Is California a red state now?
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They started defunding schools after Brown Vs. Board of Education
https://www.processhistory.org/american-education-after-brown/
Our country never grew out of slavery and has always held a secret “clan” of people desperate to return to those times.
One reason is we never properly followed-up after the civil war. We gave the landowners and organizers of the confederacy clemency and let them keep owning land and let them keep their wealth and in many cases, nothing really changed in the south other than the absence of a lot of young men who died.
In a more reasonable world, we would have hung them all and started a massive re-education campaign across the southern states. I don’t even believe in capital punishment, but I know in the context of history, certain horrors have to be embraced if you don’t want to keep fighting the same war over and over and over.
Reconstruction worked, until the Compromise of 1876
I was a trans teacher (stealth, students and teachers didn’t know), and I did have a few students tell me that they were trans.
I asked them if they wanted me to call them by a different name or use different pronouns, and told them I would support them if were mistreated by other staff or administration and wanted my help. Truly evil indoctrination.
Like, what matters to me is that that homework has a name I recognize and give a grade for. Teachers are way too fucking busy to be indoctrinating your kids, especially the ones in hell hole red states (feeder middle school had 100+ kids in some classrooms - I remember being at a PD when someone asked how to adopt the activity for a stranding room only classsroom….)
I…
Did you say “standing room only” classrooms?
How? Moreover, how?
That middle school also had actual riots where multiple teachers were injured. They were very good at limiting news coverage - this was part of a stupid program of consolidating schools that was a horrific disaster. (No consideration about gang territory or bus lines.)
I also knew a guy who was hired without a background check as an adjunct/emergency certification - and they gave him a cafeteria for a classroom. (Requirements a few years ago relaxed to just require a college degree in anything, now even that’s optional. The nicer districts brag about all of their teachers having college degrees.)
I have been trying to blow so many whistles for so long, but absolutely no one gives a shit. The Supe is too busy spending Ed money on Trump Bibles.
Have you considered talking to the news? This is all profoundly abnormal. I know journalism is mainly dead, but it’s the kind of story John Oliver might pick up anyway.
Trust me - I have tried. I’ve left hundreds of voicemails with elected officials and local news media. Both about education and child abuse in mental health care.
Oklahoma has been a failed state under Project 2025 style policies for the past ten years.
Hey, it takes some work to be 49th in the country in education. I believe if we try just a little harder we can make it to the bottom!
Epic is the largest school district in the state.
Epic counts students logging into their computer and answering 5 questions as a day of “attendance.” As long as you do this at least once every two weeks your child remains enrolled. Teachers are supposed to meet with students for at least an hour in person once a week, but individuals make exceptions and play games with rules - often, thirty minutes over zoom are sufficient.
Epic teachers teach all subjects and grades. In the same day, I could help a high schooler with geometry and a severely disabled kindergartener with letter recognition. This is something I am qualified to do, but I don’t think I think my skill sets are common. The same teachers are grading student assignments - how effective feedback can an elementary Ed certified teacher give on an assignment over the quadratic formula or an essay over the causes of the French Revolution? (I tend to be popular with other teachers because I will sit with a physical science teacher and teach them atomic theory, or how to factor polynomials, while admin hates me because I call out stupid bullshit.)
There is an epidemic in Oklahoma of illiterate and innumerate children and young adults.
I should have assumed you had, I know you’ve been through a lot. You’re not wrong, but… Thanks for trying. It really burns me to know kids are going through this.
“Burns” is the correct verb. It keeps me awake at night, cost me my marriage, and has lead to multiple mental health breakdowns.
November made me suicidal, because I knew that they were going to gut DOE, and the feds were the only ones with any power to do anything. (DOJ managed to get their report out on time about how OK uses cops and jails instead of providing mental health care to people; the findings from the investigation into Owasso Public Schools prompted by Nex’s murder is also something that needs to be read and discussed more)
I’m exhausted. All I really want to do is talk about physics, math, history, how to make arguments - to teach. I fucking love it. I should be in a classroom in Tulsa or OKC right now running a lab - I know there’s a classroom right now with a long term sub that needs a crazy mad scientist to throw things or light things on fire or show off radioactive rocks. But I can’t work a job where I’m dehumanized, not recognized as a trained and knowledgeable professional, or where the fact what I have a uterus and a beard means I must be some sort of deviant who wants to be around kids to hurt them - and then also be paid so little that I have to have a second job to survive.
I wish you could find a way to pursue this somewhere more aligned with your values. There’s a brain drain happening right now for a reason, I would heartily recommend joining it.
Thanks for what you do. The struggle could be worth it if you make a meaningful difference is just one young life, and I bet you have already done more than that.
This is part of the defunding of education. 20 years ago my high school was wall-to-wall desks you had to squeeze to get to, and it’s only gotten worse since then.
I always knew my high school was slightly fancy. Nothing extreme just, had decent facilities and decent groundskeeping, etc.
I never realised it was fancy for having under 40 kids in a class. This, at the same time as yours.
I promise myself to never to fall for that “kids these days aren’t we good as we were” bullshit. Kids these days are going to need a lot of help. Maybe more than we can even give.
Kids these days are generally more intelligent but less well informed than kids in generations prior, in my observation.
Raise a reader like your life depends on it, has been my approach so far
I am on it 😇
Inspired by this thread, today I set up my kid’s neglected bedroom Linux computer to read comic books off my media server and he’s already obsessed. Woo!
I wonder how often people around me are Trans and scared of being ousted by society on the slightest hint of confession. In India btw, here any difference is grounds for abuse.
I was sent to school in a red state (Indiana) and still ended up like the top picture, who’s laughing now?
You can’t judge the school by the state. You also got to look at the city and ranking. I went to school in a red state but in a liberal suburb.
