Tag: Dean Loumos
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The Soup Nazis are banging their spoons
Everyone they don’t like is Hitler There is a social media meme that holds that everyone you don’t like is Hitler. We’re at that point in hyperbole U.S.A. Maybe Trump did start it. Mocking Carly Fiorina’s appearance and the disabled reporter soured me on the man, big time. But he is a disrupter and his trade…
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‘Silence white supremacy!’ Part #2
‘Get him out’ That was what the anti-police rowdies — about 50 of them — chanted Wednesday evening at the Madison school board ad hoc committee on “educational resource officers.” For the last year and one-half they have been browbeating the school board to expel the cops, not troublemakers, from Madison’s public schools. We described…
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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…
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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…
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‘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…
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Disadvantaged students need police in our schools the most
“Racial equity” has become the all-purpose justification for dubious educational policies. Equity proponents view “disparate impact”—when the same policies yield different outcomes among demographic groups—as conclusive proof of discrimination. On the education front, “equity” does not seek equal treatment for all students. Instead, it demands statistical equivalence in discipline referrals and suspensions for students of…