Montezuma-Cortez officials abandoned the "Bluebonnet" curriculum over the religious material, apparent AI errors, and lessons irrelevant to students in Colorado
I tend to tell people who suggest that I make my satire / sarcasm clearer...
"As soon as I can imagine Swift, Twain or Vonnegut needing to explain their satirical ideas with little pictures and the like, I will as well." (Thurber came closest, but did it well.)
Ummm ... WHY??? Something as important as the source material for children's learning should damned well have been vetted LONG before the school year started. Errors like that massive faux pas about Houston would have been caught and called on in faculty review, rather than allowing that crap and other mistakes to go in front of students.
This incident reflect plain and simple LAZINESS on the part of the Montezuma-Cortez School District. Where were the supposed adults in the room when this happened and why did it happen at all?
The religious right has long seen their religion as the solution to all the world’s problems, and blame their own failures on a lack of ‘true’ Christianity, what ever that is. If Christianity was going to solve the world’s problems they would have accomplished it long ago. Christianity has created at least as many problems that it ever solved.
We're supposed to wait for a dead guy who promised to return within some of his followers lifetimes to make everything all better? Xtians never hear themselves.
Well, they tried to fix that in the subsequent 3 gospels... Matthew was the most accurate from the viewpoint of Jewish christians, but Luke and John are back to the nonsense in Mark except for when Jeebus would return.
I've said it before and will repeat: Christian Nationalists do NOT promote Christianity to solve problems. They do so with the final goal of PUTTING THEMSELVES IN CHARGE.
Trojan Horses such as this BS-soaked curriculum are designed to get their foot in the door. Time to SLAM that door on their tootsies!
The camel got its nose under the edge of the tent in Texas and almost got its butt under the edge of the tent in Colorado... With Christian Nationalism ascendant now, I am beginning to doubt if we are a Nation, any more.
Teachers are made to create lessons if they are given adequate materials to start with. Of course this superintendent was all about charter schools and religion. Go ahead and yell it, the superintendent is a MAGA.
I’m back, and even though nature (typical Icelandic weather) decided only eclipse day would be rainy/cloudy (flanked by clear sunny days on either side), it was still an amazing experience! AWEsome in fact. It made me very emotional.
Stepping away from this shit show, I feel more confident than ever that the USA is in a complete hysterical episode of religious psychosis. It’s unsustainable and unacceptable. Thank you ✨
To repeat what I said when I saw Hemant's video on this yesterday: Not everything is better with Blue Bonnet on it.
Religion and public education need to be kept as far apart as possible. The only value relgion could possibly have in the classroom is as a record of brutality from the earliest ritual human sacrifice to the latest child suicide bomber.
So what happened with that troll from Saturday? Was he ever kicked off? Something is wack lately. Messages get hidden for being "offensive" yet a troll violating the ToS got to stay for hours. The mute feature didn't work and I had to resort to block. (What's the difference between mute and block anyway?)
I was SORELY tempted to drop a dime on both MrFreenChrist AND Zach, but I didn't ... this time. Either of 'em show up again, I may give in to temptation.
I believe with mute you don't see their comments but they can still see yours. With block, they can't see yours and you don't see theirs, but I may be mistaken
You know, At least back when I got indoctrinated in Baptist school, other than YEC and history being Lost Cause mythology, I got a good English and Math and geography education. Yeah, history and science were useless bullshit, but the rest was solid.
Today's Christian indoctrinators don't even care about that basic criteria. They don't care about these kids at all. They're actively setting them up to fail in life.
The Texas curriculum made the remarkable improvements because Texas lowered its standards, not because the schools found a better way of teaching.
The problem is that the Colorado district superintendent was looking for a miracle cure rather than investing in the district. This comes down to capitalism running our schools, ROI over actual outcomes. We have a serious problem with the Republican policies that intentionally defund education and demand higher performance on standardized tests and this requires those in charge to do more with less. They look at charter schools and those who run charter schools for the miracle, but the way charter schools perform better is only by selecting their students. Not by any actual improvement on teaching standards or lessons.
Throw in the forceful adoption of AI in every nook and cranny of our lives, there’s going to be issues. It’s cheaper now to include AI curriculum, but wait a couple years when the tech bros start on the next phase and require expensive subscriptions for services we no longer can opt out of.
Commodifying our education system bit by bit has been happening for a few decades now, probably longer (Reagan, most likely), and these are the results you get. Too bad our children will pay the highest price.
It begs the questions of what kind of “turnaround” was truly achieved in Texas and at what expense? They obviously are teaching kids with mistake laden content. I guess it’s ok with the Texas legislature as long as it’s Chriiiiiiisssstian. Smh
I am shocked that a 'christian curriculum' would be filled with factual inaccuracies, disinformation and other assorted anti-intellectual garbage.
Boreal *seems* to be just that little tiny bit sarcastic here!
Now WHY would you go and say something like that??? 😉
I tend to tell people who suggest that I make my satire / sarcasm clearer...
"As soon as I can imagine Swift, Twain or Vonnegut needing to explain their satirical ideas with little pictures and the like, I will as well." (Thurber came closest, but did it well.)
https://ibb.co/1fjX0bCz
You dropped your /s tag.
