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If you believe the headlines, "kids these days" are the worst. Teachers are quitting in droves in part because the Gen Z and Gen Alpha kids are disrespectful, lazy, and downright unteachable. And that's to say nothing of systemic issues in curriculums, school budgets, politics in the classroom, and more.But the kids, apparently, aren't making it any easier.A story from author, mom, and educator Megan Davidhizar, shows that not everyone's having a bad experience with the younger generations. Her story begins with a tongue-in-cheek warning for her fellow teachers.A veteran educator who teaches high school, Davidhizar shares on TikTok all about her journey as a teacher. She has a great sense of humor and seems to really understand today's students and trends. And so when she set out to warn her colleagues about a potential issue, people listened up."When I went to school to become a teacher, no one ever told me that I needed to be so careful about what I put out on my desk," she says in one recent video.Davidhizar knows what the narratives are. She knows what's expected of kids today, and she knows the people watching her TikTok video are going to brace themselves for a story about kids stealing from her or ruthlessly pranking her. She plays on those expectations beautifully here. "Some students who, after I recently got married, gave me these two cute little rubber ducks," she says, holding them up to the camera. The ducks were meant to represent Davidhizar and her husband. "So I put them out on my desk. You wanna know what my room looks like 16 years later?"Watch to the end for the surprise ending: @megan.davidhizar Wait til the end. What teacher at your school has a room filled with hundreds of the same thing? (Also, I love every one I’ve been given. I write the names of who gave them to me on the bottoms) #teachersoftiktok #teacherlife #teacherwarning #rubberducks #newteacher #veteranteacher #teacheradvice Yes, after keenly observing that Mrs. Davidhizar likes rubber ducks, her students began bombarding her with more and more ducks. Her classroom is now full of them, including a drawer that contains all the ones she doesn't have room for on her desk and shelves.All in all, it has to be hundreds of ducks and hundreds of little gifts from the students she's crossed paths with over the years.It's adorable and absolutely incredible. The video racked up 5.7 million views and commenters couldn't help but chime in with their admiration for Davidhizar's dedication. Clearly, it said a lot about her as a teacher to receive so much love from her students."that says your a good teacher that your students saw that and then saw a duck for sale and thought of you and wanted to get that for you" one commenter said.Many people had similar stories of the same phenomenon happening to teachers over the years."My history teacher had a flamingo, he now has thousands""The same thing happened to my English teacher ... Someone bought him a little owl ornament for his desk... Then it became a thing & EVERYONE bought him owls""I taught kindergarten and wore an apron over my clothes. through the years, moms & grandmas noticed and would make aprons for me. I have such an apron collection""Those kids LOVE you," one person wrote. "I love them too," Davidhizar responded.There's no denying that Gen Z and Gen Alpha are different. Maybe not all teachers are set up to succeed in this new and challenging environment where they have to compete with social media, phones, parents who coddle, and overwhelming workloads. @megan.davidhizar Why else would someone become an English teacher? #elateacher #highschool #middleschool #teacherlife Those teachers need better support: healthier budgets, better pay, and more support from the administration.But you still have to hand it to teachers like Mrs. Davidhizar who have found a way to make it work. They've come up with creative and engaging ways to cut through the noise and connect with their students. Even though it's arguably harder than ever, teachers like Davidhizar are showing us that it's still possible to connect with the right approach.They say teaching doesn't pay, but of course, they must not be counting all the free ducks.

