Parley
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IMHO she has no business being a judge. Her bias runs thick.
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IMHO she has no business being a judge. Her bias runs thick.
Oceanslider
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Desantis and Chris Christie supporters on X are attacking Vivek for his support for trump.
Trump Indicted For Hawaii Wildfire
Trump Indicted For Mocking US Women’s Soccer
Trump Indicted In New York For Eating Pizza Cooked In Wood-Burning Oven
Trump Indicted For Keeping Classified Documents At Mar-A-Lago Instead Of Somewhere Secure Like The Trunk Of A Corvette
Trump Charged With Questioning Election Results While Not Being A Democrat
Trump Indicted For Mocking US Women’s Soccer
Trump Indicted In New York For Eating Pizza Cooked In Wood-Burning Oven
Trump Indicted For Keeping Classified Documents At Mar-A-Lago Instead Of Somewhere Secure Like The Trunk Of A Corvette
Trump Charged With Questioning Election Results While Not Being A Democrat
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The American Taliban is alive and well in Florida.
Florida school district curbs Shakespeare works in classrooms with concerns 'raunchiness' violates state law
Florida's Hillsborough County School District is cutting back on Shakespeare works in its classrooms, offering excerpts to students instead of asking them to read entire works.www.foxnews.com
Censorship .. clearly from a larger systematic PoV the censorship I've seen from the left wing is far stronger than what I currently see from the right-wing ..
Damn rezzer, I thought you were a researcher. Hate to bust a bubble but The Political Climate in Hillsborough County, FL is Leaning liberal. Maybe this explains it.
bigredfish
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Lame liberal rag (Tampa Bay Times), lame liberal school board member, fail in attempt to make something out of nothing and get their 15 minutes of fame..
Shakespeare belongs in classrooms, Florida says, knocking Hillsborough
Shakespeare belongs in classrooms, Florida says, knocking Hillsborough
Plans in Hillsborough County schools to reduce the works of William Shakespeare to excerpts were met with derision by state education officials on Tuesday.
“The Florida Department of Education in no way believes Shakespeare should be removed from Florida classrooms,” department spokesperson Cassie Palelis told the Tampa Bay Times via email. “In fact, eight works by Shakespeare are included in the sample text list within the (state) Standards for English Language Arts, including ‘Hamlet,’ ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet.’”
“This month’s book recommendations provide a variety of reading materials that students will find uplifting and will spark a love for literacy,” Diaz said in a statement attached to the list.
Hillsborough County officials said Monday they were limiting instruction in Shakespeare’s works in part because of concerns that the sexual content might come under fire as prohibited by new state law. Another reason, they said, was to give teachers time to cover more writing styles so students would perform better on the Florida Assessment of Student Thinking, the state test known as FAST.
“We have to protect our teachers and make sure they are not at risk, and they don’t feel at risk, to be arrested or anything inappropriate happening to them,” Hillsborough School Board chairperson Nadia Combs said Tuesday. “But first, we try to make sure our kids are exposed to a lot of things that will be on FAST. And I think, why create something controversial if we don’t need to?”
Van Ayres, the Hillsborough school superintendent, emphasized at a meeting Tuesday that the district has “not excluded” Shakespeare from the high school curriculum. While students will study only excerpts, he said, copies of the full texts will be in the classrooms and can be checked out of the media center.
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Like most all states, Florida establishes education standards. No Shakespeare isnt banned
Shakespeare belongs in classrooms, Florida says, knocking Hillsborough
Shakespeare belongs in classrooms, Florida says, knocking Hillsborough
Plans in Hillsborough County schools to reduce the works of William Shakespeare to excerpts were met with derision by state education officials on Tuesday.
“The Florida Department of Education in no way believes Shakespeare should be removed from Florida classrooms,” department spokesperson Cassie Palelis told the Tampa Bay Times via email. “In fact, eight works by Shakespeare are included in the sample text list within the (state) Standards for English Language Arts, including ‘Hamlet,’ ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet.’”
