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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.

  • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
    366·
    10 months ago

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

    Sometimes people have to stand up to the bullshit.

    • Throwaway@lemm.ee
      754·
      10 months ago

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

      • ougi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        443·
        10 months ago

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

        • Throwaway@lemm.ee
          546·
          10 months ago

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

                • Throwaway@lemm.ee
                  323·
                  10 months 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
              330·
              10 months 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·
                10 months 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·
            10 months 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·
              10 months 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·
                10 months 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
        171·
        10 months ago

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