MTG IS astoundingly stupid. Boebert couldn’t manage to complete high school. Noem seems to think Habeas Corpus is the name the orange guy gave his “kick anyone out” croquet mallet. Just 3 among many, of the losers who seem to be in charge right now.
And this is why Twitter should be nuked from orbit…
Obviously privately held education will be held to the highest of standards.
And will never indoctrinate. Anyone.
Because the people in power will be held responsible to no one.
Nestle.
Fox.
The US is just not a real country. It’s a horror story to scare the children.
What’s especially fucking dumb is the argument of ‘hurr money out of your pocket’. That shit goes right out the god damned window the second you look at where our taxes go i.e. the budget. Of what we overall pay education is laughably low.
Por when you think about it for more than one second. You went to school. If it wasn’t paid out of taxes it would have had (not a native English speaker, imnot sure if have had is right) to be paid LITERALLY out of your own pocket
its so fucking stupid
anti-tax crazies must think schools and roads are natural phenomenon, and governments made up taxes because fuck you
If you ever want to be angry at the internet download a nostr client. 70% of posts are about bitcoin so you have to block those. After that filter a huge percentage are anti-taxxers, homophones and pro trump. That’s why I left it
the military industrial complex gobbling up a sizable chunk of your tax dollars:
Federally funded school from age 3 to 20 doesn’t sound like education
Yes it does, you bleached Wookie, it sounds exactly like education.
Sounds like a stealth insult to bleached Wookies, somehow.
Schools are for indoctrinating children, guys. Train them to fight their biology, conform to a factory setting, and have knowledge presented as something frustrating and difficult obtain. You guys just want them indoctrinated the “correct way” from teachers s stupid and out of date as you are.
There’s absolutely truth to the argument that our school system is moreso obedience training than education, but this is not the time for that battle
…especially considering that the alt-right is responsible for removing civics classes, cutting school resources, and is just going to replace public schools with a more regressive, christo-fascist schools where staff can beat and sexually abuse children… like in private christo-fascist schools.
Hmmm, let’s see.
The history of education, like other history, extends at least as far back as the first written records recovered from ancient civilizations. Historical studies have included virtually every nation.
The earliest known formal school was developed in Egypt’s Middle Kingdom under the direction of Kheti, treasurer to Mentuhotep II (2061-2010 BC)
Username checks out.
Seriously, I get it, education systems are often extremely flawed, but education has a long and storied history of being the root of all of humanity’s progress.
We need to do better for our children, but that doesn’t include fundamentally incorrect extremes like “formal schooling is bad”.
I laugh at your progress
Eating food from birth till the day you die? Doesn’t sound like living to me, sounds like an addiction.
Just wait til you hear about water! Everybody who drinks it? Dead. 100% mortality rate, no cure, and once you start, you’re hooked!
Says the party that literally wanted to modify the grade school syllabus to teach that the 2020 US election was stolen.
wanted towell, that’s depressing, thanks for clearing it up.
The department head shit was also extremely frustrating. I wanted the position, had been flow out to a leadership conference by the district the summer before, presented a spreadsheet documenting some of my plans for improvement over five years (detailed, worked with some of the best minds in science education.)
But the anti vaxxer applied too. His great plan was “we should focus on more reading.”
I’m sure the fact that I was 🏳️🌈 had zero impact on the principals decision lol. (Anti vaxxer guy did limp wrist impressions of me too. But who the fuck cared.)
Like it’s amazing. Oklahoma just actively does not want capable teachers.
Damn I’m sorry you lost the position to human trash, I’m sad for the kids of your state
The kids are not OK
Such incredibly sore losers…
There’s a reason Oklahoma is 49th for education.
During COVID, the biology teacher at the high school I worked (and later, the fucking department head) was a creationist with a Bible college degree that would compliment students for forgoing masks and explicitly taught anti-vaxx shit.
Climate change is fun too - I put on a PD once and a teacher was really fucking pissed that I was showing data on how Milanokovich cycles do not explain modern climate patterns… literally thought she was going to fight me.
Milanokovich Cycles
That has to be the dumbest excuse for anti-climate change arguments I’ve heard in a while.
