To go along with my last post, I remember hearing this the other morning. It’s a good discussion on the role and continuing importance of libraries in this day and age.
Category Archives: Education
Are Libraries Necessary, or a Waste of Tax Money?
Everything you need to know about the celebration of ignorance that is conservative thought is in this odious commentary.
Sure, Republicans have never seen a war they didn’t like (well, except for any forms of genocide on non-whites) and they love giving $35 billion or so to oil companies, etc. but “wasting money” on libraries? That’s horrible!
For what it’s worth, here’s the rebuttal from the Chicago Public Library Commissioner.
Aryzona School Demands Black & Latino Students’ Faces On Mural Be Changed To White
Remember where you were, when you could still laugh about teabaggers and racists and Arizonans, because funny time is almost over. If the unemployment keeps up — one in five adult white males has no job and will never have a job again — and people keep walking away from their stucco heaps they can’t afford and the states and cities and counties and towns keep passing their aggressive racist laws to rile up the trash even more, shit’s going to very soon become very bad, and whether it’s the National Guard having wars in the Sunbelt Exurbs against armies of crazy old white people who are finally using their hundreds of millions of guns, or whole Latino neighborhoods burned to the ground the way the Klan used to burn down black neighborhoods a century ago, we are in for a long dark night and no light-colored paint is going to fix that.
Yes, the school has since backtracked this crazy BS decision, but the anger lingers. How dare these bastards lighten the skin of a mural of their own students?
I heard about this racist crap on the way home – and still in Aryzona. Here is the original news story.
This makes me absolutely livid. It is bad enough that in general Republicans, Tea Baggers, Klansmen and generic conservative racists hate people based on the color of their skin, or religion, or sexuality, or gender. It is worse that these cretins try to steal votes from folks they don’t agree with or do a multiple of sins to diminish folks. Often they do this in the name of God, which should make for an interesting line-up at the afterlife but I want their evils punished in the hear and now. For Aryzona, they didn’t need another black eye, but they earned it.
Look, racists shout ugly things. When the last two racists on Earth exist, they’ll be white Americans riding together in a rusty El Camino yelling hateful crap drinking Mexican beer out of a 40 oz. and being completely unaware of the irony.
You do NOT kowtow to these bastards. And you certainly do NOT tell your minority kids that their color isn’t good enough for a mural and try to literally whitewash their skin.
The racists are just idiots. The school administrators should have known better. Hell, all of Aryzona should know better.
Here’s Roger Ebert explaining it better than I can.
Plus accompanying video:
Historians decry social studies revisions
It’s nice to know that historians – particularly those in Texas – are lining up against the Texas state “reforms” that teach stuff like slavery wasn’t so bad and Joe McCarthy was a nice guy or whatever lies they are selling.
Plus, another view supporting California’s move to reject any textbook that is printed that includes the Texas lies.
Seriously, people in general are pretty stupid. Willingfully lying to children because you are bigoted and hate others is just cruel. Our children are supposed to be *better* than us, not force fed bullshit that doesn’t reflect reality.
Role-playing games pull reluctant school kids into a supportive crowd / The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com
Not that Gabriel is a social recluse or anything, but it is good to know that roleplaying can help socialize kids by not forcing them to change their ways and have fun to boot.
Political Irony › Burden Shift
Why is it that conservatives – and some liberals to be sure – think that screwing our kids out of an education is the first thing they should do to balance budgets?
And why do they think they are going anybody a favor by doing so?
Can’t they see the long term damage to our nation?
Dear Texas: Please shut up. Sincerely, History – SFGate
Teacher Eats School Lunch Every Day, Lives to Blog About It – Food & Party on The Stir by CafeMom
Teacher plans to eat school lunches every day and then blog about it. Here is a writeup about the project, and then the blog itself: Fed Up With Lunch: The School Lunch Project.
Good luck to her.
Not satisfied with U.S. history, some conservatives rewrite it
Nice to know that some conservatives believe in education. Too bad their attention only comes from trying to destroy it. From denigrating science to outright lying about sex education, it shouldn’t be a surprise that lies and deceit are part of their literal whitewashing of history. Here are the worst lies and coverups they plan on implementing.
THIS is what anti-Americanism is. Our nation is better when we are open about our past, not trying to make golden Baal statues of Reagan or whatnot.
Keep Watching Your Kids Learn | GeekDad | Wired.com
I get a kick out of watching Gabriel process new things. That’s why this article had me nodding and smiling the whole way.
We love taking the little guy on trips because it’s like his brain jumps to a whole new level each time. Be it going home to Illinois for Thanksgiving or to San Diego to the zoo or just to the truck show last weekend, each experience gives his brain a big ol’ jolt.
It’s a blast, and I hope to keep on enjoying watching it happen.