Utah's Nebo School District seeks to "prepare students to succeed in school and life." Apparently, that preparation now involves eating bugs and developing a dislike of beef.
Fox News Digital reported that a middle school in the district recently provided sixth-grade students with bugs to eat as part of an English assignment concerning the specter of anthropogenic climate change.
Students were instructed to write an essay on March 7 arguing in support of the consumption of insects rather than cows. The assignment's baked-in presumption was that the mass production and consumption of insect-based foods contra beef will impact weather patterns to a lesser extent.
Children involved in this interactive agitprop were reportedly barred from disagreeing with the premise in their essays. Some students were even given extra credit to consume bugs, which the district admitted to sourcing from a commercial site.
Amanda Wright, a mother of one of the students in the class, challenged the school's principal over the assignment, noting it had made her daughter feel uncomfortable.
Wright suggested that the assignment was tantamount to "indoctrination" and part of a concerted effort to evangelize on behalf of a "dark climate change religion."
In 2019, Swedish researchers warned in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution that by rushing into the mass production and consumption of insects, "we risk creating an industry that replaces one environmental problem with another."
Whereas Cutler told Wright's daughter there was no evidence to support not eating bugs, experts at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences suggested there is similarly little evidence to suggest that the mass rearing of insects won't turn out to be calamitous.
When the younger Wright attempted to raise an objection, Cutler said, "There's only one right answer to this essay. And it's that Americans should be eating bugs. Everyone in the world is eating them, it's healthy for the environment and there's just, there's only one right answer."
https://www.theblaze.com/news/middle-school-teacher-feeds-sixth-graders-bugs-and-climate-alarmist-propaganda?utm_source=theblaze-7DayTrendingTest&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Afternoon%20Auto%20Trending%207%20Day%20Engaged%202023-03-16&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%207%20Day%20Engagement
Declare something to be fact even though there is no empirical evidence to support it.
Eat bugs or get an F.
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Eat bugs or get an F.
extra credit :laugh3:
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Utah's Nebo School District seeks to "prepare students to succeed in school and life." Apparently, that preparation now involves eating bugs and developing a dislike of beef.
Fox News Digital reported that a middle school in the district recently provided sixth-grade students with bugs to eat as part of an English assignment concerning the specter of anthropogenic climate change.
Students were instructed to write an essay on March 7 arguing in support of the consumption of insects rather than cows. The assignment's baked-in presumption was that the mass production and consumption of insect-based foods contra beef will impact weather patterns to a lesser extent.
Children involved in this interactive agitprop were reportedly barred from disagreeing with the premise in their essays. Some students were even given extra credit to consume bugs, which the district admitted to sourcing from a commercial site.
Amanda Wright, a mother of one of the students in the class, challenged the school's principal over the assignment, noting it had made her daughter feel uncomfortable.
Wright suggested that the assignment was tantamount to "indoctrination" and part of a concerted effort to evangelize on behalf of a "dark climate change religion."
In 2019, Swedish researchers warned in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution that by rushing into the mass production and consumption of insects, "we risk creating an industry that replaces one environmental problem with another."
Whereas Cutler told Wright's daughter there was no evidence to support not eating bugs, experts at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences suggested there is similarly little evidence to suggest that the mass rearing of insects won't turn out to be calamitous.
When the younger Wright attempted to raise an objection, Cutler said, "There's only one right answer to this essay. And it's that Americans should be eating bugs. Everyone in the world is eating them, it's healthy for the environment and there's just, there's only one right answer."
https://www.theblaze.com/news/middle-school-teacher-feeds-sixth-graders-bugs-and-climate-alarmist-propaganda?utm_source=theblaze-7DayTrendingTest&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Afternoon%20Auto%20Trending%207%20Day%20Engaged%202023-03-16&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%207%20Day%20Engagement
Declare something to be fact even though there is no empirical evidence to support it.
Maybe eating bugs will help white kids overcome their climate anxiety. :laugh3:
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Utah's Nebo School District seeks to "prepare students to succeed in school and life." Apparently, that preparation now involves eating bugs and developing a dislike of beef.
Fox News Digital reported that a middle school in the district recently provided sixth-grade students with bugs to eat as part of an English assignment concerning the specter of anthropogenic climate change.
Students were instructed to write an essay on March 7 arguing in support of the consumption of insects rather than cows. The assignment's baked-in presumption was that the mass production and consumption of insect-based foods contra beef will impact weather patterns to a lesser extent.
Children involved in this interactive agitprop were reportedly barred from disagreeing with the premise in their essays. Some students were even given extra credit to consume bugs, which the district admitted to sourcing from a commercial site.
Amanda Wright, a mother of one of the students in the class, challenged the school's principal over the assignment, noting it had made her daughter feel uncomfortable.
Wright suggested that the assignment was tantamount to "indoctrination" and part of a concerted effort to evangelize on behalf of a "dark climate change religion."
In 2019, Swedish researchers warned in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution that by rushing into the mass production and consumption of insects, "we risk creating an industry that replaces one environmental problem with another."
Whereas Cutler told Wright's daughter there was no evidence to support not eating bugs, experts at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences suggested there is similarly little evidence to suggest that the mass rearing of insects won't turn out to be calamitous.
When the younger Wright attempted to raise an objection, Cutler said, "There's only one right answer to this essay. And it's that Americans should be eating bugs. Everyone in the world is eating them, it's healthy for the environment and there's just, there's only one right answer."
https://www.theblaze.com/news/middle-school-teacher-feeds-sixth-graders-bugs-and-climate-alarmist-propaganda?utm_source=theblaze-7DayTrendingTest&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Afternoon%20Auto%20Trending%207%20Day%20Engaged%202023-03-16&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%207%20Day%20Engagement
Declare something to be fact even though there is no empirical evidence to support it.
Teachers and the principal should each eat a loaded plate of cockroaches to demonstrate how tasty they are.
Feed those faux educators TO the bugs....
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Feed those faux educators TO the bugs....
That would reduce a lot of useless emissions.
A university in Michigan has decided to host five separate, identity-based graduation "celebrations" in addition to its regular commencement ceremonies to celebrate the school's supposed "diverse identities and cultures."
Grand Valley State University, located in Allendale, Michigan, just a few miles west of Grand Rapids, now offers a graduation celebration for students who identify as Asian, Black, Latino/a/x, Native American, or "LGBTQIA+."
LGBTQIA+ students, or ostensibly students who identify as any sexual orientation other than heterosexual, may attend what has been dubbed the "Lavender Graduation." At this celebration, the Milton E. Ford LGBT Resource Center will award one such GVSU student with the Outstanding LGBTQIA+ Graduate Award, given to honor "a member of the LGBTQIA+ community ... who has excelled in leadership and academically during their time at Grand Valley."
Here's one for Odi. The Faculty of Theology at the University of Helsinki has awarded Greta Thunberg an honorary doctorate. :crazy:
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Here's one for Odi. The Faculty of Theology at the University of Helsinki has awarded Greta Thunberg an honorary doctorate. :crazy:
Climate alarmism is a religion.
Parents were outraged to discover that middle school children at a Boston public school were recently given a survey that asked them if they had "ever participated in oral sex," the Washington Free Beacon reported.
A "Youth Risk Behavior Survey" was provided to sixth- and seventh-grade children at Boston's Eliot K-8 Innovation School, which requested that students provide details about their sexual history, gender status, and whether they have ever had any suicidal thoughts.
A Washington school district recently announced that it plans to cut music classes for promoting "white supremacy" and "institutional violence."
Olympia School District, which comprises 19 schools that enroll nearly 10,000 students, held a school board meeting last week in which board members voted to eliminate the district's music classes.
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A university in Michigan has decided to host five separate, identity-based graduation "celebrations" in addition to its regular commencement ceremonies to celebrate the school's supposed "diverse identities and cultures."
Grand Valley State University, located in Allendale, Michigan, just a few miles west of Grand Rapids, now offers a graduation celebration for students who identify as Asian, Black, Latino/a/x, Native American, or "LGBTQIA+."
LGBTQIA+ students, or ostensibly students who identify as any sexual orientation other than heterosexual, may attend what has been dubbed the "Lavender Graduation." At this celebration, the Milton E. Ford LGBT Resource Center will award one such GVSU student with the Outstanding LGBTQIA+ Graduate Award, given to honor "a member of the LGBTQIA+ community ... who has excelled in leadership and academically during their time at Grand Valley."
There should be a straight whites only graduation. The students should protect their identities with robes and hoods.
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A university in Michigan has decided to host five separate, identity-based graduation "celebrations" in addition to its regular commencement ceremonies to celebrate the school's supposed "diverse identities and cultures."
Grand Valley State University, located in Allendale, Michigan, just a few miles west of Grand Rapids, now offers a graduation celebration for students who identify as Asian, Black, Latino/a/x, Native American, or "LGBTQIA+."
LGBTQIA+ students, or ostensibly students who identify as any sexual orientation other than heterosexual, may attend what has been dubbed the "Lavender Graduation." At this celebration, the Milton E. Ford LGBT Resource Center will award one such GVSU student with the Outstanding LGBTQIA+ Graduate Award, given to honor "a member of the LGBTQIA+ community ... who has excelled in leadership and academically during their time at Grand Valley."
There should be a straight whites only graduation. The students should protect their identities with robes and hoods.
The Shouthern US did have something like that at one time.
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There should be a straight whites only graduation. The students should protect their identities with robes and hoods.