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I haven’t written about it here at The American Spectator, at least that I can remember, but I’m becoming a subscriber to the theory that Donald Trump is the kryptonite to Saul Alinsky’s Superman. What I mean by that is the Alinskyite Left, which encompasses basically the whole of today’s Democrat Party ever since Barack Obama took it over in the mid-2000s, is built on a definite roster of political tactics and principles, and those tactics and principles are calibrated to defeat a certain type of opponent. (RELATED: Hillary and Obama Out-McCarthied McCarthy) Specifically, the corporatist Bush Republican blue-blood types who would buckle in the face of an impolite opposition and, most of all, spend their time cowering in a defensive position. Against folks like that, whether in a labor negotiation, political campaign, or a legislative setting, Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals work like a charm. Of course they do. When your opponent can’t stomach the idea of having mean things said about him, the threat of saying mean things — and that’s better than half of the essence of Alinskyism — is potent indeed. Along comes Trump, who not only is unmoved at the idea he might be defamed by community organizers and others of their ilk but actively seeks their reprobation so that he can expose them for the radicals they are, and the entire edifice upon which the modern Democrat Party is built begins to collapse. We can examine this in multiple contexts. Sending in federal law enforcement officers and the National Guard to Washington, D.C., and thus illuminating just how simple it actually is to bring law and order to cities Democrats have intentionally kept lawless for decades would be one example, and it would be a good one. From Brandon Johnson to Rashida Tlaib to Tim Walz to Karen Bass, the Democrats have utterly beclowned themselves over the prospect that Trump might expand the sudden outbreak of law and order beyond the nation’s capital. But for sheer entertainment, Trump making a household name out of the comically corrupt and utterly ridiculous Lisa Cook by openly demanding her removal from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and then touching off a firestorm of attention on Cook when she fought her ouster, is an incandescent example of his out-Alinskying the Alinskyites. (RELATED: Yes, President Trump Has the Authority to Fire Lisa Cook) After all, we all remember Rules For Radicals Number 13, right? “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” We know that Lisa Cook was a DEI hire, and she’s a perfect example of personalizing that issue in a way favorable to Trump’s stated purpose of scrubbing DEI out of government. And I don’t say she was a DEI hire because she’s a black woman. She’s a DEI hire because she’s a clear incompetent lacking skills who only advanced because of over-the-top affirmative action hiring. Lisa Cook was appointed to the Federal Reserve Board during the Biden administration, supposedly because she was a distinguished economist from Cal-Berkeley who’d taught at Michigan, Harvard, and Stanford, but the truth of her scholarship turns out to be… different. As Scott Johnson noted at Power Line… Meanwhile, another question, not directly at issue in the Cook lawsuit, is: what in the world was Lisa Cook doing on the Fed’s Board of Governors? To say that she was lightly qualified is an understatement. Apart from the mortgage fraud, plagiarism has been alleged in her academic work. And worse, incompetence: The quality of her scholarship has also received criticism. Her most heralded work, 2014’s “Violence and Economic Activity: Evidence from African American Patents, 1870 to 1940,” examined the number of patents by black inventors in the past, concluding that the number plummeted in 1900 because of lynchings and discrimination. Other researchers soon discovered that the reason for the sudden drop in 1900 was that one of the databases Cook relied on stopped collecting data in that year. The true number of black patents, one subsequent study found, might be as much as 70 times greater than Cook’s figure, effectively debunking the study’s premise. Of course, the idea that “lynchings and discrimination” began suddenly in 1900 is absurd on its face. Cook was evidently a DEI hire, and this kind of politicized “scholarship” is typical of what we see today from left-wing academics. It’s hard not to laugh. “Claudine Gay, hold my beer.” Johnson noted that when they fire you, particularly when they do it for cause, typically you leave — and if you disagree with their allegations of cause, you sue for damages. That isn’t what Lisa Cook is doing. She’s challenging the firing and refusing to leave. And in so doing, she’s fulfilling another of Trump’s arguments, which is that bad eggs in the federal government are there to serve themselves rather than the people. Of course, the cause for which she’s being fired is absolutely brilliant in how entertaining it is. Lisa Cook took out a bunch of mortgages on properties she alleged were primary or secondary residences and then proceeded to rent them out to others, which essentially makes her a star pupil at the Letitia James