"Since Feb 28 $11,000,000,000".
Social Studies teacher. Rural area. Put this in the corner of my whiteboard and add to it everyday. Its not political. Its information. Get students talking. You need to do it too.
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That is most definitely political.
It’s just a fact though. It’s a number and numbers don’t lie
They could make it less political by doing a generic “by the numbers” tracking more data. “Iran war by the numbers Total spent by USA: $11B USA fatalities: 8* Iran fatalities: x Child mortality: 175+ Countries bombed: 13+” Etc
Since when is starting a war to take the heat off your pedophilia ring political?
Of COURSE it's political. It's all political. We aren't teaching kids what to think - we are teaching them HOW to think. And they need to learn to be able to think about politics in a thoughtful, informed way.
This ‘not what to think but how to think’ is pretty disingenuous and such a hackneyed phrase. Ideally, we should be teaching both most of the time. Dont pretend like we don’t sometimes teach what to think. Eg when it comes to whether or not plants photosynthesize light, a bi...
Knowing American high school students, you should probably throw up a map showing where Iran is before diving into the budgetary numbers. Otherwise half the class is quietly thinking, “Is that near Italy… or like, next to Indiana?”
How does that impact how much was spent? You made a really negative unrelated comment about the children that you are responsible for and it doesn’t seem like you like them very much. Consider that the first even semi related opportunity you had, you made them a punching bag. ...
It's very political. In my class we were discussing the cost of WWII for the United States and I mentioned that I had read we were spending a billion a day in Iran and left it at that for kids to consider. That's a way of making a point without being political
Sounds fine to me. Leave it up to the students to decide. They may decide it's worth it. While I disagree with that vehemently, there's a valid argument that can be made.
Put on the board that our legislators voted to protect themselves from exposure of sexual harassment. Vote everyone out!!!
AOC said the reason why she voted no was that the bill's language didn't go far enough to redact any information that could be used to trace back to victims. Can't say how many voted no because they or one of their close colleagues were investigated for such things...
In this country, people only consider something to be political if it comes from the left or from marginalized groups of people. You can push American exceptionalism, capitalist dogma, and thinly veiled white nationalism all day, and no one considers it to be political. If you...
🎯That part!
Either way it’s political. One party doesn’t want you to mention the cost. The other party does. It is up to kids to see the number and make their own conclusions if that is good or bad.
What the fuck
i hate the CIA
Ok...
The only number I am putting in the board are how many school Mondays are left in the year.
Of course it's political. If you want to be political, fine, but at least own it.
Everything about our education system is political. Why the dep of education should be its own thing, not attached to the party in control.
Yeah, no. I need my white board space for covering content that I actually need to be teaching.
Boiling a war down to dollars is totally political.
Fantastic. No commentary, just facts. EDIT: Oh noes, the MAGA brigade has found me! They don't like facts so much. Don't worry folks, we still do the pledge every day. Except *gasp* we don't make the students say it because of the Constitution and the Supreme Court. Crazy, cr...
Get that off your board. Teach the curriculum. You are a teacher. You should not bring politics into your room.
If you really want to be non political write the national debt on the board everyday.
How would you feel about a social studies teacher keeping a ticker of the number of illegal immigrants entering the country? Same idea.
This war is unpopular with EVERYBODY though. It’s not only popular with people who vote democrat.
Immigrants aren’t the problem. Whether they are “legal” or not makes no difference. Billionaires and complicit politicians are the problem.
It is political though. How about put 30,000 RIP for the civilians murdered by the regime that wants to build a bomb?
Reddit is so fucking dumb. Half of these comments are why people think teachers are here to indoctrinate children. I am hired to teach the standards that my state has set for me. My kids will never know my political affiliation and they don’t need to.
Don't disagree that it is political, but it is a factually valid statement that raises discussion/debate about whether that number is justifiable. So, while political, I don't believe the number itself is inherently partisan, as either side can justify their points around that...
That's also political
As long as you do it with both sides, it’s not political.
Like how much Iran has spent on its war?
Have the Somali fraud number on the other corner? Maybe interest accrual in another? Or just the one?
Must have missed the part where there were convictions for that. Care to show me?
Not really comparable. A few cases of regional fraud that have already been investigated and sentenced don't really feel like a nation wide issue that would justify discussion. If you were able to put up information regarding the number of undocumented immigrants that might be...
Didn't Obama send $150 billion in cash on pallets to Iran - great ticker to have to see how much each taxpayer paid . Also, definitely have a ticker on all the people slaughtered for opposing the government there.
You just got your propaganda believing exposed. Lol. So sad. So funny.
No
That money was legally owed to Iran due to a contract settlement court ruling that had been dragging on since the Shah was still leading Iran in the 70s. You wouldn’t want the US to renege on their obligations, right? Greatest country in the world and all that.
Nope! I need to keep my job.
You are literally a kindergarten teacher. This wasn’t meant for you and you know that.
Tomorrow, try putting $30,000,000,000 since February 28th (for federal welfare spending) and see if you still think it's "not political".
Serious loser teachers in this thread. These are the gross guys who think we all think like they do. Ewwwwwwww
Your counter argument to spending money on death and destruction is spending money on keeping people alive?
Welfare spending doesn’t lead to blown up schools. I feel like that's a key difference.