Education: May 2023 Archives

Some parents warn of conservative culture wars in NYC's education council elections - Gothamist

A group that seeks to preserve selective admissions for New York City's top academic high schools has progressives worried about elections to a parental advisory council. "They point to some group members' public support for book bans, transphobic internal group messages, and anti-'woke' tweets." (Read that as many parents who support academic excellence also oppose grooming children into early sexual experimentation and gender confusion, leading to mutilating surgeries and growth-stunting hormones. These same parents also oppose teaching racially based defeatism and racial scapegoating.)

"'We look for candidates who support merit-based education rooted in strong academics, ones who want more access and opportunities to challenge students' intellect and readiness, and won't undermine it by lowering expectations,' said parent Yiatin Chu, co-founder and co-vice president of PLACE...."

Hillsdale's Common Reading Program by David Randall | NAS

"Fundamentally, Hillsdale believes that a liberal arts education is designed to liberate the human person. Hillsdale's curriculum teaches a willing acceptance of the discipline and virtue that enables students to live a fully human life and prepares them for self-government and civic participation. The College's two summer readings introduce students to this life of liberty and virtue.

"In the Nicomachean Ethics (ca. 330 BC), Aristotle introduces the famous concept of 'the golden mean'--the understanding that virtue is the middle ground between two extremes, such as courage, which lies between recklessness and cowardice. Richard Brookhiser's 1996 biography of George Washington, Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington, narrates how Washington's virtue allowed him to navigate the challenges not only of forging a new nation on the battlefield but also of founding it through laws and leadership."