Cancel culture has gone too far

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Cuddles, Feb 13, 2021.

  1. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    First you need to understand what "tenure" (which is properly called "career status") in K-12 education means in most states in the South. "Tenure" simply means that you are not on a year-to-year contract (typically one year) and that an administrative board must meet in order to terminate you. Nothing more than that. This is not the "tenure" which college professors have at a university.

    Second - K-12 teachers in North Carolina and Tennessee must follow the state curriculum when teaching a subject. If they stay within the state curriculum then they are safe otherwise they are likely to be terminated. I have a family member who teaches middle school social studies where one of the instructional years covers international history. It includes a unit on comparative religion. Every year they have parents complain that she is teaching about Muslims --- but she strictly sticks within the state curriculum on the subject. Therefore she is safe, if she stepped outside the state/local approved material she would be terminated.

    This teacher in Tennessee clearly stepped well outside the the bounds of state-approved curriculum and was quite properly terminated with cause. This is not an example of "Cancel Culture". You really should get a better understanding of what is "Cancel Culture" and what is not.
     
    #641     Jul 13, 2021
  2. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    #642     Jul 13, 2021
  3. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    You love cancel culture that fits your twisted thought process, admit it. You've gone and done mental gymnastics on how a "contemporary issues class" does not fit a state's curriculum.
     
    #643     Jul 13, 2021
  4. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    You love demonstrating your ignorance of the difference between being legally terminated with cause and cancel culture. It fits your twisted thought process, admit it.
     
    #644     Jul 13, 2021
  5. Curious as to why people object to being taught baout Islam or muslims...so if she had an extra lesson on muslims the parents would rejoice at her firing? heck of a culture down there in NC haha
     
    #645     Jul 13, 2021
  6. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    The problem is that there are "Christian" parents who object to their children being "indoctrinated" about other religions.... they take special exception to lessons about Islam being taught in the classroom. Same story year after year.... as sub-set of parents continually call administrators demanding that she immediately be fired for teaching about Islam.

    BTW --- this does not only happen in North Carolina and southern states.... it happens in classrooms in states spread across the U.S.

    Wait till you hear what Biology teachers endure when teaching about evolution.
     
    #646     Jul 13, 2021

  7. Got to love the "Love thy neighbor" pearl clutching Christians who demand God be in public school but then consider it indoctrination when other religions are surveyed haha.... (yes it does happen all over the U.S.).
     
    #647     Jul 13, 2021
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  8. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    Good thing Islamophobia is not topic du-jour for cons right now. She could've found herself victim of a cancel culture hit job like that teacher in Tennessee.
     
    #648     Jul 13, 2021
  9. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Don't think so. The teacher in Tennessee clearly stepped outside the state curriculum and was properly terminated with cause.
     
    #649     Jul 13, 2021
  10. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    I'm sure politics had nothing to do w/the determination of what was appropriate on that "contemporary issues" class curriculum.
     
    #650     Jul 13, 2021