US Teacher Charged With Using AI To Frame Principal With Hate Speech Clip 124
Thomas Claburn reports via The Register: Baltimore police have arrested Dazhon Leslie Darien, the former athletic director of Pikesville High School (PHS), for allegedly impersonating the school's principal using AI software to make it seem as if he made racist and antisemitic remarks. Darien, of Baltimore, Maryland, was subsequently charged with witness retaliation, stalking, theft, and disrupting school operations. He was detained late at night trying to board a flight at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport. Security personnel stopped him because the declared firearm he had with him was improperly packed and an ensuing background check revealed an open warrant for his arrest.
"On January 17, 2024, the Baltimore County Police Department became aware of a voice recording being circulated on social media," said Robert McCullough, Chief of Baltimore County Police, at a streamed press conference today. "It was alleged the voice captured on the audio file belong to Mr Eric Eiswert, the Principal at the Pikesville High School. We now have conclusive evidence that the recording was not authentic. "The Baltimore County Police Department reached that determination after conducting an extensive investigation, which included bringing in a forensic analyst contracted with the FBI to review the recording. The results of the analysis indicated the recording contained traces of AI-generated content." McCullough said a second opinion from a forensic analyst at the University of California, Berkeley, also determined the recording was not authentic. "Based off of those findings and further investigation, it's been determined the recording was generated through the use of artificial intelligence technology," he said.
According to the warrant issued for Darien's arrest, the audio file was shared through social media on January 17 after being sent via email to school teachers. The recording sounded as if Principal Eric Eiswert had made remarks inflammatory enough to prompt a police visit to advise on protective security measures for staff. [...] The clip, according to the warrant, led to the temporary removal of Eiswert from his position and "a wave of hate-filled messages on social media and numerous calls to the school," and significantly disrupted school operations. Police say it led to threats against Eiswert and concerns about his safety. Eiswert told investigators that he believes the audio clip was fake as "he never had the conversations in the recording." And he said he believed Darien was responsible due to his technical familiarity with AI and had a possible motive: Eiswert said there "had been conversations with Darien about his contract not being renewed next semester due to frequent work performance challenges." "It is clear that we are also entering a new deeply concerning frontier as we continue to embrace emerging technology and its potential for innovation and social good," said John Olszewski, Baltimore County Executive, during a press conference. "We must also remain vigilant against those who would have used it for malicious intent. That will require us to be more aware and more discerning about the audio we hear and the images we see. We will need to be careful in our judgment."
"On January 17, 2024, the Baltimore County Police Department became aware of a voice recording being circulated on social media," said Robert McCullough, Chief of Baltimore County Police, at a streamed press conference today. "It was alleged the voice captured on the audio file belong to Mr Eric Eiswert, the Principal at the Pikesville High School. We now have conclusive evidence that the recording was not authentic. "The Baltimore County Police Department reached that determination after conducting an extensive investigation, which included bringing in a forensic analyst contracted with the FBI to review the recording. The results of the analysis indicated the recording contained traces of AI-generated content." McCullough said a second opinion from a forensic analyst at the University of California, Berkeley, also determined the recording was not authentic. "Based off of those findings and further investigation, it's been determined the recording was generated through the use of artificial intelligence technology," he said.
According to the warrant issued for Darien's arrest, the audio file was shared through social media on January 17 after being sent via email to school teachers. The recording sounded as if Principal Eric Eiswert had made remarks inflammatory enough to prompt a police visit to advise on protective security measures for staff. [...] The clip, according to the warrant, led to the temporary removal of Eiswert from his position and "a wave of hate-filled messages on social media and numerous calls to the school," and significantly disrupted school operations. Police say it led to threats against Eiswert and concerns about his safety. Eiswert told investigators that he believes the audio clip was fake as "he never had the conversations in the recording." And he said he believed Darien was responsible due to his technical familiarity with AI and had a possible motive: Eiswert said there "had been conversations with Darien about his contract not being renewed next semester due to frequent work performance challenges." "It is clear that we are also entering a new deeply concerning frontier as we continue to embrace emerging technology and its potential for innovation and social good," said John Olszewski, Baltimore County Executive, during a press conference. "We must also remain vigilant against those who would have used it for malicious intent. That will require us to be more aware and more discerning about the audio we hear and the images we see. We will need to be careful in our judgment."
