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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTexas teacher receiving death threats after GOP state rep blasts anti-Trump assignment
BY MORGAN GSTALTER - 03/29/19 08:02 AM EDT
A Texas teacher has reportedly been receiving death threats since Texas State Rep. Briscoe Cain (R) called for the instructor to be fired over what he called an anti-Trump assignment that questioned whether the president should be in office.
A Goose Creek CISD 7th-grade teacher, who was not identified, handed out an assignment that included 10 student-written essays that were each paired with a set of critical-thinking questions, The Houston Chronicle reported Wednesday.
Cains objections center around one essay by a student named Parker entitled Trump Against American Values from the website Youth Voices.
This individual has violated the sacred trust that every parent has with the State of Texas when they sent their child into a public school, Cain wrote on Facebook. They have lost that privilege of being in a classroom with Texas children, and forfeit the title of teacher.
No teacher should attempt to indoctrinate a child to their ideology, no matter who is in the White House, he added.
Goose Creek Superintendent Randal O'Brien said in a statement to the Chronicle that the teacher did not use good judgment and said it was the matter was settled internally.
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Texas teacher receiving death threats after GOP state rep blasts anti-Trump assignment (Original Post)
DonViejo
Mar 2019
OP
Bc the presidents words should be from his lips to gods ears...through texans heads.
Chin music
Mar 2019
#7
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)1. They really are deplorable! Nt
Girard442
(6,087 posts)2. Death threats -- Now there's a lesson for you little buggers.
Moostache
(9,897 posts)3. President Yellow Snowflake is upset...ALL must pay (fuck him)
Fuck you Trumpeter Texan, but fuck your ass ferret idol harder.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)4. I was in high school during the Carter administration
I had several essay and debate assignments that were critical of Jimmy Carter and his policies.
I bet if you scratch the surface during the Obama administration, you would see plenty of writing assignments critical of Obama.
Ilsa
(61,710 posts)5. As long as the assignment was
contained to objective material like facts about policy, preparedness to be president, and not anything personal, like golden showers, screwing porn stars, etc, it's a good critical thinking exercise.
sinkingfeeling
(51,490 posts)6. But constantly blasting their 'christianity' is alright?
Chin music
(23,002 posts)7. Bc the presidents words should be from his lips to gods ears...through texans heads.
The idea that teachers should say this guy is good is chilling. Maybe the kids can say "bullshit' now in school too, as a term of reference. Stone age christian taliban thinking.
Initech
(100,129 posts)8. What a bunch of fucking assholes.
Calling them "deplorable" is an understatement.