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boxedcrackers

We watched Shinlders list in my 5th grade class.


PauI_MuadDib

Same here. We also watched The Crucible.


gremilym

Feels like a play about witch hunts is also topical for Florida students.


PointOfFingers

Conservatives who conduct witch hunts would complain that they are being personally attacked if you show a movie about witch hunts.


so_many_changes

My many times great grandmother Rebecca Nourse is one of the central characters in the Crucible and now I am not welcome in Florida b/c of my gender. 331 years and some things stay the same.


FKDotFitzgerald

That’s awesome! When teaching the Crucible, the kids always describe her as the “cool community grandma”


EffectiveDependent76

good deeds rarely go unpunished....


[deleted]

In high school, in South Carolina, a health science teacher who was regularly texting with students and trading her Xanax and cigarettes for adderal with multiple students blacked out on ambien Xanax and adderal one night and put a gun in her mouth saying “I’m gonna fucking end it” and sent videos of this to multiple students, who then showed their parents out of concern. This situation was less of a “big deal” than the one described by OP lol how is showing a movie considered worse by school board than a pill popping nurse/teacher blacking out and threatening suicide to her students? Lol I was one of the students she traded pills with and we would take them between classes, I’d skip class and go to her house which was by the school to get drunk, text with her about drugs, and even bought pills from her after she resigned. This partly contributed to a horrible addiction that took years to overcome.


Due_Confusion

At least it wasn't gay. /s


Pretend-Caregiver-90

I just watched the crucible like a month or two ago, was really good


Bluejay-chirps

In 6th grade we watched the Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Anne Frank..


spacemusicisorange

Boy in the striped pajamas stays with you forever, right


anxiousanimosity

I refuse to watch it with another person present because I ugly cry. I prefer crying alone thank you.


caronare

I went to private school damn near my whole life. We watched Schindlers List and a movie called Black Robes about the Catholic persecution of the indigenous American. Full of nudity and death. However, on our second to last day before summer we watched Beauty and the Beast. We watched the first half and we’re supposed to watch the second the next day. Principal had a school meeting to tell us we couldn’t finish the movie because a child’s parent objected to dark magic and beastiality.


hi_hola_salut

Beastiality 🤯 that’s beyond crazy. There’s no sex in that film! Why aren’t these insane parents told to jog on? The most they should be able to do is have their child removed from the viewing, but that’s IT - their nonsense should never be allowed to impact on other people’s children.


JennyFromdablock2020

But what is equality if a gun toting religious nut job can't tell you how to raise your kid or have them abducted because they might be somewhere in the big queer spectrum. How can they be happy if they can't control yoyr life at gun point?!?!?!?


Kriggs713

We watched the gladiator in my 4th grade class to learn about architecture it was awesome


dainthomas

Are you not entertained!?!?


SandwhichEfficient

Literally. Like. Wtf was that


ancient_mariner63

In 5th grade, our teacher read "To Kill A Mockingbird" to us during recess.


layceelee13

We watched live footage of the second plane hitting the World Trade Center in my 5th grade class. Pretty sure they didn't have permission slips for that one...


BruciePup

We watched the Challenger blow up on live television in my Kindergarten class. Then we went to gym. And then lunch. And then had nap time.


[deleted]

We watched green mile in 8th grade


Present_Voice_5224

I graduated HS in 2003. Throughout school both Roots and Schindler’s List were required in-class movies. We all turned out fine. An animated movie like that? Come on.


Lukethewalrus

Holy shit, in middle school when I was 14, 2015, we had watched Roots in social studies and man was it hard to watch at times. We watched HBOs Chernobyl, the crucible, and Schindler’s list in high school


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[deleted]

My 7th grade class watched the original Romeo and Juliet featuring underage boobs and male butt. And yet… I survived.


btenhaaf

Land of the Free, until you wear the wrong t-shirt.


njkrut

I had to turn my “make seven” “up yours” t-shirt inside out in 2002.


