Category: Kids gone wild
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Parents flee Madison schools for good reason
They want their kids to learn & be safe! Chris Rickert, the best journalist working MadTown, reports that the population here in Madison WI has mushroomed 31.3% in the last 20 years while enrollment in its public schools edged up an anemic 2.9%. Wassup with that? Demographics play a role, he reports. All those high-rise…
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The third fatality was a victim, too
Be kind! Blaska is getting soft in his old age. Also battling pneumonia this week. So might not be in his right mind. The old guy is a honking, sniffling, walking apothecary of pills, littering tissues throughout the Stately Manor. “Officials identify victims,” reads the Page One headline in today’s Wisconsin State Journal. Our favorite…
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Fathers! Inspect your kids’ back packs!
and demand La Follette high school ‘security staff’ be terminated! Your correspondent was carrying a little baby we named Max out of what was then Elmbrook Hospital in Brookfield WI many calendars ago. The newly minted father — only a decade or so removed from childhood himself — half expected a tap on the shoulder.…
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Failure ain’t cheap
But progressives want to double down on more of the same! One might think that a poolside party atop the almost brand new, aptly named Lux apartment high rise on a warm evening in June might — as the guilt-ridden do gooders like to say — “build community.” Instead, 12 young people ranging in age…
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Let the kids play!
The smart phones can wait! Mother pointed out the seldom-used front door of our farmhouse east of Sun Prairie WI toward a small white building on the horizon — the one-room Oak Lawn School. Her oldest child would walk there the next morning, unaccompanied, to learn how to read greatly aided by listening to the…
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Madison kowtows to UW’s keffiyeh kids
The WI State Journal is struck dumb! Day 5 of the UW-Gaza encampment here in Madison WI. (Where is Ted Koppel when we need him?) Tents went up Monday morning 04-29-24 on Library Mall in a nationwide, (and we think) organized, well financed college campus show of support for the Hamas-led Palestinians. Police swept through…