Posted by Guest (Post 1084545)

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?

Posted by Guest (Post 1084551)

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

Posted by Guest (Post 1084576)

Your link from the NY Times says the trigger warnings are just proposals from some students.

You have lost ALL credibility and just want to rant about something that is not happening. Please come back when you have something real to contribute .
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Posted by Guest (Post 1084591)

I have been called worse than "losing all credibility" and since I have no idea how to get your posts, I will assume that as you imply, you are a bit above me in all areas./QUOTE]

Yes, I am. Thank you realizing that fact. Now, go have a drink of iced tea and relax.

Posted by Guest (Post 1084597)

ahhhh....NOW I know who you are. You have told me this a number of times over the years, how smart you are, and I surely follow your many comprehensive posts on all forums.

What a brilliant well informed and I bow to you and know when I am out of my league.

Will go away and just read your well documented, well thought out, deep and informative posts. See ya Lord S

Posted by Guest (Post 1084610)

As you can see, I am not playing the name-calling game anymore. I will call out when something's is not presented in full, though. Still open to meeting over an iced tea anywhere you choose. How about burying the hatchet?

Posted by Guest (Post 1084655)

The usual nonsense from the TOTV "get off of my lawn" crowd. If you worry about progressives and what they are teaching kids in school. There is hope for all of you Tea Party conservatives in Texas and Louisiana.

Was Moses a Founding Father? - The Atlantic

Loch Ness monster cited by US schools as evidence that evolution is myth - The Scotsman

So next time you read about US students being behind the rest of the world in math and science, give a big shout out to dopes like Rick Perry and "Bobby" Jindahl for their proud contributions to education.

Posted by Guest (Post 1083967)

Can't resist always attacking the source and ignoring the message....oh well.

Of course I do not believe ALL of the residents of DC want to tear down the Jefferson Memorial or rename Washington, DC just like all of the Americans who do not want the confederate flag treated as it has been in recent weeks!!!!

You obviously are aware that the laws of the land do not take into consideration any majority anymore. They respond to special interests and minority representations that meet the current political agenda and amplified for false credibility by the media.

Just like one person can get a school board to change something their child does not like in school.

Just like one person can object to the 10 commandments being in a public place.

Or how about the few who do not want to offend anybody by saying Merry CHRISTmas.

Sorry........your notion of ALL having to back a position does not work in America any more......and YOU know it!

Posted by Guest (Post 1084951)

so individuals should have no voice in government?

Posted by Guest (Post 1084951)

so individuals should have no voice in government?