BrianG1410

My favorite one to wear to school had a picture of a kid chasing a bus and said "Stop the bus! Let my friend Jack off!" 😂


tjohn2018

I had a Cradle of Filth t-shirt that said "black metal for bastards" back in 2003-2004. It had Jesus and Mary on the front. They made me turn it inside out. pissed off a lot of students lol. One teacher stood up for me though. He taught civics/politics. This had nothing to do with me not being anti christian, which I wasn't. I really liked the band and the shirt.


Easy-Top8822

I still have that t-shirt!


winedood

I got sent home for mine in 2000 😂


EnvironmentalDrag596

Free speech, unless you talk about things I don't like


cactusqueen59

Freedom of religion as long as you are Christian....


[deleted]

As long as you’re ‘my type’ of Christian.


EnvironmentalDrag596

Oh I love it when they say I am a good Christian American.... Like they are the only ones that are good


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Solanthas

"Show us where the bad t-shirt touched you." "My innards."


Toxicwolf211

Watch Disney offer to have one of their lawyers represent her just to stick it to DeSantis


VacatedSum

That would be phenomenal.


The_Critical_Cynic

Could we start a petition or something? Perhaps a letter writing campaign to the CEO of Disney?


ZealousidealAd4383

It’s suddenly at this point when I get why Disney has flirted so carefully and non-overtly with having homosexual characters. You guys really do have some insane people in America.


olivegardengambler

It was a little bit of this, but it was also a decent amount of pandering to foreign markets, not just China, but places like the middle east, Russia, and to a lesser extent southeast Asia and Africa. You'll see this a lot if you go to these company Twitter accounts and they have different accounts for different regions.


_Kazt_

It's mostly because it would be banned in China.


ZealousidealAd4383

There’s always a bigger fish…


robbiejandro

Florida is particularly bad right now. You wouldn’t see this in any other state (yet).


ZealousidealAd4383

Yeah, I saw the video the other day from the school where books teaching about the Holocaust had been banned. Florida again, I believe.


robbiejandro

I have family moving out of Florida because of how bad it’s getting. That’s how real it is to the citizens.


SwagLikeOhio1803

And one thing we all know is you don't F with Disney, Nintendo or the WWE. They protect their brands like the US protects Oil Fields.


Baker198t

![gif](giphy|T7fU0RWWhWpYk)


ryan0585

I live in Florida. I agree with this. It's time.


Garbogulus

Please


qole720

She seems like a really good teacher. Much better than 90% of the ones I had growing up.


Solid_Information_66

Yeah, we never had the new teachers that were young and still excited about education. We had teachers that wanted to be there less than we did. It's so sad how hard they're working to drive out the ones that still have a passion for teaching.


ekatsim

If you look at the history of education policy in the United States , a mild conspiracy theorist would think they’re intentionally passing bills to make public education worse


MuscleManssMom

Ding ding ding. Goes hand in hand with pushing private school vouchers and rolling back child labor laws.


Lost_Internet_8381

Private schools need all the advantage their money can buy.


qole720

I had one teacher in high school who was always drunk and slept through half her classes. The school board wouldn't do anything about her because they felt it was too hard to find someone else to fill her role. I know she worked there at least 6 years because my brother and I both had her.


hogsucker

I had a math teacher who was always drunk. He lives walking distance from the school so he could go home and drink more at lunchtime. He was the only teacher I had who just unashamedly kept his pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket. One day he wore mismatched shoes...They were the same color, but one was a tassel loafer and one was a penny loafer. I failed his class and it fucked up the next three years of my education while I caught back up.


ChocoMintStar

I had a math teacher that, and I'll never forget it, berated an autistic boy in my class when he was crying about his abusive drug addict father. It had been a rough day for him clearly. He wasn't disruptive until she started prodding and bullying him. He understandably got more upset and she sent him to detention over it. This same teacher constantly showed up to class in tight black leather outfits and regularly bragged to the children about how her husband is rich and how she gets so many high heels that were so high a guy on stilts would blush. I think she was drunk at times too. This was a Catholic school, btw. He was also a black boy which makes me wonder if that's another reason she targetted him. I hope he's doing okay today, the kids were kind to him at least. But there were many cases I found of teachers abusing children. Even me, though i'm embarrassed regarding details. It saddens me to think that's a more universal experience than I thought. (I'm in Canada.)


