MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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[Havoc over schooling] Kentucky Ed. Chief to teachers: Stop 'hateful,' 'nasty' emails
By artappraiser on Tue, 07/06/2021 - 12:56pm |No, it's not all right-wing media make believe, it's really happening.
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https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/education/2018/11/17/wayne-lewis-kentucky-teachers-stop-nasty-emails/2037817002/
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by artappraiser on Tue, 07/06/2021 - 1:25pm
I posted this & erased it - Turkey has disgraced himself with thoroughly co-opted Trump-speak lacking real- world context and logic. If you look at this piece, it's largely a disembodied anecdote that could easily be spun the other way - there's no actual point, just an attempt at political scoring. A shame, as he used to be a coherent and incisive professional before he became a whore.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 07/07/2021 - 5:39am
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/06/2021 - 1:38pm
tweet from serious and honest debate, see whole thread:
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/06/2021 - 9:06pm
New battle trending in this particular culture war as evidenced by #ORWELLIAN trending on Twitter right now. Turns out Tucker Carlsen et. al. is demanding cameras in the classroom so that parents can see what teachers are up to on curricula etc.
It's a great retort for rhetorical purposes, but on second thought, as far as K to 12 is concerned, we've already passed that rubicon with remote schooling during Covid, haven't we? The parents could know every damn thing being taught if they wanted. This guy Matt Walsh is mostly an asshole but on this I think he is right:
Again, we're talking about minors here. If you are going to go there, you could point out that babies live under the most "Orwellian" conditions of anyone. Privacy levels vary up to age 16-18 by parental choice...and do keep in mind no parent is required to send kids to public school as long as kids get the requirements under state law, the government can't easily forcibly take them away from the way that parents want them raised.
"Orwellian" is not the distraction you want here, not for K-12. It is, it always was.
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/07/2021 - 11:48am
Plus parents watching *other* kids?
Had this discussion before
And then there's ages 14-17, another winner
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 07/07/2021 - 6:04pm
back to college age; this cohort's opinion is not mentioned enough, mho, that is of speech refugees! to them it must be like they got taken by a "bait and switch" deal at times:
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/07/2021 - 10:19pm
There's a meme going around that Freedom if Soeech only has to do with the 1st Amendment and government, and people telling you to STFU under any other circumstance is A-OK (presuming it's a possibly right-wing attuned comment, rightly or often wrongly). They don't seem to understand that Freedom of Speech is a core part of our brand - not just silence, but speak up in the marketplace if ideas. One if the strengths if American campuses is that anything should go - College Republicans or not - Animal House vs ROTC. Shut down the debate and you've got Chinese re-education camps and Nürnberg "we didn't know..." Malcolm Gladwell talks about cultural differences and hierarchies where accidents happen like in cockpits where a co-pilot defers to the captain despite seeing catastrophe coming.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 07/07/2021 - 11:03pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/09/2021 - 2:04pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/11/2021 - 9:48pm
OIC this oldie but goodie refreshed with a Biden twist, found retweeted by "Moms for Free Appropriate Public-funded Education"
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/11/2021 - 11:34pm
This exchange encapsulates a couple of major hot debates in education, as Kendi's theorizing is often a major part of the CRT thing and also as there have been major events such as California voters in Nov. voting against reinstating affirmative action
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/13/2021 - 5:27pm
I don't like the phrasing.
I posted a while ago about a black woman who went for a divinity degree and then some Masters (or reverse), she & her husband ended up with a half million or so in student debts. I wouldn't claim she was unqualified. I would claim she was extremely unwise in taking on so much debt for u monetizable professions. (i think she's in the student advisement office at some college).
Since they made college tuition and loans big business, it's like old credit card targeting days - everyone's a lamb to the slaughter. So yes, some won't be cut out for college (though I'd argue that sometimes a well-tried but failed 1 or 2 years can still be valuable, tho Community College might be a better choice), but the biggest issue is giving all loans for all programs without some reality check for ability (and pain) if paying it all back.
Plus I'll do a check on what % of the student loan crisis is black, seeing as blacks are only 13% of the population and I'd guess a smaller % of the college cohort.
Oh. That's a high % of blacks graduating in the over-$40k segments
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 07/14/2021 - 3:37am
interesting that CNN stresses the tenure issue
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/13/2021 - 6:25pm
As a natural cynic I looked up Cornel West's birthday: it's June 2, 1953 (age 68 years), which means he has passed the eligibility age for full Social Security benefits for this age group, which is when most people would retire from a job and move on to something else...
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/13/2021 - 6:30pm
Black people are owed tenure, is that the message these 2 are giving us? Silly me assumed most professors worked their way up to tenure, and if transferring schools *might* keep tenure if desirable enough. Yes, at 68 Cornel is a bit shop-worn, not the draw he was 10 years ago, and his stands against the schools he's part of might wear out his welcome, shitting in his own yard we call it?
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 07/14/2021 - 3:46am
comes to mind with your comment about "working one's way up" that "tenure upon hiring" is quite an unusual thing, and as you suggest, something a university would offer only to a big celebrity draw, which is exactly the kind of thing they have been doing that he's complaining about, hah. That's our Cornel!
(My initial thought was about another roll-one's-eyes type of thing: that's it's so easy to take a stand against an employer and resign over it when you are about to retire with an assured income.)
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/14/2021 - 2:41pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/13/2021 - 8:11pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/13/2021 - 11:24pm
school board things beyond hot in San Francisco
(found retweeted by Wesley Yang)
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/14/2021 - 2:14am
Online-only sux; onground up works
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryancraig/2021/07/09/the-edtech-gap-between...
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 07/14/2021 - 7:12am
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/15/2021 - 1:12am
I thought we only had 4 races and 4 or 5 genders.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 07/15/2021 - 3:40am
This tweet and video made me think of how I must have imagined it, as I have this memory of when I was young that this country was like torn apart by forced integration of the schools for the very reason expressed below. I must be getting age-related dementia and remembering things wrong?
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/17/2021 - 2:31am
People like similarities and sometimes differences. YMMV. Prolly 90% of romantic pairings in the world are 2 of the same ethnic tribe. Part of this is sexual, part behavioral, part just the psychology of knowingness & shared culture - which can be LA beach surfers or Macon, Georgia church community (or whatever they do there). We sometimes go for "exotic", but either matching exotic or exotic that doesn't stray too far from our homegrown (so we can cut our hair and take that management position w/o too much splainin the tattoos). A lot of the "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" is from an earlier life phase of experimenting more, which doesn't always last, though with the growing diversity and changing numbers, there is more mixing for curiosity/interest-friendahip with "the other". Still, homogenous groups - who you go to parties with or meet after work - are still more the norm. Claiming this is innate racism or some other pejorative is just denying who we are as people, whatever variance there is between individuals and groups. (obviously we also group mostly in small groups of females, small groups of males, sometimes 2-4 males with one token girl, and then paired romantic potential or actual romantic partners. Occasionally there might be 3 or 4 couples who all do stuff together - see Friends for an unusual concoction that served humor well).
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/17/2021 - 3:01am
they beg to differ:
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/19/2021 - 11:14pm
this kind of number is why education social justice warriors don't like testing and grading? is like: if you can't see it, then it can't be true? grandma used to call that sort of thing "sweeping it under the rug"?
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/16/2021 - 6:20pm