The Shouthern US did have something like that at one time.
They have all black graduations and all POC safe spaces. Fuk em all. Whitey needs a safe space too! :wink:
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The Shouthern US did have something like that at one time.
They have all black graduations and all POC safe spaces. Fuk em all. Whitey needs a safe space too! :wink:
That is democRAT racial divisiveness.
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They have all black graduations and all POC safe spaces. Fuk em all. Whitey needs a safe space too! :wink:
That is democRAT racial divisiveness.
Conquest through division.
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That is democRAT racial divisiveness.
Conquest through division.
Divide the working class, so they can conquer us. That sounds like what power hungry progs are doing.
Jesus H
More than 500 fifth-grade students in the National School District in California have participated in a program teaching them to promote social justice causes such as gun control and immigration.
The school district, which is just outside San Diego, California, has partnered with a program called "Heroes of Color," which has students animate videos related to a social justice topic.
A middle school student who says he was sent home for wearing a T-shirt that said "there are only two genders," bravely, brilliantly, and bluntly addressed the matter at a Middleborough Public Schools Committee meeting.
"I never thought that the shirt I wore to school ... would lead me to speak with you today," 12-year-old Liam Morrison said, having lowered the microphone to deliver his statement.
Young Liam is a seventh-grader at Nichols Middle School in Middleborough, Massachusetts, Fox News Digital reported.
Liam explained that he was taken out of gym class in March for what turned out to be a "very uncomfortable talk." He said two adults told him the shirt he was wearing was making some people feel "unsafe" and that he would have to remove it to return to class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF7vNVmb2fo&t=12s
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF7vNVmb2fo&t=12s
Who cares. it aint got anything to do with the thread topic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFi06XLK3hU
Stop spamming, Weebs.
Stick to the topic.
Weeb is butt hurt that I took a big steamy shit on his moronic heros Rollins and Rogan. Prolly still weepie about shit talkin his gay mustang too.
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Stop spamming, Weebs.
Stick to the topic.
I second the motion.
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Weeb is butt hurt that I took a big steamy shit on his moronic heros Rollins and Rogan. Prolly still weepie about shit talkin his gay mustang too.
I wish he would post about his Mustang. It is better than derailing our threads with spam videos.
Princeton University professor Agustín Fuentes wrote an opinion piece for Scientific American contending that it is "bad science" to suggest that human sex is a binary biological concept based on whether an individual produces male of female gametes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvSYuW0uvOQ
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Weeb is butt hurt that I took a big steamy shit on his moronic heros Rollins and Rogan. Prolly still weepie about shit talkin his gay mustang too.
I wish he would post about his Mustang. It is better than derailing our threads with spam videos.
Worst of all, its fukin SLOW!
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I wish he would post about his Mustang. It is better than derailing our threads with spam videos.
Worst of all, its fukin SLOW!
Too funny. :laugh3:
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Princeton University professor Agustín Fuentes wrote an opinion piece for Scientific American contending that it is "bad science" to suggest that human sex is a binary biological concept based on whether an individual produces male of female gametes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvSYuW0uvOQ
Acknowledging the existence of males and females is now bad science is it. If he says so.
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I wish he would post about his Mustang. It is better than derailing our threads with spam videos.
Worst of all, its fukin SLOW!
If I was going to buy a performance car, it would be a Camaro.
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Worst of all, its fukin SLOW!
If I was going to buy a performance car, it would be a Camaro.
The best for road racing is the ZL1-1LE. The closest thing to it is well over 140K. Mopar Hellcat wins hands down for 1/4 mile racing.
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If I was going to buy a performance car, it would be a Camaro.
The best for road racing is the ZL1-1LE. The closest thing to it is well over 140K. Mopar Hellcat wins hands down for 1/4 mile racing.
I do not think I would be doing any urban racing if I ever buy one.
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The best for road racing is the ZL1-1LE. The closest thing to it is well over 140K. Mopar Hellcat wins hands down for 1/4 mile racing.
I do not think I would be doing any urban racing if I ever buy one.
There's plenty of road racing courses across the country to try it out if you're curious. Many people at those events are willing to take passengers. I have a co worker that races at Ozarks International and Heartland Park in Topeka regularly.
Supposedly, the regular ZL1 is best if you dont plan on road course racing as the 1LE rides real rough and the aero cuts the top speed down about 10mph.....but it sure looks bad ass!
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I do not think I would be doing any urban racing if I ever buy one.
There's plenty of road racing courses across the country to try it out if you're curious. Many people at those events are willing to take passengers. I have a co worker that races at Ozarks International and Heartland Park in Topeka regularly.
Supposedly, the regular ZL1 is best if you dont plan on road course racing as the 1LE rides real rough and the aero cuts the top speed down about 10mph.....but it sure looks bad ass!
I'm nearly fifty years old. I'll stick with my passion for golf.
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Quote from: Lokmar post_id=499823 time=1683295726 user_id=3351
There's plenty of road racing courses across the country to try it out if you're curious. Many people at those events are willing to take passengers. I have a co worker that races at Ozarks International and Heartland Park in Topeka regularly.
Supposedly, the regular ZL1 is best if you dont plan on road course racing as the 1LE rides real rough and the aero cuts the top speed down about 10mph.....but it sure looks bad ass!
I'm nearly fifty years old. I'll stick with my passion for golf.
:laugh3: I understand the trepidation. There is a lot of stigma about what can happen on a race track and the risk to the car.
I never raced on a track before I was 50. The first event, I was nervous AF. Believe it or not, you can purchase track insurance which is a very good idea just in case. I've only seen one accident and it was because it was raining. Now that I've had several events behind me, I absolutely love it. I even took one of my sons on track last event and he loved it too!
A Colorado school urged students to join an LGBT club and to keep the group's meetings and activities "secret" from their parents, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by the parents of two sixth-grade girls.
The lawsuit, filed by America First Policy Institute and Illumine Legal on behalf of parents Johnathan and Erin Lee and Nick and Linnaea Jurich against Poudre School District, claimed that teachers encouraged their daughters to join Wellington Middle-High School's Genders and Sexualities Alliance art club in May 2021.
Administration staff allegedly instructed the girls to keep the GSA meetings a "secret" from their parents because the club has a "what happens at GSA stays at GSA policy," the suit claimed.
According to the parents' complaint, the GSA club featured a guest speaker, Kimberly Chambers, a teacher who ran Supporting Pride Learning and Social Happenings, an organization that teaches school children about sexuality and gender identity.
During the May 4, 2021, school club meeting, Chambers told students, "If they are not completely comfortable in their bodies, that means that they are transgender," the lawsuit stated.
The lawsuit also claimed that Chambers told the children it "might not be safe to tell their parents what happened at the GSA meeting or to talk about transgender issues." Instead, she allegedly encouraged students to discuss the topic with her and provided them with her phone number and Discord information.
According to the Lees, after attending the GSA meetings, their daughter suddenly declared she "would be transitioning — despite never having had any thoughts about transgenderism before the meeting."
After a "months-long emotional decline of gender and sexuality confusion that required counseling and included suicidal thoughts," Lees' daughter no longer wanted to transition.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/school-urged-students-to-join-secret-lgbt-club-two-girls-suffered-suicidal-thoughts-after-attending-meetings-parents-lawsuit-alleges?utm_source=theblaze-7DayTrendingTest&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Blaze%20PM%20Trending%202023-05-05&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%207%20Day%20Engagement
Counselling minors to mutilate their bodies. Chambers should get several years in a federal prison.
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A Colorado school urged students to join an LGBT club and to keep the group's meetings and activities "secret" from their parents, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by the parents of two sixth-grade girls.
The lawsuit, filed by America First Policy Institute and Illumine Legal on behalf of parents Johnathan and Erin Lee and Nick and Linnaea Jurich against Poudre School District, claimed that teachers encouraged their daughters to join Wellington Middle-High School's Genders and Sexualities Alliance art club in May 2021.
Administration staff allegedly instructed the girls to keep the GSA meetings a "secret" from their parents because the club has a "what happens at GSA stays at GSA policy," the suit claimed.
According to the parents' complaint, the GSA club featured a guest speaker, Kimberly Chambers, a teacher who ran Supporting Pride Learning and Social Happenings, an organization that teaches school children about sexuality and gender identity.
During the May 4, 2021, school club meeting, Chambers told students, "If they are not completely comfortable in their bodies, that means that they are transgender," the lawsuit stated.
The lawsuit also claimed that Chambers told the children it "might not be safe to tell their parents what happened at the GSA meeting or to talk about transgender issues." Instead, she allegedly encouraged students to discuss the topic with her and provided them with her phone number and Discord information.
According to the Lees, after attending the GSA meetings, their daughter suddenly declared she "would be transitioning — despite never having had any thoughts about transgenderism before the meeting."
After a "months-long emotional decline of gender and sexuality confusion that required counseling and included suicidal thoughts," Lees' daughter no longer wanted to transition.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/school-urged-students-to-join-secret-lgbt-club-two-girls-suffered-suicidal-thoughts-after-attending-meetings-parents-lawsuit-alleges?utm_source=theblaze-7DayTrendingTest&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Blaze%20PM%20Trending%202023-05-05&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%207%20Day%20Engagement
Counselling minors to mutilate their bodies. Chambers should get several years in a federal prison.
