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“Teachers who don't participate in community based learning will still receive pay”
“Visuals of students sleeping under open sky overnight to attempt the UPTET examination which was cancelled on 28 November 2021 following a paper leak”
FACTLY says: The photo shared in the post shows a group of protestors from Rajasthan, sleeping outside the Congress office in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Recently, the unemployed youth from Rajasthan staged a dharna outside the Lucknow …
“The FBI is using its counterterrorism division to investigate and add ‘threat tags’ to parents who are protesting school boards.”
PolitiFact says: Internal FBI guidance shows that a “threat tag” was created to track “investigations and assessments of threats" directed at school officials. There is no evidence it would be used on parents for simply protesting.
“Leni Robredo said the Philippine's K to 12 system is lacking and that there should be four years for junior high school and another four years for senior high school”
“Website claiming to offer free laptops to students”
“Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma announced complete shutdown of schools and colleges in Assam from 20 November 2021”
FACTLY says: The image shared in the post is a morphed one. The Assam Government did not issue any such orders announcing a complete closure of schools and colleges from 20 November 2021. Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma through a tweet…
“That website EduRank listed Bongbong Marcos as a University of Oxford alumnus is proof that he graduated from the university”
“The UN has declared 15 October, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam's birth anniversary, as 'World Student's Day”
“Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. "has never misrepresented his Oxford education.”
Vera Files says: An archived copy of Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s biography and resumé on the Senate website when he was a lawmaker from 2010 to 2015 showed that he "earned" a bachelor's degree in Political Science, Philosophy and Economics f…
“The special diploma track at the University of Oxford was a compressed version of a full three-year bachelor's degree”
“Photo of a young student who was brutally beaten for celebrating the Pakistan cricket team’s victory on 24 October 2021 in the T20 world cup”
FACTLY says: The photo shared in the post is an old one. This photo was published by a Facebook user named Rahul Kumar on 15 February 2016. Sharing a group of similar photos, this Facebook user mentioned that he was injured in an ac…
“KNEC is offering sponsorship programmes for trainee teachers”
“The UN declared 15 October, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam’s birthday, as World Students’ Day”
FACTLY says: The UN did not proclaim Abdul Kalam’s birthday as World Students’ Day. In fact, much earlier, in December 2007, the UN adopted a resolution designating 15 October as the International Day of Rural Women. Representations…
“The Walker-Kleefisch administration slashed $800 million from public schools.”
“Philippines is only developing country with free higher education”
FactRakers says: Sri Lanki has a free education scheme up to university education since 1945
“This Hindu student is being beaten up in a government school in Tamil Nadu because he was wearing Rudraksha..!! Christian teacher brutally beat up the student and also banished him from school..!!”
“Probably 60% or 70%” of West Virginia University students were already infected by the coronavirus before coming to campus this year.”
PolitiFact says: Estimating the percentage of college students who have previously been infected by the coronavirus basically boils down to a guess, since there is little comprehensive testing of who has antibodies to the virus.
“Joe Biden’s attorney general wants the FBI to go after parents for speaking out at school board meetings to protect kids from radical curriculum like critical race theory.”
PolitiFact says: Garland's memo says spirited debate is protected. It calls for meetings to focus on acts that go over the line to become actual threats.