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Let’s bring back Logic to the classrooms!
🧠 Logic. Critical Thinking. Truth. Yesterday’s Fire of Liberty Show with @TinaDescovich reminded us why these belong back in every classroom. 👉 youtube.com/live/cIVAT-wt4UU…
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📚Teacher Freedom Summit is for Everyone! This July, hundreds of teachers, parents, education majors, and advocates will gather in Dallas to take back our classrooms and make the need for teachers’ unions obsolete. This isn’t another conference. It’s the front line of the education freedom movement- and you are part of it. @Freedom4Teachrs
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Grow Your Own (GYO) teachers' programs around the nation that receive federal funding have been hijacked by leftist extremist groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). To tackle the national teacher shortage, school districts have implemented teacher training programs in high schools often in partnership with local colleges. Many of these programs have been infiltrated by outside groups with social justice and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agendas. In GYO programs, high school students can take dual-enrollment courses that give them a boost toward a degree path to becoming a teacher. Often local districts will guarantee a job to these students who successfully complete their program and go on to earn a degree. It's a great idea that's gone astray from its original purpose. Instead, teachers are being indoctrinated in social justice and political agendas that are then used in K-12 classrooms across the country. restoration-news.com/teacher…
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School safety is increasingly treated as a mental-health issue. Congress's solution is to pour money into school-based mental-health programs...more screenings, more referrals, more diagnoses. But schools get safer when expectations are clear, rules are enforced, and students are engaged in learning. That's just a behavior problem, not a clinical one.
End the federal mental-health mission creep in schools.
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“Students cannot analyze history they do not know, evaluate scientific claims they do not understand, or engage in civic debate without any understanding of civilization. Knowledge is a prerequisite for any critical thinking.”
Schools have spent decades stripping out history, science, geography, and literature in favor of generic reading strategies, social-emotional learning, and gender studies—then wonder why the achievement gap persists. Two students can read the same paragraph and score differently—not because one is smarter, but because one knows the topic better. The achievement gap is a knowledge gap. dailysignal.com/2026/06/14/a…
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Want to save the West? Start by telling your children the truth. A society that teaches its children to hate their inheritance shouldn't be surprised when they fail to preserve it. Teach your children gratitude. Teach them why freedom matters. Teach them what made the West successful. Because if you don't tell them the truth about their civilisation, someone else will tell them a lie.
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This is not a fringe activist group, it is a Wisconsin STATE agency that is funded by your tax dollars…Training the people who work with your children. Thought the woke training was over? It’s only hiding in a space most politicians are unwilling to traverse…children’s mental health. Here, these activists have unfettered access…to a child’s MIND. The training asks mental health workers: • “What is your race?” • “Has your skin color given you privilege others didn’t have?” • “How does white fragility impact you?” And it links to “Dear Nice White People” and “The Case for Reparations.” THIS is what the state mental health leaders in Wisconsin are spending time and money on…is it no wonder that the kids are not alright?
“Has your race given you unearned privilege?” That is a real question being asked of white counselors and white students in Wisconsin. This makes me sick. I want you to picture the person your child talks to when they’re struggling at school. Their counselor. Now I want you to know what that counselor is being trained on by Wisconsin’s own state children’s mental health agency — a government office that answers directly to the Governor. The training is called “White Privilege — Exploring Racism and Whiteness.” The resources include “Dear Nice White People” and “The Case for Reparations.” The discussion questions ask counselors to reflect on whether their skin color gave them privilege others didn’t have. I’m not describing a political rally. I’m describing a taxpayer-funded government training program…and that’s exactly why it’s so dangerous.
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Mental Health, as many perceive it to be, is now widely overrun by radicals using it for their own political agenda. As mental health increasingly grows in schools, so does the role of government operating as parental surrogates and entering the personal lives of minors...