IKR
Yes, it’s gob-smacking news, isn’t it? *clutches pearls in horror* who could have ever guessed?
𝐿𝑦𝑛𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛’𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚 𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝐵𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑏𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑡’𝑠 𝐵𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑠.
Ummm ... WHY??? Something as important as the source material for children's learning should damned well have been vetted LONG before the school year started. Errors like that massive faux pas about Houston would have been caught and called on in faculty review, rather than allowing that crap and other mistakes to go in front of students.
This incident reflect plain and simple LAZINESS on the part of the Montezuma-Cortez School District. Where were the supposed adults in the room when this happened and why did it happen at all?
The religious right has long seen their religion as the solution to all the world’s problems, and blame their own failures on a lack of ‘true’ Christianity, what ever that is. If Christianity was going to solve the world’s problems they would have accomplished it long ago. Christianity has created at least as many problems that it ever solved.
We're supposed to wait for a dead guy who promised to return within some of his followers lifetimes to make everything all better? Xtians never hear themselves.
And that promise was SUPPOSED to be fulfilled not quite 2,000 years ago! WTAF???
Well, they tried to fix that in the subsequent 3 gospels... Matthew was the most accurate from the viewpoint of Jewish christians, but Luke and John are back to the nonsense in Mark except for when Jeebus would return.
No, they do not.
I've said it before and will repeat: Christian Nationalists do NOT promote Christianity to solve problems. They do so with the final goal of PUTTING THEMSELVES IN CHARGE.
Trojan Horses such as this BS-soaked curriculum are designed to get their foot in the door. Time to SLAM that door on their tootsies!
The camel got its nose under the edge of the tent in Texas and almost got its butt under the edge of the tent in Colorado... With Christian Nationalism ascendant now, I am beginning to doubt if we are a Nation, any more.
𝑀𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑧𝑢𝑚𝑎-𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑧 𝑅𝐸-1 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑢𝑚 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑏𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.
𝑂𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑢𝑚 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑣𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.
As it should be. Religious instruction belongs in church, not school.
Exactly. Let them keep their foolish lies "in-house."
Teachers are made to create lessons if they are given adequate materials to start with. Of course this superintendent was all about charter schools and religion. Go ahead and yell it, the superintendent is a MAGA.
I’m back, and even though nature (typical Icelandic weather) decided only eclipse day would be rainy/cloudy (flanked by clear sunny days on either side), it was still an amazing experience! AWEsome in fact. It made me very emotional.
Stepping away from this shit show, I feel more confident than ever that the USA is in a complete hysterical episode of religious psychosis. It’s unsustainable and unacceptable. Thank you ✨
Welkomin aftur.
To repeat what I said when I saw Hemant's video on this yesterday: Not everything is better with Blue Bonnet on it.
Religion and public education need to be kept as far apart as possible. The only value relgion could possibly have in the classroom is as a record of brutality from the earliest ritual human sacrifice to the latest child suicide bomber.
So what happened with that troll from Saturday? Was he ever kicked off? Something is wack lately. Messages get hidden for being "offensive" yet a troll violating the ToS got to stay for hours. The mute feature didn't work and I had to resort to block. (What's the difference between mute and block anyway?)
I was SORELY tempted to drop a dime on both MrFreenChrist AND Zach, but I didn't ... this time. Either of 'em show up again, I may give in to temptation.
If I knew how to do that, I would. Granted since I blocked him, I'm not sure how I would do it now. They had their chance.
Last I looked, his comments are still there. Both the visible ones and the 'hidden' ones.
Can we blame Hemant? ;)
When I have emailed Hemant about trolls in the past he has blocked and removed them right away.
Me too.
I recently lost the ability to contact Hemant by email due to my email service’s recent “improvement.” I have one other thing I can trry.
I believe with mute you don't see their comments but they can still see yours. With block, they can't see yours and you don't see theirs, but I may be mistaken
You know, At least back when I got indoctrinated in Baptist school, other than YEC and history being Lost Cause mythology, I got a good English and Math and geography education. Yeah, history and science were useless bullshit, but the rest was solid.
Today's Christian indoctrinators don't even care about that basic criteria. They don't care about these kids at all. They're actively setting them up to fail in life.
The Texas curriculum made the remarkable improvements because Texas lowered its standards, not because the schools found a better way of teaching.
The problem is that the Colorado district superintendent was looking for a miracle cure rather than investing in the district. This comes down to capitalism running our schools, ROI over actual outcomes. We have a serious problem with the Republican policies that intentionally defund education and demand higher performance on standardized tests and this requires those in charge to do more with less. They look at charter schools and those who run charter schools for the miracle, but the way charter schools perform better is only by selecting their students. Not by any actual improvement on teaching standards or lessons.
Throw in the forceful adoption of AI in every nook and cranny of our lives, there’s going to be issues. It’s cheaper now to include AI curriculum, but wait a couple years when the tech bros start on the next phase and require expensive subscriptions for services we no longer can opt out of.
Commodifying our education system bit by bit has been happening for a few decades now, probably longer (Reagan, most likely), and these are the results you get. Too bad our children will pay the highest price.
It begs the questions of what kind of “turnaround” was truly achieved in Texas and at what expense? They obviously are teaching kids with mistake laden content. I guess it’s ok with the Texas legislature as long as it’s Chriiiiiiisssstian. Smh