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"Generation Global," a PD used in New Jersey. Here's the full hour long video, but below are some highlights @ConceptualJames @DefendingEd @NoLeftTurnElana @Moms4Liberty @SloanRachmuth @Nicoletta0602 @pauldrossi @maxeden99 @CBHeresy @ChalkBoardRev
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Here are some suggested "lessons" 2/
Notice how well it works? This is the problem: it sounds harmless enough, even beneficial, but also notice which behaviors and attitudes are promoted, and which are not (questioning the material) 3/
Oh look! Scripts...How handy! No one needs to think at all!
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No pressure or anything...
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Owl of Athena 🇮🇱🎗️🐿️ Profile picture
Dec 8
Unpopular opinion:
I DETEST the movie Love Actually. I've seen it several times, because like everyone else who's seen it, I was told how lovely it was, and how much I'd like it, and like a glutton for punishment, I kept watching it year after year during the holiday season TRYING to find the good in it, and since this is my year I'd radical truth-telling, I'm coming out as a Love Actually hater.

It's a visual metaphor for everything wrong in our culture, and should have been a giant red flag to us when it came out that horrible ideas had become so normalized, we stopped noticing, and even celebrated them.

Where to begin...
1/The relationships: we are meant to see them all as testaments to the power of love, but each and every one stands out to me as a testament to something toxic.

No, I don't think it's cute that the PM of England has a thing for a staff member at #10 the instant he sees her, to the point where he has her reassigned.

No, I don't think it's funny or cute that Colin travels to the USA to have sex with random "hot chicks."

No, I don't think it's touching and sweet that the Hobbit finds love as a stand in for graphic sex scenes in other movies.

No, I don't think there's ANYTHING healthy or heartwarming about Laura Linney's relationship ship with her on-screen brother. That is pure altruism at its most self-harming.

No, I don't think it's normal or healthy to rebound from being cheated on by falling head over heels with someone with whom you literally can't communicate (Colin Firth's Jamie), and no, I don't think night classes in Portuguese gives you sufficient language skills to build a marriage around. It's pure wishful thinking, and kind of creepy too as he's so obviously damaged.

No, I don't think there's anything uplifting about watching Emma Thompson's marriage come apart because her husband, Alan Rickman's character, allows himself to be seduced by an obvious harlot (who should have been fired in the first scene).

No, I don't think there's anything winsome about watching a stalker obsess over his best friend's wife to the point of showing up at their door, telling her to LIE about who it is, and then professing his undying love to her. Her kissing said stalker was the poison icing on that cake.

No, I don't think Bill Nighy and his manager are cute either. Giving up going to Elton's place on New Year's Eve so you can sit and get drunk with your manager isn't "love." I'm not sure what that is...Loneliness? Realizing the women hanging all over you are young enough to be your GRANDDAUGHTERS? Being tired and bored maybe? But it's not "love."

Finally, as lovely as the relationship between Liam Newsom and his stepson is, and as much as I commend the kid for learning to play the drums so fast, this emphasis on love-at-first-sight OBSESSION is a big part of what's wrong with people's expectations of real life relationships. It's cute, until you realize how mainstream it is to believe this is as one SHOULD feel, and it's just not.

If you wanted to create vignettes of all the seemingly "normal" relationships that are NOT "love, actually," you couldn't do a better job.
3/The depiction of the relationship between the U.S. and UK, and the morals/values of each (not to mention the line "Let's fix the country, shall we" from High Grant's chief of staff makes me want to throw my shoe at the screen).

I'm not sure even Bill Clinton's as audaciously smarmy as Billy Bob Thornton, though I'm sure that's who he was meant to be. I don't mind THAT, it's just that the writers made that guy an avatar for the nation in Hugh Grant's speech to the press, which was noxious.