It should surprise nobody that American kids are graduating high school with reading and mathematics skills at a second grade leavel. American teachers don't teach anymore, they indoctrinate. Good luck competing with other countries in the future. :laugh3:
What's next I wonder? Liposuction for anorexics?
Arizona's largest elementary school district has shifted course, voting to allow students from a Christian university to teach there once again, Alliance Defending Freedom announced Thursday.
"This is a complete vindication of the rights of our students to be able to participate as student-teachers in a public school district without fear of religious discrimination" said Arizona Christian University President Len Munsil in a statement.
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The Washington Elementary School District voted 5-0 March 9 to end an arrangement in which ACU students completed their student teaching and practical coursework at WESD, as TheBlazereported. Board members at the time cited ACU's stance on lifelong, monogamous, heterosexual marriage as presenting an "unsafe" condition.
After Alliance Defending Freedom sued WESD, the board apparently saw the error of its ways, with four of its five members voting at Wednesday night's meeting to enter a new agreement with ACU. The district was slapped with $25,000 in attorneys' fees as part of the settlement.
I like this gal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj3HQfAFnNw
Florida has once again evidenced Gov. Ron DeSantis' November claim that the state "is where woke goes to die."
Students will not be subjected to textbooks pushing leftist propaganda and revisionist histories. Instead, per the suggestion of Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr., kids will be provided with textbooks that "focus on historical facts" that are "free from inaccuracies or ideological rhetoric."
One submission provided guidance on how to talk to young children about the national anthem, suggesting, "You can use this as an opportunity to talk about why some citizens are choosing to 'Take a Knee' to protest police brutality and racism."
This suggestion was stricken from the accepted material.
Another textbook, this time targeting grades 6-8, attempted to hype socialism — an ideology linked to most of the 20th century's totalitarian regimes and mass murders.
Florida also refused to subject students to sanitized, revisionist histories about BLM radicals.
A grade 9-12 text was flagged because it entertained the leftist fallacy that brutal communist regimes such as those found in the Soviet Union, Cuba, and China were not representative of real communism.
DeSantis will make a great POTUS in 2028!!!
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Florida has once again evidenced Gov. Ron DeSantis' November claim that the state "is where woke goes to die."
Students will not be subjected to textbooks pushing leftist propaganda and revisionist histories. Instead, per the suggestion of Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr., kids will be provided with textbooks that "focus on historical facts" that are "free from inaccuracies or ideological rhetoric."
One submission provided guidance on how to talk to young children about the national anthem, suggesting, "You can use this as an opportunity to talk about why some citizens are choosing to 'Take a Knee' to protest police brutality and racism."
This suggestion was stricken from the accepted material.
Another textbook, this time targeting grades 6-8, attempted to hype socialism — an ideology linked to most of the 20th century's totalitarian regimes and mass murders.
Florida also refused to subject students to sanitized, revisionist histories about BLM radicals.
A grade 9-12 text was flagged because it entertained the leftist fallacy that brutal communist regimes such as those found in the Soviet Union, Cuba, and China were not representative of real communism.
I have a problem with public schools indoctrinatiing instead of teaching. But, DeSantis might be going too far with banning some books.
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Florida has once again evidenced Gov. Ron DeSantis' November claim that the state "is where woke goes to die."
Students will not be subjected to textbooks pushing leftist propaganda and revisionist histories. Instead, per the suggestion of Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr., kids will be provided with textbooks that "focus on historical facts" that are "free from inaccuracies or ideological rhetoric."
One submission provided guidance on how to talk to young children about the national anthem, suggesting, "You can use this as an opportunity to talk about why some citizens are choosing to 'Take a Knee' to protest police brutality and racism."
This suggestion was stricken from the accepted material.
Another textbook, this time targeting grades 6-8, attempted to hype socialism — an ideology linked to most of the 20th century's totalitarian regimes and mass murders.
Florida also refused to subject students to sanitized, revisionist histories about BLM radicals.
A grade 9-12 text was flagged because it entertained the leftist fallacy that brutal communist regimes such as those found in the Soviet Union, Cuba, and China were not representative of real communism.
I have a problem with public schools indoctrinatiing instead of teaching. But, DeSantis might be going too far with banning some books.
Freedom can only exist in a homogenized and self disciplined people. When that goes out the door, authoritarian measures fill the gap. The best you can hope for is a benevolent authoritarian leader.
The end result is motherfuckers gotta DIE, DIE, DIE!!!!
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I have a problem with public schools indoctrinatiing instead of teaching. But, DeSantis might be going too far with banning some books.
Freedom can only exist in a homogenized and self disciplined people. When that goes out the door, authoritarian measures fill the gap. The best you can hope for is a benevolent authoritarian leader.
The end result is motherfuckers gotta DIE, DIE, DIE!!!!
That sounds like something Koreans and Japanese would say. :laugh3:
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Freedom can only exist in a homogenized and self disciplined people. When that goes out the door, authoritarian measures fill the gap. The best you can hope for is a benevolent authoritarian leader.
The end result is motherfuckers gotta DIE, DIE, DIE!!!!
That sounds like something Koreans and Japanese would say. :laugh3:
Here's the Christian white man way of saying it:
https://chuckbaldwinlive.com/Resources/Quotes.aspx#bf
Ben Franklin
"Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
"We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that "except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing Governments by Human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest.
"I therefore beg leave to move--that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service."
Samuel Chase
"By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty."
Abigail Adams
"A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men? Can he be a patriot who, by an openly vicious conduct, is undermining the very bonds of Society?....The Scriptures tell us "righteousness exalteth a Nation."
John Adams
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government ofany other."
The University of Pittsburgh demanded that conservative students pay $18,734 in security and damage fees after a mob of 250 leftist protesters rioted at their scheduled event, according to a demand letter submitted to the school by Alliance Defending Freedom.
On April 18, student groups Intercollegiate Studies Institute and University of Pittsburgh's College Republicans chapter hosted a moderated debate between the Daily Wire's Michael Knowles and BASED Politics co-founder Brad Polumbo.
The debate was titled "Should Transgenderism Be Regulated by Law?" The event included an audience question-and-answer session and a meet-and-greet.
An audio clip, which has gone viral on social media, revealed a teacher at a junior high school in Canada chastising the Muslim students in her class for staying home from school rather than participating in scheduled Pride events. During the rant, the teacher became so heated that she even told Muslim students that they "can't be Canadian" if they do not support legalized gay marriage.
On the clip, a teacher at Londonderry Junior High School in Edmonton, Alberta, scolded students for skipping school "because you think there's some Pride activities going on" that day, and she gave several reasons that such behavior was not "acceptable."
"If you don't think that [gay marriage] should be the law, you can't be Canadian," she continued. "You don't belong here, and I really mean it."
https://twitter.com/BillboardChris/status/1666137389272641550?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1666137389272641550%7Ctwgr%5E965413baa0ceaaaf167db294dc00e1d68e64941a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theblaze.com%2Fnews%2Fjunior-high-teacher-in-canada-berates-muslim-students-for-boycotting-pride-events-if-you-don-t-think-that-should-be-the-law-you-can-t-be-canadian
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An audio clip, which has gone viral on social media, revealed a teacher at a junior high school in Canada chastising the Muslim students in her class for staying home from school rather than participating in scheduled Pride events. During the rant, the teacher became so heated that she even told Muslim students that they "can't be Canadian" if they do not support legalized gay marriage.
On the clip, a teacher at Londonderry Junior High School in Edmonton, Alberta, scolded students for skipping school "because you think there's some Pride activities going on" that day, and she gave several reasons that such behavior was not "acceptable."
"If you don't think that [gay marriage] should be the law, you can't be Canadian," she continued. "You don't belong here, and I really mean it."
https://twitter.com/BillboardChris/status/1666137389272641550?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1666137389272641550%7Ctwgr%5E965413baa0ceaaaf167db294dc00e1d68e64941a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theblaze.com%2Fnews%2Fjunior-high-teacher-in-canada-berates-muslim-students-for-boycotting-pride-events-if-you-don-t-think-that-should-be-the-law-you-can-t-be-canadian
Muslims were progs favourite cause last week. They have been tossed aside to make room for trannies and drag time story hour.
Nelsen Mandela went to jail because he was a terrorist and was behind murdering people. They cannot even tell the truth about that.
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I have a problem with public schools indoctrinatiing instead of teaching. But, DeSantis might be going too far with banning some books.
Freedom can only exist in a homogenized and self disciplined people. When that goes out the door, authoritarian measures fill the gap.
That explains Australia then. About the only thing homogenous about those sheep fucking convicts are their gumboot collections.
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Nelsen Mandela went to jail because he was a terrorist and was behind murdering people. They cannot even tell the truth about that.
The old state's terrorists were the replacement state's freedom fighting fighters. The victors write the history books.
Sometimes the english language is fucked. Fire-fighters fighting fires, crime fighters fighting crime... tell me again what freedom fighters are fighting?
Too bad the lions didn't eat him.
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Sometimes the english language is fucked. Fire-fighters fighting fires, crime fighters fighting crime... tell me again what freedom fighters are fighting?
Indigestion.
Finally, parents have had enough.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/protests-mounting-and-pride-flags-underfoot-after-ottawa-teachers-told-to-refer-to-all-students-with-theythem-pronouns?utm_source=theblaze-7DayTrendingTest&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Blaze%20PM%20Trending%202023-06-09&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%207%20Day%20Engagement
In its latest effort to force staff and students to fully embrace LGBT activism and gender ideology, an Ottawa school board appears to have found Canadians' breaking point.
