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PBS: Language as Prejudice - Myth #6: Women Talk Too Much (via misandry-mermaid)

Every EVERY women’s studies class I’ve been in has had this problem and failed to address it. 

Translation: Parents aren’t making the conscious effort to help their children develop necessary skills and letting iPads raise them.

The problem is we act like every 10 year old has the exact same brain and experience, even if they haven’t. I missed two days of elementary school at the exact wrong time and didn’t learn long division for another decade. Because no one bothered to consider that maybe the “bright” student would have gaps and need to catch up somehow. Every student misses a day here and there. Or at least an hour or two here and there for doctors or dentist appointments. But if you miss the really important stuff and not the days where everyone is just presenting a book report or something, it can majorly impact learning for life. Luckily?, I managed to mask my issue and still got good marks in the advanced math classes I was placed in.

But if we gave every student the time they needed to learn the subject completely before moving on and we gave teachers a way to be able to do that. We wouldn’t end up with kids who have a Swiss cheese education. Children whose knowledge is built on the assumption that they learned everything from the previous grade even if they got a 70%.

But in order to do that. We need to look at education in a fundamentally different way. Education is a product of having the right experiences stacked in the right order. Not as measure of someone’s inherent value or abilities as a person.

I’m not saying everyone could become a doctor or an astrophysicist or something. There are some limitations to everyone’s ability. But given enough time, everyone could learn a lot more than we currently give them the opportunity for. And yes, that means one student might be in 5th grade math but still be in 1st grade reading. Maybe that student just needed a little longer to process things or their brain wasn’t quite ready for that subject yet. Maybe it took some time to diagnose a learning disability and find an effective strategy for them. Maybe they immigrated from another country and no one ever bothered to find out that they didn’t know that $1 is not 60 cents. Maybe they are a foster kid and starting at their 6th school and no one knows what they know, least of all them. They should be given the chance to start at their own starting line and progress on their own timeline.

And this isn’t a crazy take. There are schools and tutoring programs that take this approach. Who make students active participants in their learning and progress students in each subject based on fluency rather than age. And their students flourish. Some students making up several grade levels per year.

KOSA IS MOVING FORWARD IN THE HOUSE!

It's part of a package called the KIDS Act, filled with digital ID and age verification and censorship!

MAKE THOSE PHONES RING!! CALL YOUR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES ALL WEEK

202-224-3121 i HIGHLY encourage everyone to read the bills in the KIDS Act, because you will be doing more than 95% of people who read and introduce these bills

KOSA IS MOVING FORWARD IN THE HOUSE!

It's part of a package called the KIDS Act, filled with digital ID and age verification and censorship!

MAKE THOSE PHONES RING!! CALL YOUR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES ALL WEEK

202-224-3121 i HIGHLY encourage everyone to read the bills in the KIDS Act, because you will be doing more than 95% of people who read and introduce these bills

"Only have one road"???

But no, you are absolutely not imagining things- USAmerican media is SUCH a huge export that it saturates global media and makes it difficult to AVOID learning about your political system and your country.

Shows like Law and Order or NCIS, for example, or X-Files to an extent- we've all seen these shows so we've all heard "first amendment rights" or "the declaration of independence" or "Miranda rights". We all know to "call 911" or "contact the FBI" or that we have "the right to remain silent".

But in Canada, for example, we don't have a "declaration" with "amendments". We have The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and if you get arrested here, you are told that "You are being charged with X crime, you have the right to retain and instruct counsel in private without delay, if you cannot afford a lawyer you have the right to contact legal aid for assistance free if charge, you cannot be compelled to speak in answer to the charge but be advised that anything you do say may be used against you in court, confirm if you understand, confirm if you wish to excersise your right to legal aid, do you wish to say anything in answer to the charge".

But in the UK you have to call 999, not 911. In Canada, you have the right to freedom of association, freedom of movement, and freedom of speech, but no "right to bear arms". And in Australia, a cybersex criminals account can be hijacked by law enforcement to track down other predators, and this isn't permitted in Canada OR the USA.

These are just examples, but it spreads further- EVERYONE in Canada knows about Trump and has opinions on your political system, but plenty of teens have no idea who our Prime Minister is.

Hell, *I* watch American news for coverage of global events, but through there I've also picked up on American immigration policy and climate crises.

It's such a huge thing that non-English speaking countries learn English to enjoy English media and read English books and perform international business- and in Canada, we actually have it written in law that a certain percentage of TV and Radio HAS to be Canadian, so that our citizens don't get fully absorbed by American culture and talking points and lose identity and focus on our own country's issues.

It's a big deal, and most USAmericans don't seem to notice.... which is why it seems to sort of get taken for granted that any english-speaking part of the internet is USAmerican.

Even though, you know.