Justin Parmenter, NBCT teacher in North Carolina writes here about the resolution passed by a local school board that bans teaching anything that might cause students to feel stress, anxiety, or discomfort. Well, that pretty much eliminates teaching about world wars, genocide, racism, sexism, and everything bad that ever happened in history. It denies the uncomfortable facts of history, like the existence of racism, the denial of women’s rights, the internment of Japanese-Americans in camps during the Second World War, the brutality of the Holocaust, the forced relocation of Native Americans, and on and on. It also requires the suppression of many novels; only happy, pleasant stories may be read, in which no one dies, no one is betrayed, no one is cheated or harmed.
Obviously, it’s a back door attempt to ban teaching about racism, which is the crusade of the moment for the Republican Party..
Is it possible to prepare young people to live in this world if they are shielded from uncomfortable realities?
Parmenter writes:
At its Monday meeting, the Cabarrus Board of Education unanimously adopted a “Resolution to Ensure Dignity and Nondiscrimination in Schools.”
The resolution notes that the board “recognizes the importance of diversity of backgrounds, opinions, and expression as foundational to providing students with the opportunity to receive a sound basic education” before stating that student learning should not result in any “discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress.”
The board’s action comes after North Carolina’s State Board of Education adopted new, more inclusive social studies standards which teach history from more diverse perspectives. Some language in the standards documents has resulted in charges that the standards teach that the United States is a racist nation and that news could be distressing for some of our children…
As a teacher I feel it’s important to add that learning and growing as an individual involves discomfort. That’s an inherent part of the learning process.
This resolution isn’t really about ensuring that all students are treated with dignity in schools at all. It’s about ensuring that white students don’t learn that their country has a long history of systemic oppression towards people of color and a whole host of other traditionally marginalized groups.
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Egad! An education is all about becoming uncomfortable in a safe way. You cannot learn without stress. Teachers are taught to manage that stress so it is constructive rather than destructive.
I think those legislators should be told to go eff themselves.
“You cannot learn without stress.”
Disagree with that statement, Steve.
A suckling baby while at the teat learns that (s)he is comfortable and secure, no stress involved at that point.
Actually, I used to do stats for nurse researchers in the field of mother-infant communication and the process in question is a far more problematic learning experience for both mother and infant than popular mythology would have us imagine.
I honestly never even imagined what it was like.
This will open up a Pandora’s box and cripple students’ abilities to think critically.
I can already see the headlines about aggrieved parents filing lawsuits (with the support of any number of RW, Koch-funded groups) because their child was harmed when they learned about an uncomfortable truth.
Here’s the thing: Not teaching about some things because is causes stress for some causes stress for others because it denies and/or isolates kids. It’s a maintain the status quo approach to make it seem as if everything that is has always been and in normal rather than the result of choices made by whoever was and is in power. It, as is intended, ignores struggles over equity. Wait, could we teach about the American Revolution? Maybe that would upset kids from the UK, who might feel collective blame for abuse of power by King George and the British Army members.
These subjective laws are dangerous in twisted right wing hands. They started with an offense to religion. Now they want to impede free speech and turn the electorate into obedient robots that live the big lie. Lots of events in history and life are uncomfortable. We cannot fully function on lies and distortion.
So Orwellian! Hope this thinking doesn’t come to NH
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The most bizarre thing about this is that Conservatives are known for calling people “snowflakes” for not being able to handle things.
I guess this means the snowflake is now on the other foot.
The right has been very critical of the ‘cancel culture’ of those on the left. These regressive laws are right wing cancel culture.
Mirror mirror
Mirror , mirror on the wall
Who’s the fairest of them all?
FOX is fair –and balanced too.
Red is fair, but not the Blue
I’m surprised the NRA hasn’t gone after getting Bambi off the shelves because it’s a tear jerker and kids cry and makes gun owners look bad.
The irony of this entire CRT issue is that it’s another example calling out white privilege which puts white people in major denial. From day 1, white Americans have the privilege of not having to think about everything from slavery or oppression or enforcement of driving-while-being-black. Now they can’t hide from it whether responsible directly or indirectly – and especially if it is deemed “systemic.”
