The Kansas City Star reported yesterday that Dianne O’Bryan, a teacher at Blue Valley, Kansas, felt fed up with angry parents and held a speech that was posted and attracted much interest on social media. It said, addressing parents:
"Teachers, counselors are burdened with so much more than they ever have been. Inside the entire system, there’s so much work that needs to be done for kids right now. And then to have communities coming at schools with such negativity, I’m worried we’re going to be losing some wonderful people... For those angry, highly critical, accusatory parents in our district, please know that you’re a major contributing factor to teachers leaving,” O’Bryan said. “You have a choice to be angry, but we also have a choice to leave... The negativity surrounding schools is toxic... We are not teaching critical race theory in our schools. We are, however, working hard to make sure that our students feel safe, welcome, understood and valued. For some, this focus on diversity, equity and inclusion may be uncomfortable. But it is necessary."
In other words, the lady denies that US schools are teaching critical race theory (which they are doing), and tells parents to be fine with "focus on diversity, equity and inclusion", i.e. bullying white children for being white, or else more teachers would leave.
That's the result of chronically low salaries of teachers: payroll of schools fills with losers such as Ms. O'Bryan for whom the only compensation for being underpaid and overworked is the feeling of power that comes from indoctrinating the children they are presumed to educate.
The solution: raise teachers' salaries, hire reasonable young teachers, and good riddance to the "wonderful people" like Ms. O'Bryan and her ilk!
