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Girls High School Basketball Team Banned From Future Tournaments for Refusing to Compete Against Team With Male Player
A Christian school’s girls basketball team has been banned from competing in future tournaments after forfeiting a game against a team with a male student who claims to be transgender.
In February, the Mid Vermont Christian School girls high school basketball team pulled out of a game in the girls state basketball playoffs. Head of School Vicky Fogg told Fox Digital that the school chose to withdraw from the “tournament because we believe playing against an opponent with a biological male jeopardizes the fairness of the game and the safety of our players.”
The headmaster added: “Allowing biological males to participate in women’s sports sets a bad precedent for the future of women’s sports in general.”
Now, the Vermont Principals’ Association has banned the Christian school from future tournaments because the school would not allow their girls to play against a team with a male player.
The Vermont Principals’ Association said in a statement that it supports transgender student athletes, and said that “Vermont state law(s)” give transgender students the right to play on their team of choice
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Violence Erupts at Charlie Kirk Campus Event Following False 'Lynching' Accusation by Liberal News Outlet
Chaos and violence erupted at a California college during a conservative activist’s speaking event, following a misleading article published by a liberal outlet.
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) president Charlie Kirk was scheduled to speak at UC Davis on Tuesday night. However, before his appearance, the Sacramento Bee published an article alleging that Kirk had advocated for the “lynching” of transgender individuals.
Naturally, Kirk never made such a statement. In a subsequent correction to the article, the Bee explained that the claim arose from an interpretation of Kirk’s remarks about a transgender swimmer. Kirk had said, “Someone should have took (sic) care of it the way we used to take care of things in the 1950s and 60s.” Transgender activists, who get overly dramatically upset at the slightest offense, naturally perceived Kirk’s comment as a call for a lynching.
Despite the paper retracting the allegation and issuing a correction, the harm had already been done. People were swift to document the false accusation that the Bee leveled against Kirk.
The false allegation was repeated by UC Davis Chancellor Gary May, who, as reported by the Post Millennial, labeled Kirk a “well-documented proponent of misinformation and hate… who has advocated for violence against transgender individuals.”
May also urged the UC Davis community to “work together to neutralize and negate” Kirk’s influence, aiming to ensure he addressed an empty room.
Following the Bee article and May’s call to “neutralize and negate” Kirk, extreme leftist and LGBT activists, including Antifa members, arrived to prevent the speech, leading to a chaotic situation.
Breitbart reported that videos appeared to show the radical leftists shattering windows to gain entry to the event venue while police tried to hold them back.
Additional footage displayed riot police confronting protesters carrying banners and chanting “fight back” as they attempted to move toward the venue.
Erika Kirk, wife of Charlie Kirk, posted on Instagram that the attack on the event was carried out “all in the name of ‘tolerance.'”
Breitbart reported that when the turmoil finally subsided, only two individuals were arrested for spray painting the building. No arrests were made for breaking the windows or engaging in altercations with the police.
Responsibility for this alarming occurrence can be assigned to both the Sacramento Bee, for publishing the false claim, and to Chancellor May, for echoing the Bee’s false allegation and for urging the UC Davis community to act against Kirk.
The left frequently accuses conservative media outlets of disseminating “misinformation” and “hate” that endanger democracy. Yet, here we have a left-leaning outlet spreading “disinformation” and “hate” against conservatives with real-life repercussions.
Regarding Chancellor May, he should be immediately fired for repeating false claims and most importantly for instigating the violence against Kirk. A similar incident recently occurred at Stanford University, where a dean aligned with a ‘woke’ mob to prevent a federal judge from speaking.
The truth is, the lies spread by the left about conservatives don’t come without consequences.
False claims like the ones spread by the Sacramento Bee and by chancellor May can have real and serious impacts on those targeted and on their families, as the troubling events at UC Davis clearly show
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American Kidz Is Getting Dummer
There’s an old expression that the longer American kids stay in American public schools, the dumber they get.
By that we mean that as kindergartners they tend to score near the top of the heap internationally, but they slip during the middle school years, and they slip even more by the time they graduate high school.
When we consider this against the additional ground we lost during the disastrous COVID lockdowns — the ones engineered by the Democrats and the teachers union pals, never forget — the picture is not only grim; it’s infuriating. As the Wall Street Journal editorial board reported last year on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results, also known as the nation’s report card: “Average nine-year-old scores declined the most on record in math (seven points) and in reading since 1990 (five points). Two decades of progress [were] erased in two years.”
Why not just throw more money at the problem, you ask? Oh, we’ve tried that. As the Reason Foundation reported in 2020, “Inflation-adjusted K-12 education spending per student has increased by 280 percent since 1960.”
With that kind of profligacy, is it any wonder that Randi Weingarten and her American Federation of Teachers cronies donate around 100% of their campaign funding to the Democrats every election cycle?
But trust us: Our kids haven’t gotten 280% smarter since 1960. Indeed, now we’re learning that they’ve gotten demonstrably dumber.
A new study suggests that, for the first time in nearly 100 years, the American people’s average IQ is declining, with the greatest difference in annual IQ scores being in the 18-22 age group. And — shocker of shockers — it’s a trend that the study’s authors believe might be related to the quality of education they’re getting.
As political analyst Robert Spencer sardonically puts it:
Yes, it’s hard to believe, but after years of being told that boys who think they’re girls and girls who think they’re boys are “brave” and “courageous” instead of mentally ill, and that the Founding Fathers were all racist white supremacist slave owners who did nothing good in the world, and that figuring out one’s pronouns is much more important than learning algebra or calculus, America’s teens are registering lower IQs than they have in nearly a century. It has long been obvious but now it has been proven: the woke indoctrination that passes for education in America today is making our young people stupid.
The study, published in Intelligence, “measures IQ test results among 18- to 60-year-olds to examine the phenomenon first observed by philosopher James Flynn” — namely, that starting in 1932, average IQ scores increased roughly three to five points per decade. The “Flynn Effect,” then, says that younger generations are expected to have higher IQ scores than the previous cohort.
“Data from the sample of U.S. adults, however,” writes Campus Reform’s Shelby Kearns, “imply that there is a reverse Flynn effect. From 2006 to 2018, the age groups measured generally saw declines in the IQ test used by the study, the International Cognitive Ability Resource.”
The study’s authors theorize that “a change of quality or content of education and test-taking skills” could explain the difference that education makes in the IQ of younger versus older Americans, “perhaps due to a shift in the perceived value of certain cognitive skills.” What those “certain cognitive skills” might be is unclear, but if we had to guess, it’d be a lack of sufficient emphasis in math and the hard sciences.
Trillions of dollars have been pumped into our nation’s public schools and universities for decades, and this is what we’re getting. If ever a moment was ripe for a hostile conservative takeover of Big Education, this is it.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/95733-american-kidz-is-getting-dummer-2023-03-16
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