How Modern Education Breeds Good Little Marxists

[Anonymous]

Boycott her university.

Problem is, that would take students, teachers and alumni ... most all of whom think they are "woke" and thus support the wokeness



While they may say they are not, inside all Wokies is racism, Their racism is OK

Absolutely cc.

[Anonymous]

The nine campuses of the University of California (UC) system will no longer consider standardized testing scores as part of the admission process beginning in the fall of 2021.



The change is the result of a legal settlement (pdf) of a lawsuit brought by groups that claimed that the traditional SAT and ACT tests are racist.

[Anonymous]

The nine campuses of the University of California (UC) system will no longer consider standardized testing scores as part of the admission process beginning in the fall of 2021.



The change is the result of a legal settlement (pdf) of a lawsuit brought by groups that claimed that the traditional SAT and ACT tests are racist.

Of course.

[Anonymous]

The nine campuses of the University of California (UC) system will no longer consider standardized testing scores as part of the admission process beginning in the fall of 2021.



The change is the result of a legal settlement (pdf) of a lawsuit brought by groups that claimed that the traditional SAT and ACT tests are racist.

Silliness.

[Anonymous]

Critical Race Theory Indoctrination in Schools Dehumanizes Asian Families



Asra Nomani, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and parent in Fairfax County, Virginia, said she never before experienced the kind of prejudice and discrimination she has encountered over the last year from those pushing critical race theory in her local school district.



"It just all began with an email in June 2020," Nomani told host Jan Jekielek. In that email, which was sent to mostly immigrant families, the school's principal said they need to check their "privileges" in the wake of George Floyd's death.



"And we were just shocked, because this was a woman who has gone to our Lunar New Year celebrations and our Diwali parties, and she knows that we are families from all across the world," said Nomani, whose Muslim family immigrated to the United States from India when she was four years old. "They are amazing, amazing families who have endured a lot to get to America, and the fact that our kids go to this school doesn't put us in this vaulted category of the privilege of society."



"We were just normal people trying to make ends meet, trying to keep our kids healthy, trying to make sure that they get a good night's rest. It was like a knife to the heart," she continued. "I just thought to myself, 'Wow, like, overnight we just lost our humanity.' That really made me angry, because that's not OK."



The Fairfax County school board, according to Nomani, has since proceeded to introduce a series of changes, such as replacing a so-called "colonial" mascot, dropping the name of Thomas Jefferson, and replacing the race-blind admissions process with race-based lotteries and quotas in an effort to make the demographics of the student population better match that of the county.





"It was racial demographics," she said. "It was that we didn't have enough underrepresented minorities, meaning blacks and Hispanics, and we had too many Asians."



Parents need to be clear that those changes are implemented to indoctrinate young children with critical race theory, Nomani warned, dismissing a narrative that there is no critical race theory outside colleges, where it is only taught from a legal perspective.



"Do you think we're that stupid? We know that you're not teaching the pedagogy of critical race theory. What you're teaching is the end product—that there's oppressed and oppressors, that we have a hierarchy of suffering, and you have to find yourself on this," she explained. "It's propaganda, flat out propaganda."



"This is not just theory," she added. "This has now become worksheets in classrooms, where kids literally have to fill out their oppression, where they fit on the oppression scale. They get segregated—can you just imagine? It's this 21st century and we are now segregating children based on race."



Nomani, who identifies as a liberal, urged parents, regardless of their political affiliation, to join forces against the indoctrination effort she describes as racist and inhumane.



"This is my liberal community that's pushing out this racism, and I'm going to really call them out on it, because they're just doing something that is so wrong and immoral," she said. "We have to keep as our North Star, whether you're liberal, conservative, independent, whatever, wherever you are, our North Star of humanity, and to stay focused on that."

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[Anonymous]

Give the prog marxists hell brother.



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[Anonymous]

Give the prog marxists hell brother.



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[Anonymous]

Former teachers union president reveals why he went from fighting against charter schools to promoting them: 'They're bad for unions, not for kids'

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It's no secret that teachers unions are strident opponents of charter schools — despite the fact that charter schools are simply independently operated public schools.





Charters are a form of school choice that the unions fear will one day lead to education vouchers, which will allow students to receive government dollars to escape the many failing public schools that unions have so long dominated. The schools also have the freedom to create classrooms that meet students' needs and hire non-union employees.



Now a former teachers union president is explaining why he went from fighting against charter schools to advocating for them.



What did he say?

George Parker spent 30 years as a math teacher in low-performing schools in Washington, D.C., and then six years as president of the Washington Teachers' Union. A onetime opponent of charter schools, he's now a senior adviser at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.



In a new op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Parker explained why he made such a dramatic transition: Despite claims by the unions that charter schools are unaccountable impediments to kids' educations, he finally realized that charters were not a threat to students but to unions.





"Too many teachers oppose them because they're bad for unions, not kids," the subtitle on Parker's article declared.







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Parker began with a memory of telling a group of children that he was focused on making "sure their teachers had what they needed to do their jobs" and "to help them become the best teachers they could be.



"But I knew that wasn't always the case," he lamented, adding:



Like many union leaders, I had relentlessly negotiated contracts that protected not only teachers' rights, but their wrongs. As I drove home, I thought about the $10,000 my union had spent to keep a poorly performing teacher in the classroom—not because she deserved another chance, but because of a technicality.

