In preparation to transition,I ceded ownership of all . material goods and finances to the “oppressed”
Still consumed by White Privege, Fragility and Guilt”, I created a vegan cat ‘nine tails of bare, thorny dried rose branches dipped in muriatic acid with a trio of cactus arms.Though hardly equitable, I self flagellate 12 hrs.daily, bare-assed on a platform of white-hot coal.The coal in its natural ebony pigment is symbolic of the oppressed, the residual white ash seared into my skin represents my hateful white supremacy , atop the coal, reminiscent of the weight of oppression I wielded. Alas, I will forever be indebted.
Obama made it his mission today, to add fuel to the embers. This White right-wing conspiratorial rage I’m harboring, though without recollection of this systemic, embedded hateful racism.
Sayeth the spoiled, privileged prep schooled son of a Lily white birthing person , raised by doting, alabaster grandparents in a beachfront Hawaiian luxurious villa.
Without allowing for breathing time, the stuttering , vapid, pallid corpse took the mic. Launched into a screaming tirade to drive the message home.
When somebody finally is driven to react terribly, , which is the goal, it will be the game changer. Martial Law. And yes, I’m terrified.
I’m attempting to repent for my Original Sin and subsequent sins
1- Having been born
2-Surviving birth
3-Having been born white
4-Not acknowledging my racism, albeit I never before realized it and am still confused
5- Bearing two children and expanding my carbon footprint
6-Having the audacity to believe that a horrible adolescence under the iron fist of an abusive stepfather,after being thrown out of my home at 16 without a penny in hand, working 2 jobs to share expenses at a friend’s one bedroom crap apartment and managing to graduate high school in Miami, the most culturally, ethnically, racially diverse city , long past the strife being purposely reinvented today-I’m not claiming victimhood. Quite the opposite. It was a learning experience. Made me stronger and proud of achieving every milestone
7- Still alive 56 years later
Ergo, I am compelled to apologize, subjugate myself to every insult and punishment, genuflect to the altar of Government Is god, the WEF Great Reset is a gift to humankind and eating bugs, asset forfeiture, war, famine, fuel shortages, an illiterate, albeit sexually radicalized and racially segregated education curriculum , mandated lockdowns, mask mandates,unsafe mRNA vaccines are good for society as a collective whole, censorship and political persecution and prosecution is justice at its finest… and much deserved, violent recidivist crime perpetrated on innocent people is deserved and the perpetrators are the victims…. I’m still in the learning process, but will continue apologizing and punishing myself… until I’m human compost. And it will be good riddance for all the harm I’ve caused. By having been born
Ask almost any dedicated public school teacher how "education reform" has reverted the entire educational process back to its 18th-century roots where its purposes were the installation of only such reading and math skills as were required to perform work efficient and unquestioning obedience to authority. Which in our modern world also includes designated "experts".
I can speak to the educational reform in the sciences, since I teach that subject. If anything there has been a significant effort to increase critical thinking in students. Go back decades and most curricula didn't even have labs which enhance the student's thinking skills. Science if anything has moved beyond the rather authoritarian stance where the teacher simply is a source of information, along with the provided texts, which encouraged little if any exploration of the subject by students, on a number of levels. Now the teacher pretty much keeps her mouth shut. Liz I don't know why you perceive it this way, so maybe you could elucidate further on this issue.
Be happy to. Like too many people these days, you equate your personal experience in a particular location with the universal experience. It's not. In fact, I suspect you'd learn there aren't any such amenities in most schools in inner-city and poor rural school districts for the simple reason they lack the tax base to pay for them. For the record, my high school had an excellent science lab; it was built in 1960. There's also the point that the whole basis for "education reform" was that the US was falling behind in STEM, so failing to finance infrastructure to address that alleged problem would have given away the game. Finally, no one can learn true critical thinking skills if the only place it's tested is a single class. Critical thinking requires a solid knowledge base across the board, including history and literature, and that's not happening.
You make baseless sweeping generalizations, instead of presenting your argument with fact based information. Also let us know what your expertise in this field is. "Finally, no one can learn true critical thinking skills if the only place it's tested is a single class." I never said this.
My expertise is more than 50 years observing public education and listening to teachers and other educators as they've fought tooth and nail to get people to wake up to what's being done to their children in the name of "education reform". And having raised four kids in public schools, one of whom was smart enough at the age of 16 to see the scam for what it was and two who chose to be teachers. By the way, anyone who tries to play the "you aren't allowed to address this because you're not an expert in it" exposes an elitist sense of intellectual privilege with no basis in reality. As Edward de Bono said, "The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven".
Observer of education, for 50 years wow, and kids in school., and two teacher kids. I'm impressed, but it does not put you in any position to evaluate the science curriculum over time. Looked at your short bio and interesting everyone is entitled to your opinion, and I I guess people think you were being funny, but you were just telling it like it is.