If the family and church won’t put it on the table, it’s up to education to teach history and truth.
Mean, racist legislators don’t like that.
I’ll say again. Bans on CRT are an example of white privilege. Whites telling blacks how to write their own history.
There is no White History, no Black History, there is only History. Our interpretation of how events unfolded may differ depending who is telling the narrative and what influenced their interpretation. How one group experienced events may differ, the Taino vs the Spaniard. a Southern land owner vs his Slave, a Jew vs a German. These interpretations may change over time as more documentation changes our understandings or our social mores lead us to interpret events differently then had been previously done. . But whatever happened , happened.
To say otherwise leads to discrediting narratives just because of who is telling them. Doing so without having to make a factual case. We do not need much imagination to guess which groups will be discredited. We see it in action in the anti CRT movement. A movement that feels no need to justify its assertions with historical evidence. As they seek to crush any evidence that would question their tale. While mostly the same people feel no need to justify scientific questions with scientific evidence, from evolution ,to vaccines, to climate.
Pre-Calculus always made me uncomfortable! Now I have a civil right not to take it. Great work North Carolina!
Bingo
Touche. Just uncomfortable? You’re lucky. School mathematics traumatizes the minds and hearts out of tens of millions of students. Cancel fractions! Outlaw negative exponents! Abolish Greek letters!
If going to school makes you feel anxiety, abolish compulsory education.
To them, education is a choice, not a right.
A choice, not a responsibility.
The civil rights issue of our time: the right not to take precalculus.
SDP, many students would feel stressed and anxious if they took precalculus.
Calculus Discomfort
Uncomfortable I am
With basic integration*
Don’t really give a damn
For differentiation
Uncomfortable I be
With tangents and with slopes
It isn’t simply me
There’s many of us “dopes”!
I suspect that another sort of integration makes some people really uncomfortable.
Exactly! And I suppose we math teachers will have to abandon teaching about imaginary numbers, and maybe even negative numbers, because they might make someone uncomfortable. Not to mention irrational numbers, fractions…
I was educated as a physicist and “i” has always made me uncomfortable.
I mean, what the hell is the square root of -1 doing at the very core of our most fundamental theory of the natural world? (Quantum mechanics)
Infinity has also always made me uncomfortable, especially when it shows up in calculations about the natural world!
“…the very core of our most fundamental theory of the natural world? (Quantum mechanics).”
For those who have not heard about it, there is an alternative, New Age “quantum mechanics” pseudo science out there. I’ve always looked at it as another manifestation of the Greek concept of the connection between comedy and tragedy, but if we’re supposed to live without discomfort, then maybe it’s the correct quantum mechanics after all!.
Nature Doesn’t Care
Nature doesn’t care
If humans care at all
Caz Nature is just there
And humans very small
Is anyone in the ed reform echo chamber ever going to discuss how the same groups and wealthy individuals who fund ed reform (and pay ed reformers) are backing the groups who are pushing this ridiculous panic?
How does this benefit students in public schools? When do we get to the part where ed reformers actually deliver some practical benefit or worthwhile idea to students who attend public schools? It’s 100% negative for our students. There’s no upside.
They’re actively getting in the way of public school planning post-pandemic. They’re harming our students. Anyone in the echo chamber ever going to muster the courage to call them out for it, or are we just stuck with another year of this garbage?
“It’s about the students!” My foot. None of them work for public school students. They contribute nothing.
“I’m pushing for legislation that will permanently bar Critical Race Theory in classrooms”- Florida Rep. Anthony Sabatini.
Who is backing Christofer Rufo?- He’s a Fellow at the Manhattan Institute (Koch-linked).
