Michael Ramirez for February 13, 2023

Railroading liberal agendas is a hell of a lot better than railroading fascism.

Some day, one of the extreme far right cartoonists is going to tell everyone what ‘woke’ means.

Not today, though.

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Of course, because of the extreme far right wing diversity, ALL extreme far right wing cartoonists will draw cartoons with the exact same definition.

rightwing monopoly game where everything is a grift and nothing matters

Income tax; Ramirez wants the poor to pay more and expect less. Expecting the ultra wealthy, who pay next to nothing in taxes to pay more is such a silly idea !

Gender identity; Republicans are all for small government, but want to decide how you identify yourself. At a time when climate change, depletion of natural resources, overpopulation and pollution, isn’t this the most pressing issue for a government ?

Critical race theory: We don’t want to learn from history because we so want to repeat it !

Fail Science and Math: Oh yes Science Math Logic and reason are the cornerstones of Conservative thinking. How else would we have known about the mind altering effects of vaccines, the climate change hoax, Jewish space lasers and election fraud ?

Of course, no where in here is there the blame for the parents that abandoned their responsibility for raising children and gave it to the school. No where is there accountability for the parent supporting the teacher and the education process. No where is there the parent (who knows nothing about HOW to educate) storming into parent teacher conferences and grade-grubbing with the teacher. No where is there blame for the parents who put more emphasis on sports than arts, humanities and STEM education.

Education was good in the past because parents held kids accountable. They supported the school and the teacher and were involved in the process of making sure kids did their work and paid the price for bad grades. Education was more important than sports. AND they didn’t call every lesson they disagreed with “woke” or “indoctrination”.

The parents are the problem today.

Instead of buying houses and hotels, you erect tents on the sidewalk for free.

Charter schools, the solution to Bush’s GOP “No Child Left Behind” which went away ten years ago.

Ramirez, ask any teacher what the real problem in TODAY’S classroom is and we will tell you, learning loss from Covid. Kids two, three years behind.

What is your solution to that?

Mine is for you to leave teachers alone and let them teach. Give schools the funds to stay open all year.

Very disappointing effort today Mike. Personally I hold teachers in high regard.

Ramirez got the Income Tax space right — if you are in the middle class, that is.

That is some concentrated conservative propaganda there. Your owners must have been upset about your recent critiques of the Insurrection leader. Nice touch suggesting that MONOPOLY is being used by liberals.

Indoctrinating white Christian nationalism, that’s just fine.

Being obviously homeschooled, Ramirez never received the education that allows him to understand “school choice” in political parlance means directing funding away from real schools with real teachers, so they may receive a real education that allows children to thrive and grow and be better and smarter than their parents in an advancing world that will otherwise leave them behind.

Republicans know bibles and churches, rituals and traditions, ignorance and superstitions, can’t compete with a structured education that has no room for that constipating dogma. So they can only try to force society into continuing the only thing keeping christian conservatism alive and controlling.

My heart breaks for the children of Seattle, who were forced home for the Covid overreaction and are now being forced to stay there by selfish teachers’ unions who could care less that they are destroying the next generation. May they rot in hell!

Is THIS the reason for home schooling and public funding of private charter schools? Public education is so broken we must flee it rather than keep our children there and fix it? Similar to the fleeing from urban areas.

When the snowflake children fail to get into college, fail to complete college because their private home school was too narrow, too biased, avoided subjects that didn’t fit the father’s view of the world…who will they blame?

Awesome comic Michael. As predicted, the leftists are mewling, so you must be doing something correctly! They claim to be “pro-choice,” but not so much when it comes to their monopolistic education preference: union dominated government education. I’m pro-choice, the more K-12 options the better.

Fascinating all of the “experts” on education, whose experience comes from having themselves (and their kids?) gone through school (maybe private?). It’s those 9th grade analysis skills that I treasured so much when I taught. At least for many of my students there was growth in those skills over the course of the year and their career in high school. And, to me, that’s the crux of what is wrong with these criticisms. Education is a PROCESS. An uneven one. I’ve had classes where soon to be Ivy League students sat right next to a kid who could not read. How should each of their educations be judged? By the standardized test they each took in their junior year? (One Ivy League kid I had got a 36). Is it the “facts” or “methods of learning” that matter more? What’s the balance? Teachers have to consider all of these things and there’s still no GUARANTEE of success in the “moment”. It might kick in well after a student leaves school.

I always thought, and conveyed to my students, that school provides an opportunity and it’s up to them to decide what to do with it. The vast majority of teachers I’ve interacted with (including my own kids’) have been professional, intelligent and truly cared about their students’ success. I suspect that’s not what critics like to hear, preferring to think that educating children is like making a product in a factory.

Very clever (and accurate) toon.

Impressive! Normally, I need to read a week or more of Mike’s ’toons to get this much twisted misinformation.

This is only Monday!

Passing students who can’t even read, comprehend, or function in society!

Some parents ARE DROPPING THE BALL….Teach them RESPECT, RESPONSIBILITY, MANNERS!, LOVE, COMPASSION …do your job! Get involved!

Get rid of Common Core…this is what’s dumbing down AMERICA!

The teacher unions where pushing to keep internet teaching even in 2022. This is causing a huge boom for parochial schools. Our little school across the street is installing temporary classrooms to accommodate the huge growth in enrollment. Teacher unions have better get smart and do what they were founded for, better wages and benefits for their members PERIOD. Or soon they themselves will be gone.

The usual unwoke anti social right wing lies.

There is enough blame to go around. Schools somewhere along the line decided their mission is not just to educate, but also to feed and entertain kids, and ensure the child’s nascent opinions reflect current approved political dogma. Parents forgot that children need to know they are to behave appropriately, to respect, and, yes, obey, teachers; and that if your teachers have to send home notes about your behavior, you can expect parents to side with the teacher. Teachers forgot that they are not the parent, and that they do not have authority to make custodial decisions without parental approval. Teacher unions forgot that their main mission is to Educate, and not ensuring the well-being and political power of the Union, nor to further their preferred cultural views.

Public school teachers are becoming nothing more than leftist groomers. See y’all in church.

Because conservatives are SO well-behaved at school board meetings and just want what’s best for the children. Yeah, right.

Republicans can’t cope so they lead the fight against reality.

The problem with CRT, as one example, is that it is NOT taught. If it were, our right wing friends would know what it means and understand why it is important to know.

Comatose—the alternative to woke.

Nothing a good christian school education and indoctrination paid for with US tax dollars can’t fix in your misguided opinion it seems. The attempted sullying and defamation of US Public Schools is disgusting and an obvious attempt at theft of educational budgets in every state by extremist conservative groups.

Why does this strip attract so many lunatic left wingers? I’m going to set up a pool to see who can get closest to the number of times the word fascist gets used. We’ll use the search button so we don’t have to read the nonsense.

In the United States Woke extreme liberalism has become a form of Fascism!!!

Failed science because it conflicts with the Bible; failed reading because book bans reduced the amount of material

Getting engaged is woke?

The board game appears to be created by somebody who got their schooling by watching Fox News instead of attending (and paying attention in) actual classes…

The Monopoly game was invented to show the dangers of capitalism. Then it was changed to “winner takes all”.

I’ve been involved in education since the 60’s, my education and then my career as an educator. What I have seen is a systematic defunding of education. It’s trying to do the job at the least possible cost.

And then there is the politization of education. Everything from how we teach math to how we teach the true history of our country. Everyone has a opinion whether they know anything about education or not. God forbid we teach children to think for themselves. It might over turn the system.

Frankly I wish you’d just let us teach.

Bye the way, can anyone define “woke”.