West By God Virginia
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Hope DeSantis picks up on this in the great Free State of Florida. It’s his kind of thing.
God Bless them and hope many more follow.
God Bless Americans!
Well done West Virginia, my Dad’s home state. Just call CRT the racism that it is, no modifiers necessary.
I wish them well, but I think if you want to cut the gangrene out, you have to attack the state schools.
a. Shutter the teacher’s colleges. Replace them with two-year certificate programs which consist of a short menu of methods courses with the balance of time devoted to internships and apprenticeships. Limit admission to discrete certificate programs to those who’ve passed a general examinations and those who have completed certain prerequisites – e.g. requiring candidates for an academic secondary certificate to have completed 42 credits in one or another of a limited menu of subjects (biology, chemistry, physics, geology, geography, history, mathematics, computer science, English, comparative literature, French, Spanish, other foreign language).
b. Shutter the social work programs. Recruit child protective inspectors from the ranks of sheriff’s deputies, nurses, and junior-grade psychologists, and then have them sit for 12 month cross-training certificates. As for health-care social workers, a clerical staff assisting the serious decision-makers (e.g. nurses and physical therapists) should suffice. As for counselors, junior grade programs in clinical psychology should suffice. As for bureaucrats, programs in public administration should suffice. Social work is not a serious profession and should not be recognized as such.
c. Require the business schools to fire the faculty who specialize in teaching HR
d. Require the arts and sciences faculties to limit their book to a menu of disciplines and subdisciplines delineated in a glossary incorporated into the education law. That means ‘sociology’ is limited to quantitative applied research and ‘anthropology’ is limited to physical anthropology, palaeoantrhopology, and participant-observation research of primitive societies. That means no interdepartmental majors. That means no concentrations delineated by ascribed traits. The natural sciences are biology, chemistry, physics, geology, astronomy, and meteorology / climatology. “Psychology” is an umbrella term for programs in experimental psychology, tests-and-measurements psychology, and neuroscience. The quantitative disciplines are mathematics, computer science, and statistics. The social research disciplines are political science, economics, history, demography, linguistics, and circumscribed bits of sociology and anthropology. The humanities consist of English, comparative literature, speech and rhetoric, Spanish, philosophy, comparative religion, art history, the Classics, and miscellaneous foreign languages. The performing arts consist of music, studio art, theatre and dance, and film / photography. And if your studio art students produce junk, shut the program down. NB ‘performance art’ is junk.
One other thing: set up a state admissions office which ranks and sorts students according to composite scores derived from their board scores and high school transcripts, and has aspirants submit a card wherein their preferences among the state schools is rank ordered. Students with high composite scores have a high probability of making it into the entering class of their preferred school. Aspriants with lower scores may have to settle for their 2d or 3d choice, and aspirants with still lower scores are told they’re not up to the pace of the state schools. Limit the function of campus admissions offices to distribution of bits and pieces of discretionary financial aid.
Another hopeful sign: The Second Amendment Preservation Act of Newton County, Missouri provides any federal infringement on a citizen’s Second Amendment rights is null and void in the county.
Similarly, NY’s SAFE Act [knee jerk reaction to the Sandy Hook tragedy] is null and void in my [and hundreds of thousands of other NYers’] World.
Art, A++.
When I started work, the entire HR function was the realm of one assistant office director and his secretary, who was the go-to individual. When I retired, there were a dozen of the professional hindrances.
I think a national problem is red state public universities are run by the crazy commies and nihilists. That needs to change.
Escape from NY. WV is the closest true red state to me in NY. But, they keep electing that Democrat rat [redundant] Manchin. To me, TN seems a better red choice.
Agree with T. Shaw (again). Art Deco gets an A++.
PS, Montani Semper Liberi, the State motto, means: the Mountainous [are] always free. The sunt for are is missing.
In my state secondary teachers must have a BS in Science or Liberal Arts then have one year of teaching type courses. Of course depending on the institution Marxist, Racist theories are now probably seeded into undergrad major subjects.
Nine years ago older son took an English Lit course in a CA Bay area college. The school didn’t issue a syllabus until after the drop date. Dishonest. He was one of three Caucasian students in the class. Okay so what, he gets along with anybody. But then it turned out “American Literature” was actually Black Power writings. Not exactly what the catalogue described. The prof was a racist activist and singled out the whites. My son is a pretty tough guy but he dropped the course, lost the fee. He said, “Mom, I was afraid for my safety”.
I like a lot of what Art Deco says, but the State needs to be removed from education. All.of.it. Including requiring anyone to “have an education” and paying for any of it and backing anyone’s loan to cover it. Or granting any kind of accreditation and/or licensing anyone to do anything.
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