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'Teacher of the Year' kneels during anthem at college football championship attended by Trump
ABC "News" ^ | January 16, 2020 | By Ella Torres

Posted on 01/16/2020 1:09:49 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

During a ceremony honoring the 2019 "Teachers of the Year," one in particular stood out.

The honoree from Minnesota, Kelly Holstine, chose to kneel during the national anthem at the NCAA football championship game on Monday, where the ceremony took place, "to stand up for marginalized and oppressed people," according to a tweet she wrote, which included a photograph of her kneeling.

"Like many before, I respectfully kneeled during Nat’l Anthem because, 'No one is free until we are all free,'" she wrote, referencing former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and citing a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Holstine, an English and language arts teacher at Tokata Learning Center in Shakopee, has been outspoken about her activism before.

She lead a TED Talk in October 2019 titled "Educators must be more than allies."

In her speech, she advocated for teachers to be willing to leave their comfort zones and "stand up for all of the human beings who are being marginalized or oppressed."

"Allies are wonderful and we need them, but it is not enough for educators to just be allies," she said. "We need them to be advocates too."

In April 2019, she was also one of two "Teachers of the Year" who skipped the White House ceremony, according to The Hill.

"The words and practices and policies of this administration have been filled with a lot of hate toward the LGBTQ community, so I didn't feel comfortable in that environment," Holstine told The Hill.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anthem; education; homosexualagenda; jackwagon; minnesota; socialism; socialjustice; sports; woke
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To: eyedigress

the problem is only the very radical left of that generation is remembered by history. Odd, but that is how it is and leftist historians are beginning to realize just how badly screwed up the New Left (1960s) really was and how much damage they did to society.


121 posted on 01/16/2020 5:30:49 PM PST by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual and political hemlock)
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To: House Atreides

“SHE LEAD? I wonder if the ABC News writer of this article had “Teacher of the Year” Holstein teach her grammar”.


Could be. Grammar is not important. Math is not important. Hillary stated that “We only need a few at the top to be truly educated”. Then she got Outcome Based education implemented nationwide. I had a Director of Language Arts for a large Florida school district tell me that the reason she was abolishing District Spelling Bee’s was that “spelling is educationally unsound today”.


122 posted on 01/16/2020 5:34:38 PM PST by Captain7seas (UN EXIT!)
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To: txnativegop

That was communism on the march.


123 posted on 01/16/2020 5:36:44 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: newbie 10-21-00

Okay, I ended up going through this whole post even though I’m severely Internet challenged currently here in Costa Rica after my escape from California.. Going through it, it appears a very slight majority thinks it is a she. Can anyone verify either way? Like I said, my interweb is kind of stinky right now or I would look


124 posted on 01/16/2020 5:37:03 PM PST by newbie 10-21-00
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To: eyedigress

yep and a sad thing too.


125 posted on 01/16/2020 5:57:44 PM PST by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual and political hemlock)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a flipping disgrace.


126 posted on 01/16/2020 6:13:11 PM PST by vpintheak (Leftists are full of "Love, peace" and bovine squeeze.)
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To: SaveFerris

It doesn’t take much to spot a rabid Trump-hating liberal...if there’s camera’s rolling they’ll be there.


127 posted on 01/16/2020 6:27:51 PM PST by caww
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To: Freedom56v2

“I am curious as to what the criteria are for winning “Teacher of the Year...”


Her Syllabus:

American founding Fathers were oppressive, racist slave owners.
Discuss Thomas Jefferson’s affair with black slave girl, Sally Hemmings
WW II, American Air Force dropped atom bomb on innocent Japanese city.
American solders were baby killers in Vietnam.
Constitution is a living document, changes with the times.
Spelling is “educationally unsound today”
No wrong answers in math class.
Islam is glorious, Christianity is evil. (We will use current history book that emphasizes this).
Fossil fuel is evil.
In depth discussion of the Life of the great plant Earth advocate; Greta Thunberg

This of course is just glimpse of what must be the criteria to select the “Teacher of the Year.


128 posted on 01/16/2020 6:29:28 PM PST by Captain7seas (UN EXIT!)
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To: minnesota_bound

What she calls teaching kids to accept who they are I call “grooming kids” to be just like her.


129 posted on 01/16/2020 6:33:26 PM PST by caww
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To: Ann Archy
It's a massive sexually confused Dike trying to find a role like Ellen DeGeneres where she's the center of attention.
130 posted on 01/16/2020 6:36:27 PM PST by caww
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To: newbie 10-21-00

It’s a she trying to be a he....


131 posted on 01/16/2020 6:39:28 PM PST by caww
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To: Captain7seas

Very good summary.

But in all seriousness, was she picked because she is an LGBT “advocate?”

This all seems so unfair to the “real teachers’ (tho their numbers may be decreasing) who are in the trenches trying to educate in math, writing, English, etc instead of being SJW and PC advocates...
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132 posted on 01/16/2020 8:17:20 PM PST by Freedom56v2
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To: Freedom56v2

Thanks for the perspective. I have a family member who is actually doing graduate work in infectious diseases/infection control...So always looking for additional information for them :)


133 posted on 01/16/2020 8:19:09 PM PST by Freedom56v2
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Thanks fieldmarshaldj.

134 posted on 01/16/2020 11:35:24 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: caww

#39. She’s more Indian than Liz “Fauxchohantas” Warren is.

I wonder what tribe she belongs to, the “Bald Eagle Tribe” of Somalia?


135 posted on 01/17/2020 1:02:08 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

With her deep experience brainwashing children, this vile creature with the concentration camp haircut will have a high position within the upcoming re-education camp system for adults.


136 posted on 01/17/2020 6:48:34 AM PST by ohioman
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ahhh. Another well adjusted, normal, happy (you can see the happiness in her face) person, who is teaching children to be similarly well adjusted, normal and happy.


137 posted on 01/17/2020 6:53:51 AM PST by Toespi
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To: Verginius Rufus

I used to live in Wyoming Minnesota. That’s the sixth congressional district. That’s always been heavy Trump country


138 posted on 01/17/2020 7:02:18 AM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: caww

WOW, my kind of classroom....you can catch up on your Z’s and still get credits!!!


139 posted on 01/17/2020 12:41:37 PM PST by terycarl (Notre Dame was God's way of pointing out that France has fallen from His favor....)
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To: terycarl

Yep...just sign up saying you don’t ‘feel’ like you fit in, grab a blankie and curl up in the ‘safe place’ provided for you, while the teacher coddles you in how much she cares and understands because she too is an outsider.


140 posted on 01/17/2020 4:09:41 PM PST by caww
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