Execution (Score:2, Insightful)
Trying to ruin someone's life should receive a death sentence.
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so we have finally implemented the krell's monsters of the id-{
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You should kill whoever wrote that comment, then.
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No, start with people in the country illegally. Get the liberals next.
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Re:"Hate Speech" you say. (Score:5, Informative)
If you read the actual merits of the case
Okay... "According to police documents, Mr. Darien developed a grievance against Mr. Eiswert in December after the principal began investigating him. Mr. Darien had authorized a district payment of $1,916 to his roommate, police said, “under the pretense” that the roommate was working as an assistant coach for the Pikesville girls’ soccer team."
I've looked through three articles and seen no mention of any of the wild-eyed bullshit that you said here.
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I've looked through three articles and seen no mention of any of the wild-eyed bullshit that you said here.
It's a bit ambiguous what you're talking about, however if it is what I think it is, note from TFS:
The clip, according to the warrant, led to the temporary removal of Eiswert from his position and "a wave of hate-filled messages on social media and numerous calls to the school," and significantly disrupted school operations. Police say it led to threats against Eiswert and concerns about his safety.
Suppose the recording was real. Do we know the whole context? Do we know his mental state? And yes, this is important:
https://www.medicaldaily.com/b... [medicaldaily.com]
Swear words are basically just whatever words are forbidden in a person's language. The very fact that they're forbidden is often why we utter them at all. They even give us comfort even if the person saying them otherwise detests the actual meaning of the word.
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curious.
what software did the p e coach use
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I have no specialist skills to reverse engineer the specific knowledge of software that he used from a sound clip. That would require extreme level of knowledge in field of generative audio models and comprehensive data analysis.
I'm not sure how that's relevant which specific generative model he used either. There are quite a few that are open to all.
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request.
i was thinking of an application that is legal and useful.
and if coach skippy can do it.
what was this application
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Have you considered taking a look at ..., instead of wondering ...
I haven't done either of those things. I don't even know which accuser you're talking about. There's the principle, who accused the teacher of theft. There's the teacher, who indirectly accused the principle of hate speech. There's the police, who have accused the teacher of fabricating the recording. And there's you, who has accused the nebulous 'other' of some kind of vague conspiracy.
Although now you're talking about BLM... no idea how that came into this.
Admittedly, I'm not willing to start using
Re:"Hate Speech" you say. (Score:4, Insightful)
Although now you're talking about BLM... no idea how that came into this.
He's off on a tangent about BLM and also, don't forget, telling you do do your own research (aka primary sources).
We're a short hop from Hunter Biden's laptop or pizza.
Re:"Hate Speech" you say. (Score:4, Insightful)
Instead you decided to attack me for referencing primary sources
The primary sources in this case would be the suspect, meaning the teacher (assuming we're still talking about the same thing), and whoever did the analysis on that audio sample. And the audio sample.
You think that getting people riled up on social media is the suspicious part? That's the bit that's motivating your conspiracy theory? Getting people riled up is what social media is for. They do that at the drop of a hat. Just the other day we had a story about much bigger protests than this over the cancellation of a decade old video game that no one plays anymore. I certainly do believe that a bunch of people on social media said angry things, they do that every day. I just don't think that it implies anything other than the fact that today's another day.
Calling social media a source of primordial horror and death is perhaps a bit of hyperbole, but I'm not going to protest it. I like your phrasing.
Re:"Hate Speech" you say. (Score:4, Insightful)
I.e. this isn't a conflict between teacher and principal. This is a conflict within US left wing political movement, where progressive far left is trying to finalize subversion of many institutions, where older people still hold old school liberal politics in spite of younger rank and file being far left.
