“A Seattle high school teacher has stirred up controversy after allegedly telling a class they could not identify as ‘straight’ because it implies other identities are ‘crooked’,” reports The College Fix.
Chief Sealth High School’s Ian Golash also apparently told a male student he is the “product of the patriarchy that teaches young boys not to care.” KTTH-770 reports that Golash had handed out a “Social Identity Wheel” to his class that declares that students of certain groups have “unearned privilege or oppression.”
The mother of a boy in the class had complained to Principal Ray Garcia-Morales that her son “was told that if he identifies as straight that he needed to pick a term that was less offensive. It is completely inappropriate to dictate what terms a student can and cannot use to identify themselves with.”
Golash acknowledges that “I did say to the class, in response to a student, that I do not use the term ‘straight’ because it implies that to not be straight is to be ‘crooked’ which could have a negative connotation.”
The student’s mother also alleged that Golash had “shamed” her son regarding the matter of Florida taking on critical race theory and LGBTQ-related issues in schools. When her son had asked about the subject after being absent the day Golash played a video about it), the student’s mother claims that Golash told him he was a “product of the patriarchy.”
Golash said his “patriarchy” remarks were addressed to the class as a whole, not the complainant’s son. He said they were “connected to discussions of systems of power” and behavioral issues he had with some boys in the class, including her son.
The same mom previously complained about Golash after he allegedly gave her son an “F” on a quiz because he wrote that men can’t get pregnant and women don’t have penises. The Seattle School District is investigating the quiz allegation.