Rufo is a Claremont Institute Lincoln Fellow (an organization that Sourcewatch described as receiving funds from the Harry and Lynde Bradley Foundation) and so is a person who wrote that she spent two years at the Thomas Fordham Institute. Other Lincoln Fellows are right wing activists, James O’Keefe, Jack Posobiec and Charlie Kirk. Since 2015, Lincoln Fellows have also included among others (1) an executive director of the Kansas Catholic Conference who subsequently became a professor at Georgetown (2) a woman who was recently appointed as an EPPC Fellow, an organization with links to the Catholic Women’s Forum (3) Jack Murphy whose vile writings about women are posted at Think Progress and, who is the subject of a WAMU story, “D.C. Charter School Board Investigating…” (4) Florida Rep. Anthony Sabatini who tweeted “mob justice” after learning that Derek Chauvin was convicted for the 9 minutes he kneeled on George Floyd’s neck, murdering him (5) editor-in-chief of the Daily Caller News Foundation which has links to Tucker Carlson,…
School is UnTrumpfortable
School is quite uncomfortable
The learning’s disconcerting
The teachers are untrumpfortable
Morality inverting
Untrumpfortable: uncomfortable for a Trump supporter
That is such a broad term…. uncomfortable? I mean calculus made me very uncomfortable and stressed. So did some of the team sport situations in gym class caused me psychological stress.
And does this include classic literature?
The part of gym class I found most stressful was where captains chose their teams and I was always selected last. Talk about uncomfortable.
By the way. I was not uncoordinated or anything and was actually good at individual sports like running, but I’ll be honest. I sucked at team sports like dodgeball.
And especially crab socker with the giant medicine ball. Man was I bad at that.
Ha! Crab soccer. I forgot about that.
“When do we get to the part where ed reformers actually deliver some practical benefit…”
Albert gave us a clue: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a change is crazy.
If the “proof” of a strategy is revealed in the results
(change or no change), and change is the goal, what’s the
point in staying with a strategy that doesn’t change things?
Jay Naidoo (S. Africa trade union coalition) gave us a
clue: It’s NOT about how brilliant our argument is. It’s
about ACTION. No one cedes power because of a “great”
power point.
Drum roll…Actions speak louder than words.
Seeking solace through “word clouds” works as good
seeking solace through fantasy…
Yes! Despite the phony “protect the vote” laws being passed, we will not face the problems voting in future elections that Black Americans faced in the 60s. In honor of their struggle, we must all resolve to jump through the hoops and get to the poles no matter what it takes. Those of us who will experience no difficulty voting must volunteer and donate to help others overcome the barriers. We ARE the majority, and must BE the majority.
Practical and efficient are public schools. Privatization through so called reform imposes deliberate inefficiency to make money for investors.
the stock market game: make money for me NOW and make it for me FAST and DO NOT tell me about the damage done in my name
Ed reform echo chamber celebrating their successful lobbying for huge voucher expansion:
“As has been reported and celebrated widely, the legislative sessions that just ended in many states brought great progress on the school choice front. According to the American Federation for Children, five states created new private-school choice programs this year, while eight jurisdictions expanded existing programs, and another two did both. Standouts include major new education savings account (ESA) programs in West Virginia and New Hampshire; major expansions and improvements to Florida’s ESA and tax credit scholarship programs; the enactment of Iowa’s first real charter school bill; and huge wins in Ohio on the voucher, ESA and charter fronts, including direct, formula-driven funding for choice programs.”
Nothing that benefits any public school student anywhere, because they didn’t accomplish anything on behalf of any public school student anywhere.
If you’re a public school leader and you’re taking direction from this echo chamber, you really need to ask if you’re serving the students in your schools.
Lobbying for vouchers and promoting and marketing private schools doesn’t return any benefit for students in public schools.
Why are we taking direction from people who contribute absolutely no positive value to our students or schools? Could we possibly look outside this echo chamber packed with ideological fellow travelers and start serving our students?
“If you’re a public school leader and you’re taking direction from this echo chamber, you really need to ask if you’re serving the students in your schools.”
In some cases, that could be rephrased: “If you’re a public school leader and students are leaving your school, you really need to ask yourself if you’re serving the students in your school.”
“Lobbying for vouchers and promoting and marketing private schools doesn’t return any benefit for students in public schools.”
