In schools run by moonbats, students fail unless they give the wrong answer:

A 10th grade Ethnic Studies World History teacher at Chief Sealth International High School in Seattle gave students a quiz titled, “Understanding Gender vs. Sex.” …

Question 4 was a true or false question with the statement, “All men have penises.”

A student marked this true. This was marked as wrong by the teacher.

Maybe it was a trick question. After all, some men have experienced horrific accidents or worse yet have undergone “gender-affirming care.”

This one was more straightforward:

Question 7 was a true or false question with the statement, “Only women can get pregnant.” Again, the student marked the statement “true” because only women can get pregnant. Again, the teacher penalized the student, insisting the answer is false.

The student, who is remaining anonymous in hopes of avoiding retribution, failed the quiz.

This is the exact equivalent of failing a math quiz for insisting that 2 + 2 = 4. Welcome to 1984 as enacted by sexually deranged degenerates.

Under progressivism, students are not graded on their mastery of material so much as on their willingness to debase themselves by telling lies in obeisance to a sick ideology.

On a tip from Steve D.

For 2,000 years, the Holy Bible was the fundamental text of Western Civilization, providing its moral framework. However, the Bible is undergoing cancelation by progressives, who hate Christianity with the ferocity of Satan himself. Before long it will be made illegal for offending people who embrace sin, or worse yet rewritten to comply with liberal ideology. What then do we swear upon when taking an oath? The leftists running public schools have the answer:

The new president of one of Pennsylvania’s largest school districts was sworn into office with her hand on sexually-explicit LGBT propaganda and “banned” books.

Democrat Karen Smith took up her new position Monday night as the head of the Central Bucks School District and immediately moved to undo Republican-led, pro-parent, and pro-family policies. For the swearing-in ceremony, Smith chose to place her hand not on a Bible but on a stack of frequently banned books, including “Flamer,” “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” “Beyond Magenta,” “Lily and Dunkin,” and “The Bluest Eye.”

The reason these books have been “banned” (i.e., not always made available to children) is they are — to put it mildly — inappropriate for kids.

Both “Flamer” and “All Boys Aren’t Blue” feature explicit depictions of homosexual activity, with the graphic novel “Flamer” including illustrations of nude teenage boys showering and masturbating.

“Beyond Magenta” and “Lily and Dunkin” promote the sick concept of transgender children.

“The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison features a passage in which a 9-year-old girl is raped and impregnated by her father…

We have already seen the Bible removed from schools. The filth described above is what educators are replacing it with as they reengineer American society.

Moonbattery is not merely wrong, moronic, destructive, and disgusting; it is unholy.

On a tip from Franco.

If you don’t like being effectively enslaved so as to finance the extended adolescence of college students who pursue frequently worthless degrees instead of getting jobs, Ron DeSantis is your man:

‘I don’t support having a truck driver paying a student loan that got a degree in gender studies, that’s wrong, but I’m going to get to the root cause of the problem,’ DeSantis said.

He will do this by holding the universities responsible for backing the loans rather than taxpayers.

DeSantis’ demands for university-backed student loans comes just hours after Biden cancelled another $4.8 billion of student debt – despite the Supreme Court having struck down his plan to cancel $400 billion in debt in June.

You can see why Biden has openly considered packing the Supreme Court so that it can no longer defend the country from his handlers. In the meantime, he ignores it repeatedly.

Biden’s headstrong push for the relief program coincides with the looming 2024 election and desire to get young voters on board.

As with the welfare state, the Party of Big Government is buying votes with other people’s money.

The tactic illustrates a fundamental principle: the bigger the government, the more corrupt. Gratifying as it would be to throw criminals like Joe Biden and Bob Menendez into prison where they belong, the only way to clean up the government is to reduce its size. Ending its involvement in student loans would be a step in this direction.

On tips from Ed McAninch and ABC of the ANC.

