I don’t know about you but I have some ideas about teachers, like caring for their students and hoping for what is best for them. But then…
AP NewsBy NADIA LATHANAugust 23, 2024Oklahoma’s education board has revoked the license of a former teacher who drew national attention during surging book-ban efforts across the U.S. in 2022 when she covered part of her classroom bookshelf in red tape with the words “Books the state didn’t want you to read.”The decision Thursday went against a judge who had advised the Oklahoma Board of Education not to revoke the license of Summer Boismier, who had also put in her high school classroom a QR code of the Brooklyn Public Library’s catalogue of banned books.An attorney for Boismier, who now works at the Brooklyn Public Library in New York City, told reporters after the board meeting that they would seek to overturn the decision.“I will not apologize for sharing publicly available information about library access with my students,” the former teacher posted on X. “My livelihood will never be as important as someone’s life or right to read what they want.”
What the Republican legislators don’t care about is the long lasting effect that these bans not only in schools but other professions as well. Orion Rummler writes in the Fulcrum,
One of the country’s most draconian anti-trans measures became law in Carver’s home state last March. The law has required teachers to put politics before the wellbeing of their own students and reshaped how students see and treat each other. It bans them from being taught about gender identity or sexual orientation, using restrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity and learning about human sexuality. The law also made gender-affirming care illegal for trans youth.
What these rabble-rouser are trying to stir up animosity against us with lies against us.
Project 2025 equates being transgender — or adopting “transgender ideology” — to pornography and declares that it should be outlawed. Under this plan, the federal government would enforce sex discrimination laws on the “biological binary meaning of sex,” and educators and public librarians who spread the concept of being transgender would be registered as sex offenders. The plan says that children should be “raised by their biological fathers and mothers who conceive them,” unless those biological parents are found unfit by a court.
STOP RIGHT THERE! What do they mean “unless those biological parents are found unfit by a court.” I read this as saying if you do what is best for the child the state can take away your child.
“It is a big escalation of attempts that we’ve seen on the state level, and they’re trying to find ways to nationalize this and to continue to take this to the extreme,” said Julie Millican, the vice president of progressive research group Media Matters. Republicans have been most effective at implementing anti-LGBTQ+ state legislation in schools, she said, in part by framing the issue around “parental rights.”
The Republican buzz words “parental rights” means only parents who believe what the Republicans believe.
Pew Research did research into how race and LGBTQ+ issues affect teachers and students.
There were no surprises here…Race and LGBTQ Issues in K-12 Schools
What teachers, teens and the U.S. public say about current curriculum debates
By Luona Lin, Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Kiley Hurst, and Dana Braga
February 22, 2024Amid national debates about what schools are teaching, we asked public K-12 teachers, teens and the American public how they see topics related to race, sexual orientation and gender identity playing out in the classroom.
A sizeable share of teachers (41%) say these debates have had a negative impact on their ability to do their job. Just 4% say these debates have had a positive impact, while 53% say the impact has been neither positive nor negative or that these debates have had no impact.
And 71% of teachers say teachers themselves don’t have enough influence over what’s taught in public schools in their area.
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What do teachers think students should learn about slavery and gender identity?
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Gender identity
A diverging bar chart showing that most elementary school teachers say students shouldn’t learn about gender identity at school.
When it comes to teaching about gender identity – specifically whether a person’s gender can be different from or is determined by their sex assigned at birth – half of public K-12 teachers say students shouldn’t learn about this in school.
A third of teachers think students should learn that someone can be a boy or a girl even if that is different from the sex they were assigned at birth.
A smaller share (14%) say students should learn that whether someone is a boy or a girl is determined by their sex at birth.
Views differ among elementary, middle and high school teachers. But teachers across the three levels are more likely to say students should learn that a person’s gender can be different from their sex at birth than to say students should learn gender is determined by sex at birth.
Most elementary school teachers (62%) say students shouldn’t learn about gender identity in school. This is much larger than the shares of middle and high school teachers who say the same (45% and 35%).
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What parents and teens say
Parents of K-12 students are more divided on what their children should learn in school about these topics.
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When it comes to gender identity, 31% of parents said they’d rather their children learn that gender can be different from sex at birth. An identical share said they would rather their children learn gender is determined by sex at birth. Another 37% of parents said their children shouldn’t learn about gender identity in school.
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And teens are about evenly divided when it comes to what they prefer to learn about gender identity. A quarter say they’d rather learn that a person’s gender can be different from their sex at birth; 26% would prefer to learn that gender is determined by sex at birth. About half (48%) say they shouldn’t learn about gender identity in school.
What students should learn about gender identity: Democratic teachers are far more likely than Republican teachers to say students should learn that a person’s gender can be different from the sex they were assigned at birth (53% vs. 5%). Most Republican teachers (69%) say students shouldn’t learn about gender identity in school.
The Liar-in-Chief, can you really believe anything Trump says?
The HillBy Glenn C. AltschulerSeptember 8, 2024Former President Donald Trump opined lasty month that abortion “seems to be much less of an issue, especially in those [states] where they have exceptions” for rape, incest and the life of the mother. “I think the abortion issue has been taken down many notches.” He also promised on social media that “My Administration will be great for women and their reproductive rights.”Trump knows that a substantial majority of Americans strongly oppose the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. His attempts to appeal to both supporters and opponents of reproductive rights demonstrate that he will say just about anything to get elected.[...]In April 2024, Trump signaled support for a federal abortion ban: “people are agreeing on 15 [weeks], and I’m thinking in terms of that, and I’ll come out to something that’s very reasonable.” A month later he changed his mind: “The states will determine by vote or legislation, or perhaps both. And whatever they decide must be the law of the land, or in this case the law of the state.” In July, he said abortion “should have never been in the federal government.”In August, Trump reiterated his opposition to Florida’s ban on abortions after six weeks. Asked if he supported an amendment to the state’s constitution expanding the right to abortion, Trump said, “I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks.” Faced with a firestorm of criticism from anti-abortion groups, Trump campaign officials maintained he “has not yet said how he will vote on the ballot initiative.”
But the two-faced Donald...
Meanwhile, Trump and Vance are betting that their self-serving, self-contradictory strategy will reduce the electoral impact of supporters of reproductive rights.
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