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Against All Odds

The inevitable string of consistently being on the low side of a teeter-totter is like the title of the 1984 recording by Phil Collins from a movie of the same name …. Against All Odds.

If anything or anybody was invariably a prototype for a bear market, that person or thing would not be around for long now, would they? Most would answer, “no,”  … but au contraire, there are actually two entities that continue to defy gravity, so to speak. And the winners are … the Mainstream Media and Public Education.

An interesting  recent quote by Andrew Sullivan from the Weekly Dish:

“2016 election. Rittenhouse. Covington. Russian collusion. Vaccines. Bounties on US soldiers. Lab-leak theory. Jussie Smollett. The Pulse shooting. The Atlanta shootings. Hunter Biden laptop. Inflation. Steele Dossier. The [Mainstream Media] got every single one wrong.”

This is indeed ‘Against All Odds,’ and yet MSM not only continues to survive but it is also like a Bible for liberal America. What will be the next faux pas for MSM? – Wait a day or two!

The other entity that is a consistent loser, but continues to survive is Public Education in America where a substantial portion of children “educated” in our large cities cannot do basic math or read and understand what’s in the newspaper. During the pandemic kids were kept out of schools at the behest of teacher’s unions, and the MSM backed these policies. How’s that turning out?

From the NY Post:

When teachers unions forced schools to close and the Biden administration allowed union leaders like Randi Weingarten to craft Centers for Disease Control and Prevention policy to make sure they stayed that way, some of us argued that treating schools as inconsequential would have consequences.

“Kids are resilient, we were told. They’ll be fine. So what if they sat at home for a year staring at a screen with no interaction with their peers? And so what if they were forced to do this when all the science said they should be in actual school? They’d bounce right back when Weingarten finally gave the OK for school to resume. It would be just that easy.

But it turns out the people who have been wrong about everything else were wrong about this too.

“The education Web site Chalkbeat reported in late September, ‘Schools across the country say they’re seeing an uptick in disruptive behaviors. Some are obvious and visible, like students trashing bathrooms, fighting over social-media posts or running out of classrooms. Others are quieter calls for help, like students putting their head down and refusing to talk.’

Where is the resilience we were promised?

We’ve treated kids like mini-robots who can be turned off for social settings and then on again, and they have sustained real damage from 20 months of being managed as an afterthought.

The stress kids are under is not because of the pandemic, it’s because of our response to the pandemic. Our leaders, doing the teachers unions’ bidding, disregarded all science showing kids were low risk.”

So they were wrong again, Against All Odds, but they are consistent, and they now want to add two years of universal preschool. How will that go?  In my estimation the chance for success is … Against All Odds!

www.californiacontrarian.com

11/26/21

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