Ah, I see. You're attempting to deflect the discussion. by moving the goalposts to make it appear I was criticizing the science curriculum. No, Fran, I am criticizing the fact that you assume the curriculum where you are is repeated in identical form nationally, when in fact what you describe is mainly available in Comfortable Class wealthy school districts and, furthermore, has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact general literacy—the ability to read above a 6th grade level—has declined to the point everyone should be outraged. Sorry, dear, your elitist privilege is showing, and calling me names won't change the truth. It's also the last refuge of those who have no real facts to support their opinions and resent it when someone else does. 🕊
Liz your commentary and responses are incapable of winning over anyone, since your tone is so arrogant and elitist, and I am truly sorry you are unaware of your shortcomings You project my dear. Not only did you read more into my statement which was a generalization about the science curriculum in the US. I certainly was not stating that all states, and all schools within any given state provide the same quality of education to it's students. Now stay away from me because I find you incredibly, well, arrogant and annoying my dear. In other words get over it.
Wow. If I were searching for a better example of Comfortable Class tone-monitoring and condescension, I couldn't do better than that. Only problem is, MY DEAR, I don't need to "win anyone over", because there are thousands of educators working in poor and minority school districts who have been saying precisely what I did for the last 40 decades.
You know there was someone else who responded to your post with "Bullshit", and I disagreed with her unkind response, but hey, things change. Her comment was right on target.
"Offer a variety of ways to demonstrate thinking and knowledge.
• Verbal Example: Show your thinking with words, pictures, symbols.
• Classroom Activity: Have students create TikTok videos, silent films, or cartoons about mathematical concepts or procedures.
• Professional Development: Practice with math colleagues how to answer mathematical problems without using words or numbers"
WTF?
From page 58:
"• Professional Development: Review all the ways that word problems and context show up in the curriculum. Limit or eliminate references to money, especially when transactional."
Oh yeah. Because nothing is more Empowering for the students than being sheltered from any exposure to the existence of the concept of Compound Interest. Much less learning the basic principles of how it's calculated.
"Ethnomathematics." Huh. And to think that all this time I've been under the impression that mathematical operations are entirely denotative, governed by universal principles expressed as Laws. But apparently the new arbiters of the STEM curriculum contend that there are no right or wrong answers, only "different" ones. And showing the work- the set of steps by which the solution to a math problem is achieved (or not achieved, thereby allowing the ability to pinpoint where a mistake was made, in order to correct it)- is to be dispensed with as an Unjust imposition. Especially since Ethnomathematics is now Centering "group participation" in math problem solving, rather than assessments of individual skills competency:
"White supremacy culture shows up in math classrooms when independent practice is valued over teamwork or collaboration.
While there is some value in students being able to complete work independently, when this is the only or most common avenue for learning or practicing, it reinforces individualism and the notion that I’m the only one. This does not give value to collectivism and community understanding, and fosters conditions for competition and individual success, which perpetuates the idea that if a student is failing it is because they are not trying hard enough or that they don’t care.
Instead: Co-construct knowledge in the classroom.
• Verbal Example: Let’s get into partners and do a think-pair-share. We will incorporate everyone’s ideas and try to synthesize them."
I have to admit: as a way to raise group math scores on standardized achievement tests, that approach does have its merits. If that's the only result that matters.
Who thinks that anything resembling this conceptual revolution in pedagogy, Ethnomathematics, is being taught in the math classes of schools in Barbados, or Ghana, or Bolivia, or Pakistan? Who thinks that the teachers and students in countries like those are just yearning for the lasting scholastic benefits of this revolutionary new paradigm?
The Emperor's New Clothes- it's not just for Monarchs any more! It's a Publicly Subsidized Outlet Franchise, for the Common People!
Such a deal: "They pretend to teach us, and we pretend to learn."
The crux of the problem lies with our “ elected representatives” who either are unable to articulate icogently, are too cowardly, don’t quite get it or are corrupt, complicit sadistic psychopaths. Or a combo platter.
I confess I enjoy giving a youngish person something like $1.01 to pay for a .76 item and they can't figure out the change without a computer to figure it out for them.
Sad indeed.
But they probably know, without a doubt that America is the home of systemic racism. Ugh
In preparation to transition,I ceded ownership of all . material goods and finances to the “oppressed”
Still consumed by White Privege, Fragility and Guilt”, I created a vegan cat ‘nine tails of bare, thorny dried rose branches dipped in muriatic acid with a trio of cactus arms.Though hardly equitable, I self flagellate 12 hrs.daily, bare-assed on a platform of white-hot coal.The coal in its natural ebony pigment is symbolic of the oppressed, the residual white ash seared into my skin represents my hateful white supremacy , atop the coal, reminiscent of the weight of oppression I wielded. Alas, I will forever be indebted.
