Education

“The Triumph of Stupidity”

It’s the last period in Joseph Lamantia’s Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC) class at John. F. Kennedy High School in St-Michel. The lesson of the day: comparing the beliefs of Judaism to Christianity. Islam will be covered in the coming weeks.

Pencils squeak and sneakers tap against the floor as the class of secondary two students in matching J.F.K. Knights hoodies fill out their fact sheets. Once the activity is over, the students will share their answers with partners.

The point is to open the students’ eyes to the fact that the three faiths are borne of the same Monotheistic God, Lamantia explains. He hopes they see the similarities and how worshippers of the different faiths aren’t so different.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inEducation, Indoctrination, Quebec

Anti-woke University of Austin could reawaken true learning

The best news in academia in a long, long time came with this week’s announcement that distinguished scholars and thinkers are founding a new university “fully committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse.”

Put another way, the new University of Austin will stand against “cancel culture,” speech codes, leftist indoctrination, “safe spaces” for students who can’t bear opinions different from their own, obsessions with race and sex to the exclusion of substance, racial preferences in admissions, and hugely expensive administrative staffs.

Interesting, given that Austin is the San Francisco of Texas.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inA Little Good News, Don't Mess With Texas, Education

Singing O Canada is “distasteful and should be replaced”: OCDSB committee

“With respect to standing and singing of O Canada during opening exercises in school, Ms. Miller expressed the opinion that this practice is distasteful and should be replaced with something more healthy and positive,” the council meeting’s minutes describe.

“Chair Manatch suggested that Indigenous students be permitted to sit and not participate in the singing of O Canada. Elder Dumont expressed the opinion that the government of Canada needs to hold people accountable for the deaths of students at residential schools.”

h/t Marvin

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Not The Onion", "Peak Woke", Batshit Crazy Social Justice Warriors, Canada, Education

Climate education is inconsistent across Canada, but these students and educators want to fix that

Our planet is changing. So is our journalism. This story is part of a CBC News initiative entitled Our Changing Planet to show and explain the effects of climate change and what is being done about it.

What and how students learn about climate change and the environment from kindergarten through Grade 12 is inconsistent across provinces and territories, according to climate educators and students passionate about the topic. Too often, they say, it’s limited to science classes.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Climate Change, Education, Global Warming Hoax, idiot students

Female student suspended after reporting sexual assault in high school bathroom

Students at a North Carolina High School walked out of class in protest on Wednesday after learning the school administration suspended a student after that student reported they had been sexually assaulted.

Hawthorne Academy High School in Charlotte had a crowd of over 100 students gathered outside to voice concerns regarding how the school handled allegations of sexual violence, according to WBTV.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Teachers, Education, sex crime

The Education System Isn’t Designed for Smart Kids

Sometimes, something that’s right in front of you can escape your attention.

Over the past five years I’ve looked at countless student performance numbers, and almost always, my attention goes to the large percentages of students who are performing below grade level in reading, math, history, etc. I see these numbers as evidence of the failure of the current education system.

But a recent policy brief (titled “How Can So Many Students Be Invisible?) has brought something else to my attention—something equally, if not more, damning of the education system. It’s the fact that large percentages of American students are performing ABOVE grade level.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Experts", Batshit Crazy Teachers, Education

Mainstream media comes to the defense of ‘Gender Queer’ author after parents claim it features ‘child pornography’

A controversial book that caused firestorms of parental anger upon being found in the libraries of public schools from Virginia to Rhode Island, showing graphic sexual imagery about the sexual and gender identity awakening of teenagers, is being defended by the mainstream press and publishers.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Social Justice Warriors, Big Gay, Education, Indoctrination, MSM bias to the left, MSM Lies, MSM Shitweasels

Transgender Madness: Wisconsin School District Taking Away This Basic Right from Parents

Does your child have issues with gender dysphoria? Are they identifying as a different gender at school and asking teachers to use their preferred pronouns? Do you think this is something you, as their mother or father, should have some control over?

Check your parental privilege, say school administrators in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

In a letter to parents on Oct. 22, the Oshkosh Area School District — saying it was “committed to doing what is best for students and fostering a safe, supportive and inclusive learning environment for all” as well as “partnering with families to support the unique needs of every student” — announced it would no longer ask for parental consent if their child changed their gender pronouns or name in the classroom environment.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Social Justice Warriors, Batshit Crazy Teachers, Education, Indoctrination, trans - mentally ill?, transgendered children

Obama Says Parent Concerns About School Rapes, Porn, And Learning Loss Are ‘Fake Outrage’

“We don’t have time to be wasted on these phony trumped-up culture wars, this fake outrage, the right-wing media’s pedals to juice their ratings,” Obama said while campaigning for Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, adding: “Instead of stoking anger aimed at school boards and administrators, who are just trying to keep our kids safe,… we should be making it easier for teachers and schools to give our kids the world-class education they deserve, and [to do so] safely while they are in the classroom.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Disinformation", "Elites vs. Populists", "extremists", "far right", Batshit Crazy Teachers, Child Abuse, Education, Indoctrination, Obama, Obama's Third Term, sex crime

Ontario could see 50,000 education workers fired if COVID-19 vaccines mandated: Lecce

Ontario’s education minister says 50,000 people could lose their jobs if the province mandated COVID-19 vaccines for education workers.

Responding to the NDP in question period today, Stephen Lecce said such a policy would mean pink slips for tens of thousands of educators when Ontario already faces staffing challenges.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", Education, Ontario, vaccine controversy

Brooks: Teachers Have Gone ‘Further Left’ While Parents Haven’t, Parental Involvement ‘a Very Bad Issue’ for Dems

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated parental involvement in education is “a very bad issue for the Democrats.” Brooks also said that the main cause for the issue is that people in education have gone “further left in the last few years. The median parent has not gone significantly further left. So, there’s a culture gap in the values in the way we talk about history, the way we talk about sexual education and gender issues.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Teachers, Education, Indoctrination