Britain's education system is failing to tackle the "astonishing" underperformance of boys as feminists have made the topic "taboo", the former head of the university admissions service has warned...

Girls outperform boys in all aspects of education, from primary school to GCSEs and A-level results. Last year, 57 per cent of women went to university compared to 43 per cent of men, a gap that has widened significantly over the last decade...

Last month the only university in the UK with a men's officer scrapped the role after the candidate withdrew due to "harassment"...

However, the National Union of Students officers began a campaign against the role, and he pulled out after claiming he harassed. The university said the post was suspended pending review. - Camilla Turner

Rod Dreher: The Christians students and parents at Immanuel will now get a lesson on what it means to endure spite for the sake of fidelity. And so will the rest of us watching from the sidelines. Sheridan School has actually done Immanuel a favor, showing them the cost of discipleship. It's not really about sports, but about learning how to bear social stigma with grace and courage. If your Christian school can't handle being hated and shunned by a sports league, it won't be able to stand up to real persecution.

Reader Jonah R. comments:

I don't believe the kids are actually behind this, but on the off chance they are, the adults are doing them no favors by scaring them into feeling "unsafe" about attending a game at a conservative Christian school where, from what I can tell, everyone is welcome in the stands.

Let's also be clear about what the Sheridan School is: It's breeding tomorrow's ruling class. These kids are going to be the busybodies, scolds, and control freaks of tomorrow.

There's also a humorous "privilege" issue here. Tuition at Immanuel Christian is $10,000 a year. At Sheridan, tuition is $34,000 to $38,000 a year. This isn't just about shielding students from Christians and conservatives; it's about setting upper-crust kids apart from relatively normal middle-class people. This is getting into Brave New World territory: "I'm glad I'm not a Beta!" I guess the next step is to give the Sheridan kids electric shocks every time they see a crucifix.

Let's begin with the makeup of the school district: It boasts a $7.52 billion budget and more than 60,000 employees, including about 26,000 teachers, with the average annual salary being $73,000. While employment has gone up 16% since 2004, enrollment has dropped 10% in the same period...

After spending 13 years in government indoctrination camps, studies have found that many Americans cannot answer basic questions relating to history, science, geography, or even money. One can only imagine the left's reaction if the private sector delivered such results. So, why should teachers and administrators be compensated more than they already are? If you continually failed at your job, your boss would not allow you to keep your position, let alone present you with a raise.  Today, teachers earn more than average Americans, receive a myriad of opulent benefits, and will have quite the winter years thanks to overgenerous retirement packages provided by politicians. Yet, these civil servants are always wanting more and use the children as pawns to get their way. When will elected officials stand up for the taxpayers and not the powerful teachers' unions ?  - Andrew Moran

‘Using gendered terms - such as "ladies [and] gentlemen" - is highly presumptuous, especially in today's society, in which many persons are aware that they don't identify as male or female and therefore are uncomfortable with this type of language'

From this standpoint, existing gender-specific vocabulary hurts and offends non-binary people and anyone else who feels that words like men and women do not describe them accurately.

Ron: Really?! Sooo, what about the 98% of humans who are "hurt" and "offended" by LGBT demands that they not be allowed to identify and be identified as they choose, ie with accurate male and female sex terminology? WHY is it OK to 'hurt" and "offend" the sensibilities of 98% of the population because 2% of the population have gender dysporia or unusual sexual proclivities?

Ron: Ironic isn't it? The hypocritical Jews want to impose cultural Marxism and LGBTism on the non-Jewish UK population but demand that they be excluded from such impositions. If they all moved to the warmongering Jewish apartheid entity they wouldn't be able to impose their ratshit cultural Marxism on the UK.

Virginia Hale: Lawyers acting for the Charedi activist and father, Shraga Stern, have written to British education minister Nick Gibb warning draft guidelines requiring schools to "actively promote" same-sex relationships and alternative lifestyles as "equally valid" would breach religious freedom provisions under European human rights law.

