These are difficult conversations to be had and, frankly, if this was a teacher that felt that they weren’t ready to lead the discussion on those topics I wouldn’t entirely blame them. Not without risking our jobs.Īnd even if that wasn’t the case- even if I wasn’t having to deal with ACTUAL censorship -just the sheer lack of empathy in this thread pisses me off. The district told us we can’t use the word, so we can’t use the word. We can’t just do whatever we want in our classrooms. We’re pushing back against the STATE censorship as hard as we can, but also… We have families and livelihoods to look out for. I’m here because my English team had to fight to even include “To Kill a Mockingbird” in our curriculum and they made it explicitly clear that we could not “make it about race” and we could not say the n-word, even in context. I’m here because my state legislature considers talking about race to be indoctrination. I’m here because parents in my district are threatening to take teachers and librarians to court for the content in our libraries. But again, it’s so much more complex than just a classroom teacher that doesn’t want to have the n-word said in their classroom. (People questioning whether you’re in the right career because you want a version of the audiobook that doesn’t say a racial slur? Like? Seriously?) (Apologies in advance for replying to an old post but) I feel like so many of the people in this thread are being such assholes about this question, and also not realizing the nuance that goes into approaching difficult topics in a classroom.
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