School Kids - Pawns in Social Reform and their Domestic Terrorist Parents

[IDBillzFan]

5 hours ago, Foxx said:

Umm...

 

 

I saw that and immediately thought "WTF?"

 

Then I saw the second question, and I'm sorry, but that ain't a real test anywhere.

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

1 hour ago, IDBillzFan said:

 

I saw that and immediately thought "WTF?"

 

Then I saw the second question, and I'm sorry, but that ain't a real test anywhere.

 

It's real, it costs teachers about $120 to download, and you can also get them in Andrei Sakharov, Cesar Chavez, Oprah Winfrey, Jim Henson, Tony Dungy, William Kamkwamba, Pat Tillmam, Harriet Tubman, Che Guebara, Alicia Keys, Harvey Milk, Bob Marley, Stan Lee, and M.I.A. editions.

 

And it's targeted to 9th graders. 

[Foxx]

13 hours ago, Crap Throwing Monkey said:

 

I could...but all my answers are about Maya Angelou's biography.

[Foxx]

On 4/17/2022 at 4:15 PM, IDBillzFan said:

 

I saw that and immediately thought "WTF?"

 

Then I saw the second question, and I'm sorry, but that ain't a real test anywhere.

Some support for Pushaw's Tweet.

DeSantis' press secretary puts critics of Florida's academic standards in their place

[Foxx]

More from Pushaw

 

[Spartacus]

As the Conservative Group 'Moms for Liberty' Expands Across the Nation, It's Also Gathering Enemies (msn.com)

 

That the organization even needs a "headquarters" is a testament to its fast growth, as it consisted of Descovich, co-founder Tiffany Justice and a handful of like-minded mothers two years ago, though it recently surpassed 80,000 moms who operate from 177 chapters in 34 states. The goal is to have 3,000 chapters nationwide where one or more Moms for Liberty show up regularly at school board meetings donning t-shirts with slogans such as, "We do not co-parent with the government." Their intent is to battle against what they say is a "woke" leftist movement in schools, and they'll do so by influencing curriculum, text and library books, coronavirus protocols, legislation and election outcomes.

[Boyst]

On 3/8/2022 at 2:48 PM, Crap Throwing Monkey said:

 

And of course, if your iPhone self-identifies as a kitchen sink, then it expects to be recharged by the kitchen faucet.  

 

But don't you dare suggest that you couldn't play Wordle on it, because that would be...<shakes Magic 9-ball of Intersectionality>...anti-immigrant.

Try quordle. 

[Foxx]

Only 23?

 

[Taro T]

17 minutes ago, Foxx said:

Only 23?

 

 

Even CA pulled out of the national?

 

That's wild.

[Billsandhorns]

5 hours ago, Foxx said:

Only 23?

 

I'm a bit disappointed that it took Texas so long, supprised no but disappointed

[Foxx]

You'll be proud to know that since 2018, your NYS tax dollars have been funding this...

kids as young as 3...

 

Over $200K being spent on drag queen shows at NYC schools, records show

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New York is showering taxpayer funds on a group that sends drag queens into city schools — often without parental knowledge or consent — even as parents in other states protest increasingly aggressive efforts to expose kids to gender-bending performers.

 

Last month alone, Drag Story Hour NYC — a nonprofit whose outrageously cross-dressed performers interact with kids as young as 3 — earned $46,000 from city contracts for appearances at public schools, street festivals, and libraries, city records show. ...

 

[Spartacus]

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/three-police-state-education-indoctrination-intimidation-intolerance

 

The Three I's Of A Police-State Education: Indoctrination, Intimidation, & Intolerance

 

“Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning.”

 - Investigative journalist Annette Fuentes

This is what it means to go back-to-school in America today.

Instead of making the schools safer, government officials are making them more authoritarian.

 

Instead of raising up a generation of civic-minded citizens with critical thinking skills, government officials are churning out compliant drones who know little to nothing about their history or their freedoms.

And instead of being taught the three R’s of education (reading, writing and arithmetic), young people are being drilled in the three I’s of life in the American police state: indoctrination, intimidation and intolerance.

