OT the PIT - reincarnation

Barrington, Rhode Island, public schools are among the best in the state. Many parents move to the district, and tolerate the higher taxes, because of the academic rigor that sets their children up for attending Ivy League schools or receiving academic merit scholarships. However, all of that academic appeal is being chipped away after the district brought in a so-called "equity and inclusion" agenda.

De-leveling, or a system of universal learning, was first implemented in Barrington on the most vulnerable students—the students with learning disabilities and Individualized Education Programs (IEP). In February 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the school removed some conceptual classes. On the whole, parents of children in those classes were reluctant to speak out because they ran the risk of "outing" their child as having a disability or needing special accommodation.

A mom whose daughter has an IEP and attended the removed conceptual classes said that de-leveling has caused her daughter's grades to decline. The mother requested anonymity in order to protect her daughter's identity.

The mom continued, "It [took away] any kind of individuality … or … personalized education plan for kids. It's 'you're just going to be some homogenized like education factory where they raise everybody's the same.'"

Rage broke loose among parents of all political stripes after the honors students were targeted, parents said. The school announced that the days of honors English and social studies were gone. Parents protested, arguing that the move deprived their children of a competitive edge – and in effect – future opportunities such as merit scholarships.

During a March 30 meeting, over a dozen parents and students scolded the school board.
My daughter has lost out on opportunities which could affect merit scholarships for her, which I think is appalling … You don't really know what you're doing on this," one mother said.

A parent who identified himself as a dentist with immigrant parents from Mexico said, "You guys are doing this for someone like me. My parents … didn't speak English … Nobody asked me. Like, I'm the person that you're supposedly trying to help. So you guys have your own idea of what diversity, equity and inclusion means, and it doesn't take into account an actual person that has been through some of the worst public schools in Chicago, lives in neighborhoods where people are shooting each other, drug dealers and gang members … That's where I grew up till I was about 12. So how come no one is asking me? I have a lot to share."

Police in New York City are searching for a robbery suspect after video captured him pistol-whipping another man during a broad daylight mugging on Friday.

The incident happened around 9:30 a.m. in front of 217-17 89th Avenue in Queens, police said.
The victim, a 24-year-old male, was walking home when an unknown man approached him from behind, according to authorities. During a physical struggle, police said the suspect pulled out a firearm.
Video footage shows the struggle between the two men. The suspect is seen striking the victim in the head multiple times with the firearm. The suspect knocks the victim to the ground and continues to hit the victim over the head with the gun.
While police didn't give a description of the suspect, they released surveillance images of the man they say is wanted in connection to the robbery.

🤣🤣🤣 Where do these idiots come from? Mars, Pluto, Uranus 🤣🤣🤣

California, New York, Massachusetts…

When living in the Soviet Union, I went to two schools, one grades 1-8, other grades 9-10 (out of 10).

Yesterday I read that the first one school, which was pretty decent and even, by the then Soviet standards, somewhat liberal, celebrated the 100 years of ... Young Pioneer organization, the middle-school Communist Party organization, an atrocious abomination we were forced to be member of for four years.

And now they dressed fifth-graders into the uniforms, hang the map of the USSR, and made something memorable and romantic, even heroic out of it. Some of the teachers that were part of the system that ditched that organization, and the Komsomol 35 years ago are now in this revisionism.

It's not even a nation of "soviets, crippled by the Bolshevism during the 70 years". It's the serfs from 1860, that didn't get to really learn what freedom was. The serfdom was repealed in 1861, but came back in 1917, period too short for a person to live a full life as a free citizen.

If my other school goes that route, then a big bold black diagonal cross can be painted over the entire Russia.

I worked in downtown SF in the mid 80’s and back then the homeless, tents, drug dealing , people 💩 in the street wasn’t as bad as it is now, it started going into the toilet when our fearless leader(loser) Newsom became mayor of SF, now it’s a huge toilet.

It's not that they "don't care". They care that you would feel unsafe. That's an objective, not a byproduct.

The crime of the century:

WASHINGTON, DC – FBI leadership, including then-Director James Comey, was "fired up" about the alleged covert communications channel between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank in the days after Michael Sussmann brought the allegations to the bureau, according to testimony and documents revealed in the trial.

