Chip Bok for November 19, 2021

That’s more because of the parents than it is because of the teachers’ unions. Bok is certainly right (wing) but never correct.

Never mind that most people’s kids aren’t graduate level law students.

No Bok, they aren’t learning it because it is not taught to kids. But that never stopped Bok and others from lying about it.

Snort. The right wingers have been pushing a couple of decades to make sure that kids get a poor quality education at public schools. Only hyper rich families should have access to great schools, after all. To be expected that they also want to blame the teachers (unions) for that.

They must be Chips children

Repugs aren’t afraid of Critical Race Theory. They don’t even know what it is.

They are afraid of Theories Critical of Racists. They know what they are.

No “like” on this one, Chip. BUILD THE UNIONS. WORKERS TO POWER.

@Say What Now- Right. You can exhibit what you were never taught.

Liar Bok, deliberately offensive.

How many members of a teachers union have you spoken to, Bok? If you’re so concerned about children, call the NEA, introduce yourself and ask to speak to Becky Pringle. She’ll be glad to respond to your concerns.

“They who?”

Wow, you wrong wingers are really grasping at straws these days.

Unless your kid is a graduate law student that goes to one of the universities that teaches CRT, your kid is not being taught it in school.

With many of the court cases current, we are definitely getting a front seat lesson on CRT in law.

When all else fails, attack teachers and/or unions

Great ’toon, Chip!

I was fortunate. My parents, even my Dad with his 8th grade education, read to me before I was enrolled in elementary school. Of course, that I absorbed some elements of the printed word and had modest reading skill, made the 1st grade readers a crashing bore. For example, our class seemed to spend about a week learning the word “Look”. Then I got a comeuppance in 2nd grade Phonics. Our teacher called on me and told me to pronounce the work “knew”. I immediately, and with a mere trace -) of pride, said: “k-noo”. Oops!

Ask your K-3 teacher what is the one of the most valuable things you can do for your child to help them learn. You will first hear “Read a book each night with them.”

I worry more about “adult” literacy [and how they vote].

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In 1988, the Department of Education was asked by Congress to undertake a national literacy survey of American adults. The study identifies a class of adults who, although not meeting the criteria for functional illiteracy, face reduced job opportunities and life prospects due to inadequate literacy levels relative to requirements which were released in April 2002 and reapplied in 2003 as trend data. The 2002 study involved lengthy interviews with adults who were statistically balanced for age, gender, ethnicity, education level, and location (urban, suburban, or rural) in 12 states across the country, and was designed to represent the U.S. population as a whole. The National Adult Literacy Survey, conducted in 1992, was the first literacy survey which provided “accurate and detailed information on the skills of the adult population as a whole.” The U.S. has participated in cyclical, large-scale assessment programs undertaken by the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) and sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) since 1992. The survey revealed that the literacy of about 40 million adults was limited to Level 1 (the lowest level, an understanding of basic written instructions).

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States

This is the real nature of “Unions”.

When we can’t come up with an idea for a good cartoon dip into the book of GOP BS

Instead of teacher’s union the shirt should read Republican Legislatures.

I stated a six months ago this would be the Republican platform moving into the midterms. Trump pleaded with suburban women to “like” him. Well, suburban women will come out in droves to vote Republican this time, because they think the CRT is stealing the souls of their children. Democrats won’t get in front of this non-issue, so they are going to lose big in 2022.

Kids pass every class whether they do the work or not. Wouldn’t want any child to feel left behind, now, would we? The problem here is that if kids don’t have to do stuff they don’t like, they don’t do it. If they don’t do the work, they don’t learn the skills. It wasn’t the teachers union that came up with that one.

Right Republican

It has always been a republican goal to destroy public education. Trump even said this " I Love the Poorly educated"

Indeed he does So does Bok. For the life of me i have no idea why a NEWSPAPER would hire him.

Like Boss Tweed…… “My Constituents can’t read” but those cartoons are killing …. THE NATION

The union guy is probably right!

Bok works very hard at displaying his ignorance!

The whole point of Critical Race Theory is to show the historical and consistent miss-application or racist application of the law when it comes to minorities by the primarily white power centers like police and courts.

Case in point, Mr. Rittenhouse. If a young black man were walking down the street with an AR-15 hanging off his back, he would have been shot down by police, no questions asked. Anyone saying different is lying or ignorant.

