oldmanfan

I would agree with the teachers and politicians on both sides of the aisle. I just looked at the Buffalo schools 1619 initiative. It teaches history. Not CRT, history. And history that I never got when I was a kid. Slavery is unfortunately a part of our history.

It is not that it is not real, it is that it is not being taught in the curriculum of the secondary schools that I know of. Kids are truly being used as pawns by their parents. Sorry, but wrong again. I was at the meeting in my district. You are asked to contact the board to put items on the agenda, and are asked to contact the board to speak during open discussion times. Two meetings I went to were hijacked by parents who had done neither. And then they of course left before the superintendent could address their nonsense. His response, showing that CRT is not part of the curriculum, was not heard and ignored thereafter by the parent group that seeks to use their own children to play a political game. I suspect this is happening all over the country.

Then you bring it up to the principal and/or superintendent and school board. And they have said repeatedly to parents that CRT is not part of the curriculum. But yet parents still disrupt board meetings, carry guns into them, etc. It is ridiculous. Let's extend your logic a bit. Say I decide that I think the school is teaching my kids that gay people are nicer than straight people, and because of that all people should become gay. You pick whatever fantasy you want to dream up. There is no actual evidence whatsoever that this is so of course, much like there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that the school district teaches CRT, but I decide it is so. So I band together a group of parents who also believe in fantasies, and I go to school board meetings and completely disrupt things so that the actual business of taking care of education in my town is halted. You think this is the right way to do things? Seriously?

Coke zero

No. We have an ex-teacher invading our local high school calling for parents to go after teachers by name because they have signs in their classrooms saying you have to wear masks (note: these are from last year, teachers haven’t come back yet). A guy showed up at a school board meeting and a loaded gun fell out of his pocket. And it’s all because of this manufactured CRT nonsense; it has started nonsense not just limited to CRT. The district is not teaching CRT. They have no plans to do so. They have said this repeatedly. But some parents egged on by this quasi-organization led by some lawyer in Chicago keep on this because they want to use kids to play politics. Your question of what if it were true is misplaced. It’s not true, bottom line. If there were something as a parent I found wrong, I’d do what I’ve done a couple times. Request a meeting with the teacher, then theoretically the principal, then the superintendent, and then the school board if I felt I needed to. And only one time did I not get a satisfactory answer from a parent and have to have an associate principal get involved.

I’m a parent of two. God knows I advocate for my kids. But this is different. You show me where an elementary or secondary school is actually teaching CRT I’ll listen. But they aren’t. You have people exploiting kids, sometimes their own, to make a political point. Shameful.

So dummy that laughed at my comment: did you read the survey? Probably not. You’re just another who can’t think for himself being taken for a ride. We have this crap going on in my town right now. The rabble rousers are getting paid by some group based in Chicago. Using our kids to play politics. Shameful.

I just looked through the entire survey. There is not one question - zero - that relates to critical race theory. Not one question even hints at trying to convince white kids that black kids hate them, which is what people try to claim. None. Nada. Zip. Goose egg. There are a couple that point a bit towards diversity, equity, and inclusion. All ideas that look towards brining people closer together. Parents are using their kids to push some kind of ridiculous political agenda.

Justice Barrett turned aside the emergency appeal to stop IU from mandating vaccines. Good for her.

Albany DA hopefully presses charges and they bring him to trial.

I be agree in general but Afghanistan appears to be a different beast. The Soviet Union lost there, we had 20 years to no avail. The Afghan people do not have the will to keep their country.

Stop with the big lie. No rational thinking voter agrees with that including Independents and actual Republicans.

Democrats will run ad after ad that DeSantis was OK with people dying from Covid.

I understand that. Unfortunately there are too many morons relying on idiots they see on Facebook for their information. Here are just a few of the dumb things you see there: 1. The vaccine magnetized you 2. There are chips in them so Bill Gates can control you. 3. The vaccine gives you Covid And on and on. The amount of abject stupidity over this, all driven by political nonsense, is killing people or causing long term illness in folks who never should have gotten sick. Darwin is smiling in heaven.

Businesses and such should decide their policies on mandatory vaccines. Governments stay out of it at this point, because when they do like in Florida or Texas their political beliefs mandate them to kill you and your children if they think it will get them a vote.

Your words are meaningless as always.

How has he failed? I just listed the positives, primarily getting death rate to essentially zero in vaccinated folks.

Allen is the man, we can agree on that!

Yes he is. And he is responsible for educating people. Which he is doing. And people are ignoring that education because they’d rather believe in conspiracy theories. You ever hear of the adage You can lead a horse to water...? Vaccinations are up. Vaccinated people have little if any risk of dying. Kids will be back in schools. So yes, he’s doing better.

What should he do? Should he mandate all Americans be vaccinated? That would be the best way to beat this thing but we know what you and others would say, and have said, to that idea. This country now has a Covid issue because of the willful stupidity of people that has been driven by insane political nonsense.

No. Wrong. Let’s say you’re a 70 year old individual with mild COPD that is being managed successfully. Or a Type 2 diabetic being managed with meds and diet/exercise. But then they get Covid, a virus that attacks the lining of their lungs as well as causing pathological changes in blood vessels. Now the pre-existing conditions you have are no longer able to be managed. Gas exchange in your lungs is severely affected, you start to develop blood clots. And the damage becomes so severe you die. Now the Covid did not cause your mild COPD or diabetes, but it killed you. Before vaccines it sure as hell killed you.

I got it that winter despite being vaccinated. If I recall the vaccine wasn’t as effective against that year’s strain. Regardless that was as sick as I’ve ever been. Only time in my life I ever collapsed.

Looking at the CDC data there was about 31k deaths in the US in 2016-17. It did jump to around 61k in 2018-19 in a year where the vaccine was not as effective. I can’t find any year in the last decade where there were 90k deaths in a year.

Yes, they were outside. There is a dispute between the health department and the Phillipin President over wearing shields outside. That information is in the articles I read. The ones you apparently did not. So the Secretary representing our country apparently went with the advice of the consulate and wore face protection. Trying to avoid causing a conflict with an ally in the region. But that’s wrong of course.

I posted an article from June of 2021 with the President of the Philippines saying shields will still be mandatory. The US consulate has it in their materials. A number of press agencies have pointed this out. But they’re all wrong and you’re right. Sure.