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Teacher Who Cried "Racism-Wolf" Now Complains Glow Kids Log in for 5 minutes Then Play on Chomebooks
Self | 12-16-2020 | CharlesOconnell

Posted on 12/16/2020 10:38:37 AM PST by CharlesOConnell

She is the teacher who was overheard leading students in an assignment of local current events with the suggestion "now how does that play out with racism".

Now she is reporting that the kids in distance "learning" are logging into the school district electronic meeting space for 5 minutes, so they can be seen for "attendance", but then they wander off to play on YouTube, "doing memes", or whatever else the school district allows them to do.

(Her personal lifestyle isn't known, but she lives with another older woman and has short hair and a dangly earring. These are the people who have compulsory ability to indoctrinate our kids.)

In your workplace, there are broadly categorized classes of sites you can't visit on your work computer. The school district has a form of those, it is true, but the kids are expert at hacking the system so they can get to what they want from private websites that are "hosting" YouTube videos. They have no trouble getting what they're after.

Envision what will happen to them once Corona is over, they return to school, their habit of "school" is to have a Chromebook they can fool around on.

The districts are fostering massive discipline problems. Most students already are evading the instructional program. Most teachers complain that parents don't force their kids to do homework, though when they do, according to John Taylor Gatto, they can run afoul of unspoken restrictions on kids learning self-reliance.

Al Shanker being the head of the United Federation of Teachers of America, probably the most powerful educator of this country. … Shanker is on record a number of times saying that schools are not about the best destiny for the children, schools are not about making Johnny's family stronger, or bringing his parents in on the governance or deliberations. - Former California Governor Jerry Brown interviews early 1990s NY Teacher of the Year, John Taylor Gatto

Psychologist Nicholas Kardaras wrote Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids - and How to Break the Trance (YouTube video 14 minutes). Dr. Kardaras calls the neurological effect of even moderate screen time dopaminergic, referring to the pleasure neurotransmitter. (Neurons communicate by squirting neurotransmitter chemicals dopamine, adrenaline, serotonin and others across synaptic gaps; when an addictive activity causes an excess of these secretions, the recycling mechanism called re-uptake gets jammed, the neurons don't have enough of the neurotransmitters stored within the nerve cells to do their jobs. In the case of dopamine, the glow kid will have to seek more and more pleasure producing activity to maintain the high.)

Kardaras notes that Google employs dark-psychologists who are expert at actually fostering addiction, to work on the fundamental Google platform, the user interface, so that addiction fostering is a fundamental, pre-programmed feature of the Google experience itself. (Not to mention the social media cartel employing Chinese state employees who are expert in these things.)

When kids have to turn in their Chromebooks, the districts will have vastly increased their own discipline problems.


TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: chromebooks; corona

Unionized Socialist Public Schoolteacher Overheard Indoctrinating Students About Racism

"Now how does that [current events item] fit in with racism?"

A crisis is developing in universal mandatory public schooling, unbeknownst to the establishment: Adults will get to overhear what actually goes on, through video conferencing. The naked face of conventional socialist indoctrination will be unmasked. Teachers are so sloppy, it doesn't even occur to them that their own indoctrination is obvious, so they will show their hand.

This child's "racism" teacher couldn't see that an adult was inadvertently off to the side listening. (Working from home, Covid19 telecommuting while the group "zoom" meeting was in progress.)

The child on a zoom call with its classmates, a child who is a relative but is not mine, goes to a Waldorf-style public school.

"When every child's an honored student, 'dumb ain't down, its all around' ". Teachers get to coat the poison pill of outlook averaging with a calm, soothing voice, no child allowed to any greater attainment than the lowest common denominator.

The assignment had been to get current events topics, presumably from "if it bleeds it leads" local t.v. news. The news topics were being discussed on camera. The teacher gently led the outcome-averaging session with, "now how does that fit in with racism?"

The conditioning works, just as intended. Conversation of these children, 12 and 13, is constantly peppered with the phrase "that's racist". That's Wrong. These children have never been exposed to racism to the slightest extent, they wouldn't know what it is if it chased them down the street and bit them.

Long ago I heard of this type of circular thinking, in an article I read in a 1964 Look Magazine about college students functionally paranoid, not about "racism", but about "Freudian slips", embarrassing or ungainly remarks made in casual conversation that had to be explained by "you want to go to bed with your mother" (Zorba the Greek), at a time when Behavioral Psychology's empirical research thrust had largely discredited Freudianism in upper academia, but a generation of Freud's thinking in popular culture was at its crest.

Socialist indoctrination a year ago would have been centered on the warmist terrorization of children, the bunker mentality that "we've only got 9 years left until the world ends", with Swedish energy sector-sponsored Greta Thornberg as the poster child of a generation of children stuck in a rut.

Before "institutionalized racism" became the most effective Marxist bomb for controlling the populace, 10 years ago it was possible for there to be a survey of African-American young men, about whether or not they suffered from racism. Twenty-two percent replied in the affirmative. That leaves 76% who had not experienced racism. Such a survey could not even be conducted today, much less could it be reported on, or anyone discussing it would need to wear a helmet so their heads wouldn't be bashed in. (I read of a young African-American woman at the time of the Trump Inauguration, carrying a 2x4 embedded with 4 large nails, in Portland, attacking an African-American man who was wrecking a traffic-light control. The left do eat their own. "The worm eateth its own tail." It's called Ourobouros.)



