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Bear Ribs
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LEVY: Ontario school bans Valentine’s Day for inclusion reasons
According to a social media post from early this week, provided to True North, Kitchener’s Jean Steckle Public School has informed parents that their kids will not be permitted to hand out Valentines on Feb. 14.
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The family of T.C. Williams would like their $25,000 donation back from the University of Richmond. With interest it comes to $51 million.
Can't say this is all that surprising — either the school's woke decision or the family's rather understandable request:
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The family of T.C. Williams would like their $25,000 donation back from the University of Richmond. With interest it comes to $51 million.
Can't say this is all that surprising — either the school's woke decision or the family's rather understandable request:
completly reasonable.
For something like this, I'm fine with paying the family back; the dude may have been a slave owner, but the school took the money and named the building.The family of T.C. Williams would like their $25,000 donation back from the University of Richmond. With interest it comes to $51 million.
Can't say this is all that surprising — either the school's woke decision or the family's rather understandable request:
If they are going to undo that naming, the descendants should get their families money back.
Bear Ribs
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Florida teacher fired for video of empty bookshelves after DeSantis complaint
A full-time substitute teacher was abruptly fired last week after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis complained about a video of empty bookshelves that the teacher posted to social media. The teacher, Brian Covey, posted the video on Twitter three weeks earlier, on January 27. In an interview with...
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America is due for a major religious revivial in around 20 years or so.
add to that that religious people tend to have 3 kids to liberal aithests average of one....well add in 20 years and the children of the parents who were discriminated against like this will now feel very justified in looking for payback.
Seemed like that to the romans who lived through the last one, its going to have its ups and downs.
Harvard dean says students these days regularly fail to understand basic sentences from texts more than a century old
Let me present to you a letter from a random 18-year-old boy sent off to war in the 1860s:
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The Department of Education strikes again!Harvard dean says students these days regularly fail to understand basic sentences from texts more than a century old
Let me present to you a letter from a random 18-year-old boy sent off to war in the 1860s:
Vyor
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Harvard dean says students these days regularly fail to understand basic sentences from texts more than a century old
Let me present to you a letter from a random 18-year-old boy sent off to war in the 1860s:
A lot of the words and turns of phrase are just... not used anymore, in any media. It is not a surprise that people would fail to understand things they've never come across before.
Blasterbot
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I was able to read and understand that sort of prose back in middle school. I got tired of needing to give definitions to people and made an active effort to dumb town my speech. great news it worked. bad news I speak like a lay person and have a bunch of fancy words in the back of my mind that I half remember the definitions of that I am sure describe something much better than my usual word choices.
Vyor
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I can understand it, it just takes mental effort to remember what each part actually means, as some words changed meanings over time.
Buba
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There is language drift. And changes in ortography. So, after even 50 years books or newspaper articles can be difficult to understand, let alone over a hundred. Especially by "not the brightest: amongst the "not so well educated". Average 18 year olds in an average school are indubitably such a group.
I'd love the family to get back the donation plus interest. As noted - either the name stays, or give back the money.
I'd love the family to get back the donation plus interest. As noted - either the name stays, or give back the money.
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Bear Ribs
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Lingual Drift is a thing but I think people here are giving it too much credence. Sentence structure has not changed so much since then that the basic structure of verb and noun are different, students should still be able to realize what those are.
Purely anecdotally I haven't met anybody younger than myself who learned how to diagram sentences in school.
Purely anecdotally I haven't met anybody younger than myself who learned how to diagram sentences in school.
Terthna
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I'm in my late thirties, and I have no idea what "diagraming a sentence" is. Then again, I didn't learn geometry until I was in college, so that's probably not indicative of anything beyond how garbage the public schools in my area were.
Bear Ribs
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It's a way of essentially drawing a sentence, allowing you to establish the structure and where each word fits regardless of how it's actually worded. Assuming they each communicate the same idea, the diagram for several different sentence structures will look essentially the same.
As sentence structure grows more complex, the diagram for it also grows and some sentences can get pretty wild.
Diagramming is "outdated" today because it encourages critical thinking and forces the student to develop an understanding of how to write with clarity and communicate ideas readily to others, things that the modern education system isn't fond of.
Why We Still Diagram Sentences: A Teacher's View on an "Outdated" Skill
There are some interesting points here!