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posted ago by REDMARAUDER ago by REDMARAUDER +1190 / -1

I'm one of the few teachers in a TEXAS school that would probably be labeled right wing even though my economic philosophy aligns with the French philosopher Proudhon and the American heterodox economist Henry George.

Nearly half my district moved to devote an entire week to teaching Black Lives Matter. I had to go to the district meeting and point out that their proposed curriculum violated civil rights law to get the idea scrapped & I suspect I only succeeded because the state recently put my superintendent on alert for telling people to vote for politicians who oppose school choice.

You need to make sure your child's English & Social Studies teachers know at the start of the semester you will go ham on them if they try to be partisan. I teach science - physics - so I'm mostly immune from ever having to deal with controversial topics but I've had students try to get me to talk about politics and I refuse. I want to say I'm not the exception to the rule but that's increasingly not the case.

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Tacosnak 3 points ago +3 / -0

My sons band teacher used to be female. His older brothers both had her as a band teacher 5+ years ago. Now that my son is entering jr high, she is using a male name now. I should have seen it coming from the last time the jr high band teamed up with the high school band. She introduced herself as her last name only.

We are thinking about private/home school.