TJUSD Board Meeting - June 04, 2020

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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - June 04, 2020

Postby torn80 » Sat Jun 27, 2020 6:36 am

mrfish wrote:
desertrat wrote:
wildrose wrote:Whole Child Education
wholechildeducation.org wrote: Whole Child Tenets

Each student enters school healthy and learns about and practices a healthy lifestyle.
Each student learns in an environment that is physically and emotionally safe for students and adults.
Each student is actively engaged in learning and is connected to the school and broader community.
Each student has access to personalized learning and is supported by qualified, caring adults.
Each student is challenged academically and prepared for success in college or further study and for employment and participation in a global environment.


All this sounds great, but the devil is in the details. It's hard to disagree with these general statements, but once a community agrees to these general statements, that's when the bait and switch occurs and all sorts of little ideological surprises are slipped in behind the scenes. It's the same ole scam, but dressed up a little differently!

wildrose: You're absolutely right. What do they mean by "healthy lifestyle"? That seems like kind of a loaded term that could include a lot of things. What about "qualified, caring adults"? Who qualifies? Is there a racial quota attached to that little gem? And "connected to the school and broader community"? That's a can of worms if I've ever seen one! There are more examples that we could pick apart, but my favorite is "emotionally safe"! That sounds like the classic SJW tactic for silencing dissent! Definitely a lot to "unpack" here as the "woke" cool kids like to say!

There's no doubt that there are a lot of liberal code words in there.
drdesert wrote:The reference to a "global environment" is also a little shaky. Let's face it, change a few letters and you have "global government" and we all know what that means!
:wtf:

Definitely there seems to be support for a globalist agenda.

Way too many people push their political agendas through educational programs.
recluse wrote:Teaching Fads for Control and Profit
This is from an organization called the Open Minds Foundation. The say they encourage healthy skepticism.
Educational fads easily become cults that take over their members’ lives. They can be teaching study skills, philosophical or religious ideas, or even martial arts.


Healthy skepticism beats jumping on the bandwagon any day of the week!
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - June 04, 2020

Postby twister » Sat Jun 27, 2020 7:06 am

panamint_patty wrote:Educational Bandwagons
Good, confident teachers don't jump on bandwagons. They are skeptical of educational fads and trends. Basically, they can think for themselves and don't need a guru guiding them and telling them what to believe!
Do you ever wonder why the education field is so full of bandwagons? A bandwagon is a trend, fad or anything that claims it will solve a problem in the classroom. If you jump on the bandwagon and incorporate the method, activity, or technology, you won’t have that problem again. Teachers are busy and teaching is a challenging job. It’s understandable that bandwagons are appealing. They make us think that all our questions will be answered and all of our problems will be solved. But if that’s the case then why is the next bandwagon so appealing?

http://teachandreflect.com/2019/01/21/reflective-practice-educational-bandwagons/

Skepticism is healthy unless taken to an extreme. Bandwagons are never healthy at any time. People who are not sufficiently skeptical should not be allowed to become teachers.
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - June 04, 2020

Postby wildrose » Sun Jun 28, 2020 6:27 am

sandman wrote:I've known a number of teachers over my lifetime and although some of them have had their two feet firmly planted on the ground, a few of them have been quick to jump on the latest bandwagon. Educational trends and fads come and go, but they seem to excite some people. I Googled a few half-assed educational fads (some which are old and gone and some that are still with us) and here's what I got: authentic assessment, AVID, mastery learning, backward design, trauma theory, PLCs, differentiated instruction, learning styles, integrated curriculum, scaffolding, restorative justice, emotional intelligence, character education, mindmaps, flipped classrooms, etc. I'm sure people who are in the teaching profession could add dozens more examples, but you get the idea. This edubabble phenomenon is strange, but it's driven by people who either want to change the world (or "the system") or who want to make money. Just as with most cults, most of these fads are associated with a single guru or group of gurus. If teachers and administrators weren't such suckers for these fads and educational bandwagons, they could all just settle down and concentrate on the task of educating children!

