Category: Critical Race Theory / Identity politics

  • Madison school suspensions are up despite all that restorative stuff

    Suspensions up one-quarter Attention, disciplinarians: expect more ‘leadership coaching’ The Madison school board meets tonight (03-05-18) at 6 p.m. to tinker with its Behavior Education plan. Your scholarly Squire will be truant. Like that Broadway diva Lynn Fontanne, he can be bought but he cannot be bored. Tonight’s session is a scheduled retuning rather than an…

  • Women are no longer victims but will they demand affirmative action?

    To forgive is divine We confess, the Indentured Servants tuned the Stately Manor’s 12-inch, b&w Philco to the 90th Academy Awards show Sunday night. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa, my Deplorable friends. Consonant with today’s victim-as-hero mentality, we blame our parents. [UPDATE: Apparently, most of you held fast and boycotted the telecast. A record low…

  • UW-Madison journalism prof is white and implicitly biased

    … and now explicitly biased! Sue Robinson is why Fake News. The University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism professor is why Sean Hannity and Donald Trump, Rachel Maddow and Bernie Sanders. To every excess there is an opposite and even crazier reaction. Professor Sue Robinson is proof of the postulate. The lady teaches the sneering Don Lemons of…

  • At Madison high schools beset by brawls, school board considers booting cops

    Discipline is Lesson #1 The goal should be helping students learn, not making the numbers look good That is done by demanding high standards Police EROs L-R: Justin Creech, West; Ken Mosley, La Follette; Zulma Franco, East; Tray Turner, Memorial H.S. Time for the Madison school board to hear from real people instead of the…

  • 4 sex offenders + probation + electronic bracelets = a Madison tragedy

    “Tossed her around like a rag doll” This is for all you social justice warriors whose mission in life is to Derail the Jail because … because … because? Three men convicted of sexual assault were released early on probation to a Dept of Corrections halfway house on St. Paul Avenue just outside of Madison.…

  • Let’s experiment with public safety

    Do you feel like Madison is safer today than 10 years ago? Honey, I shrunk the jail What have we been saying? The Blaska Policy Werkes bucked the Derail the Jail crowd last fall to support a more humane Dane County jail, one that offered mental health and AODA treatment. But we argued that they weren’t…