Fill your home with good books, habits, and thoughtful conversation. Help form your children into wise and decent people. The end depends on the beginning.
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If you want advice about getting a husband and having a family ask ladies with husbands and babies, not creepy dudes.
I don't give any advice that I didn't follow myself. 🙏🏻
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I've worked hard to help my sons be readers and proud to say I have two that love Anne of Green Gables as much as their sisters. But suggesting romantasy for boys and dismissing their desires for books targeted to their interests is some top tier feminist misandry. Gross.
Jessica's Open Door retweeted
These kids need jobs.
Get your kids babysitting, doing yard work, or working at a local business as soon as you can.
Extracurriculars are less important to character formation.
I think this is why so many college students go flamingly liberal. They've never worked.
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“Every student misbehavior reflects an unmet need,” is one of the most progressive educational opinions with which I concur. However, that unmet need, contrary to what the progressive educational establishment holds, is almost always character formation, in one form or another, and to one degree or another.
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I would rather have people that cared deeply about standards than those who care deeply about destruction. We have too few that can preserve and an abundance of those who want to lurk in the muck whilst dragging everything in with them.
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I'm going to say something that needs to be repeated A LOT over the next two years.
If you are on the Right and someone else on the Right disagrees with you on your choice for the GOP Presidential candidate, you should definitely argue it out with them on an informed, FRIENDLY basis.
And then when the nominee is chosen, the two of you need to join hands and unite behind that candidate.
The alternative is communist jihadists.
The primary season is the time to ARGUE (respectfully).
The general election is the time to UNITE.
If you hate everyone who disagrees with you, uniting becomes impossible and so does winning.
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In one big survey here, 9% of women & 5% of men said they were feminists while 86% of men & 74% of women said they supported equal rights for women. The explanation is quite simple. It's that feminism is not widely seen as the aim for equal rights for women.
1/3
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Today is the National Day for the Victims of Communism. Communism killed more than 100 million people in the 20th century.
This memorial, The Memorial to the Victims of Communism in Prague, powerfully captures what communism does to the human person.
Jessica's Open Door retweeted
Serve your country. Make a difference. Come home. That's the vision of a citizen legislature worth fighting for. That is what term limits help restore. #citizenlegislature #termlimits #Congress
ALT A split image showing the U.S. Capitol building on the top half and a street with an American flag on the bottom half. Text reads: "Term limits ensure our lawmakers stay rooted in the reality of the citizens they represent. They serve their time, then return home to live under the laws they've passed." The U.S. Term Limits logo and website termlimits.com are at the bottom right.
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The REAL problem is how much lower schools' standards are **without** AP. AP is the only thing keeping some measure of true knowledge graphs in HS content. It's the last vestige of non-constructivism. And it's the only way teachers are referencing a specific knowledge bank and canon when they teach. Because they sure as shit aren't getting that from their teacher prep programs, especially in science.
Most people do not realize just how easy the AP exams have gotten. They are not college level.
Why/how have they become so easy? What's going on?
This might shock you... A brutal new piece in Education Next just dropped, saying the decline in rigor of the AP in the last two decades is, in large part, because the content has been GUTTED. For example:
— AP Biology cut 40% of its material
— Required lines from the Aeneid in AP Latin halved
— Spanish Lit reading list cut from 56 works to 38
Then the questions themselves have become absurdly easier. Readability measures show English passages have fallen multiple grade levels, and some now include footnotes defining basic words...
A 2025 AP English prompt included footnote definitions for words like "optimism" and "pessimism."
At the same time, scoring was recalibrated so that more students pass: guessing penalties disappeared, rubrics grew more generous, readers were told to give students the benefit of the doubt, etc. — "no one at College Board had any incentive to maintain rigor."
College professors are now seeing students arrive with AP credit who lack basic content knowledge and writing ability. The College Board insists the exams have not become easier, but everybody familiar with them knows they've become an absolute joke.
Advanced Placement is no longer advanced. This is not college level.
It must be replaced.
Jessica's Open Door retweeted
Could you imagine a headline today saying “Bye bye girls! The provocative reason so many dads now only want boys.” People would have a fit. It’s shameful how we’re normalizing the demonization of baby boys.
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Let's not put too fine a point on it.
Abandoning the 2000-year-old Socratic method of open debate in academia that doesn't impose views on students is a civilizational threat.
The Leftist attack on "dead white males" has devastated universities. Devastated.
Jessica's Open Door retweeted
Since riots are now spreading across Europe, there are some simple things any country that wants to avoid them can announce.
Anyone found guilty of rioting/looting:
- who is a foreign national will be immediately deported
- who is a dual national will be immediately stripped of their citizenship, then deported
- who is an asylum seeker or has been granted asylum, will be denied asylum/deported
- permanently banned from receiving any benefits/welfare of any kind
- given harsh custodial sentences
Announce this now and avoid riots or watch your country go down the route of France and Germany.
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I agree with this man! 👇
What do you think? 🤔
Critical race theory fans the flames of racism. So many people need to watch this! 👏
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There was once a shepherd who found a wolf caught in a snare at the edge of his pasture.
The wolf begged to be freed.
“I was hungry,” it said. “That is all. Spare me, and I will remember your mercy!”
The shepherd cut the rope.
The next night, three lambs were gone.
Again the shepherd found the wolf. Again it pleaded. Again the shepherd convinced himself that mercy was proof of his goodness.
By winter, half the flock was dead.
An old farmer finally asked him, “Why do you keep freeing it?”
The shepherd answered, “Because I refuse to become cruel.”
The farmer looked at the empty field and said, “Then understand what you have done. You were not merciful to the wolf. You were cruel to everything that trusted you to keep them safe.”
That’s the lesson.
Mercy without judgment isn’t virtue. When someone openly intends to destroy what has been entrusted to you, endless forgiveness doesn’t make you righteous. It makes everyone behind you pay for your vanity.
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Schools can’t cure addiction, end mental illness, fix broken homes, or eliminate poverty. Those things are outside of what schools are equipped or capable of doing.
They can, and should teach and enforce consistent discipline, adopt clear, cohesive curriculum, and use evidence-informed instructional practices to provide students with the knowledge, virtues, and skills that will help them make healthy, wise, and responsible decisions later in life.
Schools can’t solve all of society’s problems, but they can give students a fighting chance at avoiding or overcoming them.
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Imagine believing that what’s happening in Europe has to do with young people wanting a better education. I’m sure this guy would rather be at home reading Homer.
Many of the greatest minds in history (Ben Franklin, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln) had almost no formal schooling whatsoever. Ben Franklin literally figured out how many calories he needed to live on in order to spend the rest of his money on books. Abraham Lincoln walked miles to beg to borrow books. He committed to memory unbelievable amounts of Scripture and Shakespeare. Frederick Douglass got a copy of one book, the Colombian Orator, and read it over and over and over.
These clowns are not interested in education.
