okay so ryland grace wrote a dissertation, got kicked out of every respectable institute etc. assuming he wasn’t awarded with tons of scholarships (hard to cover everything) that man is working as a teacher in hopes to work off student loans with public service at a public school.
that man is broke as hell. when eva stratt had people break into his place to get his stuff so he can move onto the remote base they found tons of instant ramen and spaghetti.
first business expense is getting that man a whole new wardrobe, socks, and, well, t-shirts
I'm not going to lie, I don't think "parent's rights" should be a thing when it comes to topics of education.
I don't think parents should have the right to prevent their child from learning essential information about their bodies. I don't think you should be allowed to opt your child out of accurate history lessons. I don't think you should be allowed to opt your child out of learning about people that actually exist or events that actually happened.
I don't think religion is an excuse to opt out of these things either. Your religion is not an excuse to hinder a child from interacting with the world. If you refuse a child knowledge about people that actually exist with the explicit purpose of encouraging them to treating those people like shit, I don't think that's a right you should have.
I don't think parents should have the right to raise their children to be shitty humans. I don't think "parent's rights" outweigh the child's right to have a healthy body and a well-rounded education. I don't think "parent's rights" should ever be allowed to hinder a child in relating to the actual world.
More than that, I don't think your rights as a parent outweighs your responsibility to the rest of the world. Whether Americans, in our hyper-individualistic country, want to admit it or not, we actually do have a responsibility to one another to raise good children, look out for public health, and create a society where different people can live together effectively.
Thirty years after Florida required schools to teach African American history, how the subject is taught remains inconsistent across Florida
"Buried among Florida’s manicured golf courses and sprawling suburbs are the artifacts of its slave-holding past: the long-lost cemeteries of enslaved people, the statues of Confederate soldiers that still stand watch over town squares, the old plantations turned into modern subdivisions that bear the same name. But many students aren’t learning that kind of Black history in Florida classrooms.
In an old wooden bungalow in Delray Beach, Charlene Farrington and her staff gather groups of teenagers on Saturday mornings to teach them lessons she worries that public schools won’t provide. They talk about South Florida’s Caribbean roots, the state’s dark history of lynchings, how segregation still shapes the landscape and how grassroots activists mobilized the Civil Rights Movement to upend generations of oppression.
“You need to know how it happened before so you can decide how you want it to happen again,” she told her students as they sat as their desks, the morning light illuminating historic photographs on the walls.
Florida students are giving up their Saturday mornings to learn about African American history at the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum in Delray Beach and in similar programs at community centers across the state. Many are supported by Black churches, which for generations have helped forge the cultural and political identity of their parishioners.
Since Faith in Florida developed its own Black history toolkit last year, more than 400 congregations have pledged to teach the lessons, the advocacy group says.
Florida has required public schools to teach African American history for the past 30 years, but many families no longer trust the state’s education system to adequately address the subject.
By the state’s own metrics, just a dozen Florida school districts have demonstrated excellence at teaching Black history, by providing evidence that they are incorporating the content into lessons throughout the school year and getting buy-in from the school board and community partners.
School district officials across Florida told The Associated Press that they are still following the state mandate to teach about the experience of enslavement, abolition and the “vital contributions of African Americans to build and strengthen American society.”
But a common complaint from students and parents is that the instruction seems limited to heroic figures such as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks and rarely extends beyond each February’s Black History Month.
When Sulaya Williams’ eldest child started school, she couldn’t find the comprehensive instruction she wanted for him in their area. So in 2016, she launched her own organization to teach Black history in community settings.
“We wanted to make sure that our children knew our stories, to be able to pass down to their children,” Williams said.
Williams now has a contract to teach Saturday school at a public library in Fort Lauderdale, and her 12-year-old daughter Addah Gordon invites her classmates to join her.
“It feels like I’m really learning my culture. Like I’m learning what my ancestors did,” Addah said. “And most people don’t know what they did.”"
I didn't know homeschoolers personally but I know it happens in my country/state
I've rarely, if ever, heard of homeschooling happening in my country/state
what even is homeschooling?
homeschooling is outlawed/banned/heavily restricted in my country/state
results!
Voting ended onJun 25, 2023
If you could answer this, put your country/state in the tags, and share this it would be appreciated! I'm an ex-homeschooler from Texas and I'm genuinely curious on what people from outside of America think about homeschooling or if it's even a thing elsewhere
Ah. Gay rights. That thing that we don’t have to do anymore because they’re finally getting married! Hold on, my producer is speaking into m
Queer Finance 101: Ten Ways That Sexual and Gender Identity Affect Finances
I firmly believe that the reason gay rights have progressed very quickly relative to other civil rights movements is because queer people exist across all ethnicities, classes, genders, and religions. Queer people have many diverse and passionate supporters. And they’re embedded across every conceivable social group.
I strongly believe in the power of social pressure to shame bigots. Every time someone says something judgmental or homophobic or transphobic in your hearing, it is a test. You seem like the kind of person who will agree with me—or at least you seem like you won’t fight me on it. So go ahead and disavow them of that notion.
Practice. “I don’t find that funny. I don’t agree. That word is unacceptable. Don’t say things like that in front of me again.”
Contribute to a culture where people with hate inside themselves are nervous to open their mouths and let it out.
