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Parsley is either ignorant or a liar.
My choice is liar.
Perhaps adults in her district will do what they can to make sure Farsley is fired and banned from influencing children.
As for the "teacher", Brooks should definitely be canned..........and caned.
I have a GREAT idea for a lesson plan - re-enact the French Revolution with teachers playimg the aristocrats!!!!
I read that. Boy, what a steaming pantload. Thanks for the ping, george76.
This kind of behavior is what you expect from bullies, when confronted and stood up to, say: “Oh that wasn’t what I meant...”, “I was misunderstood,,,”, or “I was taken out of context...”
The left has completely taken over our public schools, and has probably been that way since the 1960’s or so.
FYI, I will post here what I posted in that other thread about Bennish, since it applies equally here. Thanks for the opportunity.
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He is absolutely entitled to his opinion and has every right to preach his opinions when he is on his own time.
When he is being paid to do a job, with money paid by taxpayers, he does not have the right to his own opinions. Period.
If you cannot differentiate between the two situations, then you are either ill equipped to do so, or you have never taken the time to do so. I will make the presumption that you have never taken the time to think it through, because I do not know you and would like to give you the benefit of doubt.
If you had children, would you like to have a teacher at school telling them that any activity they wish to engage in is acceptable? Perhaps bestiality? Or pedophilia? That using any type of drug imaginable is fine, including heroin, LSD or PCP? That the teacher might even describe to them how they can obtain such drugs? Or how about if the teacher decides to tell students that using a handgun to intimidate other people is a good idea?
If you think this is acceptable 1st Amendment material in a classroom of 12 year old kids, then there is no reason to discuss the matter further.
If you agree that these types of lectures should not be allowed, then we may continue. Because we both would then agree that there are limitations.
If you agree there are limitations, then reasonable people can agree to disagree on the parameters to be allowed in a given situation.
I happened to take the time to download and listen to the entire tirade by this person. If he is privately employed by a school similar to the ones that American Communists deliberately sent their “Red Diaper Babies” to in the 50’s, then that is your decision to send your child there to listen to that tripe. I feel that should be considered child abuse, but that is my opinion.
If I am paying money to send my child to a college, and the professor is spouting crap like that, I have choices, and my tax dollars are generally not being spent to subsidize some intellectual predator who preys on kids who may either not know any better, or are too intimidated to do anything about it. But I do have choices. I can pull my child out and send them to another college. It is my money.
But in a public school, there is no right to free speech. Teachers are there to teach. Does a receptionist at a company have the right to free speech? Of course not. There are limitations. They cannot greet customers with “This company sucks. You will get screwed if you spend your money here. Turn around while you can.” If they did, they would be fired, and rightly so.
This is the heart of the problem, isn't it?
I know he said this is the Declaration of Indepencence he is trying to mangle (I doubt if this leftist Bozo even knows the difference between the two) but one of the biggest talking points you hear from the Left is that the US Constitution is hopelessly obsolete and doesn't apply to the modern world.
I guess they want a constitution like this:
The EU Constitution (Be sure to click on the links to the right and read the fine print...and be sure to put your PC cap on)
What is perhaps most troubling is that we have someone teaching US History to our kids who does not have any idea of why the US War of Indepndence happened or an understanding of the forces that led up to it.
As Ann Coulter is fond of saying (and I paraphrase) "For Liberals, history begins yesterday..."
"The point was, I wanted to ask parents if they would sign such a letter if conditions that existed prior to the Revolution were happening now,"]
This "teacher's" lame attempt at plausible deniability is laughable in and of itself. Of course he should be fired, and of course nothing will happen.
Maybe this is why so many people seem to ignore the basics. Even people with advanced degrees are prone to making very basic mistakes and don’t seem to care that:
to = go TO the store
too = ALSO
two = 1, 2, 3
Their = it belongs to them
There = over there on the table
They’re = they are
Fewer = items counted - such as fewer pennies
Less = amount - such as LESS money
Not LESS pennies or FEWER money
More time spent on the basics of math and language and LESS time spent on indoctrination would be so refreshing.
“Principal Joanne Parsley said she doesn’t believe Brooks has any political agenda to advance...”
I’d fire her. And the superintendent. And jail the teacher.
As a teacher, I just have to make a comment about this one.
The teacher in question deserves to be fired. His judgement is, without question, not just poor. He gave 13-year-olds homework designed to promote an agenda - those are innocents at Guantanamo Bay? - and potentially insult the parents of the children he is paid to serve.
This guy works for the parents of the children. His first obligation is to teach the students reading, writing, math, history, and science. That’s a full plate. His job description doesn’t include indoctrination. His job DOES include an obligation to provoke thinking and to remain cautiously neutral in matters of public cotroversy. I usually don’t have these concerns in my classroom because I spend all my class period actually doing my job.
If my son came home with this assignment with the explanation given in the article, I’d be at the school board the very next meeting.
For instance, I post here at Free Republic. I have definite opinions. Those opinions do not have a legitimate purpose in my classroom, especially since I’m an English teacher. If I do voice an opinion, I make it very clear that it is my opinion, and that opposing views are not only heard, but those views are welcome. Of course, if we ever got into a discussion about imprisonment during wartime, I’d better have a text about it in front of a student to justify the discussion, and I had better be prepared to create a professional distance from the students to moderate the debate instead of promoting a viewpoint.
Good night! The guy should be delivering pizzas next year.
This would be funny if it weren’t so sad.
I remember when civics and social studies were taught by football coaches who had no agenda other than making sure the jocks passed.
Man, those were the days. . .!