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To be clear, no one has the solution for teenage cruelty. That’s why anti-bullying programs are so ineffective: they try to create a world full of friction where everyone is friends and likes everyone else an equal amount
Free Expression's @emmma_camp_ doesn’t have a solution for teenage cruelty but she does have an idea for how to stop “lunch shaming.” Subscribe to Free Expression: on.wsj.com/4xuG1NO
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A House Appropriations Committee bill would route ~70% of school safety funding to school-based mental-health efforts—even though no evidence suggests that the education system can treat mental-health conditions better than clinical settings can. The funding was traditionally used for physical security, violence prevention, discipline, and emergency preparedness. @CarolynGorman_'s latest: city-journal.org/article/sch…
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Universal mental-health screening in K-12 produces up to 90% false positives. A 19-year RCT on school-based mental-health services found zero gains in test scores or attendance. Just more kids funneled into treatment, with no way to tell whether they needed it. Kids in real emotional distress need real clinical support. But universal programs do the opposite. They spread resources thin, divert attention from the few in genuine crisis, medicalize ordinary distress, and convince healthy kids they're sick. So why did the House Appropriations Committee just vote to lock ~70% of the federal "Safe Schools" fund—built for physical security, violence prevention, and emergency preparedness—into mental-health grants with this track record? Congress should shut this down. Schools will never be equipped or accountable for clinical work. Stop treating them like mental-health clinics. @ManhattanInst fellow @CarolynGorman_ in @CityJournal city-journal.org/article/sch…
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Congress is turning school safety funding into mental-health mission creep. Nearly 70% of the $350M Safe Schools account now goes to counseling, SEL, and “trauma-informed” programs, despite systematic reviews showing weak or null effects on actual safety, behavior, or academics. Discipline and physical security keep getting shortchanged. Carolyn Gorman explains: city-journal.org/article/sch…
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Most "trauma-informed" programs are a trojan horse for DEI and soft fraud (if not outright fraud). In a public records request, I received the names of just a handful of "trauma-informed" trainings/topics being delivered in NYC schools with taxpayer dollars: - "Embracing Multicultural Anti-Racist Communities" - "Understanding the Impact of Race, Power, and Privilege" - "Emotionally Attuned Conversations about Race" - "Navigating Power & Privilege in Psychotherapy" - "Healing Intergenerational Wounds" - "Healing Trauma for Children, Teens, and the Child Within" (creepy) - "Cultural Competency/Curiosity" (creepy)
This is how the Office of Children's Mental Health in Wisconsin looks at trauma informed care, and it's horrific. x.com/i/status/1990504516781…
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🚨EXCLUSIVE A major tech platform has agreed to stop blacklisting conservatives, in another blow to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Reminder: SPLC faces fraud charges for funding members of the Klan while fundraising on combatting it. 🧵1/10 dailysignal.com/2026/06/14/e…
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This 👇 @Moms4Liberty and MAHA time to bring attention to this!
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“If you are on the wrong road progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. There is nothing progressive about being pig-headed and refusing to admit a mistake…We're on the wrong road. And if that is so we must go back. Going back is the quickest way on.”-C.S. Lewis
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Fascinating read … often I feel like i’m drowning in email. A World Without Email argues that the real problem isn’t just the email itself, it’s a work culture built around constant communication and interruptions. I will strive for less reacting and more focusing.
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Robert Pondiscio had a fantastic piece published in Education Next. He and his co-author discussed the trend of traditional public school teachers leaving their districts to take a pay cut and work in classical schools. educationnext.org/the-battle… @EducationNext @rpondiscio
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“The key book for me is @DTWillingham’s Why Don’t Students Like School?” - @NickGibbUK talking about the books which influenced his thinking. A big shoutout for @daisychristo too at @researchED_US Houston
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I still remember that awful feeling in middle school when a group of girls would be gathered around Monday morning talking about all the fun they had at a sleepover that I missed. The inside jokes and stories that I wasn’t privy to ostracized me from the conversation and made me so envious. That’s essentially what schools do to millions of students when they fail to expose them to classical works of literature. Choosing to only teach “culturally relevant” texts ostracizes students from the ongoing “great conversation” that began centuries ago. Students may not experience moments of envy as their peers gather on Monday morning laughing about and discussing the latest Shakespeare play (or they might), but they will be culturally literate enough to understand when the casual references to his plays and characters made in everyday life. Some students will certainly choose to dismiss or decline the invitation into the “great conversation” (they can’t begin to comprehend what a lively conversation it is), but schools should still continue to invite them early and often.
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