I want no part of an ideology where a social studies teacher is fine not knowing the country’s founding date but a substitute who makes an awesome Thanksgiving-based joke would be punished (I was in 10th grade; woman sub; punchline: “when the turkey comes to take a pea you kick him in the ash hole.” Second best sub I ever had, the first best being the guy who had the line “Fred? Gum.” in Apollo 13 and caught Bill Paxton’s gum in his bare hand).
One small sensitivity note: no teacher would be allowed to taunt a child with peanut butter anymore, not even a white child. Schools are unequivocally peanut-free zones, which is either a bipartisan victory or a far-left one I really am not totally sure. It’s like the issue where some anti vaxxers are hippies and some are right wing crazies. This is one of those surprising areas of overlap.
As someone also with an MA, I totally and absolutely agree 100% with those two paragraphs about that.
I want no part of an ideology where a social studies teacher is fine not knowing the country’s founding date but a substitute who makes an awesome Thanksgiving-based joke would be punished (I was in 10th grade; woman sub; punchline: “when the turkey comes to take a pea you kick him in the ash hole.” Second best sub I ever had, the first best being the guy who had the line “Fred? Gum.” in Apollo 13 and caught Bill Paxton’s gum in his bare hand).
One small sensitivity note: no teacher would be allowed to taunt a child with peanut butter anymore, not even a white child. Schools are unequivocally peanut-free zones, which is either a bipartisan victory or a far-left one I really am not totally sure. It’s like the issue where some anti vaxxers are hippies and some are right wing crazies. This is one of those surprising areas of overlap.