tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post6602524601402071108..comments2024-03-28T19:47:39.985-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: Not Politics In The ClassroomPeter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-56968522613383205702020-10-14T20:45:33.929-04:002020-10-14T20:45:33.929-04:00Hey Peter. This is your friendly NC/SC teacher-vis...Hey Peter. This is your friendly NC/SC teacher-visitor to your blog. I've written to you several times about various issues.<br /><br />As a government and economics teacher for over 21 years, it's always the most exciting to teach the subject during a presidential election year.<br /><br />The running joke with my co-teacher of this subject is that the only good thing to come from Covid is that I don't have to deal with a classroom full of kids (currently voluntary attendance...more or less) for Trump's reelection.<br /><br />Therefore, each teacher does an "attendance question of the day" to take attendance if they are not physically present on our digital platform. My co-teacher of this subject asked the following question:<br /><br />"What is your opinion about the possibility of the president spreading Covid-19 to others since he was diagnosed?"<br /><br />Now, I work in a blue pocket of SC--they do exist--(true story...my district was one of the ones that got the ED Dept. grant for merit pay) but even I recognize that as a shall we say, problematic question.<br /><br />It made it to social media, a parent complained, and the superintendent himself instructed our new principal (who, as it turns out the day before had said he doesn't like to write people up) to...write him up for that. <br /><br />I was mad for him, and sad for the situation as a whole. scotlandaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12521076358973500696noreply@blogger.com