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Post by robeiae on Feb 15, 2021 18:07:03 GMT -5
Lol, I meant middle schools.
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Post by robeiae on Feb 17, 2021 9:53:13 GMT -5
Hilarious:
The admin is so in the pocket of teachers' unions, it's scary.
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Post by robeiae on Feb 21, 2021 9:44:16 GMT -5
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Post by robeiae on Feb 25, 2021 8:39:21 GMT -5
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Post by Optimus on Feb 25, 2021 14:50:11 GMT -5
If/when I ever have kids, they're definitely going to private school where I can make sure they don't get indoctrinated with the neoracist CRT bullshit. Apparently math is now racist, too: mises.org/wire/math-racist-does-not-compute
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Post by robeiae on Feb 27, 2021 8:53:22 GMT -5
The House Dems have passed the new Covid Relief Bill, with $i.9 trillion in spending. I'm noting it here because of this: This is--in my view--a wide-open and useless giveaway, especially since the bill also $350 billion in general state aid. If school districts need some help with their budgets because of Covid, the money should come from the states, not the Feds. There are no specific and isolated circumstances at particular school districts--like, for instance, wanton destruction from a hurricane or tornado--that warrant this. It's just a way for the feds to exercise more top-down control over the districts, because we all know that they'll be strings here and that some districts will get more than others. And as I have noted in this thread, Florida--one of the largest states in the country--has successfully reopened most of its schools with minimal help from the Feds (which is as it should be, imo).
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Post by robeiae on Feb 27, 2021 9:17:48 GMT -5
Here's a yummy piece on what Fed involvement has done to the education system, from a teacher standpoint: taibbi.substack.com/p/student-loan-horror-when-you-thinkThe piece goes on to detail the stupidity of the DOE Public Service Forgiveness Program: One can point to DeVos, I guess, as the teachers' unions are doing, but this is all very much a consequence of Fed involvement in education and education loans, of a lack of clarity and consistency of such involvement over time, and of people actually being gullible enough to believe government shylocks.
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Post by robeiae on Feb 27, 2021 12:07:05 GMT -5
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Post by robeiae on Mar 1, 2021 21:31:43 GMT -5
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Post by robeiae on Mar 2, 2021 12:15:30 GMT -5
LA teachers union slams California schools plan as 'propagating structural racism'It's a really bad sign when people supposedly opposed to "structural racism" are doing nothing but ensuring that there is structural racism. The children of white wealthy parents--along with the children of Asian, Hispanic, and black wealthy parents--aren't the ones whose academic skills are regressing horribly during these school closures. Once again, California's teachers' union demonstrates that it doesn't care a whit for the students in California.
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Post by robeiae on Mar 3, 2021 10:09:10 GMT -5
What the...*shakes head*... All these kids trapped in blue States--sorry for saying it that way, but it is what it is--are fucked. Their districts are going to happily shirk their duties and let the Feds take point on reopening, meaning it will take longer to accomplish, money will be wasted, and the teachers' unions will get their colllective asses kissed by the media, all while the kids continue to suffer, especially the kids of families in the lower income groups. But hey, the Secretary of Education initiated a five point plan.I'm sure Mao would be proud.
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Post by Optimus on Mar 3, 2021 13:57:39 GMT -5
I don't really see anything wrong with what he's proposing. They're basically just gonna come up with a "plan," which is all these people really spend their time doing. It's the appearance of action that's important to politicians, not actual action. And, local and state school boards don't have to listen to whatever the proposed "solutions" are when they finally come out. I didn't read any critical theory neoracist bullshit in what he said, so as long as they don't tie federal funding to whether or not state/local school boards fully adhere to the final plan, I don't really have a problem with it.
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Post by robeiae on Mar 3, 2021 16:51:18 GMT -5
My problem with it is that I think most districts know what to do in order to reopen. The CDC has put out all kinds of guidelines in this regard. And they are the experts. Holding another summit is totally unnecessary, a waste of resources and time. And look at point three. He want's to get to work preparing a handbook to help students with their mental health. Great. But all of the experts are already saying that it's the school lockdowns impacting this; that's a problem that can be addressed right now.
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Post by Optimus on Mar 3, 2021 18:50:49 GMT -5
You "think" that most districts know what to do in order to re-open? On what evidence do you base that claim? In most cases, school boards can barely distinguish their asses from holes in the ground. There's plenty of evidence to refute you and very little that I'm aware of to support it. State and local school boards are generally run by grievously unqualified yokels who constantly trip over themselves by trying to infect public education with their pet religious and political ideologies. They are egregiously incompetent and one doesn't have to look far to find many prime examples of that: 1) San Francisco's Unified school district board is probably the most recent and well-known example of a steaming pile of shit masquerading as an educational authority, with their multiple examples of ideologically-driven intellectual and moral bankruptcy that's currently being sued by their own city because they still can't get it together enough to open. 2) Another California school board (near San Fran, coincidentally) that had to step down en masse for unintentionally revealing their true colors when they were caught talking shit on Zoom about students and parents. 3) The Texas state board of education is literally re-writing history, again, in textbooks which will affect students nationwide. 4) A NC school board voting to infect public social studies education with critical race theory bullshit. 5) Buffalo school boards OKing teaching kids that white people are all racist trash. 6) New York City schools basically doing the same. 7) Actual woke racist and New York City public school chancellor, Richard Carranza, who bullied older white teachers and staff with his neoracist garbage ideology (which trickled down to schools, see #6) is at least finally stepping down, but I have little faith that his replacement will be much better. Carranza likely did more damage to NY public education in his brief 3 year tenure than has been done in the past 30 years. 8) Can't forget about that time that a local Kansas school board nearly banned the teaching of evolution in favor of religious fairytales (yes, this happened in the 21st century). I could go on but I think I've made my point. These are the types of people you trust to follow CDC guidelines and come up with sound plans to reopen schools that will safeguard the health and well-being of teachers and students? Seriously? State and local school boards are largely incompetent and generally have no expertise in anything (except being incompetent), often tend to make education worse due to the very fact that they are run by dipshit locals, and have no better knowledge of how best to do anything, including reopening, than the federal government would. Your faith in state/local school boards' ability to make good/competent decisions (which you've expressed elsewhere before) is not something that I believe to be rooted in reality.
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Post by robeiae on Mar 3, 2021 19:24:12 GMT -5
I have zero faith that nationwide directives are the way to approach this.
Regardless, the Feds really have no authority to mandate when and how districts choose to reopen. Hashing out yet another series of bullet points for a powerpoint presentation or to fill up an online PDF is just a waste of time and resources, imo.
Miami-Dade's reopening plan hasn't been perfect, but it's worked, imo. And I don't think there's anything special about the people running the district down here. Indeed, they're more likely to do some of the things you detailed above than they are to do something really smart. I think I detailed their stupidity in the Covid thread, where essentially they spent oodles of money for a remote learning system that failed spectacularly, when all they had to do was use Zoom.
But here's the thing: the district fashioned a reopening plan based on what the CDC put out there. Then the specific school admins had to implement the in-person stuff with teacher, parent, and student input. The school board and the district's upper echelon administration gets effectively removed from the equation.
This is an approach that tends to work, in my experience. Perhaps I should have expanded on this, earlier.
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