Already liberals are officially codifying the racial caste system we live under. In deep blue Portland, government school educrats and unions officially agree that misbehaving students who are not black or ostentatiously sexually perverted must be punished more severely:

A new collective bargaining agreement between Portland Public Schools and its unionized teachers requires school officials to consider a disruptive student’s race, gender identity, and sexual orientation when crafting that student’s disciplinary plan.

When a student exhibits “continuous disruptive behavior,” the agreement says, school officials must develop a “support plan” for the student, which can include disciplinary measures such as detention. That plan “must take into consideration the impact of issues related to the student’s trauma, race, gender identity/presentation, sexual orientation … and restorative justice as appropriate for the student,” according to the agreement.

The agreement explicitly focuses disciplinary policy on “racial equity and social justice.” The objective is not to maintain order in the classroom, but to punish or reward students for their race.

The lunacy isn’t limited to Portland:

The policy change reflects a broader effort at both the federal and local levels to develop race-conscious disciplinary rules for public school students. Earlier this year, for example, the Biden administration released a memo urging schools to refrain from suspending students for truancy, arguing that “significant disparities by race … have persisted in the application of student discipline.” School districts in Washington and Illinois, meanwhile, have adopted disciplinary policies that aim to provide a “culturally responsive” and “restorative approach” to student discipline.

Lighter punishment for those most likely to misbehave will further disrupt classrooms. This is not a bug but a feature. Only when no one is able to learn anything can equity be imposed.

On a tip from Franco.

Ever wonder what kind of assignments children are given now that schools are run by leftist social engineers? Wonder no longer:

An 11-year-old girl was assigned to share a bed with a male student who identifies as a transgender girl while on a cross-country school trip, according to a demand letter sent Monday. …

Represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, Joe and Serena Wailes are calling on the Colorado-based Jefferson County School Board and Jefferson County Public Schools Superintendent Tracy Dorland to clarify “whether JCPS will continue this practice of intentionally withholding information about rooming accommodations from parents like the Waileses, who object to their children rooming with a student of the opposite sex, regardless of the other student’s gender identity.” …

The Waileses describe how their daughter, who is in fifth grade, went on a JCPS-sponsored trip to Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., in June 2023. JCPS had repeatedly told parents that the boys and girls on the trip would be roomed on different floors—and chaperones told the students that boys would not even be allowed to visit the girls’ floor, as well as vice versa, according to the letter.

However, liberal ideology dictates that some boys are girls. This illustrates why we cannot allow them to bully us into denying reality.

Good thing the little girl had a phone. She sheltered in the bathroom and called her parents.

Reports Joe Wailes:

“I was 2,000 miles away. My daughter is scared in a bathroom trying to get herself out of a situation. It was a frustrating experience, and I just really felt like it was not a situation my daughter should be put in.”

Now she is likely to be targeted for ostracization as a “transphobe” because she didn’t want to share a bed with a boy pretending to be a girl.

In other education news,

Bonnie Manchester is a Christian middle school teacher who was fired from her job in 2021. Her “crime” was informing a father and mother that school officials were referring to their daughter as a boy and keeping it secret from them.

She is pushing back against Ludlow, Massachusetts and its school system with a lawsuit.

The lawsuit describes how the school counselor and others maliciously coached troubled children to take on “transgender” identities with opposite-sex names and pronouns.

In this particular case, the parents had sent a letter to the school specifically asking that the school staff not have any private conversations with their 11-year-old daughter, as she was already receiving professional help for mental health issues.

But the school counselor ignored the parents’ wishes and secretly persuaded the daughter that she was really “transgender” and encouraged her to use a male name and pronouns.

Read the 13-part series at MassResistance for chilling details of what goes on in the world where children spend most of the waking hours they are not watching pernicious TikTok videos.

Until control of public schools can be wrested away from moonbats, children cannot be entrusted to them.

On tips from Blackjack.

If you were going to sink yourself into decades of debt to obtain extravagantly expensive ruling class credentials from an Ivy League institution, why would you waste your time on women and gender studies classes? After all, you could get the same information from watching the mainstream media, and it is conceivable that Biden will not get away with blowing off the Supreme Court to force other people to pay your student loans. The answer: to buck up your GPA.

