Activists from a South Carolina chapter of Moms for Liberty — a group best known for opposing LGBTQ rights, pushing for the removal of library books, and fighting racially inclusive curriculum — are starting their own public charter school. The new school, to be known as the
I almost let my subscription to you all lapse --- Then I read an article like this and I realize just how essential you all are --- thanks for doing journalism that isn't copying others - amazing - and thanks for making your work so easy to share - critically important - thanks for being so good at what you do --- priceless
Thank you Judd for this important info. They tried to implement the 1776 curriculum at a local school district near me, and it did not go well. Happily the board members who supported it were voted out in the last election and sanity returned. But this is what we are all up against. Make no mistake.
Judd and Rebecca, your intensive examination of the depths of ineptitude in these educational movements deserves deep appreciation and high praise! These "private companies more interested in turning a profit than educating children" show their avarice and incompetency.
Now we can understand more thoroughly why Nikki Haley didn't want to acknowledge the ugliness of slavery as a huge part of South Carolia's history. And, DeSantis does not even have to skirt the anti-women, racist biases he holds so dear.
Media must expose the stupidity and greed in Mom's for Liberty, the 1776 Curriculum, and the misuse of South Carolina's taxpayer funding of its money for education.
It's so ridiculous to me that those on right think our schools are teaching "white man bad." When I learned about the Civil War, Robert Lee and Stonewall Jackson were made out to be heroes. We never learned about John Brown, we never learned about things that happened later like the Tulsa race massacre.
Thank you for exposing this and here's hoping media outlets in SC pick this up.
In SC at least, so long as MAGA and GOP run the state, the only way to ultimately beat these Christofascist "schools" is via the proverbial market place. Whereby their financial and academic failures continue to be exposed and enrollment declines follow...
Rumor has it that the curriculum will include classes in "Ethical behavior in Threesomes" and "How to go shoplifting for fun". Both life skills more useful than anything they will learn from a Hillsdale College created curriculum.
It's difficult for me to wrap my head around the apparent support for this MFL movement; it is truly the furthest one can get from basic American values and not really even Christianity...it's old testament-based sharia law. What used to be conservative has become malignancy that needs exposure and excision.
These are nothing but "indoctrination schools". The fact that they can be fully taxpayer funded tells you that something is terribly wrong with a Government that would allow that.
So much for not picking "winners and losers".
They are so hellbent in their goal to continue funding these [often religious] schools] that even if the school is declared a failure, complete, with the achievement numbers to prove it, it can continue to operate on public funds.
We need to defund these grifting operations, because at this point, they are nothing but a grifting operation. These children are being robbed of a more rounded education.
As you can guess, I am in total opposition to public funds being used for private ventures: When public funds go into private ventures, these private ventures claim...PRIVACY, which means that you cannot hold them accountable.
I have hated the concept of publicly funded charter schools since they were used in the 60s to support segregation. I am particularly adverse to religious charter schools on First Amendment grounds, but it seems to me that any school that actively promotes discrimination in the overall society is just as bad. They drain public funding (all too inadequate in the first place) from public school systems. There was a much hyped study last spring about how they "perform better" but Forbes has pointed out that even the organization that did that study itself had done another study that showed the very same metrics put charter schools BEHIND public schools, and concluded that the exact same numbers were in THAT study "meaningless" and "small." Oops.
If groups want to set up private schools that leave their students ill-prepared after graduation to deal with society as it actually is, I guess they can--but not with MY money. My kids are long out of school and my grandkids just out, but I still vote for tax levies for school districts. Maybe the tax levies should add a few additional percents or so for those whose children are using it for private tuition.
I guess these Mom's For Liberty schools could be used to defuse pressure on school boards to ban books and ideas. Go to your own school and leave ours alone. Our kids will be much the better off if just THAT happens.
I think people are discouraged because we do not see any legal punishment happening to the worst orange terrorist from within. If the big honchos let him get away even though he is an existential threat, why bother. This is a dangerous set up.
But we must also be ready to protest in person with massive crowds.
It's very difficult not to make cynical comments about how the term education has been corrupted by both religion and politics. Moreover, elected representatives in many states appear to be siphoning off taxpayer funds to fund sham schools started to address the cultural grievance of the day. How can funding such enterprises (not schools) continue when there is no oversight? It boggles the mind what has now becomes accepted practice in some corners of education today.
I received a "National Opinion Survey, (from Hillsdale College) , on the threat of Critical Race Theory in American Education". This is a thinly veiled donation pitch, and return address is Washington D,C, Their goal, stated in the mailer, "Fully funding National Education Campaigns" Obviously the campaigns are directed at destabilizing public education. I am returning the survey without a donation, want to see next steps.
