Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
As a public school teacher for a couple of decades, I have to sincerely doubt it. In Indiana, the passed a law forbidding teachers from teaching that any sex or race is inferior to another or should feel stress or other negative emotions. The enforcement of this law will be in the form of lawsuits, and actions taken to remove offending teachers’ teaching certificates.
The reason that I doubt it is that I’ve heard that song before, especially lately. During the pandemic, I heard teachers say they would quit if they had to wear masks, quit if masks were not required, quit if they had to be vaccinated, quit if vaccines were not required, quit if they were required to come back to class, and quit if they were required to teach another year of remote learning, especially if they had to teach both remote learners and in-class learners at the same time.
I don’t know a single teacher who actually quit, over those issues. Some got the chalkboard flu one day when one of the unions recommended a sickout. When those few teachers returned the next day from their “sick day,” I greeted them with, “What’s up, Norma Rae?” The local union rep had the nerve to confront me about it when one of her “brothers” complained about it. I said, “We are not plumbers. We are educators.” But she didn’t get the reference.
Prior to the pandemic, the big predicted cause of mass exodus of educators (at least in Texas), was “Cameras in the Classroom!” (Imagine those words with an echo effect)
It was mainly paraprofessionals, formerly called teacher aides, who made this threat/prediction most often. Of course it turned out that cameras in the classroom would only happen in self-contained classrooms, such as those for severely disabled students, and In School Suspension rooms where students spent the entire day. Even for those rooms, it would. Only happen if a parent requested it.
No one quit. No one even sicked out for that one.
Teaching is a great job, and I went through three different careers before settling on it. Let liberal teachers form “Youth for Marx” chapters to counter the “Youth for Christ” chapters if they insist on teaching ideology. Give them the same access to school facilities before and after school that any other supposed student-led club gets.
Keep the racist theories out of the tax-funded classroom.
The reason that I doubt it is that I’ve heard that song before, especially lately. During the pandemic, I heard teachers say they would quit if they had to wear masks, quit if masks were not required, quit if they had to be vaccinated, quit if vaccines were not required, quit if they were required to come back to class, and quit if they were required to teach another year of remote learning, especially if they had to teach both remote learners and in-class learners at the same time.
I don’t know a single teacher who actually quit, over those issues. Some got the chalkboard flu one day when one of the unions recommended a sickout. When those few teachers returned the next day from their “sick day,” I greeted them with, “What’s up, Norma Rae?” The local union rep had the nerve to confront me about it when one of her “brothers” complained about it. I said, “We are not plumbers. We are educators.” But she didn’t get the reference.
Prior to the pandemic, the big predicted cause of mass exodus of educators (at least in Texas), was “Cameras in the Classroom!” (Imagine those words with an echo effect)
It was mainly paraprofessionals, formerly called teacher aides, who made this threat/prediction most often. Of course it turned out that cameras in the classroom would only happen in self-contained classrooms, such as those for severely disabled students, and In School Suspension rooms where students spent the entire day. Even for those rooms, it would. Only happen if a parent requested it.
No one quit. No one even sicked out for that one.
Teaching is a great job, and I went through three different careers before settling on it. Let liberal teachers form “Youth for Marx” chapters to counter the “Youth for Christ” chapters if they insist on teaching ideology. Give them the same access to school facilities before and after school that any other supposed student-led club gets.
Keep the racist theories out of the tax-funded classroom.
Where did you copy that from? 
