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The Diary of a Frustrated Leftist Teacher
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BTR1701
Sep 19, 2021, 9:04:19 PM9/19/21
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Here we have a teacher whose sick political indoctrination of her students is
finally being resisted. She's blaming the kids and their parents for refusing
to let her turn them into Democrats and she wants to quit.
I have a message for Jessica Lexicus: Please do go ahead and quit. You're an
unwelcome parasite. The kids are better off without you.
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https://jessicalexicus.medium.com/im-a-teacher-i-m-about-to-quit-f7afd11109dd
I've been teaching for over ten years. I've wanted to be a teacher since I was
a kid. It was my dream job. I even got a PhD. Now, I'm about to quit. Here's
why:
The MAGA students are getting worse. They've always complained about safe
spaces. The classroom is supposed to be one. They don't like that.
They've turned classrooms into one of the most dangerous places in the world.
[Note: It's stunning she had the gonads to say this. As ruthless barbarians
take over Afghanistan, and places like Liberia, Somalia, and Yemen exist where
people are routinely murdered on a whim, this delusional nutcase thinks her
classroom is the "most dangerous place in the world" because some students
don't share her political beliefs.]
Imagine a bunch of people with different views and experiences, all randomly
thrown together in a room and asked to talk to each other while learning how
to debate topics like abortion and global warming. Now let some of those
students have guns, and add a deadly virus.
I've got a handful of straight-up MAGA assholes in my classes this year.
They're anti-masking, anti-vaxxing conspiracy theorists. How bad are they?
They're pretty terrible. They think kicking Trump off Twitter wasn't fair.
They think the Texas abortion ban was a huge victory. They think liberals are
panicking about the coronavirus. They think we're not executing enough
criminals and that slavery never happened. They hate my school's mask
mandate.
A few years ago, there was always one student you couldn't have a reasonable
debate with. Now there's too many.
They're dangerous. I've never felt threatened by students before, not on this
level. Now they can actually hurt me, just by breathing. All they have to do
is give me a breakthrough infection that I pass to my 3-year-old daughter.
In my darker moments, I think this is what some politicians want. They're
turning their own voters into weapons. They'll send them unmasked and unvaxxed
into my classroom, which they see as a "liberal indoctrination center" to take
me out. They'll also take out the students I care about, the ones I want to
work with, who make the job worth it.
I'm teaching online now but that can't last forever. I might get to teach
online in the spring, but eventually I'll get sent back into the classroom,
where my state allows them to carry guns. Let me repeat that last part. My
state allows my anti-masking, anti-vaxxing students to bring guns to class.
I'm supposed to evaluate these students and give them grades they might not
like. I'll never feel safe in a classroom. Not anymore.
Nobody listens to us. It's hard enough to get our own students to listen.
Imagine talking to our bosses.
We have lots of bosses. Department heads. Principals. Deans. Superintendents.
School boards. Vice chancellors. Boards of trustees. We also have people who
think they're our bosses, aka parents who show up at school board meetings to
tell us "what your real job is". They rant about mask mandates and critical
race theory, even though they have no idea what that is. None of them teach.
They have no idea what we do.
Education is in shambles, on purpose. There's another thing you learn when you
look at the actual history of schooling and education in America. Americans
have always hated school, especially in the south. In the early days of public
education, southerners used to terrorize school teachers. They burned down
schools. What we're seeing with school board meetings and angry parents isn't
anything new. If anything, it's a return to the good old days.
Conservatives know what they're doing. Around the country, think tanks and
right-wing action groups are forcing teachers like me out of their jobs. They
want to replace us with their own teachers.
They want to rewrite all the textbooks and to wash the racism and injustice
out of our history. They want to portray slaves as "imported workers", and
recast the KKK as misunderstood heroes. They want conservative indoctrination
centers. They're going to get them.
Teachers are quitting. It's causing shortages. This doesn't bother politicians
in the worst places because they don't care about education. They've got
nothing to lose. The fewer qualified teachers, the better. All they really
need is someone to lecture and show slides, then hand out worksheets. They
just need someone who can watch over the kids while their parents work all
day, and turn themselves into human shields in case one of their gun-loving
nut jobs goes off the deep end. They'll never say that out loud but they're
all thinking it.
I still believe in education. I just don't believe in how it's being done and
there's nothing I can do without risking everything. I'll still figure out
ways to be a teacher but I think my classroom days are over. I can't do it
anymore.
I'm out.
finally being resisted. She's blaming the kids and their parents for refusing
to let her turn them into Democrats and she wants to quit.
I have a message for Jessica Lexicus: Please do go ahead and quit. You're an
unwelcome parasite. The kids are better off without you.
