Posted on 06/01/2023 7:45:16 AM PDT by Ennis85
By now, it’s obvious that the reactionary culture warriors who want to reshape American education are inspiring a serious liberal counter-mobilization in response. Remarkably, this backlash to the backlash is gaining momentum in some of the reddest parts of the country.
A raucous school board meeting in Hernando County, Fla., on Tuesday night captured what’s striking about this new phenomenon. The scene featured teachers pointedly declaring that right-wing attacks are driving them to quit, even as parents and students forcefully stood up on their behalf, demanding a halt to the hysteria.
“I have never seen such fear from my colleagues as I have seen in the last two months,” social studies teacher Victoria Hunt told the board.
The whole affair really put the culture-war-mongers to shame. Not that they’ll see it that way; as the meeting also showed, scenes like this — with maximum rage, fear, tension and suspicion surging between parents and educators — are precisely the outcome they want.
This county, north of Tampa, voted for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2022 by a 41-point margin. It’s where fifth-grade teacher Jenna Barbee recently enraged local enforcers of right-wing orthodoxy by showing her class “Strange World,” a Disney movie with an openly gay character. The Florida Department of Education is investigating whether she violated DeSantis’s “don’t say gay” law restricting classroom discussion of sex and gender.
Barbee is resigning, but she’s hardly the only one. At Tuesday’s meeting, local teacher Daniel Scott gave a moving speech, declaring that the climate of rage is driving him out
“I don’t feel that I can adequately provide a safe environment for my students anymore,” Scott said, denouncing the “draconian working conditions that are causing many such as myself to abandon this honored career.”
Meanwhile, Alyssa Marano, a math teacher who has resigned,
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And Anti-Communists like myself who want to pissed them off.
I always start my conservation with them by announcing “don’t call me a right wing conservative, I’m a reactionary”.
If they don’t have to teach the students to be gay, then they should have no problem with the Florida law. The very fact they complain about the law tells them they are lying.
“driving them to quit” -— sounds like a win for students and parents.
Just as Florida has no trouble recruiting police officers from other states - usually Blue States- there would be no problem replacing these malcontents should the decide to quit rather than stop grooming our children here.
The way to respond to this is to put into the curriculum books about how homosexuality is deviant behavior, how minorities commit the vast majority of violent crime, and how feminists grow up to be unhappy gunches. Then we should deny that we are trying to indoctrinate kids.
BTW, if I have to hear one more teacher gripe about their pay I’m going to freaking scream. Teachers receive the “Mrs. Degree” in eduction. We used to call the women majoring in education “pre-weds.” The education degree is the easiest degree you can obtain. Quite frankly, you don’t need a college degree to teach elementary and probably even middle school. And anyone with a college degree is capable of teaching high school classes. Additionally, teacher pay is for 65% of the year, as they get 3 months off for summer break, a week off for Christmas/New Year, Columbus Day, Veteran’s Day, President’s Day, MLK Day, Spring Break week, etc. Also, they don’t work on weekends.
Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman are exceedingly fake news.
Why are these leftists so afraid of voting?? They can vote new school board members in...if their position is so noble, let's see them get votes.
Also: one of the tactics of the left is to create a bunch of victims by the most sensitive reading of any law. (Think a mother-in-law who gets offended at the smallest slight!) Then they amplify the victimhood and the media plays along.
We have to be prepared for that. A +41 DeSantis county is NOT going to go woke overnight...the loudmouths who are leftwing are the ones who are garnering media attention.
Great meme.
Bingo!
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