Hey Hoosier! Hope your education wasn’t too lacking and that you’re loving life a little more as yourself
Sadly a lot of them would still prefer the bottom to the top.
so you’re saying they’re closeted bottoms?
So closeted they’re in the neighbor’s house
I prefer bottoms to tops but not like this.
Same :3
If that were true, there would be no trans kids born in red states. The lack of logic is astounding. No wonder they move away from you all.
Do trans people born as trans or do they become trans when they grow older? Serious question, looking for real data.
The lack of logic is astounding.
These are the same people who think abstinence only education works. Safe to say they’re a few fries short of a Happy Meal.
“If you stop testing you won’t have positive cases.”
Literally “If I don’t see it it doesn’t exist.”
Children have better object permanence than these fuckers.
A few cards short of a deck
A few clowns short of a circus
they probably believe that is the case too, since trans kids in red states clearly have a harder time coming out
Does instagram really let the hateposts like the top one fly?
Can we find the person who posted it and beat the shit out of them? I know, I know, I’m just doing internet tough guy right now, but I really am sick of all these hateful assholes making the world worse. They post who they are under their real name! Burn their house down!
You can post hitler images with hitler quotes along with “Cleanse Europe” calls for action.
I’ve seen black people in EU compared to animals, and random muslims on the streets equated to terrorists (all on Instagram, while scrolling through puppy videos)
Instagram is pretty close to X-formerly-known-as-Twitter
Yes, posts about Israel bombing hospitals are more likely to be removed than literal nazi apologia.
Facebook now has a carve out in their anti-bigotry rules that specifically declares it okay to call trans people mentally sick.
Burn the whole thing down and start from scratch.
Burn the whole thing down and start from scratch.
Had me in the first half, lost me in the second.
Start from federated FOSS!
Where can this carve-out be found? I looked at their Code of conduct for bullying and harassment and did notice that harassment related to gender only seems to be protected for “private minors” and not for adults.
Yup, I was looking in the wrong section. This will make great ammunition when convincing people not to use Meta services.
We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality
in Facebook’s case, burn it down and salt the earth so it can never be started again
Also, I believe there’s a similar carve out for referring to women as “property.”
School in a red state… isn’t that just home"school"ing? Picture still applies, though.
Someone fact check me, but I remember reading that in death by firearms of minors, school shootings are second only to home accidents. Poorly secured arms and children without supervision is a bad combination.
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lost son is lost son
One is happy and the other is dead. What are you talking about?
In some cases, lost son is gained daughter.
Girl bad >:(
I think they mean if your a dad that hates your kid for being trans, your not ever getting that kid back. They are done with you.
Lost son, lost daughter, lost family.
A “lost” son is truly just wandering.
Then have it followed up by ‘them’ also destroying the monument after the fact
For starters… /s…holy crap y’all are weird.
Second, I’m referencing people in red states that typically destroy the roadside vigils, or memorials for people who were murdered.
Y’all are weird as fuck…downvote away though. Act before understanding what you’re doing. Looks good on ya
Yeah this is one of those times that there should have been more words in the post first draft. A lot of people on the right say ‘them’ in scare quotes to talk about people they consider “undesireables”
Understood, I’ll be more verbal even though I get told I talk too much/ramble. Social is confusing :(
It absolutely is.
Oh? What monument have “they” destroyed, exactly?
Was it the Ten Commandments one in front of a certain state capitol?
Or, perhaps you’re alluding to any number of dead white rapists w/ stars & stripes on their costumes that stood, uncorrected, for too long to be excusable?
Are “they” with you right now? Whispering soft, tempting secrets like thigh-warmed honey into your totally-resistant ear holes, eh sweetcakes?
Maybe, try one fewer Macs a day and take care of you, instead. Not only can you be happier, but everyone around you’ll benefit from a better you, too.
Just a thought, neighbor.
What are you guys talking about?
No clue .I assume they didn’t understand what I said/meant and are assuming that I’m all for hurting people or whatever…literally the opposite
What are you talking about?
I literally have no clue what you are going on about…I was talking about the vigils/roadside memorials that maga weirdos tend to destroy that are on the sides of the road. No clue why the downvotes, or whatever the heck that other person was rambling about. I assume they are confused.
Is it true that in the states right wingers will destroy the vigils of children killed in school shootings? Like is this a thing that happens a lot?
No. I’ve literally never heard of such a thing and nobody would do that. No idea what op is going on about.
That’s what I thought.
I can’t verify. I was in a deep red state for a while, and I know I drove past about 15 various roadside memorials that were there for 10+ years in some cases.
Yeah. I mean not to stick up for right wing butt bags but I just can’t see that being a common thing there. The states does have a habit of disappointing me though.
Imagine being so stupid you get angry at imaginary problems.
What are you talking about. Roadside memorials for people who were murdered have 100% been destroyed by maga people…
Try to understand something, before you act on it…please. This is my issue with ALL of humanity and one of the major reasons why I don’t socalize with anybody anymore. Good riddance
A different way of putting it…the ones who insult the kid in the top photo, would also be the same ones who would destroy app the flowers for the slain kids in the bottom photo.
The issue is that nobody has ever heard of anyone destroying roadside memorials. There is no comparison because it isn’t a thing.
I’ve literally seen videos of people kicking candles over, smashing photos and ripping flowers before fleeing in their pickup truck, but ok.
I read the “them” statement as you pinning it as the top photo kids being the ones destroying the memorial. Plain and simple, I thought you were a maga asshole. There was no way of understanding what you were really saying with your vague statement. My bad.
For sure NOT supportive of their ideology. Everyone deserves a good life. I understand my comments may not come across clear and it’s something I need to work on.
