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tell me to skip teaching the evil of slavery or take my classroom library is the day my keys get thrown in their face
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... -condemned
An alleged “Nazi homeschooling group” based in Ohio has been widely condemned, amid reports that it distributed lesson plans which included writing exercises based on quotes by Adolf Hitler.

A couple calling themselves “Mr and Mrs Saxon” established the “Dissident Homeschool” channel on Telegram in 2021, according to reporting by Anonymous Comrades Collective, an anti-fascist research group, verified by Huffpost and Vice.

The channel, which has almost 2,500 subscribers, distributes “ready-made lesson plans”, Huffpost reported, including history lessons which praise the Confederate general Robert E Lee as a “grand role model for young, white men” and denigrate Martin Luther King Jr as “the antithesis of our civilization and our people”.

The Saxons were identified by Huffpost and Vice as Logan and Katja Lawrence, from Upper Sandusky, a town of about 7,000 in northern Ohio.
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I can't get the HuffPo link right now, but its article is excellent... in a horrible way.
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Lani wrote: Wed Feb 01, 2023 8:11 pm I can't get the HuffPo link right now, but its article is excellent... in a horrible way.
This article?

Inside The Online Community Where Home-Schoolers Learn How To Turn Their Kids Into ‘Wonderful Nazis’
A Telegram group called Dissident Homeschool has been a resource for neo-Nazis who want to teach their kids hate at home. Now its administrators have been unmasked.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/home-sch ... 43638e6a0a
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our school was swatted today

i missed it cause i went home after 4 classes because i was vomiting
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sad-cafe wrote: Thu Feb 02, 2023 7:21 pm our school was swatted today

i missed it cause i went home after 4 classes because i was vomiting
I'm glad you missed it, but sorry to hear you're not feeling well!
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For years, school-choice advocates toted up small victories in their drive to give parents taxpayer money to pay for private school. Now, Republican-led states across the country are leaving the limitations of the past behind them as they consider sweeping new voucher laws that would let every family use public funds to pay for private school.

Last year, Arizona created what activists consider a model program: Every child who forgoes public school for private programs, including religious schools, is eligible for a taxpayer-funded payment worth $7,000 — almost as much as the state sends to public schools per student.

In January, Iowa and Utah followed suit, creating their own universal programs. GOP governors in Arkansas, South Carolina, Virginia and Oklahoma have listed these programs among their top priorities for 2023. In other states, Republican lawmakers are pushing the same.

“Families find themselves trapped in failing schools simply because they live in the wrong Zip code,” Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) said Wednesday at the state Capitol, where she unveiled her plan, which she previewed in a nationally televised address responding to the State of the Union speech on behalf of Republicans. “Our new Education Freedom Account allows parents to enroll their kids in whatever school is most appropriate for their family, whether it be public, private, parochial or home school.”

Many voucher and voucherlike programs enacted in recent years were more modest: Called “scholarships,” they created tax incentives for donations to nonprofits that would subsidize certain families who wanted to send their children to private school. Eligibility was limited — typically by income, to those in a particular area or to children with special needs.

The new, more expansive version does away with this shuffling of dollars. Now the plans are run by the state, with direct appropriations. They are open to anyone, and the money can pay for tuition or other expenses, a huge benefit to home-schooling families. Calling these programs “scholarships” and now “education savings accounts,” or ESAs, also allows advocates to avoid the word “vouchers,” a term that grew politically unpopular in some quarters.
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‘The Evidence is Clear’: Ohio Gov Pushes For Science of Reading As Only Approach

Patrick O’Donnell
Tue, February 21, 2023 at 1:15 PM GMT+1

Ohio could soon join the rush of states requiring schools to use the “Science of Reading” in all its classrooms by fall 2024 — going even further than many states by banning other literacy approaches that have lost credibility.

Currently, state law allows districts to teach reading however they want. Under his proposed bill, Gov. Mike DeWine would force them to pick only phonics-based Science of Reading materials from a list the Ohio Department of Education will create.

