Posted on 08/19/2021 7:59:05 AM PDT by PublicAdvocateUSA
"Teachers and Teachers unions used to work for the parents and used to stress the parent's duty to assist in the education of the parent's child in the public school. A teachers curriculum was always available for review to the public." Says Eugene Delgaudio, president of Public Advocate.
Breitbart Reports:
The Rhode Island chapter of the National Education Association has filed a lawsuit against the South Kingstown School Committee and a parent in order to block the release of records concerning Critical Race Theory (CRT) and gender teaching in the school district, Legal Insurrection reported Wednesday.
The teachers' union now claims, in the complaint filed in Superior Court, that the teaching records are "private" and their release as "public interest" records must be "balanced" against the rights of teachers.
South Kingstown mother Nicole Solas, whose child is enrolled in kindergarten, garnered national attention when Legal Insurrection first published her story in June about her attempts to obtain school records regarding the teaching of Critical Race and Gender theories in the school district......................
Solas wrote in June:
I became concerned that Critical Race Theory (CRT) and gender theory were integrated into lessons when an elementary school principal told me that teachers don't refer to students as "boys" and "girls." Additionally, I was told a kindergarten teacher asks five-year-olds, "what could have been done differently on the first Thanksgiving" in order to build upon a "line of thinking about history." I asked why kids could not be called "boys" and "girls" and was told it was "common practice." I asked for clarification on the "line of thinking" about history but got no answers. The more questions I asked, the less answers I received.
Read the original from Breitbart here https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/05/teachers-union-sues-school-board-mother-to-block-release-of-critical-race-gender-theory-records/
(Excerpt) Read more at publicadvocateusa.org ...
Fair is foul, and foul is fair...
It’s astonishing that teacher’s organizations think that what they are teaching should be kept secret from parents. The arrogance is breathtaking.
They are your kids, not the governments!
Study Out of Brown University Finds Children’s IQ Dropped 21% During Pandemic
TG ^ | 8/18/2021 | Evan
Posted on 8/18/2021, 8:05:21 AM by wrrock
While discussing masks mandates, author Naomi Wolf expresses shock that a new study from Brown University — which suggests a 21% drop in children’s IQ during the pandemic — is not front page news.
In the decade preceding the pandemic, the mean IQ score on standardized tests for children aged between three months and three years of age hovered around 100, but for children born during the pandemic that number tumbled to 78.
They added mask-wearing by adults may have also impacted babies’ development because children were less able to learn from facial cues.
But this angle was not fully investigated:
“One aspect also not investigated here is the impact of mask-wearing by the study staff during child visits and assessments . The inability of infants to see full facial expressions may have eliminated non-verbal cues, muffled instructions, or otherwise altered the understanding of the test questions and instructions.”
https://toptradeguru.com/news/opinion/childrens-iq-dropped-21-during-pandemic/
CCTV in every Classroom so parents can keep an eye on the Commies
So the taxpayer is being sued by the recipients because they don’t want their kids indoctrinated under the “religion of Marxism”?
It’s time to take protesting to the next level——
Suing the parents? Outrageous. Are they really baiting parents for an uprising? Asking for it? They’re just people who love their children and don’t want deviants perverting them at school. That’s all.
Somehow school conflicts remind me of....
“The Cuban Revolution of 1895, came at a perfect time for Hearst and his New York Journal. ... As the story goes, Remington, who had been sent to Cuba to cover the insurrection, cabled to Hearst that there was no war to cover. Hearst allegedly replied with, “You furnish the pictures. I’ll furnish the war.””
When can we stop with the lawyer $hit and protect our families by means spelled out in the constitution?
I didn’t know it was super double secret, “for eyes only”.
What a clown show.
Burn them down.
Blog pimps anger me and many other on this site.
You would serve your interests better by posting entire articles and then interacting with other Freepers.
Otherwise you’ll likely be relegated to the dust bin.
Suing someone for freedom of speech?
So moronials represent a 20% IQ drop already, so I can’t even begin to calculate how much IQ drop will make these kids even dumberer.
“The arrogance is breathtaking.”
Isn’t it absolutely astonishing!? They think they OWN your kids and the parents have no rights or responsibilities. How many parents are happy having the schools keep the curriculum secret from them and the NEA SUING the PTA and a parent?
My sister is a long-time conservative, old-school math teacher. The stories she tells from “behind the lines” are astonishing and scary, but not surprising. The intelligence drop in our kids has been happening a LONG time. Students in the USA used be #1 in global math ability. Now we are #37. A slide from first place to THIRTY-SEVENTH place??? And we cannot arrest that slide.
Guess who is #1?
Yet another example of what is a simple problem with a simple solution. Although it takes some organizing.
Replace the school board and FIRE EVERYONE. START OVER.
Let those that want their jobs back, reapply. And let them come back under a very strict set of rules. There are plenty of Union Free School Districts, even in NYS.
I’m sure there are plenty of teachers that would love to get out from underneath the unions thumb and their handpicked leadership.
And they are selecting children and grooming them for castration.
We need war crimes trials, not just busting the teacher's union.
“ My sister is a long-time conservative, old-school math teacher.”
I believe it is intentional. When my friend’s kid was in high school, I used to tutor him in algebra. When he was struggling with new concepts like graphing rational expressions where the main goal is to find where function crosses the x axis where by solving for the numerator equals zero, and then solving for where the function goes asymptotic to infinity by solving to where the denominator equals zero, the first thing I would have him do is explain to me in detail how the teacher explained how to do it.
The explanations for every concept were unintelligible, and baffling and either the teacher had zero understanding of what he was teaching (highly likely), but the book always mirrored what the teacher was saying. They would always have some recipe of multiple nonsensical steps that had little to no correlation to what they were trying to achieve nor provide adequate explanation of the whys or whats or any practical examples with the real world.
I cannot believe how many times I would use patience and logic to ram down the mental barriers erected out of fear of the complexity, followed by the inevitable deer in the headlight look, followed by an almost audible click and spark or enlightenment in their eyes, followed by the inevitable words “it can’t possibly be that simple”. I then would make them do it over and over again to prove it is indeed that simple, then finally I would have him teach it to 3 of his friends to solidify it. Generally, it would take about half an afternoon to undo weeks worth of escalating confusion. Also with the logical explanations and scientific approach, they gradually learned to approach other kinds of problems using a measured logical approach which I find sorely lacking these days, which is why so many people are in a perpetual state of hysteria about nearly everything
You know what else has been happening for a LONG time? Republican politicians pretending to be Conservatives, paying nothing but lip service to standing up for old fashioned American values.
If they were really on our side, they would have been imploring parents to get involved in their local school board decades ago to nip this stuff in the bud. If they were really on our side, Republican politicians at the local
and State level would be leading the charge.
In the end, Republican voters are to blame for not demanding better candidates at all levels of government. We have been hoodwinked into believing that defeating Democrats in the general election is the only thing that matters.
“The explanations for every concept were unintelligible”
Yep, my sister blames the university “education” departments for this. They produce a new fad every single year with completely unintelligible language and concepts. The PhDs who come up with this crap need to get fresh funding every year to conduct their “research.” So they keep pumping out worse and worse crap, all of it nonsensical and needlessly complicated.
The teachers have to try to learn this crap every year and they struggle with it. Nothing is constant year to year. As each of the latest fads fails, a new fad is brought in which is GUARANTEED to work. But, it too naturally fails and therefore another new fad is implemented the following year to cure the ills of the previous fad.
The entire math establishment is entirely devoid of common sense which is something you would expect to find in abundance in a math department. Common sense dictates just getting back to basics as you did.
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