S12 EP119: Hour 3 - The Teacher, the Spin, and the Reality
The Erick Erickson Show
Erick Erickson
4.5 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The media ran crazy with a story about a teacher getting fired over a book she made her 5th grade class read but they missed a lot of the actual facts surrounding her termination plus No Labels is really giving the left heartburn.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our Three. |
| 0:12.8 | Greetings America. It's Eric Erickson here. I hope you're doing well. The phone number is 877-97-9-73-7-4-25. if you want to be on the phones. Y'all, I got a story that I just, |
| 0:27.9 | I'm actually really genuinely proud of my local newspaper for doing this, considering they |
| 0:34.9 | kind of elevated this person. So let me explain. |
| 0:40.2 | It is increasingly obvious from TikTok and other outlets that there are a large number |
| 0:48.3 | of progressive teachers in our elementary and secondary schools who view part of their job as |
| 0:57.0 | pushing the great awakening in indoctrinating students into left-wing ideology and left-wing |
| 1:04.5 | clauses. And there are a number of teachers who do the all shucks innocence routine who are not so innocent. |
| 1:18.6 | We've seen this in Florida with the parental rights and education bill that the left called the don't say gay law, overwhelmingly backed by parents, including Democratic parents in the state. |
| 1:31.6 | 60% voter support. |
| 1:33.3 | And all it said is you're not going to teach about sexuality and gender in elementary school. |
| 1:38.2 | And parents like that. |
| 1:39.7 | But the left hated it. |
| 1:40.9 | And you saw a number of teachers do things to get themselves fired and the media has made them |
| 1:47.5 | celebrities for their activism. |
| 1:50.9 | They're not educating kids. |
| 1:53.1 | They're being activists. |
| 1:56.2 | A story broke out in the Metro Atlanta suburb of Cobb County. |
| 2:05.4 | A teacher is facing termination. |
| 2:09.6 | She read a book to her class called My Shadow is Purple, and she says it's a book about inclusion. |
| 2:24.5 | This is how the story was originally framed in the local newspaper, the Atlanta Journal |
| 2:31.9 | Constitution. |
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