An Ivy League report revealed that over 90% of women and gender studies majors receive A grades, according to Yale Daily News.

As for classes that impart useful information, allowing students to contribute to society, STEM classes passed out the fewest A’s.

This makes sense, considering that gender studies classes only require students to parrot liberal establishment ideology, whereas STEM class can involve mastering difficult material.

Avoiding STEM classes and taking classes in moonbattery is especially important if you are attending an Ivy League school on an Affirmative Action basis, as an increasing number of students do. Take real classes and you might flunk out.

As of 2021, there were over 180,000 cultural and gender studies majors in the United States, according to DataUSA.

Despite the glut of useless degrees in liberal thumb-sucking, there is no need to worry about employment prospects. Big Government is always hiring. No skills are required, although practice parroting leftist slogans is a plus.

On a tip from Franco.

After importing tens of millions of illegal immigrants from the Third World and encouraging them through the welfare state to reproduce at a much faster rate than the native population, care must be taken that they do not assimilate and become Americans, which would defeat the purpose of growing an underclass.

Ideally, they will not learn English:

A Denver school district has drafted a policy to adopt “language justice” in order to help non-English speaking students to be able to use their native language when learning versus being educated in English.

Maybe liberals read the Bible after all. The strategy echoes the Tower of Babel:

As of 2022, the school district has 35,000 multilingual learners with home languages other than English. Over 200 languages are spoken across the district.

Encouraging them to speak English so as to assimilate instead of the most common immigrant language, Spanish (also a European language), is racist. According to a draft of the school district equity proposal,

“Denver Public schools will be a district that is free of oppressive systems and structures rooted in racism and one which centers students and team members with a focus on racial and educational equity, enabling students to ultimately become conscientious global citizens [blah blah blah et cetera ad nauseam].”

The proposal denounces “deeply rooted systems of oppression that have historically resulted in inequitable access and distribution of opportunities” — while denying access to opportunity by preventing immigrants and their offspring from learning English.

Democrat/union control of the education system is key to ensuring that members of the underclass remain at the bottom, where they can be counted on to vote appropriately. In addition to multilingualism, the strategy of segregation is employed:

A high school in Evanston, Illinois, home of Northwestern University, has embarked on a new plan to try to get grades up for minority students: segregation. The classes, segregated by race for black and Hispanic students, are called “affinity classes,” and while they are not enforced, they were offered for black and Hispanic students only.

The classes have non-white teachers and no white students are permitted in the courses.

The nonwhite classes will no doubt get priority for resources in accordance with our state religion, Critical Race Theory. Yet standards will be markedly lower. Otherwise, there would be no point.

Like whites, Asians don’t get affinity classes. Looks like liberals have given up on keeping them down.

Allegedly oppressed minorities are bred for their votes the way farmers breed chickens for eggs. Just as a farmer doesn’t count his chickens before they have hatched, Democrats cannot count future generations of voters until they have been prevented from succeeding on their own, without handouts and privileges bestowed by Big Government.

On tips from R F.

By now it should be obvious that most people do not benefit from college, except to exploit it as a pretext to prolong adolesce at the expense of getting on with their adult lives. Yet liberal social engineers want everyone to attend university, for fear K-12 has not instilled sufficient indoctrination. Not everyone is going to make it through STEM classes. So the curriculum has been adjusted to accommodate the lowest common dominator:

Harvard professor and “diehard Swiftie” Stephanie L. Burt will be teaching a new course called “Taylor Swift and Her World,” set to debut this spring in the Ivy League university’s English Department, according to a report by the Harvard Crimson.

Thanks to identity-based admissions, being accepted to the most prestigious school in the country is no guarantee of being smart enough to find better uses for your time.

Meanwhile, at UC Berkeley, students will be offered a for-credit course called “Artistry & Entrepreneurship: Taylor’s Version” in the spring, according to a report by Los Angeles Times.

