Category: Progressives

  • One citizen speaks for keeping cops in schools, gets race-baited by school board member; Part #1

    Blaska survives a chaotic meeting in a chaotic school district I spoke before the Madison School Board’s ad hoc committee on police in the schools late Monday afternoon. Or tried to. Room 103 of the Doyle administration bldg was packed with the usual suspects, a term I used in my remarks. There were about 50…

  • Madison school board poised to boot cops out of schools

    Schools plagued by violence? Blame the police ‘Hard to believe!’ Study the wrong thing, get the wrong result. A School Board committee is poised to recommend getting police — aka “educational resource officers (EROs)” — out of Madison’s troubled public high schools. The chairman of the committee, Dean Loumos, says “I do not see the…

  • How dare a teacher criticize a principal of color! Part #2

    Madison schools focused on ‘Racial Equity’ (aka Making the Numbers Work) Discipline? Not so much In the last installment of your favorite blogge, the Policy Werkes reported a veteran teacher admits defeat by the Madison district’s addiction to race-based school discipline.  Karen Vieth is quitting teaching in the Madison public schools after 16 years “because…

  • Help, Wisconsin has fallen and Democrats are desperate

    More ‘sky is falling’ hyperbole from inside the Madison bubble One of these days, Paul Fanlund will encounter a real live conservative instead of getting his morning cup of joe filtered through some sociology panel at RadFest.  Perhaps the Capital Times editor, hopelessly lost somewhere outside Dane County, will take a stool next to that over-the-road…

  • Traumatized by Trump, the Left says it’s time to fight dirty

    The U.S. Constitution is fueling a fiery hellscape? Democrats have their playbook. It is titled “It’s Time to Fight Dirty.” For real! Written by an associate professor of poly sci at Roosevelt University (located in greater Chicago and “committed to social justice”), It’s Time to Fight Dirty argues, in the words of a reviewer, that…

  • Don’t know much about (police) history

    Their minds are closed; don’t confuse them with facts The Madison Common Council did something good Tuesday 05-15-18 and they will get some credit for it: they expressed their appreciation for police during National Police Week. Unanimously. (Their resolution.) Mayor Paul Soglin recalled how Madison’s finest turned back an outbreak of homicides. Ald. Skidmore handed…