When history is offensive it becomes woke history...
California Crazy
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My grade school at Aliso Beach in Laguna Beach ((now closed)) went to San Juan Mission and all the birds in 6th grade. We made a cool class project of the place. One of my best pals was our leader and he design a replica and we used popsicle sticks and lots of glue and bushes. This guy is now one of the top architects in town and I believe that class project got him going
My kids still did mission projects, but the details have changed.
They learn a little more about the disease problems at the missions and the relationship with the presidios.
That's fair. The missions were a mixed bag. They meant well and they kick started the growth of modern society in CA. They also did a lot of real damage in the process. You can't just ignore it.
What was offensive was the acceptance of the decades of lies that had disguised the reality of what happened to the natives at the missions.
Then came the boarding schools in the US & Canada...
“Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.”
That was the mindset under which the U.S. government forced tens of thousands of Native American children to attend “assimilation” boarding schools in the late 19th century. Decades later, those words—delivered in a speech by U.S. cavalry captain Richard Henry Pratt, who opened the first such school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania—have come to symbolize the brutality of the boarding school system.
The history of this forced assimilation is far from settled. On August 7, 2017, the U.S. Army began exhuming the graves of three children from the Northern Arapaho tribe who had died at Pratt’s Carlisle Indian Industrial School in the 1880s. The children’s names were Little Chief, Horse, and Little Plume—names they were forbidden to use at the school.
How Boarding Schools Tried to ‘Kill the Indian’ Through Assimilation | HISTORY
Native American tribes are still seeking the return of their children.
Let's not forget all the free booze and free land to build casino's so Espola and Husker can drink and play games. So sad. My wife is Cherokee and so is my dd.Then came the boarding schools in the US & Canada...
“Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.”
That was the mindset under which the U.S. government forced tens of thousands of Native American children to attend “assimilation” boarding schools in the late 19th century. Decades later, those words—delivered in a speech by U.S. cavalry captain Richard Henry Pratt, who opened the first such school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania—have come to symbolize the brutality of the boarding school system.
The history of this forced assimilation is far from settled. On August 7, 2017, the U.S. Army began exhuming the graves of three children from the Northern Arapaho tribe who had died at Pratt’s Carlisle Indian Industrial School in the 1880s. The children’s names were Little Chief, Horse, and Little Plume—names they were forbidden to use at the school.
How Boarding Schools Tried to ‘Kill the Indian’ Through Assimilation | HISTORY
Native American tribes are still seeking the return of their children.www.history.com
kickingandscreaming
PREMIER
It's not just crazy in CA. Here we have a MI city vying to bring the sweet smell of San Fran (A Poop City, USA winner) to their downtown. I'll note that nowhere in the article does it blame Californians who moved there.
dailycaller.com
If there's anything that will stem the movement of population to urban areas, it's laws and policies such as these that will drive it.
Major City Lets People Urinate, Defecate In Public — And Residents Aren’t Happy
Residents of Kalamazoo, lambasted city leaders Thursday after “equitable changes” in city laws decriminalized of public defecation and urination.
dailycaller.com
If there's anything that will stem the movement of population to urban areas, it's laws and policies such as these that will drive it.
Multi Sport
DA
California’s proposed new math curriculum defies logic
The proposed California Math Framework deprives every child of opportunities to take deep algebra-based classes, and, worse, is based on teaching materials that can only confuse a child’s emerging skills in logic and abstract thinking.
calmatters.org
Most countries, from Singapore to Zimbabwe, require three or more years of algebra-based classes, five for students seeking careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Yet the proposed California Math Framework deprives students of opportunities to take deep algebra-based classes, and worse, is based on teaching materials that can only confuse a child’s emerging skills in logic and abstract thinking.
California’s proposed new math curriculum defies logic
The proposed California Math Framework deprives every child of opportunities to take deep algebra-based classes, and, worse, is based on teaching materials that can only confuse a child’s emerging skills in logic and abstract thinking.
Most countries, from Singapore to Zimbabwe, require three or more years of algebra-based classes, five for students seeking careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Yet the proposed California Math Framework deprives students of opportunities to take deep algebra-based classes, and worse, is based on teaching materials that can only confuse a child’s emerging skills in logic and abstract thinking.
You don't have to read much of the article to set that it includes nuggets of nonsense. For example --
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Take the example of a geometry problem in Chapter Two:
“A farmer has 36 individual fences, each measuring one meter in length … the farmer wants to put them together to make the biggest possible area.”