The class will be led by UC Berkeley graduate Crystal Haryanto, who seeks to address the alleged “stereotypical critiques” of Swift, as well as the pop star’s ever-increasing popularity and influence.

Less snooty schools also work diligently to advance moonbat pop star scholarship:

University of Florida will also be offering a course on Swift called, “Musical Storytelling With Taylor Swift and other Iconic Female Artists,” according to a report by Bloomberg.

Chinese students learn how to make rockets. Meanwhile:

As Breitbart News reported, courses on Swift have also recently been established at Stanford University, Arizona State University, New York University, University of Texas at Austin, and Ghent University in Belgium.

If you can’t stop laughing, remind yourself that colleges both public and private are subsidized to the hilt with your money, and that the Biden Regime is defying the Supreme Court to make us pay off other people’s student loans through inflation so that they can listen to Taylor Swift instead of getting jobs and starting families.

On a tip from Barry A.

If there were one place young women might be safe from sexually deranged men, it would be an all-women’s Catholic school like Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana. But under liberal domination, there is to be no respite anywhere:

President Katie Conboy told faculty in an email sent Tuesday afternoon that “Saint Mary’s will consider undergraduate applicants whose sex assigned at birth is female or who consistently live and identify as women.”

The concept of “sex assigned at birth” is blasphemous. According to the Christian religion, our sex is not arbitrarily assigned at birth by pediatricians but determined at conception by our Creator. As Genesis 1:27 puts it, “male and female He created them.” Our chromosomes confirm the Bible’s accuracy.

Speaking of the Bible, let’s review Deuteronomy 22:5:

The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

For an explicitly Christian institution to facilitate such an abomination is also blasphemous — and par for the course in the cesspool higher education has become under the control of moonbats:

“We are by no means the first Catholic women’s college to adopt a policy with this scope,” Conboy wrote in the email. “In drafting the language for this update, I have relied on the guidance of the Executive Team and others to ensure that our message is not only in line with best practices for today’s college students, but that it also encompasses our commitment to operate as a Catholic women’s college.”

Let’s hope they have women’s colleges in hell, so Conboy doesn’t face unemployment in the afterlife.

In the meantime, here’s an excellent idea:

“St. Mary’s College is no longer Catholic,” junior Saint Mary’s student Claire Bettag told The Daily Signal. “It is no longer a women’s institution. This is fraudulent misrepresentation at best. Every student should be entitled to a refund for fraudulent misrepresentation. An attorney should file a class action lawsuit against the college. They have abandoned their faith, and they’ve abandoned the women. No woman should be forced to share a bathroom or living quarters with a man.”

Amen.

On tips from Barry A, ABC of the ANC, Mr. Freemarket, and Franco.

Even the most trusted institutions have been subverted by social engineers bent on corrupting children — including the book company Scholastic:

Scholastic promotes the LGBTQIA+ agenda. The company has long published books that embrace the movement. Its website includes a “Resource Guide” titled Read with Pride: Educator, Caregiver, and Advocate Resources for Supporting LGBTQIA+ Youth and Books.

At least Scholastic used to let individual school administrators opt out of the LGBT agenda by excluding books that promote sexual perversion. However, the forces of tolerance found this unacceptable:

A far-left website, The Intercept, titled its article, “Scholastic Makes It Easy to Ban Black and LGBTQ+ Books.” Another site, Popular Information, labeled the company’s practice as “Scholastic’s ‘bigot button.’” …

Similar coverage came from the ultra-liberal NPR, The New York Times, USA Today, Slate and others. Lest anyone think that the timing of these attacks was coincidental, all of the articles mentioned above ran on October 16 or 17, 2023.

The liberal media establishment is a coordinated campaign.

Because these days everyone always does,

Scholastic caved in to the pressure. The company wrote a groveling press release that stated its new position.

Not listing the books that promote homosexuality/transsexuality to little kids caused “feelings of exclusion.” So there will be no more opting out.

Once upon a time, attempting to sexually corrupt children was punished as a crime. Then it was tolerated. Now it is mandatory.

On a tip from Blackjack.

