Education thread

[.Oomba.]

A buddy of mine in high school had a relationship with a thirty something.

We all thought he was a hero.

Who says you and Solar have nothing in common?

#adolescence

[GoCubsGo]

A buddy of mine in high school had a relationship with a thirty something.

We all thought he was a hero.

Who says you and Solar have nothing in common?

#adolescence

Hormones are pretty much universal.

[Vrede too]

A buddy of mine in high school had a relationship with a thirty something.

We all thought he was a hero.

Who says you and Solar have nothing in common?

#adolescence

Are you sure that Solar made it past being a tween?

[Vrede too]

Academic freedom and the 1A, gone in one miserable Spring:

THIS university took away a student’s diploma over pro-Palestinian grad speech. Here’s what he said

New York University said that it withheld a student’s diploma after he condemned “genocide” in Gaza in his graduation speech on Wednesday (May 15), calling it a violation of the student’s commitment to comply with school rules.

Logan Rozos told the crowd during his speech, “As I search my heart today in addressing you all … the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine.”

Following this, the NYU spokesperson John Beckman accused Rozos of lying about what he planned to say in his address to “express his personal and one-sided political views”. He added that the student’s diploma would be withheld as NYU seeks disciplinary action against him.

... NYU said it “strongly denounces” and was “deeply sorry” for comments made by Rozos. “This moment was stolen by someone who abused a privilege that was conferred upon him,” the university added.

What did Logan Rozos say in his speech?

... “The genocide currently occurring is supported politically and military by the United States, is paid for by our tax dollars and has been live-streamed to our phones,” he said.

“I condemn this genocide and complicity in this genocide,” he added, without specifically mentioning Israel.

All true. Truth is gone in this miserable Spring, too.

... NYU is among the 10 universities that are being investigated by US President Donald Trump’s antisemitism task force.

Jackboot lackeys for Israeli RWers.

[O Really]

Where has this Republican zeal for protecting ethnic minorities been hiding in the 60 years since the CRA?

[Vrede too]

Where has this Republican zeal for protecting ethnic minorities been hiding in the 60 years since the CRA?

If the minority is White and RW the GQP bravely steps up.

US State Department orders embassies to resume processing Harvard student visas

The US State Department ordered diplomatic posts around the world to “resume processing” of Harvard University student and exchange visitor visas on Friday after a judge halted President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to block international students from coming to the institution.

The new guidance replaced one that posts had received earlier that same week – calling on them to refuse visa applicants for students and researchers going to Harvard – due to the temporary restraining order (TRO) issued by US District Judge Allison Burroughs.

“Effective immediately, consular sections must resume processing of Harvard University student and exchange visitor visas,” the cable states, adding that “no such applications should be refused” as the presidential proclamation had ordered.

The cable was signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio....

I guess this won't be the case for a constitutional crisis. Nor was KAG in the end.

[1 CAT FAN]

A buddy of mine in high school had a relationship with a thirty something.

We all thought he was a hero.

Who says you and Solar have nothing in common?

#adolescence

Are you sure that Solar made it past being a tween?

Is it too late for you to educate him how to be a "Rainbow"?

[Vrede too]

North Carolina sues federal officials over $6.8 billion freeze in education funding

Twenty-Five states, including North Carolina, are suing the Secretary of Education, Director of the Office of Management and Budget and President Donald Trump, for freezing more than $6.8 billion in congressionally appropriated education funding. North Carolina would be short $165 million which could cost nearly 1,000 education jobs.

“Congress had appropriated the funds, had approved the funds, to come to the districts across the state including Helene districts and now you have some federal government officials who have decided to simply, at the very last minute, decided to withhold those dollars,” North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction Mo Green said.

Democrat

... According to Attorney General Jeff Jackson's office, if the promised funding is not delivered it would cut the state's federal funding by 10%....

North Carolina's public education funding is already near the bottom nationally and if these funds remain frozen Green said some schools will have to increase class size or cut professional development opportunities.

After-school and English learning programs could also be impacted.

“The Department of Education just does not have the authority to say, 'well we’ve decided that we’re not going to hand out those funds,' that is against the law,” Jackson said. “These are congressionally created programs, congressionally funded and if that money goes away for a lot of these programs North Carolina, our schools, we still have an obligation to do the work. They’re just going to have to find that money by making cuts in other areas, that’s why this doesn’t make sense from any angle.”

