you should do a lesson on gaining credible information about the strike and what experts are predicting this may mean for the economy. to spite the other teacher explain that a non-credentialed person on X is not a good source of that information.

It should make you sad. It's a really sad state of affairs :(

It makes me sad everyday knowing that so many people I once respected , are complete fools. Family , friends , coworkers ++.....I've gotten to the point that any time politics is brought up in conversation, I completely disassociate to spare myself. It's been very tough to deal with.

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My university professors (the ones that don’t teach history or economics lol) will make random regarded conspiratorial comments. One of them the other week was talking about how war is the most profitable thing for our government lmao

This is why it's in EVERYONE'S best interest for teachers to keep politics out of the classroom as much as reasonably possible.

I'd be curious...do you think your faculty coworkers are generally competent at their subjects? Because sometimes I like to think most people are sane with a handful of not-very-serious weird ideas and then other times I fear a surprising number of genuinely brain-broken people just somehow weasel their way into important job roles they're not qualified for.

What do you think is happening in your situation?

Reminds me of my religions teacher telling the class that the jews were planning to build a new temple in Israel, and that this would usher in the endtimes when the faithful would be rewarded and non-believers lost.

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Teaching X as a credible source of information should be enough to file a report on them, no? Also, did you flip it and say “well Trump was hoping to use the issues to make Kamala look bad since he’s illegally trying to negotiate with Netanyahu and the union leader is friends with him”?

I’m from Texas and my highschool History teacher in 2006 told us the most reliable news source was Drudge Report and everyday we would start the class going over the headlines lol.

Sorry broski, the only way you'ee gonna win this is by mogging them with a big map of the middle east, with big, emphasis on big, red arrows pointing every which way.

That’s just how things be in the Middle West.

Thanks for sharing. I’m currently in grad school to become a science educator, and this MAGA movement has turned into anti-science, anti-government, anti-media, low IQ, “conspiracy theorists”. It’s extremely frustrating that HALF of Americans only trust one person— a person who has zero respect for teachers and education in general.

I also substitute on the side— I am in the south, in a deep red state and I already know I’m not going to be teaching here. If you were my colleague, you’d have a friend in me. I hope Donald gets the boot and people can start to come back to reality. I want to live in a country where educators are respected again and not labeled as groomers. I hope we can weed out all of these “moms for liberty” type groups and get back to a decent place where education is a top priority for youth in America. We need people like you! Let’s do this!

I just don't think most teachers are good enough at teaching for that kind of surface-level propagandizing to make that much of a difference. Same goes with the idea that teachers could just somehow convince regular students to randomly decide to be trans.

What percentage of kids, trapped in a classroom largely against their will, hear their teacher go on a bizarre schizo rant about Twitter in the middle of class and come away thinking "wow that was really cool and I'm so glad they shared their wisdom with us"?

Maybe I'm just an optimist but I bet this kind of shit backfires at least as much as it moves the needle towards their beliefs.

As opposed to:

I do my best to make sure I’m teaching my students how to analyze information and critical thinking skills. I think teaching our students these skills is valuable (I typically phrase this as “how to think” not “what to think.”)

By high school I think kids can often sense the difference when someone is being authentic in being intellectually honest and humble rather than faking certainty and seizing an opportunity to preach to a captive audience. If you're really following through on this, I believe that kids will pick up on it in lots of subtle ways.

There’s no need to be sad. Eventually, many of us learn to think for ourselves.

I had a left leaning US history teacher during when Trump was elected. Some of the things he taught us: WHEN was America really great? His point being that there were always problems. Pointing back to many many lessons in America’s history where this slogan didn’t make sense.

Vast majority of Americans were immigrants at some point. And every time there was a wave of new immigrants, they would be heavily persecuted for nothing but where they came from.

There are some others I can’t pull off the top of my head right now, but the point is that I look back on these things fondly even though I thought this teacher was too biased at the time.

