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11 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

And the State of Texas signed off on using PragerU videos and instructional materials in the classrooms.

Is that true?  Unbelievable.

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https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/crime-courts/more-school-bomb-threats-keep-investigators-busy-parents-worried/article_89b4b9f2-4350-11ee-9260-dbd6c22abf62.html

Thanks in large part to an evil alt-right social media account, an evil grifter/nihilist running the state's education policies, and lots of christofascist grievances that need to be revenged upon kids just trying to go to fucking school and teachers doing their fucking jobs.

They're going to do their absolute damnedest to burn everything to the ground.

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1 hour ago, Sbbruin said:

Is that true?  Unbelievable.

Maybe.  The state comptroller allowed them to register/enter into bidding for classroom materials.

https://www.khou.com/article/news/education/is-prageru-coming-to-texas-depends-whom-you-ask/285-2f475930-0e4b-4529-8683-d9703a920f90

TEA for once, is saying "no, just hold on a minute"

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"The State Board of Education has authority under new statute to review and approve commercially available instructional material, such as those sold by PragerU. We welcome all publishers to participate in the SBOE's review and approval process. Texas also has been developing and piloting a state-owned set of instructional materials in a few grades and subjects, as open education resources. More information on that can be found here: https://tea.texas.gov/academics/instructional-materials/tea-available-materials/tea-available-instructional-materials

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Under new statute, the State Board of Education has ultimate approval on those resources once they are ready for full release. As part of the development process, TEA has issued competitive RFPs, and will continue to do so, for vendors who can provide content, write, or edit those materials. We welcome individuals and publishers with expertise to respond to those RFPs directly, or otherwise partner with other vendors engaged in that work."

Full statement from SBOE Chair Keven Ellis:

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"I have received many questions today about Prager U working with Texas on a Core Knowledge curriculum. I have no knowledge of Prager U submitting any instructional material for approval to the SBOE in the past, and specifically I know that Prager U has not submitted any instructional materials to the SBOE under the new Instructional Material review process that was adopted by the legislature this year. Additionally, no one from Prager U has presented to the State Board of Education or has contacted me, as Chair of the State Board of Education, to discuss any working relationship."

PragerU, along with some Texas politicians, put out a video or two saying they were allowed to.

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Spring Branch ISD decides to call state out and voted to give authority to NOT send in recapture payments since state isn't giving it back to education in the state.  Should force the state to have to publicly decimate a district on order to get it's funds.  Hopefully other districts will follow suit and force the state on the defensive. It's about time someone actually stood up and didn't roll over.

 

 

 

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On 8/26/2023 at 4:33 PM, atomheartbevo said:

Maybe.  The state comptroller allowed them to register/enter into bidding for classroom materials.

https://www.khou.com/article/news/education/is-prageru-coming-to-texas-depends-whom-you-ask/285-2f475930-0e4b-4529-8683-d9703a920f90

TEA for once, is saying "no, just hold on a minute"

Full statement from SBOE Chair Keven Ellis:

PragerU, along with some Texas politicians, put out a video or two saying they were allowed to.

I'm watching this carefully. I got a child in HISD. If the state actually approves this material, I'm ready to file suit. 

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The knots these folks are willing to twist themselves into to avoid saying "slavery is bad" is a little bit hilarious and terrifying at the same time. These folks are fucking gone.

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6 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:


Well, that and their inability to admit that 350 years of slavery plus 100 years of Jim Crow laws and institutional racism have an effect on present day socioeconomics.

Chief Justice Roberts told me that racism was dead.

PragerU apparently tells Florida that brown folks should thank white folks for not being as cruel as they could have been. 

Fuck we may have to fight this out after all.

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I ranted in the other DT thread.  But my daughter's 4th grade class has 28 kids in it now.  The Texas standards are up to 22 kids.  So the TEA is violating the TEA rules but submitted a request for exemption from themselves.   This is accountability republicans have.   Add to that dickhead asked to change the qualifications so he could be in charge, vote for an order-of-magnitude increase in discretionary spending, amongst all the other bullshit.   We all know why.  Because educated people lean left and are not as easy to manipulate.   Their goal is to harm our children.  

If someone kicked his ass, I would jury nullify on the grounds of defense of others. 

