Anonymous #1 4w

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Anonymous #2 4w

Of course it’s all older people. They’re the only ones with time on their hands to do anything. We’re all at work or at school, studying, working, and sleeping when we can. Young people are burnt out. That’s why we can’t efficiently organize.

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Anonymous #1 4w

#1, I just want you to know I’m a teacher. And that’s objectively true. If I get seen at a protest, I lose my job.

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Anonymous OP 4w

That’s fucking ridiculous but sadly unsurprising. Laws are suggestions at this point. We have no rights.

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Anonymous #1 4w

I need you to understand the legal regulations around the opinions you can express as a teacher are REASONABLE. You’re working with the youth. You HAVE to be objectively neutral while simultaneously trying to teach them to form conclusions about information, so that they can develop rhetorically! That is a GOOD thing.

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Anonymous OP 4w

simultaneously. when a kid tears down a pride flag in your room and you have to be like “forget the queer stuff - that’s my personal property and you just threw it on the ground.” and you can’t talk about the implications behind that, or the fact that bigotry against queer people is a BAD thing (because god said it’s ok to hate the gays, and for some reason “religious rights” make that impossible to dispute or you’re “infringing on their beliefs”), it DOES create a certain level of dissonance

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Anonymous OP 4w

I have close family in your shoes rn

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Anonymous #1 4w

this doesn’t mean i’m going to force my beliefs on the kids. i am EXTREMELY compliant with the neutrality regulations because I AGREE WITH THEM. But holy shit - it SUCKS that conservatives make BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS A POLITICAL THING, because THAT MEANS I CAN’T VOICE AN OPINION ON THEM. And i SUPPORT HUMAN RIGHTS AND TREATING EVERYONE EQUALLY

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Anonymous #2 4w

tell them that i understand. and i’m so, so sorry

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Anonymous OP 4w

(also, before anyone says “why do you have a pride flag in your room if you aren’t influencing the children” - I teach queer students and I need them to know that they are welcome in my classroom no matter what their peers say)

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Anonymous OP 4w

My sympathy to you as well. I don’t imagine the job will get easier, but by the sounds of it you’re equipped to make a neutral ground in your classroom for as long as possible and you have nothing but my respect and support in that. Coming from an educator family, I know having someone like you providing a backbone for learning to think rather than learning what to think can mean the difference in a child’s life.

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