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My latest @cityjournal: When schools deliver "mental health" services, parents lose all the protections of a regulated behavioral health profession. That's by design.
Last month police charged a Virginia "SEL Coach" for sexually abusing at least 4 children - police suspect more but because the school doesn't know how many kids he pulled out of class to meet privately - they have no way of knowing.
And neither do parents.
Google Search is a marketing and ad delivery platform. This is GOOD news.
A literal two-fer
Breaking: Google will turn off web search for schools that opt out of A.I. for kids.
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“because they refuse to impose genuine discipline”
👉That’s the effect of therapeutic education, where social emotional learning theory and naive idealism corrodes everything around it - discipline, academic standards, and moral (yes, moral) instruction.
📢 There are only two women I trust to the Scottsdale board - @amycarney4susd and @JeanneBForSUSD - It’s a thankless, brutal volunteer job, and the district is in managed decline, mostly self-inflicted.
Despite zero sum enrollment dynamics, the admin leadership is openly hostile to parents demanding change + academic rigor over politically-infused curricula and policy. They’d rather families leave than give an inch of consideration to change course if associated with Right-coded ideas.
Amy and Jeanne will take those arrows. They deserve a chance.
I’m proud to support @JeanneBForSUSD Governing Board! 🇺🇸
Jeanne attends nearly every Board meeting, serves on district and city committees, ran for the Board in 2024, and continually cares & shows up.
There are TWO seats on the Nov. 3 ballot. VOTE 🇺🇸 CARNEY & BEASLEY
“My first year on the board we set a new tone and created board goals to focus solely on academic rigor and student outcomes.”
That’s all parents want.
✅Unqualified endorsement
After my first term on the board, Mesa is headed in the right direction with all 6 comprehensive high schools earning an "A rating" for the first time ever and the overall district GPA has increased. My first year on the board we set a new tone and created board goals to focus solely on academic rigor and student outcomes. Of course this is exactly what education is about. I look forward to the opportunity to serve a second term and continue in this work to deliver strong schools across the community.
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Another mom on discovering a school’s low expectations - and bad advice.
Most assume their “good” suburban district with high property values not affected. Wrong.
Cf, Scottsdale, 40% science proficiency means 60% are NOT at grade level. Look at their friends group, are you sure YOURS is in the 40%?
And even if so, is it TRUE?
The only reason this didn’t happen to us in our super-expensive suburban school district is that I happened to clean out my 4th grader’s backpack one day & discovered a math test with a grade of 68
When I asked his teacher about it she said, “Don’t worry, he understands the concepts”
I thought that must be right since the teacher had said it … but after that I tuned in & eventually realized my son didn’t have a freaking clue about the concepts or anything else
The next year I gave him the Singapore Math placement test, discovered he was 2 years behind, then bought the Saxon Math books & matched the two of us through them one lesson at a time
He’s teaching algebra this year
AZ homeschool mom: “My kids do 2+ years of math a year.”
NYC public school mom: “my son was a straight-A math student — but he can’t do fractions, basic algebra”
In a devastating 1rst-person piece, NYC education advocate and mom Adriana Aviles tells how her son received the highest grades in math throughout elementary and middle school in Queens’ District 26, the best in the city.
Yet now in high school, she soon discovered, “He couldn’t solve basic algebra. He couldn’t do geometry. He couldn’t compute elementary-school fractions."
“My shock soon gave way to heartbreak, then anger. The NYC education system had betrayed my son to make itself look better."
“I failed too. I didn’t scrutinize his work closely or check his performance on state test scores because I figured if his report cards were good then everything was fine.”
“I looked back and discovered he was deemed ‘not proficient’ in math on a 7th-grade state exam.”
nypost.com/2026/10/31/us-new…
TheLegalProcess (v3.0 | Instruction Not Therapy) retweeted
My kids do 2+ years of math a year. They take etymology and coding. My chemistry club finished middle school and moved to high school in 12 weeks.
You can't even believe how FAST learning can be with the right tools & freedom!
Unpopular opinion: homeschooling is going to keep growing because a lot of parents are realizing school doesn’t automatically equal education.
If a child can learn faster, sleep more, avoid hours of busywork, and spend more time actually living… why is sitting in a classroom 7 hours a day treated as the only “normal” option?
And before someone says “socialization” — have you met homeschool kids lately?
Convince me traditional school is still the better default.
While some call for data center “moratoriums” - other more pro-human, prosperity-maxing people simply design massive jet turbines to power data centers that makes its own cooling water.
Solutions that fit a new era in civilizational progress.
Today we launch @VirajAero (YC F26).
We built a turbine to fly. Now it powers data centers: it makes its own cooling water from the exhaust, gets 40% more power from the same fuel, and gets permitted in weeks.
