Thursday, October 09, 2014

Victor Davis Hanson on the dithering White House:

Official stories change to fit larger agendas. One day the White House has full confidence in Secret Service director Julia Pierson, the next day she is gone. One day leaving Iraq was the president's stellar achievement, the next day someone else did it. We are at war and not at war with the Islamic State - both a manageable problem of some jayvees and an existential threat. The Free Syrian Army is both a fantasy and plagued by amateurs and yet the linchpin of our new strategy on the ground against the Islamic State.

We are back to the daily revisionism of the Affordable Care Act, keeping and not keeping your doctor and health plan, with deductibles and premiums going down and going up.

With this sort of thing going on in public schools, I am thrilled we are able to home school.

If teachers still find it "necessary" to mention that genders exist at all, the document states, they must list them as "boy, girl, both or neither."

Furthermore, it instructs teachers to interfere and interrupt if they ever hear a student talking about gender in terms of "boys and girls" so the student can learn that this is wrong.

"Point out and inquire when you hear others referencing gender in a binary manner," it states. "Ask things like . . . 'What makes you say that? I think of it a little differently.' Provide counter-narratives that challenge students to think more expansively about their notions of gender."

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