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Category: Madison schools

  • Protect Madison students, vote Reyes

    The doomsday clock at the Stately Manor is counting down the hours until 7 a.m. Tuesday, April 3, a date that will live … in INFAMY! Excuse us, we got carried away. That is the Spring, non-partisan (yeah, right!) Election Day. One week from today’s posting. We’ve got some pretty consequential elections. Top of the…

  • 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…

  • Dead bank robber is another victim with ‘unmet needs’

    Money is protected by force of arms; children are not The aborted bank robbery on Madison’s far east side is what separates our liberal-progressive-socialists acquaintances from the rest of us. Thursday’s was the fourth robbery in 14 months at the Chase branch bank on Milwaukee Street, located in a residential neighborhood. Following the one in…

  • ‘The Left doesn’t fight evil; it fights those who do’

    Must not allow victims to defend themselves A persistent Madison pest who infests my Facebook page insists that anyone who defends our schools from mass shooters be tested first for “implicit bias.” Along with rubella, most likely. Yeah, the pest just played the Race Card. As if the police officer assigned to the school or…

  • Madison school board gets an earful from La Follette High School parents & students

    Madison School District’s goal is not safety, it’s making the racial disparity numbers work While the Madison School Board considers expelling police from its four high schools, our classrooms are being disrupted in the name of racial equity. Large-scale student brawls disrupted all four high schools in the last two weeks, starting February 13, when…

  • ‘Of course police officers should stay in Madison’s high schools’

    ‘Turkey Lives Matter’ Hooray for the Wisconsin State Journal. Once again, Madison’s newspaper of record has spoken up and spoken loudly on an issue of public safety raised by your Squire in the daily newspaper one month ago and many times here at the Manor. The State Journal’s Sunday editorial does not coat with sugar:…