This photo provided by Charles Timtim shows his daughter, name withheld by parents, doing schoolwork from home in Waipahu, Hawaii, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. Timtim's mother doesn't think it's safe for her daughter to be back at school but she also doesn't want her exposed to an online learning program called Acellus that misspelled and mispronounced the last queen to rule the Hawaiian kingdom.
As parents help their children navigate remote classes, they’re more aware of what’s being taught, and it’s often not simply coming from an educator on Zoom. Some schools have turned to programs like Acellus to supplement online classes by teachers, while others use it for students who choose to learn from home as campuses reopen. And because of the scramble to keep classes running during a health crisis, vetting the curriculum may not have been as thorough as it should have been, experts say.
Acellus officials didn’t respond to multiple calls from The Associated Press seeking comment. In an online message to parents, founder Roger Billings called the controversy “an organized attack” and said “they have not found anything in our content that is really racist or sexist.” An automated closed-captioning system misinterpreted some words, he said.
Vetting educational programs takes time, but with the pandemic, districts needed to quickly to find remote learning platforms, said Eric Hirsch, executive director of EdReports, which helps schools review instructional materials.And evaluating curriculum is like the “Wild West” — it varies across school systems, Lang said.
Seeing the queen’s name misspelled and information that the Hawaiian islands were “discovered” by Europeans were enough for Timtim and her husband to decide their daughter should join Waipahu Intermediate School’s hybrid remote and in-person program despite their concerns about COVID-19.
TXAG What did you know about this since Texas influences education in the USA?
In Russia we just learn science, if you can't do work you don't go to university. Is very simple system, works well. Too much weak and whining in America, pull up
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One of the modules misspelled the name of our princess and claimed the Europeans discovered the iiiislaands....boooohoooo...waaaayyycism
Sounds like overly sensitive progressive parents. Not surprised
another daily reminder that when everything is racist nothing is....
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There are consequences when your kingdom gets defeated by another kingdom. Acting like it never happened is pretty fucking unwoke.
PAGING: BetsyDeVosED, please report to the Principle’s office immediately.
Everything is racist in 2020 just the other day some Swedish guy called me a “white supremacist”
Yeah lol... IN HAWAII 🤨
Not reaching here at all. Leave Grumpy alone
As a parent who chose this curriculum for my child two years ago, this is BS at best.
Racism and sexism are not inadvertent; they're almost always deliberate and deeply ingrained. This company Acellus obviously doesn't care.
in their own story.... “He hasn’t found anything on his own that he thought was racist or sexist,” she said. “However, I will also say that a lot of kids, it’ll go over their heads.” For example, “towelban,” Favreau-Chung said. SO ITS REALLY JUST BS .....thanks for that AP
This is utter BS. They misspelled a Hawaiian name. Big freaking deal.
Suzie can iron 6 shirts in 20 minutes. How long would it take her to iron 30 shirts?
The “racist and sexist content”: the system “misspelled and mispronounced the name of Queen Liliʻuokalani.”
I'm beginning to understand why the govt wants our kids back in school & the parents back to work - because if parents are involved too closely with what their kids are learning, then the indoctrination into 'normal' ends rather abruptly. 😷
' doesn’t want her exposed to a remote learning program that misspelled and mispronounced the name of Queen Liliʻuokalani, the last monarch to rule the Hawaiian Kingdom.' ΑΗΑΗΑΗΑΗΑΗΗΑΗΑΗΑΗΑΗΑΗΗΑΗΑΗΑΗΑ
Remember when we focused on important issues in America?
What isn’t racist these days?
Follback 🙏
Come on! That’s why new generations (2000 and later) are such crystals! People should toughen up and see the world how it is, a hard place. Nothing good came from censoring, of course, a parent should be example.
Racism? Who's your daddy?
'No white is superior to a black and no black is superior to a white, except in piety & good actions Remember one day you will stand infront of God and answer for your actions. So do not stray from righteousness after I am gone -Muhammad God's messenger
Betsy DeVos you've been caught again. :-)
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