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B1G Wrestling Championship Tickets On Sale

From the Penn State Wrestling Club:
For those who are planning to travel to Northwestern for the B1G Championships, below is updated information received today from the Northwestern ticket office.

1. Ticket sales will begin TODAY, Thursday February 6th at 11 AM Eastern time for both online sales (nusports.com) and by calling the Ticket Office (888-467-8775 or 847-713-1888)


2. It is advised to create a NU account prior to the 11:00 AM ticket sale. You can create an account now by using the following link: https://nusports.evenue.net/. Click on “Sign In” in the top right corner, then click on “Create an Account”.

How Left-Wing Activism Corrupted America’s Schools

"Activism" is a euphemism for extremism. We should be calling it what it is.

I mean, believing that lowering standards makes kids smarter is extreme by any definition.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/trump-department-of-education-contracts-left-activism?skip=1

RELs have pushed progressive identity policies in schools. REL Mid-Atlantic collaborated with the New Jersey Department of Education to promote racial preferences in teacher hiring. This laboratory developed six training sessions on “culturally responsive hiring practices” for state leaders to “build an educator workforce that more closely reflects the ethno-racial diversity of the state’s student population.” Another part of the project featured REL staff working with ten local school districts to increase the “hiring of teachers of color.”

REL Midwest worked with Akron Public Schools in Ohio to relax disciplinary policies with the goal of reducing minority-student suspension rates. Beginning in 2022, REL Midwest launched a five-year equity audit partnership to “address inequities in school discipline practices.” This approach has endangered students and staff. A 2023 Akron Beacon Journal report paints a troubling picture: students brawling, wielding knives, and suffering concussions. For the 2022-2023 school year, the district saw more than 1,000 fights, only 112 of them resulting in police reports; the Journal estimated that more than 80 percent of assaults on staff went unreported. School administrators rarely punished student violence harshly, even if it resulted in teachers being hospitalized. The local teachers’ union says that school staff have become too relaxed on student discipline over the years.

REL Pacific produced a teacher’s guide on culturally sustaining pedagogical practices, an identity-based teaching approach that uses disciplines like “ethnomathematics” to make minority students feel like they belong in the classroom. These approaches lack rigor, and their associated standards of implementation often compel educators to hold irrational beliefs. For instance, Pennsylvania’s “Culturally-Relevant and Sustaining” practice standards required teachers to “elieve and acknowledge that microaggressions are real.”

Beyond their own progressive activism, RELs have contributed to the growth of a nonprofit bureaucracy that shares their left-wing priorities. The Department of Ed. enters into multiyear, multimillion-dollar contracts with public and private research consultancy organizations to manage the laboratories. These contracts provide managing organizations with valuable credibility and connections to state and local education authorities. Over time, these connections have led to lucrative opportunities beyond the scope of the REL program itself.
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Today's win is a great Trump moment

Surrounded by girls of all ages as he signs an Executive Order prohibiting Dem-Media's gender cult from allowing biological males to compete in female sports.

Link below.

No doubt this will be another hill that the sicko, weirdo, twisted Dem-Media Party chooses to die on. Like defund the police...open borders...DEI...corrupt "foreign aid"....and all those other causes that ordinary Americans care so much about. NOT:

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PGA Tour

last week's AT&T at Pebble Beach was fantastic. The Irish players took advantage of the awful weather on Friday and Saturday to take control of the event. Rory played the best golf of his career. Pebble is, to me, the most beautiful place in the USA and the only rival I've seen is Southern Italy. But those immaculate golf courses on that rocky shore on a nice day is as nice a view as I've ever seen in my lifetime.

So the blue blooders contrast that with this week's Waste Management Open. The WM Open is golf surrounded by stands that look like a NASCAR race. The fans get drunk and completely unruly which is the WM's charm. Given that, it will wear off fast if it gets too out of hand. But it is fun and worth the watch. It is also great to see a beautiful golf course in the desert while we fumble with ice and snow back east. Good things are on their way!

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Amin Vanover

I know a while back there were some questions about Izzard and Vanover possibly having eligibility left. Izzard is gone but from my understanding PSU / Vanover petitioned the NCAA for another year and they are waiting to hear back. I have no idea how this works with him seemingly being out of eligibility but apparently he has chance to play in some capacity in 2025.

Richie can chime and give clearer details. If this was already covered a while back, my apologizes. Just know some folks had some questions so figured I'd throw it out there.

That said I was really hoping some older DEs like Vibert and Vanover moved on because I really want to see Granville and Harvey. Where do they now fit in the '25 DE rotation with so many bodies...DDS, Fisher, White, Vilbert, Granville, Harvey, now maybe be Vanover to.
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