Simple Rules For Teachers
Since Elon Musk decided to wage a small war with Substack several months ago, and as part of that he has decreed shadow bans (or worse) for links to Substack posts, I’ve copied some of my Substack stuff over to Twitter, which is now known as X. In this case I’m bringing one of my most popular tweets here.
Substack remains light years better than X for long form content, and Musk needs to grasp that not everything is going to be on his platform. The fact he paid more than twice what Twitter was worth is his problem, and one he’s not going to solve by punishing anyone linking to anything external to the renamed X platform.
Many if not most of you who use X are probably familiar with the Libs of TikTok account (LoTT), which exposes all kinds of freaks and weirdos on the left who decide to display their insanity publicly in TikTok videos. At some point LoTT branched out to include written posts. Here is one of those weirdo posts, and by all means read the text to get the full effect.
Seeing that I had my typical Whiskey Tango Foxtrot reaction, and it occurred to me that there should be a very simple lists of rules for teachers. Given the size of my account at the time, and even now after growing by 25% or so, my list went “viral” by my standards. It has almost 2,000 likes now, and all kinds of commentary underneath of it.
For all of Elon Musk’s talk of free speech, and all the improvements he has made, the list of wrongspeak words and phrases that will get your comments hidden from almost everyone else is still VERY LONG. There is much work left to do.
Here was my list, verbatim except for the word “clown” which I used an emoji for to avoid the censors.
1. No flags in the classroom other than the state flag and/or the US flag, and they cannot be modified with any personal messaging.
2. You're there to teach the subject material only and you leave your personal politics out of it.
3. No purple, blue, green, orange, etc. hair coloring, no facial piercings or facial tattoos, and no political messaging on clothing.
4. Nothing else that would disrupt the learning environment or that otherwise appears like it belongs at the clown show at the circus.
5. No displays or discussion of anything related to what should be your private personal life, or that of others.
The vast majority of the direct replies to my list, and most of the comments in the subthreads it spawned, were strongly in support. One woman who replied early on said I should run for a school board position, and she got 216 likes for saying that. I got another 125 likes for replying that I have considered it.
The one rule that gave some otherwise supportive people problems was number 3 on the hair color. My responses there, and that of many people replying to them, was that rule is definitely needed.
I may tweak some readers here, but none of those clown show hair colors are remotely professional. It is also true that the majority of people with the clown show hair colors have various mental issues. The joke of a “teacher” in the picture with her purple hair is a great example. She believes it is her job to indoctrinate children into her deviant lifestyle. To be blunt, she is a pedophile. The only question is to what extent.
If you desperately need to “express yourself” with any sort of clownish/freakish appearance, and that includes a completely unnatural hair color, buy a wig or use a wash out hair color (if that exists), and do that in private or in a somewhat private space nowhere near your workplace and nowhere near children. This woman’s appearance is actually mild compared to many of the disturbed individuals that have found their way into school systems all over the country about now.
The education, and in fact the safety of children in schools, far outweighs any claimed special rights for teachers to act out their various perversions.