Posted on 08/11/2020 10:05:53 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
A Philadelphia public school teacher is curious about how educators will cope with “conservative parents" listening in on virtual classes, according to a thread captured on Twitter. According to a report by the Daily Wire, Matthew Kay, who teaches English at the Science Leadership Academy said on the social media platform that he is concerned about the “damage” that “helicopter parents” might cause if they overhear lessons on topics such as gender and sexuality.
“So, this fall, virtual class discussion will have many potential spectators — parents, siblings, etc. — in the same room. We’ll never be quite sure who is overhearing the discourse. What does this do for our equity/inclusion work?” Kay tweeted. “How much have students depended on the (somewhat) secure barriers of our physical classrooms to encourage vulnerability? How many of us have installed some version of ‘what happens here stays here’ to help this?” While Kay acknowledged that "damage can come from the left too," he noted that "conservative parents" are his chief concern when teachers are engaging “in the messy work of destabilizing a kid’s racism or homophobia or transphobia.”
“While conversations about race are in my wheelhouse, and remain a concern in this no-walls environment — I am most intrigued by the damage that ‘helicopter/snowplow’ parents can do in the host conversations about gender/sexuality," he tweeted. "And while ‘conservative’ parents are my chief concern — I know that the damage can come from the left too. If we are engaged in the messy work of destabilizing a kid’s racism or homophobia or transphobia — how much do we want their classmates’ parents piling on?” Since the thread, Kay's account has since been switched to private. He did not immediately return FOX News' request for comment.
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Higher Education’s Role in Promoting Racial Healing and the Power of Wonder
www.aacu.org
A Statement from David Everett, Tia Brown McNair, Lynn Pasquerella, and Jane Turk
As protests erupt across the country and around the world demanding justice for George Floyd, a black man who was killed while in Minneapolis police custody, higher education must play a leadership role in addressing the issues at their center—racism and white supremacy. The devastating video that shows Mr. Floyd pleading for his life follows high-profile news reports of the killing of Breonna Taylor, a young black woman who was shot in bed by Louisville police engaged in a botched search for a drug suspect; the killing of African American Ahmaud Arbery, who was chased down while jogging and shot by two white men, while a third videotaped the scene in Georgia; and the case of birdwatcher Christian Cooper, who was told by a white woman in Central Park that she would call the police and tell them that an African American man was threatening her after he had asked her to comply with the law and leash her dog.
Each of these incidents unfolded against the backdrop of a nation reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic. The disparate health and economic impacts of the virus on communities of color further signal the need to address persistent racial inequities. Yet, as Roxane Gay writes in a recent commentary for the New York Times about the public spectacle of black death and the weaponizing of whiteness:
Eventually doctors will find a coronavirus vaccine, but black people will continue to wait, despite the futility of hope, for a cure for racism. We will live with the knowledge that a hashtag is not a cure for white supremacy…. The rest of the world yearns to get back to normal. For black people, normal is the very thing from which we yearn to be free.
The question of how higher education can prevent a return to normal and ****destabilize structural racism**** has been at the center of AAC&U’s Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) initiative. Launched in 2016 in partnership with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, TRHT seeks to heal our communities and jettison the belief in a hierarchy of human value.
Since the inception of the initiative, twenty-four colleges and universities have been selected to host campus centers aimed at developing and implementing visionary action plans to promote narrative change, racial healing, and relationship building by confronting the legacies of the past in promoting a more equitable future. Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, was one of TRHT’s ten inaugural sites, responding to AAC&U’s call to step up and lead for equity by creating a paradigm shift in how Americans think about race. The insights of TRHT campus leaders from Hamline are more critical than ever, for now is the time that all colleges and universities must stand together with the communities most directly affected by racial inequity. Redressing past and present injustices mandates aligning our expertise as teachers, scholars, researchers, and artists in order to ensure that we never get back to normal.
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Nothing like a good catchphrase to rouse the shock troops’ thirst for blood.
Why is the Democrat Party allowed to run all our schools? Schools shouldn’t be political, but since they are, every Republican parent should be demanding equal representation of their political views as well. We pay the taxes to run these places.
Why is the Democrat Party allowed to run all our schools?
Because they win the elections.
Note that enough of the electorate has been educated by these a-holes that they now can nakedly disparage any conservative beliefs with impunity.
Change the school boards and you change education.
Since the thread, Kay’s account has since been switched to private.
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A typical response when leftists are caught. That and other excuses like, “my account was hacked”, or “it was a computer glitch”.
'Progressive' teachers trying hard to change us to Marxist-socialist, by indoctrinating other peoples' children. Admitting it and proud to do so nowadays.
“Why is the Democrat Party allowed to run all our schools?”
It’s the cultural Marxists, who work within the Democrat Party for power access.
Look into The Frankfurt School for background, goals, methods.
And there you have it....
My nephew’s eight-year-old daughter came home from school one day saying how great taxes are, as she had learned at school.
So for a couple days he started “taxing” her. He’d eat 10% of her sandwich, or her candy. He removed a percentage of her toys. Things like that. When she asked why he said she was being taxed for being able to live there.
It didn’t take long before she was yelling, “TAXES ARE BAD!”
I actually love this. The coronavirus hysteria has the teachers unions caught between a rock and a hard place: they don’t want to return to normal because they have to keep trying to make Trump look bad, but can their radical slant on everything they teach withstand the light of day? Not to mention, how do these teachers continue to justify their often ridiculous salaries, when they are literally mailing it in now.
Wow.
It’s a public school and parents damn well should know what the teacher is teaching.
I had many young teachers in the 70’s. They were quite rebellious in nature. They were a lot of fun and tolerant of about any idea except power. Though for some reason it didn’t extend to the paddles they swung in the hall ways when the situation called for it.
My rear remembers paddles from the 60’s.
I don’t have a problem with this. After all, most middle and upper middle class people send their kids to THOSE SCHOOLS, so I guess they’re fine with what’s taught there (after all, I’d hate to think they’re ok with throwing away their kids’ future just because the schools are ‘free’ or something).
“remember when teachers didn’t view parents as enemies?”
I doubt anyone on this forum is old enough to remember that. The difference is now they’re letting us know what they’ve always said in private.
“remember when teachers actually taught facts rather than indoctrinating kids to their views?”
Some people may be old enough for that - ended about 40 years ago.
“Why is the Democrat Party allowed to run all our schools? Schools shouldn’t be political, but since they are, every Republican parent should be demanding equal representation of their political views as well.”
The problem is that 80% of REPUBLICAN parents think their public schools are just wonderful. So, it’s hopeless, but at least this virus is allowing some of that 80% to get a glimpse of what they’re supporting.
“ How many of us have installed some version of ‘what happens here stays here’ to help this?””
When I was teaching ESL at the local community college, I always taught as though the whole world was listening, which might have been true, given the record function on cell phones.
Good catch. So now, it’s BOTH orange man bad, AND old normal bad.
Um... Isn’t that part of the pedophile “grooming” regimen?
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