should this teacher be fired?

[Anonymous]

When I was in kindergarten 34 years ago my class dressed up as pilgrims and Indians. I was a pilgrim. Should we all be fired ? I have pictures I’m sure a video is floating around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I was in kindergarten 34 years ago my class dressed up as pilgrims and Indians. I was a pilgrim. Should we all be fired ? I have pictures I’m sure a video is floating around.

I did the same thing. My parents have pictures of me war whooping. The difference is that I was a kid and it was 1988. Now I'm an adult who knows better and would not do that at my job especially if I was a teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel so bad for that teacher.

She missed all the news about white people getting cancelled for the smallest things (or maybe thought it couldn’t apply to her) and now her life is ruined.

She looks like a really good teacher, trying to be memorable and help the kids remember something important. Just missed the memos lately.

You’ve got to be kidding. All she has to do is teach the mnemonic SOH CAH TOA. It’s a trig class. It’s not difficult to learn those three terms. She’s a crappy teacher because she thinks teaching is all about her entertaining the kids. It’s all about her. If she took a quarter of the energy she put into that ridiculous costume and dance, and instead focused on learning about who her students were, she could be a great teacher. She’d know that sitting in room everyday was a Native American student. She lazy and incompetent.

I'm sure there are many many many other good math teachers who can teach SOH CAH TOA without doing a racist skit

And guess what even if everyone in the room was white it would still be racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The calls to fire this teacher over a single incident are exactly what the worries about cancel culture are about.

I've started leaning to not being pro-cancel culture.

I attended a conference where someone spoke on the topic and made a point that interviews with those who have been cancelled don't show long-term remorse or them being educated on why they were cancelled. It instead lead to resentment and anger, and usually directed the group they had offended not necessarily toward those who cancelled them. It creates a viscous cycle of hate.

Instead of canceling, we should educate.

I understand what you’re saying and that’s a valid point, but how many employers want to retain an employee who exhibits such egregiously bad judgment that they’re a loose cannon? Society would be better off if racist people could be re-educated, but that comes at a cost to their employers to provide a public service at their own expense, and frankly, anti racism training also makes racists’ dig in their heels. Look at the complaints over “critical race theory” being taught in our schools if any perspective that doesn’t exclusively venerate white European American men as heroes and saviors is presented. Why is it an employer’s job to correct an employee’s moral compasses? And where do we draw the line, as we don’t all agree on contentious issues?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The calls to fire this teacher over a single incident are exactly what the worries about cancel culture are about.

I've started leaning to not being pro-cancel culture.

I attended a conference where someone spoke on the topic and made a point that interviews with those who have been cancelled don't show long-term remorse or them being educated on why they were cancelled. It instead lead to resentment and anger, and usually directed the group they had offended not necessarily toward those who cancelled them. It creates a viscous cycle of hate.

Instead of canceling, we should educate.

I understand what you’re saying and that’s a valid point, but how many employers want to retain an employee who exhibits such egregiously bad judgment that they’re a loose cannon? Society would be better off if racist people could be re-educated, but that comes at a cost to their employers to provide a public service at their own expense, and frankly, anti racism training also makes racists’ dig in their heels. Look at the complaints over “critical race theory” being taught in our schools if any perspective that doesn’t exclusively venerate white European American men as heroes and saviors is presented. Why is it an employer’s job to correct an employee’s moral compasses? And where do we draw the line, as we don’t all agree on contentious issues?

Uh, many/most of them, particularly in jobs where it is difficult to hire a replacement.

Face it, the teacher shortage means we all have to put up with problematic behavior from teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel so bad for that teacher.

She missed all the news about white people getting cancelled for the smallest things (or maybe thought it couldn’t apply to her) and now her life is ruined.

She looks like a really good teacher, trying to be memorable and help the kids remember something important. Just missed the memos lately.

She kept laughing and saying Native things were ridiculous. She wasn’t trying to help the kids.

[Anonymous]

Also I would imagine that if the teacher is in a union, that would protect her from being immediately fired for this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also I would imagine that if the teacher is in a union, that would protect her from being immediately fired for this.

Would it protect her from drug testing? Because it seems warranted here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also I would imagine that if the teacher is in a union, that would protect her from being immediately fired for this.

Would it protect her from drug testing? Because it seems warranted here.

Idk. It might. Depends on the contract.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I was in kindergarten 34 years ago my class dressed up as pilgrims and Indians. I was a pilgrim. Should we all be fired ? I have pictures I’m sure a video is floating around.

Maybe you have not evolved at all in 34 years, but most of society has.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I was in kindergarten 34 years ago my class dressed up as pilgrims and Indians. I was a pilgrim. Should we all be fired ? I have pictures I’m sure a video is floating around.

Certainly you should be angry at the education you received between that time and now, if you truly think these things are equivalent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I was in kindergarten 34 years ago my class dressed up as pilgrims and Indians. I was a pilgrim. Should we all be fired ? I have pictures I’m sure a video is floating around.

You probably also ate paste in kindergarten but I’m hoping you don’t do that now.

[Anonymous]

Cancel culture is the best thing that has happened in the last decade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I was in kindergarten 34 years ago my class dressed up as pilgrims and Indians. I was a pilgrim. Should we all be fired ? I have pictures I’m sure a video is floating around.

I'm not even a little bit woke (I think most of them are mentally ill) and even I thought this video was weird/gross/inappropriate.

[Anonymous]

If you haven’t seen the entire video, it’s so much worse than whatever you’re thinking.