diversity
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MCPS Teacher Spreads Self Authored Nonbinary Identity Book
Read more: MCPS Teacher Spreads Self Authored Nonbinary Identity BookAn MCPS teacher has written a book, titled Hang, The Girl. The Amazon description of the book states: In Hank, the Girl, Hank discovers she is a girl after believing she was a boy. At first, Hank worries what her classmates will think, but she soon realizes their love and friendship are unconditional. As her classmates…
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FOIA Reveals Elrich Snubbed Jewish Community While Engaging Muslim Community after Oct 7th
Read more: FOIA Reveals Elrich Snubbed Jewish Community While Engaging Muslim Community after Oct 7thA FOIA of MCPS emails related to the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack in Israel obtained by Parents Defending Education revealed that on October 16, 2023 Arwa Abde, Middle Eastern Liaison at the County Office of Community Partnerships, sent out an e mail inviting members of the Middle Eastern American Advisory Group to a…
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Showing compassion to our unemployed DEI neighbors
Read more: Showing compassion to our unemployed DEI neighborsThe Federal Aviation Administration’s Academy in Oklahoma City trains air traffic controllers for domestic and foreign airspace and is one of America’s premier educational institutions. Anyone can apply, few are accepted, even fewer graduate. As an example of the academy’s tough standards, students are given a blank paper and required to draw the airspace for…
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Hearing on BOE Adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Association definition of Antisemitism
Read more: Hearing on BOE Adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Association definition of AntisemitismOn December 5, 2024 several members of the public testified before the Board of Education against the BOE adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Association definition of Antisemitism, as the County Council did in 2022. Former MCPS parent Evelyn Frankl stated in her testimony, “In the context of Jews and Palestinians in the US, Jews are…
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Students for Justice in Palestine & the University of Maryland
Read more: Students for Justice in Palestine & the University of MarylandPhoto credit to The Diamondback. On July 31st the University of Maryland Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) group reserved the entire McKeldin Mall for an invitation only event for 25-50 people on October 7th, from 7 am to 11pm. The university approved this request which granted SJP exclusive use of the mall on October…
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Anti Semitism Disproportionately Leads Bias Incidents in MoCo
Read more: Anti Semitism Disproportionately Leads Bias Incidents in MoCoAccording to the Montgomery County Department of Police 2023 Annual Bias Incident Report released March 2024, 41% of all bias incidents were anti-Jewish, 30% were anti Black, 7% were anti-Homosexual, 5% were anti-Asian, 4% were anti Hispanic, and 3% were anti-Arab or anti-Islamic. The statistics are more remarkable when you consider the County population is…
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Whom would you rather mentor your child, a leader or a whiner?
Read more: Whom would you rather mentor your child, a leader or a whiner?What can we say about Colin Powell that hasn’t already been said? The son of immigrants, he grew up in Harlem and the Bronx (that’s 1940s Harlem and 1940s Bronx, not the gentrified areas we know today), and thanks to his inner resolve, became a four-star general and a secretary of state. The same goes…
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Montgomery County Hires Often-Used Consultant to Search for Racism and Gender Discrimination in Markets MoCo Govt Transacts In
Read more: Montgomery County Hires Often-Used Consultant to Search for Racism and Gender Discrimination in Markets MoCo Govt Transacts InMoCo government has contracted with something called “MGT Consulting Group” (a vendor it has used before) to search for racism and “gender discrimination” in markets the County is in and with sub-contractors the county government uses. This same contractor has secured the same “Disparity Study” service with neighboring Frederick County, MD, as well. It is…
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One Party Rule Isn’t Enough, We Need Twitter Spies to Keep Power
Read more: One Party Rule Isn’t Enough, We Need Twitter Spies to Keep PowerSilver Spring-based Maryland state delegate Jheanelle Wilkins (Democrat), herself a frequent user of social media accounts to spread election and public policy influence (and to take plenty of partisan shots), doesn’t appear to be a fan of free speech or tech platforms like X (formerly Twitter) that allow it. Co-sponsoring House Bill 333 this year in…
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Reason #8 for School Vouchers: Discrimination, Exclusion, Impunity (DEI)
Read more: Reason #8 for School Vouchers: Discrimination, Exclusion, Impunity (DEI)Diversity, equality, and inclusivity (DEI) is one cornerstone of the progressive creed. The other cornerstone is hating people who don’t subscribe to the progressives’ version of DEI. We all saw this bigotry as far back as the 2018 local elections when progressives were castigating Nancy Floreen, a lifelong, loyal Democrat, for running a break-off campaign.…