Dewine has also asked the state legislature to ban use of any “three cueing” materials or lessons — an approach considered the foundation of popular teaching methods known as Whole Language, Balanced Literacy or, particularly in Ohio, Reading Recovery.

“The jury has returned,” DeWine, a Republican, said in his State of the State speech late last month where he led off his address with the importance of the Science of Reading. “The evidence is clear. The verdict is in.”

“There is a great deal of research about how we learn to read,” he said. “And today, we understand the great value and importance of phonics. Not all literacy curriculums are created equal, and sadly, many Ohio students do not have access to the most effective reading curriculum.”

DeWine is seeking $129 million from the legislature to retrain teachers and replace elementary school textbooks.




https://www.yahoo.com/news/evidence-cle ... 00107.html
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Use the money to RETRAIN teachers in Ohio? Methinks DeWine used the wrong word, it would be much better for the students if they used the money to RETAIN teachers instead...
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Columbus substitute: Your children 'deserve better than having me as their teacher'

Suzanna Hyatt
Wed, February 22, 2023 at 12:07 PM GMT+1

Suzanna Hyatt is a Columbus resident, substitute teacher, coach and mother.

Who is in charge of your child’s instruction?

I am. An uncertified, untrained, substitute teacher.

Unfortunately, across the district there are countless open positions being filled by substitutes, many since the beginning of the year, from special education to chemistry and every role in between.

Our only requirement? Have a college degree.

More:Central Ohio school districts see gains in substitute teachers amid nationwide shortage

In Columbus City School’s 28-page Substitute Handbook there is one line found under, Recording Student Attendance that states, “Long-term substitutes may be asked to log/enter grades-ask for access as well as assistance to understand what is being asked of you.”

This is the only warning that substitute teachers may be completely in charge of lesson plans, testing, behavior management, report cards, IEP meetings, parent teacher conferences.

The only thing substitutes are not allowed to do? Lunch duty and summer school.




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Texas High Schoolers Are Being Jailed on Felony Charges For Vaping

Jolie McCullough
Sat, February 25, 2023 at 2:00 PM GMT+1

SPRING BRANCH — When kids walk into the gas station near the high school in this rural stretch north of San Antonio, they come face to face with Texas’ booming market in psychoactive hemp derivatives.

Just inside the door, a glass cabinet entices shoppers to a smorgasbord of fruity and doughnut-flavored vape pens dressed in vibrant, shiny packaging. The store, like many across Texas, is promoting its collection of delta-8 and other new strains of purportedly legal tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the mind-altering part of the cannabis plant.

Any adult over age 21 can buy the vapes at this Valero. But if the Comal Independent School District catches one of its students down the road at Smithson Valley High School with a pound cake-flavored vape, they may end up in county jail, facing felony charges that would follow them the rest of their life.

School officials and local law enforcement are attempting to stymie the sometimes dangerous youth vaping craze by drawing a hard line. Students are offered $100 for anonymously reporting classmates with THC vape pens to the police.

And since sheriff’s deputies assigned to the schools often can tell if a vape pen contains THC, but not whether it’s delta-8 or the illegal delta-9 cannabis oil, they assume the worst, slap on the cuffs and leave it for someone else to figure out.

That’s what happened to Myles Leon, a Smithson Valley senior arrested at school in October with what he says was a delta-8 vape pen. At 17, he is considered an adult in Texas’ criminal system, facing a felony charge based on the as yet unproven assumption that the vape pen he was caught holding might have contained the illegal delta-9.

“They instantly just think it’s [illegal] THC. I don’t think they really care about the difference,” Myles said in December, hunched next to his mother on their living room couch. “Because even I said that it was delta-8 and it didn’t matter. They’re still gonna arrest me anyways.”




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School punished teen girl for working out in sports bra in 100-degree Texas heat, ACLU says

Samantha Kubota
Sat, March 4, 2023 at 5:39 AM GMT+1

A Houston-area teen enlisted the help of the American Civil Liberties Union after she says her school reprimanded her for working out in a sports bra while male athletes were allowed to practice shirtless.

