Post by The Jiggler on Feb 10, 2017 19:22:35 GMT -4
Good morning, afternoon, evening, night. I'm here to complain about my US History teacher.
So I'm in 8th grade, US History, and I have a liberal feminist for my US History teacher, who's name is Ms. Zilinski. Now, she and I have a healthy student-teacher relationship, we both respect each other and we do our work. At least we did until this past three months. After January 20 (US Presidential Inauguration Day), she began to spew liberal propaganda and continue to demean Donald Trump and his presidential policies. I don't have a problem with this, although a multitude of her arguments was redundant and overall just bad, it was her opinion and I respect that; for it was within her First Amendment right to share her opinion. But in the past three to five weeks, her views of radicalized and she's literally trying to brainwash our class.
A bit of background, I am a Caucasian/Asian male (English & Korean) who is 14 with brown hair and brown eyes and I align myself as a conservative democrat, and so do multiple political compass tests. I'm raised in a republican conservative household with my grandparents with a liberal mom who isn't aligned with a political party (she believes voting is pointless). I would describe myself as very knowledgeable with politics, although, I haven't been frivolously reading the news recently, as it's just chock-full with shit about Donald Trump and his controversial policies. I am not a Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton supporter. If anything, I would've voted for Bernie Sanders. I've grown up in a Hispanic community with very little if any other Caucasian families. Which isn't a problem, while I remain unprejudiced, my mother is extremely prejudiced against Hispanics and African-Americans, while my grandfather is only slightly prejudiced with African-Americans (although, he grew up in a very racist family that lived in Louisiana and moved to Texas). I've lived with my mother and grandparents for 14 years and grew up without a father.
Now here's some information about Ms. Zilinski (to what I know). She's a hardcore LGBTQ supporter, is liberal, a feminist/radical gender activist, die-hard Clinton supporter, and a democrat. She is obese and lived in Ireland and Scotland for awhile. She was born in Boston, doesn't have a boyfriend, and relies on two cats for companionship at home. She even named the fictional currency we use in our classroom "Filos", which is the name of one her cats. She's a very interactive person and will talk to you about most things but when it comes to putting in grades, giving out assignments, or helping students, her work ethic is minimal. She takes 5 out of 6 weeks to put in grades, which stresses out many students and then she'll just talk to the girls for the entire period of actually teaching. It's so bad that the only other US History teacher in the 8th grade is about 10 readings (what we use to start new units in our curriculum) ahead of us.
Recently, she's been talking about the Resistance. She brought it up on Tuesday; we were all working on a US reading assignment and she stopped the class to talk to us. She had arranged our seating chart and fixed the tables in V-shapes spanning across the room that day, and made us put our book bags and electronic devices in a corner of the room since we failed the US History midterm (probably because we didn't know half of the curriculum) so she was mad. Then she started saying that there's been a lot of stuff going on with Donald Trump with the "Muslim Ban" and "the Wall". She said that she had heard a rumor that ICE (U.S. Immigrations & Customs Enforcement), or Immigration or Narks (so called by my peers) were going to be conducting raids on sanctuary cities, mass-arresting illegal immigrants. She warned us that unless they have a warrant or a permit that allows them to enter our house to not answer the door. She said ICE was doing this so that they could shut down this so-called "Resistance". After the period ended, my peers and I ridiculed her and commented on how fucking retarded that sounded, like there was this "big movement" going on.
Today, she began to talk about it again. She said she had seen ICE officers "raiding" houses and "mass-arresting Resistance members" on social media, and that her friends had seen it too. When she had just started talking about it, I had shouted out "Viva la Résistance!", naturally, as it was the most appropriate response. This gained a class-wide chuckle but she just looked at me, saying three or four times that this was not a joke. So I decided to quiet down before she tried to get my Vice Principal to suspend me for disrupting the classroom. As she went on about the ICE sightings, she reminded everyone about the warrant/permit thing and that we should upload any sightings we see to social media. When she asked for questions, I had asked her, politely, "Ms. Zilinski, do the officers have guns?" and she just stared at me and said, "This is not a joke. Stop making jokes, you're obviously not going to be affected, and you're not scared like many of your classmates may be." And when I told her that I wasn't joking, she insisted that I was and I responded calmly by saying "I'm glad we came to this compromise."
After she finished her tangent, many of my classmates came up to me and started talking about how bullshit the whole thing was, since I was asking a legitimate question and she had shut me down. Many of my classmates also said that it was racist and sexist since I was a white male and she had assumed that I was legal (which I am). I brought up the fact to many of my classmates that I could be an illegal Canadian, European, Russian, etc. and they agreed that she shouldn't have said what she said. We've made another joke about her already and consistently josh around about her ignorance.
