How To Make Enemies And Be A California Teacher Fired

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08

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Mayer, the court said, as it would have if she were a creationist who refused to teach evolution.


The classroom is not the place to practice your “free speech rights”. You do not have any free speech rights when you are a teacher. You would have some perverted teachers teaching that man-love towards a boy is alright, or that white people are smarter than black people. The teacher could continue to teach these views to students by hiding behind free speech rights. It is absurd to think that a teacher, inside a classroom, has any free speech rights whatsoever. As a parent, I don’t want a teacher “exposing” my child to alternative views in the name of education, then hiding behind free speech rights when he is called out for his actions. If exercising free speech is so important to you, then go be a professional protester or a lawyer where you can defend peoples free speech rights. The classroom is no place to practice your freedom of speech. I’m sure that had Deborah apologized for making such a statement and said that it was meant to be funny because she had just read that on a bumper sticker on her way to work, she would have kept her job. She probably yelled at her boss and said, “It’s my right to say that.” That’s stupid. If you are called in about something you said, just apologize for it and don’t do it again.

Karen Salazar, an English teacher at Jordan High School in Watts, was fired after she was caught teaching Afro-centric lessons. What an idiot. Is it okay to teach Caucasian-centric lessons? No, of course not. Is it okay to teach Asian-centric or Hispanic-centric lessons? No. The classroom is not your pedestal on which you are going to fix all the perceived ethnic injustices in the world by molding the minds of young children. Racial profiling and stereotyping in the classroom is never appropriate. The education paradigm is that a person should not be judged by their skin color, but by their character and their actions. Teaching literature from a perspective that the great writings were stolen from the African Americans in a great library in Africa that was burnt to the ground by the oppressive white man is stupid. If you are racist and feel you have been held back by another race, go join Jessie Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition or any number of other racist groups of like minded people. All of this should never be brought into the classroom. When it comes to teaching, color should not matter. So don’t make it matter. Remember, Martin Luther King’s words, “A man should not be judged by the color of his skin but by the content of his character.”

Marianne Kearney-Brown, a Quaker, was fired from her math teaching job after she inserted the word “nonviolently” in her state-required Oath of Allegiance to the Constitution form.

When asked to “swear (or affirm)” that she would “support and defend” the U.S. and state

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One Response to “How To Make Enemies And Be A California Teacher Fired”

  1. J MonsterID Icon J on March 21st, 2010 12:35 pm

    Have to say I agree with many of your points. When I send my kid to school, it’s because I want them to be trained in reading, writing, and arithmetic. I don’t want the teacher to tell my child where she should stand on political issues or religious subjects. I also don’t want my child used as a instrument to advance a social agenda.

    I remember being in elementary school, and having teachers who forced me to participate in their own political advocacy campaigns (thinking they were “educating” us). I resented it then, and now that I have the perspective of an adult I resent it even more.

    Teaching my child social responsibility and religion is my job, and it’s a job I take seriously, so I don’t need the school’s help on this one.

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