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I look forward to every aspect of objective reality and lived experience having to be litigated. The future is so exciting!
I think America is due for some enforcement of reality
Oh America is definitely entering it's FO phase. Ignore everything domestic for a second.
Since attacking Iran, USA has removed all its military assets from other Middle Eastern states to protect Israel. Allowing Iran to bomb them with impunity. I expect there will be repercussions.
Global trade is diversifying fast! India has signed trade deals with Canada and the EU. China has cut 60% of its US imports and is diversifying. Trade Blocks all over the world (Mercosur, CPTPP, ASEAN, etc) are accepting new members, including big players like China.
Volatile oil prices and scarcity will incentivize other energy sources, reducing the demand for the USD as a reserve currency.
As life becomes more safe and comfortable, we hairless apes tend to crave conflict to give us meaning, like Norway, one of the richest and highly educated countries also being the cradle of Satanic Black Metal.
In America, litigation is the last bastion of controlled conflict so all this makes absolute sense.
Schools should be required to only teach facts across all fields.
I agree with the sentiment of what you're saying, but I think this is actually not quite the right rule.
Some things schools teach don't really have a clear factuality, like skills. Sometimes it's hard to determine the facts, like you might encounter in high school literature class, "what did the author mean when they said this" might have multiple reasonable answers, but the author died, so we can't ask them. Sometimes there are even cases where we teach things that aren't accurate, because the nuance is too complex, like teaching 3rd graders that you can't divide by zero, because introductory calculus isn't developmentally appropriate for their math skill. Even simplifications like "sex chromosomes are XX or XY, and that makes you a boy or girl" that can cause harm if people don't learn the nuance, are an example of teaching things that aren't really accurate.
I would say schools should seek to teach kids the baseline knowledge to understand the world, and the skills to sort fact from fiction, to analyze why people say and do what they do, and continue to learn and grow in the information landscape we live in.
Well we don't do that and that is okay. For example in literature the real answer doesn't matter it's about critical text analysis and using appropriate tools to do that. You conclusion doesn't has to be right. Just that you used the tools right.
It in chemistry we teach the orbit model because it is totally enough for most ppl even if it is wrong
We teach that the planets all orbit the sun in like circles which is wrong but easy to grasp and good enough.
The there is stuff that is not objective like religion or ethics, where there aren't rly facts.
We teach a lot of stuff that is objectively incorrect. We just have to be correct where it matters like history
it is fucking sad that we even have to have a law requiring the truth. What kind of fucking world are we living in?
Facts Not Feelings (unless your facts hurt my feelings)
Why stop at that event? What about the classrooms that teach about "the war of Northern aggression", or any of the other slanted views of history?
Back in the day, the Federal government mandated that all public swimming pools be open to all races.
Thousands of public swimming pools were filled with concrete.
https://daily.jstor.org/when-cities-closed-pools-to-avoid-integration/
Good. It's sad it's needed but I'm glad it's being done
While I agree with this bill I don’t care much for the trend of mixing to politics and education curriculum. The country has a loose enough relationship with facts to let the politicians decide what should be taught.
Would it be better if the oligarchs who own the political right wing and the private schools were given exclusive creative control over the curriculum, and elected progressives and the popular majority they represent have none?
I wasn’t thinking of private schools when I made the comment but I wonder if it would be enforceable for them.
They aren't deciding what is taught. They're only deciding that, if you teach it, you can't teach lies.
Politics is often involved with public education. Public education is run by the government. The government has to decide what is taught. The government is run by elected people. Elected people are called politicians and are involved with politics. Your local school board is decided by elections.