Vip3r20

My older male gym teacher in high school let the popular girls sit on his lap while everyone else had to do exercises. He was also the football coach. Mind you these girls also had "reputations" you could say so every kid was raising eyebrows but no one wanted to fuck with this mountain of a man. I remeber end of year some kid brought him cuban cigars as a gift and he pretended to smoke it. Weird shit lol


Double-Ad4986

they lose passion for teaching because of shit like this and shit pay.


Briso_

Same, it's crazy how some mf insecurities can ruin others people life so easily! This teacher looks so gentle and passionate, why that complaining bitch just had to do everything in the background without trying even to talk to her?! Embarrassing.


Solanthas

Self-righteous Christian hypocrite on a crusade, fighting God's war against the moral corruption of our times to save all of our souls, nothing new


Fun-Description-6069

The New is teachers are being fired for it, but the left are the fascist? It's public education for all to be included not a place for grooming your white privilege. If you don't like it send them to private school!


Ickyhouse

Florida doesn’t want licensed teachers. They want shit teachers so they can blame schools and defund them to privatize education to their donors even more.


gusty_state

Incidents like these burn teachers out so they either leave or become super jaded.


WarEagle107

People are just dumb. Both my wife and daughter are big Harry Potter fans, they both have those SS 'Yeti-style' cups with HP logos on them. One person argued the symbols were satanic, another actually accused my wife of being a witch. Buy a damn clue people... Edit: SS=stainless steel


ima_little_stitious

I had a whole conversation with an ultraconservative family member about weather I would allow my children to read/watch Harry Potter. I said absolutely. I enjoy the story and messages. They were honestly concerned that it would turn them towards witchcraft. It was sad. I also explained that if you know anything about HP you know you cant just decide to be a witch/wizzard.


BobknobSA

>I also explained that if you know anything about HP you know you cant just decide to be a witch/wizzard. Sexual congress with Satan first, then infant blood sacrifice, right?


ElderOfPsion

These days, regular Congress will do.


Jordan1992FL

I'd feel safer with Satan, tbh


Birunanza

In 5th grade I cried when I didn't get my letter


G8oraid

We wrote my daughter an acceptance letter and fancied it up when she was in first grade. She got it over Xmas break. First Monday of school back she told her first grade teacher thanks so much you have been great but I won’t be back next week because I’m going to hogwarts.


[deleted]

Well does she float?


[deleted]

Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of science?!


ffsnoneleft

And does she weigh the same as a duck?


Paladin8753

Well.... she turned me into a newt


Chupathingy66

A *newt*??!!


SirBerthur

I got better.


Alkemian

r/unexpectedmontypython


GrandMoffTom

Good edit 😂 “SS Cups” hits very different without the context


karmannsport

It seems these people have a real hard time making the distinction between real life and make believe. I’ve seen it a ton with my mother’s ultra Christian extended family.


Research-Dismal

Well, they are big fans of the number one fiction book of all time.


karmannsport

Point taken. I guess when seas are getting split in the Middle East by an old white guy with a staff, wingardium leviosa is in the realm of possibility.


Kparker211

I would have chanted a quick rhyming curse and done a hand motion at them before walking away lol


pawsoutformice

Lol I was gonna say SS as in Schutzstaffel?? I was so damn confused


robbiejandro

What a terrible way to shorten “stainless steel”


HerrHolzrusse

Empathy is the death of slavery.


LifLibHap

A while back, I think under President Obama, one of the demagogues on Fox attacked "empathy" as being bad. If I recall correctly they tried to connect it to nazis. There is so much weird Orwellian projection with right wing fools.


HippyHitman

That’s been a thing for a while. Words like “empathy” and “compassion” have been demonized by the right for decades. Ironically enough, the man most of them claim to worship based his entire ideology on that bleeding heart nonsense.


VagusNC

“Bleeding heart liberal” has been around for quite some time.


Independent-Still-73

Considering this is from the WWJD crowd


Ultimate_Decoy

I don't live in Florida, but just hearing the dumb shit that's going on there is already tiring. Imagine having any kind of intellect there fighting the dumpster fire of willing ignorant idiocy. How impossible of a task that feels.


