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The Erick Erickson Show

S11 EP136: Hour 2 - When Your Kid’s School Tells Her to Write a Suicide Note

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News, News Commentary

4.5874 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

A middle school teacher had a junior high class write suicide notes in order to gain empathy for marginalized communities.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erikson here across the nation. The phone number if you want to be on the show 877973, 745.

0:10.1

Got a number of people on the phones. I want to get to their phone calls first, but I got to preview something.

0:15.4

At the bottom of the hour, some of you probably send your kids to schools that do no homework.

0:24.6

Before COVID hit, a parent I am familiar with had his child in a public middle school in Georgia, in Cobb County.

0:45.1

And had the parent not pressured his child into telling him what was going on at school,

0:52.9

he would not have known that the band teacher

0:56.2

was giving extra credit to the girls

1:00.4

who would rub his back.

1:04.7

And he would not have known one of the assignments

1:09.0

was from a teacher essentially asking the kids to write from the perspective of a non-white person about life.

1:21.2

And once they had written it, to write a suicide note or essentially write a note as if that person no longer existed.

1:33.8

That's what the teacher was doing behind the parents' backs.

1:36.4

Essentially, for all intents and purposes, getting middle school kids to learn how to write suicide notes happening in a public school in the state of Georgia

1:48.1

without many parents knowing because they weren't getting homework home they had no idea this

1:54.7

happening and when the parent confronted the school the school said it was normal part of the curriculum what was the big, the school said it was normal, part of the curriculum.

2:01.6

What was the big deal?

2:03.6

The parent had to take his child out of the school and pay for private schooling so that his kid could escape what was happening.

2:13.6

The parent was the bad guy for asking questions and getting involved.

2:17.9

The school system belittle the parent.

2:21.5

I have that parent and he's going to join me at the bottom of the hour.

2:25.5

You're going to want to hear this wherever you are nationwide.

2:30.7

Before we get there, a lot of you, well, you know, something has happened.

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