So was just at my UT branch, and at least, per my colleagues there, this is "guidance" not a "rule," so we have to wait and see how it plays out. More hopeful in some ways, but am chairing a search right now and wondering why anyone would want to move here etc.
Bonus for our California colleges and universities. Industry will gobble up or graduates who actually know something while relegating graduates from Tejas and Florida to "we'll call you" status.
One of the fourteen defining characteristics of fascism is literally "Hostility towards education and the arts".
And here we are today. The fascists are now sanitizing education and the arts (especially in the form of entertainment) so as not to offend their OWN tender sensibilities. And like the fascists they are, if they don't like it then nobody gets to appreciate it.
The antithesis of science stated concisely in five words.
My fantasy is that Board Chair Kevin Eltife be selected to be the first to cross a high bridge whose engineering specifications were drafted, and construction proceeded by application of friendly vagueness.
"…a number of religious traditions hold that saying the universe is around 13.8 billion years old is not merely controversial but an attack on their faith."
You know, faith isn't supposed to be an alternative to science. In fact it's supposed to be something that is constantly challenged. It's why the phrase "test of faith" is a thing. So ironically, censoring information that challenges faith is the REAL "attack on faith."
I have no problem with them maintaining their ignorance because it will ultimately strangle their lives, it's the attempt to force other people into the same box that annoys me.
I remember when people said Bush would never leave office after his second term and thinking that was obvious bullshit… DON'T HAVE THE SAME FEELING ABOUT THIS TRUMP FELLOW
I won a costume contest going as Beck. "AM Talk show blow hard" even made a conspiracy chalk board. Won $600 and a few handshakes in Fairfax VA no less.
True story.
Edit: it only took $1.73 to make. Marry Ann bought me the tin foil to make the hat.
If I was a college professor who just won some fuck you lottery money, I’d teach the most fundamentalist fundie bigoted class I can pull together to see if I can get myself fired.
Like I’d literally teach how Bishop Usher calculated the age of the Earth to be 6000 years old, and why this is correct.
When students and parents complain, I’d go start setting up bets on the prediction markets to see if I get fired.
Heresy! The world was created on December 13, 1979! Exactly ten years before Taylor Swift was born, and 31 years after Ted Nugent.
And once I get more red string for my pushpin board and ayahuasca enema I'll be able to explain how it all connects and then sue any school that doesn't provide a curriculum that conforms to my deeply held paranoid hallucinations!
I came into being in 1973, the Most Important Year in the History of the Universe. All that happened after me is blessed. All that happened before me does not exist.
Who is in the way of tomorrow's blizzard? It's supposed to be 2 feet. I secured my snow removal guy for Tuesday and am making sure all devices are charged. I also have an actual radio, just in case.
The esteemed Ms. Jasmine Crockett, JD, AWD, is midway between Houston and Almost-Canada, and reported to be in excellent condition, though one tire is being checked for a slow leak. Spending tonight next to the house of a relative, a disapproving elderly academic, in the state of Misery. She is expected to roll into the driveway late tomorrow evening. Report concluded.
*My Mothra-in-law is critical of all makes of car except Subarus. And much of other things not her own, including decor colors, hairstyles, attire, pet species, opinions, fields of scientific specialty, etc.
Cold AF in my corner of California. I had a frozen and burst pipe yesterday morning. I've been waiting to hear the hiss of running water again, but so far my repair has held. One more night in the deep freeze and we should be in the clear.
Maybe it's just that El TACO Putrefacto is so badly impaired that he just doesn't remember any of the shit he spews from one moment to the next. Yesterday it was 10% tariffs 'on the world'. Now it's 15%. PLUS he wants to start a war with a country whose name starts with an 'I' . . .
"President Donald Trump said Saturday that he wants a global tariff of 15%, up from 10% he had announced a day earlier after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down many of the far-reaching taxes on imports that he had imposed over the last year."
I haven't been around, really, for a while because I was too busy being assaulted and bitten in my special-needs K-2 classroom. No one probably remembers because I talked about it months ago. However, I have news. My principal switched me with another teacher (his idea, not mine) and now I am the special needs teacher for the 5th grade team. I can actually breathe.
I'm supposed to start Monday, but we are getting a blizzard tomorrow (this week was a vacation week - lol).