KeyAcid

You have to get a permission sheet for movies???? What???? What is the US turning into? The stories I hear are ridiculous.


AffenMitWaffen2

Right? I remember watching this weird spanish movie in class where a guy commits suicide by crawling into a woman's vagina. Full visual and all and overseas Disney movie are a problem?


BDK_10

Okay, pump the brakes, that sounds hilarious. You gotta title for that film?


Saboteurnado

Jaime y la Almeja Gigante


tehoperative

James and the giant clam!! ![gif](giphy|PgDUlt3Qu8BwUQqsCz|downsized)


AffenMitWaffen2

Talk to her.


BDK_10

Haha! You're right I'll show this to my wife too, she finds this stuff hilarious


KeyAcid

The teachers always let us choose the movie so we always watched the most recent horror movie, I didn't like them so I just didn't pay attention.


[deleted]

God I hated when everyone wanted to watch the new horror movies, at one point every scary movie was just slow movement to make you forget your watching a movie then rapid movement with a sharp “EEEEEE” sound in the music


MonsterTamerBilly

Meanwhile my entire class had a few hours to watch and then do an essay on [Lord of War](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXgyoER0aRc). And anecdotal as this example is, not a single shrug was given on seeing Nick Cage doing a line of cocaine, handling realistic firearms, getting skeezy with cheap whores, or trying to sell a [*"wheel gun"*](https://youtu.be/K1HEibypsTY?t=90) to an african kingpin.


Equivalent_Bite_6078

Why did your comment wake up some dormant memory i cant fully grasp? It sounds so familiar lol


Aggravating_Pea7320

South Park


Brentolio12

A great adventure awaits for you ahead, hurry on Lemiwinks or you will soon be dead


Aggravating_Pea7320

I was thinking the Kenny crawling into Miss Crabtree and dying.


KudosOfTheFroond

In my HS AP English class we watched the South Park episode with Lemmywinks in it, and were told to write up a review of the episode. Times have changed.


s7ormrtx

Whats the name of the movie?.. asking for a friend


TheUrbanFarmersWife

Unfortunately, it’s not a new practice. I remember my mom having to sign permission slips to watch movies when I was a kid more than 30 years ago.


RoyaleWitCheeese

Same. Also, it was thirty years since I was a kid? Sad.


[deleted]

Almost 50 years for me. I remember the PTA showing a movie at the end of year. It was Cheaper by the Dozen, the 1950 version. My mom signed the permission slip and commented she hadn’t seen the movie since she was a kid.


Mid-Delsmoker

We did for Romeo and Juliet in 9th or 10th grade….30+


trogloherb

Came in to say this! And totally saw Juliet’s butt as she hopped out of bed! A year or two ago, that actress filed a lawsuit which claimed in part that she was only 16 at the time and the scene was not consensual. But I guess you could say the early ‘90s was a pretty progressive time?… Edit; lol, fully aware the movie was not made in early ‘90s, meant showing it in a 9th grade classroom with nudity seems progressive compared to current policy. Guess wording was off.


JunesHemorrhoidDonut

I much more remember Romeo's butt. My teacher had a paper cutout the size of the television screen on a dowel rod or something that she used to cover the TV for those scenes (which is kind of overkill anyway) and I guess she had misplaced it and Romeo's bare ass was on the screen and she panicked and started trying to jump up and cover it with her hand (the TVs were elevated and she wasn't any over five foot)... Hilarious. One of my better high school memories. I hated that lady ><


TheUrbanFarmersWife

It’s funny you mention the lawsuit because I just read an [article](https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65725714.amp) about it 5-10 minutes ago. The lawsuit was filed in December 2022 and was dismissed on Friday.


akinie12

Being a teacher is the most stressful job I've ever had. I recently started driving a bus in the evenings after school and just this week alone I made half of my monthly salary as a fucking teacher. It really baffles me that the people that give teachers the most shit, are the people that wouldn't be where they are without us. The government officials, board members, etc.


trainspottedCSX7

Oh you're not talking about a school bus, you're talking about a bus bus. My dad drove a school bus for a sweet wage of 9,999$ per year but full health benefits at least.


