In other words, you say shit you can't back up, but it's everybody else's fault.
Clearly you did not receive adequate education on the Civil Rights Movement. MLK just as a single example was a radical socialist who advocated for the right to housing and a UBI. He was staunchly anti-war before it was cool to be so. He recognized that race and class are joined at the hip and that race problems are consequently class problems and vice versa. He was arrested for defying police in his protests and took the incarceration as an opportunity to tell white moderates to eat all of the dicks in a letter. He advocated for non-whites to stop supporting a system that had fucked them over from the start. He demanded an end to police brutality and called for a radical redistribution of wealth. The FBI conspired to drive him to suicide, for fuck's sake.
This is why having these AP courses matters. Because white people like you just don't... fucking... get it. And in your case, you will likely never get it.
Nope, you said the law does XYZ, but you can't even copy/paste the part of the law that says that. Somehow I'm the one that can't back up shit?
You didn't mentioned anything about actual socialism...
No desire to be picky, but why does it matter if Greece was the first democracy? I don't think there's anything wrong with learning any of the things you've mentioned, but I don't see what sets them apart from the subjects you don't think should be included.
Funnily, pretty much all of this would be covered by media studies (which was part of my degree many years ago), and you know how media studies is seen ... I don't disagree that these things should be taught, and I don't think rote learning is good either. I just don't see how expanding the syllabus (we could replace origins of democracy tbh) hurts that.
But: when you say that kids have no critical thinking skills, how much of your own ability to deal with those same problems is based on your experience of those problems (or similar ones) rather than your education? I am, to blow my own trumpet, an excellent problem-solver.* Genuinely very good at it. But most of it is because I've experienced problems, struggled through, and then overcome them, so I know better for next time. Nothing to do with my education (which was exactly the names-and-dates education we discussed above).
* This has left me poorly equipped for dealing with unsolvable problems, like people dying.
Teaching Greece was the first democracy isn't a semester long course, you just teach it and move on. Just things on their own might not be important, but how they intertwine can matter. Comparing Greece to our democracy along with other countries of that time ends up being useful. It wouldn't be useful to just talk about say Japan or China's governments/policies on their own but seeing what other countries do (both good and bad, or just different) vs the US is very useful. Showing different perspectives all the time is very good.
High school or college degree? I know in my high school we didn't have a class for anything like that. With regards to critical thinking, it's actually usually punished in many regards. In math, you can't do a problem your own way, you have to do it by the book even if that's the longer way. I was lucky to have an algebra teacher that let me do problems my way; I still recall that I made a program on the TI-83 calculator to do a certain kind of problem that took like 10 minutes and he allowed me to use it on the test because he said that if I could make a program on the calculator to do it, then I understood the process. I then finished a period long test in less than 5 minutes. Whereas my chemistry teacher made us show all the work on our problems that were super basic like changing metric units where you just have to move the decimal point. It's shocking how basically nobody I know can figure out a tip at the restaurant without a calculator, all you do is move the decimal point one over and double it for a 20% tip, super easy math. There's no critical thinking because kids aren't really allowed to because everything is teaching exactly some facts vs teaching concepts. Philosophy would be a good class for high school (not sure it that is in high school now but it wasn't for me) that would allow different thoughts and perspectives and would have very little politics involved.
Socialism was a core component of black people getting their rights? Sure, you might have socialists in the movement but that doesn't make it some key component of the movement. Also, I doubt the class will give examples of capitalist countries doing basically everything King was advocating for today now would it?
Literally nothing I said would constitute a violation of the 14th amendment.
I'm in favour of including study on prominent thinkers and theorists, including those who had opinions that go against mainstream American conservative thought. And if American conservatives believe it would be wrong to exclude American slavers because of their past evil deeds, then-- if they're being consistent, rather than vain hypocrites-- they should also welcome the inclusion of communist and anti-Capitalist thinkers such as those on that list.
Why not? There's a historically highly significant black anti-capitalist movement. The fact you don't know that would seem to indicate that we need better education on it.
I didn't say anything you said, I said things in the course do.
And have kids been taught about capitalism and socialism beforehand to understand the concepts and rhetoric?
The combination of these two bills is frightening. I'm not even joking, I legitimately fear for the average person in Florida if these both pass.
It would make Florida the only state to allow judges the power to override a life sentence and give a death sentence instead.
www.tampabay.com
The bill's sponsor rebuked concealed carry permits.
www.mynews13.com
Huh? The jury would still need to find the defendant guilty and sentenced them to a life sentence already. Many states don't require gun licenses, I live in a state that has no gun licenses.
I'd guess that an avocado is probably less like an apple than the fruit of Atropina belladonna is like the fruit of Rubus idaeus. But, you know.
Well, you've certainly never made that specific argument and so I haven't assumed that you think that.
Depends on the apple juice as it can vary, but as long as you're not buying cheap and nasty stuff it's usually got some useful vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, etc.
No, it really isn't. It's just sugar, like there's sugar in a zillion other things (many of them natural). Basically, eating 50g of table sugar a day isn't really any different from eating 50g of sugar a day from any other sources.
What is the avocado's composition that will cause issues to a population that has never eaten them historically? We all know the problem with eating sugars without said fibers. It's a pretty horrible argument saying sugar is fine because avocados are new to humans.
What apple juice is actually good to drink? The label I posted had no added sugars (some apples probably have less sugar, that doesn't make it good to drink). Just because it has vitamins doesn't make it good. Just because you lace cocaine with vitamin C doesn't make it good. Having kids drink orange juice for vitamin C is a horrible idea.
It's about the saying "the dose makes the poison" and having the amount of sugar the average American has is poison.
Although the level of difference that Phoenixmgs is talking about is bollocks, and table sugar is categorically not "poison" in any meaningful sense, there are notable differences. Sucrose is significantly worse than monosaccharides for oral health and for streptococcus, and requires a little more energy to break down and absorb; fructose is worse than glucose for triggering genshin and addictive qualities.
But yeah, nutritionally speaking there's very little difference. The biggest discrepancy is in oral/dental health. And by far more important than which kind of sugar you consume is how much you consume. Because the excess will transfer into fat deposits regardless of the source-- and the level of excess is determined by intake and usage.
"The dose makes the poison."