Young people grow up emersed in moonbattery. Can we hope they will rebel before leftist social engineers have finished flushing society down the toilet? Maybe yes:

A group of high school students walked out of their classroom in Loudoun County, Virginia, on Wednesday in protest at the district’s policy on transgender bathrooms.

Loudoun County Public Schools, which saw ugly scenes at board meetings following a May 2021 sexual assault by a boy in the girls’ bathroom, adopted the trans bathroom policy in August 2021.

The policy, officially termed 8040, was approved 7-2, and allows transgender students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice.

On Wednesday, a group of students at Woodgrove High School in Purcellville marched out of class in protest at 8040, arguing it made them feel unsafe.

When moonbats bark that they feel “unsafe,” it means they are crybullying to impose yet another unreasonable demand. In contrast, teenage girls really are unsafe when boys are allowed into their bathrooms and locker rooms. This was confirmed when Scott Smith was publicly roughed up by police and arrested for complaining at a school board meeting about his 14-year-old daughter being sexually assaulted by a boy in a skirt in the girls’ bathroom.

LGBT bullies and their liberal enablers had better enjoy their upper hand while they can. Sooner or later, the worm will turn.

On a tip from Ed McAninch.

Mesa, Arizona has been said to be to conservatives what San Francisco is to liberals. But moonbats have been making inroads:

Sophomore Nathaniel Hamlet told KPNX-TV he walked into his Mesa High School class last Wednesday and noticed his teacher wearing devil horns and carrying a pitchfork.

Hamlet alleged to the station that his teacher proceeded to wave the pitchfork over students’ heads as they entered the classroom and said “hail Satan” to them.

The teacher appears to favor repetition as an instructional approach:

“I said, ‘Don’t do that to me,’ and I pushed [the pitchfork] away, maybe three or four times, and he still said it and still did it,” Hamlet recounted to KPNX.

No doubt this was supposed to be funny, but given the depraved sexual ideology public schools have been pushing on kids, not everybody was laughing. It could be that Hamlet was targeted for special attention because his father has run as a conservative school board candidate.

This being Mesa and not San Francisco, the teacher was placed on paid administrative leave. If it were San Francisco, he would have gotten a promotion and Hamlet would have been suspended for complaining.

On tips from Wiggins and ABC of the ANC.

To see what’s next as progressivism progresses, let’s plug into Bing Translator a German news story about students at the University of Augsburg demanding gloryholes in lecture halls:

“Three gloryholes are to be installed in the lecture hall center opposite the entrance, by the information boards. These are to be approved by the Department of Space and Construction and cleaned by the building management. In addition, they should be soundproof and opaque. The gloryholes should be designed to be as barrier-free as possible – the height should be adjustable, there should be wall handles that can be held onto. The lights should be dimmable and a possible knee padding should be installed. In addition, condoms, licking wipes, lubricants and disinfectants and wipes are to be provided free of charge in the gloryholes; trash cans are also needed,” the application reads.

The stated purpose is to reduce stress, but when use of the gloryholes inevitably becomes mandatory, it will be so as to display solidarity with the LGBT community.

On a tip from R F.

Centuries ago, universities led society out of the darkness of superstition and into the light of rationality. Now they want to take us back the other way:

A university in the United Kingdom will be offering the country’s first ever postgraduate degree in magic and occult science, according to a report.

The University of Exeter will be offering the Master’s degree beginning in September 2024 amid a recent surge of interest in the history of witchcraft and magic, Emily Selove, an associate professor in medieval Arabic literature who is heading the program, told the New York Times.

No need to complain. Emulating the curriculum at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is only a little worse waste of time than studying medieval Arabic literature, and less pernicious than identity group victimology studies. Oh wait:

[T]he program offers unique courses such as a study of dragons in Western culture, literature and art and the depiction of women and witches in the Middle Ages.

It is doubtful that students will learn any spells useful enough to compensate for not being prepared for gainful employment. But at least they will know all about how witches were oppressed.

On a tip from Lyle.