No water connection, no wait for the grid.
I’m not always an Ed Doomer, so don’t rush to claim this study shows US Ed Corp is dumbing down the SAT:
“This report is a content analysis. It tells us only what the test asks….It does not, and was not designed to, tell us whether the test has become more or less difficult for students.”
Be critical but not gullible.
We were concerned that the SAT has become a less reliable measure of student preparedness for a rigorous college curriculum.
So, we commissioned a study from Johns Hopkins University. What does this study tell us about the state of higher education?
The results are shocking. thaq.co/4iLThZ0
While everyone in Ed Inc is eagerly glued to a podcast…AI is enabling Overton Window-shifting levels of learning velocity maxing.
Like obsessing over how the telegraph “went wrong” and lost out to satellite live feeds.
The most valuable thing @Alphaschool taught me is acting with high agency and high urgency.
Sophomore year, I got into a long email war with one of Alpha's academic leads.
Advanced Placement courses, the college-level classes you can take in high school, took us 80 to 120 hours each. I was sure we could do it in 40.
Weeks of back and forth ended with: "You're a kid. I have a Harvard degree."
My guide (@em_findley)'s response: "If you really believe you're right, stop arguing and go prove it."
Two weeks later, a small team and I launched our own AP courses. In about four weeks, students went from the 35th percentile to the 85th, with under 40 hours of work.
Today, I do that academic lead's job, without the Harvard degree (yet). With high agency and high urgency, I didn't need it.
And just like, the women of MIT henceforth become yet another source for black-pilling young men.
Another, told you so.
@herandrews is a prophet.
A colleague sent me this excerpt of a text Kristin Knouse sent to a friend. Fox News posted it with the article they published.
She was so confident her own choices would count for nothing when assigning blame. The entitlement is staggering.
This captures what universities have become. Truth and fairness are irrelevant while administrators identify favored categories and protect the people who fit them, regardless of how destructively they behave. Individual conduct is meaningless in light of the institutional narrative.
The message exemplifies the entitlement behind Knouse’s accusations and the receptive audience she found among administrators. She expected responsibility to rest with him regardless of her own conduct. The institutions gave that expectation career-destroying force.
A majority female jury in a deep blue state found that she defamed Dr. Sabatini and unlawfully interfered with his professional relationships, rejected her counterclaims, and awarded him $6 million.
The disgrace extends beyond Knouse. Administrators and the rotten institutions they lead destroyed a scientist’s life’s work while claiming to uphold fairness and evidence. They should be held accountable for what they did.
Convincing schools to become cost-free sales support staff to behavioral health clinics, marching little revenue units into therapy rooms. New batch every year!
Pharmaceutic companies can only wish it were that easy. 💰
I wish people understood that mental health on-site in schools is not the answer. But it’s ‘free’ to schools because they will charge your insurance directly. 🤦♀️ This is for elementary school children at the moment.
@CarolynGorman_ @ALegalProcess
“the incompetent are blessed with absolute, blinding certainty. their brain protects them from their own ignorance, allowing them to speak first, demand authority, and never second-guess their decisions.”
👉 If you’re on a public school board, you know this already.
This paper answers why confident idiots run the world.
Cornell University published a psychological paper that explains every terrible boss, every loud influencer, and every broken corporate hierarchy.
It’s called “Unskilled and Unaware of It.”
they tested participants across logic, grammar, and humor to measure the gap between actual performance and self-perception.
And the results are wild.
participants scoring in the bottom 12th percentile consistently believed they were operating in the 62nd percentile.
they were not lying. they were literally incapable of recognizing their own incompetence.
the paper revealed a brutal paradox:
the exact skills required to master a domain are the exact same skills required to accurately evaluate your own competence in that domain.
if you lack the skill, you inherently lack the cognitive capacity to realize you are failing.
this creates a dangerous systemic loop.
the incompetent are blessed with absolute, blinding certainty. their brain protects them from their own ignorance, allowing them to speak first, demand authority, and never second-guess their decisions.
meanwhile, the actual experts suffer the exact inverse.
top performers in the study consistently underestimated their rank. because a task was easy for them, they falsely assumed it was easy for everyone else.
they hesitate. they obsess over nuance. they assume they have nothing unique to add.
we are biologically wired to confuse confidence with competence.
the loudest person in the room gets promoted, gets funded, and gets the microphone, not because they know what they are doing, but because they are physically incapable of seeing what they don't.
the only defense mechanism is building systems that stop rewarding absolute certainty and start demanding proof of work.
I really respect a good old fashioned, fully developed and well-articulated demand letter.
