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Women and girls are about to be portrayed in textbooks a lot differently by Pearson, one of the world's largest education companies
Sky News ^ | 11/24/2020

Posted on 11/24/2020 10:42:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

It’s just more indoctrination that leads to even more mental illness in this country. Just because.e.g., a small fraction of firefighters are women doesn’t mean that that should be presented as the norm. Yeah, yeah, you are allowed to be a firefighter, but, what, are you gonna sue when you’re rejected because you’re weak and emotional? And don’t get me started on how messed up it normalize men as baby nannies.


21 posted on 11/24/2020 10:59:28 AM PST by MikeyB806
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To: shoff

Da!


22 posted on 11/24/2020 10:59:38 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: cherry

“yeah we all hate who we have become so we need to disengage....”

I’ve started. No more FNC. I barely watch FBN, just to see the market updated. My news is gathered here. I do watch Spectrum 1 in the morning to see the weather forecast.

I find I can’t stomach most new TV programs. I watch old stuff or nothing at all.


23 posted on 11/24/2020 10:59:40 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Sweet!

Now the girls have to go out to shovel the driveway while we make cookies?

Love it.

Not sure whether they will want to take care of the mousetrap or unplug the toilet though.

24 posted on 11/24/2020 11:00:53 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (TRUMP (We The People) WON!)
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To: Vision

RE: Pearson is full of backwards morons.

Most of the textbooks used in High School and College are published by Pearson. What does that turn our future generation into?


25 posted on 11/24/2020 11:01:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Hoorah! The textbooks of a dead culture.

Killed by insane feminism.

Don’t worry ladies, it’ll be replaced by what’s tried and true, and the little girls will never know what they are missing.


26 posted on 11/24/2020 11:03:16 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: hanamizu

RE: For those who don’t know Pearson pretty much dominates the school textbook business

Facebook dominates social media, Google dominates search and video, Twitter dominates messaging, Amazon dominates e-Commerce, and now... Pearson.

Time to go for the alternatives. These are not the only companies in their business.


27 posted on 11/24/2020 11:03:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Pearson is a practical monopoly and most folks hate them. They need to be broken up, in my opinion.


28 posted on 11/24/2020 11:03:56 AM PST by Antoninus (The press has lost the ability to persuade. They retain the ability to foment a panic.)
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To: SeekAndFind

And do also show women electrocuted to blackness on a power pole, crushed by a machine in an industrial mishap, armless from a farm implement accident, legless from a cable whip on a fishing boat, burned by steam leak, suffocated in a grain silo, crippled from a building fire explosion, crippled by a steer on a cattle ranch, drowned during an underwater oil rig repair, cut in half by a high-pressure pinpoint hydraulic leak. Shall I go on?

I see basically no women at 5:30 am in the cheap hotel food corner, in rugged workwear, tired and subdued, shoving down cheap carbs and coffee before another long day of hard, dirty, often dangerous work.

Reality is purposely hidden by leftists. They lie by omission (their favorite kind of lie) and lie to children the most (their favorite targets).

This publisher’s unreal, misleading portrayal of “reality” is sick.


29 posted on 11/24/2020 11:04:11 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

I do all of the above, out of necessity. But doesn’t mean I want to read about it or have it dictated to me.


30 posted on 11/24/2020 11:04:22 AM PST by TianaHighrider (God bless President Trump )
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To: SeekAndFind; 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; 100American; AAABEST; aberaussie; AccountantMom; Aggie Mama; ..

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the other articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

31 posted on 11/24/2020 11:05:14 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: Antoninus

Pearson is the golden gate grantor of particular jobs. No certificate, no job in that field.

I found it odd you have to enter your demographics after the test before it tells your score and if you passed.


32 posted on 11/24/2020 11:08:02 AM PST by TianaHighrider (God bless President Trump )
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To: mjp
Clara Schumann was a competent composer. Fanny Mendelssohn was a competent composer. But they were not Robert not Felix by any stretch of the imagination. There were hundreds of competent composers, male and female, ahead of them.

Sorry, not sorry. It’s a pet peeve. F U femiinazis.

33 posted on 11/24/2020 11:08:06 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: NFHale

Being a White male, I’m either retarded or a criminal on tv.

I thought I was a Veteran and an engineer, but no, that’s for women and the perpetually tan.


34 posted on 11/24/2020 11:08:26 AM PST by EEGator
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To: SeekAndFind
Show girls as battlefield wounded.


35 posted on 11/24/2020 11:08:46 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: SeekAndFind

I guess stereotypes are fine as long as you do it backwards?

Do I really need a sarcasm tag?


36 posted on 11/24/2020 11:13:23 AM PST by ConjunctionJunction (President-Elect Conjunction Junction)
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To: SeekAndFind

Pearson Connexus is who operates the chosen on-line curriculum we’re using this year for 8th grade. Overall it’s not bad. The Social Studies/American History is pretty good. Science and Algebra also good. My boys grades have gone from the Ds we were regularly getting in public school to As/Bs.

The lone over the top exception is Language. The reading material is exclusive to social justice warrior Karens of yesterday. The inference always, White men were the bad guys that the heroic Karens overcame.

Just once I’d like the reading material to be about a great football coach, or military hero. Just once!


37 posted on 11/24/2020 11:13:39 AM PST by moehoward (.)
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To: SeekAndFind
You know... a little of this is okay. It's good to show women being doctors, lawyers, and scientists. It's fine to show a father carrying a baby or doing a little housework.

But let's not get carried away. I don't need a firefighter who's 110 lbs and has a ponytail and is no way going to drag a 200lb man out of a burning house. And I sure as heck don't want some creepy looking fellow working as a nanny with young kids. But common sense goes out the window when people are over-correcting.

38 posted on 11/24/2020 11:13:59 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

I should maybe rephrase.
I would love to stay home and bake cookies.
And prefer propaganda to not dictate women need to be super achievers and wonderwoman to be fulfilled or matter.

Most women do what they have to for their families. Anything extra is cherries on the cake.


39 posted on 11/24/2020 11:14:30 AM PST by TianaHighrider (God bless President Trump )
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What about the other 57 genders?


40 posted on 11/24/2020 11:15:23 AM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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