The girl, who was only identified by her initials G.H., says she is a cross-country and track athlete at Spring Woods High School in Houston. In a press release from the local ACLU chapter, she said she was disciplined for wearing a sports bra while she was working out in 100-degree heat.

According to the release from the ACLU, after the student complained, the school district staff then “regarded G.H. dismissively and denied her an award for being the top runner on the girls’ cross-country team.”

The student says she has the best performance record on the team and has never missed a practice. She says the award would have been “critical” for college applications and recruiting.

The ACLU sent a letter to Spring Branch ISD warning the district that “it appears that District officials and employees have maintained and enforced the District’s dress code in a manner that reflects and reinforces invidious sex stereotypes and have treated the Spring Woods High School girls’ and boys’ cross-country teams differently in the quality of coaching and training in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.”

The letter goes into detail about G.H.’s treatment on the cross-country and track teams and notes that she felt targeted by her coaches for speaking out and by the changing standards in dress codes for student athletes.



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HOUSTON -- Texas officials on Wednesday announced a state takeover of Houston's nearly 200,000-student public school district, the eighth-largest in the country, acting on years of threats and angering Democrats who assailed the move as political.

The announcement, made by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's education commissioner, Mike Morath, amounts to one of the largest school takeovers ever in the U.S. It also deepens a high-stakes rift between Texas' largest city, where Democrats wield control, and state Republican leaders, who have sought increased authority following election fumbles and COVID-19 restrictions.

The takeover is the latest example of Republican and predominately white state officials pushing to take control of actions in heavily minority and Democratic-led cities. They include St. Louis and Jackson, Mississippi, where the Legislature is pushing to take over the water system and for an expanded role for state police and appointed judges.

In a letter to the Houston Independent School District, Morath said the Texas Education Agency will replace Superintendent Millard House II and the district's elected board of trustees with a new superintendent and an appointed board of managers made of residents from within the district's boundaries.
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In less than 24 hours, 60,000+ LAUSD workers and teachers will walk out of schools after reaching an impasse during labor negotiations.
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news ... e-tomorow/

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Tens of thousands of workers in the Los Angeles Unified School District plan to walk off the job on Tuesday over stalled contract talks. They'll be joined by teachers in a three-day strike that will shut down the nation’s second-largest school system.

https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles- ... 2e531dd3d0
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Supreme Court rules for deaf student in education case

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The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday for a deaf student who sued his public school system for providing an inadequate education. The case is significant for other disabled students who allege they were failed by school officials.

The case the justices ruled in involves Miguel Luna Perez, who attended public school in Sturgis, Michigan. Perez’s lawyers told the court that for 12 years the school system neglected the boy and lied to his parents about the progress he was making, permanently stunting his ability to communicate.

The justices ruled that after Perez and his family settled a complaint against the school system — with officials agreeing to pay for additional schooling and sign language instruction — they could pursue money damages under a different federal law. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in a eight-page opinion for the court that the case “holds consequences not just for Mr. Perez but for a great many children with disabilities and their parents.”

It remains difficult for Perez, who emigrated to the United States from Mexico at age 9, to make himself understood. Perez’s lawyers say the school system failed him by providing an aide who was not trained to work with deaf students, did not know sign language and in later years left him alone for hours at a time. After over a decade, Perez did not know any formal sign language and communicated through invented signs that anyone unfamiliar with his unique signing did not understand, his lawyers have said.
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5 charged after Indiana special needs student, 7, is forced to eat his own vomit with a spoon, police say

Minyvonne Burke
Fri, April 28, 2023 at 12:15 AM GMT+2

Four Indiana elementary school staff members and a behavioral technician were charged after a 7-year-old special education student was allegedly forced to eat his own vomit with a spoon.

Sara Seymour, 27; Debra Kanipe, 63; Julie Taylor, 48; Kristen Mitchell, 38; and Megan King, 24, were all charged with misdemeanor failure to report, Brownsburg police said Wednesday on Facebook.

Seymour and Kanipe were also charged with felony neglect of a dependent, police said.

