Pennsylvania Schools Lose 139K Students But Add 21K Administrators — Pennsylvania public schools have lost 139,000 students since 2000 but gained 21,145 more employee, notes Commonwealth Foundation.
This employee growth includes nearly 40 percent more highly paid administrators than 20 years ago.
Schools have not gotten better.
The Foundation also points out that Pennsylvania school districts spent $21,263 per student in 2021–22, ranking 7th in the nation at nearly $5,500 more than the national average.
Chesco United reported, Aug. 24, that an audit of 12 school districts by state Auditor General Tim DeFoor found that all routinely pass big tax hikes despite having budget surpluses in the tens of millions of dollars.
Those running our schools don’t care about themselves not education.
School choice and charter schools are a solution. Chesco United notes that the cost per-pupil at a charter school is about half that of a district one and parents have far more say in the curriculum and hiring.
Pennsylvania Schools Lose 139K Students But Add 21K Administrators
Recently Scott in Vermont alerted me to the “Confucius Classrooms” aka Confucius Institutes, sponsored by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This sounded like conspiracy theory.
This is not a conspiracy theory and is occuring nationally.
According to Newsweek, these “Confucius Classrooms are funded by the CCP’s Propaganda Department of the CCP” and that “nobody in Washington warned the school districts not to accept the freebie”
Yes, these programs were supported by the State Department.
Then Secretary of State Mike Pompeo designated the Confucius Institute as “a foreign mission” in 2020 leaving open the question of what it was before then.
The Daily Beast sees it as a “China Conspiracy Theory”.
This article, all 20 pages of it, is the most extensive on this phenomenon, listing all schools in Pennsylvania and 32 other states where this program is operating.
Germantown Academy in Ft. Washington, Pa boasts being the first Confucius Classroom in Pennsylvania.
Note that there are five other Pennsylvania school sistricts involved, including the School District of Philadelphia.
Here are my questions;
Shouldn’t there be a reciprocal program with schools in China?
Is there any oversight on what is taught by the Confucius Classrooms?
Should we be allowing these classes to be taught by the CCP in the first place?
What officials have been aware of this?
Let me also say that our schools need to have lessons taught by persons from other cultures, but one wonders if the CCP, which views Nepal and Taiwan differently than our official government policy, is exactly whom we need to be doing this.
School Library Obscenity Specifically Allowed By Pennsylvania Law — A broadcaster depicting sex acts or reading graphic descriptions of them would have its license yanked by the FCC.
A person showing explicit sexual images to a minor — this includes 15 year olds — would be arrested and find himself on Megan’s List.
How do public middle schools get away with putting this in their libraries?
Pennsylvania’s obscenity statue specifically exempts “any public library, any library of any school.”
The law also exempts museums and historical societies and we can understand that, but why “any” library of “any” school?
School Porn In Oxford — A Chesco committeewoman tells us that angry parents are expected at the Oxford Area School Board’s Aug. 8 work session to protest their children being exposed to graphic depictions of sex in the district’s libraries and curriculum.
It starts 7 p.m. at the Administration Building, 125 Bell Tower Lane, Oxford, PA 19363.
Grooming At Avon Grove — Attorney and activist Carmela Ciliberti, whose video expose about grooming at Avon Grove’s Fred S. Engle Middle School was reported here, has filed a right-to-know request to obtain information to perform an audit to determine the extent of failure presented by this specific incident and identify systemic issues within the school district in Chester County, Pa.
“The result of this audit will inform whether a public complaint is submitted in accordance with Avon Grove’s Policy Manual Code 906 – Public Complaints,” she said.
She included the below exhibits with her request and asked that what is going on at the school be shared far and wide.
Avon Grove School District consists of the townships of Franklin, London Grove, London Britain, New London and Penn.
It is in the 13th District of the Pennsylvania House represented by John Lawrence and the 9th District of the Pennsylvania Senate represented by John Kane.
Kane is a Democrat who openly supports this stuff. Lawrence, however, a Republican, claims to be against it. Funny, he’s been quiet about it.
How Teachers Swiped $2 Billion From Social Security — Joe Fried, a retired CPA who ran his own auditing firm, has a great column on his Substack in which he tells how he was a part of an investigation into how teachers in Texas managed to swipe $2 billion from Social Security in a double-dipping scam.
Teachers on their last day would work six-hours as a minimum wage janitor letting them collect their pension and a Social Security check despite never having paid into Social Security.
Gender Dysphoria Up 100000% Since 2013 — Dr. Robert Malone’s Substack Sunday (April 16) concerned the unfathomable increase in kids claiming gender dysphoria, and the big money being made from the “transitioning” racket.
