Privately-operated charter schools in the United States have a long record of failure. They have been over-promising and under-delivering for decades. Over the years, many people, especially low-income minority parents living in urban settings, have been led to believe that outsourced schools operated by unelected private persons or large for-profit corporations are vastly superior to […]
The bedrock of American strength has always been education and churches and both have been virtually destroyed. In particular, vast swathes of Christian churches have been transformed into centers of Earth worship and all things green. How this happened is no mystery. It was intentional with malicious intent to destroy America.
What could not be accomplished by killing unborn babies through abortion will now be realized in outright destruction of the lives of millions of children that have just been put on the list of mandated mRNA injections by the CDC. Del Bigtree of The Highwire has pledged to launch 50 lawsuits at the state level to block any such Federal mandate.
Education and other public services and social programs have been under attack by major owners of capital and “free market” ideologues for several decades. To be sure, the privatization of all spheres and sectors continues at a brisk rate at home and abroad. Public-private “partnerships” and other pay-the-rich schemes carried out under the veneer of […]
Schools were shut down and students forced into distance learning while staying home, even though they had a minuscule risk of contracting COVID in the first place. As a result, many youth committed suicide and were treated for mental disorders, depression and anxiety. All of this was done under the mantra, "We have to keep the children safe."
Much like individual change, societal developments happen gradually, often painfully; even when sudden shifts take place, seemingly ‘out of the blue’, they are the result of an accumulation of incremental steps – the last straw on the camel’s back as it were. Small developments may slip by unnoticed, major events scream out and demand our […]
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Did you even know this? That there have been no admissions this academic session so far, to any Central University, as the results of the new UGC mandated centralized Common Universities Entrance Test (CUET) are yet to be announced as late as September 2022, when the academic session was to have begun in July/August. The … Continue reading Why no Admissions this year in Central Universities? JNUTA statement →
Statement released by feminists from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Fiji, Malaysia and India, August 27, 2022 We are a group of feminists writing to call urgent attention to the extra-constitutional attempts of the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) to suppress dissent. Lacking a popular mandate, hunting down student protestors and activists, including a LGBTIQ activist … Continue reading SL Govt – Stop Labeling Student Protestors and Activists as Terrorists!
(You can read this post below or listen above — or both!) My family moved to a slightly “better” area of our neighborhood shortly before I turned 15. There were many reasons for this relocation but here’s one factor my mother clearly articulated: “If we stay here, I’m afraid you’ll end up dead or in […]
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As children go back to school, a Delhi government programme to close the gap that has taken place in learning during the pandemic is helping in more ways than one. Pooja, a student in a government school in Saket, Delhi had been waiting to return to school for the past two years. As the classes commenced online during the pandemic,[Read More...]