It's a power struggle between the last vestiges of left wing liberalism and the progressivism laying siege to them.
You forgot about that? For some reason this isn't a dispute between two people (with an AI twist), it's a grand battle between two ideologically distinct factions for dominance in the political sphere. It certainly sounds like you've got conspiracy on the mind. I don't know what a conspiracy theory would be, if not this.
And the reason you've given for why this isn't simply a dispute between two people is apparently: social media.
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Just a tip on taking to this guy as Ive talked to him a few times now although I don't plan on wasting my time with him anymore. He's going to try to talk you to death and will focus on any minor point he can to try to get a "win" even if it's a total tangent. Notice how you had to bring him back to what he clearly stated with your own post?
He'll also probably try to work in his soccer reffing . He loves to work that into any conversation he can.
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I also liked his description of social media as a source of primordial horror and death. I found that amusing.
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And are you going to add links to your 'readily available primary sources'? Or at least quotes from them? I'm not creating accounts at Farcebook, X, Instagram, etc. just to see if you're making shit up or not, and considering that you didn't actually include anything that you found I'm assuming that you are.
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Lead paint must be popular in whatever country you're from.
Re:"Hate Speech" you say. (Score:5, Insightful)
No, hate speech is speech that attacks not just an individual, but a whole class of people. Now powerful people may only care in cases involving certain classes of people.
But in general, this is exactly why we've moved away from using certain words as insults. If the word describes a real class of people, then using it as in insult for someone else is implicitly insulting all the people the word actually applies to.
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>"No, hate speech is speech that attacks not just an individual, but a whole class of people."
No, "hate speech" is whatever anyone wants to define "hate speech" as. It is a nebulous, ever-changing, non-legal-definable, subjective, emotional, nonsense concept. I have seen countless examples of so-called "hate speech" that, in my opinion (and I doubt I am alone), are not "hateful" at all. It is a dangerous term that is utterly incompatible with any rational form of "free speech" and should have no place
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When there's a law about this, the law usually has a more solid definition than mass media has. In this particular instance, hate speech is not what the accused is being charged with, but what the accused tried to frame his boss for (framing him in the social circles). Which means that for this story, the definition of hate speech is utterly irrelevant, the accused may as well have used AI to generate a fake phone sex recording of his boss.
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>" In this particular instance, hate speech is not what the accused is being charged with"
Oh, *I* know that, but every article that references "hate speech" in an article gives the term/concept a tiny bit more "legitimacy." I want to combat that any time I see it.
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Oh, *I* know that, but every article that references "hate speech" in an article gives the term/concept a tiny bit more "legitimacy." I want to combat that any time I see it.
This is just dumb. Hate speech and free speech are two different things. The former may or may not be criminalized but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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You can't effectively have free speech if you also have to comply with so-called "hate speech" regulation. That is the main issue.
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Tell me you didn't read what I read without saying you didn't read it.
Hate speech can be legal, that doesn't make it not hate speech.
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For example, if I were to call you a moron, no one would even bat an eye even though I've disparaged the unintelligent. The term was specifically used to refer to people who today would be considered to suffer from mild mental retardation. That's certainly a class of people.
I'm also curious if you'd accuse a black person calling
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> No, hate speech is speech that attacks not just an individual, but a whole class of people. Now powerful people may only care in cases involving certain classes of people.
I mean, that's kinda the problem with it. I think you'll have trouble finding people who hate the hate on "rapists" or "murderers" as a class, which is why some people refine that to say that only hating classes based on intrinsic traits, rather than behavior, makes it hate speech.
But then you have terms that perhaps intentionally bl
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My contempt for landlords and my expression of that contempt is not hate speech. So your definition is a little lacking.
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Landlords choose to rent out property. Hate speech only applies where the thing being described is not a choice, such a race, gender, and bizarrely religion.