--------------------------------------
https://jessicalexicus.medium.com/im-a-teacher-i-m-about-to-quit-f7afd11109dd
I've been teaching for over ten years. I've wanted to be a teacher since I was
a kid. It was my dream job. I even got a PhD. Now, I'm about to quit. Here's
why:
The MAGA students are getting worse. They've always complained about safe
spaces. The classroom is supposed to be one. They don't like that.
They've turned classrooms into one of the most dangerous places in the world.
[Note: It's stunning she had the gonads to say this. As ruthless barbarians
take over Afghanistan, and places like Liberia, Somalia, and Yemen exist where
people are routinely murdered on a whim, this delusional nutcase thinks her
classroom is the "most dangerous place in the world" because some students
don't share her political beliefs.]
Imagine a bunch of people with different views and experiences, all randomly
thrown together in a room and asked to talk to each other while learning how
to debate topics like abortion and global warming. Now let some of those
students have guns, and add a deadly virus.
I've got a handful of straight-up MAGA assholes in my classes this year.
They're anti-masking, anti-vaxxing conspiracy theorists. How bad are they?
They're pretty terrible. They think kicking Trump off Twitter wasn't fair.
They think the Texas abortion ban was a huge victory. They think liberals are
panicking about the coronavirus. They think we're not executing enough
criminals and that slavery never happened. They hate my school's mask
mandate.
A few years ago, there was always one student you couldn't have a reasonable
debate with. Now there's too many.
They're dangerous. I've never felt threatened by students before, not on this
level. Now they can actually hurt me, just by breathing. All they have to do
is give me a breakthrough infection that I pass to my 3-year-old daughter.
In my darker moments, I think this is what some politicians want. They're
turning their own voters into weapons. They'll send them unmasked and unvaxxed
into my classroom, which they see as a "liberal indoctrination center" to take
me out. They'll also take out the students I care about, the ones I want to
work with, who make the job worth it.
I'm teaching online now but that can't last forever. I might get to teach
online in the spring, but eventually I'll get sent back into the classroom,
where my state allows them to carry guns. Let me repeat that last part. My
state allows my anti-masking, anti-vaxxing students to bring guns to class.
I'm supposed to evaluate these students and give them grades they might not
like. I'll never feel safe in a classroom. Not anymore.
Nobody listens to us. It's hard enough to get our own students to listen.
Imagine talking to our bosses.
We have lots of bosses. Department heads. Principals. Deans. Superintendents.
School boards. Vice chancellors. Boards of trustees. We also have people who
think they're our bosses, aka parents who show up at school board meetings to
tell us "what your real job is". They rant about mask mandates and critical
race theory, even though they have no idea what that is. None of them teach.
They have no idea what we do.
Education is in shambles, on purpose. There's another thing you learn when you
look at the actual history of schooling and education in America. Americans
have always hated school, especially in the south. In the early days of public
education, southerners used to terrorize school teachers. They burned down
schools. What we're seeing with school board meetings and angry parents isn't
anything new. If anything, it's a return to the good old days.
Conservatives know what they're doing. Around the country, think tanks and
right-wing action groups are forcing teachers like me out of their jobs. They
want to replace us with their own teachers.
They want to rewrite all the textbooks and to wash the racism and injustice
out of our history. They want to portray slaves as "imported workers", and
recast the KKK as misunderstood heroes. They want conservative indoctrination
centers. They're going to get them.
Teachers are quitting. It's causing shortages. This doesn't bother politicians
in the worst places because they don't care about education. They've got
nothing to lose. The fewer qualified teachers, the better. All they really
need is someone to lecture and show slides, then hand out worksheets. They
just need someone who can watch over the kids while their parents work all
day, and turn themselves into human shields in case one of their gun-loving
nut jobs goes off the deep end. They'll never say that out loud but they're
all thinking it.
I still believe in education. I just don't believe in how it's being done and
there's nothing I can do without risking everything. I'll still figure out
ways to be a teacher but I think my classroom days are over. I can't do it
anymore.
I'm out.
anim8rfsk
Sep 20, 2021, 1:02:23 AM9/20/21
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to the Babylon bee, or she’s serious but she’s lying about who she is and
what she does.
At what level does she supposedly teach that they allow her students to
carry guns into the classroom?
—
“The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it’s still on my list.”
RichA
Sep 20, 2021, 2:03:34 AM9/20/21
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Rhino
Sep 20, 2021, 4:07:33 AM9/20/21
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On 2021-09-19 9:04 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> Here we have a teacher whose sick political indoctrination of her students is
> finally being resisted. She's blaming the kids and their parents for refusing
> to let her turn them into Democrats and she wants to quit.
