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Rhiannon12866

(205,320 posts)
Sat Feb 19, 2022, 10:27 PM Feb 2022

Too Scared To Teach: New Restrictions In Classrooms Force Teachers To Self-Censor - MSNBC



Jen Given, 10th grade history teacher at Hollis Brookline High School joins Yasmin Vossoughian to discuss the impact of new restrictions on what topics can be discussed in the classroom and the challenges it creates for them as educators. “It's a very troubling time to be a teacher. We are faced with being asked to violate our own ethical position, that facts should be taught in our classrooms.” Aired on 02/19/2022.


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Too Scared To Teach: New Restrictions In Classrooms Force Teachers To Self-Censor - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Feb 2022 OP
Redacted wife, redacted life. Everything's going to be **bleeeeeeped** out bucolic_frolic Feb 2022 #1
No more Science, Literature (banned books) and now History - what's left?? Rhiannon12866 Feb 2022 #3
I hear lying accountants are working on a solution /nt bucolic_frolic Feb 2022 #7
Outrageous! SheltieLover Feb 2022 #2
Yep Rebl2 Feb 2022 #4
Their party should be designated a terrorist org! SheltieLover Feb 2022 #5
Agreed! Rebl2 Feb 2022 #8
I spent 25 years in classrooms. I have the opportunity to go back for a couple of years, keeping 3Hotdogs Feb 2022 #6

bucolic_frolic

(43,155 posts)
1. Redacted wife, redacted life. Everything's going to be **bleeeeeeped** out
Sat Feb 19, 2022, 10:43 PM
Feb 2022

What a knowledgeable future it will be!

Rhiannon12866

(205,320 posts)
3. No more Science, Literature (banned books) and now History - what's left??
Sat Feb 19, 2022, 10:47 PM
Feb 2022

I'm waiting for them to go after Math and that'll be just about it.

3Hotdogs

(12,375 posts)
6. I spent 25 years in classrooms. I have the opportunity to go back for a couple of years, keeping
Sun Feb 20, 2022, 08:03 AM
Feb 2022

my pension and Social Security, plus the salary I would earn. I would start with my salary as it was when I left. My income would be $192k.

I still won't do it.

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