 

From the moment a child enters one of the nation’s 98,000 public schools to the moment he or she graduates, they will be exposed to a steady diet of:

• draconian zero tolerance policies that criminalize childish behavior,

• overreaching anti-bullying statutes that criminalize speech,

• school resource officers (police) tasked with disciplining and/or arresting so-called “disorderly” students,

• standardized testing that emphasizes rote answers over critical thinking,

• politically correct mindsets that teach young people to censor themselves and those around them,

• and extensive biometric and surveillance systems that, coupled with the rest, acclimate young people to a world in which they have no freedom of thought, speech or movement.

Roped into the government’s profit-driven campaign to keep the nation “safe” from drugs, disease, and weapons, the schools have transformed themselves into quasi-prisons, complete with surveillance cameras, metal detectors, police patrols, zero tolerance policies, lock downs, drug sniffing dogs, strip searches and active shooter drills.

 

Young people in America are now first in line to be searched, surveilled, spied on, threatened, tied up, locked down, treated like criminals for non-criminal behavior, tasered and in some cases shot.

[Foxx]

...

 

[Spartacus]

Common Core, Out the Door: New Math curriculum is 'easier to understand' (msn.com)

Parents and students are going to get a pleasant surprise when school gets going here in less than a week.

 

Their math textbooks, homework, and lessons are going to look a lot different.

The new B.E.S.T standards, pushed by the current administration in Tallahassee, go into effect all over Florida next week.

 

And for all the parents, students and teachers that have spent the better part of the last decade complaining about Common Core, it is a welcome relief.

 

"Math shouldn’t be this complicated," said Amanda Zink of Jupiter, who spent many frustrated nights at her breakfast nook trying to help her two now-middle school aged sons do their math homework.

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

Common Core wasn't, and isn't, complicated.  It doesn't teach math, mind you...but it's simple.  People are just morons.

[Spartacus]

30 minutes ago, Crap Throwing Clavin said:

Common Core wasn't, and isn't, complicated.  It doesn't teach math, mind you...but it's simple.  People are just morons.

the problem has probably been that the morons are the ones attempting (and failing) to teach to the common core standards. 

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

8 minutes ago, Spartacus said:

the problem has probably been that the morons are the ones attempting (and failing) to teach to the common core standards. 

 

The actual problem is that there's Common Core as a standard, then there's a licensed process for teaching Common Core that sucks moose balls.

 

You really want to be pissed about Common Core?  Here's how it works: Common Core is an open standard for what students should know when (i.e. "you should be able to do this in third grade.")  It's a sensible standard.  But the methodology for teaching students to meet that standard is owned by a private company and licensed to states and school districts as a requirement for teaching Common Core.

 

The methodology itself is hot garbage.  And required - you're not allowed to follow the Common Core standards unless you pay a private company to give you the teaching materials and processes.  And schools are required to adhere to the standards, so by licensing restrictions they are required to pay a private company to teach bad methodology to adhere to a decent standard.

 

Common Core, as implemented, is just a way to funnel school budgets to a private company.

[Taro T]

3 hours ago, Crap Throwing Clavin said:

 

The actual problem is that there's Common Core as a standard, then there's a licensed process for teaching Common Core that sucks moose balls.

 

You really want to be pissed about Common Core?  Here's how it works: Common Core is an open standard for what students should know when (i.e. "you should be able to do this in third grade.")  It's a sensible standard.  But the methodology for teaching students to meet that standard is owned by a private company and licensed to states and school districts as a requirement for teaching Common Core.

 

The methodology itself is hot garbage.  And required - you're not allowed to follow the Common Core standards unless you pay a private company to give you the teaching materials and processes.  And schools are required to adhere to the standards, so by licensing restrictions they are required to pay a private company to teach bad methodology to adhere to a decent standard.

 

Common Core, as implemented, is just a way to funnel school budgets to a private company.

 

Knew the method to teach it was hot garbage.  Didn't realize that was by design & couldn't be deviated from by contract.