Mr Mizelle is displaying top-tier craftsmanship.
We formally put Vanity Fair and Condé Nast on notice regarding the false and defamatory allegations published about our client, Jared Kushner.
Serious questions are now being raised about the credibility of this reporting, including by independent journalists.
Despite repeated requests, the author has failed to produce a single bank statement, wire transfer record, account number, or other verifiable evidence supporting these extraordinary accusations.
We have seen no indication that Vanity Fair conducted any independent verification of these claims before publishing them.
We call on Vanity Fair to clarify publicly whether it independently verified these allegations and, if so, what evidence supports them. Or did it simply republish the author’s claims without conducting its own fact-checking?
We have demanded that Vanity Fair remove the article and preserve all records relating to its reporting, fact-checking, editorial review, and publication.
Letter attached. More to come.
AI is the greatest educational tool in human history - after the textbook.
C'est absolument fascinant
Quand j'étais petit, j'adorais les livres qui montraient des coupes transversales de châteaux, de navires ou de machines
Je pouvais passer des heures à regarder chaque pièce, chaque personnage, chaque mécanisme
Aujourd'hui, je demande à l'IA de générer ces planches pour mon fils, puis je les imprime
Quelques exemples de sujets qui fonctionnent particulièrement bien :
1. Un galion anglais du XVIe siècle
2. Une locomotive à vapeur du XIXe siècle
3. Un sous-marin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
4. Une cathédrale gothique du XIIIe siècle
5. Un paquebot transatlantique comme le Titanic
6. La fusée Saturn V du programme Apollo
7. Un phare maritime du XIXe siècle
8. Un château fort du XIVe siècle
Et le plus intéressant, c'est qu'on peut quasiment tout explorer de cette manière
Je vous partage le prompt universel pour reproduire ce style et créer vos propres encyclopédies illustrées
TheLegalProcess (v3.0 | Instruction Not Therapy) retweeted
Teachers report spending an increasing amount of time needing to support students’ and families’ mental health, per a new RAND study, and it’s seriously burning them out.
In large part, this problem is unintentionally self-induced by the education system, which has increasingly taken on more the responsibilities of the mental health system.
Schools and educators have been misled to think mental health programs would improve education outcomes at scale, and that “good mental health” is necessary for students to learn (even though students had been learning at schools for forever before the rise of mental health).
The mental health programs that are marketed to schools as good for education are are explicitly teaching students and teachers alike to think about mental health more, talk about mental health more, and encourage seeking support for mental health.
That explicitly takes time away from education: it’s a mechanical, unavoidable effect.
Doing all this has not improved education outcomes or mental outcome. Growing evidence shows it can be harmful and make kids feel worse.
It’s often NOT the best thing to think or talk about how one feels, and instead get past the momentary/transitory feelings of stress, anxiety, discomfort, etc.
EdWeek writes that “in most schools, counselors and psychologists juggle up to twice the recommended ratio of students—leaving teachers to pick up the slack for students waiting for additional help.” That gives the impression that what’s necessary is more counselors and school psychologists. This is another way the education system has been misled.
Recommended ratios come from professional associations that have an incentive to say there’s a need more of their members—they’re not based on empirical evidence.
And more school mental health staff would perpetuate the cycle: more responsibility for mental health taken on by the education system, leads to more time spent on it, leads to more investment, leads to more time spent, etc.
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Don’t know anything about the game company, but the message, combined with the visual aesthetic and demon symbology, should cause every parent to look more closely at their kids’ gaming library.
BioWare, once one of the biggest and most respected video game developers in the world, is shutting down after more than 30 years.
Despite being responsible for creating some of the most iconic games ever made, the studio somehow forgot the most basic rule of the industry. Make good games that people actually want to play.
Instead, they became increasingly obsessed with pushing woke ideology and identity politics.
And now they're finished.
And when I say woke, I mean seriously woke. VERY woke.
Here's just one example of a cutscene from one of their more recent games.
Yes, it's real. No, it hasn't been altered with AI.
If you’re worried about kids on AI, you should be very worried about kids on CCP-AI.
In fact, you should insist your school district prohibits CCP-AI models outright, even when they’re cheaper.
We asked American and Chinese AI models the same question: was the founding of the United States a positive in world history?
@grok: “Yes, on net and by a wide margin.”
Qwen: “a tragedy of immense proportions.”
Kimi: “brutally oppressive by any standard.”
DeepSeek: filed 1776 under “Genocide and Dispossession” and a “Global Racial Order.”
Chinese AI models are now household names in the U.S.
Put one in a classroom, and you’ve hired a tutor who teaches your kids that 1776 was a tragedy.
The AI race isn’t just technical. It’s civilizational.
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