Was following this earlier. Now that you have spoken with your son in person rather than email, can you elaborate on what exactly the teacher said? I’d be fuming to man!! Wew I was fuming just reading your post!
Yes, we had a loooong talk and I am very proud of him for standing up.
He was scared that walking out of the classroom he would get suspended or the teacher would fail him.
I explained that it’s the exact opposite, that standing up against racism and hatred is one of the most noble things that anyone can do. And if they suspend him for rejecting racist views then he doesn’t want to be at a school like that anyway.
The story goes that the MATH teacher late 20’s white male was trying to create a class discussion to showcase what happened at the capital with the terrorist Trump supporters. That in-line BLM who’s protests were peaceful and meaningful in nature the white Trump supporters were attempting to commit overthrow the government. The teacher continued on about white privilege and why all the white male students in the class need to understand their advantages in life and had it been black people that went into the capital like that the police would have either killed them or put them all in handcuffs.
My son was emailing back and forth with me during this and I told him if he wanted to stand up and walk out he could and he did. The teacher it turns out was not in the room and was on zoom because guess what.... he’s afraid of COVID.
Long story short and some of my other responses are in this post meeting on Monday and they actually want to put me in the room with this teacher so he can explain himself to me...... can’t wait
Maaaaan I can’t even imagine being in your shoes right now. Well there is always an upside right? Your son recognized what was happening and had the balls to reject it. Feel proud, you both are obviously doing something right. That being said, scorched earth come Monday.
Was following this earlier. Now that you have spoken with your son in person rather than email, can you elaborate on what exactly the teacher said? I’d be fuming to man!! Wew I was fuming just reading your post!
Yes, we had a loooong talk and I am very proud of him for standing up.
He was scared that walking out of the classroom he would get suspended or the teacher would fail him.
I explained that it’s the exact opposite, that standing up against racism and hatred is one of the most noble things that anyone can do. And if they suspend him for rejecting racist views then he doesn’t want to be at a school like that anyway.
The story goes that the MATH teacher late 20’s white male was trying to create a class discussion to showcase what happened at the capital with the terrorist Trump supporters. That in-line BLM who’s protests were peaceful and meaningful in nature the white Trump supporters were attempting to commit overthrow the government. The teacher continued on about white privilege and why all the white male students in the class need to understand their advantages in life and had it been black people that went into the capital like that the police would have either killed them or put them all in handcuffs.
My son was emailing back and forth with me during this and I told him if he wanted to stand up and walk out he could and he did. The teacher it turns out was not in the room and was on zoom because guess what.... he’s afraid of COVID.
Long story short and some of my other responses are in this post meeting on Monday and they actually want to put me in the room with this teacher so he can explain himself to me...... can’t wait
Maaaaan I can’t even imagine being in your shoes right now. Well there is always an upside right? Your son recognized what was happening and had the balls to reject it. Feel proud, you both are obviously doing something right. That being said, scorched earth come Monday.