A group called Reopen California Schools has posted screenshots of a Facebook post by a Latin teacher at a high school in the Sacramento City Unified School District in which he claims that parents pushing for the classrooms to reopen is proof of the structural white supremacy at work in the district. The teacher says that he read the post to the school board, then posted it to Facebook, and then “a bunch of Qarens and Qurts had a field day being offended that I was calling them white supremacists, while denying that the system they fully identified with in their defense was, in fact, structural white supremacist.”
Why wouldn’t he quit rather than work for a school district that’s structurally white supremacist? Oh, because he’s one of the good guys.
A @officialSCUSD teacher in Sacramento publicly calling parents white supremacists and bullies that speak in favor of in-person learning. I thought we were done with this.@officialSCUSD, please make sure the parents in your district get an apology. cc: @ScusdP https://t.co/eSFUBWvz8o pic.twitter.com/wVL9sJ6Y6e
— Reopen California Schools (@ReopenCASchools) March 29, 2021
His message to the board reads, in part (MOU is short for memorandum of understanding):
I come to you as a parent in full support of the teachers staying home in distance learning because it remains the safest and most humane practice. I’m as disappointed as I am unsurprised that last week, we all had to hear all the cynical, pearl-clutching, faux-urgency, ableist, structurally white-supremacist, hysteria, even as teachers were moving forward with an MOU that already put them in harm’s way and was asking too much of a beleaguered group of professionals.
This is not a country club. Our teachers are not the wait staff whom you callously and inhumanely disdain because they failed to anticipate that you wanted lime instead of lemon with your water when you walked in the door. This is a public service, aimed at educating your children so they grow up to be better than our generation. You set that back by quite a bit. And they’re watching.
He ends his post by saying, “I’m pretty goddamned done being polite and thinking there’s an acceptable middle ground on some topics. This is one of them.”
Holy shit that statement is appalling
— Andrea Howe (@andreavhowe) March 29, 2021
He also seems to think it’s appropriate to treat wait staff with distain… since they aren’t teachers. How about respect everybody, including parents?
— Reopen California Schools (@ReopenCASchools) March 29, 2021
Funny … on Facebook he says his occupation is stand-up comic.
This teacher’s claim of only an “entitled few” being verbal may or may not be accurate. But I sure hope the silent ones are running without looking back to permanent homeschooling or private schooling. Public schools are irreparably broken in many ways.
— Helen (@imladrisHB) March 29, 2021
Sigh… It looks like all the parents who are already busy trying to make ends meet are now going to have to set aside some time to organize and take over their school boards so they can bring them back to sanity. We need to purge this cult that's taking over the schools.
— Sal21 (@Sal214u) March 29, 2021
Dear students, this teacher is advocating that whether you show up or not, do the work or not everyone should get full credit. So have at it! don’t show up to his class, do the work, don’t do the work but don’t let him bully you in to anything but an A+
— FBAnalytics (@analytics_fb) March 29, 2021
Jesus, Mary, & Joseph. Their cult like behavior is getting scary. I honestly would not want my child spending 8 hours a day around someone like this.
— Closeted News Junkie (@NewsCloset) March 29, 2021
Wow this rant is insane.
— Joel Boyd (@JoelBoy59492364) March 29, 2021
I can’t believe people like this actually exist…
— agfiji1998 (@agfan98) March 29, 2021
We’re only now getting an idea of just how many actually exist.
Fire him. He shouldn’t be anywhere near kids w/his bigoted attitude
— C for LIBERTY ?? (@BeGr8fulBeFree) March 29, 2021
We’ll bet he thinks he’s saving the kids from their Qaren and Qurt parents … when he’s actually in a classroom with them, that is.
People need to remember this the next time the teachers' unions come to the public to demand more of your money. They claim they care about students. They care about themselves.
— War Machine (@OneMoreBrian) March 29, 2021
@officialSCUSD is a criminal, anti-student, parent-hating fraud that needs to be entirely replaced.
— The Decline and Fall of California (@decline_and) March 29, 2021
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 24, 2021
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