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kendra baker is a kentucky teacher she's under fire because there's a picture
circulating of her white board in her classroom high school class from south
laurel county high school
that says
can't be a democrat and go to heaven
so this picture and maybe we can get that picture up
you can't be a democrat and go to heaven
is the source of a lot of controversy now i'd initially heard this and was
quote outraged as so many liberals were but i did a little bit more
investigation
and it seems that there may be more to this story in other words what may have
been the case here
is that students were asked to give opinions about different political
issues and this was a quote and in fact when you look at the picture of the
quote written on the whiteboard there are quotation marks around it now i have
to say i would feel very differently about this if she was simply writing
something that a student had set up on the board and that it was being analyzed
however it sounds like you could have been an exercise in critical thinking
in what sense
mike what do you think about all i see where that is how is this
how is this ridiculous were you know
does this make any sense
tell me what you think about that that's right so there was an investigation in
the officials in the district said that the teacher violated the policy
of maintaining a positive learning environment which is fostered by mutual
respect and trust and that with this message up on the board you're not going
to foster mutual respect
and trust
i have to say though if this was an idea that the teacher was putting up there
i am i am absolutely against it however
if this was just something someone in the class said that's another thing how
however there's another aspect here
which is that this student who allegedly set this which eventually was written up
on the board
is now being shaped
i can understand that is a serious problem now yeah the student being
bullied because of this message that they put up although obviously i don't
agree with the message
right now i mean he is just something the students is in the classroom
are you able to talk about that no matter what that student says i mean if
a student says something
uh... date is
it is off the table was defeated you say
pretend he didn't say that no one heard that we're not going to talk about that
let's continue with a lesson plan right it's possible that this teacher is a
world
person playing political messages about the board
it's possible that the teacher was in a pretty difficult situation of having to
analyze orange regardless commodore interesting comment that was made in her
classroom absolutely so we'll keep our minds open
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