Posted on 06/14/2021 9:49:10 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
A Missouri middle school teacher is no longer employed by Springfield Public Schools after a video surfaced showing her berating a male student as a "straight jerk," "butthead," and "weasel," apparently over his LBGTQ objection, the Springfield News-Leader reported.
Cellphone video of the May 27 incident begins with the unnamed teacher angrily addressing the student, apparently after he interpreted the unicorn cupcakes she brought to the Pershing Middle School classroom for the last day of class as pro-LBGTQ, the paper said.
Indeed, the LGBTQ community has adopted the mythical animal as a symbol of sorts in recent years.
The clip begins with the teacher saying, "Just 'cause I support another thing doesn't mean I don't support straight people, too. Just 'cause I'm Mexican doesn't mean I don't also support black people or Irish people or ignorant people."
As the teacher utters "ignorant people," she gestures toward the male student in question, who responds that he believed he was being "ignored" by the teacher.
"Would you like a special unicorn cupcake for being straight, jerk?" the teacher yells at the student, who yells back, "Yes!"
Have a 'straight jerk cupcake'! With that, the teacher walks toward the back of the class and presents the student with what she called a "straight jerk cupcake" and called him a "pill."
"I'm just trying to be annoying," the student tells the teacher, who yells back, "You are annoying! You are very successful, congratulations!"
On her walk back to the front of the classroom, the teacher exclaims, "What a dip!"
The student is heard asking the teacher what she said, and she replies, "A dip! Like a dipstick, a butthead, a weasel, a pain in my butt!"
By the end of the clip, the teacher says she wanted to give students something before they leave for the summer and says, "Everybody is welcome to a unicorn cupcake."
The paper said the video apparently was recorded by a student sitting in the middle of the classroom, and the teacher did not appear to know she was being recorded.
What did the school district have to say? Stephen Hall, the district's chief communications officer, told the News-Leader a Pershing parent informed the district about the incident and provided the video within 24 hours of the incident taking place — and that an investigation began "immediately."
"The video includes comments that do not meet the professional standards for educators," Hall told the paper. "They are inappropriate and inexcusable. As a result of the district's internal investigation, SPS has taken appropriate disciplinary actions. While details of personnel matters must remain confidential, our response has followed the guidelines outlined by our board policy and reflects the district's zero-tolerance for this type of conduct."
Hall added to the News-Leader after gaining permission from the teacher that "the employee will not be returning to SPS."
He also told the paper that the issue was dealt with prior to the video being shared on social media in recent days.
State senator speaks out Republican state Sen. Eric Burlison told the News-Leader Friday that the teacher on the video "quit being the teacher she was hired to be and became an advocate for her own personal views. As she promoted her personal beliefs in the classroom, she lost her objectivity in a conversation with one of her students, who pushed back on these ideas. Crossing the line even further, she is said to have then called the young man many demeaning and derogatory names."
The paper added that Springfield residents and those outside the area who have accused the school district of training employees on critical race theory as part of equity and diversity efforts have shared the video.
Burlison also told the News-Leader that the incident along with "reports of critical race theory being taught and other extreme views that don't belong in the classroom give me pause to consider if the education bureaucracy in our state has lost its focus on its true purpose."
We are talking about a 14yo student here. Last class of the year and who knows what has been going on since classes resumed?
If the teacher had just shrugged and said fine, it is your opinion, then there would have been nothing to record. Instead, this ADULT goes ‘mental’ and insults this student with words and actions. If this happened on a public street, this would be a case of verbal assault.
In today’s world, my feeling is that there are ‘protected classes’ of perceived victim groups that consequently feel enabled to strike out on that basis. Whereas in prior years all would have a sense of restraint against such blatant self-expression, now they appear to put their ‘cause’ over civil constraint and professional ethics!
LOL. Middle schoolers are supposed to be annoying. Loved my middle school students. They are the best age with no filters so will tell you like it is.
Good on the school for showing the so called teacher the door.
“Burlison also told the News-Leader that the incident along with “reports of critical race theory being taught and other extreme views that don’t belong in the classroom give me pause to consider if the education bureaucracy in our state has lost its focus on its true purpose.”
Any school promoting that hate has lost its purpose.
My parish priests always says that. Once you subcome to your weaknesses, be it porn, drink, drugs, food, the more your body craves it.