This problem is completely inappropriate: It cannot be solved without very sophisticated math, rarely studied even in college.
The goal of geometry ought to be to develop logic and the idea of proof — that is, presenting statements to show a mathematical argument is true. Here, however, an answer is declared without even discussing the necessity of a proof; it introduces a wrong idea of what it means to solve a problem — something that college professors struggle to undo.
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Did you get the right answer?
kickingandscreaming
PREMIER
Here's an update on the state of the mathematics curriculum in CACalifornia’s proposed new math curriculum defies logic
The proposed California Math Framework deprives every child of opportunities to take deep algebra-based classes, and, worse, is based on teaching materials that can only confuse a child’s emerging skills in logic and abstract thinking.
Most countries, from Singapore to Zimbabwe, require three or more years of algebra-based classes, five for students seeking careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Yet the proposed California Math Framework deprives students of opportunities to take deep algebra-based classes, and worse, is based on teaching materials that can only confuse a child’s emerging skills in logic and abstract thinking.
Divisions run deep for math requirements
The debate that continues to simmer over California’s new math guidelines is a reminder that divisions remain deep over approaches to instruction, the pacing of algebra in middle school and
This is interesting:
The most prolific and one of the strongest critics of the framework is a colleague at Stanford, Brian Conrad, a professor of mathematics and director of undergraduate studies in math. Conrad said he agrees that math is often poorly taught and needs to be improved. But he faults the framework’s solutions as simplistic, oversold and not grounded in research.
Conrad said he spent spring break reading not only the framework but also many of the sources in footnotes on which the authors justified their recommendations. “To my astonishment, in essentially all cases, the papers were seriously misrepresented” and in some cases “even had conclusions opposite to what was said” in the framework. The misrepresentations of the neuroscience of math comprehension, de-tracking in favor of heterogeneous student grouping, the use of assessments and acceleration call into question the recommendations. Writers, he said, “should not be citing papers they do not understand to justify their public policy recommendations” fitting their perspectives.
Hüsker Dü
DA
History is ugly when shown from all sides. I grew up with Native Americans all around me. One, a teacher, who opened our eyes to many things that weren’t in our textbooks. One can start with who actually discovered the Americas.
Oh, by the way California brothers & sisters, Nancy's Hubby Paul tried to give the CHP officer his 11-99 "get out of jail" card. Pay to play did not work this time. Gr8t job Officer, you did the citizens of this State a solid and we all appreciate it, minus the psychopaths on the forum. This is how pay to play works for those with all $$$. "Waivers for thee but not for me" lol!! Karma is knocking on everyone's door. Capitulate b4 it's too late. Come clean and clean your insides so you can have a clear conscious. I love you all, even the psychos on here who have no heart or empathy 
Another one to file under "you can't make this shit up".
www.dailymail.co.uk
Newsom to decide on bill that would allow MORE open-air drug sites
Newsom is primed to sign a new bill that will allow more state-run drug-taking sites to pop up in Los Angeles, Oakland and San Francisco, where local officials are trying to shut it down.
Yup. They released all the prisoners as well and opened up weed shops everywhere. I think most of the young people are stoned now and just chilling out at home. Look, I'm not a judge for folks who decide what to put in their bodies, but this weed is nothing like it was in the 70s and 80s. The stuff their putting on the street is making the youth just play video games, eat ice cream and candy, gain weight and become a stoner. My buddy up in Tri-County is a millionaire selling dabs to the youth. My other friend lost her Thai business. California GoldAnother one to file under "you can't make this shit up".
Newsom to decide on bill that would allow MORE open-air drug sites
Newsom is primed to sign a new bill that will allow more state-run drug-taking sites to pop up in Los Angeles, Oakland and San Francisco, where local officials are trying to shut it down.
thirteenknots
SILVER ELITE
Bread and Circus.
That's all Greasy Newsom can provide.
That's all Greasy Newsom can provide.
Multi Sport
DA
Newsom Asks Hollywood to Stop Filming in Conservative States (Published 2022)
The California governor says film companies should “walk the walk” on abortion rights and L.G.B.T.Q. protections by leaving states such as Georgia and Oklahoma.
...and a followup post from me expressing concern that they did not allow discussion of a current health problem was removed after it got a few Likes.
Multi Sport
DA
I guess they don't want any bad pub..
Multi Sport
DA
Gov. Gav announces that California will ban the sale of new gasoline powered vehicles.
Gov. Gav declares a flex alert and ask people not to charge their EVs.
Gov. Gav declares a flex alert and ask people not to charge their EVs.