Category Archives: Social Justice

For $40,658 a Year, Your Child Can Learn to Play Dead on a Quad

Posted on November 12, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Last night I tweeted out that for $39, 532 a year, your child can play dead on a college quad. I was talking about Ithaca College students, who held a die-in on the quad in ‘solidarity’ with University of Missouri students.

I apparently missed a rate hike put into place this past Spring. Continue reading →

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Community Organizer Worries About ‘School To Prison Pipeline’ – #nced #ncpol

Posted on November 1, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

I’ve written in the past about the ‘school to prison pipeline’ narrative.

The idea is that school discipline practices are discriminatory.

The goal, which organizers will deny, is to have a separate set of discipline rules for minorities and remove any type of police presence from schools.

The tactic is to protest using similar escalating methods like ones we’ve seen at Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter.

The difference is this time, it’s middle school and high school kids. With professional agitators supporting them.

Three groups have been involved in this in North Carolina – Education Justice Alliance, NC HEAT and Youth Organizing Institute.

KEEP READING… Continue reading →

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‘Just a Teacher’ Omar Currie is Back – #NCed #ParentalRights

Posted on October 29, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

‘Just a Teacher’ Omar Currie is Back… and you can see ‘The King’ polish his already enormous ego for the paltry fee of just $35. Continue reading →

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About Those Groups Protesting #WCPSS’s Black Student Suspensions…

Posted on August 28, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Three groups are protesting Wake County Schools discipline policies involving black students according to an article at News and Observer.

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#DM7 Article: The ‘Outrage Industry’ Ties To Education

Posted on June 21, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

This is a reposting of my weekly column at Da Tech Guy: The ‘Outrage Industry’ Ties To Education Continue reading →

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Common Core Aligned: ‘Teaching Tolerance’ – PT 5

Posted on June 12, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

This is a multi-part series on certain Social Activism curriculum claiming to be aligned to Common Core as created by ‘Teaching Tolerance’, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. This is the final edition, part five. [Read: Part one, Part two, Part three, Part four] Continue reading →

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