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Banning Critical Race Theory

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It's interesting how people can have similar experiences and come away with very different impressions.

I remember having all the classic conversations during my freshman year at Wake. If your professor dies you all get As, you have to wait 5 minutes for a late assistant professor and 20 for a full professor before leaving class, there are tunnels under the entire campus, and Maya Angelou isn't a real professor, no one can get into her classes, and she doesn't teach anything.

As with most students, by my senior year I was able to take a fair number of electives. My last semester I decided to try to take a class with Maya Angelou - the same class as this guy, Poetry Dramatic Performance. Being a senior, I had priority and got in to her class during normal registration. On the first day, she memorized every student's name (by last name, as this guy describes). There were about 20 students in the class and about 20 students there that were on the waitlist - she let in every student off the waitlist.

She missed one class during the course because she went to LA to film a 70th birthday celebration for CBS, but she rescheduled the course for a weekend morning and hosted it at her house and served food.

I really enjoyed the class, even though it was completely outside my wheelhouse. It was my most memorable course at Wake. I was impressed that she memorized all students names on day one (and then referred to us by name the rest of the course), she let in all the students on the waitlist, she made up the one class she missed by hosting the make-up session at her house (and fed everyone), and that she was still an incredible teacher at age 70.
 
Rafi said:
It's interesting how people can have similar experiences and come away with very different impressions.

I remember having all the classic conversations during my freshman year at Wake. If your professor dies you all get As, you have to wait 5 minutes for a late assistant professor and 20 for a full professor before leaving class, there are tunnels under the entire campus, and Maya Angelou isn't a real professor, no one can get into her classes, and she doesn't teach anything.

As with most students, by my senior year I was able to take a fair number of electives. My last semester I decided to try to take a class with Maya Angelou - the same class as this guy, Poetry Dramatic Performance. Being a senior, I had priority and got in to her class during normal registration. On the first day, she memorized every student's name (by last name, as this guy describes). There were about 20 students in the class and about 20 students there that were on the waitlist - she let in every student off the waitlist.

She missed one class during the course because she went to LA to film a 70th birthday celebration for CBS, but she rescheduled the course for a weekend morning and hosted it at her house and served food.

I really enjoyed the class, even though it was completely outside my wheelhouse. It was my most memorable course at Wake. I was impressed that she memorized all students names on day one (and then referred to us by name the rest of the course), she let in all the students on the waitlist, she made up the one class she missed by hosting the make-up session at her house (and fed everyone), and that she was still an incredible teacher at age 70.
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Sounds like she took some of what she learned as a hooker and applied it to her career as a doctor.
 
Rafi said:
It's interesting how people can have similar experiences and come away with very different impressions.

I remember having all the classic conversations during my freshman year at Wake. If your professor dies you all get As, you have to wait 5 minutes for a late assistant professor and 20 for a full professor before leaving class, there are tunnels under the entire campus, and Maya Angelou isn't a real professor, no one can get into her classes, and she doesn't teach anything.

As with most students, by my senior year I was able to take a fair number of electives. My last semester I decided to try to take a class with Maya Angelou - the same class as this guy, Poetry Dramatic Performance. Being a senior, I had priority and got in to her class during normal registration. On the first day, she memorized every student's name (by last name, as this guy describes). There were about 20 students in the class and about 20 students there that were on the waitlist - she let in every student off the waitlist.

She missed one class during the course because she went to LA to film a 70th birthday celebration for CBS, but she rescheduled the course for a weekend morning and hosted it at her house and served food.

I really enjoyed the class, even though it was completely outside my wheelhouse. It was my most memorable course at Wake. I was impressed that she memorized all students names on day one (and then referred to us by name the rest of the course), she let in all the students on the waitlist, she made up the one class she missed by hosting the make-up session at her house (and fed everyone), and that she was still an incredible teacher at age 70.
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Had a similar experience with her class in 2007. There were maybe 100 people in the class and she memorized all names the first day. She was pretty great in class. Her health was really starting to fail at this point, so she did miss several classes with illness.
 
Looks like Hungary's Viktor Orban - who's a hero and role model to American conservatives like Tucker and DeSantis - is launching his final assault on education in Hungary. After many of Hungary's teachers marched in protests due to extreme classroom micromanagement and the second-lowest teacher pay in the EU, Orban and his party cracked down on teachers by firing some of the protest leaders and transferring control of Hungary's education system to the Interior Department, which also controls law enforcement.

Orban also had his rubber-stamp legislature pass what critics call the "Vengeance Law." It strips teachers of legal protections given to other public sector employees, limits their ability to strike, allows the government to "relocate" teachers to any part of the country it wishes, raises the number of weekly hours that teachers have to work, and limits teacher's autonomy. It also contained a provision allowing government authorities to search teacher's personal cellphones, laptops, and other devices, but that was dropped (for now) from the legislation. At least 5,000 Hungarian teachers have said they will quit if these new rules are put into effect, which would make Hungary's teacher shortage much worse. Given how closely DeSantis has been following Orban's practices, one wonders if we'll see a bill like this introduced in Florida anytime soon.

Link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/hungary-braces-teacher-exodus-vengeance-093125722.html
 
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Oklahoma Superintendent of Education tells people at a July 6 forum in Norman, Oklahoma that it's OK for teachers to discuss the infamous 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, in which anywhere from 100 to 300 blacks were killed and 35 city blocks of what was called "the Black Wall Street" were burned and destroyed, as long as they don't tell students that it was "motivated by the color of anyone's skin." Apparently telling students that qualifies as Critical Race Theory, which he hates. So when teachers discuss an incident that is literally named the Tulsa Race Massacre or Tulsa Race Riot they can't say it happened because of race. Alrighty then.

 
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Highland Deac said:
Oklahoma Superintendent of Education tells people at a July 6 forum in Norman, Oklahoma that it's OK for teachers to discuss the infamous 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, in which anywhere from 100 to 300 blacks were killed and 35 city blocks of what was called "the Black Wall Street" were burned and destroyed, as long as they don't tell students that it was "motivated by the color of anyone's skin." Apparently telling students that qualifies as Critical Race Theory, which he hates.

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Discount bin Kliff Kingsbury is really on one.
 
"It's ok to talk about the Holocaust as long as you don't refer to its victims as Jews, Romani, Soviets, Poles, the disabled, and queer people. They are to be referred to as enemies of the Reich." Is what I imagine he followed this up with.
 
More information/knowledge is rarely the problem. Fu king conservatives and their inability to/disinterest in having honest conversations with their kids.
 
deaconson said:
More information/knowledge is rarely the problem. Fu king conservatives and their inability to/disinterest in having honest conversations with their kids.
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Nobody on the side of banning books is on the right side of history. This shit should see widespread condemnation from both parties. And yet….one party continues to make these issues front and center - the Fascists aka the GOP
 
deaconson said:
More information/knowledge is rarely the problem. Fu king conservatives and their inability to/disinterest in having honest conversations with their kids.
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In all fairness, talking about black people suffering and dying at the hands of white oppressors in the past makes all white people today the real victims of oppression and injustice.

You can see how that makes sense, yes?

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taking new employee DEI training and I feel myself turning trans and beginning to hate my white skinIMG_0862.jpeg
 
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