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Due to staffing issues some of the largest hospital systems are relaxing their vaccine mandates. I'm surprised it has taken them this long to drop these seeing all the efforts to hire staff not working. The question is, is that the only issue keeping many healthcare workers on the sidelines though? I know staffing is a very real struggle in my area. It will be interesting to see if these changes change anything. And yes, there have been shortages before the pandemic but nothing like the shortages we are experiencing now.
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Seems to me the principal should be charged as well from what the prosecutor is saying about the case. The note that was on the shooter's desk was enough to justify searching his backpack. The police should have been called as well and he should not have been allowed to just return to class.
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21 hours ago, Dmmetler said:
#1-this is a clear violation of every PS teaching contract I've ever signed. It would equally be a violation if a science teacher praised the Rittenhouse jury. There are provisions in the contract for dismissing a teacher for this, and for pulling or flagging licenses, and the video/transcript would be reviewed, as well as interviews conducted with students in the room at the time. Even in courses where current events are on scope (or if this happened during a homeroom or other non-class period), it would be a requirement that the teacher NOT share their political views in most contracts. This is honestly one reason why I am very, very in favor of cameras in school settings. It protects both sides when something like this is alleged.
#2-this is not an example of CRT or, indeed, anything in the school science curriculum.
#3-this is irrelevant when it comes to laws that are affecting what is taught in history and literature classes and what books are shelved in school libraries.
No, it isn't CRT, meant to post under ML post about teacher's misuse of having a captive audience.
Correct, it has nothing to do with Science. And I completely agree with cameras in the classroom. That would put an end to most of these issues. I now see a positive for giving kids phones outside of emergency contact with parents and 911. I hope more parents will talk to their kids about videoing or at least recording these events in the classroom.
This happening in Seattle, I'm willing to bet absolutely nothing will happen to the teacher for this behavior.
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The Students for Socialism on the campus of Arizona State University protested his attendence at ASU because he's a "white supremacist". Professors have advised him to withdraw from his nondegree seeking online classes.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/arizona-state-university-students-protest-killer-kyle-rittenhouse
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So this happened during a science class in Seattle during a discussion on magnets. This teacher thinks he knows more than the jury that actually heard the Rittenhouse case. And as he had a captive audience he felt the need to spew his opinion, not for debate, but for indoctrination. When a student raised their hand he told them to put their hand down it was his turn.
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According to this report the parents were atthe school 2-3 hours before the shooting. If that's the case why the hell did the dad not go home and check to make sure the gun was secure? Yes, they need to be charged too.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-prosecutor-announces-charges-suspected-school-shooter
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14 minutes ago, Pam in CT said:
re content bans specifically limiting historically accurate history from being taught
One parent example complaining about Ruby:
- Tennessee's anti-CRT legislation, passed May 2021
- Parent complaint filed by Moms in June 2021 against the Commissioner of the state DOE, on which (middle of p. 2) four books that invoked distress in the named/redacted second-grader are named. One of the four: Ruby
- The court threw out the complaint on the basis that it was complained about conduct -- that is, including Ruby in a second-grade classroom -- that was legal at the time it occurred, as the anti-CRT bill was passed AFTER the offending books had been read. But the ruling made clear that it was based on this chronology, not the "merits" of whether the legislative ban would excise Ruby from the classroom going forward.
But more directly to the suppressive point, one legislative example complaining about Ruby:
- Texas' anti-CRT legislation passed last spring (see bottom of p. 5 about possible student distress)
- Texas legislator Matt Krause, chair of Committee on General Investigating, letter to superintendents demanding they provide the number of copies, and $ spent to purchase, any of an attached list of 850 books deemed to meet distress criteria (dated 10/25/21, demanding response by 11/12/21)
- The list of 850 books, which does, indeed include poor Ruby, along with a number of other historically accurate books aimed at older kids that I've personally read and can certainly vouch for.
Had they been teaching historically accurate history instead of the propaganda they got caught teaching on Zoom during the pandemic there would be no issues with any of this. The refusal by many on this board to acknowledge the propaganda being presented is the issue the majority of the parents are upset about is disingenuous at best. Every single time I mention these real complaints I am accused of "not wanting historically accurate history to be taught". No, I'm fine with history being taught factually. I am not ok with history or any other subject being taught to make one group or another to feel inferior or superior.