They conveniently left out all the thinks England is also the "country of," when they made it sound like our whipping boy, poor baby "victim." 🤮

There is literally nothing that's happened to Britain in general that its govt didn't bring upon it, going back pretty damn far. Sure, you could say the same about us, but imagine a film in which we did the same to them with our checkered past?

Yeah, didn't think so. Arrogant, cheeky bastards. Always pretending they're so clean because of that fancy accent, and Shakespeare (who was a pretty bawdy fellow, and hardly someone to use as a virtue signal).
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Jun 27
🤔So the AFT (Randi Wiengarten's Union) has a website called "Share My Lesson," and teachers, parents, anyone really can subscribe to it to download lesson plans. They emailed a friend of mine today about a lesson plan for teaching about the debates between Biden and Trump. Let's take a look...1/Image
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2/The lesson plan says it can be used for high school students in "media literacy" civics and social studies.

Wonder what "modernize them for today's voters" might entail? Cage match? The audience screaming at the GOP candidate so they can't be heard? Just spitballing here...

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3/Here's the timeline of the two presidencies...What do you notice about the framing/naming of events. Is it just obvious to me, or can you all see the bias here? 👇

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Mar 14
🤬I hardly know what to say. Reading what the New York DOE put out yesterday about Israeli history, the conflict and "what students should know," I want to scream.

The government is now officially teaching lies, and aiding and abetting a *officially classified terror org* (Hamas).

What's more, a rabid antisemite and Hamas supporter is now teaching this narrative (amongst other lies, see posts below) 600 public and private TEACHERS per week.
I feel absolutely sick.

If you don't know which are the lies, I'll be happy to explain, but many of you will spot them immediately.
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2/Paulo Freire would be proud...No sides? Liars! This entire thing clearly takes the side of the Arabs/Muslims. Clear as day!


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3/Notice how they assume such students exist? They are suggesting them into being. They want them to exist. They NEED them to exist! Activism IS the goal, but only for one side: "radical liberation," which means NO ISRAEL. It's a lot of words to cover up for wanting cultural genocide, but first, actual genocide.Image
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Feb 19
Let me introduce you to WestEd. It's an education research and consulting firm that shows all by itself how there is far too much money in the government monopoly right now if these people all have enough to pay for all of this garbage.

This is the wokest org I've ever seen, and I could spend all day going through this site with you. Here are some highlights. Their "about" and diversity statement. 1/Image
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2/ The focus on entity and cramming it into every aspect of school is evident, as is the focus on "transformative" change.


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3/Look at their approach to literacy...Can you imagine this working to teach people to read better, never mind at all? Look at the SEL focus, and the way they proudly display their CASEL select status.
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Nov 27, 2023
It makes me unbearably sad to see people here insist they MUST be dual income rather than have a parent at home with their kids JUST to pay for private school. This is madness. Why did you have kids? To work like dogs and never see them? To hand them over to strangers? 1/
2/Do you realize your kids need an education, not "schooling?" They need and want YOU. They need and want to know the world and all its beauty and wonder, and I'm sorry but very few schools can do that job HALF as well as you can.
3/Sure private schools are springing up left and right, and why now? Y'all are creating a demand. But who do you think will teach in them? Do you think private school teachers are magically different or better than public school teachers?
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Nov 21, 2023
🚨IMPORTANT THREAD, especially for parents. If you are genuinely concerned about your child's mental and physical health, you MUST read this and consider what I'm about to say seriously:
Education, as an institution in America, is operating like a cult. Let me explain: 1/
1/"Individuals are often attracted to cults due to promises of belonging, purpose, or a sense of community."
"Community schooling" ring a bell? How about "belonging" or "inclusion?" "Belonging" is what everyone from Cardona, to the NEA, to your Principal prioritizes and PROMISES.
2/"Cults often employ excessive friendliness, attention, and praise early on to make newcomers feel special, loved, and accepted."
Schools now have RULES enforcing obligatory praise, attention, and acceptance, put up flags and host "celebrations" while saying they "love" students
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