Steve Kelley for November 27, 2022

Sting like a bee.

Kelley can’t even explain what CRT is. No right-wingers can. It’s just a buzz word that they throw around mindlessly even though they know it is NOT TAUGHT in public schools. As for LGBTQ — why on earth would we NOT teach our children about the ways people are different? They see it. Our kids had friends with gay parents — when they went to their homes, they knew. little Jimmy had two moms. They knew that Tammy wanted to be a boy. And amazingly enough, they all still managed to grow up just fine and still be friends (Tammy is now Tom), and thank God the school board stayed out of the way of the wonderful teachers who let the kids learn about each others’ lives. See, we were parents, and we WANTED our kids taught about real history (like the Civil War was all about slavery according to the South’s own documents). We WANTED our kids to know the differences in people. But I guess for Kelley, it’s only the loud Know-nothing parents who threaten teachers who really count.

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

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

Wikipedia O-M-G

SKelley continues to promulgate that old, worn out, debunked conspiracy theory proffered the RW Echo chamber.

And they wonder why there’s a growing teacher shortage. Florida’s beloved governor is trying to certify vets as teachers. Love them for their service, but how does that qualify them?

^^ Because they follow the RW “education” agenda.

In medieval times the Church exercised strict control of education and therefore knowledge through persecution and censorship. The Dark Ages, y’know, or what conservatives consider a model.

The fear of learning history and about the differences among people is puzzling to me. What are people so afraid of? Reality and truth don’t hurt anyone. The more knowledge we have the better equipped we are to function in this world.

Kelly & company want everyone to believe “Parents” are on the side of the racists, bigots, and the hateful religious-based ignorance they are on. If christian conservatives were ever brave enough to actually investigate the societal values of real Parents, they would be forced to understand that CRT isn’t taught in grade schools and that real parents embrace the world’s unique and diverse sexual and gender spectrum.

But Kelly & company will never allow themselves to do that. They have rested in the comfort and safety of religious ignorance and hatred of others not them far too long.

Where does SKelley get this nonsense? Where do his kids go to school? Has he ever actually been to a school board meeting? Where does he live, that this happens? Is it even in America?

Yeah, I get it, it’s supposed to be sarcasm, heavily laden with exaggeration. But there needs to be at least a toe-hold in reality somewhere.

Here is a reality check, Steverino, school boards do NOT establish curriculum. It is a HUGE process that reflects the entire nation.

The Federal DOE establishes policy under the various Titles of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as reauthorized by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.

The state establishes state-wide education standards and monitors compliance with Federal policy. They want that Federal aid $$$ to keep coming in.

Local school boards establish how those standards are met. They set graduation criteria for the high schools. They monitor progress on mandatory testing. They pay the bills.

You know who actually establishes the curriculum, Steve? Me and the other teachers in my school.

I’m hired to teach 8th grade social studies. And as long as my students continue to make progress as measured by the state standard we are left alone. We choose what to cover in class.

The problem, Steve is NOT the curriculum. It is the standards. You want kids to learn Reading, Writing and Arithmatic. Same as me. But honestly that’s not what the standards measure.

The Three R’s are basic depth of knowledge level one. “Can the student do this skill?”

Standardized testing measures critical thinking skills.

The state test does not ask, “What year did the Civil War start?”

It doesn’t even ask, “Why did SC attack Fort Sumter in April, 1861?”

It asks questions like, “Which graph best demonstrates the tendency of South Carolinians to support John Breckinridge in the election of 1860?”

I don’t have TIME for CRT BS in my curriculum, Steverino. I’m too busy trying to teach to the test.

More smoke and mirrors to distract the gullible. Though Kelly is getting pretty stale. Time to come up with different phantom menaces.

Best cartoon of the day, Steve! So very true of the government schools in my town.

What happened to the 3Rs?

Good one.

