Category: Madison schools

  • The definition of madness

    … is expecting different results. We have been approached by neighbors here in Madison WI — this time not with a cease and desist order. They’re seeking advice, strategies, or black helicopter ops in the cause of reversing the referenda authorizing our schools to blow by state spending limits by an additional $607 million. Best…

  • Redefining failure & waste

    WI employers can’t find literate workers! Republicans in the state legislature are rightly holding up $1 million in funding for Jill Underly’s WI Department of Public Instruction after learning the state agency spent $368,885 to rent a Wisconsin Dells vacation spa for four days in June 2024. That is where DPI convened 88 “expert” educators,…

  • There ain’t no ‘UniParty’ in Madison, you fascist!

    Don’t believe your lyin’ eyes! Back when Ali Muldrow was still speaking to us, shortly after defeating Blaska for Madison school board, she invited her vanquished opponent to dine with her at an isthmus boîte frequented by other socialists like John Nichols and Mayor Satya’s chief of staff. Ali, a young black woman, seemed genuinely…

  • ‘Victimhood is not liberation’

    Guilty white progressives teach blame, not phonics. Monday, January 19, we honor America’s historic struggle for civil rights and human dignity. We do so in the name of Martin Luther King Jr. Blaska admires the guy for his courage as much as for his noble cause. (Great wordsmith, too!) History records many allies — some…

  • The Capital Times IS ‘the far left’

    Never reticent and probably none the wiser. We read Paul Fanlund and The Capital Times because he and it are responsible for much of the goofiness in Madison-area politics. Same reason Mossad keeps track of Hamas. Publisher Fanlund is smarting from the white-hot blowback from property taxpayers over their city and school tax bills (which…

  • Madison public schools are disproportionately stupid

    Racists blame the teachers! Madison’s public schools have a “coordinator for progressive discipline.” Things we never knew, thanks to Chris Rickert, writing for our favorite local morning newspaper. Yes, you with your hand up in the back: Isn’t “Progressive discipline” like saying “peaceful war”? (George Orwell, report to the principal’s office.) In the 10 years since…