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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
    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

      • Throwaway@lemm.ee
        0·
        1 year 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·
          1 year 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·
            1 year 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·
              1 year 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·
                1 year ago

                Alright, I deserved that, I worded that poorly.

                Kids can’t consent to puberty blockers.

                • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
                  1·
                  1 year 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.