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Banning Critical Race Theory

deaconson said:
They've been doing that, for awhile now.
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They're not just saying the quiet thing. They're doing. They're not leaving any doubt.
 
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Imagine thinking jesus wants you to murder people for who you love.
 
ConnorEl said:
Gifted piece so should be able to read…

Her students reported her for a lesson on race. Can she trust them again?​

Mary Wood’s school reprimanded her for teaching a book by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Now she hopes her bond with students can survive South Carolina’s politics.​

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“She had that granola-crunchy vibe,” said a former Chapin teacher, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of professional and personal retaliation. “It wouldn’t be difficult to guess how she votes walking into her room. I think that’s what made her a sort of lightning rod.”

It wouldn’t be hard to see how 98% of the Chapin Community votes. That area can use some diversity in thought. Almost 90% white and less than 3% black. Largest minority is Hispanic at 5% and I would bet mostly field workers.

I hope the bonds she forms with students helps keep their eyes and minds open beyond their traditional demographics.
 
Seems she’s made a good effort, with some success.

She seems a real asset to her school and community. Unfortunately, in the wildly ignorant/passionate GOP coddled anti-woke mob world she’s seen as a great threat whut must be suppressed.
 
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So 11 people think they alone should get to decide what reading material ALL kids have access to.

Petersen grew up hating books.
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Probably could have seen that coming.
 
Our local progressive caucus had a good hybrid meeting yesterday about education and book bans etc. The caucus founder is our school board rep and does a great job. But the chat was dominated by two homeschool moms and a literal Karen complaining that one of the panelists was being mean to homeschool moms by saying most of the complainers don’t have kids in the district. Such counterproductive nonsense.

Another thought I had is so much energy is spent on all sides about books, a basic part of education that most people never thought much of a few years ago. What are the real powers doing while all this activist energy is spent playing librarian?
 
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PhDeac said:
Another thought I had is so much energy is spent on all sides about books, a basic part of education that most people never thought much of a few years ago. What are the real powers doing while all this activist energy is spent playing librarian?
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Working on the jh dream of getting school spending per student actually tied to the student, so they can starve public school and let families use that “per student” amount towards private school or religious nonsense school.
 
Or Disney tickets and exercise equipment!
 
Umm…

North Carolina radio station plans to reject broadcasts of 'inappropriate' Met operas​


A listener-supported radio station in North Carolina, WCPE, is planning to withhold the broadcast of six contemporary operas this season from New York's Metropolitan Opera, because of the station management's objections to the operas' content. It is a classical music controversy that echoes larger, nationwide culture war debates.

WCPE's protest comes at a time when the Metropolitan Opera is eager to showcase its commitment to recently written operas and works from outside the traditional canon of music written by white men. Three of the operas that WCPE plans to reject in the 2023-24 season were written by Black or Mexican composers. This past April, WCPE also refused to broadcast another Met-produced opera written by a Black composer that included LGBTQ themes.

WCPE is a listener-supported public radio station that primarily serves the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill areas. (WCPE is an NPR member station, but does not broadcast any NPR news content. Per the station, WCPE has not carried any NPR news content in about a decade.)

A Metropolitan Opera press representative said Thursday that the company had been unaware of WCPE's stance until NPR's inquiry and had no further comment.

WCPE's general manager, Deborah S. Proctor, sent out a letter to station patrons about seven operas in particular: one that the Met staged earlier this year and the rest that the Met is scheduled to present in its current season. Proctor wrote in her letter that she was seeking feedback from her listeners.

The letter was published on Aug. 31 but recently gained traction online. Most of WCPE's objections relate to depictions of violence or the presence of LGBTQ subject material; in another instance, Proctor objects to a composer's "non-biblical" meditation on the birth of Jesus.…

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In the NPR interview, Proctor called WCPE's programming "a safe refuge from the horrors of life." Repeatedly, Proctor also appealed to the sensibilities of any children who might tune into her station or come across it online and said that her personal values were integral to her decision-making. Breaking into tears on the phone, Proctor said: "I have a moral decision to make here. What if one child hears this? When I stand before Jesus Christ on Judgement Day, what am I going to say?"
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Probably NPR needs to disaffiliate.
 
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PhDeac said:
They believe in such a petty Jesus.
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They have lived under the yoke of old testament "jesus" (many of these people have never actually read or understood the words in the bible) for their entire lives.

New testament jesus really would make these assholes kinder.
 
ConnorEl said:
Umm…

North Carolina radio station plans to reject broadcasts of 'inappropriate' Met operas​


A listener-supported radio station in North Carolina, WCPE, is planning to withhold the broadcast of six contemporary operas this season from New York's Metropolitan Opera, because of the station management's objections to the operas' content. It is a classical music controversy that echoes larger, nationwide culture war debates.

WCPE's protest comes at a time when the Metropolitan Opera is eager to showcase its commitment to recently written operas and works from outside the traditional canon of music written by white men. Three of the operas that WCPE plans to reject in the 2023-24 season were written by Black or Mexican composers. This past April, WCPE also refused to broadcast another Met-produced opera written by a Black composer that included LGBTQ themes.

WCPE is a listener-supported public radio station that primarily serves the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill areas. (WCPE is an NPR member station, but does not broadcast any NPR news content. Per the station, WCPE has not carried any NPR news content in about a decade.)

A Metropolitan Opera press representative said Thursday that the company had been unaware of WCPE's stance until NPR's inquiry and had no further comment.

WCPE's general manager, Deborah S. Proctor, sent out a letter to station patrons about seven operas in particular: one that the Met staged earlier this year and the rest that the Met is scheduled to present in its current season. Proctor wrote in her letter that she was seeking feedback from her listeners.

The letter was published on Aug. 31 but recently gained traction online. Most of WCPE's objections relate to depictions of violence or the presence of LGBTQ subject material; in another instance, Proctor objects to a composer's "non-biblical" meditation on the birth of Jesus.…

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Probably NPR needs to disaffiliate.
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How many children does she think listen to opera on NPR?
 
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