âLooking for a change of pace, he found the âBoys Bewareâ film on Youtube and thought it would be âfunnyâ to show students the outdated depictions of gay men.â
Yeah, I had a few teachers who also thought homophobia was hilarious.
Teachers handling sensitive material that demonises some of their students need to be very careful with the context in which the present this material. It sounds like he wasnât.
Just like you are careful in your contexts for demons? What is it you dislike about them? Many neo-Platonists think they are peachy keen.
So a complaint from 2 students led to his early retirement. But at the same time, a student started a petition and lots of other students rallied to his support. Seems they really did learn and important life lesson. Careful what you say in the classroom. One of the most telling quotes from the news article: âWe talk about the Jews being persecuted, the slave trade, but nobody has ever complained about that.â
Sounds to me like a âReefer Madnessâ style flick.
Two parts that stood out for me:
Simon said he taught world history for most of his lengthy career, but in his final weeks he found himself teaching a class on the psychology of law enforcement, the judicial system and the dangers of sex offenders - a waste of his time, he said, since he had no experience in public safety.Looking for a change of pace, he found the âBoys Bewareâ film on Youtube and thought it would be âfunnyâ to show students the outdated depictions of gay men. His bored senior class - slated to graduate at the end of this week - did not seem interested, Simon said.
Past teachers in his position have also shown students episodes of âCops,â he said.
and
The district has no policy against showing historic news clips, including those regarding LGBT issues, the districtâs spokeswoman, Michele Stidham, told The News.
⌠and for all we know, the complaints were that he failed to make the âhomosexual agenda to take over Americaâ scary enough.
Hey why does Satan have a trident anyway? Did he steal from Poseidon, or was he watching a silly kung-fu movie and said âMan, I gotta get me one of them!â
Maybe the students werenât paying attention when he was explaining the context. Without seeing the complaint itâs hard to tell whatâs going on.
At least some people seem to think that the problem here is that the teacherâs use of this film is what has been taken out of context:
A former student came to the beleaguered teacherâs defense, drafting a petition that says the students took Simonâs lesson out of context and has already been signed by more than 3,500 people.
I was expecting it to be funnier. In terms of outdated âeducationalâ videos it is pretty pedestrian.
Fookinâell⌠That video is one hour, forty-six minutes long and itâs part eight! I enjoyed about ten minutes of paranoia, but that was enough for me.
That was a test. You passed.
If itâs a âReefer Madnessâ style flick, I can only imagine the conditions under which otherwise innocent straight men try it once, and are forever corrupted.
Wait.
So he was âa high school teacher and coach for 47 yearsâ.
Doesnât that make him at least 70 years old?
What on earth is early about that retirement?
Why was he still working in the first place?
The school district defended itself by saying the early retirement wouldnât affect his benefits. Sooo⌠when they thought he was teaching anti-gay hatred in school time, they gave him a fake punishment?
In other newsâŚ
HISTORY TEACHER FIRED FOR QUOTING NAZI PROPAGANDA
⌠not.
If history teachers get in trouble for teaching history, just because bad things happened in the past, then something is wrong.
One judge in the Prenda Law case is over 90, and his remarks have been very acute. Some people just age differently. A lot of teachers burn out by their 40s, he is obviously very tough.
Yeah, the Ruler of the Underworld has a bident, not a trident!
Itâs spelled Biden.
I show this film to my middle school kids when we discuss the 1950âs. The context is the perception of the '50s as Leave it to Beaver, when there was real oppression and forceful conformity on so many fronts. Thank goodness I live in a place where presenting curriculum like that is lauded, not derided.
