A Georgia school board voted along party lines Thursday to fire a teacher after officials said she improperly read a book on gender fluidity to her fifth grade class.

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    No genuinely, 100%, actually, fuck that. Forget gender, lgbt, and all that for a moment. In a very general sense, a teacher has a duty to society to challenge children and teach them to be better people. Sometimes that will clash with the bigotry and racism held by their parents, and that’s a good thing. The moment we prevent teachers from trying to make a better world is the day our society ends.

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      Until the pendulum swings, like it always does, and the right wing grabs hold of all of these tools that the left has created. And then you’ll be told that you have no choice regarding the changes they will make. It’s best to leave that authority with parents.

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        What in the country fried fuck are you talking about? Do you honestly believe that conservative teachers aren’t already doing this? There is no pendulum. Conservatives attempt every trick they can come up with to sneak their ideology into classrooms.

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        Oh no, God forbid the right gets a hold of checks notes gender fluidity.

        Everything is a tool to authoritarians, it doesn’t mean we should stop making tools.