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EL PASO, Texas — The video was seen worldwide. An El Paso woman jumping into the spider monkey enclosure at the zoo and feeding two of the animals Cheetos in May 2021. For the woman in the video, the backlash was swift.

She was arrested and lost her job at an El Paso law firm, and received harassment online from people concerned with the health of the monkeys. She now faces a pending criminal trespass case……

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‘I don’t think I did anything wrong:’ Woman who jumped into spider monkey enclosure at El Paso Zoo speaks out

EL PASO, Texas — The video was seen worldwide. An El Paso woman jumping into the spider monkey enclosure at the zoo and feeding two of the animals Cheetos in May 2021. For the woman in the video, the backlash was swift. She was arrested and lost her job at an El Paso law firm,
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Optimus Prime said:
EL PASO, Texas — The video was seen worldwide. An El Paso woman jumping into the spider monkey enclosure at the zoo and feeding two of the animals Cheetos in May 2021. For the woman in the video, the backlash was swift.

She was arrested and lost her job at an El Paso law firm, and received harassment online from people concerned with the health of the monkeys. She now faces a pending criminal trespass case……

kvia.com

‘I don’t think I did anything wrong:’ Woman who jumped into spider monkey enclosure at El Paso Zoo speaks out

EL PASO, Texas — The video was seen worldwide. An El Paso woman jumping into the spider monkey enclosure at the zoo and feeding two of the animals Cheetos in May 2021. For the woman in the video, the backlash was swift. She was arrested and lost her job at an El Paso law firm,
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How high was she? Please tell me she was high?

Of course not thinking she did anything wrong even now ... probably not high. Just crazy and/or stupid.
 
I don’t know if this is happening in other “red” places, but the latest trend in “affluent” Texas is banning books in school libraries for “moral” reasons. Which of course means having gay characters or painting Jim Crow in a negative light (“CRT”). And these women (they’re all unemployed soccer moms) will go on social media and find “incriminating” posts from school librarians and teachers (like anything pro-choice or pro-gay) and just harass them and try to get them fired.

It’s some scary Nazi stuff and I’m getting concerned for my kids’ educations.
 
Bill said:
Perhaps this goes here… :scratch:

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Man lights firework on his head and it explodes into his skull, Texas cops say

The man had been shooting off fireworks with a friend when one exploded the wrong direction.
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Look at all those other related fireworks stories on the page. A mom holding pieces of her son's skull and brain. The man blowing up his torso. Another one setting himself on fire.

There were a couple THOUSAND 911 calls for grass fires in North Texas due to fireworks. Two professional shows were cancelled within minutes after one nearly started a forest fire and the other sent shrapnel into the crowd.

Year-after-year-after-year... All that carnage and mayhem for a few seconds of colorful sparks and a loud bang.

This species. SMH.
 
Cage1 said:
I don’t know if this is happening in other “red” places, but the latest trend in “affluent” Texas is banning books in school libraries for “moral” reasons. Which of course means having gay characters or painting Jim Crow in a negative light (“CRT”). And these women (they’re all unemployed soccer moms) will go on social media and find “incriminating” posts from school librarians and teachers (like anything pro-choice or pro-gay) and just harass them and try to get them fired.

It’s some scary Nazi stuff and I’m getting concerned for my kids’ educations.
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Those same women will raise hell when the class sizes have to be increased due to a teacher shortage. There aren't enough teachers and there aren't enough substitutes, and the current climate in some ISD's, as you noted, has driven people from education, or pursuing it as a career. At some point the ISD's will need to stop appeasing the most vocal parents, and start putting the children first. Don't get me started on the books thing. It was starting to look like "Farenheit 451" for a while.
 
Cage1 said:
I don’t know if this is happening in other “red” places, but the latest trend in “affluent” Texas is banning books in school libraries for “moral” reasons. Which of course means having gay characters or painting Jim Crow in a negative light (“CRT”). And these women (they’re all unemployed soccer moms) will go on social media and find “incriminating” posts from school librarians and teachers (like anything pro-choice or pro-gay) and just harass them and try to get them fired.