Upon learning that students will no longer be referred to as boys or girls, but will rather be addressed as sexless pluralities, protesters took to the streets, demanding that the leftist administrators "leave the kids alone."
A trio of Ottawa-Carleton District School Board superintendents reportedly sent a letter to staff May 31 entitled, "Supporting Inclusivity: Actions for Pride Month and Beyond." The letter, obtained by Chanel Pfahl, a school trustee candidate, clarified that nothing save for total submission to LGBT precepts would be acceptable in the district.
Mary Jane Farrish, the superintendent of equity instruction, Shannon Smith, superintendent of indigenous education instruction, and Brent Smith, acting superintendent of program and learning, stressed that "2SLGBTQ+" representation in the curriculum and classroom is a "fundamental human right."
Accordingly, staff must embed resources that "accurately reflect and honor 2SLGBTQ+ identities into curriculum subjects and the overall learning environment, from Kindergarten to Grade 12."
The superintendents noted that honoring non-straight "identities" and peddling LGBT propaganda in every grade were only partial measures.
Teachers were further instructed to use "they/them pronouns" when referring to all students, not just those with gender dysphoria.
The Counter Signal reported that last week there was a silent protest in the district: absenteeism skyrocketed on the first day of Pride, with absences reaching above 60% in two schools and over 40% in nine others.
Elsewhere in Canada, TheBlaze recently reported that Muslim students were told they "can't be Canadian" if they refused to participate in LGBT events.
I don't fault the Orientals for being pissed off about this shit.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/asian-american-who-scored-1590-out-of-1600-on-sat-got-465-gpa-says-he-applied-to-harvard-princeton-4-other-elite-colleges-and-they-all-rejected-him?utm_source=theblaze-dailyPM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__PM%202023-06-09&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20PM
Jon Wang, an Asian-American, achieved a nearly perfect sore of 1590 out of 1600 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test and attained 4.65 grade-point average in high school — well beyond perfect.
Most folks likely would assume that waves of red carpets would come rolling in from elite colleges that would love nothing more than to scoop up a student boasting such numbers.
ndeed, Wang told Fox Nation he applied to six "top-tier" institutions of higher learning — Harvard, Princeton, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the California Institute of Technology, Carnegie-Mellon, and the University of California, Berkeley.
But the verdict — despite Wang's performance, which included a perfect 800 on the math portion of the SAT — was a resounding no from all six schools, the cable network program said.
Wang — a Florida native and the son of two first-generation Chinese immigrants — told Fox Nation the rejections weren't entirely surprising given that he spoke to friends and school guidance counselors amid the application process, and they all said the same thing.
"They all told me that it's tougher to get in, especially as an Asian-American," Wang told Fox Nation. "I just took it as gospel."
More from the cable network program:
A passage from its book "Cracking College Admissions" notes that the high success of many Asian-American students has generated concerns among some schools who allege there are "too many" on their campuses.
As explored in the Fox Nation special, the book says applying to college as an Asian American could be a "distinct disadvantage" at many elite schools. It also instructs applicants to refrain from including a photo of themselves in their application and withhold optional answers about ethnic background, if possible, as well as to avoid writing admissions essays about the significance of identifying with two cultures.
Wang took up the issue with Students for Fair Admissions, which Fox Nation said is working to bring race-based college admissions to an end.
"I gave them my test scores, and then they must've ran the model on that... [they] told me I had a 20% chance of getting accepted to Harvard as an Asian-American and a 95% chance as an African-American," Wang told Fox Nation.
Wang now is among the plaintiffs challenging Harvard and the University of North Carolina in court over race-based admissions and affirmative-action practices, the cable network program added.
More from Fox Nation:
At stake in the Harvard case is whether the university violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by discriminating against Asian-American applicants. The UNC case, in contrast, looks at that school's unwillingness to adopt a "race-neutral alternative."
Either of the two cases could overturn 2003 precedent case Grutter v. Bollinger, wherein the court ultimately ruled that the use of race as an admissions factor was not unconstitutional as long as it was narrowly tailored to further the compelling interests of obtaining the educational benefits available in a diverse student body.
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Elsewhere in Canada, TheBlaze recently reported that Muslim students were told they "can't be Canadian" if they refused to participate in LGBT events.
Well we saw how that worked out... muslim parents encouraging their children to throw rainbow flags on the ground and stomp on them. In Carleton no less.
There's your participation, Truedeaup.
Public education is a train wreck.
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Elsewhere in Canada, TheBlaze recently reported that Muslim students were told they "can't be Canadian" if they refused to participate in LGBT events.
Well we saw how that worked out... muslim parents encouraging their children to throw rainbow flags on the ground and stomp on them. In Carleton no less.
There's your participation, Truedeaup.
If they were White., Trudeau would have issued a statement calling them racists, fascists, and transphobes within ten minutes of that video being posted.
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Public education is a train wreck.
I believe it. Those of you with kids would know how bad it has become.
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I don't fault the Orientals for being pissed off about this shit.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/asian-american-who-scored-1590-out-of-1600-on-sat-got-465-gpa-says-he-applied-to-harvard-princeton-4-other-elite-colleges-and-they-all-rejected-him?utm_source=theblaze-dailyPM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__PM%202023-06-09&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20PM
Jon Wang, an Asian-American, achieved a nearly perfect sore of 1590 out of 1600 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test and attained 4.65 grade-point average in high school — well beyond perfect.
Most folks likely would assume that waves of red carpets would come rolling in from elite colleges that would love nothing more than to scoop up a student boasting such numbers.
ndeed, Wang told Fox Nation he applied to six "top-tier" institutions of higher learning — Harvard, Princeton, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the California Institute of Technology, Carnegie-Mellon, and the University of California, Berkeley.
But the verdict — despite Wang's performance, which included a perfect 800 on the math portion of the SAT — was a resounding no from all six schools, the cable network program said.
Wang — a Florida native and the son of two first-generation Chinese immigrants — told Fox Nation the rejections weren't entirely surprising given that he spoke to friends and school guidance counselors amid the application process, and they all said the same thing.
"They all told me that it's tougher to get in, especially as an Asian-American," Wang told Fox Nation. "I just took it as gospel."
More from the cable network program:
A passage from its book "Cracking College Admissions" notes that the high success of many Asian-American students has generated concerns among some schools who allege there are "too many" on their campuses.
As explored in the Fox Nation special, the book says applying to college as an Asian American could be a "distinct disadvantage" at many elite schools. It also instructs applicants to refrain from including a photo of themselves in their application and withhold optional answers about ethnic background, if possible, as well as to avoid writing admissions essays about the significance of identifying with two cultures.
Wang took up the issue with Students for Fair Admissions, which Fox Nation said is working to bring race-based college admissions to an end.
"I gave them my test scores, and then they must've ran the model on that... [they] told me I had a 20% chance of getting accepted to Harvard as an Asian-American and a 95% chance as an African-American," Wang told Fox Nation.
Wang now is among the plaintiffs challenging Harvard and the University of North Carolina in court over race-based admissions and affirmative-action practices, the cable network program added.
More from Fox Nation:
At stake in the Harvard case is whether the university violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by discriminating against Asian-American applicants. The UNC case, in contrast, looks at that school's unwillingness to adopt a "race-neutral alternative."
Either of the two cases could overturn 2003 precedent case Grutter v. Bollinger, wherein the court ultimately ruled that the use of race as an admissions factor was not unconstitutional as long as it was narrowly tailored to further the compelling interests of obtaining the educational benefits available in a diverse student body.
This really makes my blood boil, This the only issue that unites the North American Asian community. Everybody from eighteen year old AOC supporters in California, to nearly fifty year old fiscal hawks like me oppose this institutionalized racist garbage.
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Public education is a train wreck.
I believe it. Those of you with kids would know how bad it has become.
We had a white leftist lesbian teacher spending class time in her English class teaching kids how to do anal sex. Most of her students could not read or write at grade level but she spends time teaching sodomy? Luckily, a kid filmed it secretly using his phone, parents found out what was going on, and the bitch got put on paid leave. Firing her will be nearly impossible due to unions but with luck she might be kept out of classrooms.
We need to make public sector unions illegal (even FDR said that should be done), we need to outlaw public schools teaching ideologies and closely regulate curriculum, and most of all we need mandatory school choice so there is competition and parents can move their children to which ever schools they want. Sadly, none of that will ever happen here in Communist California where it is a one party state .
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I believe it. Those of you with kids would know how bad it has become.
We had a white leftist lesbian teacher spending class time in her English class teaching kids how to do anal sex. Most of her students could not read or write at grade level but she spends time teaching sodomy? Luckily, a kid filmed it secretly using his phone, parents found out what was going on, and the bitch got put on paid leave. Firing her will be nearly impossible due to unions but with luck she might be kept out of classrooms.
We need to make public sector unions illegal (even FDR said that should be done), we need to outlaw public schools teaching ideologies and closely regulate curriculum, and most of all we need mandatory school choice so there is competition and parents can move their children to which ever schools they want. Sadly, none of that will ever happen here in Communist California where it is a one party state .
Was she reprimanded at all? If not, she would continue not doing her job.
I knew that FDR could see the conflict of allowing public sector unions. In Canada, those public sector union bosses are so powerful, so unaccountable, and so untouchable, they determine provincial elections.
She was suspended with pay pending an investigation. To fire her you basically have to prove she committed a crime and simply not doing her job, being completely incompetent, or being a verifiable child groomer counts. It is just absurd how bad teachers can never get fired.