Mr Stern, whose seven children are aged between two and 12, argues that "in the Orthodox Jewish world it falls to parents or legal guardians, and not to schools" to teach children about sex and relationships. "My father taught me about relationships at the appropriate time. I want to do the same. We do not want sex education taught in schools. We are tolerant of different lifestyles but we do not promote them," the Sunday Times reported him as saying.

Ron: Either President Trump ousts the Deep State and gets control of US governance fairly "soon" or the US will disappear in a shower of Canaanite amorality and LGBT shit. I suppose the 3DD could be implemented but that doesn't seem to be likely at the moment. Another decade of this Talmudic governance will certainly see the US disappearing up its own fundamental orifice.

"The point of boycotting any product that supports Israel is to put pressure on the Israeli government to change its treatment, the inhumane treatment, of the Palestinian people," Amawi explained. "Having grown up as a Palestinian, I know firsthand the oppression and the struggle that Palestinians face on a daily basis."   Marjorie Cohn

This video is a perfect example of our society's schizophrenic approach to science-and almost everything else. Science is important, except when it comes to life in the womb, where it becomes inconvenient for those wishing to shout their abortions at little kids without judgment for killing littler kids. Watching the video, it is hard to see Bonow as anything but a bully when she is talking to the smallest girls, because obviously they are only allowed to voice one opinion or they'll promptly find themselves arguing with an adult abortion activist who spends her life defending her irresponsibility and subsequent feticide in public. Jonathon Van Maren

Ron: Ironically this author's thesis is that religions are faith based whereas popular modern science isn't. In truth religions and modern science are almost totally FAITH based AND that situation has arisen because BOTH have been created and imposed on humanity here by demonic Talmudic influences. The necessary implication in this author's argument is that modern science implies that humans on this planet are probably the only intelligent creatures in the universe and certainly the most advanced. LOL

Robert Arvay sums up the sort of situation postulated by this author rather well:

What Darwin and Simpson have done, along with others, is to introduce into society the physicalist paradigm, the one that holds that nothing exists except stuff, that is, material reality. According to physicalism, there is no spirit, no God, no eternal afterlife. By extension of that paradigm, you and I are nothing more than stuff, that is, the atoms that make up our physical bodies. If that is to be considered true, then it necessarily must follow, at least eventually, that we have no inherent right to be treated as anything more than protoplasm, nothing more than just another species of animal.

OR, as Niels Bohr said: “Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”

Grooming the next generation isn't just happening at the library. It is a major agenda item of the Big Five publishing companies, and the agents who successfully rep middle-grade fiction to them are a tight little group (they brag about it on Twitter, among other things) who are wholly on board with this agenda. Anybody who objects to "selling" kids on the idea that the most extreme types of sexual perversion are just "normal" is labeled a bigot (and forget getting an agent or access to 85% of the book market; it won't happen, not in fiction where this stuff is tightly controlled). Rod Dreher

Breitbart London has previously reported on guidelines issued by the left-wing council in October, which advised that schools may need to alert social services if parents are dismissive towards a ‘gender questioning' child's demands to change sex. Schools were also told to dismiss objections to ‘trans pupils' sharing the girls' changing rooms and safety concerns around male pupils competing in single-sex sports with females, insisting "it is the responsibility of members of staff to support ... trans pupils and students and cisgender pupils and students to feel comfortable around one another." Virginia Hale

Frosty Wooldridge: "Who fought who in America's Civil War," asked one.

Out of six people, five didn't know we fought a Civil War to free the black slaves.

Ron: The American Civil War was NOT fought to free the black slaves"! Arguably Lincoln and the Union fought and conquered the Confederate South in order to loot and enslave it in much the same way that the US subsequently invaded, conquered and enslaved the Phillippines, Germany, Japan, Italy, Western Europe, South Korea and myriad other nations thereeafter. Lincoln only freed the slaves in order to strengthen the Union's war efforts long after the war started. See eg: The Birth of America’s “Religion of Violence” - http://abundanthope.net/pages/True_US_History_108/The-Birth-of-America-s-Religion-of-Violence.shtml