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murielm99

(30,656 posts)
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 12:19 PM Jun 2020

Suburban teacher's social media post sparks outrage,

internal investigation

Palatine, Ill. - A facebook post about "Black Lives Matter" protests is now the subject of an internal investigation at a suburban high school.

Some current and former teachers say they are outraged by a now-deleted Facebook post from a social studies teacher at Palatine High School.

The post says, in part:

"I find the term "white privilege as racist as the "N" word. You have not walked in my shoes either so do not make assumptions about me and my so called privilege. You think America is racist? Then you have been hoodwinked by the white liberal establishment and race baiters like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton."

https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/suburban-teachers-social-media-post-sparks-outrage-internal-investigation/

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Suburban teacher's social media post sparks outrage, (Original Post) murielm99 Jun 2020 OP
Again, I want to ask these assholes, after they lose their jobs louis-t Jun 2020 #1
It is SO hard to imagine.......... MyOwnPeace Jun 2020 #2
I think that the Facebook post is protected speech. Beakybird Jun 2020 #3
Isn't Community Standards In The Contract? ProfessorGAC Jun 2020 #9
If she feels that "white privilege" is offensive, she's entitled to her opinion. Beakybird Jun 2020 #10
Probably So ProfessorGAC Jun 2020 #11
I think she needs to be enlightened frazzled Jun 2020 #4
I agree with you, up to a point. murielm99 Jun 2020 #5
I didn't specify whether the "educator" should be frazzled Jun 2020 #8
Not surprised at all. redstatebluegirl Jun 2020 #6
Social Studies teacher ... GeorgeGist Jun 2020 #7

MyOwnPeace

(16,887 posts)
2. It is SO hard to imagine..........
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 12:30 PM
Jun 2020

"stupid" being piled up that high to see over a teacher's desk......

Beakybird

(3,329 posts)
3. I think that the Facebook post is protected speech.
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 12:35 PM
Jun 2020

The school district might have difficulty legally firing her for this specific post.

ProfessorGAC

(64,419 posts)
9. Isn't Community Standards In The Contract?
Sat Jun 20, 2020, 04:51 PM
Jun 2020

I used to read my wife's contract. (As a sub, most of it has nothing to do with me, so I don't even get a copy)
There were always clauses in there about discipline regarding violation of community standards.
It may be protected in general, but if there, she's a proxy signatory to a surrender of 100% protection.

Beakybird

(3,329 posts)
10. If she feels that "white privilege" is offensive, she's entitled to her opinion.
Sat Jun 20, 2020, 05:18 PM
Jun 2020

She's obviously deplorable, but I don't think she crossed a line that she can be legally fired.

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
4. I think she needs to be enlightened
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 01:22 PM
Jun 2020

I know there are many white people who have had tough lives. Even some who have felt marginalized or the victims of raw deals. That’s not what we’re talking about when we talk about white privilege.

We need to ask her if she has ever been denied service simply because she is white; or been followed suspiciously in a store just because she is white; or stopped repeatedly by cops while driving or standing in a group just because she is white; or been incarcerated for seemingly nothing just because she is white; or told she is lazy just because she is white

I don’t think she understands the concept. Don’t fire her, educate her.

murielm99

(30,656 posts)
5. I agree with you, up to a point.
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 01:24 PM
Jun 2020

This is a white people problem. We need to educate ourselves. Black people are not obligated to educate us.

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
8. I didn't specify whether the "educator" should be
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 01:51 PM
Jun 2020

black or white. Indeed, I had not even thought of this education coming from a black person.

I am white, and I learned about white privilege over fifty years ago, when it was explained to us kids (though not using that term at the time) by our rabbi, who was telling us about his recent experiences in Selma, where he was one of the clergy surrounding MLK, and the lessons from it, in terms children could understand. It has never escaped my consciousness, and helped me to check my own biases over the years. I learned about it in the early 1960s from a white (Jewish) man in a very conservative midwestern place.

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