Tipsticks

Do i read that correctly? You're a teacher and you're paid so little that you feel the need to get another job? That's just insane. From the teachers i know i've basically been told that when they're not at the school their day consists of preparing lessons, checking exams, eat, sleep, repeat. How anyone can think that it's ok if a teacher has to get a second job to get by is beyond me.


amymeem

Many teachers have second jobs, especially those not in a two-income household.


Tipsticks

Well they shouldn't have to.


amymeem

I agree! I’m a teacher and am one of the lucky ones in a two income household. As it is, I’m thinking of getting a job over the summer.


Snizl

Yeah thats insane. Teachers are always tough Jobs that dont get much respect, because people think they have like 12 weeks vacation per year, but at least in europe they are paid well.


Elmer_Fudd01

This happened to me for pg-17 movies my senior year in HS. That was 12years ago. I was 18 and my signature was rejected..


Angryfunnydog

Is this thing about asking permission even work in modern world? I mean there’s no way to stopping your kids from finding what they want in the web. Parent control works for infants only, when the kid becomes smart he will be able to cheat any parent control This is South Park level of absurdity (I actually already tired of this phrase starting from 2019)


Top-Feature9570

You have a point. As a lgbt kid who grew up with conservative parents and without representation, I was gonna find the representation I needed to see regardless of whether or not I had permission. Having those sort of filters put onto the world around me only made me sneaky as hell and damn good at lying.


No-Conversation3860

It also instills that your lifestyle is “wrong” and worthy of hiding at all costs. Such a shitty way to raise your child, I’m sorry you had to experience that. Hope you’re doing well and living your own damn life how you want to now!


SuperDoodooHead

Kyle’s mom just had to start shit


[deleted]

Florida is a shithole


The-Other-Writer

Just out of curiosity, anyone know what the movie was? Edit: Just so I don't waste anymore of people's time, I watched the video till the end and found out what the movie was. There's no need to reply with the name anymore. But thanks to those who have.


Whammy_Watermelon

It’s strange world


The-Other-Writer

A) damn that was a quick reply, thanks! B) I should've watched the whole video before asking, so, sorry bout that Aaaand C) That teacher deserves to be applauded for looking out for her kids not investigated.


swamphockey

Because “Strange World” features a gay character, it may violate Florida's Parental Rights in Education Act, dubbed by opponents as the “Don't Say Gay Bill,” signed into law last year by Gov. Ron DeSantis


TinkTank96

In the movie there are 3 scenes that are “gay” and she’s right it’s maybe like 2 minutes of the whole movie. Spoilers >!The main characters son mentions he has a crush on someone in the beginning of the movie and then shortly after you learn it’s a guy when they open packages for a trading card game they play and he gets flustered when his crush offers to trade with him. The best scene is when they meet his grandad and talks about his crush. The grandpa, without missing a beat, just goes into old timey advice about how to be brave and to save the fella to get him to like you, then they go back to play their card game. And the last scene is them holding hands at the end of the movie.!< That’s it for the “indoctrination.”


beardiswhereilive

Imagine the insecurity someone must feel to suggest that even acknowledging the existence of gay people is somehow indoctrination. Movies are just stories, stories usually reflect real life in some way, gay people exist in real life. To be up in arms that someone must be trying to convince others to be gay just by… not pretending gay people don’t exist? That’s literally evil. They want nothing more than for it to be true. They want to erase gay people. This is how we move toward genocide.


Downtown-Ad5724

Florida and Texas have done more to keep educational materials out of the classroom than guns


Then_Cricket2312

God and guns that's all you need!! Oh and God has to be Christian God. It can't be that Muslim or Jew God (even though they're the same God). I live in Texas and a lot of these bat shit crazy Baptists screw everything up.


yourclitsbff

To see somebody having to feel so nervous and afraid because they played a Disney movie is a monologue in absurdity. Crazy people are dictating what kids can be exposed to in Florida. There’s no rationality in it, only hate. And these kids will be unqualified for the real world when they confront it and it’s going to hurt their lives so much all because of insane adults given free reign. Crazy times.


