• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    I agree with your intended message, but this is a really weird way to say it.

    If I was a teacher at an elementary school intentionally teaching children that addition is actually subtraction, I would be fired to teaching children “wrong” ideas.

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      1 year ago

      Forcing teachers spread propaganda and erasing history is quite different than having an incompetent teacher.

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          If a teacher started rambling about how the Holocaust never happened and that certain races are inferior, I would absolutely be in support of firing that teacher for teaching the “wrong” ideas.

          The challenge is how we decide which ideas are wrong, not whether or not to fire the teacher.

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          No it absolutely is, you’re just conflating (possibly deliberately to be obtuse IDK) multiple meanings of the word wrong when the quote is clearly only using one.

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      1 year ago

      Not really. Wrong here has multiple meanings that are being conflated. You’re talking about wrong meaning factually incorrect while it’s being used to mean not the propagandist’s preferred idea. Yeah, you’d be fired for teaching something factually incorrect. But that’s not the same thing as being fired for not teaching the propaganda the state wants to push.

  • WtfEvenIsExistence3️@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Well I’m sure in modern Germany, teachers can be fired for promoting nazism, probably even face jail time. Firing people for doing the wrong thing is a good thing. But you just need to have the right people making the decision of what’s right and what’s wrong, and unfortunately, florida does not have the right people to make those determinations. Bad people in power will declare that good things are bad, and that’s the problem.

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    1 year ago

    Teachers can be fired anywhere for teaching the wrong thing. I’m sure teachers in New York can be fired for teaching creationism and not evolution. It’s all a matter of perspective.