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794137 Travis : And he WAS the genius behind the throne, brain over brawn
794138 Anne Boleyn : Brain over brawn is the quote written on the wall of my classroom
794139 Travis : seriously? funnnyyyyyyyyy
794140 Travis : fitting for a schoolroom I guess
794142 Anne Boleyn : Brain is better than brawn
794143 Travis : We don't teach life skills here now, or reading, writing or arithmetic
794144 Travis : We prefer to explain being "woke"
794145 Anne Boleyn : I teach more things than I ever thought I would
794146 Travis : Jonny, don't call the lady with the beard and Adam's apple he or she, today she prefers they and them lol
794147 Travis : Oh, and check your privilege at the door, kid
794148 Anne Boleyn : What's that?
794149 Travis : omg be happy you're Spanish and not a modern American lol
794150 Travis : it's political correctness on steroids
794151 Anne Boleyn : The privilege thing is what I didn't understood
794153 Travis : The idea that some people have unwritten and understood privilege over others due to their sex or race
794154 Anne Boleyn : Gosh I live surrounded by these sort of mistakes
794155 Travis : Taken to a ridiculous extreme in my opinion, very divisive
794156 Anne Boleyn : Oh I don't think we think about that here
794157 Travis : of course not, you haven't yet lost your heads
794158 Travis : well, maybe you, but your students have head intact
794159 Anne Boleyn : On Wednesday I was doing an exercise
794160 Travis : a jumping jack or a situp?
794161 Anne Boleyn : They had to fill in the gaps with verbs and it was about a boy who lives with his boyfriend
794162 Travis : oh brother
794163 Anne Boleyn : They made some jokes
794164 Anne Boleyn : And I had to stop them and give them a lesson about respect
794166 Travis : Respect, yes, but sounds like early indoctrination, I'm sure you disagree
794167 Travis : As a student I want to be taught HOW to think, not WHAT to think
794168 Anne Boleyn : I told them nobody should be mocked regarding their sexual identity
794169 Anne Boleyn : And I asked them why was it so funny for them
794170 Travis : True, but how many genders do you recognize? We're up to 57 distinct genders here lol
794171 BillMcneal : mandatory translation of selected tumblr pages for homework
794172 Anne Boleyn : I don't care about genfer
794173 Anne Boleyn : Genders.
794174 Travis : sweep to the right, Luke
794175 Anne Boleyn : I just want my students to be respectful to each others
794176 BillMcneal : they were only mocking an imaginary boy
794177 Anne Boleyn : I don't want them to bully someone for being gay or black or Muslim or fat or whatever
794178 Travis : But I DO accept biology
794179 Travis : of course not Anne
794180 PauLa : tell that to Chuy, Ana
794181 Travis : lol Paula
794183 Anne Boleyn : They were making fun of it and makig jokes about homosexuality
794184 BillMcneal : some endeavors prove unfruitful
794185 Anne Boleyn : And that's not they should laugh at
794187 Travis : Right, Anne.....and good to teach them respect, but young boys will do that......most will grow out of it
794188 Anne Boleyn : Difference is not something funny
794189 BillMcneal : that's what teenagers do, anne, they're not universally known for their love of justice and liberty
794190 Anne Boleyn : I know Travis
794191 Travis : It's not necessarily "toxic masculinity"
794192 Anne Boleyn : But I am a teacher and I don't only care about how they pronounce their English
794193 BillMcneal : norah never complained about the patriarchy, she dealt directly with it by hitting her students with her belt
794194 Anne Boleyn : I want them to grow as good people
794195 Travis : We have to accept there are biological differences between boys and girls....it is natural
794196 Travis : lol Luke
794197 Anne Boleyn : I don't see anything bad about that
794198 Travis : of course you do, Anne....and they will...but the politically correct climate today is crazy, maybe you all haven't gotten the full effect of it yet....coming to a crazy world near you
794199 PauLa : good people normally are educated by their parents.......
794200 Travis : To me there are two genders....male and female with rare exceptions
794201 Anne Boleyn : Maybe you are right. And maybe it was useless what I told them but at least I feel I have done my job
794202 Anne Boleyn : Paula, some of my students trust me more than their parents
794203 Travis : That's a problem, P....in this country many kids are raised by only one parent, they do their best but they're not Superman/Superwoman
794204 BillMcneal : your job is teaching english and making sure they don't get hurt doing stupid stunts
794205 PauLa : same here J
794206 Travis : That's not hard to believe, Anne.....teachers are seen as safe, or should be
794207 PauLa : yo soy profesora universitaria además, y actúo con jóvenes de 20 en adelante.......no es menos fácil
794208 Travis : And some households are not safe and many parents are horrible
794209 Anne Boleyn : It depends. I have my own idea of what my job is
794210 Anne Boleyn : True Paula
794211 BillMcneal : your idea may be in strong dissonance with reality
794212 Travis : oh boy
794213 Anne Boleyn : You should maybe know my reality first before telling me what my job is
794214 BillMcneal : i was a child once too, anne, teachers like to think they're more important that they actually are
794215 Travis : Forgive him, Anne, he's manifesting signs of toxic masculinity, it's biological lol
794216 BillMcneal : they want to believe they're there to "guide" or "shape" (in the worst cases) their students
794218 Anne Boleyn : It's your opinion. I disagree but I respect that
794219 BillMcneal : as long as you enjoy getting angry at unrepentant teenagers...
794220 Anne Boleyn : I don't usually get angry
794221 Travis : We tend to overmedicate our boys for acting like boys
794222 PauLa : do you that J?
794223 Travis : Right, they're not girls.....it's called testosterone....boys are energetic
794224 Travis : I'm not a psychiatrist, P....I don't prescribe meds
794225 Anne Boleyn : Oh yes tdh
794226 PauLa : you said "we", that´s why I asked that
794227 Anne Boleyn : There are some kids diagnosed with tdh
794228 Travis : We meaning doctors in the US
794230 Travis : my opinion....
794231 Anne Boleyn : And I don't think all of them are really tdhs
794232 Travis : I was diagnosed with ADHD too, took ritalin......I just had a lot of energy, still do
794235 Travis : But did I need hardcore drugs? My dad took me off in less than a year
794236 PauLa : exceso de testosterona?
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