https://www.nevadacurrent.com/2021/01/21/las-vegas-charter-school-sued-for-curriculum-covering-race-identity/

Kind of a new "one drop" rule.

I can't comment on this class specifically, which wasn't part of the curriculum while I was uhh...nearby. I think there are certainly ways to teach a "Sociology of Change" class which rigorously attends to historical social movements and even incorporations standpoint epistemologies as part of its analysis without creating a hostile environment (which, to be fair, is only alleged here). But this school and this charter system is a top-to-bottom scam. The director (Johnson) is a real piece of shit, and the entire operation is predicated on taking Teach for America members or recent grads, working them 100 hours a week (shit like being availabe by phone to parents seven days a week until 9 pm), and paying them dogshit wages even compared to the already low starting salary for teachers in Clark County. So it is 1000% believable that this was a garbage class led by, at best, an exhausted and ill-prepared teacher, and while this smacks of right-wing bullshit the lawsuit couldn't have happened to a nicer group of people.

Would argue that this is less of a content problem and more of a "amateurification of education" problem.

Would argue that this is less of a content problem and more of a "amateurification of education" problem.

McDonald's only has five lawyers? 375,000 people work there, plus another ~1,500,000 if you count the franchise employees. No wonder they lost the coffee lawsuit.

According to Google, McDonald's has 213 lawyers. If this is their diversity, than 2.3% of their lawyers are women, 0.5% are black, 1.4% are gay, and 0% are Hispanic.

that's obviously the legal department's secretarial pool.

Chris McCarthy, the president of MTV Entertainment Group and overseer of numerous ViacomCBS cable networks, believes such language contributes to a stigmatization of mental health and leads to fewer people seeking help. So he's about to offer a rare mea culpa - and undertake an ambitious plan to remake programming at MTV and sister units including Comedy Central, VH1 and even Paramount Plus.

"Having reality stars say someone is 'really messed up'- well, that's not the proper way to reflect that story. It sends the wrong message about somebody's mental health," McCarthy said in a phone interview, adding he believes it makes people less likely to take struggles seriously in their own lives. "We need to do better."

McCarthy says the timing couldn't be better to take on a sadly timeless challenge, with mental health again in the headlines: Meghan, duchess of Sussex, recently said during a televised interview with Oprah Winfrey that she had had suicidal thoughts, and studies show that depression levels have continued to rise during the pandemic.

His plan, expected to be announced Thursday by ViacomCBS, is to turn all negative portrayals of mental-health challenges on his networks' shows to positive ones, then double those number of instances. Instead of characters slinging around clinical terms in an argument, for example, they'd acknowledge a person is struggling and want to know more. Such portrayals would make viewers feel more comfortable with their own conditions, McCarthy said, and do more to combat them.

Keep going, you'll get there eventually.

https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/In-a-rare-admission-MTV-says-its-programming-16070434.php




What exactly is modern comedy if not jokes about the comedian's own mental health?