I almost let my subscription to you all lapse --- Then I read an article like this and I realize just how essential you all are --- thanks for doing journalism that isn't copying others - amazing - and thanks for making your work so easy to share - critically important - thanks for being so good at what you do --- priceless
Thank you Judd for this important info. They tried to implement the 1776 curriculum at a local school district near me, and it did not go well. Happily the board members who supported it were voted out in the last election and sanity returned. But this is what we are all up against. Make no mistake.
Judd and Rebecca, your intensive examination of the depths of ineptitude in these educational movements deserves deep appreciation and high praise! These "private companies more interested in turning a profit than educating children" show their avarice and incompetency.
Now we can understand more thoroughly why Nikki Haley didn't want to acknowledge the ugliness of slavery as a huge part of South Carolia's history. And, DeSantis does not even have to skirt the anti-women, racist biases he holds so dear.
Media must expose the stupidity and greed in Mom's for Liberty, the 1776 Curriculum, and the misuse of South Carolina's taxpayer funding of its money for education.
It's so ridiculous to me that those on right think our schools are teaching "white man bad." When I learned about the Civil War, Robert Lee and Stonewall Jackson were made out to be heroes. We never learned about John Brown, we never learned about things that happened later like the Tulsa race massacre.
I just read the article and immediately became a paid subscriber... we need more sources like this.
Thank you for exposing this and here's hoping media outlets in SC pick this up.
In SC at least, so long as MAGA and GOP run the state, the only way to ultimately beat these Christofascist "schools" is via the proverbial market place. Whereby their financial and academic failures continue to be exposed and enrollment declines follow...
Rumor has it that the curriculum will include classes in "Ethical behavior in Threesomes" and "How to go shoplifting for fun". Both life skills more useful than anything they will learn from a Hillsdale College created curriculum.
It's difficult for me to wrap my head around the apparent support for this MFL movement; it is truly the furthest one can get from basic American values and not really even Christianity...it's old testament-based sharia law. What used to be conservative has become malignancy that needs exposure and excision.
An absorbing account about the metastisizing cancer in our body politic. You guys are real journalists. Yikes!
Good article. Sad to see this group aligned with Hillsdale and Erskine. Another layer of brainwashing being performed on young minds with
1776 curriculmn.
These are nothing but "indoctrination schools". The fact that they can be fully taxpayer funded tells you that something is terribly wrong with a Government that would allow that.
So much for not picking "winners and losers".
They are so hellbent in their goal to continue funding these [often religious] schools] that even if the school is declared a failure, complete, with the achievement numbers to prove it, it can continue to operate on public funds.
We need to defund these grifting operations, because at this point, they are nothing but a grifting operation. These children are being robbed of a more rounded education.
As you can guess, I am in total opposition to public funds being used for private ventures: When public funds go into private ventures, these private ventures claim...PRIVACY, which means that you cannot hold them accountable.
I have hated the concept of publicly funded charter schools since they were used in the 60s to support segregation. I am particularly adverse to religious charter schools on First Amendment grounds, but it seems to me that any school that actively promotes discrimination in the overall society is just as bad. They drain public funding (all too inadequate in the first place) from public school systems. There was a much hyped study last spring about how they "perform better" but Forbes has pointed out that even the organization that did that study itself had done another study that showed the very same metrics put charter schools BEHIND public schools, and concluded that the exact same numbers were in THAT study "meaningless" and "small." Oops.
If groups want to set up private schools that leave their students ill-prepared after graduation to deal with society as it actually is, I guess they can--but not with MY money. My kids are long out of school and my grandkids just out, but I still vote for tax levies for school districts. Maybe the tax levies should add a few additional percents or so for those whose children are using it for private tuition.
I guess these Mom's For Liberty schools could be used to defuse pressure on school boards to ban books and ideas. Go to your own school and leave ours alone. Our kids will be much the better off if just THAT happens.
I think people are discouraged because we do not see any legal punishment happening to the worst orange terrorist from within. If the big honchos let him get away even though he is an existential threat, why bother. This is a dangerous set up.
But we must also be ready to protest in person with massive crowds.
It's very difficult not to make cynical comments about how the term education has been corrupted by both religion and politics. Moreover, elected representatives in many states appear to be siphoning off taxpayer funds to fund sham schools started to address the cultural grievance of the day. How can funding such enterprises (not schools) continue when there is no oversight? It boggles the mind what has now becomes accepted practice in some corners of education today.
I received a "National Opinion Survey, (from Hillsdale College) , on the threat of Critical Race Theory in American Education". This is a thinly veiled donation pitch, and return address is Washington D,C, Their goal, stated in the mailer, "Fully funding National Education Campaigns" Obviously the campaigns are directed at destabilizing public education. I am returning the survey without a donation, want to see next steps.
Good article. Sad to see this group aligned with Hillsdale and Erskine. Another layer of brainwashing being performed on young minds with
1776 curriculmn.