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I believe it. Those of you with kids would know how bad it has become.
We had a white leftist lesbian teacher spending class time in her English class teaching kids how to do anal sex. Most of her students could not read or write at grade level but she spends time teaching sodomy? Luckily, a kid filmed it secretly using his phone, parents found out what was going on, and the bitch got put on paid leave. Firing her will be nearly impossible due to unions but with luck she might be kept out of classrooms.
We need to make public sector unions illegal (even FDR said that should be done), we need to outlaw public schools teaching ideologies and closely regulate curriculum, and most of all we need mandatory school choice so there is competition and parents can move their children to which ever schools they want. Sadly, none of that will ever happen here in Communist California where it is a one party state .
Reading horror stories like yours is a reminder that the financial sacrifice my husband and I made to send our children to a private Christian school was a worhwhile investment.
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Well we saw how that worked out... muslim parents encouraging their children to throw rainbow flags on the ground and stomp on them. In Carleton no less.
There's your participation, Truedeaup.
If they were White., Trudeau would have issued a statement calling them racists, fascists, and transphobes within ten minutes of that video being posted.
Canada isn't exactly known for being quick off the mark. I cite the Capital Hill shooting incident as an example; it took around 8 hours for that to be declared the result of islamic radicalization, in spite of there meing not a single tangible link between the shooter and any known Isis calls or operatives.
I'd also point you to US practice of labeling anything off the plantation as "white supremacy. The "skinfolk, not kinfolk" assertion specifically. Identifiably black individuals have been dismissed as white supremacists before for simply not agreeing with leftist propaganda in KKKalifornia, the same holds true for hispanics such as Enrique Tarrio.
Given time, I don't see why clowns like Truedeaup wouldn't attempt to Godwin a muslim or three into the group, nor for low information leftists to accept it without demure, in spite of the obvious fallacy of logic. White supremacists, for all their reputation about racial purity, are apparently okay with letting the non-pure run their affairs.
The truth of course is far more mundane. Too many people are okay with being lied to and allowing their leaders to get away with it. Because they are leaders and we all think they are the bomb. See folks like Caskur for further examples of this. Or simply look in the mirror the next time you get to praising your average run or the mill conservative and ask yourself "does this person really have my interests at heart, or is he just pretending that he does".
:thumbup:
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We had a white leftist lesbian teacher spending class time in her English class teaching kids how to do anal sex. Most of her students could not read or write at grade level but she spends time teaching sodomy? Luckily, a kid filmed it secretly using his phone, parents found out what was going on, and the bitch got put on paid leave. Firing her will be nearly impossible due to unions but with luck she might be kept out of classrooms.
We need to make public sector unions illegal (even FDR said that should be done), we need to outlaw public schools teaching ideologies and closely regulate curriculum, and most of all we need mandatory school choice so there is competition and parents can move their children to which ever schools they want. Sadly, none of that will ever happen here in Communist California where it is a one party state .
Reading horror stories like yours is a reminder that the financial sacrifice my husband and I made to send our children to a private Christian school was a worhwhile investment.
Many of the private schools are is badly infected with this vile ideology as the public schools especially in blue cities. It is the opposite of education; it is indoctrination without learning how to think.
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Reading horror stories like yours is a reminder that the financial sacrifice my husband and I made to send our children to a private Christian school was a worhwhile investment.
Many of the private schools are is badly infected with this vile ideology as the public schools especially in blue cities. It is the opposite of education; it is indoctrination without learning how to think.
Somebody posted an article about a year ago about an ultra woke private school for the kids of elites in the NYC area. So yes, I know you are right about this.
The evidence is clear Mr Newsom. Public schools are failing.
A Stanford University study finds charter students have an average of 16 extra days of growth in reading and 6 days in math in a school year.
The typical charter school student is outperforming their traditional public school peer by a significant margin, according to the 2023 National Charter School Study released Tuesday by Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes.
Using a standard benchmark of a 180-day school year, researchers found charter school students have an average of 16 additional days of learning growth in reading and 6 days in math when compared to traditional public school students.
According to the third national charter school study by CREDO since 2009, Black and Hispanic charter students show the largest gains. Multiracial, Native American and White students made similar progress as traditional public school peers in reading, but weaker gains in math. And Asian student performance in charter schools is about level with traditional public school peers.
https://www.k12dive.com/news/charter-students-outperform-public-school-students/652320/#:~:text=Using%20a%20standard%20benchmark%20of%20a%20180-day%20school,math%20when%20compared%20to%20traditional%20public%20school%20students.
My wife has informed me that our youngest would be stay home from school today. Apparently, he didn't want to go to school today because so many of his friends also planned to stay at home. Why? There is a mandatory "Pride Celebration assembly" today at his elementary school. Supposedly the thing is three hours long and most of the kids want nothing to do with it.
Thus why they have organized their own student sick out to avoid the child sexual grooming event.
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My wife o formed me that our you gest would be stay home from school today. Apparently, he didn't want to go to school today because so many of his friends also planned to stay at home. Why? There is a mandatory "Pride Celebration assembly" today at his elementary school. Supposedly the thing is three hours long and most of the kids want nothing to do with it.
This why they have organized their own student sick out to avoid the child sexual grooming event.
Good for them! This bullshit must be stopped at ANY and ALL costs!
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My wife o formed me that our you gest would be stay home from school today. Apparently, he didn't want to go to school today because so many of his friends also planned to stay at home. Why? There is a mandatory "Pride Celebration assembly" today at his elementary school. Supposedly the thing is three hours long and most of the kids want nothing to do with it.
This why they have organized their own student sick out to avoid the child sexual grooming event.
Mandatory pride. Does that include trannies?
Not sure. I do know the only way to get out of it is to just not show up for school that day.
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My wife o formed me that our you gest would be stay home from school today. Apparently, he didn't want to go to school today because so many of his friends also planned to stay at home. Why? There is a mandatory "Pride Celebration assembly" today at his elementary school. Supposedly the thing is three hours long and most of the kids want nothing to do with it.
This why they have organized their own student sick out to avoid the child sexual grooming event.
Mandatory pride. Does that include trannies?
How about mandatory math and science.
California test scores released in October 2022 from a statewide exam administered in the spring revealed dismally low levels of proficiency in reading and math. About 47 percent of California students met English language standards and 33 percent met math standards, both performance drops from 2019.
https://youtu.be/W7Qi7TALDqE
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California test scores released in October 2022 from a statewide exam administered in the spring revealed dismally low levels of proficiency in reading and math. About 47 percent of California students met English language standards and 33 percent met math standards, both performance drops from 2019.
Yep, but they have time to endlessly do political propaganda.
I don't think schools are failing... People having kids who do not put in the effort into parenting are the culprits to children failing.
I think parents fail because in the west, parents would rather smoke, drink, take illegal drugs and gamble, and fool around cheating on each other....
You cannot expect schools to do your parenting for you...
And it'll never change because humans are greedy tumbleweed and have hay seeds for brains.
My 2 nieces are teachers, and one of them is a Principal...
The other thing to is, kids are lacking proper nutrition.
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I don't think schools are failing... People having kids who do not put in the effort into parenting are the culprits to children failing.
I think parents fail because in the west, parents would rather smoke, drink, take illegal drugs and gamble, and fool around cheating on each other....
You cannot expect schools to do your parenting for you...
And it'll never change because humans are greedy tumbleweed and have hay seeds for brains.
My 2 nieces are teachers, and one of them is a Principal...
The other thing to is, kids are lacking proper nutrition.
In California, it is the public school system that is failing. Newsom can spin any way he wants, but California parents like Flea and Oerdin know what is going on with that state's public education system.
yeah Ok,.... whatevah you reckon.
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Reading horror stories like yours is a reminder that the financial sacrifice my husband and I made to send our children to a private Christian school was a worhwhile investment.
Many of the private schools are is badly infected with this vile ideology as the public schools especially in blue cities. It is the opposite of education; it is indoctrination without learning how to think.
My children's school used ACE......accelrated Christian education curriculum..
Teachers that imposed any personal ideology would be removed from the classroom.
Oh, that sounds good.
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Many of the private schools are is badly infected with this vile ideology as the public schools especially in blue cities. It is the opposite of education; it is indoctrination without learning how to think.
My children's school used ACE......accelrated Christian education curriculum..
Teachers that imposed any personal ideology would be removed from the classroom.
Public schools seem to encourage libtards brainwashing kids.
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I don't think schools are failing... People having kids who do not put in the effort into parenting are the culprits to children failing.
I think parents fail because in the west, parents would rather smoke, drink, take illegal drugs and gamble, and fool around cheating on each other....
You cannot expect schools to do your parenting for you...
And it'll never change because humans are greedy tumbleweed and have hay seeds for brains.
My 2 nieces are teachers, and one of them is a Principal...
The other thing to is, kids are lacking proper nutrition.
So you're not WRONG about some parents BUT the schools really have gone to total shit and no matter how good the parent....the schools are now pushing politics (or have been). Sexual identity politics and the LGBTQ propaganda.
Lots and lots of parents are fighting it. I pulled my kids right out a few years ago. My oldest graduated, she's in college now and she works. So she's busy. She works in the medical field and is in nursing school. She wants to be a CRNA. She's done with her pre reqs and about to do a 4 year BSN program. She already has her car paid off too.