The Mayo Clinic defines gender dysphoria as the feeling of discomfort or distress that might occur in people whose gender identity differs from their sex assigned at birth or sex-related physical characteristics.
Dr. Malone notes that the rate of gender dysphoria in 2013 was .005 percent to .014 percent for males and .002 percent to .003 percent for females. In 2022 it was 5 percent for all adults. That’s an increase of almost 100,000 percent if you start with .005 percent.
This increase is obviously due to social manipulation and the unwillingness of those in authority to simply say “you’ll grow out of this and be fine.”
What could ever be the reason for this unwillingness, not to mention the actual manipulation and encouragement?
Malone notes that the cost for “transitioning” reaches $300,000.
Follow the money. Intelligent, highly skilled people have thrown aside compassion for the dollar.
It’s about as evil as it gets.
Granted there are cases where the condition is more than mere emotion. Probably around 1 in 20,000. That’s a hell of a lot different than 1 in 20.
Malone also quotes 2018 Psychology Today article describing how a large minority of kids have developed a belief system whereby they, as a group, espouse that being a normal biological female or male is akin to being immoral and evil.
This doesn’t happen without planning. This is being taught in schools and reinforced in media.
Anger is not just justified but necessary.
It is also vital for parents to teach their children to love themselves as they were born.
And to say no, be strong and question those claiming authority.
Transitioning Victim Describes Persecution After Speaking Against Process; Public Education Indicted — Pat Bleasdale, who is seeking a school board seat in Rose Tree Media, sent us video of a March 18 discussion on transgenderism led by Chloe Cole and Sarah Higdon.
It had been scheduled at a Sheraton Hotel but cancelled the evening before apparently because of corporate wokism. A Montgomery County church volunteered to host it.
Chloe was convinced to transition while a girl then stopped but only after after a double mastectomy and puberty blockers.
She now speaks out against it.
While transitioning, she was the subject of love bombs of praise but now finds herself the target of hate and threats.
Sarah is communications director of “Gays against Groomers.” He is a man who transitioned and says he’s glad he did but is defending Chloe and condemning those who convinced her to start the process and who are now attacking her.
Sarah spoke with integrity and conviction.
Both speakers said prohibitions on minors transitioning is overwhelmingly popular and a winning campaign issue.
Dr. Elana Fishbein with a slide depicting a school grooming strategy on the very young
Dr. Elana Fishbein of No Left Turn, which organized the event, said schools are baldly teaching that sex is between the legs, gender is between the ears and that there is no relationship between the two. What is being taught is purposely being hidden from parents.
She showed slides of how minors reporting gender confusion grew annually by 20 percent between 2017 and 2020 then boomed to 80 percent in 2020-2021.
Tami Hartlaub, an RN, who is a forensic nurse examiner from York County with over 30 years experience, described how a child’s brain develops during aging and how was occurring in our schools is literally grooming. The children are being made ready to be exploited through this curriculum.
A forensic nurse examiner is one who examines claims of sexual assault and testifies regarding them.
She said many of the drugs used as puberty blockers just started being given to children.
She said authorities routinely claim there are not side effects.
“Well, the reason they say there are no side effects from these drugs for children is because there hasn’t been research that would disclose any side effects for children,” she said. “On top of that there has been considerable side effects in the adult world for people who take this medication.”
Sick, twisted fools have taken over our medical authorities.
Why would anyone sane and decent even consider giving an untested drug to a kid?
It’s an open question as to whether a child who stops this medication will be able to reproduce.
Ms. Hartlaub described the surgeries pushed on the young including hysterectomies and oophorectomies, which leave them sterile.
Parents, if they love their children, better stop trusting the authorities.
20% Of Philly Students Can Read??? — The ABC sitcomAbbott Elementaryhas a plot line in which a big, bad charter school company is trying to take over the show’s eponymous Philadelphia public school.
This caused Jeanne Allen, founder and CEO of the Center for Education Reform, to tweet:
It’s pathetic when fewer than 20% of Philadelphia students can even read, write or spell at grade level that there’s a show on television that has the nerve to criticize the schools that succeed, and the people that help them. This has TEACHERS UNION written all over it.
Is it true that fewer than 20 precent of Philadelphia students read, write or spell at grade level??
According to the Philadelphia School District’s website 46 percent of children K-2 and 33 percent of children in third grade read at grade level as of 2019, which is before the Covid shutdown.
The stats in 2013, by the way, were 52 percent of K-2 and 45 percent in grade 3.
It appears the more caring parents are getting their kids out of public school and into the big, bad charters which is the only sane and caring thing to do.
