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."
I think you answered your own question, correctly and truthfully.
I’d think twice before putting one of those cup cakes in my mouth.
Before you call someone wrong, do your homework.
“The First Maroon War was a conflict between the Jamaican Maroons and the colonial British authorities that started around 1728 and continued until the peace treaties of 1739 and 1740. It was led by slaves (maroons) who escaped from their plantations to become mountain dwelling fugitives.
Per your link
Maroon
NOUN
Maroon (noun) · Maroons (plural noun)
a member of any of various communities in parts of the Caribbean who were originally descended from escaped slaves. In the 18th century Jamaican Maroons fought two wars against the British settlers, both of which ended with treaties affirming the independence of the Maroons.
ORIGIN
mid 17th century: from French marron ‘feral’, from Spanish cimarrón ‘wild’, (as a noun) ‘runaway slave’.
Just ‘cause I’m Mexican doesn’t mean I don’t also support black people or Irish people or ignorant people.”
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Why are there Mexicans teaching in Pennsylvania schools?
I got to admit, that was pretty light.
She didn’t even make him sit on the floor and be ridiculed like the vaccinated teen who didn’t want to wear a mask at that other school.
We need Go Fund Me Accts to attract annoying students to trap these terrible teachers in the act.
There were (very good) reasons that homosexuals were classified as mentally ill. There was a (very poor) reason they were declassified as such.
If this was the last day of the school year then I imagine that this had been building since August and she finally lost it on the last day of school. I suspect he'd been a pain all along and it sounds like she'd just let out with everything she'd been holding in for months.
In related news, leftists in Kansas City and St. Louis attempt to cancel the entire Springfield public school system for firing the teacher.
Romans 1:28 For as they regarded not to acknowledge God, even so God delivered them up unto a [at]reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient,
Well, I’m a careful person, but probably not careful enough. I’ll be sufferin’ succotash for sure one of these days.
She called the student a “dick”, not “dip.”
It's time for each parent to receive a voucher - to spend at the school of their choice... which will NOT be these sick indoctrination centers run by 'the stupid' and vile ones'...
You get liberals all jacked up on hate and it just spews out. That is what hate does.
Cartoons make more sense than the modern interpretations of history.
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