Education

“These 13 books “have been banned from schools in Florida.”

PolitiFact says: None of the books on Pink’s 13-title list has been banned statewide, and using the most liberal definition, 10 were banned in 17 of 67 Florida school districts.

“Suresh Chavhanke’s daughter has secured the top rank in the UPSC examination by studying at Jamia Millia University”

FACTLY says: The photo shows Shruti Sharma, the topper of the Civil Service Examination 2021. Shruti Sharma’s father is Sunil Dutt Sharma, who is an architect and runs a construction consultancy firm in Delhi. Shruti Sharma is an al…

“We had Intel come along and say, 'Look, we’re going to invest there.' ... And guess what the average pay is? About 100- to 110,000 bucks a year. And you don’t need a college degree to have the job.”

FactCheck.org says: Intel has said $135,000 is the average salary for thousands of jobs, including those requiring advanced degrees.

“Video shows University of Pennsylvania students chanting, “We want Jewish genocide.”

“There are "about a half dozen" transgender athletes competing in Wisconsin K-12 schools.”

“schools are helpful in personality development of kids”

“West Virginia University has “increased the amount of unfunded institutional aid provided to students and expects this amount to exceed $134 million in 2024.”

PolitiFact says: Every year from 2014 to 2023, WVU increased internally funded aid to undergraduate and graduate students. But such aid is poised to drop slightly in 2024, to about $134 million.

“The percentage of students that are going to college (in West Virginia) has been declining for five years.”

PolitiFact says: The number of high school graduates enrolling in college in West Virginia has declined in recent years, dipping fromfrom 53.3% in 2012 to 45.9% in 2021. Enrollment ticked up during that span, but minimally.

“A video shows children disappearing from inside a school bus.”

PolitiFact says: The video is edited to show a religious dramatization of the rapture. The video is one of many "rapture pre-enactments" created by the Christian organization Turning Point for God.

“Modified Passing Criteria Applicable for MBBS Exams Held only After September 1, 2023: NMC clarification”

“During Gordon Gee's presidency of West Virginia University, "student enrollments have steadily decreased.”

PolitiFact says: Counting West Virginia University plus its affiliated campuses, total enrollment has fallen every year since President Gordon Gee began his current term in 2014, except for a less-than-1% uptick from 2016 to 2017.

“This photo shows Arambai Tenggol leader was behind the killing of two Meitei students in Manipur.”

“A few years back,” Mitchell Stadium in Bluefield, W.Va., “was voted the best high school football field in America.”

PolitiFact says: The stadium was voted No. 1 in the nation in a 2019 USA Today poll.

“Texas teacher fired for reading Diary of Anne Frank to class.”

PolitiFact says: A Texas teacher was fired for assigning eighth grade students to read from a graphic illustration adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary, which the district said was not approved.

“This is a video of some college and it is such a college where hindu boys and girls study together See here with girls in hijab how do you behave Sanghi minded boys I agree that studying is very important but not at all in this type of college”

“I taught at the University of Pennsylvania for four years.”

PolitiFact says: Biden served as a professor of practice at the University of Pennsylvania starting in 2017. His duties went on for about two years instead of four because he went on unpaid leave in 2019 to run for president.

“The hoisting of the Vietnamese flag in line with the Cambodian flag in a school”

“The Swedish flag was banned at an elementary school by the principal in Sweden.”

“A purported public notice of IIT Roorkee prohibiting their students from masturbating at the showers”

FACTLY says: IIT Roorkee did not issue any such notice asking their students to refrain from masturbating. IIT Roorkee officials confirmed to the media that the viral notice was fake and emphasized that no hostel warden at IIT Roork…

“Photos are evidence of “satanism in public schools.”

PolitiFact says: A digital creator made these photos using artificial intelligence.