Education thread

[Vrede too]

Maus is a nonfiction comic book by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman. Serialized from 1980 to 1991, it depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The work employs postmodernist techniques and represents Jews as mice, Germans as cats ...

Hmmm. Very interesting given the antisemitism:
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[Vrede too]

Poll: Students feel free speech is threatened

Interesting that RepuQs are whining the loudest when, as with Maus, RepuQs are the biggest censors in schools by far:

Books on race, gender pulled from schools amid conservative push against 'radical' literature

[O Really]

It's entertaining to read stories about idiots, but then I consider - am I, any of my family, anybody I know or care to know personally ever going to go to a school or even visit in McMinn County or anywhere in Missouri? Too old to care.

[Vrede too]

It's entertaining to read stories about idiots, but then I consider - am I, any of my family, anybody I know or care to know personally ever going to go to a school or even visit in McMinn County or anywhere in Missouri? Too old to care.

Yeah, it's liberating to be old, but for others those students will eventually help run the nation, not just McMinn County and Missouri.

A Texas parent demanded a Michelle Obama biography be pulled from schools because they said it would make white girls feel 'ashamed'

Okay, it is just one whiny racist parent, it's silly and the complaint was denied, however:

Book banning in Texas schools: Titles are pulled off library shelves in record numbers

[billy.pilgrim]

It's entertaining to read stories about idiots, but then I consider - am I, any of my family, anybody I know or care to know personally ever going to go to a school or even visit in McMinn County or anywhere in Missouri? Too old to care.

Yeah, it's liberating to be old, but for others those students will eventually help run the nation, not just McMinn County and Missouri.

A Texas parent demanded a Michelle Obama biography be pulled from schools because they said it would make white girls feel 'ashamed'

Okay, it is just one whiny racist parent, it's silly and the complaint was denied, however:

Book banning in Texas schools: Titles are pulled off library shelves in record numbers

Meanwhile just outside of Nashville - Burn those evil Harry Potter books


https://www.newsweek.com/right-wing-pas ... ng-1674983

[O Really]

I think it's ridiculously outrageous that a few parents can force books off the shelves in a library serving hundreds/thousands of kids that aren't theirs.
Having said that, I'd probably be more irate if there weren't a variety of other alternatives for kids to read whatever they want.

[Ulysses]

When I was a kid, I remember a city librarian not allowing me to check out a book, because she thought I was too young. I saw a book by someone named Burroughs, I thought it was part of the Tarzan series. I had no idea it was pornography, i.e., Naked Lunch. Turns out the Naked Lunch book was written by William S. Burroughs, and it indeed was regarded as obscene at the time. I had to go back to stealing my older brother's copy of Tarzan instead. The author of that was also named Burroughs, but Edgar Rice, not William S.

To this day I don't entirely trust librarians. And I still haven't read Naked Lunch. Maybe I'll put it on my bucket list.

[Vrede too]

Meanwhile just outside of Nashville - Burn those evil Harry Potter books

https://www.newsweek.com/right-wing-pas ... ng-1674983

Dammit, I warned neoplacebo that threatening people with wizardly hexes would backfire someday.

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... I just read about "pastor" Greg Locke of the Global Vision Bible Church in Nashville, who has said he'll kick out anyone who wears a mask in his church. I will be contacting him later today about this matter....

"If you think we're crazy ..."

Oooh, I do, I do.

Pastor Locke-step is taking on the gamut:
Wizards
Vampires
Occultists
Witches
Demons
Sorcerers
Devils
COVID-19 realists
2020 Presidential Election realists

On the bright side, one of these groups will soon turn the Pastor into a reptile and neoplacebo will then be able to stomp Lizard Locke to Hell.

[neoplacebo]

I was going to note that he's left lizards and snakes off his list but you got me covered. I saw earlier today that another shit head Christian leader and virus denier has died of the virus he shunned. Perhaps this clown is next.

[Vrede too]

I was going to note that he's left lizards and snakes off his list but you got me covered. I saw earlier today that another shit head Christian leader and virus denier has died of the virus he shunned. Perhaps this clown is next.

