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Secret audio reveals Maine teacher ranting about politics, mocking Trump-supporting parents
Maine Wire ^ | 10-16-2022 | Steve Robinson

Posted on 10/17/2022 11:51:57 AM PDT by cp124

Shocking audio obtained by The Maine Wire reveals a Maine public school teacher subjecting a student to a racially charged political rant and telling the middle schooler his conservative parents only support former President Donald Trump because they are uneducated.

The audio, which was recorded in April, features the voice of Ann Cook, a resource room instructor for Gray-New Gloucester Middle School. It was recorded in secret by a middle school student who was concerned with some of the conversations he had had with Cook, including conversations about her and other students’ sexuality.

In the audio, the teacher tells the student that his Trump-supporting parents are uneducated victims of propaganda before proceeding to make several questionable or outright false claims about Trump, President Joe Biden, and Vice President Kamala Harris.

“Your father and stepfather are just caught up in the propaganda,” Cook tells the middle schooler. “They believe the lies. And that’s the whole point of lying is that people believe it just ‘cause you say it.”

Cook says that when she sees someone wearing a Trump MAGA hat, she thinks to herself, “that’s somebody who needs to be educated.”

(Excerpt) Read more at themainewire.com ...


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To: ostephani

Given that the average SAT and GRE scores for teachers is abysmally low, your high achievement must mean that there are some spectacularly stupid teachers out in education-land pulling down the average.

Wow! I pity those poor kids.


41 posted on 10/17/2022 4:20:43 PM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: ConservativeInPA; ostephani

You have just stated on a public forum that a fellow FReeper is a liar by virtue of their profession.

Do you have actual irrefutable evidence to support your accusation or are you simply someone who enjoys talking out of their ass while hiding behind the anonymity of a keyboard and a screen name?


42 posted on 10/17/2022 5:07:34 PM PDT by big truck ("This space intentionally left blank.")
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To: big truck

He’s a teacher.


43 posted on 10/18/2022 4:42:14 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Most people who receive a paycheck from government become seduced into favoring the party of (government) unions.

There are so many people in that situation that I doubt we can avoid the "Venezuelization" of America.

8 November 22 is our last shot.

44 posted on 10/18/2022 8:03:59 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Beware the coming TRUMPster Fire!)
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To: cp124

Why are there so many political lesbians in education?


45 posted on 10/18/2022 8:06:54 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: hardspunned
I am 70, taught Math and Science (after a first career as a programmer) and I would chose a History text from 1976 over any modern text.

I do, however, applaud your removal of your daughter.

PS, I have some antique history books that are amazing if you need to borrow one.

46 posted on 10/18/2022 8:10:48 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Beware the coming TRUMPster Fire!)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

I agree.


47 posted on 10/18/2022 8:32:50 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Veto Beto, FJB.)
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To: cp124

The fugly “teacher” spouted every libtard lie the dem pols and the MSM has promoted, verbatim.


48 posted on 10/18/2022 12:08:39 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96
The fugly “teacher” spouted every libtard lie the dem pols and the MSM has promoted, verbatim.

Indoctrination is effective.

49 posted on 10/18/2022 12:09:43 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Aevery_Freeman

” I would chose a History text from 1976 over any modern text.”


I taught junior high history for 29 years before my retirement. I got to choose the text (it is a small, one-school district). when I first started, I had maybe a dozen different texts to choose from. By the time I retired, maybe three, because of consolidation of the text-book industry. All were worse than my previous text. Less reading and more pictures, charts, graphs and sidebars.

I’d do a quick check of how major events were covered. In the last text, the French and Indian War rated about a half a page. The only American soldiers pictured in WWI were black. ‘Rosie the Riveter’ rated more space than Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz combined. Major WWII battles rated one or two lines of text, which is kind of understandable because most kids now can’t/won’t read.

It is very discouraging to say the least.


50 posted on 10/18/2022 1:46:17 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu
I had to select Science textbooks that could scarcely mention any White, male person - largely unknown to me save Einstein (anti- Nazi).

I don't have to tell you about the limited selection and the hard sell - felt slightly Mafia-esque.

Just one of many grifts public education employs.

51 posted on 10/18/2022 3:12:43 PM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (When did my Color TV become Colored TV?)
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