Fairfax County high school forces students to play ‘White Privilege Bingo’…

It encapsulates the insanity so well .... it should probably be framed

 

That is true. I mean, there are segregationists out there who actually love this stuff!

 

And on the day insanity was redefined we all looked on and wept!

 

That's where they sneak in all the BS these days. When I did accelerated English in high school, it just meant more complex technical English (Chaucer instead of Shakespeare, etc). Now it means freaking Social Studies - from a Marxist/Progressive perspective. I know, because my eldest was allocated that class in senior high, and lasted about three weeks. He asked to be bumped down to the regular classes. The next two kids knew not to accept placement in that class ... haha!

 

Teenage years are when you learn how to conform to societal expectations, so most kids are primed to adjust without being a crybaby about it. in fact, they want to show the world they can make it.

 

No, it doesn't. You're smearing English teachers generally because of a personal experience.

 

Well something is making them crybabies about a whole bunch of things and they show the world they can't make it.

Hence trigger warnings.

Something strange is happening at America’s colleges and universities. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense. Last December, Jeannie Suk wrote in an online article for The New Yorker about law students asking her fellow professors at Harvard not to teach rape law—or, in one case, even use the word violate (as in “that violates the law”) lest it cause students distress.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/

Really fascinating and alarming. I read the book this artcle is excerpted from and is just another reason to think the country is doomed.

 

Not at all. The regular English teachers are fantastic. Those at my kids school did an exceptional job, to the point of all of mine excelling - despite two of them being clunky essayists.

And my own experience is broadly echoed across our public school system .. inclusive of comprehensive high schools, not just the academically selective system. Advanced English is code for Social Studies, basically. Sure they throw in a bunch of excrable hip poetry and 'subversive' novels, but these are always carefully chosen to reflect a very specific ideology.

 

Conformity and compromise are learned much earlier than teenage years. They're learned in the home, prior to school age .. and then consolidated up UNTIL teen years. Teen years are merely the period in which those early skills are first tested.

 

Where did your kid run across the ideologue English teacher!

Sounds like a lousy school system. English teachers are no more historians than are math teachers.

I'm not impressed.

 

That's right! This Nov is a time for choosing, Freedom and Liberty, or canceling and authoritarianism:

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Teen years are when you become an adult and make these accommodations without someone looking over your shoulder. You decide, not Mom and Dad. It's where the bird is out of the nest and flying on its own.

 

You sho'nuff swallow whole: "And this makes us special among the nations of the earth."

 

Not just my kids. It's a PUBLIC SCHOOLS phenomenon. And whether they're actually ideologues or just play-for-pay is unknown. Some are, some aren't.

They're not teaching history, they're teaching 'social commentary'.

Neither was I. Bad poetry penned in the interests of wokism, is as obnoxious as bible study - in a public school setting.

 

Okay, we're not talking on the same level here. I took the brainpanist hat off for the duration, but didn't put it in the back of the cupboard.

Kids learn compromise and conformity VERY YOUNG, and that lesson is consolidated (assuming the parenting is consistent and not contradictory) up until the teen years. The teen years are when those life skills are first TESTED. Prior to that they're not really tested, for obvious reasons. Kids aren't independent enough until then, to need to call on those skills.

The kids who struggle with conformity and compromise in high school, are the kids whose parents didn't model same - or whose parents actively enabled them to eschew those habits. The 'you're too special to have to hide your gifts .. like the dullards do', 'let your freak flag fly' kind of parents.

 

Most school teachers are liberals, not ideologues. You don't "play-for-pay" for these salaries:



There have always been ideologues hired to teach school, including rightwingers. Why? Beats me. They do so much damage to confidence in the system. The thing about ideologues is most end up getting out after a few years.

A lot of literature is social commentary, but there should be a range of ideas.

Of course.

 

1) You do if you're passionate about teaching, and have no choice but to hide your opposition to BS. Which of course is exactly what's happening when public schools practice ideology-driven bias. Conservative teachers are obliged to play along with the 'religion', just as do atheist teachers employed by Christian schools (and there are plenty, as I'm sure you're aware).

2) Individual teachers may not be ideologues, but much of the material outside of hard literacy and numeracy, is ideological.

