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Wirepoints’ Ted Dabrowski joined State Representatives Brad Halbrook, Dan Caulkins, Chris Miller, Blaine Wilhour, Adam Niemerg and Paul Jacobs to present at a town hall meeting on Facebook Live about the controversial new teaching standards.
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine.
Summary and audio linked here.
If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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This ISBE diktat is missing crucial non-ambiguous language: 1. WHO is to decide culturally allowed/prohibited subject matter? 2. What is legal due process for those who might object to being denied allowance/prohibited? 3. What are legal punishments for those deemed to have violated this ISBE diktat? There are legal processes described for enacting laws, ordinances, policies, etcetera which are inflicted on all community members and taxpayers who are to be bound (and taxed) by these new “laws”. Somehow this ISBE diktat is not required to reveal the specifics of its own contents to all those who will be bound by… Read more »
The event was held February 11, 2021.
https://www.facebook.com/Wirepoints/videos/vb.306371729476819/842936032938063
I’m puzzled about how matters of “social justice” can be incorporated into chemistry, physics, and foreign languages. My mother taught Latin, from introductory to advanced, as well as American literature at LaSalle and Maine Twp., Morenci, AZ, and Akron, OH, [each system having very different student populations] and I cannot figure out how a foreign language teacher can comply with this foolishness while imparting the basic skills of comprehension so students can master the rudiments of the language to enjoy its literature. She even found “teaching to the AP exam” to be confining. Let teachers be free to teach their… Read more »
“I’m puzzled about how matters of “social justice” can be incorporated into chemistry, physics, and foreign languages.” Oh silly, the goal of progressives isn’t to teach the subject matter, but rather, to indoctrinate students with the knowledge that all smart dead white people were horribly, irremediably racist. Students gain self-esteem not from mastering the subject matter but instead from the knowledge that they aren’t horrible racists like the Whites. Most students in IL these days can barely read or comprehend the subject matter anyway! Only 1/3rd of students statewide can pass algebra I (but they all know that some islamic… Read more »