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re: National Geographic permanently cancels it’s geography competition
Posted on 3/26/23 at 2:36 pm to lake chuck fan
Posted on 3/26/23 at 2:36 pm to lake chuck fan
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Removing competition eliminates the will to strive and compete. We will become a society of average and mediocre people.
Sounds like a Progressive utopia where 99% of the population is happy on the bare minimum and the 1% live like kings
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Posted on 3/26/23 at 2:37 pm to The Boat
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made the Louisiana State Geography Bee in 7th grade and got my arse handed to me
I made it to Nationals. Then Worlds in Vacherie, LA. I then made it to Globes. Galaxies was hard though.
Posted on 3/26/23 at 2:37 pm to lake chuck fan
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This woke equity delusion will eventually take its toll.
Harrison Bergeron turned out to not be science fiction but an end goal.
Posted on 3/26/23 at 2:38 pm to tigerskin
Adios soon to spelling bees, math competitions, quiz bowls, etc, etc.
Posted on 3/26/23 at 2:38 pm to tigerskin
I made it to the Top 10 in Georgia, got waxed by some Indian dudes in the finals though.
Posted on 3/26/23 at 2:38 pm to lake chuck fan
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This woke equity delusion will eventually take its toll. Removing competition eliminates the will to strive and compete. We will become a society of average and mediocre people. THIS is not what made America great, it's the opposite.
I mean I think this is kinda what they’re shooting for.
Posted on 3/26/23 at 2:38 pm to tigerskin
Looks to me like about 90% of those finalists come from families that probably faced quite a bit of poverty and discrimination over the last several hundred years. Not the right brown I guess.
Posted on 3/26/23 at 2:38 pm to shutterspeed
Spell “Tredavious”
Posted on 3/26/23 at 2:39 pm to tigerskin
I could have been a contender in that area. We had one of those World Globe’s that you could spin and look at the geography of the World. Studied it for hours, days and years. Also reading encyclopedias and National Geographic helped.
I love to learn and teach what I can. My son hates me for it. Would give anything for it not to be that way.
I’m on an eternal quest for knowledge, always have been.
I love to learn and teach what I can. My son hates me for it. Would give anything for it not to be that way.
I’m on an eternal quest for knowledge, always have been.
Posted on 3/26/23 at 2:50 pm to OWLFAN86
Lol
Posted on 3/26/23 at 2:58 pm to tigerskin
I have some personal, experienced-based thoughts on this. My son competed in the Louisiana state geography bee some years ago. In seventh grade he ended up about tenth in the state. He enjoyed the process. I was proud of him. He was simply very interested in geography, and read and studied out of intellectual curiosity. I'd think they'd want to encourage kids like him. I guess not so much.
As for "students around the globe", it's the National Geographic Society, that nation being the U.S. It's headquartered in Washington, D.C. ( Wikipedia). So making a substantial change for students "around the globe" seems to me bassackward.
As for "more equitably participate", obviously that means that they think that the winners and high-placers are not demographically-distributed about the same as the U.S. (or world?) population. But instead of doing the difficult but important thing--asking, 'Why are certain groups underrepresented among the winners, and can we encourage and teach them better to reduce that?'--they just scrap the competition. In the minds of some wacko liberals, better that all be ignorant than that some be better-informed than others.
Ah, this is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper.
quote:There's your double-whammy, or maybe more like double whiff.
students around the globe can more equitably participate
As for "students around the globe", it's the National Geographic Society, that nation being the U.S. It's headquartered in Washington, D.C. ( Wikipedia). So making a substantial change for students "around the globe" seems to me bassackward.
As for "more equitably participate", obviously that means that they think that the winners and high-placers are not demographically-distributed about the same as the U.S. (or world?) population. But instead of doing the difficult but important thing--asking, 'Why are certain groups underrepresented among the winners, and can we encourage and teach them better to reduce that?'--they just scrap the competition. In the minds of some wacko liberals, better that all be ignorant than that some be better-informed than others.
Ah, this is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper.
Posted on 3/26/23 at 3:00 pm to tigerskin
We gon turn Africa into Wakanda!
Just let the warlords sell off the rare earth minerals first!
Just let the warlords sell off the rare earth minerals first!
Posted on 3/26/23 at 3:03 pm to tigerskin
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and innovative geography education opportunities in which students around the globe can more equitably participate
Now do nfl and nba
Posted on 3/26/23 at 3:17 pm to tigerskin
What the frick does “racial justice” or whatever the frick that is …. Have anything to do with nerds loving geography
Posted on 3/26/23 at 3:18 pm to tigerskin
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more equitably participate
Aka "we have to lower our standards and force in diversity quotas"
Posted on 3/26/23 at 3:23 pm to tigerskin
Getting the Harvard treatment...
Posted on 3/26/23 at 3:24 pm to Rebel
quote:I want to say it, but I don't want to be thrown in the bin with 08 and coyote.
Easy homey.
Posted on 3/26/23 at 3:27 pm to tigerskin
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in which students around the globe can more equitably participate
Can other races not participate or are the Asian kids just smarter?
Posted on 3/26/23 at 3:31 pm to roguetiger15
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You think those are Asians?
Okay, I read this thinking you are joking just because there are dumbasses who don't know India is part of Asia, but that most people who at least attended college or had a decent HS education knows India is part of Asia..
So tell me you are joking..
Posted on 3/26/23 at 3:41 pm to tigerskin
There’s an annual competition that was part of a documentary called Koran by Heart. Kids around the globe competed to determine who beat memorized the Koran. It was astounding what these kids could memorize. On a side note, the kid from Senegal didn’t remember shite, but he got a free trip to the holy land.
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