I am a teacher. It's about the shocking facts instilled in the “awakening” that makes conservatives feel fearful.

I'm a little masochistic. I can’t help reading these comments whenever local news releases any political content on social media, especially in situations related to public education.

I spent most of my life building a career as a public educator who emphasized embracing and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion, and I lived in Florida, where public education in chopping blocks and governors’ tubby, grumpy goblins all made the classroom the frontline of his cultural war.

In recent years, whenever I read the comment section of these stories, many magazines have had liberal teachers in their chorus about evil, instilling children with vegan trans socialism.

“Theirs [sic] Teaching is [sic] Children's CRT [critical race theory]! “Stand on one commenter. Another cry.

What they claim is almost nothing true.

Although I am currently receiving public higher education, I have been a public high school teacher for more than a decade. I work in three completely different schools in three fundamentally different counties. Most of my social circles are made up of teachers. If the mass of indoctrination occurs, I will know.

It just didn't happen.

Almost every teacher I've met (the number is in hundreds at this time) is very careful not to discuss politics or religion at school – even with other adults, even in the relative privacy of the lounge, even in their own classrooms for lunch or plan. It's a simple self-protection question – if a student hears you say, “God, I hate Ron DeSantis,” they'll tell their friends that they'll go on and by the end of the day you'll explain in the principal's office that you don't actually wear “fuck DeSantis” on your chest.

Of course there are exceptions. During my 13 years in high school, a few teachers were openly political. When I asked my classroom in 2014, I was helping my classroom, and he asked me: “Can you believe they have these Muslim kids wearing their habits [sic] In class? “This is within 15 minutes of the first time I saw him.

He continued: “I think the dress code does not apply to them. I don't know why we regulate the rules for them.” He didn't know if I was a Muslim. He also didn't know if I was an immigrant – even if I was obviously Hispanic – and then he shouted at “Esol Kids” (aka English students in other language programs for English students) that they were “probably illegal”.

I had at least a patient attitude with another teacher I worked with, dragging his pathways into the vocal paranoia. He started slowly, talking about kids with “crazy hair color” and then about “letter kids”, which he tagged with students marked as LGBTQ+. A few weeks later, he began to complain about the pronoun of “sick and stupidity.” “They can claim to be anything they want, just don't expect me to pretend, too,” he said.

These two cases are essentially the level of educators I met at work that express my personal beliefs. Most teachers simply don’t want to risk termination by talking about potentially controversial topics at work. To this day, I don’t know the political or religious beliefs of almost all my former colleagues, except for the teachers I make friends and talk to outside of work. Teachers are disgusted with potential career conflicts.

Of course, this is the experience of the teachers I interacted with. But what about in the classroom? When I'm busy teaching, it's impossible for me to know what happens in every other class, right?

Wrong.

Students speak a lot of About what their teachers do and say- They especially like to focus on bad things. Are some rumors, rumors or even intentional lies? certainly. But when you hear the same thing about the same teacher, week after week, year after year, including trustworthy students, you learn to separate facts from novels.

The student told me that there happened to be two instances of intentional classroom indoctrination. The biggest repeat offender is a modest social studies teacher. In society, she retains kindness, but kindness, courteousness, and is not dangerous at all. However, in her classroom, she was very focused on the war of aggression in the north and the idea that it was based on “state rights”, but in particular no Slavery. Another criminal I mentioned earlier usually laughs at the idea of ​​class pronouns and gender identity, refusing to recognize students’ gender identity. Because of this behavior, he eventually lost his position.

While all of this may sound like, I honestly don’t claim that dozens of conservative teachers are instilling our students in the classroom. These are the only two examples I have encountered in person during my 13 years of personal observation and dozens of discussions (outside of work) with my teacher and friend. The fact that these two teachers hold a right-wing view was purely accidental to me. The bigger takeaway is that, like face-to-face voter fraud, political indoctrination in public schools is very rare.

And there's a good reason why it's gone so far…it might shock you to be honest. This is because almost every teacher there spends every ounce of their energy and patience trying to get students to read only one paragraph without having to look at their phones. They are too busy trying to get students to complete only one math problem without saying, “It’s too difficult.” Just write one article without using chatgpt. Only one task is handed in time. At that time, they did not revise their lesson plans to align with the state’s new best evidence-based data-driven standards that could promote mastery and foster growth mindsets this time. (Note: These will be considered outdated and outdated within two to four years and replaced by more critical standards, which will be functionally indistinguishable.) Of course, these revisions must be arranged in their student data chat, personalized education program meetings, always in the case of responsibility, class responsibility, all of which are in their student data chat, personalized education program meetings, professional learning communities, all of which can be met (all of which will be responsible) (all of which will be outside of responsibility).

Of course, rational people know that there is no rampant classroom in the classroom, but “liberal teacher indoctrination”. your At least as long as I’m still alive, kids have been the bogey of rights, and it’s so much part of the decades of fighting public education that many people hear the wake-up call – now I’m worried that it’s too late.

Too many voters believe that the school is cutting off children's genitals during rest. Too many voters believe that schools have trash cans that are suitable for children who are identified as cats. Too many voters believe that teachers promote feelings of facts.

The most vulnerable of us to vote for Donald Trump (he was a good businessman after all!), now that the Department of Education is dead, graduate school can no longer afford the next generation of scientists, doctors, engineers, lawyers, lawyers and journalists, middle-class people are seeing their monthly payments, as well as fundraising public education and competition, and are being raised into public education and trapped in public education and enjoying up-school entertainment. For-profit company charter “school”.

Now, there are far fewer children and young people left with massively damaged children and young people than any generation in modern times, with far fewer options for the dean. This is unbearable except for rising unemployment, rising inflation and housing markets.

But hey, at least eggs are cheap right now.

Oh, wait…

Marco Vanserra is a pseudonym for professional educators and public school advocates. He focuses on making mathematics relevant and can be related to underserved communities in Florida.

This article originally appeared on Huffpost in April 2025.