Exploring what can happen when people think for themselves.
Is this what CRT teaches students? To hate other students because of their race or religious identity?
NC parents outraged over team’s ‘privileged’ banner at high school football game: ‘Racist’
Who’d have thought that making racist claims against others based upon their race might be racist…?
It’s hard to believe, but apparently objectivity is now racist:
Math Suffers From White Supremacy, According to a Bill Gates-Funded Course
I am particularly interested in the following snippet from the article, citing the web site equitablemath.org (page 67):
“Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity…”
Math, getting the right answer and objectivity are now on the educational chopping block? Well, if you need a compliant populace – one that won’t be able to question their leaders using logic and reason – then I guess eliminating math and objectivity are a pretty good start. But what good would it do to have a voter base too dumb to see the facts, one that can only be motivated by partisan rhetoric? Oh, wait….
Why won’t people go to work in their offices? Could it be that employees can’t go to the office because they are home with their kids as a result of the teachers not returning to the classroom? Begging businesses is not going to help; try the union instead:
Cuomo begs businesses to return to NYC after devastating shutdown
One of the top priorities in any disaster recovery program is to get the schools up and running so that parents can get back to work. Stop lamenting the low rate of office employees and instead tells the teachers to get their asses back into the classroom. Problem solved.
Nancy Pelosi breaking with far-left demands? Will wonders never cease?
Pelosi says Biden doesn’t have the power to cancel student loan debt
An interesting paragraph from the story:
Pelosi on Wednesday acknowledged some policy concerns about giving some borrowers a break, while previous borrowers had to faithfully pay off their loans. She also questioned whether it was fair for families that didn’t go to college to have their tax dollars forgive the debts of someone who did.
She missed one: what about those of us who worked our way through college so as to graduate debt-free? Where’s our refund? Well, at least she’s acknowledged the unfairness.
Now, let’s look at the root cause of the student loan “crisis”: the government’s propensity for loaning money to students no matter how useless or worthless the degree. Maybe we should only lend money in amounts commensurate with the earning potential of the degree; at least that would incentive useful behavior.
Someone needs to send Nancy’s doctor a thank you note for finally getting her meds right…
…what we are teaching your kids because it’s copyrighted.”
Yeah, right. Do you know how stupid you sound? And you’re teachers?!?
The best quote from the article:
When asked for comment about whether they’d share the materials in the interest of transparency, the school district’s director of equity and public programs Dr. Oscar Torres told Fox News that the materials “are proprietary and are not ours to disseminate.”
“This is not an issue of transparency,” Torres wrote in an email to Fox News on Wednesday. “As with most organizations that provide training, P.E.G owns the specific materials and you may wish to contact them for permission.”
Or maybe the school district should have made their use of the material conditional on being able to show it to parents? I mean, how stupid is that? “We can show it to your kids, but not to you.” WTF?
What are they hiding? That the 3 R’s are now Reading, Writing, and Race shaming? I mean, since math is now racist, no need for that anymore…
How can our students, who only need a 1oth grade education to graduate high school, ever comprehend the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States when they require a 12th grade education to understand?
Readability of important english-language texts
Since the liberals have control of the schools (by a 2:1 margin, per this NPR article), could this be by design? One has to wonder…
OK – so this teacher is too afraid of COVID to return to her class, but not too afraid to travel to Mexico for a 12 day vacation/marriage ceremony?
California teacher cancels class time and assigns homework instead to attend son’s wedding in Mexico
Here’s an excerpt from the article above:
“I will be traveling to Mexico for my son’s long deferred wedding on May 19th, (after school)-for approximately 12,(+/-,) days,” she wrote in an email addressed to kindergarten families. “While I will be teaching from Mexico, some days will contain asynchronous lessons due to travel and limited family activities. Thursday, May 20th will be a completely asynchronous day, as will our return date, (yet to be established due to my mother’s health).”
Really? When I go on a 12 day vacation, I actually have to take vacation time….
There’s racist, and there’s not racist. But some are advocating for a new label: “anti-racist”. Now it’s not enough to not be racist; you must be anti-racist or you are racist, anyway.
Confused? Me, too. But that hasn’t stopped some from leveraging this new label for the benefit of the few. In the case noted below, a teachers union is using a claim of “…failure to be anti-racist…” against a school that fired a teacher who ridiculed a student for their constitutionally-protected views:
The paragraph below is the most interesting one of the article:
“United Faculty stands in solidarity with all our faculty in protecting their academic freedom and the right to a safe work environment, free of hostility and threats to their physical safety and emotional well-being,” the United Faculty union’s president, Christie Diep, and lead negotiator, Mohammad Abdel Haq, said in a statement Monday.
But what about the rights of the student to a safe learning environment, free of hostility and threats to their emotional well-being? The teacher’s views are protected for the benefit of the teacher, but the student’s views are not? Isn’t it for the benefit of students that schools exist at all? Or are we to believe that they exist to provide jobs and security for the benefit of this teacher and her union brethren?
The school was right to dismiss this teacher for her treatment of a student. And race – contrary to what the union would have you believe – had nothing to do with it.
Teacher goes postal (my apologies to postal workers everywhere):
Just look at what the “liberal agenda” is doing to our students: it sets students against one another; allows a “cancel culture” mentality to invade the classroom; and encourages the segregation of students along racial lines, pitting them against each other. If anything, this agenda is increasing racial tension by telling one side that the other is to blame for all their woes, while telling the other that they are evil and oppressive.
How about we get back to teaching in general, rather than indoctrination? How about we teach the students critical thinking skills so they can make decisions on their own, instead of relying on the latest Twitter hash tag? How about we teach students to judge each other not on the color of their skin or political party, but instead by their actions and character?
Oh – and how about we fire this teacher?
The teacher’s unions are, in my humble opinion, nothing but a protectionist racket concerned solely with their own interests. I’m glad someone was finally brave enough to call them out:
According to this article, the unions demand the government spend taxpayer money on local communities to help with rents, forgive mortgages, etc. What does this have to do with education? Nothing; instead it seems to be an attempt to garner support of the union’s position by bribing local residents with your money. Nice play – but the people who actually pay taxes might not agree.
They also want a moratorium on charter schools. Yeah, why not solidify your monopoly on education by closing down your only competition? In my opinion charter schools are the only hope of fixing our bloated, biased and ineffective education system. Competition is exactly what it needs.
I guess I’ll be renewing my Wall Street Journal subscription…