Posted on 09/11/2022 4:58:14 PM PDT by Morgana
A Texas teacher has been fired after she was caught on tape instructing students not to use the word 'pedophiles', but instead use the term 'minor attracted persons'.
Amber Parker, 53, who taught English at Franklin High School in El Paso was fired after making the comments in class which were all captured on video and subsequently shared to social media.
During the 18-second long clip that was posted to TikTok, the teacher can be heard telling students to 'stop calling them that. You're not allowed to label people like that. Stop it, Diego.'
'We're not gonna call them that,' Parker can be heard instructing her English students in the video.
We're gonna call them MAPs, minor attracted persons. So don't judge people just because they wanna have sex with a five-year-old.'
The term minor attracted persons allows people to escape the 'stigma' attached to the word pedophile.
The school district was immediately informed of the incident which occurred last week and an investigation was launched initially leading to Parker's suspension and subsequent firing.
It wasn't clear in what context the discussion had been taking place however students have said it was all part of a class debate as they prepared to read The Crucible.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
If so, that is 180 degrees away from the message communicated in the posted article.
And it would make sense why she was fired: She actually is mocking the pedophile claims that they aren't pedophiles.
And, of course, unfortunate that she got fired. They keep the insane perverts on staff, and get rid of the sane people.
I read that thread too. If that turns out to be the truth of it now maybe she can sue the Daily Mail too which has very deep pockets.
For those who whine about how this is just helicopter parenting, go read this article again.
Sunshine is the best disinfectant.
Try #10
One sicko teacher. She needs to be teaching in prisons.
Agree 100%.
How about we just not discuss such issues and instead focus on reading, writing, and arithmetic as the children in the U.S. are falling behind in those subjects.
Ryann Ruvalcaba, a junior at Franklin High School told Fox 17: 'She [the teacher] was expressing how it was ridiculous how we [society] might not be able to call people pedophiles.
'That we [society] will probably have to start calling them MAPs because it can be offensive to them [pedophiles]. The class agreed.'
If this reflects what actually was meant by her part of the class discussion, they owe her her job back.
Imagine being a teacher today and having to navigate all these minefields. If she was using the “MAP” comment as an instructional example while studying “The Crucible,” then she was wrongly fired. Nevertheless, it was bad judgement to use that example in these times.
I have always had a logical and literal mind. My Dad was a computer programmer starting before I was born as a keypunch operator after WWII and retiring as a Senior Computer Systems Analyst in the late Seventies. That logical mind was handed down to me.
I had some bad situations in school when my teachers gave duplicitous instructions or statements. A kid mistrusts a teacher that will lie to them. I made "F's" through school because I didn't doing schoolwork. I failed Seventh grade and flunked out of College after the first semester.
I didn't turn around my poor study habits until I enlisted in the USAF and generally aced all of my exams in Basic Electronics, SETS tech schools and my later on with my CDC's with the help of my wife.
Teachers should should just teach content without any bewildering psychological new-age tricks.
What with a pedo President and all.
Creepy, e[raved teachers following in the path of the daughter abusing Dementia Joe.
No surprise there.
The far left teachers and the crazy teachers unions are the ones creating the minefields.
You think this perverted teacher didn't have anything to do with creating all the woke nonsense? Of course she did.
Nope.
The firing was just right and probably long overdue.
Left to me she'd go to jail too.
She'd give them a medal or vote for them for President, like she probably did for Dementia Joe?
“One week later he suddenly changed his mind.
‘Any reasonable person that heard what the seven trustees heard would've voted to terminate Amber Parker,’ Call said to KFoxTV.
Explaining his u-turn, Call said: ‘There were more things that the public may not know about that was included on the closed findings.’…”
Nope. Unfortunate she's not going to jail.
Thank you.
Doubly ironic that she too could be swept up in a rush to judgement when she too is possibly innocent and perhaps even doing a good job.
I loved my more dramatic teachers, in all subjects, who would make controversial statements to challenge the students.
We will see the truth better soon hopefully.
I don’t think they should call them pedophiles, either. The -phile indicates “love”. They don’t “love” children, they molest them. The correct term is “chomo”, and they need their wigs split.
Was she promoting pedophilia as "just another type of love" or was she showing how a skunk cabbage by any other name would stink just as bad.
In other words what propaganda is and how it works.
Which, as a drama teacher, she should be teaching as any number of plays were indeed, propaganda.
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