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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD had a teacher who expressed stereotypical views against certain racial groups. She would make comments about how certain students must be good at certain sports or other students must be good at math/science. She was an English teacher and it was obvious she felt only one group was good at writing. I spent the whole year wondering how to bring this up to the school and never did because it is such a difficult topic but I now spend way too much time thinking about how much I regret not raising it.

There must be many teachers like this who feel strongly on all political sides and most of them set aside their. biases when they walk into the classrooms but not all. I think more should be done to try to address this problem especially given what is going on with the whole critical race theory issue and the book banning nowadays.[/quote]

That's the thing - if people don't want ideas on one side of the political spectrum in the classroom, they have to keep other sides out too. That's the whole idea of a viewpoint neutral classroom
-conservative who is very disgusted by what happened to OP's kid[/quote]

Civil and human rights issues can't be "both sided."  There is no legitimate side that says black people shouldn't be treated equally, for example, or that the holocaust was a good thing.  The only other "side" to any LGBTQ issue is a religious one, which has no place in the classroom.  [/quote]

Teacher here. You are all treating this as a philosophical thing. Like the teacher asked the kid to consider why gay people should have rights. It was a writing ASSIGNMENT. In a genre- argument. On the SOL, persuasive writing needs a counter argument *and refutation.* OP’s kid chose the topic so while we may all agree there is no moral “both sides” to LGBTQ rights,[b] the teacher can’t assess her ability to write a counter argument and refutation if she simply says “my topic doesn’t have one.” Sure it does - it’s your job to provide it AND refute it. If you can’t, choose another topic.[/b] [/quote]

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