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Joinfortmill
(14,378 posts)Irish_Dem
(46,426 posts)Initech
(100,028 posts)Who knows where it ends?
Irish_Dem
(46,426 posts)So I know how our current situation can end.
getagrip_already
(14,605 posts)Cheezoholic
(2,003 posts)The return of the militant left may be our last resort.
Ligyron
(7,615 posts)Show me where to sign up.
wnylib
(21,304 posts)I wonder how any one explains to kids in Florida what the MLK holiday is.
Evolve Dammit
(16,694 posts)ChazII
(6,200 posts)was celebrated in the Paradise Unified School District when I was teaching. That was in the past and I don't know what is happening in the district today. The district is in Arizona in Maricopa County.
Evolve Dammit
(16,694 posts)wnylib
(21,304 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,246 posts)EYESORE 9001
(25,907 posts)And alarming.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)This needs to stop!!!!!!
colorado_ufo
(5,730 posts)They instinctively know a sense of justice. It's the adults who are uncomfortable.
Walleye
(30,935 posts)This is not ancient history, these old segregationists are still among us. Possibly in high-ranking positions in these schools
carpetbagger
(4,390 posts)I started 5th grade in the school where DeSantis' home near Jacksonville is zoned to. All the staff would have attended segregated schools, and they did nothing when the recess game, day after day, was the white kids (80-90 percent) pummelling the black kids at dodgeball. Since we were moving to Texas, my mom let me drop out for a month. Those kids are in their 50s now. Color blind my ***.
Walleye
(30,935 posts)I dont know if they think we are too stupid to see it or too powerless to do anything about it
carpetbagger
(4,390 posts)My response is usually "calling someone woke is just another way of calling someone a ****** lover, which they can't because they pretend they're not racist.". Let them try to explain it from there. They can't.
teach1st
(5,931 posts)Florida Scoured Math Textbooks for Prohibited Topics. Next Up: Social Studies.
Behind the scenes, one publisher went to great lengths to avoid mentions of race, even in the story of Rosa Parks.
New York Times, 3/16/2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/us/florida-textbooks-african-american-history.html
No paywall (gifted) link
demmiblue
(36,816 posts)Irish_Dem
(46,426 posts)Orwell knew what was coming.
Just A Box Of Rain
(5,104 posts)Ministry of Truth.
Irish_Dem
(46,426 posts)cannabis_flower
(3,764 posts)If they arent told why Rosa Parks refused to go to the back of the bus, they will be using it with their teachers.
Ms. Jones, I wont move to the other side of the class. Because Rosa Parks.
NCDem47
(2,248 posts)I'm sure many kids would read this and simply ask "Why?" Why did Rosa have to move?
But I'm sure RWingers don't want kids asking questions or developing critical thinking skills so they don't get the whole picture.
Paladin
(28,243 posts)We're losing our country---we need to do what's necessary to take it back.
bullwinkle428
(20,628 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,102 posts)This is where we are now folks. It will ONLY get worse.
orangecrush
(19,384 posts)No sit ins, marches, demonstrations, etc.?
Isn't it long past time for it?
Shut the fucking schools down.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)After questions from The Times, the company removed its second, scrubbed-down version of the curriculum from its website last week and said that it had withdrawn from the states review.
The Florida Department of Education said it had already rejected the publisher, citing a bureaucratic snafu in the companys submission.
The company may still try to win over individual Florida districts. It has now gone back to its first version of the new curriculum the one that says Rosa Parks was told to move her seat because of the color of her skin.
AltairIV
(375 posts)As they turn their children into morons, and are unable to pass college courses in half the colleges in the United States or any educational Institute overseas who do they believe will hire these kids? I certainly would not.
world wide wally
(21,734 posts)LAS14
(13,769 posts)Marthe48
(16,894 posts)All of us able to and who remember must pass the truth along. When we talk to the younger generations in our families, or in our communtities, we need to related what our history really is, and why some people left their mark.
Avoid passing along the story of traitors and liars. Make them be nameless. But try to promote true humanity, so that we follow ideals instead of lowlifes.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)For now. I guess that's something to be thankful for.
Lonestarblue
(9,958 posts)They should see the photos of slaves being auctioned, along those showing huge scars across the back from being neaten. Those are true history, not the manufactured pablum being fed to kids. I dont know how we stop this vicious destruction of public education.
BumRushDaShow
(128,372 posts)It had never been shown before like this.
cayugafalls
(5,639 posts)The white bus driver told Mrs. Parks to move. Mrs. Parks was seated in the 11th row. 1-10 were SPECIFICALLY reserved for WHITEY by LAW.
This fucking bus driver felt he had the power to demand Mrs. Parks move even though the law only specified 1-10, simply because he was a white man and he had PRIVILEGE or so he thought.
Tell that to the kids. Make them all understand what racism is and make them take it all in and fuck the white kids feelings...they should feel shame, shame on their forefather for being so IGNORANT.
FUCK, FUCK, FUCK...
This has to stop...
sheshe2
(83,633 posts)live love laugh
(13,070 posts)spanone
(135,778 posts)Rhiannon12866
(204,623 posts)demmiblue
(36,816 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)peppertree
(21,595 posts)Dirty - like that greasy pig himself.
SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)And then feeds them to the voters?