1 posted on 12/16/2020 10:38:37 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
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To: CharlesOConnell

I have long opposed using computers in classrooms. I have seen, during my many years as a teacher, watched students in school libraries using the computers there. NONE of the students were using the computers for legitimate school work. No, they were scanning webpages of high-dollar SNEAKERS (a ghetto status symbol), watching sports games, or watching music videos (with headphones). They would have a window open with the work they were supposed to be doing, if the teacher or librarian happened to walk by, so they could minimize their sneaker or video page and appear to be doing their work. So all these school districts (most of them very liberal) who think that handing out laptops to students is any sort of “improvement” over actual teaching are just naive libtards. This is the new educational model, starting with Commie Core: read a few paragraphs by yourself, then click on some radio buttons A, B, C, or D to answer a few questions about the paragraphs you supposedly read. The typical student will first read the questions, see what information they seek, and then scan the reading material only for what they think is the answer. What happens reflects the TOTAL and ABSOLUTE lack of any honing of comprehension skills. Instead of reading the reading material first and getting an idea of what the topic is about, THEN going to the questions and seeing if they recall where in the reading material they saw the answer, only looking for what they think the answer is results in absolutely no reading comprehension or idea of what it’s about. And, instead of accurately answering the question, the students just cut and paste all the stuff around a word the question uses. Let’s say the reading material is about carriers of diseases. One of the paragraphs mentions mosquitoes as vectors of yellow fever, malaria, and night blindness. Another paragraph mentions that you should empty your birdbath regularly to prevent mosquitoes from breeding there. The question asks “What diseases are carried by mosquitoes?” And the students will cut and paste the entire paragraph about emptying the birdbath, because it contains the word “mosquito”. They will totally not learn anything about the diseases mosquitoes carry. That is what happens I’d say 90% of the time with computer “learning”. A live teacher can ask random students that question and they can’t fake it by reciting the whole paragraph about birdbaths, and so she knows they are not getting it or they are playing with their cellphones instead of listening. There is absolutely NO motivation these days for students to pay the slightest attention to lessons, be they Zoom or live, because they know that statistics-hungry administrators will come down hard on those teachers who grade honestly and fail those who actually deserve to fail. Thus, most teachers now aim to keep their jobs and the heat off their backs and pass virtually every student, even those who only sporadically attend class. MORE FRAUD. Is it any surprise election fraud and dishonesty of every sort has become so firmly entrenched as a means of getting what you want in our country instead of working for it? Students know they will graduate without doing a fraction of the required work, so why do the work? That’s for suckers.


2 posted on 12/16/2020 10:58:16 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: CharlesOConnell

Laying the groundwork for UBI.


3 posted on 12/16/2020 11:00:16 AM PST by shotgun
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To: EinNYC

As I sit here watching my students “work” on GoGuardian (a program that lets teachers see what students are doing on their screens), I am lamenting the truth of your observation. I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment of the situation and have a difficult time getting over 25% of my kids to legitimately pass the class.

The pressure to pass kids who are wholly unworthy is palpable, given that administration seeks to buoy its “numbers” so as to make the public believe that the program employed is effective. It is all a racket, and I mourn over how many of my students are damn near unreachable when it comes to imparting the ability to critically think or use reason and logic to come to an understanding of the subject.


4 posted on 12/16/2020 11:26:55 AM PST by EnigmaticAnomaly ("Truth sounds like hate to those who hate truth.")
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To: EnigmaticAnomaly
"...I mourn over how many of my students are damn near unreachable when it comes to imparting the ability to critically think or use reason and logic to come to an understanding of the subject.

This is yet another facet of the Dimmicommies setting us all up for eternal stolen elections and other enormous fraud. The public schools are thus turning out hundreds of thousands of faux "educated" souls who, lacking critical thinking and analytical skills, are absolutely ripe to hear the commies' party lines, particularly "free stuff" and other people paying for their debts. This is because their virtually entire lack of reading, writing, and mathematical skill renders them unemployable for anything but menial jobs. How are they gonna buy their Air Jordans and the latest ways to numb themselves over their pathetic situation?

5 posted on 12/16/2020 11:36:21 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: EinNYC

I retired from teaching junior high history 8 1/2 years ago. I’ve continued subbing so I do have an idea of what’s going on. Of course I am ‘old school’. While I love computers myself and wonder how we got along without them, they are very much, in my opinion in schools.

Although the science teacher can pull up an instant lesson on say volcanos, even with a good video, the kids’ eyes glaze over. Watching TV is passive. Learning from a TV or Smartboard or computer is passive as well. And it’s not as if kids suffer from not enough screen time.

Back in the 80s was an ‘educational’ game called Oregon Trail. It really did a good job of giving an idea of traveling the trial. You had to pick the right time, too early no browse for your animals, too late you’ll get caught in winter. You had to pick the right animals to haul your wagon, oxen, slow but powerful and hard to steal, or horses twice as fast, but liable to theft by Indians. That sort of thing. So how did the kids ‘play’ the game” They made it 20 miles out onto the prairie and did nothing but shoot buffalo.

So when I sub, I usually turn off the Smartboard and actually try to teach the lesson and get the kids to react to ideas. Half are inpatient and want me to shut up and give the assignment so they can mindlessly write down answers, but the other half seem to appreciate actually thinking.


6 posted on 12/16/2020 11:51:50 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: shotgun

I get my dopaminergic from sitting in my reading nook in my study with my nose in a book


7 posted on 12/16/2020 12:42:35 PM PST by bravo whiskey (Count Rostov "The tyranny of indistinguishable days.")
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To: CharlesOConnell

Psst! Hey kid, wanna do some memes?


8 posted on 12/16/2020 12:47:48 PM PST by Mr. Blond
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