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It is not that bizarre. Religion, culture and race are strongly intermingled, and often inseparable. For example, Jews tend to be subject to antisemitism whether or not they attend shul and are in fact atheist.
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Well, there is that I suppose, but to me it just seems like it is making it harder for people who are ethnically/culturally Jewish to separate that identity from the Jewish religion.
The other issue is that we end up protecting religious beliefs that should not be protected, sometimes at the expense of other people's rights.
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Well, there is that I suppose, but to me it just seems like it is making it harder for people who are ethnically/culturally Jewish to separate that identity from the Jewish religion.
I'm going to quote Jay Rayner to you: "Understand that I am both Jewish and eat pork because there is no God and you understand a few very basic things about me."
There is not much separation between the two. If you know I don't worship the only permitted god, that tells you something about my Saturday morning habits (perhaps) an
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I'm not sure I see your point about the nature of Jewishness. Especially today where we are seeing baseless claims of anti-Semitism when people, including people of Jewish ancestry and of the Jewish faith, are protesting against the actions of Zionists. It seems to me that clarity is very much required.
As for rights, they do trade off against other people's, but they shouldn't when it comes to religion. The CofE's various exemptions are a good example of that, they beliefs shouldn't have any special rights.
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I'm not sure I see your point about the nature of Jewishness.
The kind of people who are bigoted against Jews don't bother to check if you're atheist or not. Why is it anyone's business whether I go to shul or not. I'm Jewish either way.
Especially today where we are seeing baseless claims of anti-Semitism when people, including people of Jewish ancestry and of the Jewish faith, are protesting against the actions of Zionists.
We're also seeing an awful lot of cases where people are using it as an excuse to ti
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I'm sure there has been an increase in abuse, both of Jews and of Muslims, and Arabs. But that's the issue. Zionists really want to conflate the ethnicity with the religion with their genocide. They even put the Star of David on the Israeli flag. It's deliberate, to endanger you, because it furthers their aims.
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If you haven't read David Baddil's book "Jews don't count" you should. He puts it better than I can, so if you want to actually understand the perspective of Jews it's worth a read.
I'm sure there has been an increase in abuse, both of Jews and of Muslims, and Arabs
Don't muddy the waters. You'd recognise that tactic if someone said "white lives matter too", but it's basically the same tactic. We're not in the game of oppression Olympics here, so what are you trying to tell me? anti-Semitism isn't so bad beca
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Hey, I didn't mean to upset you.
We have an in going genocide that is the first to be live streamed and documented on social media in real time. It's hard not to feel outraged at what is happening, and frankly it's hard to see how the state of Israel can come back from this without some huge changes. The Zionists have over played their hand, but it goes deeper than that. There are huge social problems in Israel, maybe worse than SA was.
I'm not trying to tell you how you should live your life, but we have to
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I'm not particularly angry, but I am pointing out in strong language what you are doing. If you want to understand, read David Baddiel's book on the subject.
Now bear in mind you've taken a very few steps to get from me saying in response to a comment about protecting religions "well ethnicity and religion in Jews is not well separated and racists don't care" to taking about Israel, Zionism (which you still aren't clear over) and the genocide. That's massively extreme, frankly.
Why? Why do you think this is r
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I'm not saying it's right or acceptable, I'm saying that any time you have a conflict like this, this is going to happen. Look what happened after 9/11, and this is far worse.
I've had this first hand. Like you, it had nothing to do with me, and I couldn't do anything about it. People wanted to know why I wasn't out there protesting against the terrorism, like that would have helped. I joke about it, but more than once I've been met with a look of fear when someone learned my identity.
I still don't want the
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Sure, but I'm not currently talking to those people. I know what broadly speaking people are bigoted and I know that people will latch onto events to flaunt their bigotry.
You're the one who jumped from me taking about my ethnicity to *but Zionists*. Would you have done the equivalent for any other group?
Anyway read the book. It'll be better reading than "10 years to save the west".
