Tag: Madison schools

  • 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…

  • Ali is right to apologize but not just to the Jews

    Madison police and teachers are still waiting Muldrow just got her racist memes mixed My alma mater, The Capital Times, says it was “glad when Madison School Board member Ali Muldrow apologized last week for a Facebook post in which she compared Madison police officers to Nazis.” That’s nice. Warm fuzzies all around. Because “debates…

  • Chief Koval: Finally!

    Madison Police Chief Mike Koval: Last night (07-02-19), the Common Council voted to approve a contract to keep police officers in our four main high schools. [More here.] I think this is a win for public safety and I am relieved that this process has come to its conclusion. Over the 2018-19 school year: Citations…

  • 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…

  • A Madison teacher: ‘If I wrote up students for swearing at me, that’s all I would do.’

    What are we teaching our children? A 57-year-old man bicycling in Warner Park falls off his bike. Teenagers are near by. Do they offer assistance? No, they laugh at the man’s misfortune. He asks them to show some respect, they brandish a gun, chase him down as he tries to escape, and knock him to…

  • ‘We pulled our kids out, too’

    Rather than improve Madison schools, Tuesday’s school board candidates would slam shut the exits When your congenial yet irascible host first ran for public office way back in 1994, on-line social media consisted of BBS bulletin boards accessible by dial-up modems (BRR-BUZZ-Beep Beep!), run by dweebie kids in their basement. But Blaska for Safer Schools…