Education in America

[B-Man]

 

 

NJ Teachers Union Calls For Ending Basic Skills Test Requirement

COREY WALKER

 

https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/12/new-jersey-teachers-union-calls-end-basic-skills-test-requirement/

 

 

 

[All_Pro_Bills]

25 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

NJ Teachers Union Calls For Ending Basic Skills Test Requirement

COREY WALKER

 

https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/12/new-jersey-teachers-union-calls-end-basic-skills-test-requirement/

 

 

 

A version of the replacement teachers qualification test (see how you score):

 

Answer “Yes” to the following statements if you agree, and add or subtract the points assigned for each question based on your Yes answer.

Then score yourself by comparing your results with those in the chart at the end. Good luck!

 

1) I am not appreciated for my many talents. +3

2) I am inherently suspicious of others. +3

3) I believe that America is the land of opportunity. -3

4) I believe that I have access to truths denied to others. +5

5) I believe that I must work hard for my reward. -3

6) I believe in a world that is divided into oppressors and oppressed, exploiters and exploited and that these groups are easily identified by the color of their skin.  +5

7) I believe that I can work to give in-groups preferential treatment while simultaneously saying that there are no racial or gender preferences at our institution. +3

8 ) I believe that I should bring my “authentic self” to work, irrespective of any other considerations. +5

9) I believe, like Frederick Douglass, that in America, one can pull oneself up “by the bootstraps” to succeed. -7

10) If I fail in my job, I immediately search for the reason in causes external to me, such as the “system” or the “unearned advantages” available to other people. +7

11) If people question me and ask for evidence for what I say, I immediately attack them for their “resistance” to the truth that I offer in my story.  +5

12) I believe that “indigenous” forms of knowledge such as the “medicine wheel” and the “talking stick” should be incorporated into our scientific discourse. +7

13) I always list my pronouns in my email signature and social media profiles. +3

14) I recognize that today’s “Diversity” office resembles the Soviet Union’s old Political Commissariat, where political ideologues occupied positions to report on the political reliability of those who actually worked to accomplish the mission. -10    BONUS POINTS:  If you know this but believe it’s a good thing.  +15

15) Anyone who disagrees with the lofty goals of “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” is guilty of “diversity resistance.”  +5

16) I believe that a doctorate in education, sociology, or gender studies is every bit as important and impressive as a doctorate in physics. +3

17) When people respond to my charges of “racism” in a particular company or university, with bothersome requests for evidence, examples, or proof, I complain of being attacked, invalidated, and dehumanized rather than taking the opportunity to prove my point.  +5

18) I believe that “stories” and “narratives” are just as important and as convincing as knowledge grounded in logic, reason, and the scientific method. +7

19) As women are 50 percent more likely to earn bachelor’s degrees than men, this shows we need to do everything we can to support women in higher education. +3

20) I am familiar with the racialist statement “skinfolk aren’t always kinfolk,” and I look with suspicion at persons with whom I share the superficial characteristic of race but who disagree with me. +7

21) I routinely drop the word “systemic” into conversations. +3

22) I use the terms “white supremacy” and “white privilege” comfortably and un-ironically, without awareness that they are equivalent to scapegoat devil terms such as the bourgeoisie, or Kulaks, or International Jewry, or infidels to explain all the bad that happens. +5

23) I believe that the best method for advancing our knowledge and understanding of the physical world is logic, reason, and the type of inquiry we call the scientific method. -10

24) I believe that people like Ijeomo Oluo, Paulo Freire, Ibram Kendi, and Derald Wing Sue have important things to say about our society that get to the inner truth. +5

24) I don’t pay much attention to the fantasies, “stories,” and pseudoscience of Ijeomo Oluo, Paulo Freire, Ibram Kendi, and Derald Wing Sue. -7

25) I believe in something called “diversity science,” which substantiates the basic beneficial tenets of the diversity agenda. +5

26) I believe that “diversity science” is pseudo-scientific twaddle fabricated by off campus nonprofits and imported into universities and the corporate world. -10

27) The Brazilian educationist Paulo Freire and his Pedagogy of the Oppressed inspires me to work for social justice, emancipation, and against oppression in all its forms.  +5

28) I know that Paulo Freire was a crypto-Maoist who borrowed almost all of his education theory from Mao Zedong’s murderous Cultural Revolution, which Freire greatly admired. -5 BONUS POINTS:  If you know this but believe it’s a good thing.  +15 .

