Posted on 05/07/2021 8:48:08 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
A teacher from Alaska’s Fairbanks city has been suspended after she allegedly made an insensitive comment about late hip-hop artist George Floyd, killed in police custody in the US, during a discussion in her class. During a discussion in an online class conducted over Zoom, the teacher from Lathrop High School told her students that Floyd would still have been alive if he had complied with Minneapolis police officers.
A 15-minute video of the class was also put up on YouTube last week. In the clip, it is unclear how the conversation started but the masked high school teacher referred to as Ms Gardner can be seen leading a discussion about the police shooting dead high-profile African-Americans. When the topic turned to Floyd, she did not defend former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin but said if Floyd had complied with police orders, he wouldn’t have been shot.
Further in the video, the teacher can be heard saying that the police do not have time to choose between their gun and a taser. Later in the video, the teacher advised the students on how to dress to avoid trouble with the police. She insinuated that the students should not dress like “thugs" with their “pants around their knees" if they do not want to be targeted by cops.
As the clip went viral, the teacher came under fire.The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District has not publicly named the teacher, but it has been known that Ms Gardner is a special education teacher at Lathrop High.
On April 28, a parentnotifiedthe school about the teacher’s comments after which The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District sent a letter to the parents informing them that the teacher has been put on administrative leave until the investigation is complete. Lathrop High’s principal Carly Sween too described the comment as “racially insensitive."
Last month, the court convicted Chauvin of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter after he knelt on Floyd’s neck for 9.29 minutes while trying to subdue and arrest him on a charge of passing counterfeit money.
If he hadn’t taken hard drugs
Rap artist? When did he gain that ability?
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Hip-hop artist? That changes my opinion completely, but not in the way a leftist would think.
Teachers should stick to reading, writing, and arithmetic.
But he would have died of Covid just before dying of his drugs and existing health conditions involving his lungs.
Chauvin should have kept hands off and waited for Mother Nature.
Sounds like they conflated St. George's narrative with that of St. Daunte.
sometimes the truth hurts.
How many millions of dollars would these cities have saved if the career felons had not resisted arrest?
Woulda, coulda, shoulda.
“late hip-hop artist”
I thought he was the “late porn star, meth and fentanyl addict.”
I’m so far behind the times.
Is it “1984” in which it’s mentioned that when truth becomes lies you’ve got a serious problem?
No, he was going to die of the drugs he ingested even if the cops had never showed up.
How much would they have saved if he hadn't died with Chauvin kneeling on him?
Poor floyd, down on his luck,
passing counterfeit money,
resisting arrest "hip-hop artist.
Who knew
New York Regents Eliminate Literacy Test Because Too Many ...https://observer.com › 2017/04 › ny-regents-literacy-tes... Apr 5, 2017 — Black and Hispanic candidates failed the test more often than white ... eliminated a requirement that aspiring teachers pass a literacy test.
Dec.1, 2015 ABC: 1 in 10 student teachers fail this test: Can you pass? - ABC ..
2019: Should teaching students who fail a literacy and ... - UOWhttps://www.uow.edu.au › ... › Media Centre › 2019 Jan 17, 2019 — Starting this year, teaching students won't be able to register as teachers unless they pass a literacy and numeracy test. Starting this month, ...
Career felons have a RIGHT to resist arrest because of institutional racism . . . or so the left would have you believe.
And no one would have heard of him.
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