• KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca
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    Says the party that literally wanted to modify the grade school syllabus to teach that the 2020 US election was stolen.

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          The department head shit was also extremely frustrating. I wanted the position, had been flow out to a leadership conference by the district the summer before, presented a spreadsheet documenting some of my plans for improvement over five years (detailed, worked with some of the best minds in science education.)

          But the anti vaxxer applied too. His great plan was “we should focus on more reading.”

          I’m sure the fact that I was 🏳️‍🌈 had zero impact on the principals decision lol. (Anti vaxxer guy did limp wrist impressions of me too. But who the fuck cared.)

          Like it’s amazing. Oklahoma just actively does not want capable teachers.

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          There’s a reason Oklahoma is 49th for education.

          During COVID, the biology teacher at the high school I worked (and later, the fucking department head) was a creationist with a Bible college degree that would compliment students for forgoing masks and explicitly taught anti-vaxx shit.

          Climate change is fun too - I put on a PD once and a teacher was really fucking pissed that I was showing data on how Milanokovich cycles do not explain modern climate patterns… literally thought she was going to fight me.

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            Milanokovich Cycles

            That has to be the dumbest excuse for anti-climate change arguments I’ve heard in a while.

            Do people really think that every single climate scientist who has dedicated their lives to studying shit that affects the climate, is unaware of and didn’t account for, natural variations in solar energy the Earth receives, which I learned about in elementary school?