#public school

[phoenix-reburned]

If you could answer this, put your country/state in the tags, and share this it would be appreciated! I'm an ex-homeschooler from Texas and I'm genuinely curious on what people from outside of America think about homeschooling or if it's even a thing elsewhere

#boost #b00st #share #poll #polls #i love polls #homeschool #homeschooling #school #public school #study #world #worldwide

[provider-of-guardians]

Btw, since I've seen discourse about this recently, I'm curious.

"Some part of" here would be referring to peers, teachers, curriculum, the system in general, location, etc etc. If you have been bullied by kids or teachers, for example, that would count.

Please reblog so we can get a lot of results, ty!

EDIT: I'm sorry I forgot to include options regarding private schooling or whether you'd done both 😔 It's too late to adjust it at this point so, vote however you think is best (or don't, your choice)

#polls #school #public school #homeschool #signal boost

[disease]

High School Typing Classes. [c. 1950s]

#documentary photography #technology #history #surreal #black and white #monochrome #public school #50s #photography #u

[jackass-democrats]

Keep the woke democrats safe.

#wef #nwo #election fraud #joe biden #woke #mental health #indoctrination #public school #home school #trump 2024

[fru1typunch]

Here's a little post ranting about the Floridian education system and how it fucked over public school librarians this year, from the adult child of one who spent his whole summer helping his poor mom try and keep up with Desantis's ridiculous requests.

Every school year, the librarian always gets a couple weeks with a "closed" library to take inventory of the school's stock at the end. Normal stuff, y'know, if a bit tedious and boring. Scan every. Single. Thing. See what you have and figure out who last checked out what you should have, that sort of thing.

Well, Ron Desantis, in his genius, decided that concept had to be applied to all the books in the entire school to determine if they're "appropriate" (by his batshit conservative standards).

My mom didn't JUST have to do the usual inventory thing for her own library. She ALSO had to do something similar but far WORSE for her entire school's personal classroom libraries.

The objective of this SCHOOL WIDE requirement was to "approve" every book in the school as "appropriate". Every. Single. Book. In. The. School. Not the school library, no, the SCHOOL. All classrooms.

My mom's an elementary school librarian. There's around 1000 students at her school, give or take, and around 50 or so classroom libraries to sort through. And this was supposed to be done over summer, before the kids came back in the fall. Entirely unpaid.

She had to personally approve around 25,000-30,000 books school wide based on whether or not they're "appropriate for kids" (again, by Desantis standards), entirely unpaid, in about 2 months. Keep in mind these classroom libraries had been pre-existing for many years or even decades in most cases, so it's kinda useless to just now care about whether the books are "appropriate".

Mind you, you can't read that many individual books in under two months and then approve them in the system if you tried, even if most were children's books. She spent every single day of her summer, her only real time off each year, logging into the online portal and manually approving books from 8 in the morning to 8 at night, looking them up and trying to determine if they might be okay by the new standards since she couldn't possibly have the time to read them all and check, and again, entirely unpaid on her own. Teachers were scanning in their classroom's books to the system to be approved by her in real time, so she really never could get very far ahead. At most she'd knock out a few hundred a day, which I think is wildly impressive given the circumstances.

Even with all that work, she couldn't open her library for nearly a month into the new school year this August because she spent every school day finishing that approval thing for the classroom libraries for teachers. At least by that point she got paid for it. She was also way behind on getting her library ready for the school year, she really hadn't had time to prepare like normal. It was a crazy stressful time for her all around, moreso than back-to-school time normally is each year.

I helped as much as I knew how to, which mostly just meant looking books up for her or texting back and forth with my friends that work at Barnes and Noble or Books A Million asking if they could skim through certain books that might pose a threat at times, and coming up to the school with her sometimes while she worked on approving books and I worked on preparing her library for "business" again.

My mom was upset because she didn't have time for a real summer vacation, the most she got to do was occasionally visit the beach a few hours away for a day trip. (On one of the beach days, she even took her blessed laptop with her to work on it in the car ride over.) She was in the thick of it neck deep all on her own for months with hardly any time off and no pay to show for it.

It's frustrating because if she were to have approved a book that a parent later complains about, it could mean bad news for her. Again, no way in hell would she have been able to both read every single book, determine if she thought it was okay by Desantis's standards, and then approve every single book within the system. She did her best, but she's still nervous someone will complain.

All this conservative bullshit around books is hurting so many kinds of librarians and educators in so many ways, so just take a moment sometime soon to appreciate your local librarians and public school teachers putting up with this crap. They could use the love. Maybe some strong alcohol. And a big wad of cash, they do a lot of shit unpaid.

And do vote these assholes out of office that are making these poor librarians' and teachers' jobs harder with no additional support or pay.

#rant post #fuck desantis #ron desantis #florida #library #public libraries #school libraries #librarians #love your librarians #public school #public school system #education #education system #banned books #politics #be nice to teachers

[solarpunkjesusfan]

Thinking about that time in APUSH when the teacher was trying to teach us a lesson about how bad the past was and instead taught himself about how much pressure is put on US high schoolers.

He gave us an account of a typical weekday of a 16 year old girl working in a textile factory in Lowell Massachusetts. We were then to write down our schedule on a typical weekday and compare.

My comparison concluded that she had more of a social life, more free time, actually had a boyfriend, worked fewer hours, slept less, and could get around more independently than I could.

Most other students reached similar conclusions but many of them also slept less than her. (I slept 8 hours, she slept 7, and many of my classmates slept 6 or less) I simply slept more because there was never any caffeine at my house and I couldn’t physically push myself to power through. I paid for this by working 10+ hours on homework every weekend.