The charges stem from an incident in February at Brown Elementary School in Brownsburg, about 20 miles northwest of Indianapolis.

Authorities said the video showed the student seated at a table in the cafeteria. The boy was eating his lunch and then stood up, appearing to gag on his food. Seymour, a life skills teacher, appeared to tell him to sit down, police said.

Seymour allegedly told the child that if he vomited, he would be required to eat what the threw up, police said. Taylor, a life skills teacher, was present and gave the boy a tray, the release says.

Police said the child vomited on the tray and the table. Kanipe, a life skills instructional aid, allegedly handed the boy a spoon. The child was forced to use the spoon to eat the vomit and then clean up the rest with paper towels, police said.

"Both Seymour and Kanipe stood at each side of the child while he consumed a portion of the vomit," the news release says. "Mitchell and King were present and witnessed the incident."

King is a behavioral technician with K1ds Count Therapy, a third-party contractor with the school. The company did not immediately reply to a request for comment Thursday.

Brownsburg police were notified of the incident on April 12, shortly after the school was made aware of it. The Hendricks County Prosecutor's Office filed the charges Tuesday.




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stumbled upon this tweet, may not be valid everywhere

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Fun fact: pregnant teachers who can’t time their delivery with summer break and who can’t save up enough sick days (usually 10 per year) pay for their substitutes while on maternity leave.
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https://www.nctq.org/blog/How-many-scho ... al%20leave.

How much pay do districts offer during parental leave?
Of the districts in our sample that provide access to paid parental leave (18%), 11 offer all days of the leave at full pay.10 Another 15 provide compensation below the full amount of a teacher's regular paycheck, meaning that teachers would have an extended pay cut should they want or need to access parental leave. Seven of these 15 districts make this calculation by subtracting the cost of the substitute's pay from teachers' paychecks during time on leave,11 and one district does not specify pay.
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‘The sex ed class you wish you’d had’: the influencer doctors teaching Americans the basics
With schools failing American students, OB-GYNs use TikTok to tackle questions and dispel myths

Alaina Demopoulos
Fri 7 Jul 2023 12.00 BST

Some of TikTok’s biggest stars aren’t teen influencers or adorable pets – they are OB-GYNs posting sex education videos.

Need to know if you can continue to take antidepressants while pregnant? Dr Keith L Riggs, a Houston-based OB-GYN, has got you covered. Want to see how an IUD is inserted into the uterus? Check out a demo on the Dallas physician assistant Shay Blue’s page. Have questions on what sex position is most likely to get you pregnant? Dr Ali Rodriguez – aka the Latina Doc – made a video for that. (Spoiler: it’s whatever position you like the most – no method has emerged as a scientifically proven best choice.)

All kinds of doctors have joined TikTok. There are plastic surgeons and dermatologists who gleefully post videos hypothesizing what work an actor has had done. Dentists film videos – equal parts terrifying and mesmerizing – showing what plaque looks like as it’s scraped from teeth. If you really want to see footage from a colonoscopy, hit up the urology corner of #healthtok.

But those who practice #OBGYN – a hashtag that has over 5bn views on the app – enjoy a particular kind of virality. And some of the most popular have parlayed their online fame into other ventures.

Dr Jennifer Lincoln, who has 2.8 million followers and claims to offer “the health class you wish you had in high school”, published a book on reproductive health in 2021 and hosts a podcast where she answers listeners’ questions about all things sex. (Recent episodes include A Summer Period Survival Guide and Myth-Busting the Morning-After Pill.)

“There’s just a lot of people out there who do not know how to access things,” Lincoln, who lives in Portland, said. “Commenters have asked about anything from birth control to a pregnancy test. These are basic things we would have hoped to have been covered in sex ed, but that’s not the case in the majority of states.”

Americans have been receiving inadequate sex education for decades – but in the last year, things have become even worse. The supreme court’s reversal of Roe v Wade has led to a flood of abortion misinformation online, and Florida’s “don’t say gay” law means that teachers can no longer lead classroom discussions on gender identity or sexuality. As LGBTQ+ students continue to be marginalized across the country, they lack information that can help them understand their bodies and cultivate a sense of autonomy.