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Yes, I had the same thing after 9/11, still do.
I actually read that book not long after it was published. He has some good points, but I don't agree with all of it. It's not entirely true to say that some of the things he complains about are unique to Jews in the UK, like hiding their ethnicity. Lots of other BAME people do that, myself included.
I don't think it's racist to say that Zionists have made things much, much more dangerous for Jews, just like Islamic terrorists made things much worse for Muslims
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I think you have very much misunderstood his point. He's not saying that Jews are unique in being able to hide their ethnicity, nor unique in benefiting when we do so. What he's saying that the attitude to that from outside is often different for Jews. If a mixed race person can pass as white and chooses to do so, it's generally acknowledged (especially by the progressive left, which is the point of view the book is written from) that this is a bad thing because they should not have to hide their race in or
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You are reading a lot into my comment that wasn't there. My point was that while racism is unacceptable, we tried telling people not to be racist and it didn't work as well as dealing with the root causes of it. So let's deal with the root causes.
Your point about being an observant Jew vs and ethnic one is just a question of semantics. If the intent is to boycott the Jewish religion, say because it practices genital mutilation, then it's up to the people making the protest to be careful to avoid harming eth
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You are reading a lot into my comment that wasn't there.
What do you think I'm reading into it? I'm saying specifically I do not think you would have made a comparable comment to any other ethnic minority. If a different ethnic minority had told you their thoughts on the divide between ethnicity and religion in their world, would you have dragged in comments about how some very distantly related people are doing something different?
it didn't work as well as dealing with the root causes of it. So let's deal w
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Especially today where we are seeing baseless claims of anti-Semitism when people, including people of Jewish ancestry and of the Jewish faith, are protesting against the actions of Zionists. It seems to me that clarity is very much required.
Why is clarity required? That has no effect on the baselessness or otherwise of claims of antisemitism.
Why do you need to distinguish between an ethnic Jew and an ethnic Jew who worships?
And what precisely do you mean by Zionists? It's term encompassing a spectrum with
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It doesn't really make sense, though. If you call someone 'an idiot' or 'a moron', you're also insulting a class of people - a very, very large class of people. Is that also 'hate speech' then? What about 'Are you blind?' as an expression of frustration of someone being unable to see something? Is that also hate speech?
More importantly though, the question is, should a person be allowed to insult someone? If the answer is yes, and you're allowed to insult one person, you should also be allowed to insult 10
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Hate speech is still speech. And more importantly, protected speech, despite the disinformation being propagated by the authoritarian left who believe in censorship/criminal charges for saying the wrong thing. But that's not what's at issue with this article at all. But, I digress.... because this shit comes up every time where someone now falsely tries to claim hate speech isn't protected speech and thus that speech shouldn't be free.
Whomever is in power seeks to silence ideas and words they don't like.
Re:"Hate Speech" you say. (Score:5, Insightful)
But, "Death to Israel" and "Death to America' are perfectly legit in your mind, mmmm yes?
Keep getting your news from the horse trough, you're doing just fine.
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I don't see where you got anything about those phrases "being okay" from what the parent said. Start over from the top of the thread and try again.
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Believing that people should be able to protest Israel's actions in Gaza without being called antisemitic is not the same as thinking it's fine to chant "death to Israel". Nice try though
You guys paper over people supporting the intifada (Score:5, Insightful)
There are plenty of videos of people harassing people just for being Jewish, chanting "gas the Jews" (go watch the actual video, then read the "debunking" for yourself), and otherwise supporting the "intifada" (which refers to two periods where Palestinians waged suicide attacks on random civilians at restaurants and such) or chanting from the river to the sea, which would imply getting rid of Israel entirely since the Dead Sea is a lake and Israel sits between the Jordan river & Mediterranean sea.
So you have a real problem with carrying water for the supporters of the fanatical, genocidal rapists known as Hamas, even if there are legitimate complaints about Israel's attitude towards civilian casualties in the war being waged against it.
