(02-18-2022 01:14 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  

(02-17-2022 05:20 PM)bullet Wrote:  My daughter has taken a couple of sociology related courses in college and one of their fundamental approaches is that of Karl Marx.
Yes, Karl, the one who was discredited with the fall of the USSR, not Groucho.

They study his analysis of capitalism and class struggle. This is mainstream in that field.

The irony of Karl Marx that is lost on many is here you had a guy who never worked a job in his life (he mooched off Engles) yet he claims to be the champion of the working class (proletariat).

The fact that losers like Marx, Che Guevarra and Fidel Castro today are considered to be heroes while George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln should be removed from the lexicon is dumbfounding.

It is and it isn't dumbfounding. Leftists don't like the idea of meritocracy for obvious reasons. They idolize what looks like themselves. Hence, identity politics. How many times do we have to see leftists make into heroes truly despicable people? When there is pushback, they riot, knowing full well that the enablers in the media will amplify their viewpoints and downplay their violence and minimize the criminal tendencies of those they have elevated into heroes/victims.

(02-06-2022 05:01 PM)umbluegray Wrote:  

(02-06-2022 04:20 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

In the past it was illegal for homosexuals to be teachers. This was exactly the reason why.

You think homosexuals shouldn’t be teachers?

We need more teachers like this one....

(02-19-2022 01:07 AM)GoodOwl Wrote:  

(for publik skewls--home schoolers and some privates can avoid this nonsense.)

https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/the...source=url
Article on the difficulty of stopping the Dems gender cult.

Great spiel at a school board linked (Brian Echevarria) in the article.

There has been a college jeopardy on. Seriously unimpressed with the vast majority of the contestants. I would win nearly all of these games and I'm not nearly as good at trivia as I was in college or shortly afterwards. They mostly display a shocking lack of historical knowledge. Many are liberal arts majors who have in depth knowledge in a very limited area but know nothing you would with a broad based education.

Now the guy from the University of Texas, a business and economics major was impressive. The 3 finalists are from Texas, Northeastern and my daughter's Kennesaw St. University in Atlanta.

I remember when at least some universities required all students to get a well-rounded broad based education to graduate. Starting in about the 1950s to 1960s there was a trend of becoming more like trade schools, where you learned your major and very little else. Around the 1960s to 1970s they started having vanity courses, The History of Comic Books and stuff like that instead of the basics. Around the 1980s to 1990s they got to vanity majors, Gender Studies and Womyn's Studies and the like. Today, you can get a university degree while acquiring virtually no useful skills. It's no wonder we have so many university graduates working as baristas at Starbucks.

The general level of knowledge of what used to constitute a basic classic education has declined precipitously.

Stories like this one out of Kalifornia make you wonder why people stay in that degenerate place, with their goofy 'woke' laws.

(02-19-2022 11:39 PM)bullet Wrote:  There has been a college jeopardy on. Seriously unimpressed with the vast majority of the contestants. I would win nearly all of these games and I'm not nearly as good at trivia as I was in college or shortly afterwards. They mostly display a shocking lack of historical knowledge. Many are liberal arts majors who have in depth knowledge in a very limited area but know nothing you would with a broad based education.

Now the guy from the University of Texas, a business and economics major was impressive. The 3 finalists are from Texas, Northeastern and my daughter's Kennesaw St. University in Atlanta.

interesting how the Starbucks near the university is open for customers, but most all of the rest are shut down due to coronabug "danger".

Those who can...do.

Those who can't...teach.

(02-19-2022 01:56 PM)CLTPirate Wrote:  

(02-06-2022 05:01 PM)umbluegray Wrote:  

(02-06-2022 04:20 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

In the past it was illegal for homosexuals to be teachers. This was exactly the reason why.

You think homosexuals shouldn’t be teachers?

I think they can be teachers. They should not be able to promote what they do in their bedroom. Remember when the Left used to say government should stay out of my bedroom? Now it has shifted to the government should make sure you know about and support what I do in my own bedroom.

(02-19-2022 01:56 PM)CLTPirate Wrote:  

(02-06-2022 05:01 PM)umbluegray Wrote:  

(02-06-2022 04:20 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

In the past it was illegal for homosexuals to be teachers. This was exactly the reason why.

You think homosexuals shouldn’t be teachers?

Yes and exactly the reason given in statement you questioned.

U.S. law prohibited homosexuals from being teachers until relatively recently.

(02-18-2022 01:08 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

This is evil in a very subversive way.

(02-19-2022 01:56 PM)CLTPirate Wrote:  

(02-06-2022 05:01 PM)umbluegray Wrote:  

(02-06-2022 04:20 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

In the past it was illegal for homosexuals to be teachers. This was exactly the reason why.

You think homosexuals shouldn’t be teachers?