But it does benefit those who find a better educational environment than they had in their public schools. Unaddressed bullying, denied enrollment in advanced courses, “specials” (art. music, gym, computers) replaced by remediation, recess replaced by remediation, taxpayer refusal to pass school budgets, needed repairs ignored, “gifted” programs for the select few, lack of labs in science courses, and unconcerned and unresponsive teachers, administrators and board members are some of the problems I’ve observed in my own public school education, that of my children, and as a teacher in public schools for 17 years and a charter school for 2 years.
Yes, there are many dishonest, agenda-driven enemies of public education out there, and yes, I support public schools, but INDIVIDUAL students and families will make their own choices about what they feel is best for them. Some will choose out of ignorance or because of misinformation, but others will choose after careful comparison of the educational options offered.
If you are a teacher in a charter school and students leave your charter or are discouraged from attending in the first place, you really should question why you allow that to happen to a vulnerable child without speaking out — is it because of fear of losing your job? Trading off the union protections so you can teach exclusively compliant kids who can be kicked to the curb if they are too much bother to teach is fine if you speak out — but since there is a threat if you do, it does make that hard.
“Some will choose out of ignorance or because of misinformation, but others will choose after careful comparison of the educational options offered.”
I assume when you say that “some will choose out of ignorance or because of misinformation” you are referring to all the students who disappear from no excuses charters whose parents believed the false narrative that the charter welcomed all students and didn’t realize that their child’s non-union teacher would be complicit in damaging their child’s self-esteem and complicit in doing whatever it takes to get that child out of the school.
Mark,
I think most people here would agree that it would be best if students could attend schools not controlled by this democratically elected school board. No doubt this is the first of many school districts where even orthodox posters will say that schools that are independent of the local school boards will give their students a better education than schools that have this democratic control.
NYC PSP– You write in response to my comment, “If you are a teacher in a charter school and students leave your charter or are discouraged from attending in the first place, you really should question why you allow that to happen to a vulnerable child without speaking out — is it because of fear of losing your job?”
I’m having trouble understanding your point. Are you accusing me of being that charter school teacher? That seems to be the case, since you use the words “your charter”, “you really should question”, and “fear of losing your job.” If so, you are trying to twist my words to those you want to hear so you can dismiss with one of the standard talking points.
FYI worked, I worked as a part time arts teacher in a small charter school for 2 yrs. when my public school job was cut in half following the Great Recession. I never witnessed a charter student behave any worse than a public school student, and I never saw one forced out of the charter school because of behavior or poor test scores.
I don’t know how you came with the theory that I “traded off the union protections so you can teach exclusively complaint kids” and that it was “a threat if you do” so it “does make that hard” for me.
First of all, I was teaching at the time in Arizona, and there essentially no union. Secondly, most of the kids in this small charter school were enrolled there by their parents, because those parents felt the charter school met their needs better the the public school. Thirdly, my other 17 years were spent in Title One schools, which I find much more interesting than charter or well-funded public schools.
Also. as a Title One arts teacher, I tended to have many fewer behavior and academic problems than did the regular content-area teachers. Lastly, the only kids I saw “kicked to the curb” [those are your loaded words] because they were “too much bother to teach”, were 3-4 public school students over my 19 years, and they were either transferred to the alternative public school or taught at home by a tutor hired by the district.
Then you write: “I assume when you say that ‘some will choose out of ignorance or because of misinformation’ you are referring to all the students who disappear from no excuses charters….”
NO! I am saying the opposite! I am saying that some leave public schools because “the grass is always greener” and/or they believe the charter industry propaganda. Then I assert that other students and parents will give careful consideration to the pros and cons of their particular public and charter schools, and decide that the charter school offers a better education in that family’s particular circumstances.
@Teachingeconomist
Seriously? Your logic escapes me. So you think having a democratically elected school board that prevents CRT…. will send students to charter schools so they can be exposed to and taught about CRT.
I don’t think how some district school boards are organized is always best for some public schools. I have seen uninformed make decisions.
But is it any worse than the uninformed decisions billionaires are making for schools.