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

34 minutes ago, Taro T said:

 

Knew the method to teach it was hot garbage.  Didn't realize that was by design & couldn't be deviated from by contract.

 

Yep.  The "program" and the "standards" are not the same thing, and you're not allowed to use the "standards" if you don't buy the "program."

 

Which is why Florida voted to withdraw from the program, and replace the Common Core standards with their own "BEST" standards.  Which are pretty much the same as Common Core, but with minimal modification to avoid licensing issues. 

 

And the Common Core standards aren't much different that the progression I remember going through in elementary school.  Counting in kindergarten; addition and subtraction to 2nd grade; multiplication, division, and fractions through 4th or 5th; through basic geometry and pre-algebra up to 8th grade.  The standards are sensible (bloviated bureaucratic paper-pushing, taking 100 pages to say what should take two.  But sensible expectations for students). 

 

And the teaching methods are not as bad as people think.  The below, for example:

 

Anyone who's decent with doing math in their head uses the method on the right: "2 times 7 is 14, times 10 is 140. 3 times seven is 21. 140+21 is 161."  The method on the left is arguably better for teaching numbers, but on the right is better method for performing multiplication.  I've used that when tutoring math.

 

But the way it's expressed is bizarre as &#%$.  The "Box" method?  You have to split 23 into 20 and 3, write the 7 next to them, then put the multiplicative results in the boxes?  It establishes nothing about the positionality of digits (hundreds, tens, ones), or the factoring or commutative properties that make it work (7*2*10 + 7*3 = 7*10*2 + 7*3 = 161).  No one who learns that is learning much of anything about math.

[Joe Miner]

13 hours ago, Crap Throwing Clavin said:

 

Yep.  The "program" and the "standards" are not the same thing, and you're not allowed to use the "standards" if you don't buy the "program."

 

Which is why Florida voted to withdraw from the program, and replace the Common Core standards with their own "BEST" standards.  Which are pretty much the same as Common Core, but with minimal modification to avoid licensing issues. 

 

And the Common Core standards aren't much different that the progression I remember going through in elementary school.  Counting in kindergarten; addition and subtraction to 2nd grade; multiplication, division, and fractions through 4th or 5th; through basic geometry and pre-algebra up to 8th grade.  The standards are sensible (bloviated bureaucratic paper-pushing, taking 100 pages to say what should take two.  But sensible expectations for students). 

 

And the teaching methods are not as bad as people think.  The below, for example:

 

Anyone who's decent with doing math in their head uses the method on the right: "2 times 7 is 14, times 10 is 140. 3 times seven is 21. 140+21 is 161."  The method on the left is arguably better for teaching numbers, but on the right is better method for performing multiplication.  I've used that when tutoring math.

 

But the way it's expressed is bizarre as &#%$.  The "Box" method?  You have to split 23 into 20 and 3, write the 7 next to them, then put the multiplicative results in the boxes?  It establishes nothing about the positionality of digits (hundreds, tens, ones), or the factoring or commutative properties that make it work (7*2*10 + 7*3 = 7*10*2 + 7*3 = 161).  No one who learns that is learning much of anything about math.

 

As my 3 kids are moving through school the biggest problem with the way math is taught is that they teach ALL the methods to do each type of math problem in about a week.

 

Homework sheets are divided into sections that they're supposed to do a couple of problems with the method on the left, a couple of problems with the method on the right, and likely some kind of a number line method or another nonsense method that gets thrown in the mix.

 

At the end of the week or so that the concept is taught, kids haven't spent enough time learning any 1 way to do a problem that if you were to give them a problem they did on day 1 they would be more confused because they mix up all the methods.

 

Take away the instructions on the sheet and most kids can't work a simple multiplication problem because they've been taught multiple processes that are all jumbled together in their heads.  With more practice they'd learn it, but whoops, too late, schedule says to move on to the next concept.

 

Multiple ways to work problems can be helpful if some kids are struggling with the initial method.  But the process currently brings what used to be individual struggles to the entire group and makes sure everyone is equally confused.