Philadelphia public school teacher worries about 'conservative' parents listening in on virtual classes

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Nepperhan . . . .
Think of big oil, the mining interests and the environmental polluters. All were big contributors to Trump.
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Cathoholic . . .
They are big contributors to everybody.

Break em up via anti-trust laws if you think they are too big (I think they are too big and would also assert these big companies need “anti-trusting”).
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Nepperhan’s response?

To DENY that Biden gets as much money from these guys as President Trump.

Here is the denial again:
No, the dirty polluters love Trump and his views.
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This type of response is based on mere visceral feelings.

(They get this false stuff put in their mind partly because they do not read/view good trustworthy news sources like Breitbart, Tucker on Fox, LifeSiteNews, The Federalist, and Conservative Review enough.)

Yet everyone here knows this kind of DENIAL is false (but you assert it anyway Nepperhan).

To everyone else:

Here is this year’s (2020 cycle) political contributions to Biden and President Trump.

You will see for yourself that they are virtually the same.

Chevron Oil Top Political Contributions:
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Chevron gave more even to Sanders than they did Trump.
Biden got the MOST BIG OIL money here.
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Exxon Mobil Oil Top Political Contributions:
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Conoco Phillips Oil Top Political Contributions:
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(You would think that people could figure out EVEN from the names like Exxon Mobil or Conoco Phillips, that it is long overdue that these GIANTS were broken up via anti-trust laws. Not via riots.)
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Covfefe
 
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All of the Catholic Answers World News forum is just an elaborate satirical project.
 
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Might I ask what the story is here? A teacher was on Twitter. This was not even a school district, but one teacher in the United States asking a question on Twitter. There have been a lot of teachers do some pretty horrible things, and this one makes the news on FOX???
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It doesn’t seem concerning to you that he wants to indoctrinate the students in some form? On topics or in opinions that the parents would disapprove of?
If one teacher is thinking this way, perhaps other teachers are as well?
He seems like he would prefer to have his teaching content hidden from the parents. That doesn’t sound sinister to you?
 
Oscar Wilde was right.

If it was Oscar. Somebody was right, anyway.
 
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Jharek - - are you understanding the American situation better? This is why conservatives have concerns about public education (at least the way public schools are now!), teachers’ unions, etc.
They are sometimes political indoctrination sessions!
 
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Yes, and if we try to criticize the ideas and actual words of certain people, then we might be vilified as a racist. “White fragility” and all that. I recently had to watch a webinar at work about how we are all racists and white supremacists.

This is why Trump won. Because he is able to stand up to the extreme political correctness / “cancel culture” at work in American media, schools, academia, and pop culture.
 
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As you can read from this thread, some consider the idea that a “conservative,” by virtue of that designation alone, is uneducated and anti-science. Thus, the appropriately woke teachers should do whatever they can to counter conservative parents, even if done in secret without their knowledge.

The bottom line apparently seems to be that Mr. Kay wants to teach whatever he wants without any kind of challenge. The fruits of this approach are apparent in society where woke young people don’t have the capability to argue and debate ideas. They must cancel and shut down perspectives different from their own.
 
When I saw the topic I wondered what he taught since it seems unlikely that anything incredibly controversial would be being taught in most lessons, but I can maybe understand why an English teacher would be slightly worried about conservative parents listening in. It isn’t unusual for topics of gender and sexuality to be discussed in that class, and it wouldn’t really be inappropriate.
 
According to Dignitatis Humanae it would be. The family is prior to the state.
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Lots of great and classic works of literature deal with issues relating to gender and sexuality, and to read and discuss things that deal with those topics isn’t necessarily to condone them.

Children in high school should definitely not just be reading as an exercise in reading comprehension or language skills, but should be given a number of perspectives on literature that deals with potentially controversial topics and should be defending a position on those topics in their writing.
 
I’ve talked of Oscar, here, above.

I’ll quote a wise student activist from around 53 years ago: These people don’t want to be heard. They want to be obeyed.
 
From your article.
So for me, anti-racist teaching means a fundamental disruption of the way in which teaching and learning happens in our schools today: It centers whiteness and white people.
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I started Kindergarten in 1959. Never once in my entire schooling was what I was taught centered on “whiteness”. The term itself, as the professor uses it, is racist.
That the majority of people mentioned in my schooling were European stands to reason. To expect otherwise would be like expecting Japanese education to not center on Asians.
 
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