What Next - Best of 2021 | When the Culture War Comes For Your Job
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🗓️ 23 December 2021
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We’re re-running some of our favorite episodes from the past year. This episode originally aired in July 2021.
Brittany Hogan worked in diversity and inclusion for the Rockwood School District for eight years. As public debate intensified over the way race is discussed in schools and threats were made against her, Hogan eventually was pushed to resign.
Guest: Brittany Hogan, former director of educational equity and diversity for the Rockwood School District in St. Louis County.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, we are almost at Christmas. And right now, what next is taking a little break. |
| 0:10.1 | During that time, we're going to be looking back on some of our favorite episodes of 2021. |
| 0:16.0 | Today, an interview about what it meant to be an educator this year. |
| 0:21.6 | 2021 was defined in in part, by school board clashes caught on tape. These clashes, they show angry |
| 0:29.2 | parents berating elected officials. Sometimes it's over a mask mandate. Other times it's over |
| 0:34.3 | what the parents are calling critical race theory. And I wanted to know what it means to be on the receiving end of these kinds of battles. |
| 0:42.9 | So back in July, I called up Brittany Hogan. |
| 0:45.8 | She had been a diversity and inclusion educator in a Missouri school district up until this summer. |
| 0:53.2 | That's when those angry parents came for her and her job. |
| 1:02.5 | I wanted to know if Britney Hogan had watched those videos. |
| 1:06.5 | Who pays your salary? |
| 1:09.3 | This is an unawful arrest. I have a first amendment way. The ones from school This is an awful arrest. |
| 1:11.6 | I am a first amendment way. |
| 1:14.6 | The ones from school board meetings all over the country. |
| 1:17.6 | Just because I do not want critical race theory |
| 1:21.6 | taught to my children in school |
| 1:24.6 | does not mean that I'm a racist, damn it. |
| 1:28.3 | If you have materials that you're providing where it says if you were born a white |
| 1:31.3 | male, you were born an oppressor, you were abusing our children. |
| 1:34.3 | It was too familiar for me to even be comfortable watching that. |
| 1:41.3 | Brittany spent the last eight years working in a school district just outside St. Louis, Missouri. |
| 1:47.5 | So she's seen her own versions of these meetings. |
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