Parents complain after teacher hands out 'privilege' survey

[Locutus]

TAMPA, FL (WTSP) - A Florida principal launched an investigation into a survey handed out to middle school students in Spanish class.

Some parents complained after their children were asked to complete a form titled, "How much privilege do you have?'

Students routinely fill out forms every year that ask their race and sex, but the form handed out at Monroe Middle School also asked about gender, sexual orientation and religion.

Regina Stile is the mother of one of the students who received the form.

"Her sexuality and all that has nothing to do with school," Stile said.

The form was handed out in a Spanish class to 7th and 8th graders

"She has ADHD and apparently the teacher said there are some kids in this class that have ADHD and ADHD is a mental illness and that's why she circled that," Stile said. "To me ADHD is not a mental disability it's something she has."

Other sections included religion and gender where kids were asked to circle Cisgender, Transgender or GenderQueer.

Stile said her daughter did not know what some of the terms meant.

"She's 12. some of these things should be taught at home," Stile said.

After Stile, along with several other angry parents, questioned the principal, he launched an investigation.

A school district spokesperson said the handout was not a district form.

"This is not a district form, this is a teacher generated form and it was without principal consent and at the district level we do not collect that information," Hillsborough County Schools spokesperson Tanya Arja said.

The students were not required to turn in the forms. The teacher said the goal was to teach them about diversity and inequality.

"To me that has nothing to do with Spanish," Stile said. "You're here to teach my daughter Spanish, not anything else."


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the teacher has been removed from the classroom pending the outcome of a district investigation.

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[Dixie Cup]

WTH?? What business is it of the teacher to ask such questions? As for asking for race or sex (M/F) - isn't that obvious? (orientation is no ones business unless one choses to disclose as far as I'm concerned).


Honestly.....

 

[Blackleaf]

I'd also complain over the fact that she's spelt "colour" wrong. It's typical of today's PC, right-on teachers that they're more concerned which teaching PC claptrap to pupils than teaching them proper spelling and grammar and, indeed, seem incapable of proper spelling and grammar themselves.

 

[Jinentonix]

I'd also complain over the fact that she's spelt "colour" wrong. It's typical of today's PC, right-on teachers that they're more concerned which teaching PC claptrap to pupils than teaching them proper spelling and grammar and, indeed, seem incapable of proper spelling and grammar themselves.

The missing "u" is American English spelling. You won't find a teacher in America the spells colour with a "u". Even on this forum board you can tell it's actually an American set up when spell correction red underlines the word "colour", or neighbour. Heck, when I just typed neighbour it tried to auto-correct the "u".


Besides the world doesn't need English lessons from idiots that use words like, boot, bonnet, lorry, brolly/bumbershoot. And never mind that guttural Cockney mess.

 

[Blackleaf]

You won't find a teacher in America the spells colour with a "u".

There's no such thing as "American English spelling". Americans spell words wrongly. It really is as simple as that.

Besides the world doesn't need English lessons from idiots that use words like, boot, bonnet, lorry, brolly/bumbershoot. And never mind that guttural Cockney mess.

The English invented the English language, hence its name. You can hardly claim that English English is the wrong way of speaking the language. Don't forget, your way of speaking sounds just as silly to us. And it's the wrong way.

 

[taxslave]

There's no such thing as "American English spelling". Americans spell words wrongly. It really is as simple as that.

The English invented the English language, hence its name. You can hardly claim that English English is the wrong way of speaking the language. Don't forget, your way of speaking sounds just as silly to us. And it's the wrong way.

Then why is it none of you can speak it?

 

[Angstrom]

Looks like liberal guilt is started young.

 

[Locutus]

 

[damngrumpy]

Oh yes there is an American spelling for color and neighbor for that matter.
As for the kids they didn't need this inflicted upon them by people who can't
mind their own business. I object to a lot of things when it came to the
school system. For example in some regions grade twelve had to complete
a certain number of hours volunteering in the community as part of the good
citizen thing. It should be voluntary as some didn't want to give the time of day
to others. I have been a KInsman and in other organizations and I think to be
a volunteer is a good thing but it should not be mandatory.

 

[Locutus]

Rule #1: Lefties Project



College Fix on the attempted indoctrination of middle school 12-year-olds:

A Tampa, Florida, mother was livid after her seventh grade daughter brought home an assignment – from her Spanish class – asking about students’ so-called privilege.

Apparently, being a white-skinned child automatically means you’re “privileged” and by implication guilty. The teacher in question also felt that the 12-year-old children should announce whether they were intersex or “genderqueer.”

Peter Fricke finds the obligatory campus blather about “diversity” somewhat superficial:

Unable to prevent Ben Shapiro from speaking at Penn State despite aggressive chanting, student protestors vented their frustration by defacing flyers and throwing papers on the floor.

There’s more, but the self-righteous littering pretty much sums it up. Shapiro’s talk, video of which is here,

was on what happens when “diversity” ideology and leftist censoriousness stifle free speech and intellectual pluralism. An irony that may have escaped the protesting students, who were busy feeling pleased with themselves while threatening violence if the talk didn’t stop and drawing swastikas on the face of a Jewish visitor.

And in entirely unrelated news, the Wall Street Journal reports:

More than 40% of Americans who borrowed from the government’s main student-loan program aren’t making payments or are behind on more than $200 billion owed, raising worries that millions of them may never repay.


davidthompson: Elsewhere (195)

 

[Jinentonix]

There's no such thing as "American English spelling". Americans spell words wrongly. It really is as simple as that.

The English invented the English language, hence its name. You can hardly claim that English English is the wrong way of speaking the language. Don't forget, your way of speaking sounds just as silly to us. And it's the wrong way.

I'm not American, dummy.
Figures though, the "English" invented the English language, which probably explains why it's the dog's breakfast of languages. And yes, Virginia, there is such as thing as American English.

 

[Blackleaf]

which probably explains why it's the dog's breakfast of languages.

And it's the most widely-spoken and most successful language on Earth.

 

[Jinentonix]

Rule #1: Lefties Project



College Fix on the attempted indoctrination of middle school 12-year-olds:

A Tampa, Florida, mother was livid after her seventh grade daughter brought home an assignment – from her Spanish class – asking about students’ so-called privilege.

Apparently, being a white-skinned child automatically means you’re “privileged” and by implication guilty. The teacher in question also felt that the 12-year-old children should announce whether they were intersex or “genderqueer.”

Peter Fricke finds the obligatory campus blather about “diversity” somewhat superficial:

Unable to prevent Ben Shapiro from speaking at Penn State despite aggressive chanting, student protestors vented their frustration by defacing flyers and throwing papers on the floor.

There’s more, but the self-righteous littering pretty much sums it up. Shapiro’s talk, video of which is here,

was on what happens when “diversity” ideology and leftist censoriousness stifle free speech and intellectual pluralism. An irony that may have escaped the protesting students, who were busy feeling pleased with themselves while threatening violence if the talk didn’t stop and drawing swastikas on the face of a Jewish visitor.

And in entirely unrelated news, the Wall Street Journal reports:

More than 40% of Americans who borrowed from the government’s main student-loan program aren’t making payments or are behind on more than $200 billion owed, raising worries that millions of them may never repay.


davidthompson: Elsewhere (195)

No worries. They'll just send a SWAT team to their house to collect the money or arrest them. They've done it before. Debtors prisons are making a comeback in the US under O'Bummer.