Thousands are signing a petition to try to help a teacher get her job back at Satellite High School. Brevard Public Schools said it isn’t renewing Melissa Calhoun’s contract for next year because she called a student by the name they wanted to be called by, not their legal name.
  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    124·
    3 days ago

    “She is irreplaceable, not only a good teacher, but significantly more importantly she is the kindest and most caring person I have ever met in my life,” one supporter commented.

    “Kindness and caring have no place in the classroom” - conservatives probably

    • Zahille7@lemmy.world
      18·
      2 days ago

      My mom’s (teacher) old boss (principal) literally told her that she shouldn’t even know what the kids do after they leave school, basically saying she shouldn’t care about the kids.

      Like why the fuck else do you become a teacher?!

    • Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.world
      231·
      2 days ago

      Probably because the most powerful conservatives all got to grow up in abusive boarding schools that disfigured their souls, deleted their empathy, and taught them how to savagely bully their way into power, humanity be damned.

      Source: Trailer for Boarding on Insanity