Sussmann, on Sept. 19, 2016, set up a meeting with then-FBI General Counsel James Baker where he brought two thumb drives of data and white papers alleging the Trump Organization was using a secret back channel to communicate with Kremlin-linked Alfa Bank in the weeks leading up to the presidential election.
Sussmann is charged with making a false statement to the FBI. During that meeting, Sussmann allegedly told Baker he was not bringing the allegations on behalf of any specific client, but rather as a citizen concerned with national security. Durham’s team alleges they have evidence that Sussmann later billed Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign for his FBI meeting.
Baker passed the thumb drives and white papers along to the head of the bureau’s counterintelligence division, Bill Priestap. An investigation was formally opened at first in the FBI’s cyber division.

Messages submitted as evidence in the trial this week between a supervisory agent for the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe, also known as "Crossfire Hurricane," Joe Pientka, and FBI Special Agent Curtis Heide revealed that the top brass of the FBI called for an investigation into the data.
"People on the 7th floor to include Director are fired up about this server," Pientka messaged Heide. "Did you guys open a case? Reach out and put tools on?"
Multiple current and former FBI officials during the Sussmann trial testified that "the 7th floor" was a reference to FBI leadership, as that is where the offices of the director and deputy director are located at FBI headquarters.

Pientka added: "If not I will call Dan as Priestap says its not an option—we must do it."

Officials said the investigation into the data "must" take place in the counterintelligence division, following a review by the FBI’s cyber division, which determined there was no cyber "equity" and that the conclusions that were drawn in the white papers were erroneous.
"Roger," Heide replied. "We are opening a CI [counterintelligence] case today."

Baker, in testimony last week, said he immediately notified Priestap, and later, briefed then-FBI Director James Comey and then-FBI Deputy Director Andy McCabe following his meeting with Sussmann.
"The FBI was already conducting an investigation into alleged connections between the Trump campaign and Russians at this point in time, so that was a matter of great concern to all of us," Baker said.
"Here was another type of information between Trump and Russia that had come to me," Baker said, describing it as "concerning" and "time sensitive."

"It seemed to me of great urgency and great seriousness that I would want to make my bosses aware of this information," Baker said. "I think they were quite concerned about it."
"Trump, at the time, was a candidate for office of the president of the United States, so, the FBI is investigating allegations related to his potential interactions, and those people on his campaign, with the government of the Russian Federation," Baker said.

He added: "And that was of high, high importance to the FBI at this point in time."
But on Tuesday, Heide testified that after weeks of investigating, the FBI was "unable to substantiate any of the allegations in the white paper."
FBI Special Agent Scott Hellman, last week, testified that the data revealing the alleged covert communications channel between Trump and Russia that Sussmann brought to the FBI turned out to be untrue, and said he did not agree with the narrative.

Hellman testified that whoever drafted the narrative describing the DNS data was "5150," and clarified on the stand that meant he believed the individual who came to the conclusions was "was suffering from some mental disability."

And Baker testified last week that the FBI's investigation "did not reveal there was some kind of surreptitious communications channel."
"We concluded there was no substance. We couldn’t confirm it. We could not confirm there was a surreptitious communications channel," Baker said, noting the investigation was "several weeks, maybe a month, maybe a month and a half."

"There was nothing there," he said.

I am sure she own property and does not want is destroyed.....

A Boston University assistant professor said that property is racist and excused the riots that followed the death of George Floyd, according to a video posted by the school on Twitter Wednesday.

"If we're going to talk about George Floyd and really understand, then we need to understand community reactions," Saida Grundy, who works in BU's Department of Sociology & Program in African American Studies, said. According to the professor's LinkedIn, she also works at Ibram X. Kendi's Center for Antiracist Research

She went on to blast politicians and President Biden for condemning the so-called "community reactions."

"We often hear politicians … [and] civic leaders from inside Black communities and from outside of them as well. [For example,] we heard President Biden say, 'Well I understand your frustration, but don't destroy property,'" she said "Well when you say that to Black people – who historically have been property – one of our greatest weapons was the looting of ourselves as property from the system of slavery. And what we see in communities is they are reacting to the very racism of what we call property."

"I think it's really important for people who see reactions of communities to not judge and to not make assumptions about what is good and not good reactions and not actually re-victimize communities by saying there's an acceptable and a not acceptable way to react," the assistant professor continued. "Listen to them, and then we can say what these communities need."

Fox News reached out to the assistant professor who wouldn't comment on the matter.

What the fuck has that chick been smokin?