Maybe we both can agree that professional, experienced educators should have the major voice when it comes to teaching and curriculum.
I was using “you” informally, as “a person”. I don’t know your particular circumstances. However, I do believe that public school parents and teachers and charter school parents and teachers all have the obligation to the truth, regardless of whether their own child is welcome in a particular school that they think will serve him better. Charters, like private schools, don’t have the same obligation and oversight to students that public schools do. So it’s nice that parents can choose them for their kids, as long as we all acknowledge that the charter doesn’t have any long term obligation to their kid if he turns out not to be a kid the charter wants to teach.
“the only kids I saw “kicked to the curb” [those are your loaded words] because they were “too much bother to teach”, were 3-4 public school students over my 19 years, and they were either transferred to the alternative public school or taught at home by a tutor hired by the district.”
Arranging an alternative means of education that is paid for by the public school system isn’t being kicked to the curb. Having rules and regulations and using those to excuse counseling out unwanted students is what charters and private schools can do.
“I assert that other students and parents will give careful consideration to the pros and cons of their particular public and charter schools, and decide that the charter school offers a better education in that family’s particular circumstances.”
That is correct. And then the charter school gives careful consideration to the pros and cons of allowing that student to remain in their charter regardless of whether the parent made a careful consideration.
Mark
Just a heads up.
Whenever Teaching economist pretends to speak for most of the people here by saying something like “I think most people here would agree ..” and then uses terms like “Orthodox posters”,you can be sure that he has been consulting his crystal ball to look into the minds of everyone who comments here and then draw conclusions about where they stand on this that and the other issue.
teaching Economist: “I think most people here would agree that it would be best if students could attend schools not controlled by this democratically elected school board.”
Me: I think most people here would agree that when Teaching Economist says “I think most people here would agree” he is preparing to spread the manure pretty thick.
Beachteach,
I think that democratically elected school boards in deeply red states will systematically make poor decisions and, as a result, students will be better off going to schools that are not under the authority of those school boards. People that can afford the tuition, like several of the regular posters here, will send their students to private schools. For those that can not afford it, the only alternative would be a charter school where the teachers are actually allowed to teach.
Do you see school boards dominated by Trump supporters making good decisions?
In Southern states, the choices are poor. Public school boards tend to be conservative, but charter schools are in many places “white flight academies,” and voucher schools are teaching creationism.
@teachingeconomist
If school boards are interfering with what’s best for children and learning…. then maybe a new model of oversight needs to be figured out.
But to use that argument to dismantle public schools and use public $ for private schools ….. I am not on board.
At the end of the day… for all the reasons that Diane, and all the experts she cites, have made against using public funds for private and charter schools…. it’s more important to focus on making public schools as best as they can be.
Dr. Ravitch,
I was not thinking about the southern states. I was thinking about West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah. Oh and sections of Nebraska and Maine. Oh and also I should have been thinking about the southern states.
Everything I said is applicable to Midwest, not just the South. I am opposed to spending public money on religious schools and white flight academies.
Dr. Ravitch,
Are you also opposed to public money being spent on schools where teachers are prohibited from teaching anything that may make a student feeling stress, anxiety, or feeling uncomfortable?
I oppose censorship. I oppose compelling teachers to tell lies. I support academic freedom.
Sometimes, the best approach for public schools and those of us who support them is, to use an edited version of your statement–
“Could we possibly look outside ..[our own]… echo chamber packed with ideological fellow travelers and start serving our students?”
State Catholic Conferences are the pro-school choice voice in the legislators’ ears. They are the generator and disseminator of propaganda for school choice. And, they are the drivers and organizers of the community networks to convince the legislators.
To call them part of an echo chamber is to deny them the prominent position they have assigned themselves.
Here’s what the “Year of School Choice” in the echo chamber means for public school students.
It means the charter/voucher promoters who have captured US public education to the exclusion of all other voices accomplished nothing that benefits any public school student anywhere.
Again.
Another year where they performed no productive work or advocacy at all on behalf of the students who attend the public schools they’re ideologically opposed to.
