10 Comments
Comment deleted
Expand full comment

The obvious course correction isn't to find a better qualified replacement for Ms. King, but simply to terminate Ms. King, and the position she holds.

Expand full comment

Nice turn of phrase in paragraphs 6 and 8. BZ.

Expand full comment

When it became societies burden to conform to the desires of the individual, rather than the individual having to conform to the norms of the society in he must live, was when society started to unravel.

We now live in a society where one's own wants are paramount, and you are allowed to throw tantrums if you don't get what you want, and, if you failed because you did not bother to prepare yourself, that is also everybody else's fault. A prime example is the " School to prison Pipeline ", It is the fault of the individual who chooses a life of crime, that puts him in prison, not the school system, but the schools can certainly be blamed for teaching the kid that he is being oppressed, by being asked to behave like a civilized human, than a preadatory thug.

We are in a lot of trouble at this point in time.

Expand full comment
Feb 17, 2023Liked by CDR Salamander

Depressing serving of keepin' it real. Loved this..."isolated, self-affirming intellectual terrarium," Will pledge support for prevagen to extend your writing prowess. We need you around for as long as you are willing to do this, and a wider audience.

Expand full comment
founding

“The horror. The horror.” Seems an appropriate encapsulation of the situation. Destruction, Exclusion, and Ideology.

Expand full comment

Good news

The only kids they ever get are the weak ones.

DOD stock that’s going to be less.

And meanwhile IRL these idiots are making the WiPipo kids into Nazis per normal human dynamics.

Sow Dragons Teeth, they grow up so fast.

Expand full comment

DEI is a market phenomenon characterized by surges in asset prices to levels significantly above the fundamental value of the asset. A bubble. I spent part of my Twitter time yesterday reading a thread on that bubble bursting https://twitter.com/corprteUnicorn/status/1625617874344615951

Expand full comment

When I attended DoDDS, the predecessor, of DODEA in the 1980s and 1990s. It wasn’t known as the best school system ever, but diversity wasn’t a problem. Socially, the white kids had to know their place, but in general everyone got along. There was always the looming threat that it could affect your parents’ careers if you caused too many problems. We had a stabbing or two at my schools and some massive fights, but that was all part of the diversity. I do remember going to the post theater for some long black history month presentations and realizing how much white-blaming was going on.

Expand full comment

And you do not--will not ever-- get recruits who can read crap such as this woman spouts.

Expand full comment