Flair actually did consider running for governor of NC at one point, so it isn't as unlikely as you might think.
NewEnglandRedshirt
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The jokes are apparent.
Pizza and weed sounds like a good business model, tbh
Again, you're picking and choosing what I wrote and ignoring the rest. When you've had a chance to work on your reading comprehension, please let me know.
I love how you truncated my quote so you ignored "other sources of inequality." Because even if the other things had been fixed ("getting better" doesn't mean fixed), there's still nothing I can do to solve the social and economic inequality facing my students.
As a social studies teacher (thankfully not in Florida), I would refuse to teach this course. You are either teaching a fraudulent version of the course or just asking to be thrown in jail and stripped of your license.
For starters, recognizing that most of the problems our students face cannot be solved by schools, no matter how much money we throw at them? We need our entire society to change. As a teacher, there is literally nothing I can do about the poverty, racism, access to Healthcare, or other sources of inequality outside the school. Society as a whole needs to change first.
Yeah, that makes it ok for the Belgians to have dine it, too! Because clearly "they did it to each other first" is all you need for justifying your horrible crimes against humanity!
Douglas! Get your squirrel out of my tree! He's stealing all my nuts again!
I cannot even. My stress dreams haven't started yet, but thanks for giving my subconscious ideas.
Social studies teacher here. You know why we don't teach the "classical" education model anymore? Because it relies on memorization and lacks any real critical thinking or analysis. It whitewashes history and devalues the contributions of anyone outside the white, European mainstream.
Just looking at the available sample questions for the grade 8 test, there is no real analysis beyond simple textual understanding ("what it says in the text"). There are no sample questions that actually require a student to write. The writing questions are almost entirely correcting grammatical mistakes. On a complexity scale, there are generally 4 "levels" of questions, with 4 being the most complex, which typically would require an essay response. None of the questions asked go above a complexity of level 2.
And don't get me started on the inherent biases of the texts chosen. The "literature," "historical/founding documents" and "philosophy/religion" texts chosen are all by dead white men: Kipling, Plato, Cicero, Jefferson, Kempis, Eisenhower. The only author who wasn't a dead white man is a dead white woman: George Eliot.
Both science passages have to do with modern medicine, the contents of which are far from controversial: antivenom and cardiovascular health. That isn't to say that there is anything wrong with this, but again, there is nothing that even allows for critical analysis here.
So... yeah... definitely glad I'm not in Florida
You leave Brickler out of this!