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41 minutes ago, Nivek said:

I ranted in the other DT thread.  But my daughter's 4th grade class has 28 kids in it now.  The Texas standards are up to 22 kids.  So the TEA is violating the TEA rules but submitted a request for exemption from themselves.   This is accountability republicans have.   Add to that dickhead asked to change the qualifications so he could be in charge, vote for an order-of-magnitude increase in discretionary spending, amongst all the other bullshit.   We all know why.  Because educated people lean left and are not as easy to manipulate.   Their goal is to harm our children.  

If someone kicked his ass, I would jury nullify on the grounds of defense of others. 

Nothing to add here, but I'm cheering for you guys. Hopefully the revolt of places like Oak Forest and others will be loud and overwhelming and make a difference in your community, at least. 

4 hours ago, Dahobbs said:

I'm watching this carefully. I got a child in HISD. If the state actually approves this material, I'm ready to file suit. 

On what grounds exactly?

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On 8/26/2023 at 1:09 PM, elfenix said:

This guy is totally normal:

"It got off to a rough start. The fire marshal stopped by because several rooms were over capacity. And halfway through the week, Superintendent Mike Miles starred in a musical.

He was appointed to lead Houston’s public school system by the Texas Education Agency in June. In the musical, Miles played the owner of a diner in a town. The local school system faces reforms from a new superintendent … named Mr. Miles.

One scene portrayed reporters asking bad-faith questions about playgrounds.

“So why do you hate children?” asked one reporter, played by a student who later criticized the musical as a “propaganda play.”"

https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/hisd-teachers-mixed-feelings-superintendent-mike-miles-reforms/

I was sure this was an onion article.  

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54 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

On what grounds exactly?

I think a few of the videos create establishment clause issues. There might be discrimination issues as well. Beyond that, it would depend on exactly how everything goes down in terms of getting approved for use. 

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59 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

I think a few of the videos create establishment clause issues. There might be discrimination issues as well. Beyond that, it would depend on exactly how everything goes down in terms of getting approved for use. 

So, uh, what grounds exactly?

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15 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

So, uh, what grounds exactly?

I don't understand your question. Violation of the establishment clause. Are you asking me to pull the offending videos for you? Depending on how approval would occur, there may be other violations based on the specific legal requirements for approval. As the videos haven't been approved in Texas, I've had no reason or ability to put together the specifics of a petition/complaint.

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7 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

I don't understand your question. Violation of the establishment clause. Are you asking me to pull the offending videos for you? Depending on how approval would occur, there may be other violations based on the specific legal requirements for approval. As the videos haven't been approved in Texas, I've had no reason or ability to put together the specifics of a petition/complaint.

No, dude, I'm telling you I have no idea what "Violation of the establishment clause" fucking means. I realize this is Surly, but not everyone here is an attorney. 

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3 hours ago, Nivek said:

I ranted in the other DT thread.  But my daughter's 4th grade class has 28 kids in it now.  The Texas standards are up to 22 kids.  So the TEA is violating the TEA rules but submitted a request for exemption from themselves.   This is accountability republicans have.   Add to that dickhead asked to change the qualifications so he could be in charge, vote for an order-of-magnitude increase in discretionary spending, amongst all the other bullshit.   We all know why.  Because educated people lean left and are not as easy to manipulate.   Their goal is to harm our children.  

If someone kicked his ass, I would jury nullify on the grounds of defense of others. 

Friend who moved to middle school for HISD this year has class sizes of 28, 35, 36, and 29. He’s livid. 

Also, heard Miles made a policy to where teachers have to leave their door open while teaching, which creates all sorts of safety issues. Friend also told me they are required to have a running Zoom on at all times while teaching so essentially they can be watched whenever. 

Miles doesn’t mind being the bad guy (like he was with Dallas) because he knows he’s going to get paid by the political folks he’s connected with. He doesn’t care about kids, just getting his money. 

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13 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

No, dude, I'm telling you I have no idea what "Violation of the establishment clause" fucking means. I realize this is Surly, but not everyone here is an attorney. 

Oh. Sorry. First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" - separation of church and state. 

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7 hours ago, Stilicho said:

The knots these folks are willing to twist themselves into to avoid saying "slavery is bad" is a little bit hilarious and terrifying at the same time. These folks are fucking gone.

