Running racism in America thread

I hear you there. There's a lot for kids to take. I wouldn't remove a math requirement. In 24 periods of year-long classes possible over a four year high school career, three must be used on history, three on English (four for UC/CSU admission), two on PE, two for math (three for college), two for science, two for language, one for visual art (CA allows language to count but college needs language and visual art to be separate). You basically have 14-year-long courses for minimum requirements and 17 for UC/CSU admission (including one extra year for social studies and two years of PE). That goes to 20 if you take the recommended requirements for UC/CSU admissions. If you include one year of ethnic studies, you eat into one of at least four extra year-long classes you can take.

Depending on your school's policy, many kids end up with a free period their senior year. This basically gets rid of that if they didn't decrease a requirement elsewhere. Imagine they might because this is also going to be a CSU requirement too. I haven't seen where they are going to adjust unit thresholds. I was also looking who was going to teach these (which credential will be required) and don't see that either.

And I also hate that political forces are going at it in schools, but I don't mind this as much. History classes are very Euro-centric and skip a lot of African and Mezo American content except how it relates to Europeans. I mean, hell, we're in a textbook adoption year at my middle school and one of the history books had one page on slavery. One page. And Columbus discovered America was a chapter heading. This isn't a needless requirement in my view. YMMV.

 

Also in the story, Remy said that a Japanese pitcher should at least learn "baseball language". Is that wrong? I don't understand why it would be.

 

I'm not trying to give Sean McDonough a pass, but he's been doing MLB games for 30+ years and I'm pretty sure he knew or had an idea of the name of the Giants GM.

It was a really bad attempt at humor. If he's not yet given a legit apology, he should. Move on.

At least he didn't have a script handed to him that claimed some guy's name was "Ho Li Fook" or "Ban Ding Ow."

 

I wonder why it can't be a grad requirement before 2029-30? It seems that if it's going to be offered, and they're going to make it a grad requirement, why not do that in 2025-26, the next four-year span?

I guess it's going to take the time to figure out all those details regarding what will be taken off the table in order to put this on, any changes in unit-crediting, and who's going to teach it, and what the credentials are, etc.

 

It can’t be a grad requirement earlier than 26-27 because you need to give students a chance to actually take the class in their high school tenure which means you put the classes in next school year. Giving it three years lets schools figure out the curriculum, allocate money for the class, order materials and hire teachers.

 

I am sure the Clay Travises the world will try to defend these fuckers with “I bet there’s video of protestors saying similar things.”

Minneapolis Police Caught on Video 'Hunting' Activists

 

Yeah, this leads me to say "Defund the Police." And I'm thinking I'm safer without these police than with them.

 

"Negro" is one of those dogwhistle words that alerts both sides of the speaker's/writer's intentions.

 

The entire Minneapolis PD needs to be shut down and an entirely new force started. Bring in leadership from other cities, where things are done slightly better. Screen every cop who reapplies for a job. How you cover police duties in the interim, who knows. I suppose State Police aren’t equipped to cover the entire city.