29) I believe any disagreement with my worldview can be overcome with more “education.” +3

30) I divide society into “oppressors” and “oppressed,” “exploiters” and “exploited,” and I know that this is a primitive Manichean way of looking at society that resembles a medievalist world divided into “infidels” and “believers.”  +5 BONUS POINTS:  If you do this and believe it’s a good thing.  +5

31) I believe in “inclusion and belonging” as fervently as any member of Reverend Moon’s Unification Church believes in “peace and unity.” +3

32) I believe that I have attained “critical consciousness” and that those who disagree with my ideology are afflicted with “false consciousness” and must be taught to embrace a new belief system. +5

33) I believe that “critical consciousness” and “false consciousness” constitute a tautological contrivance that updates Karl Marx’s notion of “class consciousness” for race and gender sensibilities. -5  BONUS POINTS: I recognize that critical consciousness is the latest play on Plato’s cave allegory from his Republic of the 4th century B.C. -5  DOUBLE-BONUS POINTS:  If you know the foregoing and believe they are good things. +15 I don’t know who Plato is. +10

34) I believe that the poetry of Audre Lorde is profound, particularly her “master’s tools” line. +2

35) I recognize that Audre Lorde’s “master’s tools” line is pedestrian. -7

36) “Inclusion and belonging” sounds too close to a cult slogan for me to feel comfortable with it. -7

37) I believe that I should be called “Doctor” just like Jill Biden because I wrote a 120-page “dissertation” for my Ed.D. that explores my feelings about the education program I just completed, and which required zero research.  +7

38) I am thrilled—thrilled—that “I finally get to use my master’s degree” in educational leadership to bring people to critical consciousness.  +3

 *  *  *

Good candidate? You make the call!

+40 and above: Welcome aboard, commissar!  Get ready to Do the Work! (Indoctrinating children)

+39-30: Not the perfect package but you’re ready to share authentic stories, struggle against “supremacy,” and do some dismantling! (Principal material)

+29-20: A few more weeks of amplifying “marginalized voices” should bolster your score. (Good Teachers Aide)

+19-10: You’re not committed enough—time for a “difficult dialogue” and a “courageous conversation,” capped off with a “Brave Space” (Somebody that meed a bit more work)

+9-0: Hands behind your back—your struggle session is through that door. (Report these people to the DEI committee)

-1 and below: Racist! (Never hire, likely MAGA person)

Edited November 13, 2023 by All_Pro_Bills

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Amazing.  They really are the party of lower expectations.

[B-Man]

 

[Tommy Callahan]

And they wonder why their is such a demand for charters, private and home schooling. 

 

 

[Tommy Callahan]

 

[B-Man]

 

 

Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, is a bad take machine. Randi is such a bad take machine that she reflexively shuts down her replies as soon as she posts a tweet because the few times she forgets to shut down replies she gets absolutely roasted, both for her poor decision making and advocacy choices during the Covid Shutdowns and for her generally bad takes on everyday issues.

 

Bad takes such as this one that she uncorked yesterday:

 

You'll note that note there on it? Certainly many people could be forgiven for not knowing the fact that in the Orthodox Jewish religious community men and women pray in separate areas.

 

Of course Randi herself is Jewish, even going so far as to call herself 'deeply religious' in the past, but that doesn't necessarily make her an expert, right? Maybe so, but her wife should at least be aware of this fact as T. Becket Adams points out.

 

 

https://twitchy.com/coucy/2023/11/15/dave-rubin-randi-weingarten-n2389817

[B-Man]

 

 

Quick !

 

More taxpayer money and activist teachers !

 

 

[Tiberius]

22 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

Quick !

 

More taxpayer money and activist teachers !

 

 

Great, more MAGA voters on the way...

[The Frankish Reich]

On 11/15/2023 at 1:38 PM, B-Man said:

 

 

Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, is a bad take machine. Randi is such a bad take machine that she reflexively shuts down her replies as soon as she posts a tweet because the few times she forgets to shut down replies she gets absolutely roasted, both for her poor decision making and advocacy choices during the Covid Shutdowns and for her generally bad takes on everyday issues.

 

Bad takes such as this one that she uncorked yesterday:

 

You'll note that note there on it? Certainly many people could be forgiven for not knowing the fact that in the Orthodox Jewish religious community men and women pray in separate areas.

 

Of course Randi herself is Jewish, even going so far as to call herself 'deeply religious' in the past, but that doesn't necessarily make her an expert, right? Maybe so, but her wife should at least be aware of this fact as T. Becket Adams points out.

 

 

https://twitchy.com/coucy/2023/11/15/dave-rubin-randi-weingarten-n2389817

Yes, it's a stupid take.

Here's a smarter one: why the hell would I take seriously a protest by a group that still segregates men from women?

[Tommy Callahan]

32 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

Quick !

 

More taxpayer money and activist teachers !

