Welcome to my Petri dish

Mar 03, 2006 19:09

Y'know, I wish I could harness all the fear I and my kind seem to generate and do something constructive with it.

A 71 year-old transwoman substitute teacher got a little support from some administrators and, predictably, some parents went nuts. ""I will not allow you to put my kids in a petri dish and hope it all comes out fine," said parent Mark Schneep" As if having the name Schneep isn't already going to scar his kids for life. Maybe a name change would help them, dude. Jeez, anyone who has tried substitute teaching can tell you that crowd and damage control are paramount and the teacher's gender comes somewhere down the list at about 29th. Every substitute teacher that ever entered a classroom I was in should have carried a whip and a stun gun. I give this woman a bronze star right off. Check out the pink sweater and little cross on the necklace; that gal really ain't out to rock too many boats.

Thanks to Feministe
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