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I agree. Way to many black children are taught by people who hate them, fear them and under value their worth as human beings.

It's always bleakly funny when a clueless white person says something like "just do what the police say and you'll be all right!" Of course then I just remind them that Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner died shortly after complying with the police.

I am unclear: Isn't it a teacher's union? If they are unhappy with the union's actions, wouldn't the appropriate response be to elect new union leaders rather than involve the entire school system and children?

How quickly they forget.

I'm white and I would pull my kid from a class if one of the teachers in it were part of this defense of racism. I would talk to the principal and I would be 100% clear this is why and that I will absolutely NOT allow my child back in that class.

I bet these are the teachers who get really irritated about having to incorporate multicultural education and use a lot of air-quotes whenever using "culturally inclusive" as a phrase. "Why should I have to teach children of criminals?!" is probably often heard in the teacher's lounge, too (usually referring to…

With all the talk about dress codes and uniforms for kids, this is an example of why teachers need some sort of proscribed professional dress code as well. A cadre of teachers in matching t-shirts is great on School Picnic Day, but going that route during regular school hours is just a professional "don't", especially…

Oh, so it was just brevity! Silly me.

I vaguely remember in third grade, our social studies teacher asked the class what caused the civil war. I show my hand up and said slavery, and she made a point to to point out I was extremely wrong and it was about state's rights. The funny thing is, I believed her for the longest time. I thought about that when I…

No, I think Janeka has got it. It's just another dog whistle of authoritarianism. Sad.

A larger phenomenon that is not just white men. Plenty of comments on the Darrin Wilson fundraisers were white women, plenty of people at the "protests" in favor of were too.

What a happy group of all-white educators.

this is some bold shit. I can see wearing this while out shopping or while lounging at home. But to bring it to work at a public school?

OK, NYPD, let's see y'all supporting the teachers and their right to strike...*crickets*

You are getting needlessly defensive now. My point is relevant regardless of what that sentence was referring to. Nowhere else in your article did you specify these are largely white women, so I took the opportunity to.

So many teachers just flat out should not have black students be educators.

Well, seeing as schools are kinda the essential step of the School-to-Prison pipeline, I'm not all that shocked that teachers feel the need alienate and intimidate their students, especially those of color. Call me when teachers start to give a shit about their students again.

If you're the parent of a black child who is in one of these teachers' classrooms, you have to pull your kid immediately right? No way I trust them to be impartial.

So hot right now: white people showing support for white cops who kill unarmed black people.

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