Jackson cited 10 laws broken in the lawsuit.

In the meantime, $6.8 billion remains frozen as districts across the country ready to return to the classroom.

Green and Jackson, both Democrats, believe this should not be a partisan issue.

"This is a commitment issue and a failure to honor a commitment,” Green said.

MAGA hates kids and Congress.

[GoCubsGo]

MAGA hates kids and Congress.

And the Constitution.

[Vrede too]

MAGA hates kids and Congress.

And the Constitution.

MAGA loves the wackadoodle version of the Constitution this SCOTUS refers to. Radio news said that Dementia Don is 15 for 15 in its "emergency" requests. I thought it had lost a couple.

[Vrede too]

It wasn't very long ago that I read something his (Trump) nephew related regarding the medical expenses of his (the nephew's) mentally ill son. The babbling moron cult leader told his nephew that "your son doesn't even recognize you" as a reason to deny additional medical expense. The cult leader just wanted his nephew to institutionalize the boy and be rid of him. The cult gushed in awe at this show of strength.

Should have institutionalized Dementia Don long ago.


South central Tennessee:

Superintendent Banning Doctor's Notes Follows Fringe MAGA Culture War Account
Michael Adkins of Lawrence County Schools refuses to allow student sick days

Lawrence County Director of Schools Michael Adkins is under fire for a new policy that rejects doctor’s notes as valid excuses for student absences. The rule, which only allows waivers for a narrow set of circumstances like chronic illness (verified by a Tennessee-licensed provider), legal obligations, or family deaths, has been criticized by local parents.

I thought MAGAts supported parental rights.

... Critics argue the policy pressures families to send sick children to school, risking wider public health issues....

Michael Adkins = modern Typhoid Mary

[neoplacebo]

It wasn't very long ago that I read something his (Trump) nephew related regarding the medical expenses of his (the nephew's) mentally ill son. The babbling moron cult leader told his nephew that "your son doesn't even recognize you" as a reason to deny additional medical expense. The cult leader just wanted his nephew to institutionalize the boy and be rid of him. The cult gushed in awe at this show of strength.

Should have institutionalized Dementia Don long ago.


South central Tennessee:

Superintendent Banning Doctor's Notes Follows Fringe MAGA Culture War Account
Michael Adkins of Lawrence County Schools refuses to allow student sick days

Lawrence County Director of Schools Michael Adkins is under fire for a new policy that rejects doctor’s notes as valid excuses for student absences. The rule, which only allows waivers for a narrow set of circumstances like chronic illness (verified by a Tennessee-licensed provider), legal obligations, or family deaths, has been criticized by local parents.

I thought MAGAts supported parental rights.

... Critics argue the policy pressures families to send sick children to school, risking wider public health issues....

Michael Adkins = modern Typhoid Mary

Makes me wish I had a kid enrolled in that school system. I'd give the kid a note saying he missed school because he was sick. I'd sign it Dr. Anthony Fauci.

[O Really]

So I never got any notes from home. It was my job to explain my absence and be believed. On one occasion I was out for some minor condition and the teacher wanted a note from home. My pop wouldn't do it. Said it wasn't necessary, but he'd go visit the teacher. Teacher said she needed a note concerning my absence. Pop asked her what I had told her. She said I had said I was sick. Pop says, well, you've got your reason, why do you need a note from me? Teacher says it's policy. Pop says, have you ever met me before? No. Have we ever spoken? No. Would you recognize me if you saw me on the street. No, not before today. But you know my son, your student, right? Yes. You see him every day? He participates in your class? Yes. Has he ever lied to you? Not that I know of. So you'd rather take the word of a perfect stranger who you've never met instead of the word of your student who you know well and see every day? The note requirement got waived and I learned a lesson in self-reliance and dealing with authority.

[Vrede too]

Yet another detestable assault on the 1A. MAGA despises our Constitution and freedom of thought:

Oklahoma will require teachers from NY, CA to prove they back 'America First'

Teachers from California and New York who want to work in Oklahoma public schools will be required to pass a certification test to prove they share the state's conservative political values.

Regardless of the subject or grade they teach, they'll have to show they know "the biological differences between females and males" and that they agree with the state's American history standards, which includes elements of a conspiracy theory that the Democratic Party stole the 2020 presidential election from President Donald Trump, which fact checkers have said are false.