Obama made it his mission today, to add fuel to the embers. This White right-wing conspiratorial rage I’m harboring, though without recollection of this systemic, embedded hateful racism.
Sayeth the spoiled, privileged prep schooled son of a Lily white birthing person , raised by doting, alabaster grandparents in a beachfront Hawaiian luxurious villa.
Without allowing for breathing time, the stuttering , vapid, pallid corpse took the mic. Launched into a screaming tirade to drive the message home.
When somebody finally is driven to react terribly, , which is the goal, it will be the game changer. Martial Law. And yes, I’m terrified.
I’m not certain what your message is, but I like your collection of words.
Jan - that figure you wanted me to translate was an image of Baby Yoda. Look at whole image on large screen.
I’m attempting to repent for my Original Sin and subsequent sins
1- Having been born
2-Surviving birth
3-Having been born white
4-Not acknowledging my racism, albeit I never before realized it and am still confused
5- Bearing two children and expanding my carbon footprint
6-Having the audacity to believe that a horrible adolescence under the iron fist of an abusive stepfather,after being thrown out of my home at 16 without a penny in hand, working 2 jobs to share expenses at a friend’s one bedroom crap apartment and managing to graduate high school in Miami, the most culturally, ethnically, racially diverse city , long past the strife being purposely reinvented today-I’m not claiming victimhood. Quite the opposite. It was a learning experience. Made me stronger and proud of achieving every milestone
7- Still alive 56 years later
Ergo, I am compelled to apologize, subjugate myself to every insult and punishment, genuflect to the altar of Government Is god, the WEF Great Reset is a gift to humankind and eating bugs, asset forfeiture, war, famine, fuel shortages, an illiterate, albeit sexually radicalized and racially segregated education curriculum , mandated lockdowns, mask mandates,unsafe mRNA vaccines are good for society as a collective whole, censorship and political persecution and prosecution is justice at its finest… and much deserved, violent recidivist crime perpetrated on innocent people is deserved and the perpetrators are the victims…. I’m still in the learning process, but will continue apologizing and punishing myself… until I’m human compost. And it will be good riddance for all the harm I’ve caused. By having been born
Congratulations for overcoming such adversity.
It must remind you daily that the human spirit, stronger for having worked so hard, is capable of almost anything if one has the will.
Ask almost any dedicated public school teacher how "education reform" has reverted the entire educational process back to its 18th-century roots where its purposes were the installation of only such reading and math skills as were required to perform work efficient and unquestioning obedience to authority. Which in our modern world also includes designated "experts".
I can speak to the educational reform in the sciences, since I teach that subject. If anything there has been a significant effort to increase critical thinking in students. Go back decades and most curricula didn't even have labs which enhance the student's thinking skills. Science if anything has moved beyond the rather authoritarian stance where the teacher simply is a source of information, along with the provided texts, which encouraged little if any exploration of the subject by students, on a number of levels. Now the teacher pretty much keeps her mouth shut. Liz I don't know why you perceive it this way, so maybe you could elucidate further on this issue.
Be happy to. Like too many people these days, you equate your personal experience in a particular location with the universal experience. It's not. In fact, I suspect you'd learn there aren't any such amenities in most schools in inner-city and poor rural school districts for the simple reason they lack the tax base to pay for them. For the record, my high school had an excellent science lab; it was built in 1960. There's also the point that the whole basis for "education reform" was that the US was falling behind in STEM, so failing to finance infrastructure to address that alleged problem would have given away the game. Finally, no one can learn true critical thinking skills if the only place it's tested is a single class. Critical thinking requires a solid knowledge base across the board, including history and literature, and that's not happening.
You make baseless sweeping generalizations, instead of presenting your argument with fact based information. Also let us know what your expertise in this field is. "Finally, no one can learn true critical thinking skills if the only place it's tested is a single class." I never said this.
My expertise is more than 50 years observing public education and listening to teachers and other educators as they've fought tooth and nail to get people to wake up to what's being done to their children in the name of "education reform". And having raised four kids in public schools, one of whom was smart enough at the age of 16 to see the scam for what it was and two who chose to be teachers. By the way, anyone who tries to play the "you aren't allowed to address this because you're not an expert in it" exposes an elitist sense of intellectual privilege with no basis in reality. As Edward de Bono said, "The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven".
Observer of education, for 50 years wow, and kids in school., and two teacher kids. I'm impressed, but it does not put you in any position to evaluate the science curriculum over time. Looked at your short bio and interesting everyone is entitled to your opinion, and I I guess people think you were being funny, but you were just telling it like it is.
