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He Taught a Ta-Nehisi Coates Essay. Then He Was Fired.
The Atlantic ^ | August 17, 2021 | Emma Green

Posted on 08/18/2021 1:11:42 AM PDT by Olog-hai

The first time Matt Hawn suspected that he might run into trouble for what he was teaching was last August. His contemporary-issues class was discussing the events in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where protesters had taken to the streets after a police officer was filmed shooting 29-year-old Jacob Blake in the back. Hawn showed his students a picture of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old accused of killing two people and injuring another during the protests, to demonstrate the concept of white privilege. “What are we going to do about racism in the U.S.?” he asked his students.

The principal of Sullivan Central High School, where Hawn taught, pulled him aside at a football game. Apparently, Hawn had mistakenly posted the images from his contemporary-issues class to another class he taught on personal finance. A parent had seen the materials and complained. Hawn corrected his error and apologized. […]

Then, in January, a group of rioters took over the U.S. Capitol. Hawn wasn’t quite sure how to talk to his students about what had happened, so he decided to focus on the 2016 election instead. He assigned an Atlantic article by Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The First White President,” which argues that Donald Trump was elected on the strength of white grievances. A parent complained about the slurs used in the piece and accused Hawn of not presenting multiple points of view. […]

Hawn is now contesting his dismissal. In a hearing yesterday, Ingrid Deloach, the assistant director of Sullivan County Schools, described what she perceived as “a hint of disrespect, and a very strong sense of arrogance” in Hawn’s attitude. Coates’s article “was a very liberal perspective,” she said, and although strong perspectives are appropriate for a contemporary-issues class, “maybe a more conservative stance would have been an appropriate alternative.” …

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TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: coates; oldnewsrehash; tanehisicoates; tennessee
JFTR, this story (loosely termed) is over a month old and yet The Atlantic is presenting it as if it happened only yesterday.
1 posted on 08/18/2021 1:11:42 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

The Atlantic is to responsible journalism what Pennywise is to babysitting.


2 posted on 08/18/2021 1:47:44 AM PDT by Jhadur ("You are not ready for immortality.")
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To: Olog-hai

It’s good to see a commie teacher getting canceled for a change.


3 posted on 08/18/2021 1:53:04 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul (s)
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To: Jhadur

That’s funny right there!

And I certainly don’t disagree.


4 posted on 08/18/2021 2:42:19 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Olog-hai
His contemporary-issues class ...

Show of hands if your school had a "contemporary issues" class.

5 posted on 08/18/2021 2:49:41 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Nature, art, simplicity, peace.)
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To: Tax-chick

That’s probably a class where Critical Race Theory reinforced.


6 posted on 08/18/2021 3:02:36 AM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation. )
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To: Tax-chick

…is reinforced.


7 posted on 08/18/2021 3:03:48 AM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation. )
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To: Olog-hai

Rittenhouse is white and shot 3 white guys. How does that relate to racism?


8 posted on 08/18/2021 3:24:54 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: Olog-hai
He Taught a Ta-Nehisi Coates Essay. Then He Was Fired

It's a shame that he was hired in the first place, but all's well that ends well.

9 posted on 08/18/2021 3:36:24 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: Olog-hai
From 2019...

Laurene Powell Jobs solidifies control of The Atlantic as Bradley relinquishes duties

Nuff said.

10 posted on 08/18/2021 3:37:55 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: jacknhoo

What possible good outcome could there be? The teacher is bound to be significantly biased in some direction: everyone is. The students are ignorant and easily led: almost all students are.

The place for “contemporary issues” is at home.


11 posted on 08/18/2021 4:13:19 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Nature, art, simplicity, peace.)
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To: Tax-chick

“The students are ignorant and easily led: almost all students are.

The place for “contemporary issues” is at home.”

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I couldn’t agree with you more on that statement. If we don’t get more parents parenting, we’re a lost cause...we may already be.

The Department of Education’s purpose has come to fruition.

As a side note, Tali-Biden withdrew Trump’s policy of tracking communist Chinese influence in our schools and universities.

Currently, several hundred K-12 schools and about 100 colleges have a direct partnerships with the Confucius Institute US Center (US-based arm of Confucius Institute Headquarters) which is also known as Hanban (a front for the communist Chinese Ministry of Education). These numbers will now grow as they’re emboldened.

It’s all quite demonic.


12 posted on 08/18/2021 4:48:57 AM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation. )
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To: Olog-hai

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13 posted on 08/18/2021 5:28:39 AM PDT by sauropod (Time is like quicksilver, smearing the years... - Bill Nelson)
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To: jacknhoo

Interesting.


14 posted on 08/18/2021 8:59:13 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Nature, art, simplicity, peace.)
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To: jacknhoo
Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. etc.
The DOE was certainly set up to implement the tenth plank of communism nationwide, indeed. Just as the 16th Amendment implemented the second plank.

And of course, since communists remain about abolition of the family, they will always get in the way of fathers fathering and mothers mothering (just to get that “gender-neutral” word out of the way).
15 posted on 08/18/2021 10:10:29 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

16 posted on 08/18/2021 11:05:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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