Connecticut teacher suspended for reading graphic poem about gay sex in class

When did Kranes defend it? Kranes posted that "there's no question it's a sexually eplicit poem."

In any case, whether it's a poem about gay sex, straight sex, or sex with a lamp, I don't think school is the place for it.

 

read the poem

Please
Master grease my balls

last I knew, women did not have balls

 

Ms Krane

the poem is very graphic and also specific about gay, male/male sex

it discusses the "slave" wanting the penis of "master"

it also goes into the "slave" wanting "master" to grease the balls of the "slave"

the last time I checked, it's men who have balls

 

I oppose that.

 

I agree........I'm not sure what your point is. If you read what I wrote, I said it didn't matter what kind of sex it was, sexually explicit poetry doesn't really need to be in schools.

 

correct but you were being pulled into a ploy to derail the thread. It's also known as .............."hey look, a squirrel"

 

I wasn't attempting to derail anything. If you mean that the person I was replying to was attempting to derail it, that's a possibility. He was making things up, so I was trying to set him straight before posting my own opinion of the story. Not off-topic.

 

What's going on in schools where a teacher thought this poem was appropriate and proper? This teacher would not have done this if he thought it was the wrong thing to do.

 

that is the side-topic here which must be discussed. Why would any teacher think it appropriate?

There must be something going on that makes a teacher think it was OK

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the latter

you were being pulled in an attempt to derail the thread.

 

It might be viewed as an attempt to be politically correct and inclusive that ended up failing horribly.

 

Well savor this up sec, this will be one of the few times that I agree with you that this is not appropriate for a HS class. I could see it maybe for some liberal arts degree in a college level class or other adult setting, but not HS.

 

Lol, these days it's hard telling what they will claim to be. Society has lost its mind.

 

To me, it doesn't matter what is in the poem in regards to homosexual or heterosexual people having sex, it is inappropriate for a HS class IMO. Even when my nephew was in high school, the teacher read to the class the book "Beowolf" which does have descriptive sex acts in it and the teacher referred to it as just "showing her his armor" whenever there was anything dealing with it in the book. Bad form on the teachers part.

 

This isn't the norm con. Even you should realize that, but hey, we could just use the slippery slope that you just want a fascist regime where morale is determined only by you folks and everyone is forced to conform.

 

I do find it interesting that someone who has claimed on other threads to be a "racialist" is complaining about a slippery slope.

 

Like everyone else, I agree that this material is inappropriate for a high school class. Like MOST people here, I'm well aware that SOME people really fixate on gay sex, and seem to plaster this forum with that obsession. I won't mention any posters, only a pattern we see here.

 

Its not a single instance though.

I could find you 10 examples of teachers teaching kids as young as elementary school that Republicans don't 'want to spend money on poor people cause its a waste of time'.

I see a new article every day of liberal weirdo teachers trying to indoctrinate children.

When ISIS or the Hitler Youth did it, it was an outrage. But the left in this country is 100% on board with catching these kids at a young age and trying to impression them for life.

 

Really? I see a new article every day about entire conservative school administrations trying to indoctrinate kids into religion by teaching creationism as science in schools. But that doesn't bother you, does it?

Difference is- this teacher got suspended. Your side gets a pass.

 

I wasn't taught creationism and I graduated high school 8 years ago...

But to answer your question, no, evolution should be taught.

Just odd, I never once heard the word God in any science class.

How many conservative school administrations do you know of? My guess is very, very few.

 

Hmm...ok, well maybe you should stop guessing:

http://www.slate.com/articles/healt...schools_undermining_the_charter_movement.html

That's a lot of students and a lot of administrations.

 

Homo... hetero... bestiality... whatever. It doesn't matter what it is. The sexually explicit material is not appropriate for a class room full of kids.

I don't see how disagreeing that it was gay sex can be considered defending the teacher unless you are claiming that straight sex is acceptable.

 

Plus criminal charges....and some MHMR involvement.

 

I'd still like to know context. Yes, HONORS students (assumed to be more 'critical' thinkers are often give choices rank and file kids don't get). I simply
would like to know if there is context from this that didn't make the RW echochamber).

(I was 1 year out of school--a freshman in college and took a "Literature and Madness" course and I will not hesitate to say, some of it 'curled my hair'.
Kids getting IB and AP classes in high school are getting college level courses--even down here in Florida).