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The week's question
In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: Bill to Ban Teaching Scientific Theories
Date: 02/13/23 12:15 PM
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bighairymike: BTW, Schools are NOT doing an effective job of teaching STEM, and scores continuing to fall. This is a bigger problem that gender dysphoria. But STEM gets 1% of the emphasis that gender issues do.


One percent? Making up a statistic is no way to prove a point.

Anyway, quoting from your article: "You see huge differences in performance based on race and ethnicity, so that Asian and white students do much better on these standardized tests than students of color. And you also see that there is a huge difference based on the socioeconomic background of students ' students that are from higher socioeconomic backgrounds do much better than students from low socioeconomic backgrounds."

When asked why, Phillips said she didn't now why but "students of lower socioeconomic status or those from certain demographic groups tend to be in schools where teachers have less experience" and "teachers who are not originally educated in the fields that they teach".

Huh. Isn't she suggesting that "white people are privileged" and that POC have a harder time getting ahead because of the limitations that exist in their schools?

Finally, when I suggested that school districts "should be 'teaching' about confusing genitalia", I was making a joke based on the legislation we were discussing that would limit instruction to scientific facts rather than theories or principles since it's a medical fact that babies are born with genitalia that cannot easily be determined to be male or female, which would not violate the moronic legislation.

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