Sorry you've been dealing with that, and glad that it's been resolved. Though I hope they're doing more than just throwing that other teacher in that classroom.
She said she's OK with it, even though I tried to tell her what she was in for. So hoping for the best. She's been in a sub-separate classroom before.
Oh - when admin held the meeting to discuss this (before they approached us), my union rep was there. She told me they mentioned my age as a reason to do the switch. o.O.
She has 3 paras. It didn't help me, though. There's more to the story, but I'll not bore you. It has to do with ABAs and the school sped person.
I know - I mean, this could get them in big trouble. I think I'm going to have the union person tell me exactly what was said and the context, and document it.
So was just at my UT branch, and at least, per my colleagues there, this is "guidance" not a "rule," so we have to wait and see how it plays out. More hopeful in some ways, but am chairing a search right now and wondering why anyone would want to move here etc.
Bonus for our California colleges and universities. Industry will gobble up or graduates who actually know something while relegating graduates from Tejas and Florida to "we'll call you" status.
"These vampires were all decrepit, revolting and predatory old men" Reminds me of someone currently in the Oval Office:
https://theconversation.com/how-dracula-became-a-red-hot-lover-275789
Somewhere, that corrupter of youth Socrates is shaking his head.
One of the fourteen defining characteristics of fascism is literally "Hostility towards education and the arts".
And here we are today. The fascists are now sanitizing education and the arts (especially in the form of entertainment) so as not to offend their OWN tender sensibilities. And like the fascists they are, if they don't like it then nobody gets to appreciate it.
"Vagueness can be our friend."
The antithesis of science stated concisely in five words.
My fantasy is that Board Chair Kevin Eltife be selected to be the first to cross a high bridge whose engineering specifications were drafted, and construction proceeded by application of friendly vagueness.
"…a number of religious traditions hold that saying the universe is around 13.8 billion years old is not merely controversial but an attack on their faith."
You know, faith isn't supposed to be an alternative to science. In fact it's supposed to be something that is constantly challenged. It's why the phrase "test of faith" is a thing. So ironically, censoring information that challenges faith is the REAL "attack on faith."
—The more you know 🌈✨🎶
I have no problem with them maintaining their ignorance because it will ultimately strangle their lives, it's the attempt to force other people into the same box that annoys me.
IDK man, they say rising tide lifts all boats. I'm inclined to say the opposite is also true.
I don't give a shit if their boat sinks, just don't be drilling holes in mine.
Actually now that I think about it science is also something that's supposed to be constantly challenged, but my original point still stands lol
Remember when Bush II looked smart? (I dont)
Now even The Cheney family and Glenn Beck look reasonable.
Edit: in what world does Ron Paul.....forget it... .
I remember when people said Bush would never leave office after his second term and thinking that was obvious bullshit… DON'T HAVE THE SAME FEELING ABOUT THIS TRUMP FELLOW
No, Beck doesn't. His conspiracy mongering is a big part of today's GOP.
I won a costume contest going as Beck. "AM Talk show blow hard" even made a conspiracy chalk board. Won $600 and a few handshakes in Fairfax VA no less.
True story.
Edit: it only took $1.73 to make. Marry Ann bought me the tin foil to make the hat.
Don't forget Alex Jones. Those two guys have pickled more American brains than meth and fentanyl combined.
The jews use Lazer beams to control....libraries? Public TV? The World Series? Your cat? Or something....
Wake up Sheeple!
As I've said before, conservatism requires conspiracy theories. But those two have driven quite a bit of it recently.
If I was a college professor who just won some fuck you lottery money, I’d teach the most fundamentalist fundie bigoted class I can pull together to see if I can get myself fired.
Like I’d literally teach how Bishop Usher calculated the age of the Earth to be 6000 years old, and why this is correct.
When students and parents complain, I’d go start setting up bets on the prediction markets to see if I get fired.
*record scratch*
Yup, that's me there. I suppose you're wondering how I got to be Governor of Texas. Well it started when I won the lottery...
The Earth is just a little over 57 years old, having come into existence moments before my birth.
Heresy! The world was created on December 13, 1979! Exactly ten years before Taylor Swift was born, and 31 years after Ted Nugent.
And once I get more red string for my pushpin board and ayahuasca enema I'll be able to explain how it all connects and then sue any school that doesn't provide a curriculum that conforms to my deeply held paranoid hallucinations!