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And let's not forget, Hamas don't actually give a crap about the Palestinian people either. They want to wipe Israel off the map (and the Jews in general) and rule the ashes. They wouldn't let Palestinian civilians shelter in their tunnels.
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Yep, because completely linear daily casualty reports are sooooo convincing.
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Nah. Just the antisemetic ones.
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All protests, anywhere, are now labeled antisemitic.
Oh do fuck off.
There's an old Jewish saying as it happens: a half truth is a whole lie. You're making it sound like this is a generality and "they" whoever they are are labelling them as antisemitic.
Except you're quoting Netanuahu, the right wing nutcase currently PM in Israel who's desparate to keep the distractions going to avoid going to prison over corruption charges. And he's not exactly unbiased.
But then of course after hearing strenuously how it's j
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Netanyahu isn't the only one, Biden, Trump, the governors of various states of both parties, members of Congress of both parties, the press corpse in the MSM, Baptist ministers and Catholic priests, and a slew of European heads of state have all jumped on the bandwagon. It's a sad, sad day for our society when protesting a genocide prompts more wrath and vitriol than actually carrying that genocide out.
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Netanyahu isn't the only one
The GP was quoting him specifically.
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Hate speech is just speech that people hate.
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Not any more, that has been labeled "misinformation" and is considered just as grave a threat, (see COVID source, or "fortified" elections)
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Not so. There are generally widely accepted things that do not lie in this realm. For example, threats and fighting words, defamation and libel.
Here was an obvious example of the latter half.
Re:Teachers seem dumb (Score:4, Informative)
No, most teachers are intelligent, motivated, caring people who give up a lot to help children grow up right. This is just a story of one dumb teacher, his actions don't reflect on the entire profession.
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It's become fashionable, since the Reagan era "A Nation at Risk" report, to gaslight teachers. If you want to run public education into the ground & destroy younger generations' futures, this is a great way to go a
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To be fair, those who believe our education system is "at risk" generally don't fault teachers (or at least, not *all* teachers), they fault the education establishment that has imposed rules on teachers that they believe don't serve the best interest of children. Rules, for example, that require sex education in schools (which they argue should be taught by parents) and that prohibit religious expression by students (forbidding prayer in schools).
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So the dumbest and most religiously brainwashed parents, then.
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Those parents would counter that "brainwashed" is telling kids that male and female means whatever you want it to mean, that grading papers and tests is inherently racist, that sex has no consequences. Last I checked the US Bill of Rights still protects people with religious beliefs. Some of us continue to believe it's important to accept those who disagree with our own beliefs.
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Well, I guess it's a good thing that no one is actually telling kids these things anywhere in the US.
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Apparently, you haven't been paying attention to what is being taught in schools these days.
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Apparently you get your information from Fox News or Newsmax. This is no different than the tempest in a teapot a couple of years ago about 'Critical Race Theory', which was never taught anywhere but in college undergrad courses.
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How about...
https://wjla.com/news/local/fa... [wjla.com]
https://wwmt.com/news/local/vi... [wwmt.com]
There are more, but you have Google. And these are not from Fox News.
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And neither link says what you imply it does. Par for the course.
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They're teaching children to respect the decisions, generally very, very difficult ones, of other people. Whether it be to wear a head scarf or yarmulke to school, or to bow their head in silent prayer before a test, or have a boyfriend rather than a girlfriend, or to wear white after Labor Day, as long as it's not damaging themselves or others then you have no right to get in the way nor to tell your children to.
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Yeah, it makes it sound so noble when described as "health"! Apparently you don't think parents are capable of teaching their own children, when those children are ready. I apparently have a greater respect for the role of parents in raising their own children.
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- Kids having sex at younger ages,
- More unprotected sex, leading to more STIs,
- Having sex with more partners,
- Less use of contraceptives,
- Reduced academic performance
It's also arguable that cultivating an atmosphere of open conversation about sex & fewer taboos can give children, teens, & adults more confidence in stepping forward to report abuse.
