After our office consistently heard from student, parents, and teachers about objectionable curricula, policies, or programs affecting children, we launched the Eyes on Education portal.

Our kids need to focus on fundamental educational building blocks, not political ideology - either left or right.

Eyes on Education is a platform for students, parents, and educators to submit and view real examples from classrooms across the state.

The Office of the Attorney General will follow up on materials submitted to the portal that may violate Indiana law using our investigative tools, including public records requests, and publish findings on the portal as well.

To view examples or submit to the portal, select the school corporation and name of the school and upload your documents.

Upon submission, someone from our office may contact you for additional information or clarification.

Submissions to the portal will be reviewed and published regularly.

this is the most ridiculous rhetorical doublespeak I’ve seen in a while. kids need to focus on education, not political ideology, so let’s shove some political ideology down their throats? And, of course, the ass-covering BS logical absurdity that anything “objectionable” must, certainly, be unsafe for children.

I’m looking at some of the “legitimate” complaints on that page. Someone complained about inappropriate content… in Orwell’s 1984.

https://www.in.gov/attorneygeneral/files/4_11_Parental-Concerns-Required-Reading-Sexual-Content.pdf

I submitted this.

Man, that form doesn’t verify any contact information. It sure would be easy to flood it with genuine concern in picture format.

Use tor before they start filtering it. That’s usually what they block first. Submit from multiple IPs to make it harder to filter. Be realistic - there are websites that’ll help you generate fake names, addresses. You can even use ChatGPT to write time wasting comments. Try to avoid using real people’s names so you don’t get innocents harassed.

Well that’s definitely encouraging. I’m from a small town (my graduating class was less than 60 people), but I haven’t heard about any book bans here either.

I brought enough for everyone

I’m doing my part

You’ll never take me alive! I’ve got hostages, and they are dying of laughter!

I’d like to submit a report to your unit

Join the fun!

I mean you wanna be technical about it socialism is a much wider spectrum of ideas than Communism. There are definitely people who define it strictly by the presence of the worker co-op or as anti-capitalist but that’s one floating idea in a nebula. Market Socialism for instance is basically a blend of capitalism and socialism where things like capitalist incentives are still maintained but regulated and systems of social support are expanded to make up for the gap of the whole capitalist “not my monkey not my circus” washing of hands of social responsibility to be an active part of a community. It’s basically anti-capitalist in the same way putting up a privacy fence is anti-neighbor… So a wide spanning income based taxation could be construed as sort of Socialist but its basically the air we breathe as far as a norm goes.

But Harrison Bergeron is more like the Conservative satire of what “Cultural Marxism” looks like in practice. The strawman idea that is designed to make people clutch their individuality and random blessings like something someone wants to forcefully take away from them… It’s a metaphor for things like social programs and inequality conscious measures that lift up disadvantaged people to allow them access to participate in society but not a particularly good one as it pre-supposes that lifting someone up is the same thing as crushing persecution of the naturally gifted.

Your teacher was half right, the story is about Socialism but it’s a hostile framing of Socialism in complete bad faith using the conventions of science fiction to paint an overblown dystopia with hyperbolic absurd metaphors that underline the anxieties anti-civil rights advocates had when it was written.

The whole thing makes more sense when you consider that hardcore disability advocacy groups that started the path to creating the ADA basically was beginning to gain traction when the book was being written.

I vote we use Samuel L Jackson’s voice.

😔 Damn.

Ctrl+c ctrl+v strikes again!

And targeting a group of people is unconstitutional, fuck the laws that harm the citizens and protect the state.

But what if a meme just happens to be a SQL injection?

It is almost certainly illegal under the computer fraud and abuse act. Don’t hack, kiddos.

And that is why we STOP DEFENDING THEIR FREE SPEECH

A complete lack of self awareness

I’m sure they expect it. They’ll try to fascism with it anyway

Damn right it is

oh, that was good

Acceptable? You might win the Internet for the day.

You can ever accommodate a partial derivative

The transient solution was positive

The math would’ve been easier had we been dealing with latine.

Thanks, it was definitely a strange experience but learning calculus gave me new frames of reference to think of all sorts of problems and that was one of my major problems at the time. It’s part of why I think that math and science are just as important as the humanities for well roundedness even if you’ll never use them. They teach you to think differently just like history and literature do.

And yeah it was fuck 9 years ago now. I transitioned shortly after and am now at the point I spent so long hoping to get to where it’s all in my past.

In Oklahoma we have Kevin Stitt who is an anti-vaaxer corporate shit who owns gateway mortgage company, which also just opened a new line of banks… This guy is a clown worthy of Barnum.

Texan here. I’m in hell.

Because capitalism! FREEDOOOOM! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

(assuming you’re white and straight, preferably male)

I was pleasantly surprised by that! Legendary journalism!

From my point of view the Jedi are evil.

Oh good shit!