Democrats Suck

The Three Rs are not even close to an adequate curriculum today, if they ever were. But let’s start there. What does it mean to teach reading? Is the ability to read a simple word enough? The ability to construe a sentence? The ability to see how the sentences in a paragraph fit together? The ability to understand how the paragraphs in an essay form an argument? The ability to tell a valid argument from a fallacy? Then there’s poetry and imaginative literature generally. How do you interpret a metaphor or a symbol? How do you teach students to read Dylan Thomas or Gertrude Stein or Samuel Beckett? (Or the recent Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan?) All of these, and more, go into reading comprehension. When I teach graduate students I’m still teaching reading comprehension.

Now we can go on to the teaching of history…. But I don’t have time this morning to get into something so complicated. I’ll just say that you can’t teach history as if it were a collection of neutral facts.

S. Kelley … What a ‘Maroon!’

[ Kelley’s MAGAt propaganda is getting tiresome…. ]

Pretty pathetic attempt, even for S. Kelley, where the bar is low.

States set curriculum. No state has “CRT”(whatever that is, the definition seems to vary from RWNJ to RWNJ) as a curriculum.

“LGBTQ” is about sexual orientation and not a subject of any state curriculum I know of. At best it may come up as an elective subject in high schools that have the resources to offer it. It is a problem that schools have to deal with, though. A sizeable number of students – mostly middle and high school – fall into that category. How to accommodate them is mostly a local issue. States may have rules about discrimination, but it’s up to the schools and school boards to figure it out. It generally comes down to being decent human beings and realizing that we’re dealing with children.

The “Right” would like to rile up the rubes by throwing scary sounding acronyms that stand for things that really aren’t a real thing. We’re not teaching kids to hate America. We’re not teaching kids to be gay. We’re not telling boys they can be girls. What we’re doing is trying to teach what we get as a clientele. We’re trying to teach actual American History, warts and all. What the “Right” hates is the truth and reality of 21st Century America.

…ever met a Jim Crow denier? They’re still around…

Reality check

Current (Gen Z) kids are smarter and doing better than boomers did at learning in school.

So stop your BS ranting about “why isn’t Johnny learning to read and do math these days”. He is learning, and he is better at it than you were.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2022/09/04/education-progress-student-test-scores-pandemic/7836066001/?gnt-cfr=1

Kelley, knowing history and treating people with respect is bad? I guess only to a republican.

Paranoia inducing propaganda. Comic lies presented via cheap scare tactics. Do you actually get paid for this, and by whom?

As a former teacher, I can unequivocally call BS on this well worn cliche. It’s just more hate speech.

Angry Right wingers are fixated on BS.

SKELLEY hates teaching children the truth. He wants mindless minions who blindly obey rightwing lies.

Reality deniers one sees.

A Blithe on Humanity.

CRT & “Groomers/Grooming”

The USA rwnj media, interweb “influencers” (including certain gocomics political cartoonists), and the GOP extremist wing (iow the [since ~1980] GOP majority) have from thin air created and implemented this totally unreal obsession with both CRT (its intent by the authors, and the outcomes which may be rightfully attributed to it) and the absolutely evil (I’m atheist, but “evil” seems the most descriptive term for this situation) concept of nonheteronormative “grooming” of adolescents.

Not to say that preying upon youth is nonexistent, but would conservatives agree that sexual abuse of children by heterosexuals — a sadly grievous present and historical societal constant — equals heterosexual grooming?

Neither CRT nor LGBTQ+ in reality remotely resemble the fictional representation developed, implemented, and nurtured in the fear-generating portion of the collective conservative brain amygdala.

A very small segment of the conservative “intelligentsia” responsible all or at least in no small part in the creation of this mythology participated with full cynical and manipulative awareness/intent of the effect it would have upon the loyal, but also in no small part vastly ignorant, mass of GOP voters.

It is all a manifestation of an illness, a potentially quite dangerous illness, especially when it is one cynically, and solely for manipulative purposes, engineered to instigate hostile social thoughts/actions by the subjects it is designed to manipulate — conservatives.

https://psychcentral.com/ocd/psychology-of-obsessions

So, parents don’t want the unvarnished truth of American history, and they want us to hate our fellow citizens of a different sexual orientation. Got it.

And there you have!

Good one!

With students do far behind, its not hatred. Its reality, blue piller.

How is banning teachings going to further learning?