Ah, I see. You're attempting to deflect the discussion. by moving the goalposts to make it appear I was criticizing the science curriculum. No, Fran, I am criticizing the fact that you assume the curriculum where you are is repeated in identical form nationally, when in fact what you describe is mainly available in Comfortable Class wealthy school districts and, furthermore, has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact general literacy—the ability to read above a 6th grade level—has declined to the point everyone should be outraged. Sorry, dear, your elitist privilege is showing, and calling me names won't change the truth. It's also the last refuge of those who have no real facts to support their opinions and resent it when someone else does. 🕊
Liz your commentary and responses are incapable of winning over anyone, since your tone is so arrogant and elitist, and I am truly sorry you are unaware of your shortcomings You project my dear. Not only did you read more into my statement which was a generalization about the science curriculum in the US. I certainly was not stating that all states, and all schools within any given state provide the same quality of education to it's students. Now stay away from me because I find you incredibly, well, arrogant and annoying my dear. In other words get over it.
Wow. If I were searching for a better example of Comfortable Class tone-monitoring and condescension, I couldn't do better than that. Only problem is, MY DEAR, I don't need to "win anyone over", because there are thousands of educators working in poor and minority school districts who have been saying precisely what I did for the last 40 decades.
You know there was someone else who responded to your post with "Bullshit", and I disagreed with her unkind response, but hey, things change. Her comment was right on target.
The Ethnomathematics part was extracted from here. We all are underestimating the level of insanity & indoctrination.
https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/1_STRIDE1.pdf
From page 56 of your link:
"Offer a variety of ways to demonstrate thinking and knowledge.
• Verbal Example: Show your thinking with words, pictures, symbols.
• Classroom Activity: Have students create TikTok videos, silent films, or cartoons about mathematical concepts or procedures.
• Professional Development: Practice with math colleagues how to answer mathematical problems without using words or numbers"
WTF?
From page 58:
"• Professional Development: Review all the ways that word problems and context show up in the curriculum. Limit or eliminate references to money, especially when transactional."
Oh yeah. Because nothing is more Empowering for the students than being sheltered from any exposure to the existence of the concept of Compound Interest. Much less learning the basic principles of how it's calculated.
"Ethnomathematics." Huh. And to think that all this time I've been under the impression that mathematical operations are entirely denotative, governed by universal principles expressed as Laws. But apparently the new arbiters of the STEM curriculum contend that there are no right or wrong answers, only "different" ones. And showing the work- the set of steps by which the solution to a math problem is achieved (or not achieved, thereby allowing the ability to pinpoint where a mistake was made, in order to correct it)- is to be dispensed with as an Unjust imposition. Especially since Ethnomathematics is now Centering "group participation" in math problem solving, rather than assessments of individual skills competency:
"White supremacy culture shows up in math classrooms when independent practice is valued over teamwork or collaboration.
While there is some value in students being able to complete work independently, when this is the only or most common avenue for learning or practicing, it reinforces individualism and the notion that I’m the only one. This does not give value to collectivism and community understanding, and fosters conditions for competition and individual success, which perpetuates the idea that if a student is failing it is because they are not trying hard enough or that they don’t care.
Instead: Co-construct knowledge in the classroom.
• Verbal Example: Let’s get into partners and do a think-pair-share. We will incorporate everyone’s ideas and try to synthesize them."
I have to admit: as a way to raise group math scores on standardized achievement tests, that approach does have its merits. If that's the only result that matters.
Who thinks that anything resembling this conceptual revolution in pedagogy, Ethnomathematics, is being taught in the math classes of schools in Barbados, or Ghana, or Bolivia, or Pakistan? Who thinks that the teachers and students in countries like those are just yearning for the lasting scholastic benefits of this revolutionary new paradigm?
The Emperor's New Clothes- it's not just for Monarchs any more! It's a Publicly Subsidized Outlet Franchise, for the Common People!
Such a deal: "They pretend to teach us, and we pretend to learn."
JFC!
The crux of the problem lies with our “ elected representatives” who either are unable to articulate icogently, are too cowardly, don’t quite get it or are corrupt, complicit sadistic psychopaths. Or a combo platter.
Where is this offered? Is it widespread? Is it a requirement for teaching certification?
Agree. Website won't allow me to leave a like.
I confess I enjoy giving a youngish person something like $1.01 to pay for a .76 item and they can't figure out the change without a computer to figure it out for them.
“youngish person.”
Careful grandpa—all that pawing for change in your pocket can only aggravate your rheumatoid arthritis…
Bullshit.
Did you read the article he linked?
Believe everything you read? Good to know.
It’s a good practice to open your mind to opposing opinions.
You may be surprised to learn something of value.
I'm an asshole not an "asshoe," thank you very much.
I don’t believe that.