Electing an "equity focused board member" probably means changing (dumbing down) curriculum and/or grading scales in order to achieve equal outcomes. In other words, by inflating grades without achieving any improvement in actual learning of useful information. This happened in my children's school district when a DEI hire was put in as Superintendent. He then hired even more DEIs to replace far more compentent retirees. The result was that over 10 years there was a drastic decline in academic achievement a
California is all-in on imposing the exact same identitarian based equity this school board study tries to tout, yet it’s an all around debacle. It’s plummeted in the national NAEP state rankings, especially in classically underserved demographics, and its colleges are surging remedial classes - 25 percent of whose students got straight As in K-12 math.
What’s going on? Maybe, just maybe, discarding blind justice, standardized testing, long proven teaching methods, and empiricism, then repl
...have known this for a long time. They've slowly ingrained themselves in school and library boards, banning books, forcing education changes in the US. And now we see the results: a largely uneducated and complacent populace, which votes against their own interest, but as long as Jeeeesus is here, all is great again.
Evangelicals and right-wing Republicans have focused on three targets over the last few decades: school boards, state legislatures, and federal judges. The school boards control education, and the Republicans recognize, just like Lenin, that indoctrination of young people has inertia that lasts for a generation. State legislatures control voting maps and direct and indirect methods to exclude undesirable voters. Federal judges are lifetime appointments, and it takes a lifetime to reverse the entrenched
...have known this for a long time. They've slowly ingrained themselves in school and library boards, banning books, forcing education changes in the US. And now we see the results: a largely uneducated and complacent populace, which votes against their own interest, but as long as Jeeeesus is here, all is great again.
Do you believe in the principles of democracy, or are you a paternalistic Patrician who wants everyone everywhere to follow your NSH opinions?
The word "ban" has been so completely distorted by political gamesmanship that it no longer means anything. Choosing not to purchase or keep an existing book in your collection is not "banning" that book any more than me choosing not to watch FoxNews or choosing not to keep a Bible left on my doorstep by missionaries is "banning" FoxNews and the Bible.
California is all-in on imposing the exact same identitarian based equity this school board study tries to tout, yet it’s an all around debacle. It’s plummeted in the national NAEP state rankings, especially in classically underserved demographics, and its colleges are surging remedial classes - 25 percent of whose students got straight As in K-12 math.
What’s going on? Maybe, just maybe, discarding blind justice, standardized testing, long proven teaching methods, and empiricism, then repl
...have known this for a long time. They've slowly ingrained themselves in school and library boards, banning books, forcing education changes in the US. And now we see the results: a largely uneducated and complacent populace, which votes against their own interest, but as long as Jeeeesus is here, all is great again.
Evangelicals and right-wing Republicans have focused on three targets over the last few decades: school boards, state legislatures, and federal judges. The school boards control education, and the Republicans recognize, just like Lenin, that indoctrination of young people has inertia that lasts for a generation. State legislatures control voting maps and direct and indirect methods to exclude undesirable voters. Federal judges are lifetime appointments, and it takes a lifetime to reverse the entrenched
...have known this for a long time. They've slowly ingrained themselves in school and library boards, banning books, forcing education changes in the US. And now we see the results: a largely uneducated and complacent populace, which votes against their own interest, but as long as Jeeeesus is here, all is great again.
Do you believe in the principles of democracy, or are you a paternalistic Patrician who wants everyone everywhere to follow your NSH opinions?
The word "ban" has been so completely distorted by political gamesmanship that it no longer means anything. Choosing not to purchase or keep an existing book in your collection is not "banning" that book any more than me choosing not to watch FoxNews or choosing not to keep a Bible left on my doorstep by missionaries is "banning" FoxNews and the Bible.
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