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Friday, February 05, 2021
The best of ideas can be sabotaged by those who implement them
If one has a good idea, and wants to make it into a policy for any group or organization or state or nation, that's all very well . . . but you'd better choose those who'll actually implement it very, very carefully. If you don't, they can take the best idea in the world and screw it up out of all recognition.
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We are tutoring a young boy as a part of the whole virtual learning experience. He calls us grandma and grandpa, even though we are not actually related. At least, so far, this worthless claptrap has not made it into the curriculum in our part of the country. We will see how long it will be before Joe's DOE starts tying this nonsense to federal dollars. Holy shit, what a disaster this idiot will be. At least, the kenyan boy god's designation of worst president ever will soon be eclipsed by this dottering old fool.
ReplyDeleteSeems to me the goal is MORE racism and division according to the color of one's skin. It's opposite of what we were taught when I went to school in the 60's.
ReplyDeleteCommenter Genji at BRM hit the nail on the head. Elina Kaplan (herself “an immigrant from the former USSR” — one guess if she considers her ancestry Russian, or Ukrainian, generally Slavic, or SOMETHING ELSE) and fellow travelers are all upset mainly (or only) because the BDS movement was praised and Israel was criticized.
ReplyDeleteAnd the basic premise (it was a good idea with a bad implementation) is wrong. Mandatory “ethnic studies” is a bad idea from the very beginning. This is the West. That means we study Greek and Roman history and philosophy. Then the history of Christianity. If any groups were unfairly excluded from the curriculum, it was the Germanic and Celtic tribes, to whom we owe many of our folkways. After all that, if you want to learn about other civilizations, good on you, go for it. But those should NOT be at the core of K through 8 education. Good Western grounding, then branch out — as electives, NOT mandatory. And this is coming from a guy whose parents came to the US from China in the 1950s.
@WFTS: good to hear wherever you are is not tainted (yet) by this, but it’s been around since the 1970s, if not earlier. I recall spending weeks in 6th and 7th grades learning about the Ashanti (the ethnic group, not the singer). Even as a snot-nosed preteen I was annoyed by why we were spending all this time on people from freaking Ghana. (We then had to write “book reports” and make presentations on “ancient cultures”. Guess what 90% of the class talked about. Path of least resistance plus kissing up, eh? Just to fuck with them MY presentation was on Irish Celts. This was not well received by the teacher. Too bad, so sad.) To get back on the subject, the point of studying Ashanti was to link it to the slave trade. The point of indoctrination was that West Africa was a land of high culture and great civilizations (the griots were “like bards, only much better educated and smarter”), said great civilizations having been destroyed by evil evil whites who chased them down in the woods, as seen in the TV series Roots. (No whites went chasing Africans in the woods, they bought them pre-enslaved from other Black Africans, or from Arabs. FFS.)