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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
    549·
    10 months ago

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

          • Throwaway
            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
        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?