{"id":625179,"date":"2021-08-09T09:21:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T13:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=625179"},"modified":"2021-08-09T09:21:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T13:21:52","slug":"education-insanity-top-10-stories-of-the-week-vol-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/education-insanity-top-10-stories-of-the-week-vol-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Insanity: Top 10 Stories Of The Week (Vol. 27)"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feducation-insanity-top-10-stories-of-the-week-vol-27%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=625179&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Kendi.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Welcome back to Education Insanity, a weekly column updating you on the most insane events taking place in our nation\u2019s schools. Here we\u2019ll delve into the growing presence of critical race theory, the ideology that claims that America is irredeemably rooted in racism, and \u201cwoke\u201d culture.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Let\u2019s get started.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>10. Four Months Later, UCLA Has Not Released Contract With Chinese Government&nbsp; \u2013 <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/article?id=17928\"><b>Campus Reform<\/b><\/a><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span>The University of California-Los Angeles has dodged public record requests from Campus Reform for over four months. The news outlet reached out to a slew of universities and 32 have provided documents to Campus Reform. The university appears to be dodging the California Public Records Act, which mandates public institutions respond to record requests within 10 business days.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>9. \u2018My Motherland\u2026Was Ravaged By Communism!\u2019: Iranian Immigrant Shreds Critical Race Theory At Board Meeting, Mic Yanked \u2013 <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/my-motherland-was-ravaged-by-communism-iranian-immigrant-shreds-critical-race-theory-at-board-meeting-mic-yanked\"><b>The Daily Wire<\/b><\/a><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span>An Iranian immigrant and mother of three was allegedly silenced when she spoke out at a West Chester, Pennsylvania, school district\u2019s school board meeting. The mother spoke out against the district\u2019s efforts to incorporate \u201cdiversity, equity, and inclusion\u201d \u2014 efforts that involve tenets of Critical Race Theory.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>8. Harvard Law Supports Advocacy For Polyamorous Relationships \u2013 <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/article?id=17945\"><b>Campus Reform<\/b><\/a><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span>Harvard Law School\u2019s LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic is openly supporting the Polyamory Legal Advocacy Coalition, a legal advocacy group that seeks to promote \u201clegal protections for people in polyamorous relationships.\u201d Harvard Law Today, the school\u2019s prestigious legal outfit, defined Polyamory as \u201ca form of non-monogamous relationship involving more than two adult partners at the same time, with the knowledge and consent of everyone involved.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>7. Nonprofit Encourages Art Educators To Teach Through The \u2018Lens\u2019 Of Critical Race Theory \u2013 <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nonprofit-encourages-art-educators-to-teach-through-the-lens-of-critical-race-theory\"><b>The Daily Wire<\/b><\/a><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span>The National Arts Education Association (NAEA), a nonprofit membership organization that works with art educators, sent an email encouraging teachers to explore arts education through the \u201clens\u201d of Critical Race Theory. The organization works with thousands of educators that range from pre-K to university level, across 50 states, D.C., most Canadian Provinces, and 35 other foreign countries.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>6. University Of Oklahoma Coaches Claim They Can Discipline Players For Their Politics \u2013 <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/u-oklahoma-coaches-claim-they-can-discipline-players-for-their-politics\/\"><b>The College Fix<\/b><\/a><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span>The women\u2019s volleyball coaches at the University of Oklahoma are arguing that coaches have the right to discipline players for holding unpopular political beliefs. The arguments were made after a player sued her coaches alongside the university Board of Regents alleging that \u201cshe had been excluded from the team [\u2026] over her politically conservative views.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>5. Harvard Diversity Guru Rips Colleague For Claiming Sex Differences Are A Real Thing \u2013 <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/harvard-diversity-guru-rips-colleague-for-claiming-sex-differences-are-a-real-thing\/\"><b>The College Fix<\/b><\/a><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span>A \u201cdiversity leader\u201d at Harvard University blasted one of her colleagues as \u201ctransphobic\u201d via Twitter for claiming that biological sex is scientific. \u201cI am appalled and frustrated by the transphobic and harmful remarks made by a member of my [department],\u201d wrote Laura Simone Lewis. The comments came after Human Evolutionary Biologist Carole Hooven appeared on Fox &amp; Friends.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>4. UNC Dean Asked ABC News For Favorable Coverage Of Nikole Hannah-Jones \u2013 <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/article?id=17917\"><b>Campus Reform&nbsp;<\/b><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><span>A dean at the University of North Carolina (UNC) emailed an ABC News reporter insisting that the outlet \u201cprotect\u201d \u201c1619 Project\u201d author and Pulitzer Prize winner Nikole Hannah-Jones in her battle for tenure at the university. ABC News\u2019 Averi Harper \u2014 an alumna of UNC\u2019s journalism school \u2014 emailed Dean Susan King asking why the university had yet to offer Hannah-Jones tenure. King responded by saying that the Board of Trustees declined to consider Hannah-Jones\u2019 tenure and insisted that ABC \u201cprotect Nikole.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>3. University Of Michigan To Require COVID Vaccination, Even For Remote Students, Employees \u2013 <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/university-of-michigan-to-require-covid-vaccinations-even-for-remote-workers-learners\/\"><b>The College Fix<\/b><\/a><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span>The University of Michigan system announced that all students and workers \u2014 including those who work or learn remotely \u2014 must provide proof of the COVID-19 vaccination by the end of August. \u201cWidespread vaccination is the primary and most effective tool that will bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control and it is the key to a vibrant and engaging academic year for all of us in the University of Michigan community,\u201d an email from University of Michigan leadership reads.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>2. Citing Lack Of Federal Funds, Alabama College Fines Unvaccinated Students. The School Received Over $4 Million In PPP Loans. \u2013 <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/citing-lack-of-federal-funds-alabama-college-fines-unvaccinated-students-the-school-received-over-4-million-in-ppp-loans\"><b>The Daily Wire<\/b><\/a><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span>Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama is manding that unvaccinated students pay a $500 fine to cover the cost of weekly COVID-19 testing. An email from the university\u2019s president cites a \u201clack of federal funds\u201d as justification for the charge \u201cto offset continual weekly antigen testing and quarantining\u201d costs. However, the university received $4.41 million in PPP bailout loans from the federal government.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>1. Critical Race Theory Bigwig Says Anti-Lockdown Advocates Are Akin To Slave Owners \u2013 <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/kendi-says-america-is-a-slaveholders-republic-and-gop-wants-freedom-to-infect-others?utm_campaign=64470\"><b>The Post Millennial <\/b><\/a><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span>Ibram X. Kendi, a prominent Critical Race Theory activist and Boston University professor, claimed that individuals who resist COVID-19 lockdowns are akin to slaveholders. During a podcast, he called the U.S. a \u201cslaveholders\u2019 republic.\u201d He also referred to an article he wrote for The Atlantic wherein he said that there is \u201csomething about living through a deadly pandemic that cuts open the shell, removes the flesh, and finds the very core of American existence: the slaveholder clamoring for his freedom to infect, and the enslaved clamoring for our freedom from infection.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Got tips? Email me here: <\/span><span>cclark@dailywire.com<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>RELATED: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/education-insanity-top-10-stories-of-the-week-vol-26\"><b>Education Insanity: Top 10 Stories Of The Week (Vol. 26)<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to Education Insanity, a weekly column updating you on the most insane events taking place in our nation\u2019s schools. 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