Let's face it, some teachers do not deserve to be in the classroom. If you're a reader of MJ Hawkeye you might recall a tale I related to you about a female instructor at Ottumwa, Iowa High School from 1974. She was 'teaching' a class of pregnant students, supposedly about how to succeed in their current situation. One of the questions on a test was to list as many words as they could naming male and female genitalia, slang words included. I happened to have an office next to the class and heard the entire scenario.
Being the kind of person I considered myself to be, moral with common sense, I approached the first year instructor and suggested she might want to eliminate the question. Naturally, being a feminist, she vehemently rebuffed my intrusion. Too bad for her. She was subsequently fired.
We now move to 2016. A female 7th and 8th grade teacher in Florida, Yoselis Ramos, passed out to her students in a coed class, a printed form asking personal questions:
The form asked students in Ramos’ Spanish class whether they were gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, cisgender or genderqueer. It also probed their religion, skin color and disabilities.
Surprisingly, Ms. Ramos, much to her surprise I'm sure, was suspended.
This brings to mind a sometimes but not always truism: "Those who can do. Those who can't teach. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/fla-teacher-suspended-diversity-form-privilege-article-1.2594283
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