education
C-Ya, CNN: Pennsylvania school removes CNN from classrooms, opt for patriotic videos
A Norwin, Pennsylvania School Board voted 5-4 to end a requirement for homeroom teachers to put on CNN10 in their homeroom classes for students to watch. The requirement to have on CNN was described as “compact on-demand news broadcasts ideal for explanation seekers on the go or in the classroom.”
After the School Board’s vote, teachers will have the freedom to “use their discretion on whether to keep TVs turned off, show the newscast, or show patriotic videos on events such as Veterans Day or the attack on Pearl Harbor” reported Trib Live.
The school district added CNN 10 as “required viewing material” in 2019. One mom, Ashley Egan disapproves of the school showing the channel, saying broadcasting its affiliated programs is “feeding [her son] every day that CNN is a label you can trust.”
Egan added it “is not unbiased” for the program to be recommending students “visit our friends on CNN.com.” Advocates for the programming, however, say the content is a learning tool. Kristen Ummer, an eighth grade social studies teacher said it was supportive of the school district’s mission statement of civic engagement.
Pennsylvania has been one of the most discussed states in national media due to conflicts between parents and school boards.
education
Parents, advocates call on leaders to step down after ZERO children pass math at 13 Baltimore state schools
How long will leaders who let our children down blame Covid-19 for their failures? Anger swept across Baltimore, Maryland, after not a single student passed their state math exams, and almost 75 percent testing at the lowest possible score.
The Daily Mail reports “The poor performances came in the latest round of Maryland‘s state testing, where 13 high schools in the city – a staggering 40 percent – failed to produce a single student with a ‘proficient’ score in math.” Baltimore City Schools not only received $1.6 billion last year from taxpayers, but the school district also received $799 million in Covid relief funding from the federal government.
“So, it’s not a funding issue. We’re getting plenty of funding,” said Jason Rodriguez, deputy director of Baltimore-based nonprofit People Empowered by the Struggle, to Fox Baltimore. “I don’t think money is the issue. I think accountability is the issue…This is educational homicide, there is no excuse for the failure, which has come after years of warnings over the city’s poor education standards,” added Rodriguez.
A bombshell study published this month by the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) found that 16 million students were chronically absent during the pandemic. “The millions of students had missed more than 10 percent of schools days during the 2021-22 year, twice the number seen in previous years. More than eight in 10 public schools also reported stunted behavioral and social-emotional development in their students due to the pandemic, according to a May survey cited in the report.”
However, six years ago a similar report by Project Baltimore found that 13 schools in the city had zero students test ‘proficiently’ in math. An almost identical finding. “We’re still dealing with these same issues year after year,” Rodriguez continued. “It’s just scary to me and alarming to me because we know that what’s happening now, you know, it’s just opening up the floodgates to the school-to-prison pipeline. I’m beyond angry… This is why we’ve been calling for the resignation of the school CEO.”
Daily Mail notes that Rodriguez’s group has previously held rallies over the mounting educational crisis in the city, and in 2021 led calls for Baltimore City Schools CEO Dr. Sonja Santelises to resign over low test scores and falling graduation rates.
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Daniel Metz
February 17, 2022 at 8:44 am
Force feeding children to watch only one News Broadcast is akin to indoctrination of the Liberal Left’s propaganda, which we ALL know is opinion based and a mouthpiece of the DNC! Forcing students to watch one and ONLY ONE News Broadcast is ludicrous and counter-productive to teaching critical thinking! It’s worse than mandating CRT!!!
Brindell Tilden
February 17, 2022 at 8:44 am
Schools are there to teach our children about history, math, science. These teachers have no right to indoctrinate our children to their views of politics. And CNN news is biased. They do not give the news that’s happening they give it clipped out according to what they think the news should be. Time for parents and grandparents to stand tall against the teachers unions get rid of them all. Private schools and give the parents the money to choose where they go to school. We the taxpayers want our dollars to go to the right people. The teachers unions have proven to have failed our children. Masking our children and keeping them on zoom. Shame on all of them they should all be fired!
Sewnya
February 17, 2022 at 9:10 am
Advocates for the programming, however, say the content is a propaganda tool.
Renesmae Sherman
February 17, 2022 at 9:53 am
Hallelujah!
MR DANIEL SILAGI
February 17, 2022 at 10:06 am
I personally prefer MSNBC to CNN. But it would appear the anti-CNN trumpist fascists wouldn’t want anything other than FOX, OANN, NEWSMAX, or Breitbart.
Lou
February 18, 2022 at 9:38 am
CNN can be used as a bad example of biased journalism.
Kenneth McCarthy
February 18, 2022 at 12:38 pm
That’s why we voted red in the last election all our lower people are Republicans sticking the screws to the man that’s why we voted the Republicans in
Ummagumma
February 19, 2022 at 2:31 pm
The problems in America are from toxic leftist Jews, not conservative Jews.
“Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.” ~ Antonio Gramsci, apostate-atheistic Jewish Italian communist
Ummagumma
February 19, 2022 at 2:33 pm
“ But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the other Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.”
~Acts 14:2
Stephane
February 19, 2022 at 5:11 pm
FINALLY!!!
I was wondering when the realization of the EVIL propagation was dawning on the REAL TEACHERS and cadre of the school systems!
The Communist News Network has deliberately lied to the world for many, many many years. As a matter of fact, ever since Ted Turner was beaten by the Baron Bic, from France in the America’s Cup regatta. Research it yourself. You will then see how long the demonizing of ALL the “””reporters””” has been going on. From mediocre, to bad, to execrable, then purposefully LYING to the public. ON PURPOSE! To proselytise their own DEMONIC CONVERSION to spreading LUCIFERIAN views.