Seattle teacher allegedly told students identifying as 'straight' is offensive

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[–]ClassroomPast6178 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah, some of the things that I see American teachers doing, and by “some” I mean “lots of”, are just creepy as fuck and even more that that it is often really difficult to discern what the learning intention/learning objective was or why that LI/LO existed.

There is no reason to discuss a child’s sexuality or the teacher’s sexuality with the class or even ask it as a task that isn’t shared. And if your LI/LO requires that you do that you either need to revise your LI/LO, alter the task or just come up with a different way of teaching.

Personally, I would not teach a lesson that required that even if I were teaching 17/18 year olds. If I observed a colleague doing that, and I was in a management position, I would be conducting a deep dive into the colleague’s lesson plans and the children’s work and potentially observing more of that teacher’s lessons with a view to starting competency proceedings. At the very least there would be a very serious conversation in the presence of HR and their union rep.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I just fail to see why you'd want to be eliciting identity statements from the students in general. If the students volunteer it of their own free will that's one thing, but for the teacher to request that information from every student as part of a class assignment seems like it's breech of privacy to me. Would it be appropriate to query the students medical history for a class on health? I don't think so. You don't need to know which students have or are at risk of having cancer to teach the students what cancer is. (It's another matter if a student with cancer experience decides of their own volition to share their experience with the class)

I fail to see how sexuality is any different.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You might ask where a student’s family comes from. I have a big world map on the wall and I put a photo of each child and link it to the UK and where the child or their parents are from with a thread. The children have always loved it and it makes the point that whilst they might all come from different places they have all made the UK their home.

But that’s about it. I don’t ever ask about religion (the Muslim kids always tell you, without fail and repeatedly), or anything else. The stuff we need to know for admin reasons is obviously collected but from the parents and it’s confidential.

It’s remarkable what little children will voluntarily tell you, to the point that I often have to ask them to stop sharing.