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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We’ll be waiting a very long time for anything specific from liberals...
If she wants teachers to “stand up for all of the human beings who are being marginalized or oppressed” then why is she kneeling?
Love the Travis Bickle look. Screams sane and grounded.
I’m a baby boomer. Senior class. Born after end of WWII (Nov 45).
Bitch.
We Normies are under attack, example no. 1,642.
Pete Hegseth and a friend of his since grade school were on “Fox & Friends” yesterday morning at a diner in Wyoming, Minnesota, about 30 miles north of St. Paul. The crowd there was overwhelmingly pro-Trump. Already in 2016 that county (Chisago Co.) voted 61% for Trump and I expect it will be a higher percentage this year.
“The words and practices and policies of this administration have been filled with a lot of hate toward the LGBTQ community”
I filled a bucket with hate once and lo & behold when I looked in it was empty.
Meanwhile... Boom! Trumps hits 3 more with bases loaded!
it isn’t just in the states, it is world wide. I personally blame it on the fact that the Left latched on to Dr. Benj. Spock’s 1946 disaster of a book and children were raised in accordance with the advice of a 24 year old doctoral candidate who was not married and had no children.
Just ANOTHER ugly Lesbian who is an attention whore.
Go be the teacher of the year in Iraq, Iran, or Afghanistan and I’ll be more impressed baldy.
Who exactly is “marginalized and oppressed”? Every citizen of the U.S. enjoys the same rights as all the other citizens.
She looks normal /s
yet another anti-American, leftist, misfit, nitwit “educator”. Being in her classroom is child abuse. Loser. Degenerate.
INDOCTRINATOR of the year.
I spotted the next Fortune 500 CEO under the purple comforter!
Proof our educational system has been taken over by Khrushchev disciples.
She lead a TED Talk in October 2019 titled “Educators must be more than allies.”
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Hmmmm ... “She lead a TED Talk in October 2019.”
SHE LEAD? I wonder if the ABC News writer of this article had “Teacher of the Year” Holstein teach her grammar.
The words and practices and policies of this administration have been filled with a lot of hate toward the LGBTQ community....
Your answer is in the above statement from the article.
Exactly, JimRob!
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