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Diogenes notes that some teachers want out because of the state of our education system
I have two good friends who are honored educators, both at the secondary level. One in New Orleans and the other in Kansas City. Helping a young person grow under their tutelage was all they ever wanted to do. But now, like many others of their profession, they have chosen not to return to teach this year. And not just because of reasons the media have you believe is causing a shortage.
The reason? It is apparently, dangerous for certain teachers
To help me understand, one sent me a link to a academic journal.
In the article “Art Class, White Feelings, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline,” an assistant professor at Appalachian State University recently argued that enforcing behavioral standards in public high schools is rooted in racism and unfairly affects Black students. Dr Albert Stabler writes that the desire to punish students for violating school rules, especially when the police are involved, is the result of “the overvaluation of White feelings.”
The article, in The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, which you can poke at here, contains many wonders, generally of a kind only the woke can conjure into being. Dr Stabler confessed his innate wrongness – “I am a white teacher” – before disdaining the “white feelings” of fellow educators who objected to being punched and humiliated with increasing frequency and with something close to impunity.
Among them, our woke educator’s immediate predecessor, a female art teacher whose hair was once forcibly cut by a black student. These objections were denounced by Dr Stabler as constituting “white supremacist violence,” while the actual violence, the punching and cutting and so forth was waved aside as a display of the students’ “cultural knowledge” and “kinetic” creativity.
Go read it all. Given the left’s rhetoric the past decade, this should not surprise anyone