Yes.

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Schools Using ‘Transition Closets’ to Hide Children’s Transgender Identity From Parents

Quote:Here we go again. It seems every week, another story emerges showing how progressives are hell-bent on sexualizing children. In this instance, educators are using “Transition Closets” as a means of helping students dealing with gender dysphoria to conceal the issue from their parents. The practice allows them to socially transition to the opposite sex without their parents’ knowledge.

The Post Millennial reported:

The Transition Closet announced with glee the new chapter with Fremont High School, writing that “We are extremely excited to begin our journey in working with Fremont Highschool [sic] of Oakland California, alongside our favorite teacher of TikTok @justaqueerteacher,” as was first reported by Twitter account Teacher Exposed. A video of the teacher was also shared.

According to the organization’s Facebook page, the Transition Closet “is a free closet for people going through all types of transitions.”

The issue caused controversy when a Twitter account called “Teachers Exposed” posted a Tik Tok video in which an unnamed teacher explained how he helps students hide their identity from their parents. He said:

“The goal of the transition closet is for our students to wear the clothes that their parents approve of, come to school and then swap out into the clothes that fit who they truly are.”

Thomas Martin-Edwards, a Spanish teacher with the Oakland Unified School District and founder of the Queer Teacher Fellowship also chimed in, comparing the closet to Superman:

“And I use the idea that this is like Superman changing in a phone booth. But that idea actually goes a lot further than that. Because Superman isn’t Clark Kent. Clark Kent is actually the disguise. And when Clark Kent goes into the phone booth, he transforms into Superman, who is really just who he truly is, Kal-El. So this gives our trans students the opportunity to be the superheroes that we know they are.”

The Post Millennial detailed some of the content on the group’s Facebook page:

The Transition Closet, which features videos teaching girls how to bind their breasts so that they appear more masculine, recently received a grant from the Arkansas LGBTQ+ Advancement Fund. The grant will be used “To provide gender-affirming clothing and accessories for transgender and non-binary Arkansans.” The Transition Closet thanked The Big Binder Project, which provides free chest binders to girls seeking to hide their breasts.

In discussing the plan for the installation of The Transition Closet at Fremont High School with Alexander Brodie Switzer, of VALID by Brodie, a group that works toward “establishing Transition Closets world-wide,” Martin-Edwards said:

“My principal just approved our district’s first Transition Closet. We’ll be working with the organization The Transition Closet to provide clothes for transgender, non-binary and gender exploring youth, who maybe don’t have the access or the safety to get those clothes in their personal lives. They’ll be able to come to school and change into the clothes that make them feel more at home and more like themselves. And I just think that’s lovely.”

Transition Closets appear to be present mostly on university campuses at the moment. However, they could be far more ubiquitous in K-12 schools than it seems. The secretive nature of the project could mean it is flying under the radar at other schools.

At this point, it is impossible for the hard left to continue gaslighting parents about what is happening in their children’s schools. From elements of Critical Race Theory (CRT) to progressive views on gender and sexuality, it can no longer be denied that they are infusing their ideology into K-12 schools. Fortunately, people are pushing back against this endeavor. But will it be enough?

(02-21-2022 06:38 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  

(02-19-2022 01:56 PM)CLTPirate Wrote:  

(02-06-2022 05:01 PM)umbluegray Wrote:  

(02-06-2022 04:20 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

In the past it was illegal for homosexuals to be teachers. This was exactly the reason why.

You think homosexuals shouldn’t be teachers?

I think they can be teachers. They should not be able to promote what they do in their bedroom. Remember when the Left used to say government should stay out of my bedroom? Now it has shifted to the government should make sure you know about and support what I do in my own bedroom.

You know, "Don't ask, don't tell" actually worked a lot better than this woke $#it.

One Teacher's Ridiculous Response to Test Answer Shows the Woeful State of Our Education System

Quote:Oh, this is embarrassing. Not for me or us; for some random school teacher who marked a young student’s answer to a test question “wrong.” Moreover, the teacher’s explanation of why the answer was “wrong” was even more ridiculous. The good news is the teacher’s ineptitude went viral —six years after it happened.

Worse? Forgive me for generalizing, but the state of public education in 2022 is demonstrably worse than in 2016 — but we’ll get there in a minute. First, prepare yourself to (select one or more of the following): laugh your ass off, shake your head and mumble to yourself, get frustrated, get mad as hell.

Here we go.

The following math problem was recently shared to Reddit with the caption: “The American education system,” and it instantly incited a flurry of confusion — which should not have been the case for the even semi-intelligent among us. The question reads:

Reasonableness: Marty ate 4/6 of his pizza and Luis ate 5/6 of his pizza. Marty ate more pizza than Luis. How is that possible?

