Posted on 09/15/2021 5:32:14 AM PDT by sevinufnine
A Virginia high school teacher has sparked outrage on social media after posting a TikTok video in which he argues that expecting students to behave, follow directions and sit quietly is 'the definition of white supremacy.' Josh Thompson, an English teacher at Blacksburg High School in Montgomery County, specifically referred to his district's use of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), a model educators use to keep students focused and respectful in school. It is not clear how parents or students at the school are reacting to Thompson’s video or if they’ve seen it, but many Twitter users are asking that the district address it and some have even demanded that he be fired.
In the since-deleted video, which was originally posted in May, Thompson says, ‘I stated that PBIS is white supremacy with a hug and a lot of y'all wanted to know more about that . . . so if PBIS concerns itself with positive behaviors, we have to ask ourselves, “Okay well what are those positive behaviors?” And it's things like making sure that you're following directions, and making sure that you're sitting quietly, and you are in your seat and all these things that come from white culture.’
He adds, ‘The idea of just sitting quiet and being told stuff and taking things in, in a passive stance, is not a thing that's in many cultures. So if we're positively enforcing these behaviors, we are by extension positively enforcing elements of white culture. Which therefore keeps whiteness at the center, which is the definition of white supremacy.’
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This is LOCAL as local gets, but it’s been no where in our news. Interesting yes?
What a faggot…
So obediently wearing a mask in school is white supremacy?
That’s why he will be fired.
The Montgomery County School District said that they support Thompson’s right to free speech, but asserted that his views are not their own and defended their use of PBIS.
District officials told Fox News that, “A teacher is entitled to their personal belief regarding any division program. The statements made by this teacher do not reflect our PBIS program or the behavioral expectations that we have of students in our schools.”
>>>> I promise you if the teacher’s view was GOSPEL BASED it would not be allowed in any circumstance. What say you??
What is going on in my home state of VA I wonder? I graduated from a high school in Virginia years ago, sad to see this once nice place go down hill.
What's wrong with what he said?
He draws the wrong conclusions, for sure - but he speaks the truth in spite of himself.
The cancer of liberalism.
As in the phrase “there are 2 Americas”, there are “2 Virginias” as well. The miserable, liberal, Richmond/DC area infested with nothing but this type of thing, and the coastal region which is sadly become the same.
Blacksburg is where Va Tech is, and yes the heart of liberalism in the New River Valley which, in almost all other areas, or solidly conservative. As with America, Virginia is held hostage by the populated cities and all the lovely rural folks are outnumbered by those hundreds of miles away that have no care for our values.
If that is white supremacy - guilty as charged and proud of it!
You sure your name isn’t Josh Thompson?
Yeah, black people shouldn't even go to school at all.. Education is all about whiteness and white people studying about all the things that are white in a whitish sort of way....
What soft racism is this, inferring first that ‘children of color’ are incapable of basic tenets of civility, and calling civility racism!
And, lest we forget, the undertone here is that whiteness is the crime.
He is a racist Democrat.
Only white kids behave/have discipline?
This dumbass has never been to a foreign school where kids actually value their education and WANT to learn. He is much more interested in their feelings and self esteem and to make sure that the kids of color hate the white kids and the white kids are too cowed to stand up for themselves.
queer as a three dollar bill to boot.
Is this “special person” also whote?
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