Do people really think that every single climate scientist who has dedicated their lives to studying shit that affects the climate, is unaware of and didn’t account for, natural variations in solar energy the Earth receives, which I learned about in elementary school?
Holy fuck do the maga just shotgun acid and become the stupidest zombies?
That’s the neat part. It’s weaponized feigned incompetence.
After Noem got the definition of Habeus Corpus exactly wrong in a recent hearing, some Lemmings have suggested that the RNC stooges in power are all playing dumb. Now, I can’t unsee it. It makes sense: play dirty because your aims are underhanded and illegal, and your opposition is both outraged and busy attacking the wrong thing. Every time we all get in a fit about how stupid this sounds, which takes up valuable space and time from doing anything useful.
Edit: it’s like a misbehaving kid that knows if he keeps telling the right kind of lie he can get away with just about anything.
Edit2: In Greene’s case, her “argument” is also signaling being a “useful idiot” to her base for getting the job done.
Not how drugs work
I mean they would probably be a lot cooler if they were on acid all the time.
They’d probably chill on the whole “let’s make a fascist death cult!” thing too
I wish they would just Heaven’s Gate themselves. Why they gotta drag me into that?
Stupid freeloading children want us to pay for school when clearly we are low on cash after giving it all to the military!
Solution: give the guns to kids and send them off to war.
We tried the first half and they all shot each other, mission accomplished?
Idk, I went to a religious private school and they tried to indoctrinate me to fascism
This is what they want
Thats my point, their accusation is an admission. They claim public schools are indoctrination yet their private schools are (I worded it a bit off)
Her side would rather have state-funded religious schools from age 3-20.
Christmas religions.
Except Catholics, who are somehow too woke.
They could add a Trump figurine to pray to and maybe that would help their image? Less physical motion would also be agreeable with orange man…all the kneeling takes a hold of you. Maybe if trump could be allowed to hear all the confessions that would be awesome too lol.
*state-funded-mandatory
She’s got a BA from University of Georgia.
This isn’t an education problem. It’s pure propaganda and the allure of selling out on social media.
Give someone 1000$ and them it is for the group they manage But the trick is they can choose how much to give and keep the rest. Maga be keeping it all.
We’re all going to run headlong into a very difficult inflection point in human development as a species very, very soon. Which is the looming divide between people who have no idea how their own minds work, and those who have even a shred of self-awareness.
And not a “facebook/twitter argument” type of self-awareness, but understanding that your intelligence and your understanding of things are entirely separate factors. We are species of cognitive dissonance. It’s baked-in. Everyone, even YOU personally reading this, has some level of contradictory ideas or feelings that you can’t pry apart without effort.
Some people think about how they think, and come to conclusion that they need to make effort to balance out their values and understanding of the world. Other people are going “brain go vroom” and conclude any idea they have, no matter how ridiculous, as long as it aligns with how they feel at that moment, MUST be true because they still think brains are fact-finding machines, not story-telling machines. This is why we have anti-vax doctors and climate-change-denying scientists (although rare) which is because they live in reaction and story-telling, not reason. If anything, education can make it much, much harder to break out of story-telling-reaction mode, because you think your own thoughts far less fallible.
So yeah, education is only part of the problem. We are going to have to figure out ways to teach people self-awareness, how to think about their own thoughts, or we’re going to have billions of brains rotting in an AI/social-media/emotional-porn cesspit in the next decade and they vote and carry guns.
It reminds me of the “missing missing reasons” post, which describes how for some people reality creates emotions, but for other people emotions create reality
The first viewpoint, “emotion creates reality,” is truth for a great many people. Not a healthy truth, not a truth that promotes good relationships, but a deep, lived truth nonetheless. It’s seductive. It means that whatever you’re feeling is just and right, that you’re never in the wrong unless you feel you’re in the wrong. For people whose self-image is so battered and fragile that they can’t bear anything but validation, often it feels like the only way they can face the world.
Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a bachelor’s degree in economics.
Economics is almost entirely pseudo-science and capitalist indoctrination so that makes sense…
Pretty sure she went to public schools.
