The Republican War on Teachers
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Republicans hate teachers because they hate public schools, they hate secular education, they hate children even having an education as opposed to child labor. To be a teacher in a place like Georgia–which these days is almost a purple state even–is just terrifying.
At first glance, the plight of Katherine Rinderle, a fifth-grade teacher in Georgia, might seem confusing. Rinderle faces likely termination by the Cobb County School District for reading aloud a children’s book that touches on gender identity. Yet she is charged in part with violating policy related to a state law banning “divisive concepts” about race, not gender.
This disconnect captures something essential about state laws and directives restricting classroom discussion across the country: They seem to be imprecisely drafted to encourage censorship. That invites parents and administrators to seek to apply bans to teachers haphazardly, forcing teachers to err on the side of muzzling themselves rather than risk unintentionally crossing fuzzy lines into illegality.
“Teachers are fearful,” Rinderle told us in an interview. “These vague laws are chilling and result in teachers self-censoring.”
In short, when it comes to all these anti-woke laws and the MAGA-fied frenzy they’ve unleashed, the vagueness is the point.
As CNN reported, the district sent Rinderle a letter in May signaling its intent to fire her for a lesson using “My Shadow Is Purple.” The book is written from the perspective of a child who likes both traditionally “boy” things like trains and “girl” things like glitter. Its conclusion is essentially that sometimes blue and pink don’t really capture kids’ full interests and personalities — and that everyone is unique and should just be themselves.
Wow, what an outrageous and controversial lesson……….
Moreover, for as stupid as Georgia’s law is, it was supposed to be about race. But it is in fact about whatever some right wing parent wants. These people simply hate education and hope to dismantle the whole system. After all, what is these kids learn that people who don’t look and act like them are actually equal to them? Can’t keep up a patriarchal and racist America that way!