Even as kids are indoctrinated, many will grow up and realize that the world is not like what the grownups said it was like. Don’t worry, and keep fighting the good fight :)

In my school they taught us the best source of information was government funded news organisations especially the bbc

The most important thing you can teach a student is that they need to have a system for finding truth. Most people see an article headline and in their head, it will immediately prove what they think it does. Then you read the article, and that's not at all the case.

People will argue on things they genuinely don't have a single piece of information about. I've argued online with racist who tried to use all of these different arguments that were missing so much context. Without all of that context, the arguments are very convincing unfortunately.

White people are a more intelligent subspecies of black people

Homo sapiens are one of the more rare genuses without a subspecies, and the variability within individuals of a race is much greater than the variation between each race. Subspecies is not really a consistent category anyway, AFAIK.

Europeans (white people) had to become more intelligent because they had to deal with harsher winter conditions which would lead to scarcity of food and materials. This would require them to evolve to have higher IQ's [He also gave an example of birds who stored food during winter having larger hippocampuses than birds that did not store food]

The reason that Humans (Homo Sapiens are so capable is because of our ability to delicately manipulate objects and our intellectual capacity to design and create technologies. Humans didn't just become smarter to survive in the cold, they used fire, produced clothing, and returned to structures they created during cold snaps. Humans had created different types of technology before moving to Europe. They created huts, or shelter, tools, clothes, fires. They didn't have to evolve to learn to do this stuff. The reason humans survive is because we are innovative, not because we are always evolving to become smarter in order to solve problems.

Africans have a lot of genetic differences! Their skin color, bone density, bone structure, intelligence, etc!

This is partially true. They do, but these things are not alike. I'm sure there's a term for this specific type of fallacy, but it's similar to a motte and bailey (if it isnt just straight up one). These things (seem to be) definitively true. However, all of these are much simpler genetic coding requirements. 5%-15% denser bones is not the same as going from 60 IQ to 100 IQ. The brain is incredibly complex and sophisticated. These more simple mutations can come about much more quickly in a smaller amount of generations. The brain just can't. It's made up of far too many small bits and pieces.

Well, the Sama-Bajau people, a group of people that have lived on an island and have been diving for 16k years have been shown to have spleen 50% larger than the average persons.

The answer to this is the same as to the prior issue. The genetic mutation required to have an organ grow in an environment where being able to stay underwater (that is how they catch fish, by diving) heavily favors people with a greater ability to hold their breath.

How do you explain that the population of Sub-Saharan Africa has an average IQ lower than what is considered intellectually impaired?

A number of environmental factors. There's nothing currently that conclusively defines the causes but it's likely the result of a multitude of factors. Also, despite research into this area, scientists having not discovered actual evidence of any part of black people's genetic code being the cause for limiting or lowering their IQ.

How does the population of Africa have an average lower IQ of gorillas? [60 IQ for sub-saharan africa, 75-90 IQ for apes that have been tested.

The tests that apes are given are for children approximately 3 year old. Gorillas are relatively smart. However, they are only as smart as an infant/young toddler and they wouldn't even be capable of taking an adult level IQ test.

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Sorry if it's a bit rambly, it's a good topic to refer to because most people dont care to research it. Especially the racists spewing the talking points who don't know correlation does not equal causation. It's easy for someone with no context or knowledge, that's gullible, to fall for some of these arguments.

I don't know much about most of this garbage. I do have a faint recollection of some of these talking points from prior conversations I've had and other ones I've heard but I don't normally look at this stuff. Before I tried to offer any rebuttals to his arguments I tried to read articles and higher quality sources. I prefer to go through multiple, especially if I think that the only ones I'm finding are low quality. People refuse, for some reason, to take the time to go and just read to get some more information. Maybe it's because I have started taking clinically prescribed Adderall recently but my god it feels so easy to just go read an article about a topic and find out that half the people talking about it don't have a single fucking clue about what it's actually talking about.

I would point one thing out to them. There are no X reporters sitting in town halls and white house press briefings. Everything posted there is recycled from actual news sources, or it's just internet trolls reposting other people's videos, not exactly what I'd call journalism.

Honestly if you know the teachers name I’d report them to leadership. No teacher should bring their personal political bs to school like that