Posted on 05/29/2023 11:37:04 AM PDT by Libloather
Sure, only a third of American eighth graders are “proficient” in reading, just a quarter in math, and barely one in ten when it comes to U.S. history. But now, high-school students near you may get to spend up to seven weeks of class time asking “How does white rage fuel the racial wealth gap?” before lobbying their peers on what model “the U.S. should use to determine and provide monetary” reparations to descendants of slaves.
Indeed, last week, the same minds who brought you prolonged school shutdowns extracted nearly $200 billion from taxpayers in Covid slush funds, unleashed unprecedented learning loss, and triggered physical and mental-health crises among students rolled out their latest bright idea to revolutionize classrooms around the country: “reparations math.”
The fruit of several years’ work, this latest classroom innovation traces back to the National Education Association (NEA) - the nation’s largest teachers’ union, which in 2019 promised to “collaborate and partner with organizations and individuals” to “push reparations for descendants of enslaved Africans in the United States and to involve educators, students, and communities in the discussions around support for reparations.”
To advance that goal, the Pulitzer Center, a curriculum partner of the New York Times’ 1619 Project, rolled out “Understanding the Racial Wealth Gap,” a suite of lesson plans in 2022 for teachers nationwide to sprinkle into their classroom curricula. Advertised to teachers as enough to filling “2–3 weeks” of programming, the lesson plans focused on two “essential questions”: “How does white rage fuel the racial wealth gap?” and “What are ways that the United States could begin to repair the harm of enslavement, Jim Crow, and other forms of wealth theft from Black Americans?”
Flanked by other “guiding questions” - including “What patterns do we notice about violence and terrorism by White Americans...
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Reparations for slavery may be in our future.
Me: "Teacher, teacher!! I know! Call on me! We could have a Civil War to free black slaves and lose 700,000 American lives! And we could have a 'Great Society' program and give poor, mostly black people more than twenty trillion dollars! And we could have racial set-asides and preferences where we promote and reward people for decades based on their skin color, not merit! And we could elect Democrats who would keep black people on their plantation for centuries!"
Repeal the 13th! That would fix a whole lot of problems.
I will not comply.
+406
*406
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4 * 4 = 16 (4 on bottom left times 4 on top left)
6 * 4 = 24 (6 on bottom right times 4 on top left)
4 * 6 = 24 (4 on bottom left times 6 on top right)
24 + 24 = 48
6 * 6 = 36 (6 on bottom right times 6 on top right)
Answer 164836 or 164,836
Saw that on youtube. That's harder than doing it the right way. 🤣
Total # of blacks brought as slaves to what we today call the United States: 300,000 to 400,000.
Total # of Union soldiers who died before slaves were freed: about 360,000.
Sounds like "reparations" were paid long ago in blood.
In providing this leftist propaganda to teachers, the Pulitzer Center is providing aid and comfort to the domestic and foreigh enemies of the United States.
I understand it already. It's cultural underachievement.
It sounds like a wild Bee article, but I guess it’s real.
“Sure, only a third of American eighth graders are “proficient” in reading, just a quarter in math, and barely one in ten when it comes to U.S. history.”
I guess I’m missing something. The public schools are FREE!!!, so why should I care if my kids cannot read, do math, or think we still have slavery?
No way any of those anti-education, Right-Wing, Extremists are going to fool me!
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There are no limits to tyranny...
“What are ways that the resentment community could begin to repair the harms of indoctrinated resentment, violent crime, drug abuse and trafficking, disproportionate illegitmacy/abortion/chlld abuse, work aversion, vandalism, littering, rioting, looting, divisive and fact-free pseudo-academic diatribes, and other forms of wealth theft from motivated, civic-minded Americans?”
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