I work as a teacher and will be heading back to work in a semi-return to work as students will only return half-time, with the other half online. I know that I will see BLM posters on certain classrooms. I have been considering what my response should be. I have thought about applauding the administration for allowing us to express our political beliefs openly and that they would have no issues with me posting: abortion is murder, thin blue line flag, all lives matter, and of course Make America Great Again in my classroom. Curious perspectives on folks in this community. Thanks for creating a community here where sanity is promoted.
If it were me (I'm self employed so I have no one to answer to except my customers.) If you have to ask or suggest, then I'd ask to put differing political opinions up. So both sides of the isle, make one in green and one in red, play those types of games. Or one big and one small. But it depends on the grade too. My first memories of politics was in high school when a kid died and they asked for a moment of silence and some douche bag just screamed to protest it because of whatever. Another time we were having a discussion in civics, I was probably in 9th or 10th grade and we were talking and all the other kids were making excuses for people that didn't want to work because they had kids and I said the kids should be in school and they should be working among other things. I asked why the rodney king policemen were tried twice and it wasn't double jeopardy. The other kids didn't like it but the teacher told me I needed to talk more because I had a lot of good things to say. So if there's an honest open discussion that's possible then that kind of stuff is good. If it's kindergarten then ahhhhhhh .. . . . I don't know about that.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I teach in a middle school, so it is not kindergarten, but also not the most mature stage of one's life. I will give it some more thought, but I will not be silent on this one.
I work as a teacher and will be heading back to work in a semi-return to work as students will only return half-time, with the other half online. I know that I will see BLM posters on certain classrooms. I have been considering what my response should be. I have thought about applauding the administration for allowing us to express our political beliefs openly and that they would have no issues with me posting: abortion is murder, thin blue line flag, all lives matter, and of course Make America Great Again in my classroom. Curious perspectives on folks in this community. Thanks for creating a community here where sanity is promoted.
If it were me (I'm self employed so I have no one to answer to except my customers.) If you have to ask or suggest, then I'd ask to put differing political opinions up. So both sides of the isle, make one in green and one in red, play those types of games. Or one big and one small. But it depends on the grade too. My first memories of politics was in high school when a kid died and they asked for a moment of silence and some douche bag just screamed to protest it because of whatever. Another time we were having a discussion in civics, I was probably in 9th or 10th grade and we were talking and all the other kids were making excuses for people that didn't want to work because they had kids and I said the kids should be in school and they should be working among other things. I asked why the rodney king policemen were tried twice and it wasn't double jeopardy. The other kids didn't like it but the teacher told me I needed to talk more because I had a lot of good things to say. So if there's an honest open discussion that's possible then that kind of stuff is good. If it's kindergarten then ahhhhhhh .. . . . I don't know about that.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I teach in a middle school, so it is not kindergarten, but also not the most mature stage of one's life. I will give it some more thought, but I will not be silent on this one.