July 09, 2025
And we wonder why education in America is so bad.
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The DEA plots to Resist! Donald Trump.
FTA:
The nation's largest teachers union adopted a business item "to defend against Trump’s embrace of fascism by using the term facism [sic] in NEA materials correctly characterize Donald Trump's program and actions." Image
The nation's largest teachers union passed a business item "to oppose any move to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education as an illegal, anti-democratic, and racist attempt to destroy public education and privatize it in the interests of the billionaires." Image
The nation's largest teachers union adopted a business item to "defend birthright citizenship and oppose the attempt to revert to pre-civil rights movement – Jim Crow – legal concepts of 'states rights' in order to deny citizenship to the children of immigrants." Image
The nation's largest teachers union adopted a business item supporting STUDENTS "dissenting and organizing against Trump’s policies."
They support STUDENTS organizing "against ICE raids and deportations." Image
The nation's largest teachers union adopted a business item in response to Mahmoud v. Taylor, a new Supreme Court ruling allowing parents to opt their kids out of gender ideology.
They will send out a "Know Your Rights" document and hold "Speak Up, Speak Out" LGBTQ+ conferences.Image
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The nation's largest teachers union adopted a business item to support "affiliates in states where legislative bodies have taken or are taking actions that silence educators"
They list Arkansas and South Carolina as states with "extreme need."
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(1) My former pastor was visiting us Tuesday afternoon and mentioned that she'd sent a birthday card to her grandson (who was "educated" in the St. Paul school system). He called her upon receipt of the card and told her he was unable to read it because it was written in cursive. The kids in his school were never taught to read cursive
(2) Martha was texting with one of her church choir members, who is also Martha's informal nurse, and she happened to mention that her son, who just graduated from high school (one of the suburbs of Minneapolis) was never taught to read cursive either, and this fellow is at the top of his class.
I am led to wonder: does our illustrious Governator know how to read cursive, and does his wife, who is supposedly a teacher (of what, we are led to guess) know how?
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at July 10, 2025 11:37 PM (djD2v)
Posted by: Rank Xone at July 11, 2025 06:28 AM (uacKw)
I once had a long conversation with Daren Jonescu about cursive. We agreed the very act of physically writing it out was very important to tthe linguistic development of the child. Humans are tactile. (Watch the first part of 2001: a Space Odyssey) and writing by hand hels them organize their thoughts and clarify them.
My brother Brian, who is a History professor, never composes on the computer; he always does a hand-written draft first. He says he can't organize his thinking without the writing first.
I am of the opinion the teachers want to eliminate cursive to make the kids even more dependent on technology and less able to operate outside the system. And of course to hide their failure to teach children.
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