Teacher Story

 There's this story which has been brewing for a couple of days.  Basically....this Virginia literature teacher (guy, I would imagine late 20s/early 30s).....who made a public TikTok statment....that behavioral model used in Virginia schools....which stresses kid sit quietly in their seats and listen to the teacher in a respectful way.....is 'white culture'.

His argument?  That all this respect, quiet behavior....leads to 'white supremacy'. 

This discussion has triggered a fair amount of reaction in the district where the guy teaches.  

I sat for a while and tried to imagine how this discussion started up, and how this dimwit of a teacher got the right propaganda to believe the counter discussion.

His present value in the school system?  I'd question it, but here's the thing.....where is his alternate path in life, if he can't be a literature instructor in a school?  He's taken a one-way path in life and to retreat now?  He'd probably end up as a shift-boss at some burger enterprise.  

If kids don't sit quietly in the class, behave in a respectful way.....then you could cross off 50-percent of the goals for learning....for that one single year.  Repeat this over twelve years?  You'd have a kid who was marginally a 6th grader by the very end of twelve years.

This is a guy that I'd send off to the Baltimore school system, and let him simmer for two years.