But they are also snowflakes of the highest order, sensitive over the littlest of things.  Fucking cowards in other words.

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14 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Meanwhile, our fine friends over in Arkansas have something...interesting going on:

 

 

 

 

Literally what in the fuck??

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20 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Meanwhile, our fine friends over in Arkansas have something...interesting going on:

 

 

 

 

Even when I went to Catholic school I thought that shit was weird for confirmation. Had to do 80 hours of volunteer shit around campus, I did 30 hours helping the daycare and the mfer I helped got popped for molesting the daycare kids. Shit was nuts 

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3 minutes ago, Zepol87 said:

Even when I went to Catholic school I thought that shit was weird for confirmation. Had to do 80 hours of volunteer shit around campus, I did 30 hours helping the daycare and the mfer I helped got popped for molesting the daycare kids. Shit was nuts 

A kiddie diddler at a Catholic school?

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20 minutes ago, safe sex said:

Literally what in the fuck??

 

She follows up with other info.  New law; students in public schools beginning with this year's 9th grade have to perform 75 hours of community service to graduate.  They do 15 hours this year, and 20 each of the next three.  Excess hours cannot roll over, so each year you start anew.  Homeschool and private school students that are receiving public assistance  with their education (vouchers) so they are essentially "public" students; yet, the same indentured servitude provision does not apply to them.

 

 

 

 

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3 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Meanwhile, the State Superintendent  in Oklahoma has been busy:

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah. He was unsurprisingly fine with this.

Until last week when someone called in a bomb threat to his house. He was awful quick to denounce those particular threats as terroristic.

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Yeah. He was unsurprisingly fine with this.
Until last week when someone called in a bomb threat to his house. He was awful quick to denounce those particular threats as terroristic.

I love it when karma puts their hypocrisy on blast.
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On 8/30/2023 at 5:25 PM, Francisco 2.0 said:

Meanwhile, our fine friends over in Arkansas have something...interesting going on:

 

 

 

 

That's insane. My kids private school has mandatory community service hours starting in middle school and yes of course in high school, as a way to encourage (in a compulsory manner) civic duty and sacrifice and humility to give back to your community, etc., but that's also because as a private school you can have that be part of your mission and values.

For public school this is an overstep. Arkansas be crazy.

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On 7/12/2023 at 9:10 PM, tx 3 putt said:

 

I just dropped a big order on my local elementary schools. I'll send something to the middle and high schools too, before school start. wish i could send $10,000 more. I live in a minority and pretty poor area (it's in transition) 

Hey, that's been outlawed.

On 8/29/2023 at 1:56 PM, Pancho said:

Friend who moved to middle school for HISD this year has class sizes of 28, 35, 36, and 29. He’s livid. 

Also, heard Miles made a policy to where teachers have to leave their door open while teaching, which creates all sorts of safety issues. Friend also told me they are required to have a running Zoom on at all times while teaching so essentially they can be watched whenever. 

Miles doesn’t mind being the bad guy (like he was with Dallas) because he knows he’s going to get paid by the political folks he’s connected with. He doesn’t care about kids, just getting his money. 

Yeah, we've spent a year arguing about whether the door in Uvalde was open or closed, locked or unlocked and not this chucklehead wants them to leave the doors open for the next gunman?  

 

 

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On 8/29/2023 at 10:09 AM, Patricio Swayze said:


Well, that and their inability to admit that 350 years of slavery plus 100 years of Jim Crow laws and institutional racism have an effect on present day socioeconomics.

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On 8/29/2023 at 10:18 AM, Stilicho said:

Chief Justice Roberts told me that racism was dead.

PragerU apparently tells Florida that brown folks should thank white folks for not being as cruel as they could have been. 

Fuck we may have to fight this out after all.

White folks should probably thank black folks for not rising up and killing all our asses dead.

35 minutes ago, Creasy Bear said:

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Are you fucking kidding?

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On 7/12/2023 at 9:05 PM, jettrink said:

Thanks for the word catch-english sucks.

No bullshit at all and they don't take one penny from the feds or State.  Every parent there is a high roller of some type and they are willing to pay to keep their kids away from the public schools.

Perfect.  So what do the low rollers do?