So I came to a.) vent, b.) ask for third-party opinions. I wanted to know what you guys thought about the whole thing. So let loose.
So I'm in 8th grade, US History, and I have a liberal feminist for my US History teacher, who's name is Ms. Zilinski. Now, she and I have a healthy student-teacher relationship, we both respect each other and we do our work. At least we did until this past three months. After January 20 (US Presidential Inauguration Day), she began to spew liberal propaganda and continue to demean Donald Trump and his presidential policies. I don't have a problem with this, although a multitude of her arguments was redundant and overall just bad, it was her opinion and I respect that; for it was within her First Amendment right to share her opinion. But in the past three to five weeks, her views of radicalized and she's literally trying to brainwash our class.
A bit of background, I am a Caucasian/Asian male (English & Korean) who is 14 with brown hair and brown eyes and I align myself as a conservative democrat, and so do multiple political compass tests. I'm raised in a republican conservative household with my grandparents with a liberal mom who isn't aligned with a political party (she believes voting is pointless). I would describe myself as very knowledgeable with politics, although, I haven't been frivolously reading the news recently, as it's just chock-full with shit about Donald Trump and his controversial policies. I am not a Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton supporter. If anything, I would've voted for Bernie Sanders. I've grown up in a Hispanic community with very little if any other Caucasian families. Which isn't a problem, while I remain unprejudiced, my mother is extremely prejudiced against Hispanics and African-Americans, while my grandfather is only slightly prejudiced with African-Americans (although, he grew up in a very racist family that lived in Louisiana and moved to Texas). I've lived with my mother and grandparents for 14 years and grew up without a father.
Now here's some information about Ms. Zilinski (to what I know). She's a hardcore LGBTQ supporter, is liberal, a feminist/radical gender activist, die-hard Clinton supporter, and a democrat. She is obese and lived in Ireland and Scotland for awhile. She was born in Boston, doesn't have a boyfriend, and relies on two cats for companionship at home. She even named the fictional currency we use in our classroom "Filos", which is the name of one her cats. She's a very interactive person and will talk to you about most things but when it comes to putting in grades, giving out assignments, or helping students, her work ethic is minimal. She takes 5 out of 6 weeks to put in grades, which stresses out many students and then she'll just talk to the girls for the entire period of actually teaching. It's so bad that the only other US History teacher in the 8th grade is about 10 readings (what we use to start new units in our curriculum) ahead of us.
Recently, she's been talking about the Resistance. She brought it up on Tuesday; we were all working on a US reading assignment and she stopped the class to talk to us. She had arranged our seating chart and fixed the tables in V-shapes spanning across the room that day, and made us put our book bags and electronic devices in a corner of the room since we failed the US History midterm (probably because we didn't know half of the curriculum) so she was mad. Then she started saying that there's been a lot of stuff going on with Donald Trump with the "Muslim Ban" and "the Wall". She said that she had heard a rumor that ICE (U.S. Immigrations & Customs Enforcement), or Immigration or Narks (so called by my peers) were going to be conducting raids on sanctuary cities, mass-arresting illegal immigrants. She warned us that unless they have a warrant or a permit that allows them to enter our house to not answer the door. She said ICE was doing this so that they could shut down this so-called "Resistance". After the period ended, my peers and I ridiculed her and commented on how fucking retarded that sounded, like there was this "big movement" going on.
Today, she began to talk about it again. She said she had seen ICE officers "raiding" houses and "mass-arresting Resistance members" on social media, and that her friends had seen it too. When she had just started talking about it, I had shouted out "Viva la Résistance!", naturally, as it was the most appropriate response. This gained a class-wide chuckle but she just looked at me, saying three or four times that this was not a joke. So I decided to quiet down before she tried to get my Vice Principal to suspend me for disrupting the classroom. As she went on about the ICE sightings, she reminded everyone about the warrant/permit thing and that we should upload any sightings we see to social media. When she asked for questions, I had asked her, politely, "Ms. Zilinski, do the officers have guns?" and she just stared at me and said, "This is not a joke. Stop making jokes, you're obviously not going to be affected, and you're not scared like many of your classmates may be." And when I told her that I wasn't joking, she insisted that I was and I responded calmly by saying "I'm glad we came to this compromise."
After she finished her tangent, many of my classmates came up to me and started talking about how bullshit the whole thing was, since I was asking a legitimate question and she had shut me down. Many of my classmates also said that it was racist and sexist since I was a white male and she had assumed that I was legal (which I am). I brought up the fact to many of my classmates that I could be an illegal Canadian, European, Russian, etc. and they agreed that she shouldn't have said what she said. We've made another joke about her already and consistently josh around about her ignorance.
So I came to a.) vent, b.) ask for third-party opinions. I wanted to know what you guys thought about the whole thing. So let loose.
