Posted on 09/16/2023 9:50:04 AM PDT by DFG
A middle school teacher on Long Island has been pulled from the classroom after handing out a controversial assignment to fifth-grade health students.
The assignment was given to students at Howard Mattlin Middle School on September 11th by teacher and track coach Mandy Bieder.
The students were asked who they would allow into a fallout shelter in the event of a nuclear attack and were given 10 options to chose from.
The choices included:
1.) A 16-year-old pregnant girl 2.) A police officer with multiple charges of brutality pending against him, he has his gun 3.) A 38-year-old retired prostitute 4.) A 75-year-old priest 5.) A 35-year-old sterile female doctor 6.) & 7.) A husband and wife. They refuse to be separated. He is a lawyer. She is an alcoholic. 8.) A 31-year-old homosexual architect 9.) A 50-year-old musician, previously addicted to cocaine 10.) A 28-year-old drifter with no apparent skills
In a letter to the families of the students on Tuesday, the principal said they have launched a full investigation into the "deeply inappropriate assignment" which includes the Central Office Administration and a substitute teacher will be provided until the investigation is complete.
"Our school, and our District as a whole, do not approve nor support assignments that are age-inappropriate, out of alignment with the curriculum, and fall outside of New York State standards," Principal Dr. Joseph Coladonato said in a statement. "This assignment violated all of these criteria, and has no place in our classrooms. We condemn this type of material in the strongest possible terms."
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What's his stance on Vatican II ?
Agree with the idea of making hard choices. Disagree on the use of life and death for people that a 5th grader may not know much about. A prostitute? A former junkie?
How about “Shaquon was invited out to meet some local gang bangers to go along on stealing a car and going on a joy ride. Should he ride in the front seat, the back seat, or stay home. If he stays home should he play video games or do his homework that is due tomorrow?”
Well I did say the list of people was a bit odd. But overall it’s nothing new, as many have pointed out on this thread having similar class discussions 30, 40 and 50 years ago. And getting all up in arms about it now is kinda silly.
Either the doctor or the 16 year old.
getting all up in arms about it now is kinda silly.
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No, it’s not.
It was destructive then
and led to folk like you who seem to embrace relative subjective amorality
and to the destructiin of our nation as we are all witnessing now.
It was flat out evil then
and is still flat out evil now.
Imo.
It isn’t destructive. Life has hard choices. Always has, always will. If school is trying to prepare kids for adulthood they need training in making hard choices. It’s way more destructive to raise a generation of kids that can’t cope with life’s harsh realities. While most of the decisions we have to go through aren’t as intense as who lives and who dies. We still have to balance the short term and the long term, our goals vs our needs, ourselves vs our family, fun vs smart.
We have to make these decisions every day. And if you’ve ever mocked anybody for bad choices then you want them to learn these things. THIS is how you learn good choices early, before you ruin your credit rating.
What a devisive, stupid assignment.
I agree. And that is a good phrase - subjective amorality. Without the objective truth of God - that we are all created in his image with each containing inherent worth - then these exercises are simply people floundering in ignorance with no good answers. Teachers who foist these things on their classes take creepy delight in confusing and shocking their students with this deconstructive nonsense.
11. An 80 year old life-long grifter and no-account who amassed an illicit $100 million selling influence through his crime family. Currently masquerading as POTUS.
It’s an interesting thought piece. I thought this would be about pronouns or transexuality.
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