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HA!
***covers face and back away***
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*runs*
*goes back to mouring fr srs*
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It's sad because there is a teacher shorting here in Chicago and all over the country - and fewer and fewer men are going into the field.
this article 'the mistrusted male teacher' breaks it down well:
[abcnews.go.com]
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But their mission statement says:
"We value shared information and experience over authoritative knowledge, especially when it comes to our own bodies. We support a woman's right to make informed choices about her health and health care. Women who were born women and live their lives as women inform the work we do including workshop development, library and resource acquisition, speech and campaign work, information dissemination, and organizing. We support women's sexual autonomy. We are pro-choice."
I see no reason, really, for the bolded section to be in there. Transwomen can be feminists too, and, like all humans, have healthcare needs.
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/jokin'
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And, yeah, eventually we got him fired but it took awhile and it wasn't over that.
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... I have a kitty on my lap right now and this makes me very sad.
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Please read the book written by Jeffery "chilhood squirrel torturer" Dahmer's dad. Then get your son serious mental health oversight and keep him the fuck away from people and animals until his shit is sorted out (possibly forever).
Thank you,
Civilized Society
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Unfortunately I don't think he can get life for kitty torturing. He's going to have to kill a human being before he's locked away forever. Unless he meets with an unfortunate accident before that takes place.
It's a pity and a crime we have no way to deal with individuals like this. And unfortunately too we make them into heroes in the entertainment industry. Whenever we talk about "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" we hate Nurse Ratchett (probably psychopathic herself) but feel sorry for the psychopath that Jack Nicholson plays.
We have to stop romanticizing anti-social people and figure out a way to stop them from harming innocents.
And, of course I am not aiming this lecture at you. Your post just made me think about it.
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But it is a step and a positive one.
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And also I know many homosexuals who have biological children usually from previous relationships before they have begun to understand and accept their own sexuality. So I find it unfair terminology also.
Remember we heterosexuals don't choose our sexual orientation either.
It reminds me of the days when white people would say that there are good blacks and they are called "Negroes" but there are bad blacks and they are the "N*ggers".
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Let's just say, it's a lot more like black people calling white people "crackers."
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This wasn't 100%. We did get a substitute fired for inappropriate speech to a fifth grade class. He described drinking urine for some reason. He was trying to make some kind of weird chemical point I think but was totally out of line.
The strangest thing about him was that I had worked with him in a company having nothing to do with education years before. He was an oddball back then and I was amazed he was ever hired as a sub. I couldn't imagine how he passed the interview.
*We didn't have a lot of these complaints so obviously my sample size was low. And we did investigate as if the teacher were in the wrong before we concluded he was not.
Also a couple of the complainants worked with me for awhile and I believe I helped them separate their own experiences from their fear for their children and moved them into more comprehensive counseling.
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Jeffrey Dahmer's father was very open about his son's life and upbringing and behavior once it came out what he was up to as an adult. His mother, on the other hand, completely denied that anything had ever happened to him or that he was anything other than an ordinary boy.
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There's a teacher shortage - and I've spoken to more than one guy who's afraid to go into education for fear of eventually being accused by overzealous parents of misconduct.
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