School of Real Estate Investing. That Trump gets to bedevil the existence of the faculty and staff of that imaginary institution, particularly after what James put him through before he was president over a disagreement over the valuation of Mar-A-Lago that the bank underwriters had no problem with, is a political gift that keeps on giving. It gave us this, after all… Fed Gov. Lisa Cook’s Ann Arbor Pad Is a Rental, Too The recently fired financial sophisticate has been playing by different rules than the rest of us By Charlie LeDuff (@Charlieleduff) Ann Arbor — Lisa Cook’s financial house is on fire. Naturally, there is a Michigan angle to… pic.twitter.com/i7mEDXDa4y — Michigan Enjoyer (@mich_enjoyer) September 2, 2025 This really gets worse and worse, doesn’t it? Lisa Cook is being Rule 13’ed about as badly as anybody on the Left ever managed to Rule 13 Trump or anyone else, because a sane political movement would have run screaming from her a while ago. After all, her predominant sin isn’t the mortgage fraud or the academic buffoonery the woke universities allowed her to get away with. It’s her joining in on the refusal to budge on interest rates which costs the federal government billions upon billions of dollars in additional debt service, not to mention making it considerably more difficult for regular Americans to buy a house… when Lisa Cook is out there lying on mortgage applications so she can acquire rental properties those regular Americans would otherwise be in the market to purchase. Ouch. It always seemed like Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals were properly a two-way street, but the Right simply was too timid to use them. Along comes Trump, and whether he’s applying the playbook as written or simply going with his gut and achieving the textbook results, we can see that the radicals are just as susceptible as the silk-tie crowd to being hoisted on the same petard. Cook won’t be the only example. She just might be the most entertaining current one. And it’s only a matter of time before her erstwhile defenders abandon her to her professional doom and the vagaries of the justice system. Or if not, then they’ll sink with her. And that’s just fine, too. READ MORE from Scott McKay: Last Year It Was Kamala, This Year It’s… Arch Manning? Five Quick Things: A Glorious Revolution Across the Pond? The Demons Have Taken Hold of Minneapolis

In 1954, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court held in Brown v. Board of Education that state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools were unconstitutional. Three years later, the Arkansas branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) recruited nine African American students to attempt to integrate Central High School in Little Rock. On September 4, 1957, the first day of school, a white mob gathered in front of Central High, and Governor Orval Faubus, a staunch segregationist, deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the black students from entering. In response, the NAACP won a federal district court injunction to prohibit Faubus from blocking the students’ entry. Pursuant to that order, police escorted the students through a side entrance at Central High. However, due to the threat of mob violence, they were quickly sent home. The standoff between the federal court and Faubus reached the desk of President Dwight Eisenhower. Although Eisenhower was no fan of the Brown decision, he took swift and decisive action to enforce the federal court order. He promptly federalized the Arkansas National Guard and dispatched the 101st Airborne Division to protect the black students and integrate the school. Upon their arrival at Central High, wielding rifles with unsheathed fixed bayonets, the 101st Airborne “Screaming Eagles” waded into the white mob. With the support of the federalized Arkansas National Guard, the paratroopers busted heads and inflicted at least one minor stab wound as they herded the mob away from the school. This prompted segregationists to denounce Eisenhower’s use of the military as “Brotherhood by Bayonet.” Nevertheless, once the students were admitted to Central High, the 101st Airborne remained on scene for the next nine weeks to keep the peace. After that, the federalized Arkansas National Guard took over and maintained order for the next five months. In other words, for over eight months, military forces under Eisenhower’s command occupied Little Rock to suppress domestic violence. That was how Central High was integrated. And no one in the then mainstream media, academia, or the liberal establishment ever argued that President Eisenhower lacked the authority to use the federalized Arkansas National Guard and regular Army troops either to enforce a federal court order or to restore and maintain law and order in an American city without the consent of state and local authorities. In fact, the Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C. Sec. 251 – 255) expressly authorizes the president to use military force to suppress domestic violence that threatens the rights of others when state authorities either cannot or will not maintain order. Furthermore, under long-standing caselaw, the president has broad authority to determine