{"id":736,"date":"2023-04-06T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/?p=736"},"modified":"2023-04-06T19:09:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T23:09:16","slug":"maybe-its-time-for-an-entirely-new-paradigm-in-our-education-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/2023\/04\/06\/maybe-its-time-for-an-entirely-new-paradigm-in-our-education-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe, it&#8217;s time for an entirely new paradigm in our Education System"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:15.05pt;text-align:center;  line-height:41.3pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span  style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222;letter-spacing:-.75pt'>Florida  teacher fired over &#8216;inappropriate&#8217; lesson, insists he &#8216;didn&#8217;t do anything  wrong&#8217;<\/span><\/b><b><span style='font-size:37.5pt;font-family:Roboto;  color:#222222;letter-spacing:-.75pt'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;  text-align:center;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span  style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222'>Jeffrey Keene, who  began teaching at the school near Orlando in January, says he will appeal his  termination<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:  normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;  font-family:Roboto;color:#222222'>Psychology teacher Jeffrey Keene&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/news\/teacher-fired-over-inappropriate-lesson-says-he-was-trying-to-teach-students-how-to-stay-safe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style='color:#003366'>told Fox 35 Orlando<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;this  week that he was notified by the Orange County School District that it was  attempting to end his employment at Dr. Phillips High School following a lesson  he gave related to a school shooting drill.&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:  normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;  font-family:Roboto;color:#222222'>&#8220;When they said you have the option to  resign without violating your contract, I said, &#8216;I didn&#8217;t do anything  wrong,'&#8221; Keene told the outlet. &#8220;I said, &#8216;If I did, tell me  what it is.&#8217; They said, &#8216;We can&#8217;t do that.&#8217; I said, &#8216;In  that case, since I don&#8217;t know what I did wrong, you can go ahead and  terminate me without cause.&#8221;&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:  normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;  font-family:Roboto;color:#222222'>The notice from the school came after Keene  says he tried to tie a psychology lesson into an upcoming&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span  style='color:#003366'>school shooting drill<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;and part of that  lesson was asking students to write their own obituaries to reflect on their  lives.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.75pt;line-height:20.05pt;background:  white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-family:Roboto;color:#222222'>Firing  this man is correct, in my opinion. Absolutely.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.75pt;line-height:20.05pt;background:  white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:Roboto;color:#222222'>&nbsp;Look,  I might nod an OK for this sort of assignment to be tried in a 400 level University  Course &#8211; a Psych exercise or even a Writing exercise &#8230; but <b>leave our  kids alone.<o:p><\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.75pt;line-height:20.05pt;background:  white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:Roboto;color:#222222'>Parents  genuinely need, absolutely need, to get into the details of what children are  being taught in the classrooms. <b>The level of bias &#8211; personal and political &#8211;  is shameful and borders often on criminal.<o:p><\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.75pt;line-height:20.05pt;background:  white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:Roboto;color:#222222'>I  think <b>Home Schooling<\/b> is the only way to insure our children learn without  being shaped by people with agendas that go far beyond [what parents deem]  simple education &#8211;<b> RRR &#8211; Reading, Writing, Arithmetic &#8230; . <o:p><\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.75pt;line-height:20.05pt;background:  white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:Roboto;color:#222222'>For  me, we all need to learn &#8230; those basics &#8230; <b>Arithmetic, Reading,  Writing &#8230; English, English Grammar, Composition writing , Critical  Thinking, Logic &#8230; Sciences &#8211; Geology, Astronomy, Earth Sciences&#8230;<\/b>all  on that list &#8211;<b> I&#8217;ll define here as &#8216;Basic Education&#8217;<\/b>  that our children have <b>a right to receive &#8211; without all the rest of the  chaos. <o:p><\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:8.75pt;text-align:center;  line-height:20.05pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span  style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\";color:#222222'>Maybe  we don&#8217;t need schools and teachers any more in the way they have come to  exist! <\/span><\/b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;  color:#222222'>Maybe, it&#8217;s time for an entirely new paradigm<\/span><\/b><span  style='font-family:Roboto;color:#222222'>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.75pt;line-height:20.05pt;background:  white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:Roboto;color:#222222'>&nbsp;Let&#8217;s  do away with these mass institutions where our children are indoctrinated with  useless and harmful exposures and lies&#8230; they are targets quite literally  for every warped mind and person &amp; program.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.75pt;line-height:20.05pt;background:  white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\";  color:#222222'>If we had the technology we have today and were just seeking to  build from scratch a school system &#8211; it surely would not look anything like  what we have today.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.75pt;line-height:20.05pt;background:  white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:Roboto;color:#222222'>Sadly,  Schools, as they are, became a necessity for so many parents as they needed the  day to work &#8211; be it office or household chores &#8230; whatever the reasons &#8211;  the world has changed. And so have the needs changed. So many of our schools  are nutrition centers, day care centers, places of corralling children for six  or more hours a day &#8230; &nbsp;more than they are institutions of learning; and  finally, when teaching is happening &#8211; it is the wrong kind of teaching.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.75pt;line-height:20.05pt;background:  white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-family:Roboto;color:#222222'>Look,  Technology has &nbsp;opened endless possibilities<\/span><\/b><span style='font-family:  Roboto;color:#222222'>. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.75pt;line-height:20.05pt;background:  white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:Roboto;color:#222222'>LEARNING,  with some love and guidance&#8217;s is NATURAL for children &#8230; Today  parents have the means to present at your fingertips &#8211; whatever content all  agree are <b>the common denominators of an Education is this Country.<o:p><\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.75pt;line-height:20.05pt;background:  white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-family:Roboto;color:#222222'>I  think this is the perfect time for Congress and Senate to take a hard look at  the Education System of this Country<\/span><\/b><span style='font-family:Roboto;  color:#222222'>. I believe it&#8217;s time to consider dismantling it in favor  of something that will serve our children in these times. <b>Our current  Education System is a relic from the 1900&#8217;s. <o:p><\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.75pt;line-height:20.05pt;background:  white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-family:Roboto;color:#222222'>Challenge  Congress to build an Education system that gives freedom to parents and also  sets standards<\/span><\/b><span style='font-family:Roboto;color:#222222'>. The  House has the power to act; the Senate would surely follow their lead and both  sides would ultimately unite around a proper solution &#8211; or, a plan to find one.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:  baseline'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Bell MT\",\"serif\";  color:#222222'>I&#8217;m Just Sayin&#8217; &#8230; .<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:  baseline'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida teacher fired over &#8216;inappropriate&#8217; lesson, insists he &#8216;didn&#8217;t do anything wrong&#8217; Jeffrey Keene, who began teaching at the school near Orlando in January, says he will appeal his termination Psychology teacher Jeffrey Keene&nbsp;told Fox 35 Orlando&nbsp;this week that he was notified by the Orange County School District that it was attempting to end his &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/2023\/04\/06\/maybe-its-time-for-an-entirely-new-paradigm-in-our-education-system\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maybe, it&#8217;s time for an entirely new paradigm in our Education System&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}