After grading our homework he came back the next day with such a look of pity and said something along the lines of

“I had no idea it was this bad. It wasn’t like this when I was 16. I’m so sorry.”

This was over 10 years ago. If that teacher is still teaching APUSH he probably doesn’t do that assignment anymore.

I don’t regularly talk to any high schoolers, but I do keep up with current events. I don’t have a perfect idea but from what I can tell all the problems that were there when I was 16 are now way worse plus a whole pile of new horrific problems, some of which probably cross the line into being straight up human rights violations.

It wasn’t like this when I was 16. I’m so sorry.

#apush me off a cliff #apush #ap us history #rant post #text post #high school #history #abolish homework #school #youth rights #youth liberation #public school

[tomcruisingthroughlife]

#funny #funny content #lol #funny memes #memes #comedy #meme #lol memes #rofl #tumblr #high school #public school #grad school #school #college

[nonbinarypolitics]

Oh these people are just straight up retarded, okay. Average public school educated person, lmao.

#public school #fucking sucks

[pheonix1t23]

#usa #public school #public education

[thoughtportal]

#toot #toots #mastodon #black history month #black history usa #black history #american racism #racism #brown vs the board of education #us education #public education #education #history #Manufacturing Consent #public school #school

[reasonsforhope]

According to the World Resources Institute, the number of electric school buses operating or delivered in the United States more than doubled—from 598 in 2022 to 1,285 through June 2023—all driven to serve school children while providing cleaner air in 40 states.

Looking into the near future, the number of electric school buses that were already funded or on-order nearly tripled, and were spread across districts located in 49 states.

The emissions-free buses are found in 914 U.S. school districts and private fleet operators, according to the evidence-based nonprofit’s report published in September, 2023: State of Electric School Bus Adoption in the US.

California leads all states, with over 2,000 committed electric buses across the sprawling territory. This is more than five times as many EV buses as the next leading state, Maryland, with 391 commitments.

New Jersey has the second largest increase with 107 new buses, while West Virginia has the third largest increase with 42 new commitments. The updated data shows electric school bus commitments are now more evenly distributed across all regions of the country.

The Top 5 School Districts by Number of Electric School Buses are:

Montgomery County Public Schools (Maryland)

Los Angeles Unified School District

New York City Public Schools

Twin Rivers Unified School District (California)

Troy Community Consolidated School District (Illinois)

“We estimate approximately 69,000 students across the country are currently served by electric school buses that are delivered or in operation,” said the report authors, Lydia Freehafer, Leah Lazer, and Brian Zepka.

Zero pollution from tailpipes while buses are idling or driving means the students, staff, and community will be exposed to significantly less harmful air particulates that contribute to asthma and lung disease. The environment also benefits from reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

The federal government’s Clean School Bus Program, administered by the Environmental Protection Agency, is one of the biggest funders of these vehicles, having awarded 2,339 electric school buses—with more on the way.

-via Good News Network, December 30, 2023

#united states #us politics #sustainability #climate change #hope posting #school #school district #school buses #electric vehicles #ev #clean air #carbon emissions #pollution #air pollution #high school #public school #california #los angeles #maryland #new york #illinois #good news #hope #environmentalism #driving #epa #environmental protection #biden administration

[isaacsapphire]

Banned books

The perennial topic, the regularly scheduled table of "banned books" at Borders and the public library.

The people who tell you that censorship is just sparkling repression unless it's done by a government tell you that a book is "banned" because one parent in Bumfuq, Kansas (population: 2436 if we count the prison) said they didn't want their 8 year old to be required to read it for a class they are legally required to attend, regardless of if this parent's objections were obeyed.

Meanwhile, what's not on the "banned books" table, because it isn't being printed (anymore), got "weeded" from the library, or otherwise isn't in the building because it don't fit the sociopolitical ideology of the people who assemble those displays?

Salman Rushdie books aside, has anything on that table ever been repressed by a government?

#censorship #banned books #read banned books #public school #education industrial complex #books & libraries #public libraries #library #publishing industry #original post

[hananono]

i just remembered this was a thing we did at both my middle and high school so. i wanna know if it was a thing elsewhere. reblog if you vote et cetera or dont im not a cop

#tantrum hole #polls #language #public school #language learning #fuck idk what else to tag this as #american public school

[lenbryant]

Education: Finland v USA.

#politics #education #republicans war on education #republicans #maga me sick #vote #happiness #michael moore #public school #privatization #finland #usa

[sarahmackattack]

Obsessed with the mural on our neighborhood elementary school in Philly. They had the kids paint the tiles. CUTE.

#art #murals #ocean art #kid art #Philly #Philly public schools #public school #this fuggin rules

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Quebec's education minister has formalized a promise to ban prayer rooms and other religious practices in the province's public schools.

Bernard Drainville issued a directive late Wednesday saying schools must ensure that none of their spaces are used "in fact and in appearance, for the purposes of religious practices such as open prayers or other similar practices."

"Schools are places or learning and not places of worship," Drainville wrote on his Twitter account, where he published a copy of his order.

No requests for accommodation will be heard, the government added.

Full article

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

To be clear, this isn't just to stop staff from imposing religion on students. This also prevents students and staff from praying and practicing religion as individuals- even privately- on school grounds.

#cdnpoli #canadian politics #canadian news #canadian #canada #québec #quebec #education #religion #public school #public schools #religious freedom #religious discrimination