Experienced teachers go back to education school to increase their incomes, even though education schools teach absurd nonsense and left-wing ideology. Most school district pay teachers more if they get an additional degree such as a master’s degree, even though “research finds that teachers with master’s degrees are rarely more effective than teachers without them,” according to the National Council for Teacher Quality.
Teachers who object to the absurd nonsense they are taught in education school experience retaliation. That’s what happened to Canadian teacher Margaret Munn, who had successfully taught school for 30 years. She enrolled in the University of Western Ontario’s education school to try to increase her pay and “employability.”
But the experience was much worse than what Munn had bargained for. So now she’s suing the school.
Canada’s National Post reports that her very first day in the class “Indigenous Education: Towards a Decolonizing Pedagogy” was a “disaster.” Munn quite sensibly asked why teachers of math and chemistry would need the course’s subject matter.
In response, the professor “pulled her aside after class” and harangued her, then reported Munn to the associate dean.
The same professor became angry when Munn said it wasn’t a big deal to wear “culturally appropriative” Halloween costumes (like wearing a sombrero or Native American headdress), and became even angrier when Munn supposedly “misgendered” school teacher “Kerry” Lemieux, a man who had donned ridiculously enormous fake breasts in front of school children (and later returned to identifying as a man, showing his claim to be transgender was just a sham to justify his sexual fetish of wearing huge, objectifying breasts).
The school’s teacher education manager chided Munn, telling her that her remarks about cultural appropriation “did not foster a safe environment.” She was ordered to rewrite a paper for the Decolonizing Pedagogy class because its viewpoint was deemed “offensive.”
As the National Post reported:
The decolonization professor, per the statement of claim, went on to convene the faculty’s diversity, equity and inclusion committee, which made a non-binding recommendation to [the dean] that Munn be expelled. …
“During the meeting, Munn was accused of being racist, colonialist, transphobic and an advocate of child abuse (apparently for saying that she had received corporal punishment as a child and was none the worse for it),” according to the statement of claim. “Munn was told not to attend (the decolonization professor’s) classes, although she was still expected to complete the assignments.” …
In December, Munn alleges she was falsely accused of plagiarism, and was reported by two instructors to the Ontario College of Teachers. In January, according to the statement of claim, Munn was told in a meeting with the associate dean not to challenge Indigenous faculty members. She at least learned that the faculty’s investigation into her conduct was complete — but it had involved interviews with nameless accusers whom she could not face, and resulted in her being placed on conditions to remain in the program.
Munn’s attorney Lisa Bildy says Munn’s ordeal was “immensely stressful.” (Bildy was also the lawyer for Richard Bilkszto, an Ontario school principal who committed suicide after being vilified and bullied for questioning an anti-racism trainer),
Munn’s lawsuit seeks to recover “various expenses in mitigating the harm caused to her and her career” and also “a significant award for punitive damages.”
Earlier, the head of an anti-racist organization blasted conservative media for criticizing her group following the suicide of a principal she vilified and bullied over his “whiteness.” Kike Ojo-Thompson of the KOJO Institute “systematically demolished” the reputation of Richard Bilkszto, reported the New York Post, leading to a lawsuit filed by Bildy.
Woke indoctrination is common in the public schools in the U.S., even in centrist areas.
Some schools have became obsessed with “antiracist” pedagogy. “Antiracist” pedagogy often teaches kids to hate the free-market economy and to support racial discrimination. “To love capitalism is to end up loving racism. To love racism is to end up loving capitalism…Capitalism is essentially racist; racism is essentially capitalist,” claimed Ibram Kendi’s best-selling book, How to Be An Antiracist. That book was praised as a “comprehensive introduction to critical race theory,” by the leading progressive media organ Slate. The “key concept” in Ibram Kendi’s book was that discrimination against whites is the only way to achieve equality: “The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination,” wrote Kendi in that book.
Wokeness has destroyed some charter schools that previously were a lifeline for students of color, turning “no-excuses” schools where kids learned a lot into chaotic places where kids get into fights and learn little.
