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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the problem is only the very radical left of that generation is remembered by history. Odd, but that is how it is and leftist historians are beginning to realize just how badly screwed up the New Left (1960s) really was and how much damage they did to society.
“SHE LEAD? I wonder if the ABC News writer of this article had “Teacher of the Year” Holstein teach her grammar”.
That was communism on the march.
Okay, I ended up going through this whole post even though I’m severely Internet challenged currently here in Costa Rica after my escape from California.. Going through it, it appears a very slight majority thinks it is a she. Can anyone verify either way? Like I said, my interweb is kind of stinky right now or I would look
yep and a sad thing too.
What a flipping disgrace.
It doesn’t take much to spot a rabid Trump-hating liberal...if there’s camera’s rolling they’ll be there.
“I am curious as to what the criteria are for winning “Teacher of the Year...”
American founding Fathers were oppressive, racist slave owners.
Discuss Thomas Jefferson’s affair with black slave girl, Sally Hemmings
WW II, American Air Force dropped atom bomb on innocent Japanese city.
American solders were baby killers in Vietnam.
Constitution is a living document, changes with the times.
Spelling is “educationally unsound today”
No wrong answers in math class.
Islam is glorious, Christianity is evil. (We will use current history book that emphasizes this).
Fossil fuel is evil.
In depth discussion of the Life of the great plant Earth advocate; Greta Thunberg
This of course is just glimpse of what must be the criteria to select the “Teacher of the Year.
What she calls teaching kids to accept who they are I call “grooming kids” to be just like her.
It’s a she trying to be a he....
Very good summary.
But in all seriousness, was she picked because she is an LGBT “advocate?”
This all seems so unfair to the “real teachers’ (tho their numbers may be decreasing) who are in the trenches trying to educate in math, writing, English, etc instead of being SJW and PC advocates...
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Thanks for the perspective. I have a family member who is actually doing graduate work in infectious diseases/infection control...So always looking for additional information for them :)
Thanks fieldmarshaldj.
#39. She’s more Indian than Liz “Fauxchohantas” Warren is.
I wonder what tribe she belongs to, the “Bald Eagle Tribe” of Somalia?
With her deep experience brainwashing children, this vile creature with the concentration camp haircut will have a high position within the upcoming re-education camp system for adults.
Ahhh. Another well adjusted, normal, happy (you can see the happiness in her face) person, who is teaching children to be similarly well adjusted, normal and happy.
I used to live in Wyoming Minnesota. That’s the sixth congressional district. That’s always been heavy Trump country
WOW, my kind of classroom....you can catch up on your Z’s and still get credits!!!
Yep...just sign up saying you don’t ‘feel’ like you fit in, grab a blankie and curl up in the ‘safe place’ provided for you, while the teacher coddles you in how much she cares and understands because she too is an outsider.
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