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Yikes : On the first day of his American National Government class, Prof. Kevin Dopf asks how many of his students are United States citizens. Every hand shoots up. “So, how did all you people become citizens?” he asks. “Did you pass a test?” “No,” one young woman says tentatively. “We were born here.” It’s a good thing. Based on his years of making his students at the University of South Carolina Beaufort take the test given to immigrants seeking U.S. citizenship, most would be rejected. “Thirty, 35% of the students will pass it,” says Dopf, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and former West Point instructor. “The rest of them are clueless. I mean, they’re just clueless.” Most states require some sort of high school civics instruction. But with a recent survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center showing that about a third of American adults can’t name the three branches of the federal government, many think we should be aiming higher. Over the past few years, a small but growing numb...

 

 Don't assume that every strike happening in America is being cheered as workers trying to gets their voices heard and fighting to be paid for their worth.  Going by these headlines, some feel either inconvenienced or threatened : Now that the teacher strike in Newton, Massachusetts, is over, students are back in school, but the cost of the strike is still being calculated, and not only is the city seeking damages, a family is too. Lital Asher-Dotan has three children in Newton Public Schools, and while she is thrilled they are back in class, she said is not happy about the financial toll the two-week strike took on her and other families.  “People had thousands of dollars paid to drive their kids around, paying for day care, for camps and for babysitting,” Asher-Dotan said. After hearing a judge talk about the impact to students during a hearing about the strike on Friday, Asher-Dotan filed a motion this week arguing families should be able to seek damages just like the...

 

 Of course the question of why did CT need pandemic funds for education instead of just asking for money specifically for education should be asked.

 Friendly reminder that she also went after teachers .

  And he does it in about a minute .

 Mainly because teachers are not valued. An educated working class asks too many questions.

  Not even those behind the vaccine : Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said on Monday he had tested positive for Covid-19 and was experiencing very mild symptoms. Bourla, 60, said he had started a course of the company’s oral Covid-19 antiviral treatment, Paxlovid, and was isolating and following all public health precautions. “I am confident that I will have a speedy recovery,” Bourla said in a statement. Now that everyone's done with using COVID as a political weapon, it's time to downplay it so people can get back to work and school .

 Even a 15-year-old knows the answer to that one.