Fayette County Public Schools in full Woke Mode

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Only read a couple posts but I find it humorous the ones bitching about liberal buzzwords have repeatedly and obsessively typed the word "grooming" ad nauseum within the last few weeks on this board. Would be super if some of you could, you know, look in a mirror occasionally. One side is just like the other side, and neither side can see it.
Weird too given how so many of them are Christians yet the Catholic church is just a glorified pedophilia ring.
 

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Some of you seem to be reading wayyyy too far into this. This is the most benign powerpoint I've ever seen and some of you are foaming at the mouth because you read scary "woke" words like equity and inclusion. The list the goal for a graduate as being:
  • Academically Prepared
  • College and Career Ready
  • Civically Engaged
  • Culturally Competent
  • Equipped for the Future
Seems like a pretty good goal to me.

Except it's all virtue-signaling bs. If they can't flunk out a kid, can't punish a kid for bad behavior, and have to continue to teach to the test and the cultural content, fewer and fewer will be prepared.

They need to teach logic, ethics, history, consumer education, and basic accounting. They need a level playing field for every student regardless of race, religion, or political beliefs. Cultural education is too broad and subjective to be taught below the 11th grade level. Students should have the option of taking juco level classes for HS and college credit instead of wasting their time with classes that will bore and discourage some of them.

Teachers should be paid more, but not if they're just going to hand out dittos/ photocopies for most of every day. They shouldn't be babysitting somebody's problem child, either. The parents also need to be held accountable for the behavior of their children at school.
 

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Hey look it’s great that you and caveman’s kids/grandkids/nephews whatever are homeschooled, I wish them the best. I wasn’t trying to hate on homeschool kids just saying a balance of education not just “math and science” is needed. Sounds like everyone agrees. Thought I was just making benign small talk. Some of you are very charged to argue like a bull in heat but that wasn’t my intent. Same reason I posted what I thought was just a nice story about my experience in American schools when I was a kid. Either way great to hear they are supplementing homeschool with social stuff.

My kids grandkids nephews and anyone else in my family are not home schooled. You really shouldn’t be so sensitive when people respond to a point you tried to make. It’s kind of the nature of the beast when on a message board. If you didn’t want to go down this road, you shouldn’t have steered us to it. Pretty simple. It’s on you.
 

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My kids grandkids nephews and anyone else in my family are not home schooled. You really shouldn’t be so sensitive when people respond to a point you tried to make. It’s kind of the nature of the beast when on a message board. If you didn’t want to go down this road, you shouldn’t have steered us to it. Pretty simple. It’s on you.

Cool, thanks for the heads up. It’ll take a little while to compose myself but we’ll take it day by day.
 

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Only read a couple posts but I find it humorous the ones bitching about liberal buzzwords have repeatedly and obsessively typed the word "grooming" ad nauseum within the last few weeks on this board. Would be super if some of you could, you know, look in a mirror occasionally. One side is just like the other side, and neither side can see it.
 
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Anyone interested in this topic of discussion should follow libs of TikTok. They post videos of mostly teachers and school administrators discussing things they actually teach or want to teach.

It's scary.
 

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you’ve been doing it since the CatsPause era. jump in every teaching thread, during school hours to defend all the pure work you do.

just hits me as strange. But I’m sure you do excellent work when not typing away here.
He's another lazy-*** teacher. We've only got about another 30,000 or so just in KY.

(According to google we've got just under 40k teachers. 75% being deadass weight is probably a tad generous.)
 

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The hypocrisy in this thread is hilarious.

All members of ________ (side) are bad and stupid and live in an echo chamber…while posting in a GD echo chamber that always shouts down and ad hominem attacks the side claimed to do the exact same thing.

I just saw a (likely expensive and wasteful) PowerPoint that looks like a basic corporate training presentation but tailored to schools.
 
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If those of you asking, "What's wrong with the message." would read my post a page or two back, you'll understand EXACTLY what's wrong with it. (or maybe you won't, but at least you will have tried. You might disagree, but you would be wrong. I'm not just blowing smoke, I KNOW of what I speak)
 
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Public Education is a no-win proposition, as currently constituted and administered.

Obscene amounts of money, forcefully taken from tax-payers, and poured into a system that can't possiby fix the actual issue. (sh*t parents)

Public Schools = Don Quixote (with enough money to build all the windmills he desires.)
 
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For those that still don’t understand the problems with the doublespeak concerning equity.


They’re just getting out ahead of the Affirmative Action decision that’s coming. All schools will likely be doing that, at some point.
I agree with incentives to admit qualified applicants from diverse backgrounds, but there’s a fine line in such a competitive environment. Truth be told that quite frankly, you don’t have to go to MIT to get a degree. You can go so many places and get a quality education-I don’t think we’re doing anyone a favor by using a little social engineering to get people from certain races into Ivy League Schools, but I do like the idea of trying to have a diverse student body, all things being equal.
But a lot of them are and that should probably be taught. Neighborhood lines in Chicago are still drawn from redlining that existed up until the '80s. The Interstates were designed to cut through minority neighborhoods and sometimes followed the old boundary lines that kept white and black neighborhoods separate.

And it should be noted that things like this are not always intentional. Something can be racially biased but not be outright maliciously racist. A good example of that would be the history of how photography and color film often neglected darker skin tones when being developed.
America, as a whole, has been a force for good in the world. We know that America’s two original sins were slavery and Native American genocide. It is what it is. However, the country we formed became a model for Europe and many other countries around the world. Keep in mind our entries in two both world wars, our win in the fight against the Soviet Union, and the countless inventions we have shared with the world. I doubt you’ll find a country with a better overall body of work. It’s a darn near miracle what we’ve done here.
I think it bothers people that kids aren’t being taught the history of America with an emphasis on its contributions to the betterment of humanity, and, instead, are having its flaws emphasized more than anything else. Shouldn’t be that hard to cover the good and the bad.
 

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The hypocrisy in this thread is hilarious.

All members of ________ (side) are bad and stupid and live in an echo chamber…while posting in a GD echo chamber that always shouts down and ad hominem attacks the side claimed to do the exact same thing.

I just saw a (likely expensive and wasteful) PowerPoint that looks like a basic corporate training presentation but tailored to schools.
Everyone. Take note. Only Megablue is permitted to denigrate other posters. Got it? Good.
 

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He's another lazy-*** teacher. We've only got about another 30,000 or so just in KY.

(According to google we've got just under 40k teachers. 75% being deadass weight is probably a tad generous.)
One of my best friends is an elementary school teacher. She constantly whines about being burnt out.
 
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I’m glad my kids are out of school. It’s pretty scary some of the DUMB folks who are trying to steer every school board to stop teaching anything they don’t agree with. AKA, seditious Trumpers.
 
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