Asking for number of copies etc... does not equate to not being allowed to use these books.
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5 hours ago, KSera said:
This suggests that addressing the history of minorities in this country is an “extra” that isn’t part of the basics. Or would you advocate eliminating teaching any history at all?
Oh please! Pretending that the complaints about CRT/DEI are about not wanting historically accurate history to be taught is so much BS! Repeat a lie often enough and it will become the truth I guess is the plan here.
We have been over and over this and we have not seen one example where parents at school board meetings are complaining about this. They are complaining about the racializing of EVERYTHING and teaching kids to judge each other over their immutable characteristics be it race or sex. But carry on with pretending the whole uproar is about Ruby's book and teaching history. Meanwhile we are graduating kids that "feel heard", have established their pronouns, and their privlege ranking amongst their peers, with no hope of succeeding in college, technical school, or the job market.
The person in the OP was not at a school board meeting but rather making a FB posting. Who the heck cares about some clown's FB posts? That's a bit different than actually showing up at a school board meeting, signing up for a time to speak, and presenting his case.
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4 hours ago, Roadrunner said:
It’s obvious that the answer is fixing K-12 system and not pushing the problem down to colleges. Everybody benefits from this - kids, parents.
I don’t understand why a kid who isn’t functionally or numerically literate (to use your words) is getting a high school diploma.This. And again, why the push for spending time and money on CRT and DEI when they do not have the very BASICS to quailify for a high school diploma or to function in the work world? I guess it will be important for them to understand their privlege or their lack there of when they get out of high school with no marketable skills for college, tech school or work.
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If the only issue the school systems were trying to push is "teaching historically accurate history" we would not being having the issue of privlege walks etc. where they are purposefully dividing students by race. They would not be injecting race into every subject like math. We have seen this over and over.
We are a Black-Jewish woman, a Chinese woman, and a Jewish man of Middle Eastern descent. One might think we would celebrate this identity exercise in the name of "diversity." But nothing could be further from the truth. Such racially segregated groups are harmful to the participants' sense of self and highly divisive. Public schools in particular have no business holding them.
What's wrong with school-imposed racially segregated affinity groups?
First, the majority of segregated affinity groups are exercises in indoctrination. Racial affinity groups may differ, but the majority of them task kids with "owning" their level of "privilege" or "complicity," based on where they fall on a hierarchy of racial privilege.
Students of color are asked to examine their internalized racial inferiority. School officials pretend to know who has power and how much of it. Apparently, school officials are equipped with a special 23andMe radar that allows them to see how much power a student is endowed with!
While reflecting on one's own fortunes and showing gratitude are healthy human endeavors, telling people how much power they have based on their skin color or other any other immutable characteristic is, putting it charitably, an act of coercion. And it is opinion masquerading as fact. Many parents understandably do not want their children to go through such humiliation or indoctrination.
Second, these exercises force children to identify in ways that may be uncomfortable and inconsistent with their personal identities. What if a child chooses not to identify as a specific race? Who is the school to say that a child needs to be racialized at all?
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1 hour ago, historically accurate said:
The Ruby Bridges book, Ruby Bridges Goes to School, is not offensive - it's been labeled as CRT.
Oh right, I forgot about Ruby's book. Now there are two examples.
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Finally, something that is being "labeled as CRT" that is not offensive!
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10 hours ago, Syllieann said:
The judge disallowed the proud boys photo because the evidence available suggested he didn't know who they were and it just turned out the were in the same place and wanted a photo. I've only ever known that sign to mean anything other than ok and the same goes for every white person I discussed the symbol with. They looked really hard for race related stuff and didn't find any. I guess you could say the judge is just racist and lying about the evidence and the prosecutor is just racist and so pretended not to find anything.
The Democratic governor and mayor are the ones who did nothing while a majority poc neighborhood burned. A black woman with her kids were trapped in a burning apartment. Many of the businesses were minority-owned. The people in that neighborhood are no longer able to get the things they need without taking a bus to somewhere much farther. The business Rittenhouse was at was poc-owned. He was literally putting out fires set by white people to try to protect a poc owned business.