when conditions warrant invoking the Act, with courts presuming the president has done so in good faith unless clear evidence shows otherwise. Which brings us to President Trump’s musings about deploying the National Guard to suppress violent crime in Chicago. (RELATED: Crime in DC Is NOT at a 30-Year Low) On August 22, 2025, during a press briefing in the Oval Office, Trump referenced his successful use of the National Guard to significantly reduce crime in the District of Columbia. He then announced that Chicago would be the next city targeted for a federal crime crackdown. (RELATED: The Spectacle Ep. 263: The Numbers Prove Trump Is Making DC Safer) Of Chicago’s approximately 147,899 violent, non-violent, and property crimes reported in 2024, only 16.2 percent resulted in arrests. This caused Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to channel the spirit of the late Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus by publicly opposing the proposed troop deployment as “illegal,” “unconstitutional,” and a “power grab.” To hear them tell it, they’ve got things well under control despite the fact that, at over 600 homicides in 2024, Chicago’s murder rate per capita was three times that of Los Angeles and nearly five times that of New York City. Moreover, in 2024, there were an additional 28,443 reported violent crimes as well as approximately 46,899 property crimes, including burglaries, larceny-thefts, motor vehicle thefts, and arsons. Most tellingly, of Chicago’s approximately 147,899 violent, non-violent, and property crimes reported in 2024, only 16.2 percent resulted in arrests. And this appalling state of anarchy has continued unabated into 2025. Nevertheless, on August 23, 2025, Pritzker stated that there is “no emergency that warrants the President of the United States federalizing the Illinois National Guard, deploying the National Guard from other states, or sending active duty military within our borders.” Two days later, during a press conference in Chicago, looking like fear-crazed barricaded men, Pritzker and Johnson hysterically characterized Trump’s proposal — and, I am not making this up — as a “declaration of war on our people”. That same day, during remarks in the Oval Office, Trump correctly described Chicago as a city plagued by severe crime, calling it a “disaster” and a “killing field.” But, when pressed about sending troops to Chicago, he replied, “I didn’t get a request from the governor,” and said that he might wait for such a request before acting. However, after asserting that he could deploy troops without state and local approval, he added, “We may just go in and do it, which is probably what we should do.” Trump then signed an executive order to create “specialized units” in the National Guard to address crime in cities. The order directed the Secretary of Defense to designate and train National Guard units for rapid deployment to assist law enforcement in “quelling civil disturbances and ensuring public safety.” Then, on August 30, 2025, Trump posted the following on Truth Social: “Six people were killed, and 24 people were shot in Chicago last weekend, and JB Pritzker, the weak and pathetic governor of Illinois, just said he doesn’t need help in preventing crime. He is crazy!!! He better straighten it out, FAST, or we’re coming.” So what’s going on here? Is Trump just playing rope-a-dope with Pritzker and Johnson as he tricks them into idiotically defending the indefensible state of affairs in crime-ravaged Chicago? Or is he about to send in the troops? And, if the latter, under the terms of the Insurrection Act, is he legally permitted to do so over the objections of Pritzker and Johnson? In 1957, the rationale for the protracted military occupation of Little Rock was, in essence, to protect the rights of nine high school students. So what about the rights of 2.4 million Chicagoans to live free of the pervasive and oppressive threat of unchecked and out-of-control crime? Are their rights legally cognizable under the terms of the Insurrection Act? And, given that Pritzker and Johnson either will not or cannot protect those rights, does President Trump have legal justification to order the military invasion of Chicago? Crime has always been a problem in Chicago. But, in recent years, following decades of the wholesale mass production of government-funded fatherless homes and feral youths, the city’s crime, violence, and oppressive anarchy have grown to unprecedented levels beyond the control of the feckless and buffoonish local authorities. Given these stark and brutal facts, it is more than reasonable to contend that, despite the objections of Pritzker and Johnson, President Trump would be legally and morally justified to send in the troops to quell the madness. POSTSCRIPT: And the hits just keep on coming. The New York Post reports that over the Labor Day weekend end “at least 32 separate shootings occurred in Chicago between Friday evening and noon on Monday.” Fifty-four persons were shot, including seven killed. George Parry is a former federal and state prosecutor. He blogs at knowledgeisgood.net. READ MORE from George Parry: The Butler Probabilities The Wages of COVID — Part Three Shooting Blanks From the Bench