Why are public school students stuck with people who don’t do any work on their behalf?
Can we break away and come up with our own plans for public schools?
What do we have to lose? We’re not getting anything of value out of ed reform anyway.
They’re no longer even relevant to students in public schools and when they do come into our schools they come in only to test our kids or police us.
Is there a public school leader in this country who can point to any of these people as contributing something of value to a specific public school? Why continue to follow along?
The echo chamber support, promote and market vouchers and charter schools. They don’t work for our students. Let’s find people who will.
re: privilege
exactly.
“Privilege is the privilege of not having to think about it”
All in “The Invisible Knapsack” – the privilege of walking in a store and not having to think about someone is watching you… being the new kid in an AP class and not having to think everyone is wondering why you’re there…
These haters had the privilege of not ever having to think about race, racism, systemic racism, history, slavery, injustice… CRT. Once it was put in their face – they exert their privilege of power, control, and banning it.
They slap a label on it, scream it at rallies & pass laws to legitimize it.
After they legislate their crt bans, they’ll arrest teachers and this will be the 21st century “Scopes Trial”
For anyone needing a geographical reference, that is a county just north of Charlotte. Not sure if this is significant.
Cabarrus Board of Education: Proudly Spreading Ignorance
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Cabarrus County”
By Mark Mywords
“We the Cabarrus Board of Education recognize that student learning should not result in any discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress.”
We, hereby unanimously adopt a “Resolution to Ensure Dignity and Nondiscrimination in Schools” and do resolve that all students will be zombified with general anesthesia at the beginning of each school day.”
Soooo — no more dissecting frogs in Biology; push-ups in Gym; algebra in Math…? The possibilities are endless!
Sure — that could work!
Post your own ideas for banned topics here. It’s fun!
Any written material that includes the letter “F” is hereby banned because the letter reminds me of a bad word.
There! Niw we’re rollin’!😜
Common Core makes perfect uncomfortable.
people
“People” should be a banned topic?
I agree.
Ha! Perfect. I remember a Peanuts cartoon. Charlie Brown says, “I love humanity. It’s people I can’t stand.”
Also, autocorrect makes me uncomfortable.
Mark, lease don’t mention the banned letter
shoes that are too small
Poison ivy
Covid19
Broken arm
Chainsaw injuries
Acne
VD
Teen pregnancy
American Idol losers
Senators from Kentucky.
Senators from Texas
Governors from Texas
Presidents from Texas
Fake cowboys from Texas
All my exes from Texas
Bushes from Texas (and from Connecticut and Maine too)
UFOs (from outer space and/or Texas)
Sad chick flix
Happy chick flix
The Big Bang Theory (the scientific theory, not the TV series)
The eventual “heat death” of the Universe (incredibly depressing)
Wars
Golf
High stakes testing makes people extremely uncomfortable.
North Carolina: School Board Bans Annual Standardized Testing
Perhaps, if a lawsuit were brought to force the state to follow its own law in this regard, the law would be rescinded because the state is forced to chose between the law and the sacred tests!
Here is the big one: Racism makes people uncomfortable. A whitewashed version of United States history makes people uncomfortable. It makes people uncomfortable if someone suggests their ancestors enjoyed being slaves or were predisposed to be servile. Confederate idolatry makes people uncomfortable.
The Washington Football Team changed its name because the term “Redskins” made people uncomfortable. The Cleveland baseball team will soon do the same. NASCAR banned Confederate flags and had a Black Lives Matter car. Augusta National Golf Club admitted two female members. They are all wise to change because modernizing in response to what makes fans comfortable sells. Republicans need to expand their target audience.
Beginning algebra made me cry when I was young. Banned.
Yes, i agree.
Definitely ban “beginning algebra”
But not advanced algebra.
The most important and valuable kind of learning is UNLEARNING, and unlearning is always stressful.
The UNlearned Solution
UNlearning ain’t required
If learning ain’t pursued
If learning were retired
UNlearning would be moot
Members of the Cabarrus Board of Education: why not just cut to the chase and pass a resolution that reads, “The member of the Cabarrus Board of Education hereby acknowledge that we are idiots.”
cx: members, ofc
Love this, Bob Shepherd!
