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'Do not, for the love of God, tell kids that slavery was beneficial' - Florida Phoenix

Students at Florida public schools will now learn that Black people benefitted from slavery because it taught them skills. This change is pa

Florida Phoenix

FL Board of Education approves African American history standards; critics call them ‘incomplete’

Students at Florida public schools will now learn that Black people benefitted from slavery because it taught them skills. This change is part of the African American history standards the State Board of Education approved at a Wednesday meeting.

The description of slavery as beneficial is not the only grievance parents, teachers, education advocates and politicians had with the new standards. People speaking at the Wednesday meeting generally called out the diluting and omissions of history. For example, instruction at the elementary school level is largely limited to identifying famous Black people, and high school teachers will talk about the “acts of violence perpetrated by African Americans” at the 1920 Ocoee Massacre, in which a white mob killed at least 30 Black people.

“Please table this rule and revise it to make sure that my history our history is being told factually and completely, and please do not, for the love of God, tell kids that slavery was beneficial because I guarantee you it most certainly was not,” said Kevin Parker, a community member.

they wanna whitewash the OCOEE MASSACRE??? that is obscene.

for those of you who don’t know, in 1920 a white mob murdered dozens of black people and destroyed the entire black community in the central florida town of ocoee. and why? bc some black citizens had attempted to vote.

The massacre that turned Ocoee into a sundown town?

The 'acts of violence’ against the literal LYNCH MOB ?!? aka SELF-DEFENSE?

for the last 100 years, they’ve been trying to act like Ocoee never even happened, and now they want to bring it up and reframe it as an act of Black violence?

i think the fuck not, you trickass bitch, Ronni deSani.

this is 100% white supremacist propaganda. call his racist ass out every time you hear his name.

timaeuslover00:

Well that explains a lot.

briines:

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Something needs to be done about teachers who hate kids tbh

My sister is currently getting her doctorate in child psychology & education, but years ago she worked as a substitute english teacher at a high school in nyc. She spent half a year subbing for a woman who was out for surgery, and had been teaching english there for years and years. Most of the kids in this class were remedial; they had failed english before and had to retake it. Most of them hated the class, and they hated literature, because they had been made to feel unintelligent. My sister decided to introduce them to poetry, which was a little easier to digest than long form prose, and had them read Robert Frost’s “Fire and Ice.” And the kids loved it! They connected with it, they were spirited and engaged in class for the first time all year. They wrote their own poetry! They started seeking out and reading poetry on their own! They were all on track to get a C, B or A in that class. And then the original teacher returned and failed every single student, to “teach them all a lesson”. That was the moment my sister decided to go into administration so she could hopefully prevent that sort of thing from happening. But it’s difficult. Despite numerous complaints from parents and other teachers, that teacher had a job there for decades. She continued to have a job there. There are a lot of teachers like her, wielding power and taking their frustrations out on kids, especially disabled and remedial kids. And students have so few advocates in the classroom.

This post has turned into teachers complaining that this behavior is understandable because of burnout, low wages, etc and like. Ok then quit lmao. If you treat my kid like this because of “burnout” I’m gonna burn out your fucking teeth

so I just want to add to this that there’s a fact that still rings true from my readings on the subject. like 85% of the usa teachers are white women so when we talk about the student body we gotta remember that they’re often way more diverse than their teachers. even if my numbers are out of date that’s only because its been a few years since publication of the book and the class I took factor into this. (its been about 2 years since the class and even if the book was new it was probably at least a couple of years from data gathering to printing). and we know that the country’s student body is only getting more diverse.

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Every friend group has the bloodthirsty shape-shifting entity that can perfectly imitate the human voice

“wehhh but my friend group doesn’t have a bloodthirsty shape-shifting entity that can perfectly imitate the human voice!” oh yeah? Are you really really sure about that?

I am the bloodthirsty shape-shifting entity that can perfectly imitate the human voice in my friend group

*slinks into the shadows like the weird cryptid I am*

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what if adventurer plates were used as identification cards

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whenever people are like “SKETCHING CIRCLES IN SAI IS SO HARD” im like

pffft I work with 6000X4000 and the size of the brush can be only not above 2000px

i dont use that trick

this is the sassiest and most helpful tutorial ever.

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oh my god

Reblogging again for my inflation artist followers. XDDD

This is absolutely the most unnecessary addition to this post you could have ever made.

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Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong

For decades, the medical community has ignored mountains of evidence to wage a cruel and futile war on fat people, poisoning public percepti

The Huffington Post

“For 60 years, doctors and researchers have known two things that could have improved, or even saved, millions of lives. The first is that diets do not work. Not just paleo or Atkins or Weight Watchers or Goop, but all diets. Since 1959, research has shown that 95 to 98 percent of attempts to lose weight fail and that two-thirds of dieters gain back more than they lost. The reasons are biological and irreversible. As early as 1969, research showed that losing just 3 percent of your body weight resulted in a 17 percent slowdown in your metabolism—a body-wide starvation response that blasts you with hunger hormones and drops your internal temperature until you rise back to your highest weight. Keeping weight off means fighting your body’s energy-regulation system and battling hunger all day, every day, for the rest of your life.

The second big lesson the medical establishment has learned and rejected over and over again is that weight and health are not perfect synonyms. Yes, nearly every population-level study finds that fat people have worse cardiovascular health than thin people. But individuals are not averages: Studies have found that anywhere from one-third to three-quarters of people classified as obese are metabolically healthy. They show no signs of elevated blood pressure, insulin resistance or high cholesterol. Meanwhile, about a quarter of non-overweight people are what epidemiologists call “the lean unhealthy.” A 2016 study that followed participants for an average of 19 years found that unfit skinny people were twice as likely to get diabetes as fit fat people.”

A surprising article to find on the Huffington post. I think, especially towards the end, there’s still a saturation of healthism and diet talk (just of the “clean eating” variety), but the information about weight discrimination is absolutely on point, especially within the medical field ignoring decades of research.

Not only do we know that weight loss isn’t sustainable or possible, we also know that weight discrimination kills, in a myriad of ways. If you actually care about “health” then start unlearning your weight bias NOW and realize that fat people are just people who are a different shape.

And this article doesn’t even touch on “the obesity paradox”(the fact that fat people survive heart attacks and injuries BETTER THAN thin people) or the fact that dieting, especially “yo-yo dieting,” is a better predictor for heart disease than weight, and that many of the fat people who have cardiovascular diseases have a long history of dieting that (understandably) didn’t work.

encouraged to rb but fatphobes will just be blocked.

I at one point read a good chunk of this but then put it down and never finished it. I need to reread it again. But I wanted to add that the author of this article is actually the co-host of the podcast Maintenance Phase who hosts the podcast alongside prominent fat activist Aubrey Gordon (yrfatfriend on Twitter). The author, Michael Hobbes, is thin and also wrote this article in 2018 about two years before he and Aubrey Gordon started the Maintenance Phase podcast, so I think that is the main explanation for why the article sometimes strays towards healthism. I feel like he has parted a little from healthism as he’s hosted Maintenance Phase.