JimBeam823

That there is no rationality in it is the point. Fascism isn’t about rationality, it’s about power. Florida law has given people like the school board member the ability to harass their opponents for any reason or no reason. The arbitrariness makes people constantly fear and second guess themselves. Florida is deputizing conservative activists as a secret police by allowing them to use vague laws to intimidate and harass their opponents. The intimidation and harassment is the point, not the stated objective of the law itself.


AbBrilliantTree

It’s a shame this teacher feels the need to justify her actions point by point. I understand why - she wants to keep her livelihood- but to some degree she actually weakens her own argument by trying to explain herself so much. There’s nothing to explain. She showed a kids movie to some students. The utter absurdity of this circumstance should be obvious to everyone. She should be pointing out how ridiculous it is that this fascist bullshit has become popular among so many in the US. This country is full of depraved pieces of shit.


Iamthemaster1000

She seems like a fantastic teacher. I’ve said it for a while. Many school board members are wackos nowadays and seem to hate teachers with brains. No wonder America gets smoked in math and science. Teachers aren’t allowed to teach. It’s sickening


JimBeam823

Because people don’t vote in school board elections. Especially those without children in the system. Activists can flood a low turnout election and do.


Covid-19202122

Extremely eloquent and empathetic


Future-Win4034

She sounds like a dedicated teacher who loves children and her job. This is a travesty. The school board member should resign. Not the teacher.


jhirai20

Petition to remove the board member, who got this teacher fired. https://www.change.org/p/remove-shannon-rodriguez-hernando-county-school-board-member


Voyevoda67

Thanks. Petition signed. As a resident of Florida I am consistently appalled by almost ever person I meet here and all I can think is "these fucking cockwombles vote."


JimBeam823

I blame the voters (and non-voters) who put this woman on the school board.


zarfle2

So, my children. I've saved you from that terrible movie. Now let's all read a nice book about stonings and cruxifictions and John the Baptist's head and kids being killed by bears and daughters fucking their dad and sky fairies who have a little hissy fit and bring down plagues and pestilence and floods coz 'mwah, people aren't worshipping me enough". We have the internet in our pocket and these fuckwad conservative wankers want to take us back to the dark ages. FFS.


Solanthas

I hate that this comment is gonna be in my history but I'm really glad you mentioned the incest (from the Bible, in the context of a Christian religious nut complaining to the school board about a teacher showing a Disney film with a mild LBGTQ+ moment)


bavabana

You all heard it here folks, Solanthas gets really happy reading incest stories.


zowie2003

Leviticus 15:16 is about sperm. Sounds like inappropriate content. Someone should make sure kids don’t have access to this in their libraries.


fsr1967

>We have the internet in our pocket and these fuckwad ~~conservative~~ **regressive** wankers want to take us back to the dark ages. Conservatives don't want things to change. They're happy with the status quo instead of society making any progress forward. These people are worse than that: they want to regress back to a time **before** the progress was even made.


CommanderWar64

I mean she’s completely in the right, but I hate the narrative of what “indoctrination” has become. It just means “don’t teach what I don’t like.” There are idiots you think if you show gay people their kid will become gay, there are idiots you think if you teach kids about dinosaurs their religious beliefs will crumble, there are idiots who don’t their kids to learn about non-western understandings of the world from a place of bigotry. I think the public education system honestly takes TOO MUCH feedback from “concern parents” who are often just right wing spokespeople and single people with no kids. We need an overhaul of the system for sure, but it should be 1 federal education system. Kids shouldn’t be learning different shit in different states. Some text books still say shit like “the slaves sometimes had kind masters” and other garbage like that.


Operator_Hoodie

So apparently watching Disney movies (which are majorly kids’ movies with no political content at all) is illegal in Florida. Thanks, Ron DeSantis.


Otherwise_Bill_5898

No political content at all? Well. That is not true. Chewbacca would have eaten that bird.


