Category: Education,

Education Secretary Duncan stepping down – POLITICO

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He doesn’t have immediate plans lined up for life after the administration.

Education Secretary Duncan stepping down – POLITICO

He didn’t haven’t plans to improve public education in this country either, so, what? More of the same bubbling bullshit for Arne?

It is about time you left, you shit-stain.

You had a chance to help a generation of young people and you decided to put teachers and schools in an expensive, discriminatory (Oh no? Check the test scores of schools who can’t afford the exact right books to prepare for the draconian tests that are so popular now!) and economic caste barrier solidifying stranglehold. You’re great at spin but you suck at education. Don’t let the door hit you on the ass, you fuck-wit reject.

Brooklyn Public School Battle: Progressives Are Opposing Integration 

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Rich liberals feel differently when their own children’s education is at stake.

Brooklyn Public School Battle: Progressives Are Opposing Integration | National Review Online

I’m finding the coverage of this fascinating. Not for what is being said -it is all pretty straight forward- but rather what does not enter the conversation.

Rich whites are racist sometimes, perhaps without even knowing that they are doing it. No big news there. People like the school they have, as it is now, better than the alternative. No big shocker there either.

Pride, ignorance, fear of the other, fear of change, wanting the best for ones children… Emotive, sensitive issues like this lend themselves to black and white (you don’t have to pardon the pun but I couldn’t resist) analysis.

Hypothetically speaking, I wonder how all parties would be reacting and what they would be saying about each other if race was somehow not part of issue and it was a given fact that the education at one school is dramatically better than what is offered at the other.

14-year-old arrested after homemade clock is mistaken for bomb, prompts #IStandWithAhmed on Twitter

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Fourteen-year-old Ahmed Mohamed was arrested Monday after a teacher mistook a clock he made for a hoax bomb. Outraged Twitter users have responded to his arrest and suspension with #IStandWithAhmed.

14-year-old arrested after homemade clock is mistaken for bomb, prompts #IStandWithAhmed on Twitter

sighhh

Texas student Ahmed Mohamed talks about his arrest

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Texas student Ahmed Mohamed, 14, talks about how he was arrested after showing his teacher a homemade digital clock because school officials thought it might be a bomb.

Texas student Ahmed Mohamed talks about his arrest – LA Times

Any officers. school officials, and teachers involved in this tragedy should be charged with a hate crime.

The Watering Down of American Public Education

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A depressing glimpse of what educational inequality looks like.

An eighth-grade boy’s ‘outrageous’ class schedule – The Washington Post

Thank you Arnie Duncan and Obama for finding new and better ways than No Child to fuck up an entire generation and leave them way behind their international peers. Charter schools drain resources and state run school districts do not improve. (just ask New Orleans.) Fucktard assholes.

How Trigger Warnings Are Hurting Mental Health on Campus – The Atlantic

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A claim that someone’s words are “offensive” is not just an expression of one’s own subjective feeling of offendedness. It is, rather, a public charge that the speaker has done something objectively wrong. It is a demand that the speaker apologize or be punished by some authority for committing an offense.

The recent collegiate trend of uncovering allegedly racist, sexist, classist, or otherwise discriminatory microaggressions doesn’t incidentally teach students to focus on small or accidental slights. Its purpose is to get students to focus on them and then relabel the people who have made such remarks as aggressors.

How Trigger Warnings Are Hurting Mental Health on Campus – The Atlantic

hmmmmm.