My 17 year old is wanting to go into culinary or dietician but she's taking a break and just kinda babysitting and saving her money. This next presidential election will be her first election she can vote in and she's been getting into politics more and looking into policies and all the unintended consequences of them and really diving into how the government works. State and federal. And learning the Constitution. She's learning to hate the democrats all on her own and it's a beautiful thing to witness ac_wub
My youngest reads way above the grade level she would be on. She only struggles with math. She has never set foot in a school. I'm looking for a good hybrid program though for her. I'd like to get her into dance or gymnastics or something she gets to use physical energy and has to be coordinated.
I do not trust the public schools at all and that started long before this nasty sex shit.
I have to applaud your efforts Dove. I chanced to run into someone that is even now at university and studying to become a teacher. A short discussion later and I had already determined that she was being indoctrinated into CRT and Marxist ideology. The rot is quite real and not easily dismissed as being in the imagination.
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I don't think schools are failing... People having kids who do not put in the effort into parenting are the culprits to children failing.
I think parents fail because in the west, parents would rather smoke, drink, take illegal drugs and gamble, and fool around cheating on each other....
You cannot expect schools to do your parenting for you...
And it'll never change because humans are greedy tumbleweed and have hay seeds for brains.
My 2 nieces are teachers, and one of them is a Principal...
The other thing to is, kids are lacking proper nutrition.
So you're not WRONG about some parents BUT the schools really have gone to total shit and no matter how good the parent....the schools are now pushing politics (or have been). Sexual identity politics and the LGBTQ propaganda.
Lots and lots of parents are fighting it. I pulled my kids right out a few years ago. My oldest graduated, she's in college now and she works. So she's busy. She works in the medical field and is in nursing school. She wants to be a CRNA. She's done with her pre reqs and about to do a 4 year BSN program. She already has her car paid off too.
My 17 year old is wanting to go into culinary or dietician but she's taking a break and just kinda babysitting and saving her money. This next presidential election will be her first election she can vote in and she's been getting into politics more and looking into policies and all the unintended consequences of them and really diving into how the government works. State and federal. And learning the Constitution. She's learning to hate the democrats all on her own and it's a beautiful thing to witness ac_wub
My youngest reads way above the grade level she would be on. She only struggles with math. She has never set foot in a school. I'm looking for a good hybrid program though for her. I'd like to get her into dance or gymnastics or something she gets to use physical energy and has to be coordinated.
I do not trust the public schools at all and that started long before this nasty sex shit.
Education departments tell teachers what to teach. My niece is told to teach this identity jargon and when she uses regular language the abo kids pick her up on it.
I told her to say it like this, "(insert diabolical new phrase) formerly known as women"....
If people do not send their kids to school they better make sure they learn maths and English perfectly.
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I have to applaud your efforts Dove. I chanced to run into someone that is even now at university and studying to become a teacher. A short discussion later and I had already determined that she was being indoctrinated into CRT and Marxist ideology. The rot is quite real and not easily dismissed as being in the imagination.
Back when China had their revolution 15 year old male and female soldiers were bayoneting their grandparents and parents to death, it was that bad. I see the same division happening between generations now. I realise it sounds like an exaggeration but it isn't. The brats break into old people's places and bash them over their heads looking for money, food and pain meds.
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I have to applaud your efforts Dove. I chanced to run into someone that is even now at university and studying to become a teacher. A short discussion later and I had already determined that she was being indoctrinated into CRT and Marxist ideology. The rot is quite real and not easily dismissed as being in the imagination.
Back when China had their revolution 15 year old male and female soldiers were bayoneting their grandparents and parents to death, it was that bad. I see the same division happening between generations now. I realise it sounds like an exaggeration but it isn't. The brats break into old people's places and bash them over their heads looking for money, food and pain meds.
I can believe it. The stuff George Orwell and Anthony Burgess wrote about decades before is largely an outgrowth of socialist policies and it's the reason why those societies eventually fall apart. You and I are watching it unfold in western society now and for what it's worth, I hope you're in your final resting place before it comes to your neighbourhood in the form you described in China. We've had our differences, we will again I'm sure, but I surely don't wish for you or anyone else here to have to face that kind of shit, especially not in the winter of their lives.
A good editorial by Rex Murphy directly related to the topic thread. Particularly, how woke activism has replaced learning in the classrooms.
Parents are reviled as 'hateful' if they voice concerns about woke activism in the classroom
School boards, schools, and particularly individual teachers should make a choice: are they involved in education or social justice and woke activism?
Because from every bulletin they put out, and all the preachments about their "commitment" to diversity and inclusion and equity, and safe spaces, and above all their latest deep commitment to "trans rights," it is ruefully clear that their passion is for activism.
The latest arena of that activism is of course the fresh concept of the "trans rights of children," and particularly how some schools and school boards have nominated themselves as the final judges on the rightness or wrongness of this explosively contentious issue.
Schools and boards are mesmerized by the political-cultural issues on the "progressive" side of things. There are endless, jargon-addled bulletins about their commitment to LGBTQ activism, the various school days dedicated to celebrating difference and anti-bias and anti-discrimination. In many schools, Pride — the overall label — has become something like a new sacrament. Pride days, Pride month, and now Pride season — this is like a year-long Christmas for one-interest activism and proselytism.
These schools and boards are astoundingly haughty and unashamedly arrogant. Their every statement comes burdened with certitude, and they blister with all sorts of angry terms for those who have a dissenting perspective. They rail against and belittle parents who are deeply distressed by the massive over-attention given to the schools' and teachers' missionary endeavours on children's sexuality. Parents are the new "deplorables."
They are reviled as "hateful" if they disagree. They are shut down at school board meetings if they even inquire what is being taught, what books their children are being exposed to, and at what age. School authorities insist that they — not parents — and they alone know what is right. And to disagree with them — well that's cruelty.
Mother — father — child. No institution has superiority over this fundamental and civilizationally core relationship. No teacher, no school, no board of education has the right to override the primacy of the family, to arrogate the authority of mother and father on nothing more than their say-so.
Now consider this statement by the prime minister on the weekend regarding proposed New Brunswick legislation that would force children under 16 to get parental consent to change their names or pronouns at school: "We're seeing that angry, hateful rhetoric rise on our continent, particularly targeting trans people. Far-right political actors are trying to outdo themselves with the types of cruelty and isolation they can inflict on these already vulnerable people."
This is unbelievable. It's mad. Are parents, fired by concern issuing from the love they hold for their children, "far-right political actors?" Are these concerned, loving parents "trying to outdo themselves ... with (what) cruelty and isolation they can inflict" on their offspring?
Can he mean any of this? Could he be saying that parents should not be tolerated?
From the serene height of the Prime Minister of Canada's office we have an angry — I would call it hateful – declaration that parents are cruel, sadistic, and by implication very ignorant. I regard this statement of his as graver than the Chinese interference scandal.
There is much more to be said on this. And Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre's tepid, evasive statement that "education" is a provincial affair, doesn't cut it at all. We're not talking about education as we used to know that word. He has to be far clearer, more direct, and explicit on this subject. His statement was a waffle.
We are talking about diminishing and hurling insults at parents who are not on board with the new ideology, the new religion of diversity, inclusion and equity. It is the fundamentalism of our time.
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So you're not WRONG about some parents BUT the schools really have gone to total shit and no matter how good the parent....the schools are now pushing politics (or have been). Sexual identity politics and the LGBTQ propaganda.
Lots and lots of parents are fighting it. I pulled my kids right out a few years ago. My oldest graduated, she's in college now and she works. So she's busy. She works in the medical field and is in nursing school. She wants to be a CRNA. She's done with her pre reqs and about to do a 4 year BSN program. She already has her car paid off too.
My 17 year old is wanting to go into culinary or dietician but she's taking a break and just kinda babysitting and saving her money. This next presidential election will be her first election she can vote in and she's been getting into politics more and looking into policies and all the unintended consequences of them and really diving into how the government works. State and federal. And learning the Constitution. She's learning to hate the democrats all on her own and it's a beautiful thing to witness ac_wub
My youngest reads way above the grade level she would be on. She only struggles with math. She has never set foot in a school. I'm looking for a good hybrid program though for her. I'd like to get her into dance or gymnastics or something she gets to use physical energy and has to be coordinated.
I do not trust the public schools at all and that started long before this nasty sex shit.
Education departments tell teachers what to teach. My niece is told to teach this identity jargon and when she uses regular language the abo kids pick her up on it.
I told her to say it like this, "(insert diabolical new phrase) formerly known as women"....
If people do not send their kids to school they better make sure they learn maths and English perfectly.
We have shit tons of activist teachers here in the states. It sucks.
I never wanted to homeschool. But I'm doing it and so far getting very good results. But as she goes up in grade levels I know I'm gonna struggle so I'm working on finding a hybrid program or getting some good resources to help support me in teaching her.
It's fun overall....for now when it's super easy.
I don't know why you can't send her to school and teach her certain things are wrong at home.
I let my son learn everything.... right and wrong. Wrapping children in cotton wool isn't my idea of parenting.
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I don't know why you can't send her to school and teach her certain things are wrong at home.
Peer pressure for one. With some teachers these days actively marketing the children's parents as "enemies" and encouraging the ever increasing groundswell of disapproval for traditional gender roles and sexual preferences, most children today are getting bullied into the transgender route because it's the current cool.
Besides, how many kids do you know that rebel against their parents once they hit the teenage years?
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I don't know why you can't send her to school and teach her certain things are wrong at home.