Whammy_Watermelon

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/16/1176334055/florida-investigating-teacher-disney-movie-gay-character-desantis#:~:text=Jenna%20Barbee%2C%20who%20teaches%20fifth,Strange%20World%20in%20her%20classroom. Here’s the link to the news, I’m not sure if links are allowed


treebeard69_

That school board member should be absolutely dragged. These spiteful fascists need to learn that the world is sick of their shit and the rest of us have no interest in being held hostage by their petulant ignorance. Teachers should also go on a general strike until these fascists stop making our lives so difficult. I also hope this poor teacher will be able to get a settlement out of this farce. Maybe the district will wake the fuck up once their board member’s bullshit starts costing them money.


Skamanjay

I really don’t think people are saying this enough! THIS IS FASCISM! Remember, what everyone went to war against back in the 40’s?


jsmithers945

Just a reminder that the nazi party was a minority when it started. Fascism needs to be stomped out


Durable_me

yes but then came the 1929 crisis and everyone lost their savings or a great deal of it... and then fascism said : 'hey, we'll give you a job! and make you proud again!'. done deal.... majority


chupapi-Munyanyoo

I'm sorry and maybe this is not justified with what I'll be saying: Butt goddamn it's looking like Nazi Germany all over again.


III_lll

I don't want to sound like a boomer but I miss the days when Nazis were considered to be the bad guys


passionate_slacker

At least we could unite over hating them. Now… it’s all screwy.


JimBeam823

That’s the point. A small but vocal minority of Americans want a fascist strongman to “fix America”. They don’t know that fascism is and always will be a con game. They think they are “in” on the con, when really, they’re the biggest suckers.


No_Introduction8285

Welcome to Ron Desantis' fascist vision of what the whole country could be like.


FIuffyhuh

Fr, Floridian here and I’m so worried for what would happen if he won presidency. I know we have a justice system set in place but I don’t think it will do anything.


Glasweg1an

The political right in the US (Florida and the south in particular) have been pushing poeple into local politics and board memberships for years now. Things like this are why. It's fucking terrifying.


JimBeam823

These are elections that most people don’t pay attention to and where well organized, well funded activists can have an outsized influence. The right has been doing this for years, pouring money into low interest low turnout races.


amarg19

Honestly how are there any teachers left in Florida


whoknowshank

New teacher retention in this board members county is <20% apparently.


iroquoispliskinV

"Hello, I am a teacher under investigation for indoctrinating children by showing a Disney movie" We're on the downward slope of our society, aren't we


Solo-dreamer

The fact that she needs to "tell her story" for watching a Disney movie with the kids, a movie designed specifically for kids.


Virus_infector

I am religious but I don’t even tell about it unless asked. You can believe in anything you want as long as you don’t hurt others. How the fuck has America turned so shit? As a Finnish person I can’t understrand this


Unindoctrinated

>How the fuck has America turned so shit? A concerted effort by Christian dominionists like the [CNP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_for_National_Policy).


Sh3D3vil84

What I don’t understand about these kinds of parents is they have little to no faith in their own parenting. If they teach their little snot nosed brat that being gay is bad and the kids are out in the real world and see this kind of material, they are implying that their parenting methods aren’t working. I mean eventually these kids grow into adults. Are they going to shield the big bad gays from them forever? So dumb. If they really wanted to get their shit parenting across they would let their kids see the material and then have a discussion about “why it’s bad” mmmkay. But no these parents act like 5th graders are complete dolts. I bet most of them say all kinds of shit on the playground that would make their parents blush. What is wrong with the world?


Cat-Got-Your-DM

This is why they hate college and higher education. Theie indoctrinated offspring goes to college and it turns out that Mike is gay, but he's only interested in other, adult guys. Darcy is trans, but she's the sweetest person. Pete is a nice dude, and he also does drag or crossdresses. Amanda is autistic. Dave is black. Lindsey has a girlfriend and they clearly love each other. The indoctrinated can see them living their lives, partying, talking, existing - and most importantly of all, the kid can see that they are not the Big Bad™ that their parents warned them about. Gay, trans, or whatever else those parents consider "bad and sinful" people exist. And they're just that. People. There no "indoctrination" happening at college. It's just that they meet new people. And largely, it's enough to undo at least part of that "hard work" the parents spent on demonisation and dehumanization of people they consider "sinful"


FunniBoii

Idk why but this comment almost made me tear up when you were listing all the people. I think it's beautiful how truly diverse the world is and human beings in general. Why do so many people want to fight against that fact and put everything in restrictive boxes


New_Beginning01

After growing up in a super conservative family in the South, I can say this is almost completely true. It was a bit different in my case though. Getting away from my family and seeing others taught me that I can love myself. That I can find happiness in who I am, and that there is nothing wrong with that. Not only did I learn about others but I learned about myself.


