There’s more than Russlynn Ali’s pledge to root out seven-year-old misogynists that’s dubious about the federal anti-bullying conference and it is the federal anti-bullying conference. Here is an example of the devil operating in the aggregate. One need not be some intransigent hard-ass to see the inherent wrongheadedness of this two-day, government conference, which, said Education Secretary Arne Duncan, resulted from “months of unprecedented collaboration and hard work across federal agencies” now ready to make “a sustained commitment to address and reduce bullying.” Asked Duncan: “Why have these agencies not come together for a federal summit on bullying before today?” Perhaps because they never before thought to devote “months of unprecedented collaboration and hard work” to policing the nation’s fifth-grade toughs? A fellow from the Anti-
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