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That is what the CDC page you linked says, yes. But if you follow the footnote references cited to support that list, the referenced documents *only* explain what they feel is a "quality" sex ed program, but does not provide any kind of support for the claimed outcomes.
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Oh, so we should blindly accept whatever they say, without checking sources? Because, you know, being a government organization, there couldn't possibly be any political influence in what advice they offer. No, never.
The CDC generally does good work. But telling people that "questioning" one's sexual orientation (the Q in LGBTQ) is a public health matter is a non sequitur. That is a political and religious position, not a public health concern. Many religions (not just Christianity) outright forbid these se
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You are right, questioning whether one is male or female, or whether one is designed to mate with a male or a female, despite clear physical evidence, is a mental health matter.
Are you suggesting that the CDC never makes decisions based on political influence? It's a *government agency* which is by definition political! If it's "evidence informed" then why don't they link to the source of the evidence, or at least list some statistics? They do neither, they just make an assertion.
The point of bringing up th
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Once again, I see you have no answer.
Yep, when the CDC says that "male" and "female" refers to one's feelings rather than one's biology, and calls it "health education," I do indeed question the research upon which their findings are based.
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YOU are the one who brought in Reagan and teacher gaslighting by conservatives. Did you expect that comment would go unanswered?
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It's easy to end the conversation, just stop replying. Otherwise I have to assume that you want to keep the conversation going.
You don't understand the "strategy" at all. It's simply that you like to keep spouting progressive liberal talking points, without any factual basis. That kind of illogic gets me going, it's hard to leave it alone. If you can't support your claims about conservatives, then you shouldn't bring up the subject.
But some have nasty habits: grade inflation (Score:2)
This alarming article reports a massive rise in high school graduation because it's what keeps teachers employed not because the kids were getting any knowledge.
https://www.economist.com/unit... [economist.com]
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Give a bunch of humans a metric that they need to meet to be able to continue to survive and they will game the system to increase that metric - every time.
That article indicates that there is a systematic issue in how the performance of teachers is assessed, not that there is a problem with teachers.
When is 'gaming' unprofessional (Score:2)
Teachers like to claim the status of 'a profession', and invite voters to trust them to do the best for their kids. Yet stories like this surely demonstrate that they can't be trusted.
I admit to much sympathy for them; having been a camp counsellor on a camp that was almost broken by feral inner city kids (not even high schoolers), I accept they are faced with impossible expectations and demands. Unfortunately noone is really willing to face up to the issues - teachers' unions are very influential - and, fo
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These teachers often promote students to the next level despite failing, and inflate grades, not because the teachers are problematic, but because the system requires them to do so.
Profession? (Score:2)
Being the member of a profession should mean that you resist the system when it demands that you do something that is wrong. Surely it should the role of the teaching unions to stand up for their members who do resist? Or am I just too naïve?
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As with every profession, you pick your battles. When the system says "You will promote everyone to the next grade level, or else you lose your job" you probably won't pick that battle. You'd probably do your best to help the students who do care.
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I don't think you have any sources that confirm that "most" athletic directors are "assholes."
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While there are some good school sports coaches, the field does seem to attract a disproportionate number of complete assholes
Your exact quote.
No, I don't have sources either, but I'm not making claims about "disproportionate numbers."
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I don't know about the disproportional part one way or the other but your comment brings me back to my high school's varsity coach when I was a kid. He was part of the reason I quit soccer junior year as I was too good for JV but didn't want to play for him.
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I've worked K12 for a very long time (not a teacher). A librarian I used to know, with more time than me by a wide margin, once said that "Teachers turn in to the kids they teach." I have found this to be more true than not.
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The demand for the types of racism that aren't excused by the 'anti-racist' crowd far exceeds the supply.
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Because statistics and raw numbers show that this is simply not the case, by a long shot.
Check your numbers again on black/black crime, especially violent crime.