Pondering over evening coffee

Barack Obama is set to share a stage on October 24 with Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Michigan Senate, despite a family record that keeps drawing scrutiny. Documents tie El-Sayed’s birth mother to IARA, a group the Treasury Department accused of funneling money to Osama bin Laden and Hamas. This month, reporting from The Federalist revealed that El-Sayed’s sister-in-law, Mariam Jukaku, sued the federal government after landing on a terror watchlist she blamed on Islamophobia rather than her work with CAIR.

This is not an isolated campaign footnote. El-Sayed has repeatedly downplayed Islamic terrorism, Iran, and radicalism on the left, and Obama stayed out of the contested primary before appearing beside him. Voters tracking national security, border policy, and the cost of looking the other way are watching whether that history gets airbrushed or finally answered.

 

 

  

From the news and social media.... ponder over your coffee

The FBI has arrested another alleged ISIS sympathizer in Minnesota, according to The Gateway Pundit. The arrest adds to a growing series of terrorism-related cases drawing attention in the state.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is a lot to unpack with this one....
Abdul El-Sayed supporter Hasan Piker all dressed up as a kitty cat? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

thatcalteacherlife:

As a former public school teacher, this is the part that gets me.

Before anyone demands MORE oversight of homeschool families, take a hard look at the outcomes of the system already being overseen.

In California’s latest statewide results, just 48.8% of tested students met or exceeded the standard in English language arts and 37.3% did so in math. Those numbers did improve from the previous year, but they still leave a huge portion of students below the state’s proficiency benchmark.

Meanwhile, California parents who operate home-based private schools aren’t simply doing whatever they want. State law already requires an annual affidavit and instruction in specified branches of study.

So yes, homeschool parents are going to push back when the conversation immediately turns to more government oversight of our children.

Because parents have every right to look at the results and say:

You don’t get to treat homeschooling like the educational emergency while ignoring the problems happening inside the system you already control.

That’s not anti-teacher.

I was one.

It’s refusing to confuse government oversight with educational success.

Those are not the same thing.