Unfortunately you are very correct. If I think real hard I could probably think of even more bandwagons that I saw during my years as a teacher. All of this reflects the intrusion of political agendas into the classroom. Almost all of these are extremely sneaky attempts at influencing young minds. Although they all claim to have the best interests of children and society in mind, they all have hidden agendas. As they say, "A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down," but quite often the "medicine" is more like the kool-aid served by Jim Jones on that fateful day in Jonestown in 1978 than anything that will be even remotely beneficial.
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - June 04, 2020

Postby CrustyOldFart » Sun Jun 28, 2020 11:26 am

The ridiculous idea of microaggressions | That’s Not Racist
Maybe I should have posted this to another thread. There are several threads on this message board where this would fit. Which says a lot about the society we live in.
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - June 04, 2020

Postby CrustyOldFart » Sun Jun 28, 2020 11:37 am

Microaggressions: Fact vs. Myth | FACTUAL FEMINIST
MICROAGRESSIONS: A game we all can play, but none can win. There is no evidence to support the theory and the pseudo-scientist who proposed the theory is nothing more than a pseudo-expert. Advanced degrees are often given out like participation ribbons nowadays in order to help people lacking intelligence to feel good about themselves.
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - June 04, 2020

Postby cloud » Sun Jun 28, 2020 12:04 pm

How To Get Offended - Ultra Spiritual Life episode 52
Microaggressions, trauma theory, restorative justice, empathy and sensitivity training, etc. All SJW ideology forced down the throats of the rest of us. Like CrustyOldFart stated: Microaggressions are a GAME anyone can play, but no one can win. The point is that it's all a game and the idea that people with advanced degrees would promote this kind of BS just goes to show that advanced degrees don't mean much anymore. Anyone who has legitimately earned an advanced degree has had the value of that degree diminished as a result of all the undeserved advanced degrees that are given out. That ties in to what people have said about bogus college majors such as women's studies, queer studies, ethnic studies, etc. Unfortunately not all degrees in social science or education are worth anything anymore either since at many universities ideological agendas have replaced legitimate academics.
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - June 04, 2020

Postby cactuspete » Mon Jun 29, 2020 6:28 am

Microaggressions sound a lot like tic-tac-toe. If both players play a perfect game, then the result is a cat's game. However, if one player knows all the tricks and the other player doesn't, then one player can win the game. People who are really into the game of microaggressions take advantage of people who know little or nothing about the game. They ambush them and attack before the person can figure out what's going on. The unwary person doesn't realize what happens and loses the battle and may even be shamed as a result of the cheap trick. It's important to develop techniques of intellectual self-defense so that we are not caught off guard and so that we don't fall for such pathetically deceitful fraud. The radical left often uses these types of techniques (and there are several of them) to manipulate people. Be aware of their ploys!
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - June 04, 2020

Postby shadylady » Wed Jul 01, 2020 7:11 am

Jordan Peterson Explains: What is a 'Microaggression'
I don't think Peterson is sufficiently clear in his explanation. A response to the video is a bit better:
Law should be based objectivity: what is observable, what is measurable not on people's subjective states (which could be fragile: e.g. schizophrenia). Microaggressions are are subjective.

But even this explanation is not sufficiently clear. The reality is that the microaggressions enable a disgusting excuse for a human being to make a false claim which can be used to manipulate someone and accuse them of being a bad person. Typically they are used to twist something around so that an accusation of racism can be justified. The best response is to directly accuse the person claiming that a microaggression has occurred of being deceitful. Call them out in a confrontational manner. Directly call them a liar and if they run off and cry to your boss, just educate your boss about how you have been harassed by a person using the pretext of microaggression and don't back down. Demand that your boss take action against the false accuser and if your boss fails to do this, consider a lawsuit against your boss for creating an unsafe work environment.
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - June 04, 2020

Postby pcslim » Thu Jul 02, 2020 6:24 am

shadylady: The low-IQ-high-emotion crowd plays a lot of cheesy interpersonal games and one of the dumbest games ever invented is the game of MICROAGGRESSIONS.
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - June 04, 2020

Postby MojaveMike » Thu Jul 02, 2020 7:56 am

pcslim: The problem is that the low-IQ-high-emotion crowd is the fastest growing demographic in the USA and it has been that way since the 1960s. People talk about global warming or climate change and how difficult it might be to turn that hypothetical problem around, well this real problem is a million times worse and just as difficult to turn around. It would take a profound change in our social policies to solve the problem and profound, positive change is difficult in a nation bogged down with low-IQ-high-emotion types who all have the right to vote and who can even be elected into office.
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