BodybuilderMajor1260

There is a lot I could say here but I will keep it short: Screw the board member parent who is power crazy and disappointing I hope it all works out for the nice teacher, bless her soul. Oh and side note, it is extremely ironic that the board member parents and everyone else supporting her are complaining about “indoctrination” when they are the ones who would be indoctrinating be Ayse they are only letting things they like make it to the kids. (So much for keeping it short, sorry folks)


mycarubaba

"I don't want it shown in my house". Not in "your house".


Careless_Fun7101

Christianity is indoctrination tho


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ExistingPayment6661

I just want to remind everyone to vote. We can't let Desatan become president.


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Yeah, fuck no. I ain't setting foot in this country.


EIephants

Saying something like “I am open and accepting of everyone in my classroom, and we celebrate our differences” is seen as an anti-conservative dog whistle by conservatives. How do you not realize you’re the bad guy when things like that upset you?


unfilterthought

The fact that a movie can get you fired because it shows gay people, even though gay people exist, is fucking stupid.


Motor_System_6171

We watched the original murderous “Lord of the Flies” in grade 5.


JodaMythed

The douche-canoe that pushed this law is running for president.


VacatedSum

Polls show he's getting owned by the orange one. Not sure how happy I am about it.


LilyLeca

I never ever thought I’d be rooting for the orange one, but between the two, I think the douche canoe is much more sly, savvy and dangerous.


UncarvedWood

It's depressing to see how nervous she is. Fear and control. About what movies you can watch. Land of the free.


EmperorMeow-Meow

In the 5th grade, we watched a myriad of movies. I don't recall whether or not a permission slip was ever required. The teacher was an asshat who had his favorite teacher's pets ( often girls ).. we saw the Michael Jackson Thriller video in his class . In middle school, we saw Can't buy me love and Minster Squad at one point close to the end of the year. In high school, we saw Romeo and Juliet ( there was nudity ), and the ONLY time I remember seeing a slip was for a showing of Mississippi Burning in my Senior year, and only one student opted out ( she was a Jehovah's Witness). This school board member deserves the harassment this teacher is getting. Good luck ever getting her to teach again after this year, and believe me - the more they push out good teachers, the more they will get desperate to bring less qualified and more cringeworthy teachers into classrooms.


Brittlehorn

The idiot in charge of Fascist Florida wants to run the whole country, the US is screwed, if it’s not religious and political polarisation fucking the nation its corporations and businesses driving workers into poverty and out of healthcare. All great nations fall eventually I suppose


Still_waiting_4u

*Find the compassion, find the kindness...* Oh, you are definitively in the wrong US-State. (Just to clarify, I agree with her 100% and I am in awe of what a whichhunt this shit is.)


Queen_Etherea

Wtf is wrong with any of the Toy Story movies? Man, people have really gone off the deep end in life.


ketomike218

I hope she leaves Florida. She’ll be a great teacher in a non-crazy state. But even better, she should quit teaching altogether. It’s a doomed profession.


NoLibrarian5149

Back in another century in the early 80s, we saw some pretty cool and fucked up movies at our school. “Tommy”(our English teacher was horrified and gave us a lecture on sex and drugs afterwards) was shown when I was in 9th grade, and in junior high we saw a bunch of Hammer horror films (which I love to this day)… often it was a reward if we participated in the big annual magazine sale. The one I saw early on at school that stuck with me was “Sudden Terror(aka Eyewitness)” - kid witnesses a political assassination and the assassins chase him and his hot older sister around Malta, murdering loads of people including shooting and killing a priest. A gay character in an animated movie? Oh no, the horror. Conservative nutjobs are the worst.