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Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye is an exemplar for NYS (as well as other states.) Here's some excerpts which had the language edited before being placed in an article:
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Pages 162-163: “A bolt of desire ran down his genitals…and softening the lips of his anus. . . . He wanted to f*** her—tenderly. But the tenderness would not hold. The tightness of her vagina was more than he could bear. His soul seemed to slip down his guts and fly out into her, and the gigantic thrust he made into her then provoked the only sound she made. Removing himself from her was so painful to him he cut it short and snatched his genitals out of the dry harbor of her vagina. She appeared to have fainted.”
Page 174: “He further limited his interests to little girls. They were usually manageable . . . His sexuality was anything but lewd; his patronage of little girls smacked of innocence and was associated in his mind with cleanliness.” And later, this same pedophile notes, “I work only through the Lord. He sometimes uses me to help people.”
Page 181: “The little girls are the only things I’ll miss. Do you know that when I touched their sturdy little t*** and bit them—just a little—I felt I was being friendly?—If I’d been hurting them, would they have come back? . . . they’d eat ice cream with their legs open while I played with them. It was like a party.”
Pages 84-85: “He must enter her surreptitiously, lifting the hem of her nightgown only to her navel. He must rest his weight on his elbows when they make love, to avoid hurting her breasts…When she senses some spasm about to grip him, she will make rapid movements with her hips, press her fingernails into his back, suck in her breath, and pretend she is having an orgasm. She might wonder again, for the six hundredth time, what it would be like to have that feeling while her husband’s penis is inside her.”
Pages 130-131: “Then he will lean his head down and bite my t** . . . I want him to put his hand between my legs, I want him to open them for me. . . I stretch my legs open, and he is on top of me…He would die rather than take his thing out of me. Of me. I take my fingers out of his and put my hands on his behind…”
Pages 148-149: “With a violence born of total helplessness, he pulled her dress up, lowered his trousers and underwear. ‘I said get on wid it. An’make it good, n*****, Come on c***. Faster. You ain’t doing nothing for her.’ He almost wished he could do it—hard, long, and painfully, he hated her so much.”
I love common core! why should 9 x 6=54 when you can come up with 17 other ways of arriving at the same conclusion while being sure to include every possible type of learner on earth. Good use of time. :/
9th grade World Geography assignment. A concern raised by some people was that it was more data mining. I'm on the fence.
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It is a project called "My Life and Culture Scrapbook" and is a questionnaire format. Students were instructed to answer the 70 questions and turn in the assignment on a flash drive because the teacher needed to "keep record of it." The questions ask for grandparents' names, nationalities, ethnicities, and religious preferences; parents names, nationalities, ethnicities, and religious preferences; details about the students' birth and early childhood; detailed descriptions of average days in the students' lives "from the time you woke up until you went to bed" for the elementary, middle and high school years. The final section of the questionnaire is titled, "MY FUTURE," and asks questions such as "Do you want to get married or have children?" and "Will your family attend a church?"
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As others have wrote states like Virginia have their own "standardized" tests/curriculum and it has been in place about 10 years. I have dealt with it both as a parent and an employee of a school district and here are some observations.
1) There continues to be a "teach to the test" view of classroom instruction
2) Why are the SOL Finals not used as the Class Final
3) Still carry no weight for college admission.
Some additional things I continue to see in the media is the reports that students in "wherever" perform better than us students. They have been sprouting this garbage since I went to school decades ago. If education is so great everywhere else than why do they all come here? There must be something about the USA I am not seeing a mass exodus to Finland or India for jobs.....
Some reports have stated that children not completing Algebra by 7th or was it 6th grade are less likely to succeed, is this the new benchmark that determines ones success in life?
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