“This month’s book recommendations provide a variety of reading materials that students will find uplifting and will spark a love for literacy,” Diaz said in a statement attached to the list.
Hillsborough County officials said Monday they were limiting instruction in Shakespeare’s works in part because of concerns that the sexual content might come under fire as prohibited by new state law. Another reason, they said, was to give teachers time to cover more writing styles so students would perform better on the Florida Assessment of Student Thinking, the state test known as FAST.
“We have to protect our teachers and make sure they are not at risk, and they don’t feel at risk, to be arrested or anything inappropriate happening to them,” Hillsborough School Board chairperson Nadia Combs said Tuesday. “But first, we try to make sure our kids are exposed to a lot of things that will be on FAST. And I think, why create something controversial if we don’t need to?”
Van Ayres, the Hillsborough school superintendent, emphasized at a meeting Tuesday that the district has “not excluded” Shakespeare from the high school curriculum. While students will study only excerpts, he said, copies of the full texts will be in the classrooms and can be checked out of the media center.
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Like most all states, Florida establishes education standards. No Shakespeare isnt banned
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Parley
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Looks like verdict first, then the trial later. This should be the cause of an immediate dismissal of all the charges.
Oh, that would pour salt in Fulton County's wound....I'd pay good money to see that.
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Biden Team, Secret Service Tipped Off Before Hunter Skipped Out On FBI Interview: Agent
Biden Team, Secret Service Tipped Off Before Hunter Skipped Out On FBI Interview: Agent | ZeroHedge
Biden Team, Secret Service Tipped Off Before Hunter Skipped Out On FBI Interview: Agent | ZeroHedge
The humor is as follows. I wonder what they stand for? 
What will they pry out of their hands?
What will they pry out of their hands?
Parley
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Here is what the liberal Democrats are up too in California. Parents are not allowed to question what is being taught in the public schools.
California Bill Could Criminalize Criticism of Public Schools
California lawmakers are considering legislation that critics warn could criminalize parents’ speaking out at school-board meetings or otherwise criticizing school officials.
Passed by the California Senate in May and now under consideration in the Assembly, SB 596 would amend state law to classify causing “substantial disorder” at a school-board meeting or engaging in “harassment” of a school employee as a misdemeanor punishable by fines and imprisonment. It would also broaden the definition of “school employee” to include “any employee or official of a school district, a charter school, a county office of education, a county board of education, the state board, or the State Department of Education.”
Existing law considers it a crime when a parent or guardian “materially disrupts classwork or extracurricular activities or [causes] substantial disorder.” In other words, it’s illegal to interfere with the normal operation of a school.
Under SB 596, however, the following is added after “substantial disorder”: “including substantial disorder at any meeting of the governing board of a school district, the governing body of a charter school, a county board of education, or the state board.” In short, a parent who appeared at a school-board meeting and made an impassioned speech against, say, gender policies, could well be charged with a crime. Such a speech, after all, is likely to cause some kind of “disorder.”
“It’s clear they’re trying to chill parents from speaking out,” Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow Sarah Parshall Perry told the Daily Signal.
“I find it curious that there’s no definition of ‘substantial’ or ‘disruption’ within the proposed text,” she said. “Considering that these are essential terms for the bill, it’s likely that if passed, the law would fall under a vagueness challenge.”
California Bill Could Criminalize Criticism of Public Schools - The New American
California Bill Could Criminalize Criticism of Public Schools
California lawmakers are considering legislation that critics warn could criminalize parents’ speaking out at school-board meetings or otherwise criticizing school officials.
Passed by the California Senate in May and now under consideration in the Assembly, SB 596 would amend state law to classify causing “substantial disorder” at a school-board meeting or engaging in “harassment” of a school employee as a misdemeanor punishable by fines and imprisonment. It would also broaden the definition of “school employee” to include “any employee or official of a school district, a charter school, a county office of education, a county board of education, the state board, or the State Department of Education.”