3) And just as much literature (if not more) ISN'T social commentary. Social commentary is something that bored (and privileged) adults do. Kids do not need that burden - nor do they need to adopt the associated introspection habits of the adult narcissist. There are enough stories out there which go nowhere near 'social commentary', to meet the need for more complex literature. More importantly, WHOSE social commentary is it anyway? No two authors will ever hold the same opinion in that regard, so any attempt to streamline literature to just one 'social comment', is an exercise in bias - and thus ideology. Do public schools allow social comment from conservative writers? I'm going to go out on a limb and say no freaking way. Nuff said.

 

They employ their developing skills throughout childhood, but it's only as they reach adulthood they're able to take charge and put their behavior in an intellectual framework.

High school is the best chance to save them. Early in my teaching career, I worked in a small school where the principal had hired talented teachers. A good school can make a huge difference,

 

Not where I taught school. I was an open conservative who was on the union executive (the treasurer, head of bargaining), I organized the union's three-year struggle to oust a radical right school board that was much like Trumpers are today. We worked with normal rightwingers to replace them.

To this day, the union gets along with school board.

One thing we put in the contract was a "professional clause" where the teacher is solely responsible for delivering the curriculum. Administrators evaluate teacher performance, but have no authority to tell them how to provide instruction.

Not in my school district. I also taught economics using first-year college texts.

So, you don't think 1984 is social commentary? I do.

Why do we have to avoid books highlighting social issues? Of course, we don't have to dwell on them, either.

Good public schools do.

 

"GRIFTERS CATERING TO WELL-OFF WHITE PEOPLE": “Do they really believe that the Black voters who formed the base of the Democratic Party think like Ibram X. Kendi, or the leaders of BLM? Are they crazy?”

"I mean, how can they not understand there’s enormous sort of diversity among the worldviews of people within the Black community? They vary by class, they vary by age, they vary in all kinds of ways. And the idea that they are sort of all on board with this crusade against the superficial aspects of so-called systemic racism, that that’s really what they care about, is fanciful, really."

They don't make a great deal of sense.

 

Progressives are racists - to them all people of the same race are like clones of each other.

 

This way the radical educationists don't have to defend the racist bingo cards: Do parents have a right to know what’s taught? “Democrats are opposing transparency laws, saying legislation would have a chilling effect on teachers’ ability to deal with controversial topics and ideas.”

“Curriculum transparency” — show us what you’re teaching — to prevent indoctrination in public schools.

The revolt of the Free States.

Democrats are opposing transparency laws claiming they are above accountability to parents:

Parents do not want their children to indoctrinated into the lie that they are oppressors or victims based on innate characteristics rather than their own choices actions and decisions. "Educators say their anti-racist, equity, diversity and inclusion lessons don’t do that. Parents are saying: Show us."

“Transparency in public schools — which are taxpayer-backed government entities that we are compelled by law to send our kids to, with few alternatives — is not a new concept.”

"Ohio’s law, which lets parents review “textbooks and reading lists, instructional materials, and the academic curriculum,” dates to 2014. Some of the new bills require schools to post materials online. It will be much, much easier for parents to access."

"The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which used to fight for government transparency, has changed sides."

They now are in league with the forces of Left Wing Dictatorship that makes it's home within the Democrat Party.

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House: GOP 86% to 15%
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Presidency: GOP 53% to 26%

We The People are trending toward the GOP as convincingly as any of us have seen in our lifetimes.

https://electionbettingodds.com/GOPPrimary2024.html

 

Yes they have. Now the people who say that transwomen are women are incapable of defining what a women is. It is amazing that we have given power to people who don't know what a woman is. But hey, America is the left's clown show, we just have to live in it.

 

I think we need to reflexively step back snd take a look at news stories ginning up conflict. All LGBTQ are less than five percent of people. How could they possibly speak for the majority of women?

It's the media making $$$. They all do it, right across the political spectrum.

 

You're trolling with rightwing lies you heard. Those "transparency laws" in Oklahoma, Texas and Florida have nothing to do with transparency and everything to do with harassing teachers.

My job was to teach students, not keep people like you happy. I put my course materials online so students had access at home. Parents could see what their kid was learning.

The school district can show you whatever it wants. Teachers provide instruction. Some of us voluntarily provided information to parents.

Propaganda.

You don't know what parents want.

You aren't the boss. The school district is the employer.

How is the teacher supposed to know what the student will find on the internet?