The state Department of Education will implement the new certification test for teachers from the two largest Democrat-led states "who are teaching things that are antithetical to our standards" to ensure newcomers "are not coming into our classrooms and indoctrinating kids," Oklahoma schools Superintendent Ryan Walters, said in an interview with USA TODAY.

The indoctrination is all Oklahoma's.

Walters has dubbed the new requirement an "America First" certification, in reference to one of Trump's political slogans.

Oklahoma's Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt appointed Walters, a Republican, to the helm of the state's Department of Education in September 2020 and voters then elected him for a second term in November 2022.

Oklahoma voters are already idiots, Stitt, Walters and the RepuQs intend to cement that.

Oklahoma is offering teaching bonuses that go up to $50,000 to attract teachers from across the nation and has seen "a dramatic increase in teachers wanting to come to Oklahoma," Walters said. The new test is meant to ensure they weed out teachers with opposing views from the state's standards. The state, like many others, has a persisting teacher shortage.

Imagine that.

... "A lot of the credit goes to Gavin Newsom," Walters said. He alleged California under the governor has implemented lessons on "gender theory," and that won't be allowed in Oklahoma schools. (The California Healthy Youth Act, passed in 2016, requires that public school lessons across the state "must be inclusive of LGBTQ students" and same-sex relationships and teach students about "gender, gender expression, gender identity, and explore the harm of negative gender stereotypes" and "about all sexual orientations and what being LGBTQ means.")

Horrors.

Oklahoma's 'America First' test

Nonprofit conservative media company Prager U is helping Oklahoma's state department of education develop the test.

The company previously helped develop the state's new high school history curriculum standards, which includes lessons on how to dissect the results of the 2020 election, including learning about alleged mail-in voter fraud, "an unforeseen record number of voters" and "security risks of mail-in balloting." ...

MAGA = Whiny LIARS, always

Teachers' union leaders: Test will be 'a huge turn off' to teachers amid 'serious teacher shortage crisis'

... "Ryan Walters appears to be trying out for MAGA in chief, not educator in chief, because everything that he's doing is about the culture wars, not about the reading, writing and arithmetic," she said. "If he wants to be MAGA in chief then go be MAGA in chief. But let someone else be educator in chief and focus on other things people deserve, which is reading, literacy and wraparound services – and actual teachers who want to be in Oklahoma."

"Walters' Kids" will grow up without critical thinking skills, ill-equipped to cope with reality and incompetent to compete in the world.

... The state teachers union told its members in a July 11 letter, which Elledge provided to USA TODAY, that Walters "has no legal authority to vet certified teachers based on political ideology."

They say that's because "licensing and certification are governed by state statute, not personal opinion or partisan preferences" and state law "requires us to recognize out-of-state teaching credentials."

The letter references part of the state education code that says it "must issue certificates to qualified teachers from other U.S. states and territories if they meet basic requirements, including a criminal background check." ...

What part of "illegal" does MAGA not understand?

[O Really]

"Teachers from California and New York who want to work in Oklahoma public schools ..."

BTW, the best bonuses are for special education teachers to work in "rural" areas. Imagine that.

[supesalemgr2]

"Teachers from California and New York who want to work in Oklahoma public schools ..."

BTW, the best bonuses are for special education teachers to work in "rural" areas. Imagine that.

It would all about nothing had OK applied to all out of state teachers. A bad look.

[Vrede too]

"Teachers from California and New York who want to work in Oklahoma public schools ..."

BTW, the best bonuses are for special education teachers to work in "rural" areas. Imagine that.

If OK gets away with this, such 'Loyalty to Trump' tests will be imposed by more red states and to apply to more prospective teachers. Watch.

[O Really]

Reincarnation of McCarthyism. Next they'll be reforming the House Un-American Activities Committee as the Anti-Trump Activities Committee.

For years, the Supremes threw out loyalty oaths, but in 1972 offered the guidelines under which they'd be OK.

During a case in 1972, Cole v. Richardson, the court declared four requirements needed for an oath to clear First Amendment muster:[17]

It cannot go against the First or Fourteenth Amendment rights.
The oath cannot keep an employee from participating in protected public speaking.
Freedom of association cannot be used in oath as protected by the Constitution.
The oath should be direct and clear, so no question comes to what is meant.

In any rational, law-abiding, constitutionally sound world, Walters and Oklahoma will have their asses handed to them. On the other hand, now they might get away with it. Doomed.