QAnon and anti-vaxxers brainwashed kids stuck at home -- now teachers have to deprogram them

[Nevilledog]

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/04/qanon-and-anti-vaxxers-brainwashed-kids-stuck-at-home-during-pandemic.html

When Sarah Wildes, a seventh grade teacher in Alabama, was asked by a student about the mass confusion surrounding the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, she knew she had a big job in front of her.

“I have to tread lightly, but I pointed out that we do know,” said Wildes, a science and technology teacher at Sparkman Middle School in the small town of Toney. “There are facts. There have been committees who reviewed the election. The numbers show us a truth, but the social media bubbles confuse us about that truth.”

Wildes and teachers across the country face a vexing and evolving challenge as the new school year begins and students return to the classroom following a roughly 18-month hiatus from normal in-person learning. Since the last time full classrooms congregated, a whole industry of misinformation has exploded online, spreading conspiracy theories on everything from the alleged steal of the presidential election, which Joe Biden won, to the prevalence of microchips in Covid-19 vaccines.

It’s bad enough that kids are exposed to dangerous untruths across their favorite social media apps like Facebook, YouTube and TikTok. An equally large problem is that, while stuck at home during the pandemic, many students had their days of virtual schooling interrupted by screaming parents, who themselves had fallen deep into the internet’s darkest rabbit holes.

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[Inkey]

1. Hello, long time no see !

This will be a nightmare unfolding for educators. Teachers are supposed to be a beacon of knowledge for
their students. There has been a steady stream of bad information permeating the web. So many people
have fallen into the abyss of faulty logic and intentional misreading of reality. Challenging those with facts
and knowledge seems to be the current game for loudmouth nuts in our society.

[moondust]

2. Not surprised.

For most of 4-5 years I wondered what happens to kids who go to school every day and are taught things only to go home to their MAGAt parents and hear the opposite. Pity the children in the age of BLAB (Big Lies And Bullshit).