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Igel

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7. This has been the standard for decades.
Thu Sep 11, 2025, 09:16 PM
Sep 11

You lose the ability to teach the kids, you're useless in the classroom. You piss off the parents, you're useless both in the classroom and when it comes to promoting good will.

That can be the teacher who was a one-piece swimsuit model over a decade before starting teaching middle school, the Spanish teacher accused of racism because she taught that people were "moreno" but "black" was "negro." You can be publicly accused of diddling kids in your class and, when your name is 100% cleared still never teach. A former career, being linguistically correct, and being innocent does not preclude being excluded from teaching. If the model's pictures circulate and cause the middle-school boys to giggle and ogle more than learn, if students sit back and think, "Racist!", or if parents think that really you're guilty of pedophilia whatever the courts and investigators and their own kids might say.

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