Ok, I don't look at the full image and just saw the blurb at the top about Maya Angelou and was wondering what was controversial about it. So it was something from a website, well most of this stuff would be taught from textbooks, wouldn't it. They don't fund schools well enough to even buy textbooks? Lol, I'd believe it. And also I have no idea if any of these documents are legit. It's not a deep fake because a picture of a page on twitter isn't even a *deep* fake.
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I’m still looking for an example from an actual textbook under consideration for adoption.
So should I assume your "insane racist" response is just a knee jerk reaction?Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
that's fair enough for a response to this post. I reacted without reading the full post.So should I assume your "insane racist" response is just a knee jerk reaction?
I still have no particular reason to believe that happened or did not happen. The evidence seems to be: twitter. I mean look anyone with a printer could make a fake exam and take a picture of it. But if teachers are having to download exams from random online websites, why? Can't afford textbooks? If such a teacher exists I wonder what they would say, like maybe we have no textbooks or something. And the thing is some rando (teacher) did something somewhere is on it's face believable. I'm sure some rando somewhere did everything it's physically possible for a human to do. But that doesn't mean it's anything larger or that new laws are needed to deal with it.
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I'm like the superintendent and don't consider this "woke" material, but inappropriate material. What you posted was inappropriate material, was determined to be just that by the superintendent and was address.
Maybe I have a different take and/or understanding of "woke", but the material you posted - in my and the superintendent of schools opinion - was inappropriate. Woke or not - it was inappropriate and handled as such.
As I stated before, bad stuff is out there no doubt about it. But I think it is great that - when identified - it is being addressed and removed.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer." Mahatma Gandhi
Be nice whenever possible. It's always possible. HH Dalai Lama
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I mean, with presumably dozens of physical textbooks being rejected, there are some good examples available from specific published titles?
This algebra worksheet with social science information about Maya Angelou is BOTH woke education and inappropriate. If you think there are not things like this circulating all over the education world, you are naïve. It’s just the sort of thing young enthusiastic teachers want to invent or use to “speak “to their students in their real world language.
https://clarkcreativeeducation.com/2...math-projects/
The author of the work sheet hilariously defends it saying he wanted to “destigmatize sexual trafficking… And deromanticize words like “pimp. “ He did remove the work sheet 8 years ago though because he thought others could not use it effectively without the context he had in his teaching environment. Now he laments the fact that everything is so “political” which does not make a receptive environment for his thought piece on algebra and The pimps ‘n whores world of young Maya Angelou.
He made 300 of these things. Gosh I wonder what else he included to de romanticize and destigmatize life concepts?
Things like this are the reason why I am sympathetic to people who pull their kids out of public school and look for a better alternative. I didn’t used to be, but with this kind of crap I can see their reasoning.
... is a worksheet, not a textbook and presumably not part of the approved curriculum.
Where are these problematic textbooks that Florida is so concerned about?
I don’t know bae, you’re the one scanning news saying that 41% of textbooks are reported as being removed. Why don’t you do a deep dive and come back with some information.
There doesn't seem to be any out there. Just the bold claims from the Florida folks.
On edit: I just came across this spoof from McSweeney's:
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/...-objectionable
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