DeSantis' Culture War On Books Holds Up Donation Of Dictionaries To School System
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2022/08/19/sarasota-county-schools-denies-donated-venice-rotary-clubs-dictionaries/10357859002/
A group that has donated dictionaries to Florida schools for years has learned that this years donation will be on hold until the state determines if any of the words are naughty.
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Aware of new Florida education laws that have taken effect this summer, Reese said the club's president reached out to the schools' principals before the start of the school year to see if there would be any issues with their donations.
The club was told it would have to contact the district, which told them the donations would have to wait until January.
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I'm pretty sure there are many words in a standard dictionary that would offend the weak of heart Christian nationalists who want to protect Americas children from reality. If they eventually get their way dictionaries may be barred from schools from sea to shining sea and replaced with Bible coloring books.
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www.merriam-webster.com /dictionary/fuck
Definition of FUCK
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transitive verb
1 usually obscene : to engage in coitus with —sometimes used interjectionally with an object (such as a personal or reflexive pronoun) to express anger, contempt, or disgust
2 usually vulgar : to deal with unfairly or harshly : cheat , screw
— see also fuck off , fuck up
1 usually obscene : an act of copulation
2 usually obscene : a sexual partner
b usually vulgar —used especially with the as a meaningless intensive what the fuck do they want from me
4 usually vulgar : fucker
It’s not the F-word that’s the problem. It’s all those trans verbs.
LOL!
The war on books brought to you by the dimwits in Tallahassee.
Ban books, ban speech, ban actions.....
When will people wake up?
The modern day republican party is the antithesis of American values.
The whole idea of these legislative acts is to ban speaking/thinking unless it is the speech/thoughts that they want.
Never worked before, I don't see it working now.
The modern day democrat party abhors American values and celebrates perversion
He says as he passes the plate around.
American values as defined by a shrinking republican minority.
Greg, we are talking about dictionaries. Does the GOP want kids who can't spell or know definitions?
When I was young I would ask my father how to spell something.
Every time he would say...go look it up in the dictionary.
To this day I don't know if he wanted me to learn or didn't know how to spell things himself... Haha
Your dad did the right thing.
I use to whine. But Dad, how can I look it up if I don't know how to spell it...
Then he would say something like...Figure it out.
Often knowing where and how to find the answer to a question is better than knowing an answer to a question. Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.
Teach a capitalist to fish and the species will die off in 20 years
American values? I don't claim that either party is a paragon of virtue, but if you are leaning towards the Republican party (you do have Ronny Raygun as your avatar) they have lost their way in the wilderness when it comes the small matter of reality and the recognition thereof. The republican party is currently celebrating politicians who ban books/speech/ideas and promote the lie that the election was stolen, up to and including lauding people who claim the same while disrespecting those that are being truthful.
I think they would crucify Reagan these days.
Too liberal, and his tweets aren't mean enough. Tough guys insult everyone. That's how you know they're tough.
You are so swift with your critiques of diversity. This world is not designed to be a permanent home for relics seeking nostalgia!
This is perfect, Florida is short 9,000 teachers and other school-type employees, we are close to the bottom in teacher pay. Not having a dictionary or an altered RW one will ensure that we raise another generation of dummies. Oh well, at least they will be indoctrinated in ignorance/stupidity.
I still think their overall goal is to get rid of the public school system in its entirety.
The public school system is our national embarrassment. It's ruled and run by radical leftists. Teachers largely only care about pay and benefits, Educating kids becomes an afterthought
Don't know many teachers? I know one that loves her job and teaching. Not everything in this world is an evil leftist thought...
She even had to fight with the school board over a simple poster that showed kids spelling out the alphabet with their hands.
She has to deal with ridiculous things from so called management...
And guess what? I live in a red state.
Do you have any idea what it's like to be a teacher?
Pay you say? For any pay increase I got, I had to work extra hours. When I did the math, there was no pay increase. My health insurance stank. I had to use my own money to buy supplies.
And that was the least of it. I had to deal with school boards, parents, and administration and walk a tightrope.
Teachers teach because they love what they do. They quit more because of the BS they have to deal with. The lack of support causes burnout.
But what we do, we do for the kids.
That was a lousy comment.
One of my teacher friends teaches high school math. She had a class of kids who were scoring badly on the state standardized tests (in Virginia, the Standards of Learning, which have the unfortunate acronym SOL). She got them from mostly failing to mostly passing in one year. But an observer came to her classroom and told her she wasn't teaching correctly. Why? She played math games with them Those were deemed a waste of time.
I don't get it. Her method obviously worked, based on the state's own criteria. These kids were passing their math tests. They were having fun learning how to do math. It seems the fun is the part the state had a problem with.
They'd have hated my Current Events and Economics teacher. Most Fridays, we played Current Events Jeopardy for extra credit points.
When I was in elementary school we had a mock presidential election. It was with Ford and Carter I believe. I was on the side of Ford. We made posters and had little speeches and voted class wide.
I could only imagine the outrage of something like that now.
“But what we do, we do for the kids.”
Hear, hear!!!
But when the naysayers spout, they do so to support an agenda.
You are too polite.
I'm pretty sure there are some pretty "naughty" words in the Bible. Something about coveting thy neighbor's wife's ass comes to mind here.
A whole lot of begetting going on in the bible.
They begetting it on. A lot.
Why would anyone need a dictionary? After all, as the great philosopher and notable Trump look-alike (sans orange wig), Humpty Dumpty, taught us in "Through the Looking Glass":
"When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."
“…‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things…” ~ Lewis Carroll
I see the resemblance.
Frumpdy Trumpdy sat on a wall, Frumpdy Trumpdy had a great fall.
All the Trumpsuckers and all the Republicans couldn't put Trumpdy together again.
Clearly a naughty book. It’s called the DICKtionary, after all. Pretty sure words like sex, homosexual, and liberal are all in there, so yeah, you don’t want to soil young minds with that filth.
Burn the dictionaries, burn the encyclopedias, we don't want those kids to learn how to think critically, but just to take what Republicans dictate as gospel.