Did he mention lizards and snakes? I tried to be comprehensive and inclusive.

... His Facebook post continued: "Ring all your Harry Potter stuff. Laugh all you will haters. I don't care. It's witchcraft 100 percent.

If I "Ring" my Harry Potter stuff, is that also witchcraft 100 percent? Can I laugh at the inability to spell "Bring" and to proofread?

"All your "Twilight" books and movies. That mess is full of spells, demonism, shape-shifting and occultism. Bring tarot cards, ouija birds, healing crystals, idol statues, spell books and everything else tied to the occult. It's got to go....

Quoth the ouija bird, "Macklemore."

"idol statues"?



"spell books"? He could use one.

[O Really]

So this idiot is giving credibility to all this stuff? As if it wasn't real, how could it be dangerous or evil?

[Vrede too]

So this idiot is giving credibility to all this stuff? As if it wasn't real, how could it be dangerous or evil?

He's claiming that it's all credible, real, dangerous and evil. Whether he's clinically deluded or knows that it's all a big fat scam .

[O Really]

I'll take "knows it's all a big fat scam" for $500, Alex.

[O Really]

From a BuzzFeed article on the weirdest things teachers have confiscated in their classrooms:

25."I had to confiscate a sea bass from a student who had brought it in to use in the playground at break time. He was walking around slapping people in the face with it and challenging them to a duel."

We probably know who that might have been.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/teacher ... 03120.html

[billy.pilgrim]

So this idiot is giving credibility to all this stuff? As if it wasn't real, how could it be dangerous or evil?

He's claiming that it's all credible, real, dangerous and evil. Whether he's clinically deluded or knows that it's all a big fat scam .

Seriously, I'm about 95% sure this is the church cult one of my cousins is in. He's insane. I don't communicate with them. There was way too much praying for me.

[O Really]

I'm pretty sure "communicating with them" would be an impossibility.

[billy.pilgrim]

I'm pretty sure "communicating with them" would be an impossibility.

I just quit. Dad's memorial in 2012 was the last time I saw this side of the family - some of it is entertaining to listen to, cancer cured through their prayer group sort of thing, but I experienced an almost overwhelming urge to be obnoxiously rude.

[neoplacebo]

From a BuzzFeed article on the weirdest things teachers have confiscated in their classrooms:

25."I had to confiscate a sea bass from a student who had brought it in to use in the playground at break time. He was walking around slapping people in the face with it and challenging them to a duel."

We probably know who that might have been.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/teacher ... 03120.html

I did once give a seminar on the proper way to grasp a sea bass in order to deliver the best fish slap. It's comforting to know my efforts were not wasted.

[GoCubsGo]

From a BuzzFeed article on the weirdest things teachers have confiscated in their classrooms:

25."I had to confiscate a sea bass from a student who had brought it in to use in the playground at break time. He was walking around slapping people in the face with it and challenging them to a duel."

We probably know who that might have been.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/teacher ... 03120.html

I did once give a seminar on the proper way to grasp a sea bass in order to deliver the best fish slap. It's comforting to know my efforts were not wasted.

Sea bass?

Must've been a private school. I'd think for training purposes the neighborhood koi or carp would suffice or for the underprivileged they could get some crappie from the local fishing hole.

[neoplacebo]

From a BuzzFeed article on the weirdest things teachers have confiscated in their classrooms:

25."I had to confiscate a sea bass from a student who had brought it in to use in the playground at break time. He was walking around slapping people in the face with it and challenging them to a duel."

We probably know who that might have been.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/teacher ... 03120.html

I did once give a seminar on the proper way to grasp a sea bass in order to deliver the best fish slap. It's comforting to know my efforts were not wasted.

Sea bass?

Must've been a private school. I'd think for training purposes the neighborhood koi or carp would suffice or for the underprivileged they could get some crappie from the local fishing hole.

It was a private academy that was alleged to have connection to an obscure religious sect whose members banned the eating of fish, pork, beef, and chicken. The poor bastards had to eat cats and dogs and squirrels. And the class was slam full of future street walkers and night crawlers. I was lucky to get out of there with my wallet.