The only reason it might be surprising to you is because the media has gone out of their way to portray him as racist. You can't blame someone for letting a different media get some truth out when the other available media is just calling you a white supremacist.
I do hope he takes Nicholas Sandmann's advice and sues the crap out of all the MSM and politicians that slandered him and are continuing to do so.
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https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/my-university-sacrificed-ideas-for
Not written by Bari Weiss but rather Peter Boghossian
Peter Boghossian has taught philosophy at Portland State University for the past decade. In the letter below, sent this morning to the university’s provost, he explains why he is resigning.
Dear Provost Susan Jeffords,
I’m writing to you today to resign as assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University.
Over the last decade, it has been my privilege to teach at the university. My specialties are critical thinking, ethics and the Socratic method, and I teach classes like Science and Pseudoscience and The Philosophy of Education. But in addition to exploring classic philosophers and traditional texts, I’ve invited a wide range of guest lecturers to address my classes, from Flat-Earthers to Christian apologists to global climate skeptics to Occupy Wall Street advocates. I’m proud of my work.
I invited those speakers not because I agreed with their worldviews, but primarily because I didn’t. From those messy and difficult conversations, I’ve seen the best of what our students can achieve: questioning beliefs while respecting believers; staying even-tempered in challenging circumstances; and even changing their minds.
I never once believed — nor do I now — that the purpose of instruction was to lead my students to a particular conclusion. Rather, I sought to create the conditions for rigorous thought; to help them gain the tools to hunt and furrow for their own conclusions. This is why I became a teacher and why I love teaching.
But brick by brick, the university has made this kind of intellectual exploration impossible. It has transformed a bastion of free inquiry into a Social Justice factory whose only inputs were race, gender, and victimhood and whose only outputs were grievance and division.
Students at Portland State are not being taught to think. Rather, they are being trained to mimic the moral certainty of ideologues. Faculty and administrators have abdicated the university’s truth-seeking mission and instead drive intolerance of divergent beliefs and opinions. This has created a culture of offense where students are now afraid to speak openly and honestly.
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/we-cant-wait-for-universities-to
Also not written by Bari Weiss but rather Pano Kanelos
So much is broken in America. But higher education might be the most fractured institution of all.
There is a gaping chasm between the promise and the reality of higher education. Yale’s motto is Lux et Veritas, light and truth. Harvard proclaims: Veritas. Young men and women of Stanford are told Die Luft der Freiheit weht: The wind of freedom blows.
These are soaring words. But in these top schools, and in so many others, can we actually claim that the pursuit of truth—once the central purpose of a university—remains the highest virtue? Do we honestly believe that the crucial means to that end—freedom of inquiry and civil discourse—prevail when illiberalism has become a pervasive feature of campus life?
The numbers tell the story as well as any anecdote you’ve read in the headlines or heard within your own circles. Nearly a quarter of American academics in the social sciences or humanities endorse ousting a colleague for having a wrong opinion about hot-button issues such as immigration or gender differences. Over a third of conservative academics and PhD students say they had been threatened with disciplinary action for their views. Four out of five American PhD students are willing to discriminate against right-leaning scholars, according to a report by the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.
The picture among undergraduates is even bleaker. In Heterodox Academy’s 2020 Campus Expression Survey, 62% of sampled college students agreed that the climate on their campus prevented students from saying things they believe. Nearly 70% of students favor reporting professors if the professor says something students find offensive, according to a Challey Institute for Global Innovation survey. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education reports at least 491 disinvitation campaigns since 2000. Roughly half were successful.
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16 hours ago, goldberry said:
I'm not sure what's you are saying is wrong with this? People making actual threats should be tracked. If they are not making threats, they should not be tracked.
As was pointed out in the original article that started this thread, there was no evidence of any real threats.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/10/07/school-boards-dont-call-fbi/6035611001/
More recently there was this guy threatening parents at a school board meeting. Maybe the DOJ is tracking him?
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On 11/7/2021 at 7:33 PM, Idalou said:
What is your definition of woke? It's not a word people really use anymore unless as an accusation. But I think you use it often.
So much this!
Sadly, Bill hasn't woken up to the fact the DNC has left him and many others behind. I love that they continue to believe that college educated WW will continue to vote for them. I know quite a few that are now fully awake and not interested in continuing to vote for the DNC.
