Tag Archives: School choice

Good schools mold character

‘Discipline’ is the Latin word for ‘success’ Spot quiz: What word will not be spoken by any of Madison’s candidates for school board? Time’s up! Groucho Marx’s secret word is “discipline.” Discipline is defined as “training to act in accordance … Continue reading

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Parents, you do have a choice

“We don’t have to listen to the police” Madison’s public schools are producing kids who can say that after trashing a free library and no one (other than a certain failed candidate) cries foul. Blaska is on record saying Madison … Continue reading

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Official Madison’s war on diversity

No thousand points of light here! One sees those “DIVERSITY” stickers on every other Prius bumper here in the Emerald City. But Madison is a community that demands rigid conformity to the approved liberal dogma. Stray off the plantation and fear … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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Liberal mom hates school vouchers, wants to use them, feels guilty

Ask a guilty liberal advice columnist The Policy Werkes subscribes to the New York Times and other liberal-progressive-socialist agitprop on the principle that forewarned is forearmed. Plus, we enjoy a good laugh at other people’s expense. A column in the … Continue reading

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Getting Linda Cross-wise with the Super of Education

Memo to Linda Cross: A good conservative Republican, name of Scott Walker, has been governor of the State of Wisconsin since January 2011. Here we are, seven years in, and the statewide school chief is a liberal Democrat. The state superintendent … Continue reading

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