NewEnglandRedshirt @ NewEnglandRedshirt @lemmy.world

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I love how you truncated my quote so you ignored "other sources of inequality." Because even if the other things had been fixed ("getting better" doesn't mean fixed), there's still nothing I can do to solve the social and economic inequality facing my students.

For starters, recognizing that most of the problems our students face cannot be solved by schools, no matter how much money we throw at them? We need our entire society to change. As a teacher, there is literally nothing I can do about the poverty, racism, access to Healthcare, or other sources of inequality outside the school. Society as a whole needs to change first.

Douglas! Get your squirrel out of my tree! He's stealing all my nuts again!

Me neither, but I wood do it again.

"Uhhh... Ken? What exactly did you want me to do here?"

Social studies teacher here. You know why we don't teach the "classical" education model anymore? Because it relies on memorization and lacks any real critical thinking or analysis. It whitewashes history and devalues the contributions of anyone outside the white, European mainstream.

Just looking at the available sample questions for the grade 8 test, there is no real analysis beyond simple textual understanding ("what it says in the text"). There are no sample questions that actually require a student to write. The writing questions are almost entirely correcting grammatical mistakes. On a complexity scale, there are generally 4 "levels" of questions, with 4 being the most complex, which typically would require an essay response. None of the questions asked go above a complexity of level 2.

And don't get me started on the inherent biases of the texts chosen. The "literature," "historical/founding documents" and "philosophy/religion" texts chosen are all by dead white men: Kipling, Plato, Cicero, Jefferson, Kempis, Eisenhower. The only author who wasn't a dead white man is a dead white woman: George Eliot.

Both science passages have to do with modern medicine, the contents of which are far from controversial: antivenom and cardiovascular health. That isn't to say that there is anything wrong with this, but again, there is nothing that even allows for critical analysis here.

So... yeah... definitely glad I'm not in Florida

Sorry

I don't know how much of it was actually written in prison versus after his release, but the Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Is it bad that I was going to mention that one too? Except I would have referred to him as a failed painter. "Austrian Corporal" indicates that he may have been mildly successful at some point.

Easy there, Edgelord.

I may be wrong, but you can tell that this isn't in the US because the doors actually seem to go all the way to the floor.

Why even bother with a dream? "As soon as your hand touches the chair, everyone in the room is flung into a parallel dimension, each of your consciousnesses replacing the consciousness of the previous host, Quantum Leap-style. You are all sitting in a high school cafeteria on folding metal chairs...."

Then find a way to tell the players that you all need to somehow get the low-INT barbarian inhabiting Karen's body elected PTA president before their consciousnesses can be returned to their original bodies.

It's like when someone tells me something is unbreakable. It becomes my mission to come up with a way of breaking it.

I don't care if this is satire. No bad word should ever be spoken or written about Bandit Heeler.

So why male models?

OH MY GOD YOUR MOTHER IS RIGHT BEHIND YOU!

"Only the Dark Side has the power to have you do a 360 on the swing!"

See, this is why I tried to say that it was only one person's opinion, one I found interesting. I never meant for it to mean that I thought the invasion was justified, or that one person's opinion should invalidate all the other opinions or statistics out there.

Anyway, this person came to the US to go to college and decided to stay. She married an American, and she was a US citizen long before the invasion of Crimea. She is ethnically Russian, and she still has family in Russia. She was in favor of the Russian invasion of Crimea because of that.

I can't really speak too much more about her feelings because it isn't a topic I discuss with her very often.

With posts like this, you can never quite tell if it's real or fake...