I don't want public school teachers to talk about their same sex lovers. I don't want public school teachers to talk about their savior, Jesus. I don't want public school teachers to talk about their child in the Marines killing jihadis or in the Peace Corp. Teach the subject. https://twitter.com/popelizbet/status/979433520375435264 …
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Replying to @MorlockP
It's her wife, not her "lover." Your teachers never mentioned their spouses? Mine did.
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Replying to @popelizbet
sorry, didn't read article. I stand by my stance. I heard very little about teachers' families, and I'd be happy to apply this rule to hetero teachers too.
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Replying to @MorlockP
Yeah, this is pretty clearly pretextual over a single parent complaint that other parents deny. I don't think it does any actual harm to know your teachers have families, but then again my mom was my kindergarten teacher so that horse was out of the barn.
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Replying to @popelizbet
the article says multiple times that it was one parent, and one time that it was a single parent /shrug I stand by my topic-neutral stance: there's no need to talk about non-curriculum topics in class. I actively support a private school allowing her to. >>>
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Replying to @MorlockP @popelizbet
The problem is that public schools are a monopoly, and parents have to pay for them no matter what. If we had vouchers or some other system with a variety of schools, there could be a variety of approaches.
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Replying to @MorlockP @popelizbet
(Didn't read the article) I don't consider it a problem if teachers happen to mention, offhandedly, that they are married or have families or like to go swimming or live across the county line. Teachers are humans, not textbooks made flesh. Students are humans too. Humans talk.
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"Humans talk" I know. God, how I hate them.
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