Democratic education for all is a great experiment, and we haven’t got it right yet. I’m not sure that the US was ever really committed to that goal. Certainly the segregated education of my youth did not reflect a commitment to equal education for all children. Still today there is a great diversity in funding and support for education. I’m critical of the schools, from the left, and partly based on my own experience. I did not enjoy school at all, and I skipped as much as I could (with my parents’ knowledge). I loved learning, but I found school boring. I would advocate for hands-on education, as much as possible. I would teach botany through gardening, for example, and physics through building things. There’s a great book about acoustical physics, “Horns, Strings, and Harmony”, based on building your own musical instruments. Math can be taught by giving practical assignments: draw a map of your school building; of your neighborhood; calcuate the odds of winning the lottery; and so on. Perhaps a unit on the chemistry of cooking. I would get kids away from their desks as much as possible. This method won’t work for every subject, but the desk time can be in the service actually doing things. There are ways of teaching kids to appreciate writing: one technique is to have young kids tell stories, which you record. Then you have them transcribe what they have said and make a book out of it. So the students have their own books they have created.

One of the problems with teaching literature is the fetish of correct standard English. It’s a complete (political) accident that one particular dialect has become anointed as the standard. We’re probably stuck with that, but we can at least teach kids some of the basic principles of linguistics. They should know that there’s nothing wrong with whatever dialect they speak at home or with their friends. (For instance, there is nothing at all wrong with the double negative, in those dialects that use it. But it’s not in the “standard”.) They should also know that a knowledge of the “standard” dialect is important for success in some areas of life. I would de-emphasize correctness anyway, and instead talk about appropriateness and effectiveness. In the old days that was called “rhetoric”, and it was the basis for education for about two thousand years.

Right wing liar, its not being taught, Bok is a liar.

Only in Texas. They try to stop everything else.

My sister and mother were teachers. My best friend was a teacher. My niece is a teacher. Being I worked at a school library over twenty years, I know many teachers. Being a teacher is a calling to the majority of those so employed. They care about their students. So “shame on you” to those of you, including Bok, for disrespecting those who care for your children and want to teach them.

When you got nothing pick on the unions (except the Police unions).

“Class, today’s assignment is to imagine what today’s society might be like, if black servicemen and women who returned from serving in World War II had had the same access to the benefits of the GI Bill (housing assistance and reduced costs for higher education) as returning whites.”

Did I call you a racist? Did I tell you to hate your country?

I rue the day that our textbooks will tell us that Rosa Parks was generously giving white people more room to sit at the back of the bus, and that the Crusades were just a bunch of missionaries spreading the love of Jesus with their Muslim contemporaries.

It’s true that today’s kids can’t read or add, but that’s not because of the teachers unions. It’s because of Every Child Left Behind. I work at the community college level. When I started, I was shocked at how students would fail to show up to exams (without contacting me) and then think they could just make them up. Turns out it was because they could do this in K-12, because teachers weren’t allowed to fail their students or the school would lose funding. When there are no consequences for the student, there’s no reason to do homework or show up for tests.

That’s my child goes to private school. CRT will NEVER be taught there.

Seems like a Republican dream. Literate, educated people trend not to vote Republican.

What an insult to my wife, a retired teacher, my late sister in law and my late uncle teachers. If a child fails to learn, look at with happens at home, on the streets and in his neighborhood Are there some bad teachers, hell yes there a few. They are a small minority, but there are a vast majority who there to educate kids of dumb ass parents. As a Probation officer for 31 years, I saw my fair share of stupid parents who wanted to be a friend to their kids. YOU MUST BE A PARENT TO YOUR KIDS.NOT FRIENDS! They got plenty of them, some as dumb as the parents.

While waiting for my car to be serviced, the shop owner made small talk including asking me what I did for a living. I told him about my teaching electronics at the local community college. He asked me if I was teaching CRT to kids, and I told him no – it has no place in a STEM curriculum like the one I teach, and also I don’t know CRT to teach it, and that college students are adults. He didn’t accept any of that, and started to lecture me about his baseless opinions of CRT… fortunately, the mechanic finished my car soon so I paid and left – but as I left the owner said “hope to see you again”… I told him “no way!”

The Republicans never let a good fraud go to waste. Or even a bad one.

How about the fact that they’re not in a postgraduate law program? (Also the reason they’re not learning particle physics.)

Hey … where are the Qupublicans who argue to teach “opposing theories”, like creationism ?

Shouldn’t they be arguing FOR CRT?

Two wrongs don’t make a left they make a right.