieval trick for discovering witches. Dunk the women in a river and if they drown they are not a witch. If they float then they are a witch, so you can burn them.
Of course, the classroom is no place for such divisive nonsense. But it is being taught at schools across America and American schools abroad, as well. And as almost any parent can now tell you, and a growing body of work demonstrates, the results are simply camouflaging a collapse in standards.
In his new book, “Race to the Bottom: Uncovering the Secret Forces Destroying American Public Education,” Luke Rosiak lays this out in remorseless detail. He shows, for instance, how it isn’t just what is taught in American classrooms that is the problem. It is the whole crumbling structure now looming behind it.
The way in which, for instance, even the most well-off school districts try to get around any disparities in racial testing among students. One way to address this would be to improve teaching in the classroom, focus more on students who are struggling and encourage greater discipline in after-school homework assignments. But that is the hard way. Much easier is to call in huckster “advisers” who for a suitable fee will pronounce the testing system itself as racist. What happens next is predictable as the sun rising. Standards go off the cliff.
Yet the appeal is obvious. If a school can stop testing, then, hey presto, there is no testing gap. No tests, no testing gap. See how easy it is?
And it is not as though it is some fringe movement that is trying this trick. Randi Weingarten is one of the most powerful people in American education. Perhaps one of the most important people in America. She is the president of the 1.7 million-member American Federation of Teachers. And she is just one of those who in recent years has decided to proclaim that standardized testing is — guess what — racist. Weingarten is probably one of the people most responsible for the decline in education standards in this country. Not least as one of those most responsible for the shutting of American schools during the pandemic. Though she has tried to rewrite her history since, Weingarten is one of those who should take most blame for the years of lost learning in America.
But for people like Weingarten, there is always an explanation that sidesteps their own blame. Last year, she lammed into Stuyvesant HS for being too Asian. Weingarten didn’t exactly put it like that, but it is the only possible conclusion from her remarks. Of that school’s 750 students admitted in the previous year, only eight were black and 20 were Latino. Whereas 65% of the students that year were Asian. The blame? “Standardized tests.” Because obviously if you abolished tests, then the school would be more equitable, more socially just and have better results.
There is absolutely no evidence for any of this, but Weingarten and a whole generation of American educators are wedded to it anyway. For them, it is the easier path, and the best way to cover over their own stupendous failings.
Since they have proved unable to raise standards, they have decided instead to change the purpose of education. Such as by creating a generation of young activists and blaming any and all failures on amorphous forces such as “social injustice” or “systemic racism.” In doing this, the bureaucrats imagine that they are saving themselves. And they may well be. But they are wrecking the chances of a generation of American students, including those from underprivileged backgrounds who need excellence the most.
For it is relatively easy to rewrite the rules of any game. In tennis, for instance, it is certainly easier to play with the net down. As it is easier to play basketball if you pretend that the aim of the exercise is not to get the ball into the hoop. In making these adjustments, you would undoubtedly solve one problem. You may even have persuaded some people to feel like winners. In reality, you’ve created a game where everybody loses. Who needs a generation of same-thinking automatons who excel in precisely what exactly?
https://nypost.com/2022/03/10/america-tried-exporting-woke-education-the-uk-fought-back/
**************************************************Gov. Ron DeSantis Takes ont LGBT-Obsessed Left in schools
The Florida state Senate on Tuesday passed a parents rights bill, a media-maligned piece of legislation that will prohibit primary school teachers from talking about sexual orientation with children in pre-K through third grade.
Senate passage of the Parental Rights in Education bill by a vote of 21-17 marks a milestone in parents’ efforts across the nation to fight back against the radical left in the classroom. The legislation also represents a model for other states to use as they push back the woke tides.
The Florida House of Representatives passed the legislation last month, 69-47. It now goes to Gov. Ron DeSantis for his signature.
Opposition to the Parental Rights in Education bill has been fierce, with many on the left attempting to reframe the law as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. The left has attempted for years to indoctrinate children with LGBT ideology in public schools, and now activists are furious at attempts by conservatives to push back.
To be clear, the Florida legislation is not an “anti-gay” bill. It is instead a bill aimed at protecting children—and preventing educators with an agenda from infecting young kids with radical ideology.
DeSantis, a Republican, has expressed as much. In an exchange with a local reporter during a Monday press conference, the governor reiterated that the legislation was about protecting kids and that the corporate media was lying about what it would do.
DeSantis press secretary Christina Pushaw went one step further and argued that the bill, which takes effect July 1, was more of an “anti-grooming” measure.
They’re both correct, of course.
Americans are just waking up to how tight a grip the radical left has on the education system, and what dire consequences can result from that amount of control.
In Howard County, Maryland, eighth grade students were subjected to a video in English class featuring a biological woman who identifies as a man talking about transgender issues. The video begins with discussions surrounding genital surgery, sex, and public restrooms before devolving into a screed about transgenderism in general.
Or consider the two California teachers who aided a 12-year-old girl with a gender transition without telling her parents, then called Child Protective Services when the parents found out and tried to stop it.
Parents and states must be empowered to counter the left’s complete and utter control of the education system. And when states take actions to empower parents, they should be praised.
DeSantis and Florida Republicans deserve credit for his aggressive efforts to push back against transgender idealogy. It’s not a given that lawmakers—whether local, state, or national—will take a stand and fight the left.
Last year, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican, failed to stand up for biological reality when she vetoed a bill to ban biological males from participating in girls and women’s sports. Noem’s actions empowered the radical left, which viewed her refusal to ban men from ruining women’s sports as a jab in the arm toward its warped worldview.
Although Noem since has backtracked and signed South Dakota lawmakers’ Fairness in Women’s Sports bill last month, it came on the heels of DeSantis’ signing an identically named bill last June.
DeSantis and his team understand deeply that the radical left won’t stop and doesn’t care about parental concerns about the negative effects of its agenda on children. The left, alongside allies in the corporate media, will continue to lie about conservative efforts to counter its propaganda war in America’s classrooms.
That’s why it’s so important for DeSantis and his fellow conservatives in state legislatures and governor’s mansions to fight back actively. Because as passage of the Florida bill proves, conservatives can win.
DeSantis’ achievement in Florida should cause a cascade of similar legislation across the country. Americans who are rightfully concerned about leftist indoctrination deserve recourse against the activists who are hellbent on harming children.
There’s a long road ahead. But DeSantis and his team, along with GOP state lawmakers, can take credit for a huge first step.
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