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WaPo: Outside agitators are involved in campus disruptions.

WaPo: Many protesters are outsiders

WaPo: Many protesters are outsiders

More than a quarter of protesters arrested Tuesday at Columbia University and 60 percent of those arrested at the City College of New York had no connections to the institutions, according to data from the New York Police Department.

It’s time to take these provocateurs seriously.  When a DA wants to, an avalanche of charges can be dropped on a defendant.  Outside agents should be treated as a serious threat.  They should be kept in jail as long as is legally possible to keep them from fomenting chaos elsewhere.  Intelligence agencies should be investigating their background.  Foreigners can be expelled, and student visas revoked.

The useful idiots from the student body should face university disciplinary hearings along with more modest charges.  Academic freedom doesn’t shield faculty from punishment for criminal activity.  They should be dismissed from the university.

Our government representatives should be monitoring the response by university and local officials.  If these disruptions aren’t seriously addressed, those officials should face consequences.

Indulging bad behavior isn’t doing anyone any favors.

My old classroom at North Royalton was on the second floor.  The windows opened on to the roof of the first floor.  Prior to my employment, a physics student climbed out the window, on to the roof.  The teacher, Miss Jen, tried to coax the student back in.   She begged, promised, compromised and negotiated.  The student screwed around on the roof until the period was almost over, then came in.

There are a few ways to handle a situation like this, but the main dysfunction is that the student thought climbing out the window was an action to consider.

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The ungrateful are at it again.

Boston Herald: Pro-Palestinian Protestors

So we are back to this.  City and university administration doing as little as possible to maintain order.

These Emerson students should be back on campus, trying to figure out their sexuality.  That’s become too political, so they dress in their best grunge outfits and protest for something they don’t understand. 

Emerson’s new president, Jay Bernhardt, wrote yesterday that the college supports “our community’s right to express their views through protest. However, they must do so in a manner consistent with the laws of the City of Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.”

At least administrators and city officials are saying the right things, but they won’t follow through.

A court official released the students on a “promise to return” on their scheduled dates.

Really?  A better response would be to charge them with three or four misdemeanors and set bail at a couple of thousand dollars.  Tuition at Emerson is $54k. They can afford it.

An Instagram post just before the arrests show a man with a bullhorn instructing the students on how to “form ranks 4 lines thick” and “resist police,” the post states.

It would also be a good idea to find out who that man is, who trained him and who is funding this disruption.  Where did the tents come from?  None of those chubby rascals look like they spend many weekends hiking around Acadia National Park.

Another solution would be to leave the police out of it and let the townies clear out the malcontents

AP: Administrators are derelict in their duty.

AP: Teacher sues district for neglecting obvious warnings.

The article describes a principal ignoring numerous credible warnings about a student having a gun.  A teacher was subsequently shoot at school.

Nothing about the article is surprising to a teacher.  The dereliction of duty by the principal is shocking, but entirely routine.  It is consistent with my experience at North Royalton High School.

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School Administrators talk to Gov DeWine about smart phones.

GovTech: Phone Bans Work

This would not be an issue if parents cared about their children enough to get them flip phones instead of smart phones.  However, this is a positive step.

Gov. Mike DeWine on Wednesday gathered school administrators from around the state to discuss how they’ve instituted policies to restrict middle- and high-school students’ cell-phone use while at school.

Speaking at a roundtable discussion, superintendents spoke about how lunchrooms and playgrounds have been falling silent as students focus on their phones instead of each other. Kids use their phones to harass other students, set up fights, or skip class.

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A small Reddit victory

While browsing the *Teachers* forum on Reddit, I read this post. 

If you want to keep your jobs, and preserve the education system as it currently stands, VOTE in the 2024 presidential election.

The text of the post was a rant about how Trump promised to dismantle public education and collapse democracy in America.  No one had commented, so I did:

The education system, as it currently stands, ain’t that great.

The original poster and a couple of dozen other people replied.  A third were supportive, so I engaged the other two-thirds.  Always be polite, but give no ground.

Several other people commented to disagree with the original post and started other threads.

After 200 comments, the original author withdrew her post.  My comment has 28 up votes.  I figured I’d be deep in negative numbers.

That’s a win.  Not only did she withdraw, but many conservative teachers know that they aren’t alone.

WSJ: Cheating Crisis on Campus

WSJ: Cheating on Campus

WSJ: Cheating on Campus

“When my peers are found responsible for multiple instances of inadequate citation, they are often suspended for an academic year,” wrote the student who sits on Harvard’s honor council, which adjudicates peer academic-integrity violations. “When the president of their university is found responsible for the same types of infractions, the fellows of the Corporation ‘unanimously stand in support of’ her,” as the body declared in a Dec. 12 statement.

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WSJ: Wisconsin Sex Addict Gets Fired.

WSJ: UW Chancellor Fired for Porn

WSJ: UW Chancellor Fired for Porn

The university system’s board of regents voted unanimously to terminate University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow during a closed session Wednesday evening. UW-La Crosse Provost Betsy Morgan will serve as interim chancellor following Gow’s dismissal, university system leaders said.

What could Gow have done that was so bad?

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