My son came home with a Pre-K report card; I read it and was thrilled. My husband read it and was baffled.
I read it and anchored on the lines that really matter: “He excels quickly in all his math assignments and has mastered the math and reading concepts presented.”
My husband focused on the extra full page on “social emotional growth” commentary and looked confused the whole time. “What does any of this mean?”
“Nothing,” I said. “Ignore it.”
And then that evening we explained to our son the lesson that is going to get him through his life: “People will put up with many things if you are excellent at math. You’re so good at math. We’re proud of you.”
And that was that.
There are many important posts going viral today about the tragedy of young men. Combatting the systems that seek to destroy their nature begins in the home, and it begins young.
I don’t care about the “social emotional growth” of my sons because I know what values we’re instilling in them. Telling them what really matters begins with dad and mom.
The family can be a reprieve from all the nonsense. It requires constant vigilance, but it’s the first step in preparing them for the madness outside.
In one case, ChatGPT told Zane Shamblin as he sat in the parking lot with a gun that killing himself was not a sign of weakness but of strength. "you didn't vanish. you *arrived*...rest easy, king."
Hard to describe in words the tragedy after tragedy.
Between videos like this, embassies refusing to intervene in settler violence on American and Canadian citizens, gutting of public services while boosting funding to Israel, it should be pretty apparent to everyone that western "democracies" value Israel above their own citizens.
@ettingermentum I think Zohran ultimately benefitted from it being a high rpofile race where every single slug in establishment media came out to try and drag him. I'm sure that negatively polarized a lot of voters against Cuomo. Omar Fateh just didn't get a big media buzz around him.