I let my son learn everything.... right and wrong. Wrapping children in cotton wool isn't my idea of parenting.
When your son would've went to school, there would've been minimal levels of propaganda fed into his head all day.
That's all changed now, and the propaganda has ramped up BIG TIME! I know a guy here with kids in public Elementary School dealing with just that. He has to deprogram them almost every evening.
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I don't know why you can't send her to school and teach her certain things are wrong at home.
Peer pressure for one. With some teachers these days actively marketing the children's parents as "enemies" and encouraging the ever increasing groundswell of disapproval for traditional gender roles and sexual preferences, most children today are getting bullied into the transgender route because it's the current cool.
Besides, how many kids do you know that rebel against their parents once they hit the teenage years?
All children rebel.... sooner or later they return though... I was thinking depriving them of school deprives them of nifty things like report cards and earned rewards and besty friends..... School has upsides as well.
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I don't know why you can't send her to school and teach her certain things are wrong at home.
I let my son learn everything.... right and wrong. Wrapping children in cotton wool isn't my idea of parenting.
When your son would've went to school, there would've been minimal levels of propaganda fed into his head all day.
That's all changed now, and the propaganda has ramped up BIG TIME! I know a guy here with kids in public Elementary School dealing with just that. He has to deprogram them almost every evening.
My son could read at 3 and by high school, a maths genius and musician. ... he was badly bullied when he changed schools to the low socio-ecconomic boofheads in my new neighbourhood after I married..... when I found out I took him back to the school where he was a 4th generation pupil.... where genteel people reside.
I wouldn't have the temperament now to put up with low standards of any kind.
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Peer pressure for one. With some teachers these days actively marketing the children's parents as "enemies" and encouraging the ever increasing groundswell of disapproval for traditional gender roles and sexual preferences, most children today are getting bullied into the transgender route because it's the current cool.
Besides, how many kids do you know that rebel against their parents once they hit the teenage years?
All children rebel.... sooner or later they return though... I was thinking depriving them of school deprives them of nifty things like report cards and earned rewards and besty friends..... School has upsides as well.
Agreed, and even some of the bad things (bullying as we knew it for example) are an essential part of societal development. You weigh all that against the cost of your child getting sterilized because they've been convinced it solves their problems though, I can see why parents like Dove are sacrificing much to give their children a chance of the things you and I took for granted growing up.
Shit, I don't remember hearing anything at school regarding sex ed until I was in high school. And I went to a number of different schools growing up. These days there are too many teachers and social workers attempting to convince kids as young as kindergarteners into gender affirming care... and to not discuss it with their parents under any circumstances because parents are the enemy.
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All children rebel.... sooner or later they return though... I was thinking depriving them of school deprives them of nifty things like report cards and earned rewards and besty friends..... School has upsides as well.
Agreed, and even some of the bad things (bullying as we knew it for example) are an essential part of societal development. You weigh all that against the cost of your child getting sterilized because they've been convinced it solves their problems though, I can see why parents like Dove are sacrificing much to give their children a chance of the things you and I took for granted growing up.
Shit, I don't remember hearing anything at school regarding sex ed until I was in high school. And I went to a number of different schools growing up. These days there are too many teachers and social workers attempting to convince kids as young as kindergarteners into gender affirming care... and to not discuss it with their parents under any circumstances because parents are the enemy.
It is a weighing up job... I would say to Kane, whatever you're being told is not true, just theory and conjuncture.
Regarding exposure to sex topics, farm kids get early educations, us city kids didn't. Sex was definitely a taboo topic but what is MAJORLY different from then to today is access to porn via the net so I guess some people would rather open up about that topic earlier with kids.
Not far from now the courts will be flooded with child trans victims, fully grown humans, suing doctors and teachers and whatnot for serious bodily harming them...
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Agreed, and even some of the bad things (bullying as we knew it for example) are an essential part of societal development. You weigh all that against the cost of your child getting sterilized because they've been convinced it solves their problems though, I can see why parents like Dove are sacrificing much to give their children a chance of the things you and I took for granted growing up.
Shit, I don't remember hearing anything at school regarding sex ed until I was in high school. And I went to a number of different schools growing up. These days there are too many teachers and social workers attempting to convince kids as young as kindergarteners into gender affirming care... and to not discuss it with their parents under any circumstances because parents are the enemy.
It is a weighing up job... I would say to Kane, whatever you're being told is not true, just theory and conjuncture.
Regarding exposure to sex topics, farm kids get early educations, us city kids didn't. Sex was definitely a taboo topic but what is MAJORLY different from then to today is access to porn via the net so I guess some people would rather open up about that topic earlier with kids.
Not far from now the courts will be flooded with child trans victims, fully grown humans, suing doctors and teachers and whatnot for serious bodily harming them...
Well you'd hope so, but it's still shutting the gate after the horse has bolted. And considering how the various justice systems of the west operate now and where they are headed, those victims will be lucky to get cents in the dollars of their lifelong suffering, if their case is heard at all.
The perps need to be nailed dead to rights NOW. The real problem as I see it is their continued shenanigans are atomizing the very society my grandparents fought to preserve, something our parents generation and ours did little to uphold and our kids generation saw fit to toss on the scrapheap. Generation Z and Alpha will pay for that oversight with their reproductive rights, both by virtue of the almost mandatory transgenderism and the headlong push to rewrite humanity's DNA with mRNA injections.
Faith in the institutions once regarded as our best way forward is at an all time low and getting lower. Governments, medical, education, law enforcement, military, judicial... all are suffering a crisis of confidence due to corruption, greed and rampant totalitarianism. I don't know how much of this Dove understands, but her move to homeschool her children is a step in the right direction. Whether she succeeds or not is another matter entirely, but I for one have my fingers crossed for her and Squish.
Well Squish needs to go and be with kids her own age too... so hopefully Dovey finds a play group where she can have some socialisation.
Horror the thought of any sane parent..
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Well Squish needs to go and be with kids her own age too... so hopefully Dovey finds a play group where she can have some socialisation.
She is around kids her age. Her cousins and a few kids in thr neighborhood.
Every week she goes with my exs mother and gets to play with 3 of her cousins (she calls them sister cousins...all her age) and a few kids who are friends with them and here where we lives she has buddies in the neighborhood.
Public school is a terrible place for a child to socialize. It really is.
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Most Ivy League schools have LGBT rates that far surpass national averages, according to the latest polling numbers by the educational institutions themselves.
Brown University made headlines in early July 2023 when it reported that 38% of its student body identified with a sexuality other than straight — doubling its numbers from 2010 — far above the national numbers for Generation Z (1997-2004), which Gallup determined to be 19.7%.
After a review of five other Ivy League school's self-reported numbers, Brown is not an anomaly by any stretch of the imagination, but it is indeed a front runner.
As reported by the New York Post, numbers have soared at the once prestigious institutions, which now routinely publish their gender and sexuality censuses as a point of pride.
The Daily Princetonian reported shockingly high numbers, similar to Brown University. The school's bisexual, "queer," gay, asexual, lesbian, unsure, and pansexual numbers represented more than 35% of the school's respondents.
An astounding number of asexual students (5%) are represented at the school, a rate that is 50 times the national average (0.1%).
As well, nearly half of those surveyed identify as politically left, with slightly liberal, very liberal, and leftist/socialist totaling 45%. Just 11% identified as right of center.
According to Yale Daily News, around 29% of its responding student body identified as something other than straight, as the school boasted that it "welcomed the largest and most diverse class in University history."
More specifically, 14% said they were bisexual, 6% gay/lesbian, 8% "questioning," and 1% asexual.
Politically, 74% "characterized their political leanings as leaning left."
Over at Harvard, the 2023 class had about a 21% non-straight population, according to the Harvard Crimson. But the school is ready to outdo itself, as the class of 2025 will increase that number to 29%. That rate is a more than 18% increase from the class of 2017, which was represented by an 89.9% straight student body.
The Cornell Daily Sun reported its latest numbers at 21% of 589 students who responded as not identifying as straight. Of students who were asked, 69% were virgins, while 65% identified as either somewhat liberal or very liberal. Just 13% were conservative.
A team of researchers at Oregon State University blamed the "rise of online fascism" for students' sarcastic and mocking responses to their woke identity survey, according to a June paper published in the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies.
The researchers' paper, "Attack Helicopters and White Supremacy: Interpreting Malicious Responses to an Online Questionnaire about Transgender Undergraduate Engineering and Computer Science Student Experiences," accused the students of "tamper[ing] with the study outcomes and/or harass[ing] the researchers" by submitting responses that allegedly included "slurs, hate speech, or direct targeting of the research team."
When asked about their gender, 24% of respondents claimed to identify as "a helicopter or aircraft," including an "Apache Attack Helicopter," "pansexual attack helicopter," and an "F-16 Fighter Jet." Other students replied, "There are only two genders," "a human being," and "I'm just here for the gift card."
Respondents were then asked about their "racial/ethnic identities."
One student replied, "What else do you want to know? What I ate for breakfast? This question is unnecessary."
"Come on man, these questions are stupid," another student wrote.
Students were also instructed to list any disabilities.
"Like all transgenders, my disability is the inability to come to terms with biological reality. Madness, essentially," one student replied.
Another respondent stated, "My country is run by communists."
Researchers blamed the students' sarcastic responses on the "larger trends of online radicalization into white supremacist and fascist conspiracy movements."