 

 

maybe, just maybe if they focused on teaching those subjects through graduation vs social topics, the kids might have a chance.

 

 

 

 

[B-Man]

13 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

Yes, it's a stupid take.

 

Here's a smarter one: why the hell would I take seriously a protest by a group that still segregates men from women?

 

 

Frank.

 

I hate to break it to you, but that is far from a "smarter" take.

 

Very illustrative of you though.

 

 

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[The Frankish Reich]

Just now, B-Man said:

 

 

Frank.

 

I hate to break it to you, but that is far from a "smarter" take.

 

Very illustrative of you though.

 

 

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I am not likely to be persuaded by adherents to a medieval form of religion. That's all.

[B-Man]

 

 

Chronic Absenteeism Remains a 'Crisis' for Schools Around the Country

 

 

After the disaster of remote learning, which teacher’s unions dragged out unnecessarily, we added the phrase “pandemic learning loss” to our collective vocabulary. The hope was that kids who were now months behind would be able to make up for those losses over time, i.e. to catch up. But it hasn’t worked out that way.

 

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/11/17/chronic-absenteeism-remains-a-crisis-for-schools-around-the-country-n593130

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

 

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[JDHillFan]

On 11/17/2023 at 11:36 AM, The Frankish Reich said:

Yes, it's a stupid take.

Here's a smarter one: why the hell would I take seriously a protest by a group that still segregates men from women?

Smarter? Perhaps. Yet still so incredibly dumb that it’s hard to imagine you would hit “submit reply” after typing it. 

[The Frankish Reich]

2 hours ago, JDHillFan said:

Smarter? Perhaps. Yet still so incredibly dumb that it’s hard to imagine you would hit “submit reply” after typing it. 

There are a variety of reasons in Judaism for gender separation.

In Pirkei Avot 1:5, Yosi ben Yochanan says that a man who spends too much time talking to women, even his wife, neglects the study of Torah and will inherit gehinnom.[1]

Chapter 152 of Kitzur Shulchan Aruch details a series of laws forbidding interaction between persons of the opposite sex who are not married or closely related.[2] Some of the prohibitions include negiah (physical contact), yichud (isolation with members of the opposite sex), staring at women or any of their body parts or attire, or conversation for pleasure.

 

During prayer services in Orthodox synagogues, seating is always separate. A mechitza is used to divide the men and women, and often to block the view from one section to the other. The reason for this is that a man might be distracted during prayer if he spots a beautiful woman. Halakha permits women to look at men in a synagogue during prayer services.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_separation_in_Judaism#:~:text=In Judaism%2C especially in Orthodox,more than secular western society.

 

Primitive.

[JDHillFan]

3 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

There are a variety of reasons in Judaism for gender separation.

In Pirkei Avot 1:5, Yosi ben Yochanan says that a man who spends too much time talking to women, even his wife, neglects the study of Torah and will inherit gehinnom.[1]

Chapter 152 of Kitzur Shulchan Aruch details a series of laws forbidding interaction between persons of the opposite sex who are not married or closely related.[2] Some of the prohibitions include negiah (physical contact), yichud (isolation with members of the opposite sex), staring at women or any of their body parts or attire, or conversation for pleasure.

 

During prayer services in Orthodox synagogues, seating is always separate. A mechitza is used to divide the men and women, and often to block the view from one section to the other. The reason for this is that a man might be distracted during prayer if he spots a beautiful woman. Halakha permits women to look at men in a synagogue during prayer services.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_separation_in_Judaism#:~:text=In Judaism%2C especially in Orthodox,more than secular western society.

 

Primitive.

“Sure, your people have been slaughtered and appear to be in more peril globally than at any time since the days of Hitler (the real one, not the orange one) but your religious traditions are not up contemporary standards. Therefore, I cannot take you seriously”

 

That’s quite a position you are staking out. 

[The Frankish Reich]

2 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:

“Sure, your people have been slaughtered and appear to be in more peril globally than at any time since the days of Hitler (the real one, not the orange one) but your religious traditions are not up contemporary standards. Therefore, I cannot take you seriously”

 

That’s quite a position you are staking out. 

The ultra Orthodox have been one of the key reasons why Israel is a mess today. I'm not talking about the Hamas attacks. I'm talking about the dysfunctional government and the weakening of the rule of law.

[JDHillFan]

2 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

The ultra Orthodox have been one of the key reasons why Israel is a mess today. I'm not talking about the Hamas attacks. I'm talking about the dysfunctional government and the weakening of the rule of law.

You’ve gone from commenting on prayer traditions to dysfunctional government. Your original take was slightly less dumb than that of Randi Weingarten. You might as well just put that in your back pocket and take the W.