Tag: Jennifer Cheatham
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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…
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Stop trying to restore order!
Progressive D.A.’s prosecute the darnedest people! Aside from the President of the United States, do any public officials have more life-changing discretion than your local district attorney? Dane County D.A. Ismael Ozanne has chosen to prosecute for felony child abuse one Corey Saffold, who happens to be the high school director of crisis management (don’t…
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See me after school
Welcome to Lake Woebegone (Where everything ‘meets expectations’) Every so often, The Werkes attempts to be even-handed. (Why does it hurt when we do that?) But did anyone read Jill Underly’s explanation of why her Department of Public Instruction is dumbing down K-12 student performance standards? The goal was to make sure we more accurately…
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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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Paul Fanlund won’t jump through any hoops
for some write-in candidates, for others it’s: c’mon down! It’s their party and The Capital Times can freeze out Blaska from its school board candidate debate next Tuesday 03-15-22 if it wants. But what a difference three years can make! Editor Paul Fanlund excuses his news blackout this-a-way: “Our rationale for excluding Mr. Blaska is…
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Kaleem Caire for Madison school superintendent
Is anyone making more sense for Madison schools than Kaleem Caire? Does anyone have a better track record than Kaleem Caire for not only advocating for minority students but actually doing something about it? Who else has the moral stature, as president of the Urban League of Madison, as founder of One City Early Learning,…