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HS History Teacher in Texas.

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Teucrian@teucrian.bsky.social · 4d ago

It turns out that contrary to popular belief, rich men in America are able to face consequences, at least as long as they happen to also own the Los Angeles Clippers.

Teucrian@teucrian.bsky.social · last wk.

Where we are heading as an education system is a deeply two track system- endless drill and kill on canned prewritten digital curricula delivered by prison guards for the majority of kids, and an elite set of academies open only for the wealthy where they do classical conservative education.

Nick Covington@covingtonedu.bsky.social · last wk.

"The students’ lives, and hers, are dominated by the looming Mississippi Academic Assessment Program (MAAP), the set of annual standardized exams that measure their progress in language arts as well as science and math. Test prep is a year-round activity." www.wired.com/story/missis...

Teucrian@teucrian.bsky.social · last mo.

Great reporting by the observer. Many of the most pernicious things in education stem from using data indicators as an end to themselves, rather than a means to serve students. It cannot be clearer that for the people running HISD, the students are nothing more than numbers on a spreadsheet.

Texas Observer@texasobserver.org · last mo.

Out today: Nearly 2,000 juniors across 16 high schools in Houston ISD were pulled from Algebra II and placed in a remedial math course. At some schools, as many as 70% of juniors were similarly demoted into less challenging classes. It wasn't due to poor performance ...

Teucrian@teucrian.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Some of you are not playing in HoopIQ mode and it shows. I want you to know that I think less of you for it, and even if no one else says anything, they all agree.

Teucrian@teucrian.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I guess the Bulls, looking for the exit door on a player they don’t care about who might be having a serious mental health break, did him the favor of specifically cutting him in a way that could give him a future career on the Daily Wire.

Teucrian@teucrian.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Look this is a dumb thing to say but honestly I don’t know why Kevin ever dribbles or passes. Him shooting a catch and shoot three over someone is one of the most efficient shots the rockets ever take.

Teucrian@teucrian.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I have the flu and it sucks. I can’t really look at screens for too long so I’ve decided to relisten to all 100+ episodes of Mike Duncan talking about the Russian Revolution until the Revolution ends or I feel better. Somehow I must believe that Pavel Axelrod will fix me.

Teucrian@teucrian.bsky.social · 6mo ago

There has never and will never be a permanent political victory for any party or ideology. Neither authoritarianism nor egalitarianism will prevail in the end, because the end stubbornly does not come.

Teucrian@teucrian.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Returning, as I do from time to time, to the passage in Black Jacobins about the Le Jeune case. It’s been a couple years since I have had the opportunity to teach this passage but hopefully I can correct that soon. A direct and damning account on the nature of elite impunity.

The Negro Code was enacted in 1685. A century after, in 1788, the Le Jeune casel laid bare the realities of slave law and slave justice in San Domingo. Le Jeune was a coffee planter of Plaisance. Suspecting that the mortality among his Negroes was due to poison, he murdered four of them and attempted to extort confessions from two women by torture. He roasted their feet, legs and elbows, while alternately gagging them thoroughly and then withdrawing the gag. He extorted nothing and threatened all his French-speaking slaves that he would kill them without mercy if they dared to denounce him. But Plaisance, in the thickly-populated North Province, was always a centre of the more advanced slaves, and 14 of them went to Le Cap and charged Le Jeune before the law. The judges could do no less than accept the charges. They appointed a commission which made an investigation at Le Jeune's plantation and confirmed the testimony of the slaves. The commission actually found the two women barred and chained, with elbows and legs decomposing, but still alive; one of them had her neck so lacerated by an iron collar that she could not swallow. Le Jeune insisted that they were guilty of the poisonings which for so long had ravaged his plantation and gave in evidence a box taken in the women's possession. This, he said, contained poison. But when the box was opened it was found to contain nothing more than ordinary tobacco and rat dung. Defence was impossible, and when the two women died, Le Jeune disappeared just in time to escape arrest. The case was clear. At the preliminary hearing the 14 Negroes repeated their accusations word for word. But seven white witnesses testified in favour of Le Jeune and two of his stewards formally absolved him of all guilt. The planters of Plaisance petitioned the Governor and the Intendant on behalf of Le Jeune, and demanded that each of his slaves be given 50 lashes for having denounced him. The Chamber of Agriculture of Le Cap asked that Le Jeune should merely be banished from the colony. Seventy planters from the north made a similar petition, and the Philadelphian Circle, a centre of San Domingo culture, was asked to make representations on Le Jeune's behalf. Le Jeune's father asked for a writ of intervention against one of the official investigators whose evidence he impugned. "To put it shortly," wrote the Governor and the Intendant to the Minister, "it seems that the safety of the colony depends on the acquittal of Le Jeune." It did, if the slaves were to be kept in their place. The judges, after a thousand delays, returned a negative verdict, the charges were declared null and void and the case dismissed. The public prosecutor demanded an appeal before the Superior Council of Port-au-Prince, the official capital of the island. All white San Domingo was up in arms. The Intendant appointed the oldest mem… cil once more acquitted Le Jeune. The Home Government could pass what laws it liked. White San Domingo would not tolerate any interference with the methods by which they kept their slaves in order, 18
Teucrian@teucrian.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Some of my most meaningful moments as a teacher have been when I’ve been able to remind a young man that feeling something or enjoying something doesn’t make him less of a man.

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 9mo ago

So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.

Teucrian@teucrian.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Who will be the famous progressive activists of this era that AP US History students have to learn about in the year 2160? Will one of them be Will Stancil? That would be weird, right? Probably better for everyone if we just don’t worry about it too much.