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3 hours ago, Roadrunner said:
People with PHDs in education here are what I call “cult think.” I run far away from them. This news doesn’t surprise me at all.
I have a kid in PS now and while there has been no focus on race so far (I think it’s coming next semester), his English class has been all about indoctrination into socialism. He writes papers not believing a word he says but tells me objecting to anything is futile and will cost him a grade. So we now hold dramatized readings with popcorn of his writing at home, sort of like a comedy club.The problem is not saying anything is exactly what they are counting on. This having to play the game will continue for your child all the way through college. No one should have to pretend to believe or to endorse theories or beliefs they do not share just appease some teacher/professor to get a good grade.
From the article:
If you want to bring a new world into existence, it seems—a good place to start is with other people’s kids.
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15 hours ago, Melissa Louise said:
https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/how-activist-teachers-recruit-kids
This is fucking infuriating to read. LBGT students aren't pets to be used in teachers' activism.
These type of clubs need to be student initiated and run, with a teacher playing a supporting role.
If your lesbian or gay or trans students would rather lunch with their friends, fucking leave them alone!
These teachers need to hauled into further education. They are beyond ignorant and they are bringing the profession into disrepute.
Agreed, except I think it is likely that this is being taught in "Education" departments across the country for implementing DEI. So I doubt there's much further education being taught or offered other than how to be more deceptive next time so as to not be found out by the parents.
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Citing an internal email provided by an FBI whistleblower, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee revealed Tuesday that the Bureau has created a system to track threats against school board officials and administrators, and accused Attorney General Merrick Garland of misleading lawmakers when he was asked about the subject during his previous testimony before the committee.
The FBI’s “Counterterrorism and Criminal Divisions created a threat tag, EDUOFFICIALS, to track instances of related threats,” according to the email. “The purpose of the threat tag is to help scope this threat on a national level and provide an opportunity for comprehensive analysis of the threat picture for effective engagement with law enforcement.”
The email was signed by Counterterrorism Division assistant director Timothy Langan, and former Criminal Division assistant director Calvin Shivers, who retired earlier this month.
The MSM has largely ignored the whistleblower story.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/abc-cbs-nbc-cnn-skip-doj-whistleblower-threat-tag
And then there's this.
https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/how-activist-teachers-recruit-kids
Incensed parents now make news almost daily, objecting to radical material taught in their children’s public schools. But little insight has been provided into the mindset and tactics of activist teachers themselves. That may now be changing, thanks to leaked audio from a meeting of California’s largest teacher’s union.
Last month, the California Teachers Association (CTA) held a conference advising teachers on best practices for subverting parents, conservative communities and school principals on issues of gender identity and sexual orientation. Speakers went so far as to tout their surveillance of students’ Google searches, internet activity, and hallway conversations in order to target sixth graders for personal invitations to LGBTQ clubs, while actively concealing these clubs’ membership rolls from participants’ parents.
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Jury has reached a verdict. Not guilty all charges.
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The prosecution purposefully provided the defense with low quality drone video of one of the encounters and withheld other evidence as well. You can see both the prosecutions drone video and the video they provided to the defense in this video from Tucker Carlson's show which is were the video originated.
MSNBC was banned from the courthouse for the remainder of the trail for following the jury bus yesterday.
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7 hours ago, Melissa Louise said:
You know no-one will read Bari! 😂
There are a few good non-Bari articles out there.
Lots of misinfo floating around.
That's fine. I was in a huge hurry and had just read Bari's take when I read Scarlett's post.
I really hadn't followed the KR case until I saw a little of the trial. I had heard all the same misinformation spoken about here. It is amazing how wrong (intentionally lying) the media had been about this case from the jump.
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https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-medias-verdict-on-kyle-rittenhouse
And yes, it is written by Bari Weiss.
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Some hospital systems are dropping the vaccine mandates
in The Chat Board
Posted · Edited by Fritz
Perhaps you misread my post. I made no statement about it being about mask mandates. As I said, it will be interesting to see if the dropped vaccine mandates make any real difference in staffing. As I predicted long ago, most that asked for exemptions were given exemptions anyway.
By the way, I am a nurse, and am more than a little familiar with the issues in nursing. They existed prepandemic as well.