Parents, at least a part of them, aren’t interested on talented and passionate teachers. They can’t be bothered to have masters that teach their kids useful concepts and skills, because they actually want day care, not schools. They want baby sitters and the votes of their kids are interesting for them only for ego boosting and bragging. Sadly isn’t a thing happening only in USA, but it’s a worldwide problem in first wold countries.
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Sounds like the ideal place to take a stand if you want to get run down by a truckload of bigots.
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If you want to live your best life, and someone else wants to literally fucken kill you, you meet in the middle. You get to exist as a second class citizen, and the other dude only gets to beat you up, and only if you appear insufficiently straight.
God bless Murkastan /s
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Chirpy, chirpy, cheep, cheep. About as intellectual as these parents want their kids’ schools to be.
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Jesus Christ, it is 2021. You can’t “teach” someone to be gay, just like you can’t “teach” kid to be straight.
You can teach them it is ok to be gay, which is probably the real issue.
Where is Neosho anyway… oh… way down in the south west corner. 
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In Choctaw Bingo country. Nothing there but meth. I don’t even know if they have a Walmart.
It’ll get blown away by a tornado in a couple years like it always does.
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This is a very striking aspect of US schools. One of my guilty pleasures is all those carbon-copy sports reality-documentary-type shows on NetFlix. What’s incredible is that there are schools all over the US that are totally run down, falling apart, and desperately underfunded. Yet they all have $100M dollar sports stadiums that look like something the NFL or NBA would play in. Jumbotrons, huge stands, professional camera systems, elaborate lighting, all meticulously maintained, the works. We’re frequently talking about poor schools in poor areas at the high school or junior college level, here. Meanwhile the teachers are buying pens for their kids with their own money.
Americans often say that those sports fund the school and it’s part of how the system works etc etc, but all I can ever see in that is deeply broken priorities.
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I remember being a horny straight teenager. I do not believe it would have been possible to “teach [me] to be gay”. Sexual attraction hits you hit me like a lead pipe to the back of the neck at that age.
ETA: what the complainers are really worried about, of course, is that gay/bi/etc students will be taught that they don’t have to pretend to be straight.
ETA2: removed implication that my experience is universal
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Heaven forbid that kids grow up not hating themselves for failing to conform to our derivative reimagining of a bunch of shit made up by illiterate bronze age shepherds! For shame!
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It’s pro-labor - as is wildcat strike wildcats… What a liberal bunch they are.
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Yeah - people fucking love sports. Which I sorta get - I like some sports.
But Christ, priorities. Kids should be fed and have a well equipped school before they have NFL level gear and fields.
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I remember being a teenager, but being neither horny nor straight. There were numerous attempts to teach me to be straight, most of which involved trying to beat it into me. Didn’t take.
Agreed.
Off topic though: bi folks still have to pretend. We’re constantly being told to “pick a side” even by gay people who should really know better. Hopefully that will change, if a bit too late.
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In most parts of the south, capital intensive projects like new buildings require a bond election. Local conservative voters will not pass a bond for new schools, but will vote yes every time for a sports stadium. When a district desperately needs a new elementary school roof, or whatever, they only way that can get it is to bundle it in a bond election with a new football stadium - or new basketball gym. It’ s now common to see classrooms being added into the actual stadium as it’s the only way to get voters to approve new classrooms.
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that’s a cool looking school building! too bad it is apparently run by horrible people.
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Their Facebook and Twitter accounts seem to have been deactivated, and the “Contact Us” page on their web site is now protected… So I imagine they have had some significant push-back for their actions…
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Yeah, this school’s football agenda is teaching kids to be violent brain trauma victims.
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a similar thing happened recently in oregon.
im guessing they also outlawed students and teachers wearing crosses, praying to themselves before meals, and will never again be allowed to mention the christian bible or any story from it
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And not just anyone. School administrators. Those administrators have no business in education and I feel sorry for the children of the bigoted parents.
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Except, they actually believe you can “teach” someone to be straight through re-education programs involving a lot of prayer, shaming, and who-knows-what-else. So of course they think you can be taught “how to be gay”.
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