Tag: Madison schools

  • The Right ideas

    from ‘the wrong guy.’ News photograph shows Milwaukee Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan leaving the federal courthouse after the third day of trial Wednesday. The injudicious judge is charged with helping an illegal alien escape. Shouldn’t the judge herself be leaving through the secret, backstairs passageway?  You know you’re in trouble when a fellow judge testifies…

  • Madison’s public schools are progressive

    expensive and disappointing. Everything progressives believe about K-12 education is wrong. It’s minority students who suffer most. So says The Atlantic magazine — hardly a MAGA outlet.  “America is Sliding Toward Illiteracy,” its headline warns. “Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.” Bad enough State schools superintendent Jill Underly cooked the books to…

  • See me after school

    Welcome to Lake Woebegone (Where everything ‘meets expectations’) Every so often, The Werkes attempts to be even-handed. (Why does it hurt when we do that?) But did anyone read Jill Underly’s explanation of why her Department of Public Instruction is dumbing down K-12 student performance standards?  The goal was to make sure we more accurately…

  • Blaska can’t win

    but he sure can whine! Last time Blaska ran for school board he was dismissed for “going out of his way to provoke liberals.” The Wisconsin State Journal could not endorse the one candidate in the 2019 election who supported its agenda of keeping school resource police officers in Madison’s troubled public high schools. This…

  • Is ‘restorative justice’ working?

    Dane County courts practice it, too! It’s heart-breaking, it really is. Two Madison teenagers took different paths. Anthony Chung was a National Merit Scholar at Memorial high school, student representative to the Board of Education, about to graduate from elite Georgetown University. With him in the car the night of 09-12-20 on Mineral Point Road…

  • Slim Pickens

    “Well boys, we’ve got three engines out, we’ve got more holes in us than a horse trader’s mule, the radio’s gone and we’re leaking fuel and if we was flying any lower, why we’d need sleigh bells on this thing.” Stole every movie in which he appeared, from Blazing Saddles to Dr. Strangelove. Could just as well…