President Warren’s War on America

George Rebane

You can only control that which you can measure.

Democrat candidate Elizabeth Warren has drawn up extensive plans to reduce the United States into a socialist second world country on its inevitable slide into full blown communism, which is the ultimate goal (whether they call it that or not) of at least half of today’s long list of the party’s progressive wannabes.

Among her many-pronged assaults on our country, her recent one on changing the face of its K-12 education is worth looking at.  Its focus is closing the “black-white achievement gap”.  The Dems have had our school system by the throat since around 1970 when the Great Society’s liberal reforms started arriving in the nation’s unionized public school classrooms.  A lot of damage can be done and has been done over the last half-century. (more here) Checking performance via the established battery of standardized tests, the results have not been good for a nation desperately trying to maintain its white hat lead in the international technology competition with bad actors like communist China.  And in the area of educational achievement, the black-white gap has grown as one of its many measured dimensions.

This is more than embarrassing for Democrats who cannot reasonably place the blame on lack of education funding, or the quality of teachers, or the Left’s destruction of black middle-class culture.  So President Warren will solve the problem by doing away with all those pesky tests that measure and highlight leftwing public policy failures.  She will nationalize the so-call ‘Madison Model’ which calls for an unreasonable increase of $800B over ten years in school funding, strengthening of teachers’ unions, and putting a brake on the growth of public charter schools that outperform their unionized versions.  Oh yes, and did I mention that she will do away with all those finger-pointing tests, which according to then Madam President will “level the playing field” between the races, and “ensure that every student has access to a meaningful, high-quality public education”?

What needs to swept under the rug that covers the leveled playing field are realities like “only 34.9% of Madison students are proficient in English, well below the statewide average of 40.9%. But in Madison only 10% of African-American students are proficient in English, compared with 57.2% of white students. Only 79% of African-American students graduate from Madison public high schools within five years, compared with 94% of white students.” (more here)

Then why it’s advertised as the Madison Model is also beyond comprehension, since the Madison Metropolitan School District spends an “avalanche” of cash averaging $15,241 annually on each of its 27,000 students while continuing to be “plagued by one of the worst racial achievement gaps in the state and perhaps the country.”  Nevertheless, future President Warren has studied the model and pronounced it good, and today gives us all fair warning that she plans to similarly afflict the remainder of this fair land.

From my perch Elizabeth Warren is by far the most dangerous politician in America, not only for the grim array of cynically destructive plans she has outlined for us, but because she really has a chance of being nominated next summer as the Democrats’ candidate for president.  And she then has a chance of being elected because the country today suffers from an intellectual deficit so vast that half of our electorate tell pollsters that capitalism is bad, and they would like to give socialism a shot at making everything as good as the Democrat socialists describe in their daily dose of campaign promises.  What’s more, Donald Trump has a chance of making that a reality if, in the interval, he manages to stick his foot deeper into his mouth.

And this all could happen if the Democrats finally get some purchase on their years-long campaign to oust President Trump.  However, anyone who thinks people like Sanders, Booker, Harris, Buttigieg, have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting the nomination are smoking funny stuff.  We all know that the DNC and Team Pelosi are sweating bullets about a number of serious roadblocks to 1600 Pennsylvania – beyond their clown-car of candidates, they have locked and loaded a slate of devastating public policies like Medicare for All and versions of the Green New Deal.  Their disdain for private property and wealth will require more than a back flip too far for them to countenance b/millionaire candidates like their sideline of Bloomberg, Steyer, and Yang.

And now they have a new worry, as two recent polls (rejected by progressives here) show that more than one out of three black Americans approve of Trump’s doings.  That itself can be devastating because the Dems have always considered African-Americans to see the party as their succoring liege lords as long as they stay on the plantation and vote reliably.  The reality is that “even 20 percent African-American support for Mr Trump would all but dismantle Democratic Party presidential hopes for 2020. Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election with 88 percent of the black vote. That was about a six-point falloff from Barack Obama’s share of the black vote in 2012.” (more here)

So keep an eye on Pocahontas, we already know that Injun speaks with forked tongue, but her promises about the new road she wants to lead us on is way more scarier. (more here)

Comments

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Any articles on this 'Madison Model'? I've heard of it in terms of policing (or non-policing) but not schools. I doubt it could be any worse than the Washington DC schools in terms of cost:benefit.

[Bill Tozer]

The School Funding Inequity Farce

https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/school-funding-inequity-farce

[Bill Tozer]

I was going to but this under BIG Lie #4686, but it dovetails nicely with this post.

“RUPTURE: Democrats’ Top Contenders Split From Blacks, Latinos Over Charter Schools”

“The Times points out that over three million students attend charter schools, many of which are not unionized. Adding, “charter schools that serve mostly low-income children of color in large cities tend to excel academically.”

Richard Buery, the chief of policy at KIPP, the nation’s largest charter network, slammed the Democratic candidates, snapping that their positions are “a reflection more broadly of the lack of respect for black voters in the party. These are folks that should be champions of black children and allies of black educators.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/rupture-democrats-top-contenders-split-from-blacks-latinos-over-charter-schools?

In a unrelated bit of news under the radar.....
“The most senior Latina adviser on Joe Biden’s staff has resigned over frustration with the campaign.”

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So far as I can tell, the push for 'improving' schools consists of some mix of:

. Some handwaving about methodology that probably won't work designed by some random academic.
. More and more money for the district to be spent in some unknown fashion.
. A general notion that you can improve badly behaved students by bringing in a bunch of well behaved ones to dilute the mix. Obviously, no one cares about the effect on the good students.

Well. I'm sold.

[Scott O]

scenes - "More and more money for the district to be spent in some unknown fashion."
I believe propping up their pension funds is where that 'more money' is going.

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"I believe propping up their pension funds is where that 'more money' is going."

From newspaper articles through the years, it appears that large city school systems appear to have a multitude of ways to fritter away money. Everyone needs a new 'Barack Obama College Preparatory Technical School For Excellence' with a TV studio and atomic energy lab or they've got a worthless brother-in-law who needs a no-show janitorial gig.

It's the bestest thing about socialism nudging towards communism. You still have rich and poor, but the government gets to choose who they are, not the marketplace. It's like one big company. USSR Gini scores were no joke.

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"it appears that large city school systems appear to have"

it appears that large city school systems have

....gotta love the inability to edit a post.

[Todd Juvinall]

Looks like the dems have decided they don't like her now. She is eaded south.