The student answered: “Marty’s pizza is bigger than Luis’s pizza.”

Note that the question wasn’t: “Is this possible.” It was: “How is this possible?”

No matter. The genius teacher disagreed, marking Marty’s answer with a big “X” for “wrong, adding:

That is not possible because 5/6 is greater than 4/6 so Luis ate more.

Umm…

Various folks in the Twittersphere were also baffled by the question, as well, while some of them posted comments like this:

The actual question is wrong itself. It should have said “Marty n Luis had two different pizzas. Marty ate 4/6 of his and Luis ate 5/6 of his. Marty ate more pizza than Luis. How is that possible?”. The teacher is dumb.

Wait — who’s dumb? The question was posed exactly as it was intended to be posed. Moreover, it is labeled “Reasonableness.” It is intended to force children to think outside of the box.

Other Twitter-ers suggested Marty’s pieces were bigger than Luis’s pieces, which immediately reminded me of one New York Yankee great Yogi Berra’s many Yogi-isms. As the Hall-of-Famer told the tale, after he was asked by a server in a pizza joint if he’d rather have his pizza cut into four or six pieces, Yogi responded: “You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.”

In the slim chance that any of you RedStaters are anywhere near as baffled as the people I described above were, the size of the pieces is irrelevant — unless Marty’s pizza is larger than Luis’s. So, the poor little kid’s answer was correct, and the dumb*** know-it-all teacher was hilariously wrong — for all the interwebs to see.

To be sure, there are untold numbers of wonderful, dedicated teachers across America who commit themselves to do their part to provide the best education for our kids they can. That said, the above idiotic teacher is a quintessential example of just a fraction of the utter failure of the American education system as a whole. He or she should be fired immediately. Not for his or her ridiculously wrong response to the pizza question; for being inept as hell. That cannot happen, of course. (See: “pathetic, dictatorial, teachers unions.”)

In an American Thinker piece titled “What we have here is a failure to educate,” contributor Ned Cosby observed:

Is the USA in 2022 a military superpower? Yes. Is the US economy in 2022 a superpower? Yes. Is the USA in 2022 a superpower in terms of public education? Not hardly or, as Biden likes to say, “C’mon man!”

Why isn’t America a superpower in terms of public education? Don’t we pay a lot of money for public education in America? We are right near the top in terms of what we pay per student but, alas, we don’t get much bang for our bucks.

While I’m not sure America is a “superpower” in anything under hapless Joe Biden, Cosby’s questions and assertion in the second paragraph are spot-on.

According to the 2021 Program for International Student Assessment, U.S. public schools are mediocre to below average. In reading skills, noted Cosby, the U.S. ranks 13th internationally, 18th in science, and in math? “A pitiful 38th.” Meanwhile, teachers unions across America are far more concerned with COVID mandates, critical race theory, and systemic racism. Arrogantly so, as we saw in Loudoun County, Virginia, Chicago, as elsewhere across the country.

Is it any wonder that America’s parents have had enough?

Oh — I almost forgot. Remember when moronic Oregon Gov. Kate Brown in July 2021 eliminated math, reading, and writing proficiency standards for high school graduation? High school graduation? Me, too.

Meanwhile, all this talk of pizza made me hungry for the stuff — although not that hungry.

So, when I order it, I’m gonna only have it cut into two pieces.

(02-20-2022 06:16 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  I remember when at least some universities required all students to get a well-rounded broad based education to graduate. Starting in about the 1950s to 1960s there was a trend of becoming more like trade schools, where you learned your major and very little else. Around the 1960s to 1970s they started having vanity courses, The History of Comic Books and stuff like that instead of the basics. Around the 1980s to 1990s they got to vanity majors, Gender Studies and Womyn's Studies and the like. Today, you can get a university degree while acquiring virtually no useful skills. It's no wonder we have so many university graduates working as baristas at Starbucks.

The general level of knowledge of what used to constitute a basic classic education has declined precipitously.

Texas won jeopardy with Kennesaw St. 2nd. Northeastern was a distant 3rd. She (NE) made the comment that she hadn't taken a science course in 6 years! How do you get through college without ANY science? She was Political Science/Business.

(02-21-2022 06:38 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  

(02-19-2022 01:56 PM)CLTPirate Wrote:  

(02-06-2022 05:01 PM)umbluegray Wrote:  

(02-06-2022 04:20 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

In the past it was illegal for homosexuals to be teachers. This was exactly the reason why.

You think homosexuals shouldn’t be teachers?

I think they can be teachers. They should not be able to promote what they do in their bedroom. Remember when the Left used to say government should stay out of my bedroom? Now it has shifted to the government should make sure you know about and support what I do in my own bedroom.

Exactly. What they do in the bedroom should not be in the class room. And what they do in the bedroom should have no influence on their employment.