The Cobb County teacher who was fired last month after reading a book about gender identity to her students has appealed her termination to the State Board of Education.

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    Well she read a heavily politicized book in a region that wouldn’t like it. Wasn’t part of the curriculum, kinda not worth keeping her on. No reason to keep someone who intentionally creates headaches.

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      Presumably she did it as an intentional protest against stupid rules?

      Sometimes people have to stand up to the bullshit.

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        Well she brought kids into it. Its one thing to picket or whatever, but you don’t screw with kids.

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          God forbid she educates the kids about a highly vulnerable minority on the authoritarian chopping block

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            Yes, I agree. Teachers shouldn’t be spreading propaganda, especially to kids.

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                    Legitimatly, i don’t go to the right wing sites. I spend enough time on lemmy. Worst was exploding heads, but thats also lemmy.

                    Ive never gone to TS, but I assume its right wing? If it is, why that particular one? Why not gab or parler or voat or whatever?

                    Who spends all day looking up different social media sites?

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                Drugs exist etc etc. Not her call to tell little kids that drugs are actually fun right? Even when true.

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              What exactly do you think they’re paid to do? Because I sure as hell didn’t hear more than a minute about stonewall, Malcolm X, Vietnam, or even the Philippines in history class until I was in college. Of course, I heard lots about Rosa Parks and sit ins, but the only real violence we learned about during the civil rights movement was against Emmett Till or MLK.

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                I heard more than a minute about them, and I went to school in Texas. Had entire chapters on civil rights and vietnam.

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                  I had chapters on civil rights too, just very narrowly scoped to be compatible with not making the USA look bad. How did your school handle Waco and the aids epidemic?

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          Didn’t the transphobes bring kids into it? She’s just fighting back aginst their inappropriate treatment of trans kids

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      Can you even explain what is gender identity? Since you are so against it. What is it and why shouldn’t kids learn about it?