Existing law considers it a crime when a parent or guardian “materially disrupts classwork or extracurricular activities or [causes] substantial disorder.” In other words, it’s illegal to interfere with the normal operation of a school.
Under SB 596, however, the following is added after “substantial disorder”: “including substantial disorder at any meeting of the governing board of a school district, the governing body of a charter school, a county board of education, or the state board.” In short, a parent who appeared at a school-board meeting and made an impassioned speech against, say, gender policies, could well be charged with a crime. Such a speech, after all, is likely to cause some kind of “disorder.”
“It’s clear they’re trying to chill parents from speaking out,” Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow Sarah Parshall Perry told the Daily Signal.
“I find it curious that there’s no definition of ‘substantial’ or ‘disruption’ within the proposed text,” she said. “Considering that these are essential terms for the bill, it’s likely that if passed, the law would fall under a vagueness challenge.”
California Bill Could Criminalize Criticism of Public Schools - The New American
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However, on page 8 of BILL #: CS/CS/HB 1557 Parental Rights in Education we have this below. Is that not a good thing for the children AND the parents?
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"Additionally, the bill prohibits classroom instruction by school personnel and third parties about sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards."
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6 Takeaways From The Biden Admin’s Court Quest To Keep Censoring Americans Online
6 Big Takeaways From The Biden Admin's Censorship Quest
n Thursday afternoon, three Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals judges heard Biden administration arguments to let government keep pressuring social media monopolies to ban ideas they don’t like from the internet. On July 4, a lower court had ordered the Biden administration to cease what it called “arguably … the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.” The Fifth Circuit paused that injunction on July 14 and heard oral arguments against it on Aug. 10 in Missouri v. Biden.
In this major case likely to hit the U.S. Supreme Court, the Biden administration is fighting to stop American citizens from sharing messages government officials don’t like. This case uncovered reams of White House and other high-level officials threatening internet monopolies with the end of their entire business model if they didn’t ban speech by Democrats’ political opponents.
“It’s far beyond the scope of what people realize,” says a lawyer for the plaintiffs, Zhonette Brown, of the public interest firm New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA).
6 Big Takeaways From The Biden Admin's Censorship Quest
n Thursday afternoon, three Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals judges heard Biden administration arguments to let government keep pressuring social media monopolies to ban ideas they don’t like from the internet. On July 4, a lower court had ordered the Biden administration to cease what it called “arguably … the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.” The Fifth Circuit paused that injunction on July 14 and heard oral arguments against it on Aug. 10 in Missouri v. Biden.
In this major case likely to hit the U.S. Supreme Court, the Biden administration is fighting to stop American citizens from sharing messages government officials don’t like. This case uncovered reams of White House and other high-level officials threatening internet monopolies with the end of their entire business model if they didn’t ban speech by Democrats’ political opponents.
“It’s far beyond the scope of what people realize,” says a lawyer for the plaintiffs, Zhonette Brown, of the public interest firm New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA).
It's these terms like "normal operation of the school" and "disorder" that are vague and allow the schools to define them and decide on their scope and application.
In other words, if the school has a different interpretation of what "normal operation" is from me, my opinion does not count, I have no voice and they have the last word.
What the Hell is "normal" these days when compared to "normal" even 10 years ago?
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Banana.Fucking.Republic.
"This Is Like A Nightmare": Mother Of Jan. 6 Prisoner Becomes Desperate As Her Son Goes Silent From Prison
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"This Is Like A Nightmare": Mother Of Jan. 6 Prisoner Becomes Desperate As Her Son Goes Silent From Prison
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ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
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bigredfish
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I am completely shocked by the pursuit of injustice carried out by the left because of the Hatred for conservatives and President Trump. Because of this, I truly hope they fry Biden and his entire family. Eye for an Eye, because THIS is what our political system has now become. They no longer represent us, but only themselves, no matter the cost. It is truly despicable how low we have sunk as a nation. I was reading a piece about how Gov. Abbot told an Australian Influencer to go home because she was so tired of seeing so many US flags being flown in our country. Well, after what I have read, there will be one less to fly today.
