Meet the Pensacola English teacher waging war on books

I like this idea but my experience is once you get the adulation somehow you shift from playing a role to being a true believer. Lush Rimshot is a prime example.

 

Tell me you don't interact with kids in real life without telling me you don't interact with kids in real life.

 

I wish the market would take care of this. Anybody who openly denies service for stupid reasons doesn’t want my patronage.

 

If an elementary school student could sit down, read the actual bible, and get anything out of it, he's going to turn out just fine. Adult themes are hardly going to derail him. I don't see why anyone would want to hamper someone that precocious by consigning him to kids' picture books.

 

I wish I could remember the quote and who said it but the gist was banning books that children can read results in children who are just as ignorant and closed minded as the book banners.

 

If we're going to allow such discrimination (and I'm not saying we should), I suppose we could require businesses to post their restrictions on the storefronts, websites, etc., so potential customers would at least know, and if they don't comply with those requirements, they would lose that defense.

 

So are books where a kid have a mommy and daddy are okay but a book where a penguin has two dads is not.

 

I like that and I would like a way to keep a tally so a business could see how being a backward looking bigot costs them.

 

Yeah, with the Bible, we're also talking about very lengthy and dense text with many versions at least being written in a way that even many adults miss a lot if they're not relying upon summaries written by other people. If a kid is mature enough to voluntarily sit down, focus, and comprehend passages about "spilling seed," I imagine they're probably mature enough to digest what they're reading and have already been exposed to these concepts anyway.

 

Alright if it doesn’t work, then schools should stop trying. When schools stop trying, I will too.

 

Under traditional standards including that of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden 15 years ago… yes.

Now the law may make things dicey, but that doesn’t change the status quo for the bulk of human history.

 

You are a true conservative. You probably don’t realize that that is an insult.

 

To you it is, to me it isn't.

I'm not arrogant enough to think we're that much smarter than everyone who came before us.

 

I don’t think I know more than everyone who came before me. I just know that I learned more math and physics than newton was taught in school. I bow to his genius that figured out more than I ever learned or was taught.

 

The point I was trying to make was that you are okay with teaching things like you were taught like a family means a husband and a wife and their natural born children. I don’t know if that was the norm at any time.

 

You don't know if it was the norm to consider a "family" as "a husband, wife, and their children?"

 

I support gay marriage on a state law level, and I support the rights of gay couples to adopt children. I believe people are born gay and can’t be turned straight no matter how much anyone tries. And, I’m fine with these books being available to high school and perhaps even middle school students.

You’re talking to the wrong guy to accuse of something like that.

I support the idea, but that doesn’t mean everyone else has to, and it’s not the school’s role to push that view on children.

If you think politically charged books for children are age appropriate I hope conservatives start pushing conservative propaganda books for children in school libraries, we’ll see how much you like it then. The second you cry foul I will remind you of this conversation.