The irony here consists in the fact that the same people pushing this are the same people that are pushing high-stakes, standardized testing that have, in my experience as special education teacher, done more to produce anxiety and lower self-esteem than any curricular approach to teaching history or civics.
Yes, and there is another irony in this case.
The students who are going to be most disturbed by truthful teaching about history are African Americans.
After all, who is going to be more emotionally upset by the revelation that Thomas Jefferson owned hundreds of human beings and used one of his slave women as a personal sex slave?
A young African American or a young white student?
An excellent point, SomeDAM, which hadn’t crossed my mind. Thank you for raising my consciousness, which it clearly needed.
And the U.S. has been spreading this brand of “demcoracy” for decades. Yes, more than half of the world’s countries are labeled as democracies but how many of these countries are copying America’s government.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/america-is-not-a-democracy/550931/
Thanks, Lloyd. Interesting article.
Does this policy “protect” ALL students? What about the comfort of Black students, other students of color? What about the comfort & dignity ofLGBTQIA+ students? What about female students who are sexually assaulted by another student? Will you need to protect the perpetrator? North Carolina is so concerned with coddling their young people that when the real world hits them head on, they won’t have the life experience or skills to cope with it. When their sense of entitlement is threatened, how will these students react? Bad call on the part of supposedly educated people.
Your explanation helps to define why homeschooling cripples children. It narrows their world and renders many of them ill equipped to flourish in their lives.
Powerfully said, Ann!
Who the hell is in charge of the curriculum, the students or is the real truth that the teachers do not want to teach what THEY are uncomfortable teaching!??!!!
This ban is not coming from teachers
Walmart deceit-
Claimed it would hold donations to GOP House members who voted to throw out the election results, then gave $15,000 each to the NRCC and NRSC. G.E. did the same.
Six major union PAC’s gave to the campaigns of a handful of the 139 House GOP who voted to throw out the election results.
(Huffpo report)
Disgusting!!! Thanks, Linda, for the reporting.
Bob, I appreciate everything you write at the blog. As I described before, in my view, you are the heart of this blog
If Bob is the heart of the blog, can I be the brain? Or Vice versa.
Diane
You are the soul of the blog.
Yes, SomeDAM!
The Sole of the blog
I am the sole of the blog
The rubber under foot
The cloven hoof of hog
Where bubble gum gets put
Rubber Sole. Great album!
Around the wisdom and insight of Diane Ravitch grew this great salon. SO grateful to her!
Brains and heart. Yeah, that is a pretty spot on description of Dr. Ravitch.
I’m trying to imagine how it would go if some petty pelting health board or state assembly passed a resolution banning health providers from using needles because they make patients uncomfortable …
Well, oral vaccines are pretty painless.
https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/analysis/who-is-exploring-alternative-delivery-methods-for-covid-19-vaccines/
Thank you! You are so right! As a fellow teacher in Tennessee, I fear that we are right behind you in perpetrating this nonsense. Education is supposed to expand your horizons not limit them!
True American History, has many parts that were horror stories, and the truth is difficult to read, and understand…Hard to not see, the european attacks, murders of countless, Black, Native American, Asian, and Latin Americans and how that is the WHY for 90% of our problems today….The truth makes people uncomfortable.. Non- whites in the US ‘ comforts have just recently been considered..And the reasons for our “lack of comfort” is the constant abuse, and the many lies many lies we were taught, to make us doubt ourselves… The non “woke” part of the white US population, is endangering the rest of the world… and needs to quickly correct this….This lack truth is driving this seemingly “forever racist” part of America, to feel justified in there behavior.. I have only heard the or seen the words “race war” come out of white mouths… The lies have caught up with America….we , Black Americans and other minorities,are being attacked by racist nuts and cops almost daily….true…Hidden news by fox news , and the “liberal” press…… there is no doubling done on the past evils of America, based on the lies!!!