Those educated elitist hippie students must be crushed!

 

Good guys with books vs bad guys with guns

 

Copied from this link done by Lainey Molnar

Now come the thought police

 

Florida Gov signs law requiring students, faculty be asked their political beliefs

Banning Books

 

Pay attention because there will be a quiz!

 

The teacher and students learn together

When education actually educates.

A few questions for Betty DeVos

Miles Kurland

27 mins · 

Good Questions for School Openings:

• If a teacher tests positive for COVID-19 are they required to quarantine for 2-3 weeks? Is their sick leave covered, paid?

• If that teacher has 5 classes a day with 30 students each, do all 150 of those students need to then stay home and quarantine for 14 days?

• Do all 150 of those students now have to get tested? Who pays for those tests? Are they happening at school? How are the parents being notified? Does everyone in each of those kids' families need to get tested? Who pays for that?

• What if someone who lives in the same house as a teacher tests positive? Does that teacher now need to take 14 days off of work to quarantine? Is that time off covered? Paid?

• Where is the district going to find a substitute teacher who will work in a classroom full of exposed, possibly infected students for substitute pay?

• Substitutes teach in multiple schools. What if they are diagnosed with COVID-19? Do all the kids in each school now have to quarantine and get tested? Who is going to pay for that?

• What if a student in your kid's class tests positive? What if your kid tests positive? Does every other student and teacher they have been around quarantine? Do we all get notified who is infected and when? Or because of HIPAA regulations are parents and teachers just going to get mysterious “may have been in contact” emails all year long?

• What is this stress going to do to our teachers? How does it affect their health and well-being? How does it affect their ability to teach? How does it affect the quality of education they are able to provide? What is it going to do to our kids? What are the long-term effects of consistently being stressed out?

• How will it affect students and faculty when the first teacher in their school dies from this? The first parent of a student who brought it home? The first kid?

• How many more people are going to die, that otherwise would not have if we had stayed home longer?
30% of the teachers in the US are over 50. About 16% of the total deaths in the US are people between the ages of 45-65.

We are choosing to put our teachers in danger.

As I watched parents kiss their kindergarten children goodbye this morning and make sure they were safe beyond the gate...

I cannot help but think of Sandy Hook and feel the horror and the grief all over again.  It cannot be erased.

How safe are our schools?

How can we keep guns away?

Will we ever learn? What can we do to try and change?

Celebrating more of the Era of Stupid

How dumb are the Americans?  Are Republicans stupid?

The Reign of Morons.

Idiotic testing for eleven year old students.  Who the hell thinks up these questions?

Starting the Civil War all over again... or maybe trying to finish the last one...

Update 10/15:

Why people believe Fox News.

Why fundamentalists want the End of Times to happen.

I for one will never forget

Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Connecticut.


  Never.

The list of names

Of the school shooting.

Update:  What the teachers did.

School Shooting in Connecticut ..

Dear god, those poor little punkins.

Need voter ID quickly? Buy a gun.

So says Sarah Silverman: (NSFW)



via Steve Bates.

We need to spark the imagination of children...

Who will be our next generation of Neil deGrasse Tysons.



(Notice how he didn't talk down to the 7 year old?)

What do teachers make?

Update:  This video came from MoveOn:   Vote On The Top 5 Most Viral Progressive Videos and Graphics Of 2011

News worth not pulling your hair out

Zack is 17-year-old high school senior at Baton Rouge Magnet High School. What sets him apart from his peers – and why we’re making him this week’s Skeptical Ninja – is his tireless efforts in ridding creationism from Louisiana’s science classrooms.

He’s already won a victory. His efforts have helped convince the Louisiana’s Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to buy biology textbooks that accurately teach the theory of evolution, despite powerful forces on the opposing side.

The joys of teaching...

Encouraging words

From Nassim Nicholas Taleb. He "is an applied statistician and derivatives trader-turned-philosopher, and author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable."

America's primary export, it appears, is trial-and-error, and the innovative knowledge attained in such a way. Trial-and-error has error in it; and most top-down traditional rational and academic environments do not like the fallibility of "error" and the embarrassment of not quite knowing where they're going. The U.S. fosters entrepreneurs and creators, not exam-takers, bureaucrats or, worse, deluded economists. So the perceived weakness of the American pupil in conventional studies is where his or her very strength may lie. The American system of trial and error produces doers: Black Swan-hunting, dream-chasing entrepreneurs, with a tolerance for a certain class of risk-taking and for making plenty of small errors on the road to success or knowledge.

Thereby proving his point

In one.

Somehow the last election just can't be true...

Even though they told liberals to just shut up and get over the bizarre selection of George Bush. Clearly Obama is a foreign-born nazisocialistic islamofascist!

The Arlington Independent School District, which passed on airing President Barack Obama's live classroom address, has announced that some students will be bussed off campus to hear a message from former President George W. Bush on Sept. 21.