As a new teacher, a sickening amount of my Masters program was dedicated to how to push SocJus. We spent a week discussing a documentary on Trans people in Hawaii. I sat horrified in a room of English teachers discussing why it’s too problematic to teach Huck Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Great Garant in high school/ It’s a horrifying waste of time and priming terrible teachers. The only thing that kept me going was the fact that I could spite them all afterwards and teach my own curriculum. To unpozz this more people need to enter with that purpose.
Yes. Not a shred of self aware recognition of MeToo or feminism in general though; that’s not what bothered all of them. It was the fact that it has a ‘White Savior’ in Atticus Finch.
As a new teacher, a sickening amount of my Masters program was dedicated to how to push SocJus. We spent a week discussing a documentary on Trans people in Hawaii. I sat horrified in a room of English teachers discussing why it’s too problematic to teach Huck Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Great Garant in high school/ It’s a horrifying waste of time and priming terrible teachers. The only thing that kept me going was the fact that I could spite them all afterwards and teach my own curriculum. To unpozz this more people need to enter with that purpose.
As a senior graduating from a Virginia HS, thank you. We need more people/teachers like you.
Yes. Not a shred of self aware recognition of MeToo or feminism in general though; that’s not what bothered all of them. It was the fact that it has a ‘White Savior’ in Atticus Finch.