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The Cobb County teacher who was fired last month after reading a book about gender identity to her students has appealed her termination to the State Board of Education.

  • Throwaway@lemm.ee
    764·
    1 year ago

    Well she read a heavily politicized book in a region that wouldn’t like it. Wasn’t part of the curriculum, kinda not worth keeping her on. No reason to keep someone who intentionally creates headaches.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      376·
      1 year ago

      Presumably she did it as an intentional protest against stupid rules?

      Sometimes people have to stand up to the bullshit.

      • Throwaway@lemm.ee
        757·
        1 year ago

        Well she brought kids into it. Its one thing to picket or whatever, but you don’t screw with kids.

        • ougi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          453·
          1 year ago

          God forbid she educates the kids about a highly vulnerable minority on the authoritarian chopping block

          • Throwaway@lemm.ee
            549·
            1 year ago

            Yes, I agree. Teachers shouldn’t be spreading propaganda, especially to kids.

                  • Throwaway@lemm.ee
                    325·
                    1 year ago

                    Legitimatly, i don’t go to the right wing sites. I spend enough time on lemmy. Worst was exploding heads, but thats also lemmy.

                    Ive never gone to TS, but I assume its right wing? If it is, why that particular one? Why not gab or parler or voat or whatever?

                    Who spends all day looking up different social media sites?

              • Jumpinship@lemmy.world
                332·
                1 year ago

                Drugs exist etc etc. Not her call to tell little kids that drugs are actually fun right? Even when true.

                • HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social
                  12·
                  1 year ago

                  “I always hated the speeches when I was in school, the preaching in auditoriums, the one-note message.
                  Stuff like saying drugs are bad. It’s wrong. Drugs are fantastic.”
                  “Um,” Fox-mask said.
                  Mrs. Yamada was glaring at me, but she hadn’t interrupted.
                  “People wouldn’t do them if they weren’t. They make you feel good, make your day brighter, give you
                  energy-”
                  “Weaver,” Mrs. Yamada cut in.
                  “-until they don’t,” I said. “People hear the message that drugs are bad, that they’ll ruin your life if you
                  do them once. And then you find out that isn’t exactly true because your friends did it and turned out
                  okay, or you wind up trying something and you’re fine. So you try them, try them again. It isn’t a
                  mind-shattering moment of horrible when you try that first drug. Or so I hear. It’s subtle, it creeps up
                  on you, and you never really get a good, convincing reason to stop before it ruins your life beyond
                  comprehension. I never went down that road, but I knew a fair number of people who did. People who
                  worked for me, when I was a supervillain.”
                  I had their attention now, at least.

                  Yes. We should absolutely tell kids that drugs are fun. Along with all the rest. DARE programs are linked with higher drug usage, because they lie and keep the truth from kids, and they kids test what they were taught, find out it was lies, and don’t trust anything else from the program. Hiding reality from people does not make them better equipped for reality.

            • idiomaddict@feddit.de
              2·
              1 year ago

              What exactly do you think they’re paid to do? Because I sure as hell didn’t hear more than a minute about stonewall, Malcolm X, Vietnam, or even the Philippines in history class until I was in college. Of course, I heard lots about Rosa Parks and sit ins, but the only real violence we learned about during the civil rights movement was against Emmett Till or MLK.

              • Throwaway@lemm.ee
                1·
                1 year ago

                I heard more than a minute about them, and I went to school in Texas. Had entire chapters on civil rights and vietnam.

                • idiomaddict@feddit.de
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  I had chapters on civil rights too, just very narrowly scoped to be compatible with not making the USA look bad. How did your school handle Waco and the aids epidemic?

        • Uranium3006@kbin.social
          181·
          1 year ago

          Didn’t the transphobes bring kids into it? She’s just fighting back aginst their inappropriate treatment of trans kids

    • Kittengineer@lemmy.world
      242·
      1 year ago

      Can you even explain what is gender identity? Since you are so against it. What is it and why shouldn’t kids learn about it?