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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_ehEnglish
    416·
    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
      757·
      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
        453·
        10 months ago

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

        • Throwaway@lemm.ee
          549·
          10 months ago

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

                • Throwaway@lemm.ee
                  325·
                  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
              332·
              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
        181·
        10 months ago

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

        • Throwaway@lemm.ee
          0·
          10 months ago

          Thats backwards. The whole pitch behind trans adults was “let adults do what they want to themselves” which is something I agree with. Kids were supposed to be left alone.

          • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
            1·
            10 months ago

            So leave them alone to transition.
            Trans adults were trans kids once and they will have better adulthood if people like you don’t force them to experience incongruous puberty before graciously allowing them to “fix” the damage later.

            • Throwaway@lemm.ee
              0·
              10 months ago

              Them being adults or kids?

              Because kids cant consent to a tattoo, never mind hormones.

              And puberty blockers aren’t magic. You know that.

              • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
                1·
                10 months ago

                You don’t know what I know.

                And if kids can’t consent, how is forcing them to go through permanent changes by not providing blockers acceptable.

                You would seem to be arguing for doling out blockers to all children until they can understand and consent to the changes of puberty.

                A bold proposition, but I’d hear you out.

                • Throwaway@lemm.ee
                  0·
                  10 months ago

                  Alright, I deserved that, I worded that poorly.

                  Kids can’t consent to puberty blockers.

                  • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
                    1·
                    10 months ago

                    So how are they able to consent to not having them?

                    You seem to be making a value judgment that views transness as something inherently to be avoided and if so you’re not worth engaging as you’re arguing backwards from the position “trans is bad”.

                    Since we know that’s not true your position can be discarded.