You get that too?
I came into being in 1973, the Most Important Year in the History of the Universe. All that happened after me is blessed. All that happened before me does not exist.
🙌🏾
Who is in the way of tomorrow's blizzard? It's supposed to be 2 feet. I secured my snow removal guy for Tuesday and am making sure all devices are charged. I also have an actual radio, just in case.
We’re supposed to get 10” overnight Sunday. Thankfully, after the snowstorm temperatures will be above freezing.
Right now we're not expecting any real snow until late next week.
When Trump said that "five pencils are enough" was he including colored pencils too?? 😃
Well he has 2 ears and stupid and 2 eyes. Probally uses magick-marker up his ass...divide by pi. That is actually 4.3333333 pencils he needs
I calculated it. Just now.
Yes, but they only count as 3/5 of a pencil.
badda bing!
Only the white one. Maybe the beige one, too.
Only the entertaining beige ones.
The esteemed Ms. Jasmine Crockett, JD, AWD, is midway between Houston and Almost-Canada, and reported to be in excellent condition, though one tire is being checked for a slow leak. Spending tonight next to the house of a relative, a disapproving elderly academic, in the state of Misery. She is expected to roll into the driveway late tomorrow evening. Report concluded.
*My Mothra-in-law is critical of all makes of car except Subarus. And much of other things not her own, including decor colors, hairstyles, attire, pet species, opinions, fields of scientific specialty, etc.
It's a core principle of Fascism that all institutions, including educational ones at all levels, are aligned with the State and its Maximum Leader.
The German word is "Gleichschaltung."
I'm old enough to remember when we expected students to question things.
Students can still question things, like how dare science use radioactive decay to second guess the Bible as to the age of the Earth.
The sky is improbably blue, the clouds brilliant white and the hills are a lush vibrant green.
California is quite beautiful.
And a gummy + walking the dog is an excellent way to start the day.
Cold AF in my corner of California. I had a frozen and burst pipe yesterday morning. I've been waiting to hear the hiss of running water again, but so far my repair has held. One more night in the deep freeze and we should be in the clear.
The sky is grey and the clouds are grey and it is still t-shirt weather. California isn’t half bad, even in its moody phase.
Is that James Joyce?
No, Gas Panda.
Did it require three readings and four pages of notes to understand?
Hahhahaha.
Well played
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Maybe it's just that El TACO Putrefacto is so badly impaired that he just doesn't remember any of the shit he spews from one moment to the next. Yesterday it was 10% tariffs 'on the world'. Now it's 15%. PLUS he wants to start a war with a country whose name starts with an 'I' . . .
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"Trump says he’ll raise tariffs to 15 percent after Supreme Court ruling"–https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariff-truth-social-872c8f04112a8991d8aa6ae5005767b6
"President Donald Trump said Saturday that he wants a global tariff of 15%, up from 10% he had announced a day earlier after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down many of the far-reaching taxes on imports that he had imposed over the last year."
Yeah, he and the failboys shorted the fuck outta the S&P and it refused to go down on Friday.
India? Indonesia? Iraq? Ireland? Israel? Italy?
It could be either Iraq OR Iceland.
I haven't been around, really, for a while because I was too busy being assaulted and bitten in my special-needs K-2 classroom. No one probably remembers because I talked about it months ago. However, I have news. My principal switched me with another teacher (his idea, not mine) and now I am the special needs teacher for the 5th grade team. I can actually breathe.
I'm supposed to start Monday, but we are getting a blizzard tomorrow (this week was a vacation week - lol).
Sorry you've been dealing with that, and glad that it's been resolved. Though I hope they're doing more than just throwing that other teacher in that classroom.
She said she's OK with it, even though I tried to tell her what she was in for. So hoping for the best. She's been in a sub-separate classroom before.
Oh - when admin held the meeting to discuss this (before they approached us), my union rep was there. She told me they mentioned my age as a reason to do the switch. o.O.
Good luck to her. That sounds to me like a situation that requires more people, though.
I'm not even sure what to say to the second part.
She has 3 paras. It didn't help me, though. There's more to the story, but I'll not bore you. It has to do with ABAs and the school sped person.
I know - I mean, this could get them in big trouble. I think I'm going to have the union person tell me exactly what was said and the context, and document it.
No worries. Again, I hope this change works for everyone.