Education

The Benedictines founded Benet Academy, but it sure sounds like the Jesuits got in there somehow. 

Late Tuesday night the Chicago teachers union voted to cancel all in-person classes for all public schools. This decision left parents to scramble to find babysitters and other accommodations for their children during the school day. Wednesday night’s edition of NBC Nightly News decided to take the side of the teachers’ unions. 

In the ultimate of ironies of all ironies, MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace and two of her guests spent an entire segment Thursday afternoon accusing Republicans of politicizing school boards across the nation. 

Continuing what’s become a staple of our year-end packages, NewsBusters used our Google Analytics to compile our ten most-read stories from 2021, which saw four writers from our News Analysis Division seeing stories crack the top ten along with one from MRC Culture and two from MRC’s Free Speech America.

You just can’t make this stuff up. MSNBC spent Wednesday night worrying that parents involved in their kids’ school educations were an "attack on democracy.” 

YouTube may be exposing kids as young as 5 to graphic stabbings and gruesome violence, according to The Sun.

Filling in for boss Tim Graham, NewsBusters deputy managing editor Nick “Night Train” Fondacaro and I were back in our saddles for Monday’s post-Christmas edition of the NewsBusters Podcast and, while it’s often a slower time of the year in the news business, we still had plenty to talk about.

Longtime CBS reporter and chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford went viral on Sunday and Monday on social media following comments meant to air on Sunday’s Face the Nation that slammed our elected officials and public health experts for “the crushing impact that our COVID policies have had on young kids and children” and the subsequent mental health crisis. However, CBS News kept her comments…

During a special episode of Meet the Press on Sunday titled “Schools, America, and Race”, 1619 Project author Nikole Hannah-Jones said, “I don't really understand this idea that parents should decide what's being taught.”

On Wednesday's New Day, CNN brought on race-obsessed New York Times Magazine reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones to work with the conservative and Republican-hating network to twist reports of Republicans pushing to remove controversial books from school libraries in Texas. Prodded by fill-in host Erica Hill, Hannah-Jones ridiculously complained that the media have not been biased enough against…

MSNBC’s ReidOut host Joy Reid was in rare form on Tuesday following a day off as, after she argued Fox News hosts want their “fans” to “die,” she spent two segments decrying Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) as “Maserati Joe” for “showing open contempt for” his constituents based on the fact that he “killed” the Build Back Better agenda, “the most transformative legislation of the 21st century.”

MSNBC is known for its insane and vile commentary which occurs on an almost daily basis, but this might be one of the craziest comments of the week. During a segment on MSNBC’s “The Beat With Ari Melber”, guest host Jason Johnson discussed Governor Ron DeSantis’ support of legislation that would ban critical race theory in public schools in Florida.

Anybody paying attention laughs at the lefty media lie that Critical Race Theory isn’t in public schools. But what if CRT is in public school teachers?

On Sunday’s This Week, Republicans taught ABC the 123s of how President Biden’s so-called Build Back Better (BBB) agenda was harmful to the middle-class and largely benefited more affluent Americans in blue states. And between Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, chief anchor and Clinton lackey George Stephanopoulos was in for a rough time.