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‘No chairs, no stairs, no glass in the windows’: what did Kanye West’s schoolkids get for $15,000 a year?
The rapper denies his private Christian academy was a ‘dystopian institution’. But the bizarre allegations keep coming

Arwa Mahdawi
Wed 12 Jul 2023 11.00 BST

When you reach a certain level of wealth, a little switch seemingly gets turned off in your brain. The part of your mind that tells you: “Nah, I’m not really qualified for this,” is disabled and you become convinced that being filthy rich makes you an expert in everything. There are plenty of examples of “money brain” out there, but one of the more glaring is Kanye West. Ye, as West likes to be known, seems to think that his success in music and fashion makes him qualified to do everything from run for president to set up a school.

We all know how his presidential aspirations went, but we are only just discovering quite how bizarre the disgraced musician’s foray into education was. A few years ago, Ye opened a private school in Los Angeles called Yeezy Christian Academy, which became Donda Academy. The school, which cost $15,000 (£11,600) a year, was named after his late mother, Prof Donda West, and was highly secretive about its unorthodox approach.

Now, the school is the subject of two lawsuits and the allegations are coming fast. According to the lawsuits, filed by three former teachers and an ex-assistant principal, the school had no janitorial or medical staff and a bizarre list of rules. For example, students were served only sushi for lunch, which reportedly cost Ye $10,000 (£7,800) a week. The kids weren’t allowed to use forks and had to sit on the floor to eat because Ye “banished chairs in place of foam floor cushions”. Another alleged no-no at Donda Academy was stairs: there weren’t any classes on the second floor, because Ye is “afraid of stairs”. Colours were also prohibited: students had to wear all black; cups and bowls had to be grey. Windows were empty because the musician “doesn’t like glass”. Perhaps most disturbingly, the school doors were locked from the outside during the school day.

Ye and his lawyers, I should note, have said all these allegations should be dismissed and depictions of Donda Academy as a “dystopian institution designed to satisfy Ye’s idiosyncrasies” were false. Perhaps that is true. Still, it may be that there is a cohort of LA kids out there who never want to eat sushi again.



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Stanford freshman's determined reporting leads to investigation, president's resignation

By Kristen Sze
Thursday, July 20, 2023 5:37AM

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- In a move that shook up the Bay Area, Silicon Valley and the world of science and education, Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne resigned Wednesday after months of scrutiny over accusations of possible manipulated research he oversaw as a neuroscientist. His departure comes after seven years as head of one of the world's leading universities, and after eight months of determined reporting by an 18-year-old freshman.

Theo Baker is Investigations Editor for the Stanford Daily. He had just arrived at Stanford campus last fall when he decided to dig into murmurings in scientific forums that the president of his university may have allowed falsified scientific data to become published. His stories led the university to hire an outside law firm to investigate. The firm released its final report Wednesday. While it did not find Tessier-Lavigne personally responsible for any falsification of data, it found that he created a lab culture that could have pressured postdocs to do so, and that he should have corrected the mistakes.

Baker and his fellow student journalists' reporting on Tessier-Lavigne earned the Stanford Daily a prestigious 2022 Polk Award, a first for an independent student-run newspaper. And Baker himself was given a "Special Award," described by the organization as a recognition "to honor a reporter who exhibits steadfastness and bravery and whose work does not fall into a typical category." Past winners include Nikole Hannah-Jones of the New York Times and the 1619 Project.

Baker was on ABC7 Getting Answers Wednesday and talked to anchor Kristen Sze about his "utterly strange" journey, taking on his university president, holding his university accountable, and igniting a conversation about research integrity.




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Wait.. does that mean there are about 3% of people who are opposed to teaching math?

No.. wait.. I've seen enough flat earth and adjacent videos for that to sound about right. There are a surprising number of people out there that seem to think math is a jewish conspiracy to trick christians into worshiping satan.
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