December 5, 20213 yr 4 hours ago, EaglesRocker97 said: Haven't checked out the link yet, as I am admittedly lacking intellectual energy on a Saturday night, but my initial thoughts on the law you mention here are that, while obviously a vestige of Red Scare hysteria, it squares pretty neatly with my general understanding of how states organize and regulate public education from at an individual, instructional level. At least in PA, educators are acutely aware of being barred from making overtly political statements or otherwise advocating for particular candidates in the classroom. I've always assumed this to be written into law, and it is not much different from a variety of other legally binding provisions barring government employees of any kind at the state and federal levels from engaging in politicking while on the job. This law seems to simply target specific ideologies that were considered particularly insidious and subversive at the time, and perhaps for good reason, as there were undoubtedly many spies and double agents beholden to Communist states working to weaken American institutions in order to increase the power and influence of internationalist authoritarianism. Ultimately, however, these laws could be reasonably argued to not violate freedom of speech as they did not ban teaching about these political movements but promoting them. Of course, one could perceive a slippery slope in which merely informative statements made in the classroom could be seized upon by zealous conservatives as something akin to campaigning for them. Personally, I feel that, whether it's socialism, communism, or modern-day CRT and wokeism, attempts to litigate what can and cannot be said in the classroom at a categorical level does more harm than good as means of rooting out truly anti-American principles. Like pretty much anything else, prohibition of something tends to draw interest and breath life into it as taboo topics seem more intriguing and tempting to young, ignorant minds yearning for an identity and purpose that makes them stand out from the crowd, especially for those with a thirst for social clout and political power. It also has the self-defeating effect of making a democratic state seem authoritarian itself. I mean, even the title of the, with it's promotion of "Teacher Loyalty," sounds like some kind of sedition provision that you'd expect in a dystopian society, not one founded on liberal democracy. It's generally best to let all ideas, even bad ones, flow freely and be subject to public scrutiny with the belief that our democratic principles are rooted deeply enough in conviction that these principles loyalties will prevail among the majority of citizens in a constitutional republic. 100% correct. I wish more people understood this. Any freshman college student studying the social sciences should have this drilled into them in their seminars. I think most professors know this and attempt to disillusion their students to the myth of "objective history," but it's not done enough at the secondary level, while at the post-secondary level, agenda-driven upstarts of the woke variety are more likely to draw a crowd and fill the airwaves in an era driven by social-media popularity contests. Excellent post!
December 13, 20213 yr Telling a bunch of minors who you like having sex with. Not sure if more stunning or brave.
December 13, 20213 yr 1 hour ago, Kz! said: Telling a bunch of minors who you like having sex with. Not sure if more stunning or brave. this is DEFINITELY more important than a president that tried to steal an election and was stupid enough to have a power point presentation on how he was going to do it shared among various members of the administration and senate.
December 13, 20213 yr 15 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: this is DEFINITELY more important than a president that tried to steal an election and was stupid enough to have a power point presentation on how he was going to do it shared among various members of the administration and senate. lol go cry in another thread, riot kitchen. This is a thread dedicated to ishlib public school indoctrination.
December 13, 20213 yr 1 hour ago, JohnSnowsHair said: this is DEFINITELY more important than a president that tried to steal an election and was stupid enough to have a power point presentation on how he was going to do it shared among various members of the administration and senate. What the F does that have to do with CRT
December 13, 20213 yr 2 hours ago, JohnSnowsHair said: this is DEFINITELY more important than a president that tried to steal an election and was stupid enough to have a power point presentation on how he was going to do it shared among various members of the administration and senate. Jussie Smollet!!! Didn't you hear me!?!? I SAID JUSSIE SMOLLET!!!!!!1!1!
December 20, 20213 yr Staffer placed on leave after third graders reportedly reenact Holocaust scenes https://www.kxan.com/news/staffer-placed-on-leave-after-third-graders-reportedly-reenact-holocaust-scenes/ Quote A parent told the Post that the staff member told the students that the Germans’ actions in the Holocaust were "because the Jews ruined Christmas.” Quote A Watkins Elementary librarian told the news station that "somebody’s misquoting what happened in the library that day,” adding that there was no Holocaust re-enactment or hate speech. I wonder which it is?
December 20, 20213 yr I believe the staff before the parents. While it is possible this is an isolated incident of a lesson gone haywire, it is much more likely the parents are dumb. I think the parents misunderstood what transpired in the class that day, substituting their own ideas in place of events. They really don't know what happened.
January 17, 20223 yr 13 minutes ago, sameaglesfan said: We sure wouldn't want to teach Dr. King marched, or what America was like in the past.
January 17, 20223 yr We can't teach our children about Dr. Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights movement because it's Critical Race Theory. Too Dangerous and racist.
January 17, 20223 yr What, kids in school didn't learn about MLK and the civil rights movement before?
January 17, 20223 yr 7 minutes ago, Toty said: Why spend more than that on books that won't get read? Yeah, they should have spent it on Tik Toks
January 25, 20223 yr 17 minutes ago, Kz! said: Youngkin has been fantastic so far. It took him less then a month to set up his own secret police. I did NOTSEE that coming!
January 25, 20223 yr 5 minutes ago, Gannan said: It took him less then a month to set up his own secret police. I did NOTSEE that coming! Paging @Paul852
January 26, 20223 yr Please help Governor Youngkin out by reporting on all the violations of "mask choice" or the insidious "CRT" theory not being taught in Virginia. helpeducation@governor.virginia.gov
February 2, 20223 yr Everyone: Please stop indoctrinating our kids and just give them a good education. Retarded ishlibs:
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