Things I'm mad about today

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I think Pussum bought a couple of these
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WestTennesseeFox said:
I appreciate having white people lecturing my over 50% Native American self about my white privilege.
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tl;dr

This happens often: former students come up to school right when school starts back to ask me about about help with essays they have to write about white privilege....assignments like that really freak them out because there are very few classes they've taken that help them develop critical thinking skills (mine does), but that is not a subject I address at all...normally it's one of the first essays they're asked to write in college these days...I tell them to write about being rural Appalachian...I'd never make it through on a university campus today...my real-life BS threshold is way too low.

We had a student transfer in from Oregon a couple of years ago (maybe I have told this here before), but his parents came up to school to thank all his teachers for the education we gave him....apparently, all his teachers in Oregon had talked about gender identity and white privilege and not taught him anything

I mean I've got my "time in" teaching and can retire, but I do not understand how some of these topics ever come up in a classroom setting. I don't understand how some teachers get by with what they do in the classroom.
 
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GordonC said:
tl;dr

This happens often: former students come up to school right when school starts back to ask me about about help with essays they have to write about white privilege....assignments like that really freak them out because there are very few classes they've taken that help them develop critical thinking skills (mine does), but that is not a subject I address at all...normally it's one of the first essays they're asked to write in college these days...I tell them to write about being rural Appalachian...I'd never make it through on a university campus today...my real-life BS threshold is way too low.

We had a student transfer in from Oregon a couple of years ago (maybe I have told this here before), but his parents came up to school to thank all his teachers for the education we gave him....apparently, all his teachers in Oregon had talked about gender identity and white privilege and not taught him anything

I mean I've got my "time in" teaching and can retire, but I do not understand how some of these topics ever come up in a classroom setting. I don't understand how some teachers get by with what they do in the classroom.
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Our Granddaughter goes to Williamson County schools. Will be in 6th grade this year. She walking around saying she doesn't know what gender she wants to be. OTOH, she has a boy she thinks she is in love with, etc, etc.
 
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Go aeiou said:
Our Granddaughter goes to Williamson County schools. Will be in 6th grade this year. She walking around saying she doesn't know what gender she wants to be. OTOH, she has a boy she thinks she is in love with, etc, etc.
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It must not be easy for middle school and high school aged tomboys in 2025.
 
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GordonC said:
tl;dr

This happens often: former students come up to school right when school starts back to ask me about about help with essays they have to write about white privilege....assignments like that really freak them out because there are very few classes they've taken that help them develop critical thinking skills (mine does), but that is not a subject I address at all...normally it's one of the first essays they're asked to write in college these days...I tell them to write about being rural Appalachian...I'd never make it through on a university campus today...my real-life BS threshold is way too low.

We had a student transfer in from Oregon a couple of years ago (maybe I have told this here before), but his parents came up to school to thank all his teachers for the education we gave him....apparently, all his teachers in Oregon had talked about gender identity and white privilege and not taught him anything

I mean I've got my "time in" teaching and can retire, but I do not understand how some of these topics ever come up in a classroom setting. I don't understand how some teachers get by with what they do in the classroom.
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It's difficult to believe that someone who says they are a teacher would make the broad generalizations being made about "one Oregon student" transferring into a Tennessee school and believing that's the norm. I happened to have the opportunity to volunteer to teach fifth graders a "critical thinking" class in Oregon last year, great kids, smart kids, they learned and absorbed information very quickly. They had great manners and an extremely high desire to learn. I'm not saying some schools don't have problems, but making such generalizations in my opinion are just.... well you figure it out.
 
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GoDucks349 said:
It's difficult to believe that someone who says they are a teacher would make the broad generalizations being made about "one Oregon student" transferring into a Tennessee school and believing that's the norm. I happened to have the opportunity to volunteer to teach fifth graders a "critical thinking" class in Oregon last year, great kids, smart kids, they learned and absorbed information very quickly. They had great manners and an extremely high desire to learn. I'm not saying some schools don't have problems, but making such generalizations in my opinion are just.... well you figure it out.
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Pretty sure taking about one kid isn't a gross generalization. Check your self righteous indignation at the door.
 
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GoDucks349 said:
It's difficult to believe that someone who says they are a teacher would make the broad generalizations being made about "one Oregon student" transferring into a Tennessee school and believing that's the norm. I happened to have the opportunity to volunteer to teach fifth graders a "critical thinking" class in Oregon last year, great kids, smart kids, they learned and absorbed information very quickly. They had great manners and an extremely high desire to learn. I'm not saying some schools don't have problems, but making such generalizations in my opinion are just.... well you figure it out.
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I don't teach in Tennessee.
Yes I was totally generalizing about every school in Oregon.
I mean my kids and grandkids never went to school, and I don't know anyone who teaches at or attends school anywhere else besides my school and oh yeah that kid from Oregon.
Dumass.
 
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GordonC said:
I don't teach in Tennessee.
Yes I was totally generalizing about every school in Oregon.
I mean my kids and grandkids never went to school, and I don't know anyone who teaches at or attends school anywhere else besides my school and oh yeah that kid from Oregon.
Dumass.
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We dub you “Gordass.”
 
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