After three decades as a teacher in D.C.'s lousy public schools, he said it was "natural to become an advocate for the profession."



But after a few years, he realized a problem: "Somewhere along the way I became more of a union leader than an educational leader."



It's time to do what's best for the kids, not unions

Now, with the pandemic coming to an end and millions of children across the country having been locked out of their schools for an entire year, it's time unions understand "the need to be nimble, to serve the needs of children and families where they are."



"We will fail our children and our teachers if we return to a pre-pandemic educational system," Parker wrote. "Unfortunately, many teacher unions want to limit access to quality education for underserved kids."



It's time to do what's best for the kids, not what's best for the unions, he added.



"I used to oppose charter schools, not because they were bad for kids, but because they were bad for unions," Parker said. "Some call it a binary choice: You either support teachers unions or you support charter schools. Nowadays I disagree. ... I'm still a union member. But I now work on behalf of charter schools."



More from Parker:



Charter schools are also public schools. All of them. They provide more than three million students, mostly black and Hispanic, access to a quality public education. They are innovative and student-centered. They break down barriers that have kept families of color from the educational opportunities they deserve. Another two million children would attend charter schools if there were space for them. How could I work against these kids?



All too often charter critics get caught up denigrating "the system" and forget the duty to do whatever it takes to provide all children with access to high-quality public schools, no matter their race, ethnicity or ZIP Code.

Parker closes with a warning: Charter schools are leading the way for great options for our kids, and "f anyone says differently, keep in mind the messenger."

[Anonymous]

A physical education teacher has been placed on administrative leave after declaring in a speech that he would not "lie" to his students and tell them "a biological boy can be a girl and vice versa,"



The teacher, Byron "Tanner" Cross, made the defiant declaration at a Loudon County school board meeting on Tuesday, according to the nonprofit group, Parents Against Critical Race Theory.

[cc]

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https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2021/05/oregon-students-would-no-longer-have-to-prove-they-can-do-basic-reading-writing-and-math-to-graduate-under-a-bill-moving-through-legislature.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=oregonian_sf&utm_medium=social">Oregon Students Would No Longer Have To Prove They Can Do Basic Reading, Writing And Math To Graduate Under A Bill Likely To Become Law



A bill removing the requirement that Oregon students in the classes of 2022, 2023 and 2024 demonstrate basic proficiency in math, reading and writing to earn a high school diploma passed a key milestone Thursday and is likely to become law.



The bill, already approved by majority Democrats in the Senate, was greenlit by Democrats on the House Education Committee for a vote on the House floor as early as next week.

[Anonymous]

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https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2021/05/oregon-students-would-no-longer-have-to-prove-they-can-do-basic-reading-writing-and-math-to-graduate-under-a-bill-moving-through-legislature.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=oregonian_sf&utm_medium=social">Oregon Students Would No Longer Have To Prove They Can Do Basic Reading, Writing And Math To Graduate Under A Bill Likely To Become Law



A bill removing the requirement that Oregon students in the classes of 2022, 2023 and 2024 demonstrate basic proficiency in math, reading and writing to earn a high school diploma passed a key milestone Thursday and is likely to become law.



The bill, already approved by majority Democrats in the Senate, was greenlit by Democrats on the House Education Committee for a vote on the House floor as early as next week.

This has been happening for decades in Democratic controlled areas of the US-unofficially of course.

[cc]

NOT LONG- Just right to the point



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[Anonymous]

NOT LONG- Just right to the point



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Good clip. Who is that guy?

[Anonymous]

Middle school teacher berates 'straight jerk' student apparently over his LBGTQ objection. Teacher pays big price for her tirade



A Missouri middle school teacher is no longer employed by Springfield Public Schools after a video surfaced showing her berating a male student as a "straight jerk," "butthead," and "weasel," apparently over his LBGTQ objection, the Springfield News-Leader reported.

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[Anonymous]

The truth finally came out.



Teachers unions and activists held rallies in 22 cities to support critical race theory. What they said was eye-popping. They unabashedly declared that their goal is indoctrinating students in far-left causes.



The Zinn Education Project, which organized Saturday's events, produces race-centric material for junior high and high schools across the country. Lesson plans are offered free for teachers to download. Parents wondering where the critical race theory their children are getting comes from can go to the website. They'll be shocked.



Zinn was founded by the late Howard Zinn, a Marxist historian who said that teaching social studies wasn't about dates and events. It was to make students want to change the world, overthrowing the status quo.



A Zinn lesson called "Students Design a Reparations Bill" explains that students will be asked to improve on the "flimsy" reparations bills currently in Congress. Critical thinking isn't encouraged. This isn't a debate about whether there should be reparations. This is one-sided indoctrination. "As racial justice activists, student are all on the 'same side,' in this role play," says the Zinn website.



Other extreme left groups supplying social studies materials for schools include the Southern Poverty Law Center and Black Lives Matter at School. SPLC tells educators to stand their ground against parents "and vigorously resist efforts to maintain the status quo." No wonder parents are getting the run around.



It's not just white families protesting. Keisha King, a black mother from Duval County, Florida, warned the Florida Board of Education that telling a child he's the victim of oppression is "the essence of holding a child back."

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