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Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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“This past February, students in Evanston, Illinois, listened to the book Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness.
http://www.dottirpress.com/not-my-idea
Parents were asked to discuss the book with their children at home.
The book says that “whiteness is a bad deal” and “always was,” and that “you can be white without signing on to whiteness.”
Read the April 30, 2021 City Journal article by Erika Sanzi for more details on DEI in Evanston CCSD 65 (Evanston Elementary District 65).
DEI = Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion.
Whiteness is basically the majority’s cultural norms; rejecting Whiteness is rejecting the majority’s cultural norms. Imagine how the early Christians felt when they rejected all of the Roman pagan’s cultural norms…Christians were outcasts and the peasants and regular folk that refused to pray to the Roman’s pantheon of gods, refused to celebrate their holidays, engage in their social customs. The early Christians rejected Roman-ness and everything it meant to be a Roman. Christians were relentlessly persecuted in the early days of Christianity. It took nearly 300 years for the elites and the ruling classes to finally jump onto the Christian… Read more »
Ugh. Imagine being the parent of a young, school-age child. Now, you have another job to take on to undo the “white is wrong” doctrine being taught in schools. What parent, already working a full-time job, has time to work with his or her children continually to counteract these teachings?
It is not that hard. You just tell your child that this crap is all nonsense. My boys see through this crap for what it is; there are other kids in class that see this garbage for what it is too. Back in college I signed up for an Egyptian history class, sounds interesting, right? WRONG. The White professor, who made it very clear his spouse was Black, said the purpose of the class was to prove that ancient Egyptians were Black sub-Saharan Africans. Even back then I knew that was nonsense and I dropped the class. Fast forward a… Read more »
The monster in the classroom
CTU
As I’ve said before, what kind of people would do this to children? And what kind of society not only tolerates but considers it an imperative?