I have an astounding number of Facebook friends who've lost touch with reality. Mostly people my age

[Rustynaerduwell]

There is no pandemic.
Everything is a conspiracy.
Jesus is coming back...very soon...everyone get ready.
"They" want you to wear masks so they know who they can control.
Global climate change is a hoax.
All media, every educational institution, every hospital, all scientists, everyone in the government for more than the last three years- everyone not a Trumper- is doing everything we see to:

-control you

-indoctrinate your children

-destroy Democracy

-install communism

-destroy Trump

-kill Jesus

BTW, I'm 59.

A lot of people I know believe all of this. And every one of them votes.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I see dead people.

Walking around like regular people. They don't see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don't know they're dead.

[struggle4progress]

14. +

[elleng]

2. Fortunately, I have no such 'friends.'

[jrthin]

6. Neither do I. People who think this way could never

be considered my friends. They'd add too much stress to my life.

[SoonerPride]

3. I would remove them as friends.

Just saying.

Before I deleted Facebook for good a couple years ago, I culled all the whack jobs from my friends list.

I don’t have patience anymore for that kind of bullshit.

[Ilsa]

11. Me too. I didn't want there to be another account for

Trolls to advertise or post propaganda and lies on through family members.

[Mike 03]

4. I don't do Facebook any longer, but when I did I

tried to be a little bit selective about who I friended.

[LizBeth]

5. Jesus was coming back 2004'ish and they worked hard to give a helping hand. Literally heard

this from Southern Baptists and they had no problem saying it out loud. Why, do we seem to always create the end of the world with Republicans?

[Steven Maurer]

7. Being a libbie lib involved in local politics, I get a slightly different list from the left:

* The DNC rigged the election for Biden

* Democrats want to lose

* Sanders is a traitor for not running third party

* The nomination fight is not over

* Millions of votes picking Sanders were thrown out without being counted

* Polls were rigged

* Everyone needs to vote third party (or even Trump, if done ironically) to punish Democrats

* The United States is becoming communist, finally!

* No really, the absolute shellacking that the far left received isn't reflective of public opinion at all, but a nefarious conspiracy whose details remain somewhat fuzzy.

[pwb]

8. Well you got that out for them.

I don't care what idiots do. There is not always another view of things. This smells of fox news viewers.

[Solly Mack]

9. In Early Childhood Development there are stepping stones

to learning.

For example, a 3 or 4 year old is asked to separate blocks into colors. A pile of red, a pile of blue, a pile of green and so on - all subsets of a set of blocks. Parts if the whole.

As the educator you say just that. This red pile is a subset, this blue pile, etc. - you speak in math terms and in science terms.

Because that grouping by color is a stepping stone of math and science. The child is learning the concept of wholes, halves, sets and subsets. As the teacher, you use those blocks to demonstrate the basics, the very foundation, for later learning.

One step and then another step. Stepping stones by which to secure the base knowledge for progressively higher and more complicated concepts.

Early stages you need, stepping stones you must grasp, before you can understand the connections that come later.

Fundamental learning.

I think maybe some people did more tripping over stones than learning to firmly step.

[snowybirdie]

10. Anyone ever research

What home schooling has done to our society? Seems to me all this ignorance can be traced back to that movement 30 or so years ago.

[LiberalLoner]

12. But it seems like most of the people who watch Fox and believe all that stuff are old enough

To have missed the home school movement.

[snowybirdie]

13. Granted

I was thinking of all the fools in pools, at beaches and bars, etc. who are not distancing or wearing masks. They lack any critical thinking at all.

[Solly Mack]

16. Depends on the ideology of those doing the homeschooling.

Rightwing fundamentalists oppose actual science, using a KJV bible based curriculum. All subjects steeped in what the KJV of the bible claims to be true and, for some, adapted even more depending on their individual beliefs.

Keeping in mind that different religions homeschool differently based on the religion they follow, as well as the sub - groups within a religion.

Some Liberals homeschool and you'll find that individual beliefs can and do play a role there as well. Not as much though. Science usually prevails. Accepted knowledge usually prevails.

Even so, a parent who teaches an approved science class at home might still hold some views that don't mesh with science. Those biases register with the child.

Even in a formal school setting parental biases can and do impact what a child learns. Teacher states one thing, parent claims another. Conflict in learning for the child. That happens a lot. Especially in history and science.

The personal beliefs of the teacher can also cause a conflict in learning. A public school teacher who includes religious comments during a lesson, as an example. Happens.

I'm sure there are recent studies on the subject. What I am expressing comes from issues that were found years ago when I was actively teaching.

The parental influence, both to the good and the bad, is something that still holds true. More so now it seems to me. A lot more widespread respect for experts years ago as opposed to now

[milestogo]

15. Facebook is the Devil.

Stop reading it.

[Wounded Bear]

17. They're still on your "friends" list?

Why?

[AwakeAtLast]

18. Don't forget - the vaccine is going to chip us