Education

“Joe Suffers Brain Fart! Biden Visits Elementary School, Asks The Children If They’re High Schoolers (VIDEO).”

PolitiFact says: The headline distorts President Joe Biden’s comments. A video of Biden’s visit to Yorktown Elementary School shows he was joking when he asked a group of students if they were in 9th grade.

“Says his administration’s efforts have led to more school reopenings.”

PolitiFact says: Myriad factors have gone into school reopening decisions by local and state officials, including declining COVID-19 cases and increased vaccinations.

“WHO approved a home remedy found by an ex-student of St. Xavier’s High School in Mumbai”

FACTLY says: There is no authentic information that proves an Indian student from St. Xavier’s High School in Mumbai, found a cure for the COVID-19 and that this cure was accepted by the WHO. Apart from vaccination, WHO has not appr…

“Schools stopped teaching children cursive so they wouldn’t be able to read the U.S. Constitution and other historical documents.”

PolitiFact says: The U.S. Constitution and other historical documents have been archived, reprinted and digitized many times to make them widely accessible and readable.

“President Joe Biden’s American Relief Plan “has a lot of money in it for schools, but if you really look at it … it says that the school money is going to go out until the year 2028.”

PolitiFact says: Spending on K-12 education in the measure is set to continue through 2028, although 90% of it will be distributed between 2021 and 2025.

“There’s still (only) a handful of school districts" doing no in-person instruction.”

“Bihar Education Project Council’s latest press release announcing the complete shutdown of schools till 15 June 2021”

FACTLY says: The letter shared in the post is a fake one. In a tweet, the Bihar Education Department clarified that Bihar Government has not taken any such decision to shut down the schools and colleges again in the state. Bihar Edu…

“Columbia University's multicultural graduation ceremonies are "so woke that we have segregation again.”

FactCheck.org says: Columbia University will supplement its regular 2021 graduation ceremony with multicultural ceremonies for members of the Latinx, Asian, Black and other student communities who want to participate.

“The Department of Education announced the adding of a Grade 13 level for students.”

“Schools banning Dr. Seuss books.”

“Democrats voted to send reopening money to schools that refuse to reopen.”

PolitiFact says: Schools don't necessarily refuse to open; some reopened partially and then retrenched when infections spiked.

“India’s first five education ministers are from the Muslim community”

FACTLY says: The second person in the list of the first five Indian education ministers is Dr. K.L. Shrimali. He does not belong to the Muslim Community

“Schools are trying to make a law that teachers can see girls' private parts to make sure they're not trans.”

PolitiFact says: States are considering legislation that would prohibit transgender students from being part of teams that don’t match their sex assigned at birth. None of those bills would force teachers to examine students’ genitalia.

“This video shows students expelled for cheating in the exams.”

“Video showing students being expelled for cheating in exams in Bihar”

FACTLY says: This is an old video. Multiple news articles from 2017 suggest that the video shows students getting expelled back in 2017 for using unfair means in the intermediate examination in Bihar. 162 students were expelled on t…

“Ferdinand Marcos got an average of 98.01% in the 1939 Philippine bar exams”

“There is "sense" in the Department of National Defense's unliteral abrogation of its 1989 agreement with the University of the Philippines, which prohibits state forces from entering and conducting operations within UP campuses.”

Vera Files says: Sen. Panfilo Lacson now says it would be prudent for the DND to suspend the abrogation.

“A viral circular allegedly from the letterhead of SRM University Registrar makes it mandatory for each and every female student of SRMIST KTR campus to have a boyfriend for security purposes. It further warns that single students will not be allowed to enter into premises. It also alleges to produce a recent picture with their boyfriend at the entry into the campus.”

Vishvas News says: Vishvas News investigation revealed the claim is fake. SRM University Registrar refuted the claims of sharing any such circular.

“Claim: Did delhi students rallied to support farmer protest”

“Claim: This school girls doing yoga picture not related with Saudi Arabia”