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2024-09-01 -Land of the Free

Built to battle ‘woke’ academia, a new Texas school takes on fresh relevance after Oct. 7

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Posted by trailing wife 2024-09-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Family-friendly New York enclave is shuttering 25 percent of its schools for startling reason

Posted by Skidmark 2024-09-01 00:15|| 2024-09-01 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 That’s no NYC enclave, Skidmark — Rochester is in Western New York State on Lake Ontario. The Mail reporters are clearly not up on their American geography.

Key paragraph from the article:

Researchers attribute the drop to families switching to private schools - aided by an expansion of voucher programs in many red and purple states - and to homeschooling, which has seen especially strong growth.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-09-01 00:38|| 2024-09-01 00:38|| Front Page Top

#3 That article also lacks any mention of Xerox and Kodak, two companies with headquarters and factories in Rochester that are ghosts of their former selves, having failed to keep up with technology. The jobs are gone, the people are going. (And who's going to build a major industrial plant in blue state New York these days?)

Posted by Nero 2024-09-01 01:34|| 2024-09-01 01:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Bausch and Loam is still there also Rochester "experimented" with paying public school teachers starting @ $70/school year in the 1980s, and continued to pay top dollar to this day.

My cousin taught there and said neither the schools nor the pupils improved at all.

Posted by Regular+joe 2024-09-01 14:13|| 2024-09-01 14:13|| Front Page Top

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