Tag: Jennifer Cheatham
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Madison schools go full-on stupid
The firing of Marlon Anderson, the West high school security guard for schooling a miscreant kid on the hatefulness of the N-word, is what our … acquaintances like to call “a teachable moment.” Here’s betting the Madison school district flunks this real-life snap quiz. Mr. Anderson has been re-instated by orders of school board president…
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Jesus is not eating our kids’ homework
Kids just ain’t learnin’ in our public schools like they used to The good news is the statewide racial achievement gap is narrowing. The bad news is that it is because white students are regressing at a faster rate than black students. The worse news is regardless of race, kids in Wisconsin’s public schools are more…
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Liberal Madison congratulates itself for good intentions
The sweetest sound you’ll ever hear: David Blaska was right! The news media loves to imagine itself as the afflicter of the comfortable, David with his slingshot v. Goliath. “J’accuse!” in 96-point bodoni bold type. Edward R. Murrow starring down Tailgunner Joe. Bogart starting the presses in Deadline USA. Woodward and Bernstein. In…
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Kowtowing to the crazies in Madison WI
A never-ending search for root causes Can’t we blame Scott Walker? Madison Wi does not need A.O.C., Bernie, or Elizabeth Sanders to calibrate the breakdown of the civic public square in America. We’ve got Mayor Satya Conway-Rhodes and Jennifer Cheatham, superintendent of schools. The WI State Journal led off Sunday’s edition (06-23-19) with the fouling of upper State…
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White woman skips town after inflicting an ‘inflection point’
It’s been a ‘privilege,’ Jen We understand creative destruction here at the Policy Werkes. It is why we have Netflix instead of Blockbuster. But “creative” does not describe the destruction Jennifer Cheatham has wrought on Madison’s public schools. Even Capital Times editor Paul Fanlund (a suspected white man) notices that Kaleem Caire — “as steadfast…
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Cheatham’s Cheatheads blame racist teachers for ‘rotten year’
Teachers called out for their participation in white supremacy culture — in an action-oriented way Kids roaming the halls aimlessly, F-bombing their teachers when they’re not physically accosting them. Illiterate, arrogant, and headed for prison. Dylan Brogan ripped the bandage off Jennifer Cheatham’s failed superintendency in his Isthmus cover story, “A Rotten Year.” “If I wrote up students…