I sat and watched a video of a teacher (probably in her 20s) hyping up how she was so open with her relationship (with another woman) and lifestyle with her fifth grade kids. After about four minutes of this chatter, I turned it off. This has been on my mind for about three weeks now.
Growing up in the rural south of the 1960s/1970s, you basically got two elements of information out about your teachers: (1) they were mildly Christian (lite view of evolution) or extreme Christian (evolution could not be openly discussed), (2) they were married, but never mentioned the name of their spouse.
Beyond that, you knew nothing of their politics, their past twenty years, or their social life. Most would openly share their vacation from the past summer....where they went off to the Rocky Mountains, or camped out in some state park in Mississippi.
Personally, the political, religious or social views of the teacher ought to rank with their position on NCAA football, Snickers versus Mars Bars, or best episode of Get Smart.
If you've got some dim-witted teacher who is wasting eight hours a month talking about sexuality or fantasy-sex stuff....it just begs questions. Do they even know anything about the topic they've been hired to teach?
Where this is going to lead to? You set some trend through high school and college....to arrive at your first real job....to discover that sexual chatter and lifestyle stuff....just isn't that approved in regular society. You will start to imagine that they are 'stuck-up' and not your peers.
It just begs the question....how will this trend-out in twenty years and if mental help will be required for some of these kids?
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