Christian School Teacher

~ Clarissa

Klara’s teacher took off points for the social studies test where Klara wrote that fresh air and exercise are better for children’s health than COVID vaccines. Then the teacher punished students who mentioned Trump’s name in class on the grounds that he’s so bad that she can’t allow him even to be mentioned.

She’s retiring at the end of the month, so it’s not some flighty young thing fresh out of college. I knew that something wasn’t right because the books she kept assigning were about the Holocaust and how FDR saved America.

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  1. I know you didn’t want to go to admin about that because of the retirement, but letting them know might help them avoid that in the future?

    ethyl

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    1. Not to mention: THEY’RE KIDS. Which means the only point in such an exercise is to find out what their parents think about the topic, and then penalize them if their parents don’t hold the correct view.

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      1. True. It’s 2026. Why is there a discussion of COVID at all?

        Incidentally, this school grew 50% in size as a result of COVID. People enrolled because they wanted to avoid the public school lunacy around COVID. That was the main motivating force for many of us.

        It’s really weird that I should be paying to have my views policed like that through my child.

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        1. And cruel to the children. It’s not good to set up a conflict between trusted authorities in their lives at that age.

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          1. I have spoken to the principal. He’s aware of the problem and says that this teacher was recruited from the public education system because the school grew so rapidly and they had a shortage. She was asked to retire after one year with the school precisely because so many parents complained. Next year, the principal’s wife will teach Klara’s class, so I’m confident that this will be better. I was seriously considered homeschooling which, now that I won’t be department Chair, is very doable. I have a bright, curious child who has been telling me that she hates school, and that’s disturbing to me. All I want from the teachers is that they don’t destroy her love of knowledge. That’s a very modest ask, in my view.

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            1. Good!

              Even when I was in school– mostly tiny church schools– there was a noticeable difference between teachers who had come from the public school system, and teachers who hadn’t (and probably didn’t have a teaching license or an ed. degree– private schools don’t have to care about credentials). They were always worse.

              Still not sure if that was a result of their training, or simply that the church schools paid less, so we were getting the rejects.

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              1. It was part of the culture war from the late 60’s, I was there and saw it happen. The students in the Faculty of Education were largely female and sadly, very susceptible.

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            2. Kid, I do not know who wrote this, but it perfectly encompasses the communist/feminist hive mind “thought process that drove me from the Faculty of Education three generations ago:

              Distancing a child from their parents is chiefly an aim to indoctrinate children to the political wishes of those controlling communal brainwashing.

              At the time I was 17, far too ignorant to fully understand, but the idea certainly raised the hair on the back of my mind even then ;-D

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  3. Are you familiar with Richard Mitchell, aka The Underground Grammarian? All his writings are archived here: https://sourcetext.com/grammarian/

    One can misunderstand him as a grammar nazi looking for typos, but what he is really after is the misuse of language to obfuscate rather than communicate. You have to be careful where you set his books as his tone is so acid that it will eat right through your coffee table.

    He had a lot to say about the education department at his university and other school boards and such as well.

    I think this crowd would appreciate him.

    -A

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