(08-01-2023, 12:34 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: It's amazing how you can google when it's convenient. Otherwise, you need a link, lol. 3 pages in and we don't even discuss the truth of the issue.
(07-31-2023, 07:06 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: comments in red
Yeah, well, I did acknowledge it. I started off by acknowledging it could be seen in bad taste. You made a whole comment about it before somehow suggesting that I can't acknowledge it. That's neato, pal.
It doesn't change the fact that it's true, and it's a very small snippet of a much larger curriculum. It's one piece of information that is part of many other pieces of information. Some good, Some bad. None of you leftist nuthuggers care about context. Take any comment out of context and claim it's bad, then shout it from the rooftops until everyone is bleating the same tune. I went through all of the new standards and I can't find anything untrue. It definitely focuses more on the positive contributions of blacks and their ability to persevere through hardships. I can see why that's TERRIBLE for the left. Blacks gotta be victims. We can only shape the world view one way.
Both visions are valid and have their place. I can say that. Where you at?
Really weird how you harp on this so much. Not sure what your hangup is.
It's horribly inaccurate. So many black figures are heralded constantly by folks on the left as heroic figures in civil rights, artistic pioneers in music, landmark contributors to American literature and poetry, and of course the majority of our heroes in the world of sport have been black since integration became the norm.
Most of my heroes are/were black. I don't feel any need to paint them or the contemporary people of color in my life as victims. Some of the folks from prior generations endured hardships - but that is just part of their story. Not their identity.
I've even been on record here three or four separate times supporting a roll back on any affirmative action efforts that can be verified as having outlasted their originally intended usefulness.
Its just very easy to see that DeSantis thinks he's leading a crusade against all things "woke" and has an agenda that is not based on historical accuracies or improving education in the state of FL. He's just waging a petty war of politics and trying to indoctrinate children with white christian nationalist values.
Like many on the right, he believes that schools are systematically indoctrinating kids to be too progressive in their thinking. So he's trying to eradicate that and inject some other messaging that has no place in public schools. The "problem" he perceives is minuscule if it even exists - and could most be improved by simply funding the institutions, their teachers and unifying those teachers' training and certification properly.
Instead - he's trying to let some fly by night propaganda org shoehorn a bunch of wacky conservative indoctrination into the curriculum. Prager U is unapologetically on a mission to convert the way people think and sway them to a conservative viewpoint. If you were to agree with DeSantis' fear that institutions are indoctrinating children one way - why in hell should it be OK to indoctrinate them some other way??
How about working on an educational curriculum centered on wholesome education without any garbage dogma from either angle?
That would make a hell of a lot more sense.
Instead he tries to force students and teachers to register their political convictions with state institutions - and starts force feeding a bunch or garbage into curriculum.
