A suburban Atlanta school board has voted to terminate the contract of a teacher who read a book about gender identity to gifted fifth-graders – the latest salvo in a nationwide clash over how issues like gender and race are discussed in public school classrooms.

  • joe@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I haven’t read the book in question, but I’m pretty confident the gist of the lesson is “it’s okay for people to be different”. What kind of broken person sees that message and says “no it’s not”?

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      1 year ago

      Maybe you missed the story the other day about a poster with people of different races holding hands. The same kind of people who were pissed about that are pissed about this.

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        1 year ago

        From hearing you describe it, I am pretty sure I saw the headlines. Something along the lines of “the GOP doesn’t think people of different races can be friends”.

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      Someone whose entire life has been to bend, break, mutilate, and carve them into a particular shape, one that demands that it be reproduced in others, and I am sorrowful that that has been done to people, and I want them to heal, and I want to help them heal, but a good first step is you don’t get to inflict your damage on others.