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On 7/12/2023 at 7:42 PM, jettrink said:

My daughter is a Montessori guide and makes 80K.  She typically has 12-15 of the brightest humans on earth in her class and loves them all like their hers.

No she doesn’t

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9 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

 

Are you fucking kidding?

No they're not. Its all ancient history that has nothing to do with America today because its negative and questions the civil religion of American perfection which of course we can't have. Never mind the fact that the US had a Senator that said,

"The negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men's rights...Crime rates and irresponsibility among Negroes are facts of life which must be faced."

And that motherfucker was in office until 2003.

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They can’t stop voting republican. God, guns and goose stepping.

Besides, who will eradicate rape in the state of texas? Or how about the millions of boys that are turned gay then murdered by drag queens each and every year?

Not on their watch good sir.

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8 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

No she doesn’t

My wife did the math on making 80k at her district in Texas (one of the better paying districts as it's known as a bad one). 

If she did summer school (3 weeks) plus signed up for tutoring for the entire year (Mon-Thu from 4-6:30), and she completed the TEA Leadership whatever program (usually that means lying about how good your kids can read to the state) then she'd come out at above $80k. This is on top of her Bilingual and Masters stipends that are there because she's expected to do both English and Spanish newsletters every 3 weeks, lesson planning for all 4 subjects (that she can't get help on from her teammates as she's the only Bilingual teacher in her grade at her school), grading, SPED Meetings, mentoring a new teacher, and being on the Hispanic heritage committee.

 

I sarcastically told her she should do it and her response was: "I'd rather kill myself, but not after I kill you first"

 

 

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Oklahoma's Department of Education announces a partnership with PragerU Kids earlier this week as State Superintendent Ryan Walters said it offers educators more options. Several days later, Oklahoma's biggest school districts tell DoE/Walters to fuck off and they're not going to use them.

https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-school-districts-opt-out-lesson-plans-prageru/45027081

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OKLAHOMA CITY —

A day after the state Department of Education announced a partnership with a conservative advocacy group, Oklahoma's largest school districts said they're opting out of optional lesson plans.

On Tuesday, state Superintendent Ryan Walters argued videos and materials from PragerU Kids offer educators more options. No one wanted to go on camera, but KOCO 5 got several statements.

The strongest was from the largest district, Oklahoma City, saying the new partnership between Walters and PragerU doesn't change anything for their schools.

"We’re highlighting them. We want all schools to know it’s available. It’s going to be a free resource to schools. So this is going to be part of a long relationship with PragerU to make sure not only are the videos available inside the school setting, the curriculum along with the videos, but also available for parents," Walters said.

So far, several of the metro's largest districts are telling KOCO 5 they will not be opting into the offerings from PragerU Kids. PragerU claimed to offer free alternatives to "dominant left-wing ideology in culture, media and education."

Oklahoma City Public Schools told KOCO 5 that Walter's endorsement of PragerU doesn't change anything they are doing in the classroom. They went on to say that they believe their teachers are the experts and that they will use the curriculum provided by the district and appropriate supplemental materials.

OKCPS released a statement saying, "The endorsement of PragerU by our State Superintendent doesn’t change anything we are doing in the classroom. We trust our teachers to do everything they can to help our students grow… We also trust that they will use both curriculum resources provided to them by our district and any other appropriate supplemental materials needed to support student growth."

Edmond Public Schools said their curriculum for the current school year is already set and that no resources from PragerU are included. If anything is added by a teacher, it must be reviewed and aligned with the district curriculum.

EPS said, "Pacing guides, district curriculum and teacher resources for the 23-24 school year are already in place and available for our teachers. No resources from PragerU are included in these resources. If a teacher uses additional supplemental materials, they must review materials before they’re presented in the classroom, and the materials must be aligned with the district curriculum."

Moore said they're also sticking with the curriculum they have in place and that it aligns with state standards approved by state lawmakers.

In a statement, Moore Public Schools said, "Moore Public Schools will continue to use its current curriculum that is aligned with state standards approved by the Oklahoma State Legislature."

Whether or not districts decide to add PragerU content to their lesson plans, Walters argued it's good to give educators options.

"We want students to draw their own conclusions and we want to teach them how to think but not what to think," Walters said.

Sure, Jan.

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