Michelle Malkin names the teacher: Amanda Parker
https://twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/1404444670843768834
“I’m just trying to be annoying,” the student tells the teacher’
Who says kids today are not honest?
Unicorn cupcake? How old are we?
This is where we are folks. Pathetic..
We desperately need separation of school and state.
Government has NO place in education...just as it has NO place in religion!
That governs best that governs least....
Government is a necessary evil that needs to be limited to its bare minimum.
A Man Duh - figures.
Glad it’s gone.
“I have never met a “gay” person, job related or not, who is not in some major way dysfunctional.”
Correct. And as all of this woke ‘acceptance’ crap has moved to criminalize any kind of mental health therapy that results in a person no longer exhibiting sexual deviancy the result has been as much as a 600% to 1000% increase in the suicide rate among such people.
This is because the sexual deviancy is often a symptom of a larger mental health issue. If that issue gets treated and the inclination to deviancy diminishes or is ended then the therapist can lose their license and even be jailed.
Thus a large number of mental health therapists are unwilling to treat sexual deviants and instead the sufferers are told to accept themselves.
And they go home and commit suicide because their larger problems go untreated.
To the contemptible Marxist scum reading and offended by this post I tell you that I care more for these people than you do. You bastards don’t care if these people kill themselves so long as your damned agenda is served.
This sh*t in these government public schools is just out of control. Many of these teachers are flat out effing mental cases.
Barf, from the Hostess site - “CELEBRATE PRIDE MONTH IN STYLE” with LGBTWHATEVER t-shirts.
Amazon shows the unicorn cupcakes as limited edition. Can’t find them on the Hostess site.
Just added Hostess to my 69 page banned companies list. Sure, it sounds anal but enough is enough. Easy enough to avoid supporting 99% of them.
If it wasn’t recorded, this would have NEVER been reported.
Unicorn cupcakes is a bit childish for students once they get past the early grades. I can only imagine normal, outspoken boys mocking teachers for treating them like first graders, not that I condone mocking teachers under normal circumstances.
That’s right. These leftist misfits are totally consumed with crotches and skin color.
It’s just hard to believe.
THANK GOODNESS this crap only happens in Blue States, on the coasts.
Because if it EVER started in Middle America, I’d have to remove my kids from their schools. But it doesn’t happen in Middle America because we parents are INVOLVED, unlike on the coasts, where they’re too busy trying to get rich.
It’s a Bugs Bunny salute to Norm Crosby and malapropism, maroon instead of moron. Bugs always came across as a wise-cracking Brooklyn type to me. According to http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/406400.html, the way Bugs calmly delivers his famous opening line (even when a gun is pointed at him, etc.) comes from Clark Gable’s attitude while he was eating a raw carrot in It Happened One Night. No one can accuse the Gable character of being related to a plantation.
There you go, more than you wanted to know. : )
And you 'should not' make that connection to slavery EXCEPT that there has been a sea-change in our society and language! Remember Bugs Bunny is/was a riff on the Brooklyn (NY) popular characteristics of a wisecracking, irreverent PITA known for their unique English idioms. There are 'underground' depictions of Bugs where the language gets a LOT coarser and vulgar!
Then you have the use of 'Maroon' which has a homonymic-rhyme with real slavery/Creole/Caribbean terms like Quadroon (1 G.Parent black) & Octoroon (1 GG.Parent black). So it could be a riff on moron or a disparagement based on race even though there was never an actual race class of maroon.
BUT, in todays ultra-sensitive, hyper-critical language police as run by the media and academia, it is not what your word use is, it is how it sounds to the most sensitized and offense-prone listener that matters. The term microaggression was coined for these kind of cases as a weapon to be hurled against chosen targets! The bureaucrat who offended colleagues by identifying 'niggardly' budget allocations is a real historical artifact!
We have surrendered our language to the SJW language police and thus an innocent referral to "What a Maroon" will land you in deep succotash should the wrong ears PERCEIVE it!
“Why are “gay” people some of the most unhappy, angry, self righteous, unforgiving, unaccepting, intolerant, exactly the opposite of gay, people in the world?
I have never met a “gay” person, job related or not, who is not in some major way dysfunctional.”
Mental illness is not generally a pleasant disorder to endure.
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