My daughter just told me none of her teachers talked about or mentioned a single thing about the election.

[The Intergalactic Koala]

They closed up the schools in Koalabama to get folks to vote

 

[the cac mamba]

my parents were teachers, and this doesn't remotely surprise me nowadays

you think they want parents calling in, yelling "my kid was told to vote for trump/kamala/etc"? i'm sure they explicitly tell them to avoid this shyt

 

[ScoopNScore]

The reason they weren't informed about voting is because they are in 10th grade, and on average, are too young to vote. When she pursues higher education, these resources will be provided to her.

 

[Big Boss]

They got bills to pay

 

[Uachet]

As a parent, I would not want any teachers trying to indoctrinate my child into voting the way they wanted. I rather that discussion be left up to the parents of the children. Teach the children reading comprehension and mathematics so they are able to understand the issues and make informed decisions for themselves. Do not sit there and tell children how they should be voting, because that is not a Teacher's place to do.

 

[DetroitEWarren]

I never said anything about telling kids to vote for somebody or showing any bias.

Speaking on the country electing a fascist is an important conversation, you don't have to take a side to address the issue at hand.

Once again, it's a weak ass approach and one of the reasons we no longer have strong black leaders. People are in fear of the "possibility" of something happening that's not a guarantee or an actual law (if it is ive never heard of it). Teachers used to inform us on political candidates when I was that age.

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

Legally you really can’t talk about politics. Same way you can’t talk about religion or controversial topics.

Quick way to be in a ALCU lawsuit, especially with cell phones. You literally warned against this in in-service every year.

A lot of this is not an issue in Detroit . Damn near all the parents,kids and teachers believe in the same things

you can talk about a whole lot of shyt you legally can’t if you actually care enough to do so in an educational way.

in middle school here kids are expected to know about Globalization’,Outsourcing,and Trade agreements …a teacher would actually have to go out of their way not to mention politics


This isn’t a legal thing ….whoever her civics/Econ or whatever teacher just bytched out


I get why a math/reading/science teacher wouldn’t say anything about it .

Only way I could otherwise see this happening if his daughter isn’t taking some type of social studies class and has some shyt like Psychology instead

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

As a parent, I would not want any teachers trying to indoctrinate my child into voting the way they wanted. I rather that discussion be left up to the parents of the children. Teach the children reading comprehension and mathematics so they are able to understand the issues and make informed decisions for themselves. Do not sit there and tell children how they should be voting, because that is not a Teacher's place to do.

he didn’t say anything about directing kids on how to vote .

 

[Uachet]

I never said anything about telling kids to vote for somebody or showing any bias.

Speaking on the country electing a fascist is an important conversation, you don't have to take a side to address the issue at hand.

Once again, it's a weak ass approach and one of the reasons we no longer have strong black leaders. People are in fear of the "possibility" of something happening that's not a guarantee or an actual law (if it is ive never heard of it). Teachers used to inform us on political candidates when I was that age.

We don't have strong Black leaders because we have a dearth of strong Black families. Strong Black leaders are not created in a vacuum and they are not created by school systems, they are created by strong family structures. We want to have strong leaders again with strong close nit communities, we have to first repair our families. That is not going to happen via voting, that is going to happen by us changing our paradigm to be Black family focused first.

Also, the wages of Fascism should already be taught in World History classes. If that is not happening, then the parents need to go to the school boards and ask why it is not happening. That act again requires strong families to keep the school systems in line, by showing they will vote out the School Board members who are on BS time.

 

[Dwayne_Taylor]

They want to keep their jobs. Not surprised

 

[Uachet]

he didn’t say anything about directing kids on how to vote .

The bias nature of many people on politics excludes them from being able to talk about politics without expressing their own views on the issues. I do not have enough faith in others to remain unbiased when discussing this issue, and therefor I rather it be kept in the hands of the parents. Teach the children how to understand and parse information, do not discuss politics in any form in the classroom outside of historical information that is needed to understand our past as a nation and the world.

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

The bias nature of many people on politics excludes them from being able to talk about politics without expressing their own views on the issues. I do not have enough faith in others to remain unbiased when discussing this issue, and therefor I rather it be kept in the hands of the parents. Teach the children how to understand and parse information, do not discuss politics in any form in the classroom outside of historical information that is needed to understand our past as a nation and the world.

And this is the quickest way to lose todays kids

It may work for you and yours but for the vast majority especially in inner cities telling a kid to ask their parents is the same thing as telling them to ask the wall.

 

[Elim Garak]

They were probably instructed not to do so because it is too divisive.

 

[Don Snow]

I never said anything about telling kids to vote for somebody or showing any bias.

Speaking on the country electing a fascist is an important conversation, you don't have to take a side to address the issue at hand.

Once again, it's a weak ass approach and one of the reasons we no longer have strong black leaders. People are in fear of the "possibility" of something happening that's not a guarantee or an actual law (if it is ive never heard of it). Teachers used to inform us on political candidates when I was that age.

You want them to talk about Trump being a fascist and think their jobs won’t be at risk



You’re the parent that’s your job


Besides explaining the system of checks and balances and all the branches of government speaking on politics in school is very slippery slope

 

[Based Lord Zedd]

I never said anything about telling kids to vote for somebody or showing any bias.

Speaking on the country electing a fascist is an important conversation, you don't have to take a side to address the issue at hand.

Once again, it's a weak ass approach and one of the reasons we no longer have strong black leaders. People are in fear of the "possibility" of something happening that's not a guarantee or an actual law (if it is ive never heard of it). Teachers used to inform us on political candidates when I was that age.

They don't need to discuss the candidates, the parties, or their positions.

Simply encourage people to vote/register and let them know when elections are. This seems like an easy tie into social studies or whatever it's called now.

The goal should be driving up youth turnout and creating lifelong voters, regardless of party.

But then again our schools are a joke and don't do enough to prep people for reality.