Miz Garica. This loser again...carrying water for the Dems.
Posted on 09/26/2018 6:14:31 PM PDT by mdittmar
We’ve all been reading and talking about Brett Kavanaugh and the allegations he’s facing of sexual assaults committed in high school and college. Regardless of one’s political affiliation, the nomination of a judge to a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court is something to be taken seriously and should not be rushed.
I have called on Senators to have the FBI fully investigate each allegation before they move forward with the confirmation process. The allegations against Judge Kavanaugh are serious and should not be brushed aside.
Beyond my concerns about the rush to confirm Kavanaugh, for me as a mom, grandmother, and educator, one of the most important elements of this discussion is what our students are taking from it.
National reporting in recent days on teens’ experiences tells us that for many of them, the discussions aren’t just hypothetical. Far too many children and teens are survivors of sexual assault themselves.
What they are hearing and seeing in this moment is giving them insight into, as an NPR story puts it, “whether the adults in power will take these claims seriously, and whether speaking up results in harsher consequences for survivors or for those accused.”
They’re wondering: If I tell my mom or dad or teacher or counselor that I was assaulted or harassed, will they listen? Or will they ask me to deny my feelings about what happened? Will they wave it away with some version of forgive and forget? Will they insist that what happened wasn’t that bad, or that it really didn’t happen the way I said it did?
As educators and parents, our top priority is to create safe spaces for students. Within those spaces, we want them to learn, grow, and discover. None of that happens unless they also feel heard and believed—and unless we actually do hear and believe them.
The good news is that in the recent “State of Gender Equality for U.S. Adolescents 2018” survey, three-quarters of students said they had heard about the #MeToo movement. Most of the girls and a third of the boys said it made them feel as if they could tell someone if they were harassed or assaulted.
But the same survey found that three-quarters of girls ages 14 to 19 “felt judged as a sexual object or unsafe as a girl.” Furthermore, 81 percent of girls in the same age group “said they had at least one friend who had been asked by a boy for a sexy or naked photo.”
Deborah Tolman, a psychology professor quoted in a New York Times article about the research, said, “This is the contradiction we put in front of girls: You should be confident and do well in school and do athletics, but you’re supposed to also be a good sex object at the same time.”
We must do a much better job of addressing the “boys will be boys” narrative, and we must bury it, once and for all.
If you’re looking for resources for talking to students about harassment and sexual assault, please see these:
organized labor is a racket run by organized criminals
it certainly wasn’t used to teach the evils of witchcraft, witchhunts, or communism
They are learning that even remaining a virgin will not prevent people from accusing you of repeated gang rape
Or understand why more and more American men want brides from Russia, Eastern Europe, Asia, Latin America or anywhere else.
Well, I think the take-away was supposed to be that any attempt to ferret out communists WAS a witch hunt. The kind of thing right wing religious zealots would engage in, wrongfully persecuting folks that just wanted to be left to their own ways.
there WERE witches in the Crucible dancing naked with young girls just as there WERE Communists in America who swore that they were not seditionists or allied with the KGB (knowingly or unknowingly)
the take-away from the Crucible is that you shouldn’t rely on the testimony of those who’ve been charged (and may have a plea deal) to out others in the cover/communist cell.
“don’t trust snitches!”
and the Crucible was written before Joseph McCarthy became the central figure of such investigations.
Miz Garica. This loser again...carrying water for the Dems.
I have called on Senators to have the FBI fully investigate each allegation before they move forward with the conformation...”
And this woman is supposed to be an educator and the head of an organization of educators? She is ignorant of logic (can’t prove a negative), law (Innocent until proven guilty), and the scientific rules of evidence (who, what, when, where, how; confirmation and validation; reliability). How did she ever graduate from high school, much less college?
The NEA is teaching kids that they never have to grow up and be adults.
This.
“As educators and parents, our top priority is to create safe spaces for students.”
No! As educators (and parents, who are the principal educators of their own children) your top priority is to teach students the skills they will need to be adult members of their community, city, state, and nation. How to live, work, and be a good citizen, law abiding, productive, informed and intelligent (well, since we vary in intelligence, able to reason ).
” ‘The Crucible’....was used to teach the evils of McCarthyism.”
That is what the author intended. He was a big time leftist.
To take all claims with a dose of healthy skepticism.
The same thing you should be teaching them.
That our government is one big flustercuck.
Anything the NEA has to say about this nomination will be against Kavanaugh despite him being innocent.
But McCarthy was right
I find it interesting that it seems that Brett was only interested in gang rape. Can’t any of these women be a bit more imaginative? “We were alone studying, and he put his hand on my leg....”
Nope - now it is even gang rape in the back seat of a car.
Message? Unions are a con.
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