Cancel culture has gone too far

[gwb-trading]

Matthew Hawn, who had been a tenured teacher at the Sullivan County School District since 2008 and baseball coach at Central High School, was dismissed by the local board of education on June 8 in a 6-1 vote for two separate incidents where he taught about race, reported WJHL.com, a news outlet based in Johnson City,Tenn.

At issue was Hawn assigning the essay “The First White President” by Ta-Nehisi Coates to students in his Contemporary Issues class in February, and later in March, playing a video of “White Privilege,” a spoken word poem by Kyla Jenée Lacey to the same students.

“[Donald Trump’s] political career began in advocacy of birtherism, that modern recasting of the old American precept that Black people are not fit to be citizens of the country they built,” Coates writes of the former president. “It is often said that Trump has no real ideology, which is not true — his ideology is white supremacy, in all its truculent and sanctimonious power.”

First you need to understand what "tenure" (which is properly called "career status") in K-12 education means in most states in the South. "Tenure" simply means that you are not on a year-to-year contract (typically one year) and that an administrative board must meet in order to terminate you. Nothing more than that. This is not the "tenure" which college professors have at a university.

Second - K-12 teachers in North Carolina and Tennessee must follow the state curriculum when teaching a subject. If they stay within the state curriculum then they are safe otherwise they are likely to be terminated. I have a family member who teaches middle school social studies where one of the instructional years covers international history. It includes a unit on comparative religion. Every year they have parents complain that she is teaching about Muslims --- but she strictly sticks within the state curriculum on the subject. Therefore she is safe, if she stepped outside the state/local approved material she would be terminated.

This teacher in Tennessee clearly stepped well outside the the bounds of state-approved curriculum and was quite properly terminated with cause. This is not an example of "Cancel Culture". You really should get a better understanding of what is "Cancel Culture" and what is not.

 

[gwb-trading]

My Campus Canceled Me Since I Didn’t Post a Black Square on Instagram
https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/07...nce-i-didnt-post-a-black-square-on-instagram/

 

[Cuddles]

First you need to understand what "tenure" (which is properly called "career status") in K-12 education means in most states in the South. "Tenure" simply means that you are not on a year-to-year contract (typically one year) and that an administrative board must meet in order to terminate you. Nothing more than that. This is not the "tenure" which college professors have at a university.

Second - K-12 teachers in North Carolina and Tennessee must follow the state curriculum when teaching a subject. If they stay within the state curriculum then they are safe otherwise they are likely to be terminated. I have a family member who teaches middle school social studies where one of the instructional years covers international history. It includes a unit on comparative religion. Every year they have parents complain that she is teaching about Muslims --- but she strictly sticks within the state curriculum on the subject. Therefore she is safe, if she stepped outside the state/local approved material she would be terminated.

This teacher in Tennessee clearly stepped well outside the the bounds of state-approved curriculum and was quite properly terminated with cause. This is not an example of "Cancel Culture". You really should get a better understanding of what is "Cancel Culture" and what is not.

You love cancel culture that fits your twisted thought process, admit it. You've gone and done mental gymnastics on how a "contemporary issues class" does not fit a state's curriculum.

 

[gwb-trading]

You love cancel culture that fits your twisted thought process, admit it.

You love demonstrating your ignorance of the difference between being legally terminated with cause and cancel culture. It fits your twisted thought process, admit it.

 

[El OchoCinco]

I have a family member who teaches middle school social studies where one of the instructional years covers international history. It includes a unit on comparative religion. Every year they have parents complain that she is teaching about Muslims --- but she strictly sticks within the state curriculum on the subject. Therefore she is safe, if she stepped outside the state/local approved material she would be terminated.

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Curious as to why people object to being taught baout Islam or muslims...so if she had an extra lesson on muslims the parents would rejoice at her firing? heck of a culture down there in NC haha

 

[gwb-trading]

Curious as to why people object to being taught baout Islam or muslims...so if she had an extra lesson on muslims the parents would rejoice at her firing? heck of a culture down there in NC haha

The problem is that there are "Christian" parents who object to their children being "indoctrinated" about other religions.... they take special exception to lessons about Islam being taught in the classroom. Same story year after year.... as sub-set of parents continually call administrators demanding that she immediately be fired for teaching about Islam.

BTW --- this does not only happen in North Carolina and southern states.... it happens in classrooms in states spread across the U.S.

Wait till you hear what Biology teachers endure when teaching about evolution.

 

[El OchoCinco]

The problem is that there are "Christian" parents who object to their children being "indoctrinated" about other religions.... they take special exception to lessons about Islam being taught in the classroom. Same story year after year.... as sub-set of parents continually call administrators demanding that she immediately be fired for teaching about Islam.

BTW --- this does not only happen in North Carolina and southern states.... it happens in classrooms in states spread across the U.S.

Wait till you hear what Biology teachers endure when teaching about evolution.

Got to love the "Love thy neighbor" pearl clutching Christians who demand God be in public school but then consider it indoctrination when other religions are surveyed haha.... (yes it does happen all over the U.S.).

 

[Cuddles]

The problem is that there are "Christian" parents who object to their children being "indoctrinated" about other religions.... they take special exception to lessons about Islam being taught in the classroom. Same story year after year.... as sub-set of parents continually call administrators demanding that she immediately be fired for teaching about Islam.

BTW --- this does not only happen in North Carolina and southern states.... it happens in classrooms in states spread across the U.S.

Wait till you hear what Biology teachers endure when teaching about evolution.

Good thing Islamophobia is not topic du-jour for cons right now. She could've found herself victim of a cancel culture hit job like that teacher in Tennessee.

 

[gwb-trading]

Good thing Islamophobia is not topic du-jour for cons right now. She could've found herself victim of a cancel culture hit job like that teacher in Tennessee.

Don't think so. The teacher in Tennessee clearly stepped outside the state curriculum and was properly terminated with cause.

 

[Cuddles]

Don't think so. The teacher in Tennessee clearly stepped outside the state curriculum and was properly terminated with cause.

I'm sure politics had nothing to do w/the determination of what was appropriate on that "contemporary issues" class curriculum.