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Originally Posted by Guest
Yes, it does matter what the number and percentages of American public and private elementary, middle, high school, colleges and universities are teaching - and disciplining in those methods with trigger warnings and micro-aggressions.
It shows if this is a wide spread thing or just a microcosm. Please find and post if you are to be credible.
Have YOU ever had a very traumatic situation personally that seeing it again would make you re-live the pain? Those do happen. Joe Theissman had it happen after LT snapped his leg and he had to watch the slo-mo play on television over and over. Joe re-lived that horrible moment and never got over hearing that bone break. Rape trauma, burn trauma, or even taunting trauma can be debilitating for some people. Re-living it through film, books, or words can be unbearable.
As for different discipline, once again, you would have to show us the schools by location and how many times it happens for you to be credible on this claim.
As for displaying something that offends others and being punished being wrong since there is Freedom of Speech - imagine a high school teacher in downtown Detroit going to work wearing a tee shirt that has emblazoned "I Hate Muslims" on it. That teacher will not have a job any longer - but she was expressing Freedom of Speech, wasn't she. Right or wrong?
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If you read the links I supplied from the New York Times, and others, then you are aware of the scope.
Your examples leave me speechless. Comparing a football injury to educating children with historical reasoning on facts that are facts and are not related to you is quite a difference. To say to a child, I am not going to teach you this fact, or want to warn you that this fact might upset you is not even on the same planet as a football player watching tapes. Sorry, we view free speech and education through completely different prisms. Education coddling is a bit of a reach for me. "Oh I never studied that in school, I thought it would be too traumatic". Sorry, not my world I suppose. If that makes me insensitive,sorry, but the world is what it is, not what we wish it to be, and life is not going to allow you a pass because it might upset you.
And your other example, I am quite sure that a teacher wearing such a shirt is VIOLATING A SCHOOL DISTRICT POLICY. A man in a parade is not subject to those kinds of rules and regulations