I don’t think his target audience is young people.
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‘This bill is going to intimidate every teacher in the state of Florida at every level’
I don’t think his target audience is young people.
“Futzing” comes from a Yiddish/German phrase meaning “to fart around”. One of my exes favorite words to describe my behavior.
“I love it when you go serious”
My theory is that when @irasdad goes serious that’s actually Ira.
My paternal grandparents were first American generation of German immigrants. But again certain Yiddish/German words have the right mouth feel for emotion or activity that they define.
He might find it hard to run in those high heels he wears, just look at the pic.
Another inch and they’d officially be stilts.
Wouldn’t quite call it “drag” but, who knows?
He’s got a thing with boots.
The importance of this point simply cannot be overstated. Imagine, if you will, how the course of World War II would had been different had Germany had fscking flying cockroaches before they invaded Russia.
IMO. it was Coates ‘reparations’ thing the so many people find so awful…otherwise, he is just another guy with an opinion.
Gotta say, TEACHERS matter. The AP US history curriculum gives EVERY opportunity to teach the arrival of enslaved people, the establishment of “white identity” and its privilege, the establishment of legalized, permanent, inherited RACIAL enslavement (late 1600s) AND the systemic, institutionalized racism in the long arc to the present.
The AP Curriculum leans strongly toward Social History (the other two parts of the History Trinity are political and economic histories.)
Teachers with at least a BA in history with a US concentration, especially from a good school (one with a strong history department), have the chops to teach this. HIRING matters, and support for continuing education for teachers also matters.
Then, of course, the teacher has to be willing to teach this history.
Oh, and “CRT”? As has been pointed out - CRT is a law school course. A better question to a high school student might be one that asks about “systemic” or “institutionalized” racism in the US, instead of “CRT”. Heck, even decent textbooks now include “redlining” and other systemic crimes against Blacks.
alligators, crocodiles, huge snakes that eat people, bugs the eat your plants…fire ants, termites,and yes,flying roaches that we call water bugs…and immgrants from the NJ, NY and other northern parts. Florida used to be great place to live…now it is wall-to- wall people. ugh!
As I understand it, there was no curriculum to “change”, because no curriculum existed until it was issued Feb 1. What existed before was just a bunch of discussion issues. De Santis played this perfectly, attacking something that did not exist, and then getting credit for"changes" that never occurred - credit from the main stream press - and even from TPM! The College Board says the curriculum was not a response to political pressure. I have not seen any evidence that they are lying, just “suspicions”.
Ok. Let’s not forget all the technological advances that came out of it. GAYDAR, for instance.
I hadn’t even heard of it since I took the SAT over 50 years ago.
Serious question: what practical significance does this cowardly move have?
I taught Coates’s Between the World and Me to college freshmen and sophomores a half-dozen times. It went great. He’s a gifted writer and an exemplary thinker, a great Black writer and just a great humane mind and voice. A beautiful book. “The Case for Reparations” is still, as far as I know, the definitive treatment of that issue.
Avowed white racists such as DeSantis’s supporters are at the bottom of the list of people we need to worry about in this context, but still I can’t help thinking of the harm they do to themselves by rejecting the truth and attacking those who bring them the gift of the truth.
So while some of that content may have been removed from the official curriculum, nothing prohibits a teacher from covering it anyway.
Except in Florida
‘This bill is going to intimidate every teacher in the state of Florida at every level’
IANAL but, The right wing is always bitching about the first amendment when they talk about Twitter and Facebook. They are private companies and therefore can do as they wish. When the state of Florida, however, censors education it seems to be more likely a first amendment issue because the government is the censor.
I don’t know. A unit on famous gay African Americans won’t play well in Peroria. It’s just a fact. Why give these clowns like DeSantis an opening? The curriculum could easily include these people and their work without emphasizing or necessarily even mentioning their sexual proclivities. The teachers could decide what’s relevant in that when teaching. And obviously any kid looking someone up on Wikipedia will get the facts 9n this.
I suspect that if he wins here, he will come after the other courses that have been around for decades and for the descriptors I mention above.
How about AP Dominionism? Or AP Goosestepping?
Between the World and Me has rightfully received the most attention and acclaim. But Coates’ earlier book, The Beautiful Struggle, is also beautifully written and more of a narrative. It’s essentially the story of his education–in school and outside of it. I used it often when teaching future educators.
Haven’t taught that one but I also admire and like it very much.