I don't want to.
I teach what I'm supposed to teach.
But you're living in a fairy tale if you think opinions aren't going to go back and forth in a classroom.
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I challenge you with spending 6-7 hours speaking & listening with someone for 180 days and have none of the talk you seem fearful of occur.
You're delusional.
And I'm obviously not the problem. I turn all questions and off-tangent topics (time provided) into mini-lessons discussing both sides and steel-manning them with no "right" conclusion.
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Here's an example: we were discussing different jobs/careers and utility/pay/happiness. I had the gall to tell them that if they focused and did well in school, they'd get to choose the job they want. If they didn't do well in school, they'd probably grow up to have a job they don't like. How radical of me! Such a left-winger!
HOW DARE I! I'M THE PROBLEM!
Good teachers don't solely stick to a script. That's what you tell teachers you don't trust to do. Good teachers take all of the UNAVOIDABLE tangents and turn them into beneficial lessons that get their students to THINK. Not indoctrinating anyone, not going off the rails because they want to, but navigating real-life issues with information and trusting the students to make up their own minds.
Your self righteous, self inflated diatribe above is 100%missing the point. ( as always)
Nobody said teachers don’t have influence outside of assigned curriculum
Nobody said parents ALL do a great job of talking to their kids about societal issues
Nobody here said teachers have to stick to a script
Your egotistical blather is just that.
Here is the question being posed- and it is being posed in hundreds of school districts and individual elementary schools across the country:
Should elementary school children be PROACTIVELY taught about transgender in the curriculum, with books and drag shows, when the parents of those children vehemently object to it?
That is the battle being waged. That’s it
your first position is that it’s not prevalent. But then you moved to your second position which is that this is “inevitable progress” and anyone who opposes it is standing in the way of society moving forward.
Again- to be clear- this is not about what might come up in school , or about teaching children to be inclusive- it’s about what children are being proactively taught. Should a school district or a teacher, provide a book and a lesson to a third grader which tells them they have a choice as to which gender they are, even though that child’s parents absolutely object to that?
you have made your position clear on that. Polling shows the majority of parents in this country are in strong opposition to your opinion. Who gets to ultimately answer the question? The parents or the teachers unions and school districts?
Gender Dysphoria is a psychological disorder, which inflicts a small percentage of the population. Why should we teach people to have it just to make those who already have it feel better?
There are much better ways to go about teaching people to not discriminate.
ultimately deep down, you know the correct answer and you illustrated it when you took the position that men should not be allowed to dominate women’s sports. It’s really the same question.
