An award-winning Canadian scientist said he has been refused two federal government grants for his research on the grounds of “lack of diversity” — even though he is originally from India and has repeatedly suffered racism. […] Kambhampati’s work explores the cutting edge of super-fast laser science, a field that spans everything from telecom to medicine. He believes Canada can become a world leader in the field. If I want to focus on merit, fairness and equality, then you get called out as a racist or sexist. But his application for a $450,000 grant this month from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) was turned down because, the council said, “the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion considerations in the application were deemed insufficient.” His grant application a year ago to the federally funded National Frontiers in Research Fund — whose object is “to support world-leading interdisciplinary, international, high-risk/high-reward, transformative and rapid-response Canadian research” — was also turned down on similar grounds.
Education
Sheriff Mike Chapman said that superintendent Scott Ziegler was ‘unmistakably aware’ of a rape committed by a ‘gender-fluid’ male student and that Ziegler’s actions led to another assault months later. The sheriff of Loudoun County, Virginia blasted the superintendent of the county school district, saying he was “unmistakably aware” of a bathroom rape earlier this year and that the district’s actions “resulted in a second student being victimized by the same defendant.” In a November 10 letter obtained by ABC7News, Sheriff Mike Chapman told Scott Ziegler, superintendent of Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS), that Ziegler “knew of the alleged sexual offense the day it occurred,” despite later claiming to have “no record” of sexual assaults in school bathrooms. Ziegler had written to Chapman the previous week, accusing the sheriff’s office with providing “what may be inaccurate information” at a recent meeting of the Loudoun board of supervisors. The sheriff’s office told the board this month that LCPS was “absolutely notified” after a 15-year-old “gender fluid” boy was charged with raping a female classmate in the girls bathroom of Stone Bridge High School in May. He was arrested in July and convicted last month.
A good rule of thumb is that if you notice Islamic terror, you’re the Islamophobe. Even if you’re a teenager who was taken captive and raped by ISIS. While American school boards are under fire over wokeness, this story comes from up north and the Toronto District School Board. For the past four years, Canada’s largest school board has partnered with Tanya Lee, a Toronto mother and entrepreneur who runs a book club for teenaged girls called A Room Of Your Own, which is rooted in her conviction that reading and open conversation can empower young women, as it did for her. Ms. Lee makes a point of targeting the club to schools in high-priority neighbourhoods, and emphasizes its inclusive, positive atmosphere. To date, the TDSB has supported Ms. Lee’s club by distributing books to participating students, discussing them in class and allowing club members to take a day off school to attend (back when in-person meetings were still possible). But that support ended last month, when Ms. Lee was informed by Helen Fisher, a TDSB superintendent, that the board would not be promoting two of the books Ms. Lee had selected for upcoming meetings.
A new Epoch Times article reveals the contents of a leaked audio recording from a sold-out California Teachers Association (“CTA”) conference dedicated to LGBTQ+ issues. On the audio, two seventh-grade teachers from California’s Central Valley can be heard attacking parents who aren’t on board with the LGBTQ agenda and boasting about the methods they use to circumvent parental concerns to get kids, whether LGBTQ+ or not, into their clubs. According to the article, Kelly Baraki and Lori Caldeira, who teach at Buena Vista Middle School in Salinas, California, explained their techniques to recruit students into LGBTQ clubs (which are also referred to as Gay-Straight Alliance, or GSA, clubs). In a nod to the Central Valley’s status as one of California’s conservative political zones, Baraki’s and Caldeira’s seminar was titled “How we run a ‘GSA’ in Conservative Communities.” The audio clip has the two teachers explaining the following techniques: Keeping GSA clubs unofficial, without rosters or records, so they have plausible deniability when parents complain that their children have been attending club meetings. Giving clubs names that don’t scream “LGBTQ,” such as the “Equity Club” or the “You Be You” club. […]
Multiple donors were sent photos of same schoolhouses WE Charity said each had fully funded. Marc and Craig Kielburger’s WE Charity routinely misled school-aged children and wealthy philanthropists across North America for years as it solicited millions for schoolhouses in Kenya and other projects in its Adopt-A-Village program, an investigation by CBC’s The Fifth Estate has found. Slick marketing videos, congratulatory social media posts and crowdfunding websites across the internet tell the story of two brothers on a mission to change the world, but under closer scrutiny those digital crumbs lead down a trail of contradictions and deception. “I don’t know how they thought they could get away with it for so long,” said a former WE employee. CBC agreed to conceal their identity because they were concerned about legal reprisals from the charity for speaking out. Years after Rukshan de Silva and his high school classmates in Oakville, Ont., raised money for WE to build a one-room schoolhouse in Kenya, he travelled there to see the fruits of their labour. What he didn’t know during his 2013 visit was that four small blue letters displayed prominently above the schoolhouse doorway were a clue that he and the students from Iroquois Ridge High School had been deceived.
An Old Dominion University professor who days ago caught the public’s attention for his “MAP” advocacy, or sexual attraction to children, has been placed on administrative leave tonight. Allyn Walker’s stance of “MAP” as a “sexual preference” has caused enough backlash for the school that the school has agreed to have Walker step back from his position. The newest statement from Old Dominion University says the following: “Reactions to Dr. Walker’s research and book have led to concerns for their safety and that of the campus. Furthermore, the controversy over Dr. Walker’s research has disrupted the campus and community environment and is interfering with the institution’s mission of teaching and learning.” It’s followed up with reassurances from the school’s President Brian O. Hemphill, who stated, “I want to state in the strongest terms possible that child sexual abuse is morally wrong and has no place in our society. This is a challenging time for our University, but I am confident that we will come together and move forward as a Monarch family.” On Saturday, Old Dominion University released its first statement to the controversy in support of Dr. Allyn Walker for the sake of the “quest for knowledge” and talking about “controversial issues and perspectives,” while disavowing any wrongdoing.