To The Daily Sun,
I was under the impression all of our kids' teachers were able to set personal feelings and ideologies aside to educate, provide stellar outcomes or at least advocate for true growth academically.
I am no longer under that impression.
On Thursday I reviewed the homework put together for my daughter who is home because she is sick.
My daughter was given a link to watch a video called Mesopotamia: crash course world history #3 with John Green, a person who has "this machine kills fascists" on the back of his computer which can be clearly seen.
At 3:45 the presenter begins to describe "sacred marriages" pharaoh's engaged in and the scene turns into two people under a blanket with a leg popping out as the bed bounces up and down, pictures fall off the wall. Really?
The next scene is a pharaoh engaged in a sex act on camera as if it was being filmed in real life.
This can be found on youtube.com.
Is this really the filth you want your $19,000 a year going to?
I don't know which teacher at Laconia Middle School thought this was okay! But that person should resign and issue an immediate apology for what's been done. This kind of blatant behavior needs to stop so our children can truly learn and grow responsibly.
Superintendent Steve Tucker: I am now publicly begging you to step away from your COVID awards for a few minutes, sit down with your teachers and other applicable staff and chart a new course for Laconia's schools.
Issues that you do not want to acknowledge are at a critical place now so either do what's needed to change our schools in a positive, substantive manner or stop taking that hefty paycheck and step aside.
Rep. Richard Littlefield
Laconia
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Rep. Littlefield, I sure hope you don't let your daughter read the Bible, then. Because the Bible is full of graphic descriptions of rape, incest, violence, enslavement, etc. A little suggestive cartoon as a lighthearted means of education isn't going to hurt your precious sensibilities.
It’s really hard to take Representative Littlefield seriously on this. The Crash Course series is an excellent supplement to history classes. This series is really more geared to advanced placement high school history, but even then if you are actually clutching your pearls over the very brief and extremely non-explicit segment one must wonder how upset you are that women are now allowed to expose their ankles at the beach. If you truly believe this is as you describe it “a sex act on camera as if it was being filmed in real life” I would expect that you have only know of sex from overhearing a conversation about it in a foreign language. If you have to lie to make your point then your point isn’t worth making.
There is no doubt that this video is juvenile and in bad taste. I'm glad the school removed it and a statement from the principal is warranted. However I'm skeptical that is was assigned homework for a middle schooler. Did any other parents of 11-year-olds see the assignment? If so, a more complete statement from the school is needed. In addition, I'd be happy to send my kids to a school where all the teachers had an anti-fascist slogan on their computers. In fact, it should hang over blackboard (yes, I'm that old) saying something like "This classroom fights fascism" and they would do it by teaching the truth. It is what we stand for as a democracy. And we don't need any of John Green's infantile cartoons to teach us that.
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