Minnesota Senate Bill calls to add "Trump derangement syndrome" to state's list of mental illnesses

This one didn’t end so well for you.

Republican who introduced Trump derangement syndrome bill arrested for soliciting a minor

 

Not the best analogy; the banjo playing teacher very well might be teaching effectively.

 

If every teacher was Pete Seeger we'd be a much better country

 

I’m not sure how playing the banjo would fit into a world history class but okay.

 

If every person was Pete Seeger …

 

I'm sure it could fit in well.

Jatta, 55, is from Gambia, a member of the Jola people. He's holding an akonting: a three-stringed instrument with a long neck and a body made from a calabash gourd with a goat skin stretched over it.

The banjo came to America with the slaves, and musicologists have long looked in West Africa for its predecessors. Much of the speculation has centered on the ngoni and the xalam, two hide-covered stringed instruments from West Africa that bear some resemblance to the banjo. But they're just two of more than 60 similar plucked stringed instruments found in the region.

 

1. What’s the difference between a banjo and a trampoline? You take off your shoes before you jump on a trampoline.

 

You could do a whole course about how an instrument once stereotypically associated exclusively with black people became associated entirely with white hillbillies by the time Deliverance came out

 

Depends on how it's done, but she said 'played banjo instead of teaching'. But yeah, music can be a great tool for teaching. The amazing Jimmy Driftwood wrote songs like The Battle of New Orleans for his students.

 

One wonders if his next bill will be to classify children who won't have sex with him as mentally ill too.

 

Actually said "playing the banjo for the students instead of teaching." It's the embedded assumption that I was compelled to address.

 

I think that person would be in the kitchen with Dinah, not teaching anyways

 

Projection. Has anyone ever seen or heard of a drag queen arrested for being a groomer or pedophile? I literally can’t find one. Plenty of weirdo Christian right wingers, though!

 

Where did the OP go?

 

If you’re not a teacher then you wouldn’t understand that according to rules outlined by the state legislature teachers are evaluated on following the curriculum bell to bell. If playing the banjo, guitar, or involving in any activity that is not part of the curriculum, or stated in the lesson plans, then the teacher can face a minimum of a reprimand and unsatisfactory evaluation.

That’s the reason whenever I was going to talk about a controversial topic, or perform sex reassignment surgery, I always contacted the parents first.

 

That's situational, jj. Sure, there are schools/districts that militantly require classroom teachers to follow the teacher-proof curriculum. OTOH, there are plenty of classroom teachers who are savvy enough to adapt the formal curriculum to (gasp!) meet the needs of the students. One of my friends teaches at Rawlings elem in Gville. They are Title I & a D school being reviewed by the state. Even with the state BOE folks breathing down their necks, he is finding ways to collaborate with other teachers in the school, which benefit the students. For example, they re-wrote practice items for students in reading comprehension to better reflect the students' cultural understandings (i.e. vocab use). It brought their test scores up dramatically and yes, music integration was a big part of their project.

 

He started a Patrick Henry thread that went about as well as this one lol

 

Another great thread. Revisionary history.

 

You’re not understanding my point, but your friend understands that teaching is an art and not an assembly line where teaching is confined to a narrow scope of acceptable practices. I say I hope they keep at it.