Posted on 12/13/2022 9:41:44 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
PHOENIX (AP) — Mecca Patterson-Guridy wants to learn, but for some subjects, she isn’t always comfortable asking her teachers. So she has been turning to TikTok.
Online, the 17-year-old high school junior in Philadelphia has found videos on social media platforms about protests over police shootings, civic engagement and Black and Latino history in the U.S. The accounts she checks regularly feature segments including “Fast Black History” and “Black Girl Magic Minute.”
The videos, Mecca said, address “things that get overlooked in the classroom.”
Scrutiny from conservatives around teaching about race, gender and sexuality has made many teachers reluctant to discuss issues that touch on cultural divides. To fill in gaps, some students are looking to social media, where online personalities, nonprofit organizations and teachers are experimenting with ways to connect with them outside the confines of school.
The platform has opened new opportunities for educators looking to expand students’ worldviews.
Isis Spann, for one, said she turned to developing digital content after officials in a South Carolina school system discouraged her from sharing stories about some civil rights movement figures with her kindergarten students during Black History Month. She also recalls being told by the principal’s office to remove earrings that said “Strong Black Queen” because they were deemed inappropriate.
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Maybe “democRATS” can us DicDork to fill the gap in Abrams’ grill.
Fast-forward 10 years when she claims she is a victim of racial discrimination by the education system, and needs affirmative action.
us=use.
This thing is teaching 5-year-olds?
I hope they learn that 9/11 was the first “cancel culture” attack on America. Then the far-left domestic terrorists (Marxist democRATS) took over.
This sound like the girl will search the internet until she finds the “truth” she wants to hear.
AP trying to justify the ‘necessity’ of this Chinese data-mining app?
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