It’s some scary Nazi stuff and I’m getting concerned for my kids’ educations.
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I’m concerned for my kids education but not on the same lines that you are.

I don’t trust CRT because I believe that it will go light on a lot of issues (such as who has truly been the ones to have benefitted from the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments). And why do my kids need to hear anything pro or anti from a teacher anyway? If faith stays at home, political and social views should as well. Slavery and Jim Crow should never be excluded because that is a major part of our nations history. I mean, The Holocaust didn’t happen on our soil but that in every history book in most grade levels. But sadly, and not limited to Texas by any means, education (like everything else) has been politicized.
 
jahsoul357 said:
I’m concerned for my kids education but not on the same lines that you are.

I don’t trust CRT because I believe that it will go light on a lot of issues (such as who has truly been the ones to have benefitted from the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments). And why do my kids need to hear anything pro or anti from a teacher anyway? If faith stays at home, political and social views should as well. Slavery and Jim Crow should never be excluded because that is a major part of our nations history. I mean, The Holocaust didn’t happen on our soil but that in every history book in most grade levels. But sadly, and not limited to Texas by any means, education (like everything else) has been politicized.
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Some issue only have pro and anti viewpoints though

It was either Texas or Florida that got in some trouble over suggesting they teach "both sides" of the Holocaust

Shouldn't ending slavery be a pro only topic? Is it possible to talk about Jim Crow, why it happened, what happened during that era and how and why it ended without bringing social and political views into the discussion (even if it's just the views at the time)?

And sometimes viewpoints can change, and what is called 'politicizing history' or 'woke history' is more a case of just simply removing the whitewashed sanitized version that had been taught for decades

When I was in school I learned nothing but good things about Christopher Columbus. I did the whole "in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue" thing

Over the past 10-15 years or so there's been a push to make it clear, there was much more to it than that
 
>>It was either Texas or Florida that got in some trouble over suggesting they teach "both sides" of the Holocaust

Texas. I think Southlake-Carroll ISD teacher which is between Dallas and Ft Worth.
 
Optimus Prime said:
Some issue only have pro and anti viewpoints though

It was either Texas or Florida that got in some trouble over suggesting they teach "both sides" of the Holocaust

Shouldn't ending slavery be a pro only topic? Is it possible to talk about Jim Crow, why it happened, what happened during that era and how and why it ended without bringing social and political views into the discussion (even if it's just the views at the time)?

And sometimes viewpoints can change, and what is called 'politicizing history' or 'woke history' is more a case of just simply removing the whitewashed sanitized version that had been taught for decades

When I was in school I learned nothing but good things about Christopher Columbus. I did the whole "in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue" thing

Over the past 10-15 years or so there's been a push to make it clear, there was much more to it than that
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With history, what's done is done, but I do believe in transparency, because there are actually various viewpoints that can be explored.
Yes, I believe ALL sides of the Holocaust should be taught because it wasn't as black and white and we make it.
There should also be transparency regarding the Civil War, because we still got plenty of people thinking it was about slavery when Lincoln wanted to keep the Union together at all cost.
Transparency regarding the Civil War, Reconstruction and the breakdown of it would give insight into the rise of Jim Crow and talk about the rise of the Civil Rights Era (but some things about that should be kept "in house," such as its failings)
And viewpoints do change but that change should not be forced or pushed because of your teachers political or social view, because that introduces biases one way or another.
And I agree 100% regarding Christopher Columbus but in my family and remnant of the community, I had "old heads" telling me to look at little deeper into it but with transparent history, we would have the complete picture.

And I don't use the term "woke" due to the fact that once it left "our" community, it took on a meaning far from its original intent and those that use it have no idea what it means and those that believe they are, aren't.
 
We need an eye roll emoji to replace the winking one.

I'd get way more use out of the eye roll 🙄
 

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