>
Democrats? Don't you mean Marxists?
> Here we have a teacher whose sick political indoctrination of her students is
> finally being resisted. She's blaming the kids and their parents for refusing
> to let her turn them into Democrats and she wants to quit.
>
> I have a message for Jessica Lexicus: Please do go ahead and quit. You're an
> unwelcome parasite. The kids are better off without you.
>
other teachers in turning students into revolutionaries, like Gabriel
Gipe? Or maybe going into the swivel service?
Rhino
trotsky
Sep 20, 2021, 4:41:07 AM9/20/21
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On 9/19/2021 8:04 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> Here we have a teacher whose sick political indoctrination of her students is
> finally being resisted. She's blaming the kids and their parents for refusing
> to let her turn them into Democrats and she wants to quit.
>
> I have a message for Jessica Lexicus: Please do go ahead and quit. You're an
> unwelcome parasite. The kids are better off without you.
>
> --------------------------------------
> https://jessicalexicus.medium.com/im-a-teacher-i-m-about-to-quit-f7afd11109dd
>
> I've been teaching for over ten years. I've wanted to be a teacher since I was
> a kid. It was my dream job. I even got a PhD. Now, I'm about to quit. Here's
> why:
>
> The MAGA students are getting worse. They've always complained about safe
> spaces. The classroom is supposed to be one. They don't like that.
>
> They've turned classrooms into one of the most dangerous places in the world.
Wow, that's almost as bad as eating horse paste. You don't expect to be
> Here we have a teacher whose sick political indoctrination of her students is
> finally being resisted. She's blaming the kids and their parents for refusing
> to let her turn them into Democrats and she wants to quit.
>
> I have a message for Jessica Lexicus: Please do go ahead and quit. You're an
> unwelcome parasite. The kids are better off without you.
>
> --------------------------------------
> https://jessicalexicus.medium.com/im-a-teacher-i-m-about-to-quit-f7afd11109dd
>
> I've been teaching for over ten years. I've wanted to be a teacher since I was
> a kid. It was my dream job. I even got a PhD. Now, I'm about to quit. Here's
> why:
>
> The MAGA students are getting worse. They've always complained about safe
> spaces. The classroom is supposed to be one. They don't like that.
>
> They've turned classrooms into one of the most dangerous places in the world.
taken seriously I guess.
Ubiquitous
Sep 20, 2021, 2:41:05 PM9/20/21
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atr...@mac.com wrote:
>Here we have a teacher whose sick political indoctrination of her students is
>finally being resisted. She's blaming the kids and their parents for refusing
>to let her turn them into Democrats and she wants to quit.
What's the deal with all these leftist teachers coming out of the idelogical
>Here we have a teacher whose sick political indoctrination of her students is
>finally being resisted. She's blaming the kids and their parents for refusing
>to let her turn them into Democrats and she wants to quit.
closet
lately? I guess they don't they have to hide it any more?
>I have a message for Jessica Lexicus: Please do go ahead and quit. You're an
>unwelcome parasite. The kids are better off without you.
Right?
--
Trump won.
Ubiquitous
Sep 20, 2021, 2:52:30 PM9/20/21
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anim...@cox.net wrote:
>BTR1701 <atr...@mac.com> wrote:
>> https://jessicalexicus.medium.com/im-a-teacher-i-m-about-to-quit-f7afd11109dd
banned from Twitter was unfair, approve the "TX abortion ban", and think slavery
never happened.
This woman seems to be a classic case of delisions of adequacy and paranoia.
--
Trump won.
>BTR1701 <atr...@mac.com> wrote:
>> https://jessicalexicus.medium.com/im-a-teacher-i-m-about-to-quit-f7afd11109dd
>
>I don't believe for a minute this is real. Either this is a joke blog a kin
>to the Babylon bee, or she's serious but she's lying about who she is and
>what she does.
>
>At what level does she supposedly teach that they allow her students to
>carry guns into the classroom?
Not only that, but these "MAGA students", whatever _that_ means, think Trump being
>I don't believe for a minute this is real. Either this is a joke blog a kin
>to the Babylon bee, or she's serious but she's lying about who she is and
>what she does.
>
>At what level does she supposedly teach that they allow her students to
>carry guns into the classroom?
banned from Twitter was unfair, approve the "TX abortion ban", and think slavery
never happened.
This woman seems to be a classic case of delisions of adequacy and paranoia.
--
Trump won.
Steve Smith
Sep 16, 2022, 12:25:59 AM9/16/22
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Actually, she's right. Wingnuts are so stupid they don't even know the results of their own wingnut laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus_carry_in_the_United_States
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