The team of researchers claimed that the students' answers negatively impacted their mental health.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will pay $80,000 in a recent settlement agreement with a graduate student who accused the school of wrongfully issuing "no-contact orders" against her and instructing her peers to report her "harmful rhetoric."
Maggie DeJong and Alliance Defending Freedom filed a lawsuit against the school after the student claimed she was discriminated against for sharing her Christian and conservative political views.
Three of the school's professors have been ordered to undergo First Amendment training as part of the settlement agreement. Additionally, the university has been required to revise its policies and student handbook to protect students' political, religious, and ideological views.
In February 2022, school officials issued "no-contact orders" against DeJong after some of her peers reported her comments about religion, politics, critical race theory, Black Lives Matter, Marxism, censorship, COVID-related regulations, and the criminal justice system.
Students accused DeJong of "harassment" and "discrimination," claiming her rhetoric had "harmed and offended" them, according to the ADF's lawsuit.
Examples of DeJong's so-called "harmful rhetoric" included social media posts where the student shared others' quotes, including one from January 6, 2021, that read, "Storming the US Capitol is a set back for our cause. It undermines the purpose of the PEACEFUL protest. To the very small minority of protesters trying to break into the Capitol, please stop. We are better than this; we cannot destroy this country like BLM riots!"
DeJong also shared a quote from pastor and author John MacArthur: "Those who dare to take an unpopular stand, declare truth in a definitive way — or worst of all, express disagreement with someone else's teaching — will inevitably be marked as troublesome. Compromise has become a virtue while devotion to truth has become offensive."
DeJong was prohibited from having "any contact" with the peers who reported her and was never allowed to defend herself.
Harvard University was ranked as the worst college in the nation for free speech, according to a report released Wednesday by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
FIRE's new report, "2024 College Free Speech Rankings: What Is the State of Free Speech on America's College Campuses?" found that Harvard earned the lowest possible score — 0.00. It was the only college to receive an "Abysmal" speech climate rating.
How did nearly every major college campus turn into the Third Reich overnight, with large gatherings of belligerent rally-goers chanting genocidal slogans against Jews? It didn't happen overnight. Over a generation, we've imported the Muslim world to our college campuses. Not surprisingly, we also imported some of the slogans, chants, and values undergirding it.
Is this what we really need for our civilization?
The ubiquitous pro-Hamas rallies we've seen on nearly every major college campus over the past week are not the typical "end the occupation" rallies. They began these celebrations immediately after the Hamas slaughter in southern Israel on October 7 and before Israel even announced its intention to attack Gaza.
In the 2021-2022 academic year alone, the United States admitted close to 100,000 new students from countries that are almost exclusively Muslim, many of which are infested with terrorist organizations.
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Cornell University professor Russell Rickford is defending himself after admitting he was "exhilarated" when Hamas terrorists invaded Israel to torture, rape, and murder more than 1,400 innocent people.
On Sunday, Rickford spoke at a pro-Palestine rally in downtown Ithaca, New York. During his speech, the history professor appeared to celebrate Hamas' terrorism because the attack upset the "balance of power" in the region.
Bill Maher slammed so-called "elite colleges," and said potential students should skip attending college because "as recent events have shown, it just makes you stupid."
Maher is referencing the more than 30 student-run organizations at Harvard placing blame on Israel for the surprise attack by Hamas terrorists earlier this month and the anti-Israel protests on American campuses.
The liberal talk show host of "Real Time with Bill Maher" said, "There are few, if any, positives to come out of what happened in Israel, but one of them is opening America's eyes to how higher education has become indoctrination into a stew of bad ideas."
"Among them, the simplistic notion that the world is a binary place where everyone is either an oppressor or oppressed," he explained. "In the case of Israel, oppressors being babies and bubbas, the same students who will tell you that words are violence and silence is violence were very supportive when Hamas terrorists went on a rape and murder rampage worthy of the Vikings. They knew where to point the fingers, at the murdered and then it was off to ethics class."
Maher quipped that college kids are expected to be foolish, but "mixing Jagermeister and tomato juice isn't the same as siding with terrorists."
"The 34 student groups at Harvard signed a letter that said the apartheid regime is the only one to blame, proving they don't know what constitutes apartheid," Maher added. "They don't know much of anything, actually."
Hamer said of progressive college students, "They've convinced themselves Israel is the most repressive regime in history because they have no knowledge of history or even a desire to know it. And actual history doesn't come up in their intersectionality of politics and gender-queer identities class."
"The fact that college presidents who usually love to speak out about anything couldn't find their voice to condemn the worst attack since the Holocaust," Maher declared. "There's a lot about who really controls colleges and why if ignorance is a disease, Harvard Yard is the Wuhan wet market."
Maher proclaimed that "illiberal nonsense flows" in colleges, adding, "Supporting all black, that is segregated dorms, segregated graduation ceremonies, and orientation programs which occur on hundreds of campuses is illiberal."
"Elite schools should no longer be called elite, just too expensive," he stated.
Maher concluded, "To to the older folks, I say college today is not the college you remember. And to the younger people, I say, Don't, don't do it. You don't need four years and a lifetime of crippling debt to learn to hate America when you can just watch 5 minutes of 'Selling Sunset.'"
A video of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology student interrupting a mathematics lecture so that he can launch a rant against Israel and the United States has gone viral. What shocks viewers the most is the reaction of the MIT professor.
Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman shared the eye-opening video of the MIT math lecture from Thursday morning on the X social media platform.
The video shows a student interrupting a math lesson at MIT. The professor actually allows the student to disrupt the class for everyone else with an anti-Israel diatribe.
The student stands near where the professor is explaining a math problem.
The professor addressed the disturbance by politely asking the student if he could wait until he was done solving the mathematics problem.
The professor asked the disruptor, "Can I just finish this line?"
Once the professor finishes the mathematics problem, he walks away from the blackboard, and then the pro-Palestinian student goes on an anti-Israel tirade.
"As you witness an ongoing genocide of Gaza in MIT silence – I'm joining hundreds of students city-wide walking out of class," the student begins. "Because we stand for the liberation of Palestine against active genocide that is perpetuated by MIT, Israel, and the United States."
The student then unfurls a Palestinian flag and then leads a few fellow students with chants of "Free, free Palestine!"
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The National Assessment of Educational Progress's 2022 assessment revealed that grade 8 students' history scores last year were the lowest they had been since the NAEP began monitoring in 1994. Significant declines in academic ability were also observed amongst public grade-schoolers in reading and mathematics as well as in other subjects. Such damning figures cast doubt on whether students are learning anything in public classrooms with ATF-linked educators.
The director at a sexual assault center at a Canadian university has come under fire after signing an open letter that claims there were no women raped during the October 7 Hamas attacks against Israel.
Samantha Pearson, director at the University of Alberta's Sexual Assault Center, was just one individual among several who signed the letter that was written by two politicians, according to the Daily Mail.
The two authors of the letter are Sarah Jama, a member of Ontario's provincial parliament, and Susan Kim, a city councilor in Victoria. They wrote, "We, the undersigned, residing in so-called Canada, urge Canadian political leaders to end their complicity in the ongoing massacres and genocide in Gaza, Occupied Palestine."
The letter called on the MPs throughout the country to resign after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau refused to call for a ceasefire in the Middle East. The title of the letter was "Stand with Palestine: Call on Political Leaders to End Their Complicity in Genocide!"
Most people get A's.
Yale University is apparently handing about grades in the A-range like they are candy. An estimated 79% of all the grades given to undergraduates at the prestigious university fell within the A-range.
Quote from: Shen Li on December 10, 2023, 07:44:31 PMMost people get A's.
Yale University is apparently handing about grades in the A-range like they are candy. An estimated 79% of all the grades given to undergraduates at the prestigious university fell within the A-range.
American universities risk going the way of Bud Light.
A former adjunct professor in Texas with decades of experience will soon return to the classroom after he was reportedly fired for teaching standard concepts regarding human sexuality and reproduction.
Dr. Johnson Varkey spent 22 years of his life teaching biological science to students at St. Philip's College, a community college in San Antonio, Texas. During that time, he more or less taught the same basic course and the same basic biological principles "without any complaints."
That all changed just over a year ago, when he was informed that an ethics complaint had been filed against him. He was then fired a few weeks later, even though he had not yet learned the nature of the accusations or been given an opportunity to defend himself against them.
Left to speculate, Varkey recalled that in November 2022, four students had walked out of his classroom after he explained that biological sex was determined by X and Y chromosomes.
A college economics professor in Sweden stated that he had never failed an exam, but he once failed an entire group.
That class insisted that socialism is functional and that no one should be poor and no one rich, everyone is EQUAL!
The teacher told them, "OK, we will do an experiment on socialism in this group.
All grades will be averaged, and everyone will get the same grade, so no one will fail and no one will get a 10."
After the first test, the grades were added up and divided by the number of students, and everyone got an 8.
The students who studied intensively were upset, but those who studied less were overjoyed.
As the second test approached, the students who had studied a little learned even less, and those who had studied more intensively told themselves that they also wanted a "handout", so they also studied less. The average of the second test was 6! When the third test was given, the average score was 4. To the great surprise of all the students, they all failed.
It couldn't be a simpler explanation.
The teacher told them that socialism will eventually fail because when half the population sees that they cannot work, because the other half will take care of them, and when the half that worked realizes that there is no point in working anymore, because others are the beneficiaries of their labor, then that is the end of any nation.