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By Sarita, Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 2 commentsWhat if you found out that just hours before your kid's teacher stood at the front of the room to take attendance and say the pledge of allegiance, that she had climbed out of bed?
The bed she shares with her boyfriend.
Or the bed she shares with her girlfriend.
In either case, would you fear for your child’s physical or moral safety?
This is the discussion in South Carolina right now, following remarks made by U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), who has been called the grandfather of the Tea Party movement.
According to coverage from the Spartanburg Herald Journal:
"DeMint said if someone is openly homosexual, they shouldn't be teaching in the classroom and he holds the same position on an unmarried woman who's sleeping with her boyfriend — she shouldn't be in the classroom."
Is this a good first step toward raising teacher standards? Or are you checking to see if the Spartantburg Herald Journal is actually "The Onion?"
Meanwhile, here is how the two major-party candidates for South Carolina superintendent of education come down on the issue. And Green Party candidate Tom Clements asks, "How far does it go?"
(DeMint Facebook)
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Nice
Teaching is a demanding, underpaid, undervalued profession that most of us only do because we love the work and think it has meaning. K-12 teaching is also one of the few professions that legally requires continuing education throughout our careers, but unlike doctors for example, public school teachers with college degrees sometimes earn so little as to qualify for food stamps.
Now, apparently, we're also "unfit" if we have private lives outside of school and outside of a particular senator's idea of morality, or if we refuse to lie about who we are.
Okay, great. So when we're all banned from the classroom, who's going to take our place? I doubt DeMint could handle it--or that he'd take the pay cut. I think the real question is, would you deny your children a chance at a great education because their teacher has a consenting adult relationship after the bell rings?
Excellent Post
South Carolina can come out with some lunies sometimes.
I don't want any of my children's teachers talking about their sex lives - married, gay, single, or into animals.
And given the sexual shenanigans of our many illustrious men in government, these guys are just delusional.
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