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MachineJaipur
10/08/21 8:53:31 AM
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https://www.newsweek.com/teacher-administrative-leave-after-recording-her-lecturing-class-covid-leaks-1635381

A high school teacher in Puyallup, Washington, was placed on paid administrative leave last week after a student-made recording was shared on a local show of her having a contentious discussion with students about COVID-19 vaccines and wearing masks.

"[I]f you don't get the vaccine and you get sick, you can make a variant that will literally kill everybody on the planet," the teacher can be heard telling students on the recording made on September 27.
The audio of the video recording was later played on the The Jason Rantz Show radio program on the station KTTH and posted on the show's YouTube channel.

The biology teacher was recorded by a 10-grade student at Puyallup High School who discussed the incident on the conservative radio host Rantz's show. Identifying himself only as Tanner, the student said the teacher initially began by chastising some students for not wearing their face masks properly.

The teacher became increasingly more severe with her language during the talk, stating that "one of her friend's friends died from COVID and 'if he had the vaccine, then he would have lived,'" Tanner told Rantz. The student told Rantz that he then said, "That's not true" to the teacher and began recording.
"You see, you have a choice not to get vaccines, but you are not allowed to come to public school," the teacher can be heard saying on the video, which records only the floor and not the teacher's face. "Listen up. If you want to go to public school."
"My body, my choice," an interrupting student said.

"Yeah? Don't come here," the teacher responded.
Another student said that while she is vaccinated, she felt making others vaccinate against their will is wrong. The teacher disagreed with the stance.
"You want to know why it's not your choice? Because you could create the variant that could kill millions of people. It's very likely," the teacher said. "Do you know how many different variations come from a person who isn't vaccinated? And then it's passed and passed and passed, and it can make thousands and thousands of people sick. It is so selfish of people not to get the vaccine. You are killing people."
Tanner recorded other videos of the discussion, one of which includes him asking the teacher if he had to get the vaccine because she had done so.
"So, if you don't get the vaccine and you get sick, you can make a variant that will literally kill everybody on the planet," the teacher said.

Tanner's mother, Tanya, also appeared on Rantz's show. She told the host that she complained to the school about the incident, which she called "bullying" and "shaming." She claimed the school's assistant principal "refused to even engage in a conversation" about the incident when speaking with Tanya.
Tanya said the assistant principal told her the school was opening an investigation into the matter, and Tanya said she told the woman that Tanner made a recording that could be used as a witness statement.
Instead of reviewing the video, Tanya said the assistant principal demanded the video be deleted because it was recorded without permission.
Sarah Gillispie, executive director of communications and public engagement at Puyallup School District, told Newsweek "the school began gathering information" on the day the incident occurred.
"The teacher used personal leave on Tuesday and Wednesday. When the district became aware of this on Wednesday, an official investigation was launched and the teacher was placed on paid administrative leave," the spokesperson added.
The school also made "no deliberate attempt to destroy evidence" as had been suggested on Rantz's show by Tanya, according to Gillispie. Rather, the assistant principal "asked the parent to delete the video...simply because it was an inappropriate use of technology during class time that was recorded without permission."
"The request could have been handled differently, but it was made in an effort to minimize student disruption," Gillispie said.

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BignutzisBack
10/08/21 8:56:54 AM
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doomcrusader
10/08/21 9:01:02 AM
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The teacher sounds like a CEman.

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SergeantGander
10/08/21 9:03:42 AM
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"Being pro-mask/pro-vax" = getting into a heated political argument with students when you're supposed to be teaching

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EmetSelch
10/08/21 9:07:45 AM
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She's not wrong but I think she's getting a bit too wound up about it. Kids dont have fully developed frontal lobes, some of them are gonna be too stupid to comprehend why they need to get vaxxed. Nothing you can do about that but hope they grow up and figure it out.
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_HayleyWilliams
10/08/21 9:22:04 AM
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SergeantGander posted...
"Being pro-mask/pro-vax" = getting into a heated political argument with students when you're supposed to be teaching
If you make being pro-vax a political argument or disagree with that stance, then you are an enemy of the human race.

This is no place for political opinions and disagreements. There is only 1 correct answer.

We wouldn't even need a debate if we just forced everyone on the planet to get vaccinated already.

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coolboy11
10/08/21 9:32:22 AM
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EmetSelch posted...
She's not wrong but I think she's getting a bit too wound up about it. Kids dont have fully developed frontal lobes, some of them are gonna be too stupid to comprehend why they need to get vaxxed. Nothing you can do about that but hope they grow up and figure it out.
I feel like we use this argument than they grow into the man children/girl children we see rampant in much of American society because we keep putting off their stupidity as "youth"

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EmetSelch
10/08/21 9:38:00 AM
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coolboy11 posted...
I feel like we use this argument than they grow into the man children/girl children we see rampant in much of American society because we keep putting off their stupidity as "youth"

Yea, I'm sure that contributes to that. But short of holding them down and forcing the vax on them, there isn't much else you can but provide them with good information and hope they listen. Putting your job at risk getting into arguments with high schoolers isn't worth it.

Personally, I'd be okay with tying them down and vaccinating them. But I don't think that's legal yet. :v
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CruelBuffalo
10/08/21 9:39:50 AM
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This is literally biology class and is on topic. Tanner (because of course thats his name) sounds like an idiot and sounds like the Apple didnt fall far from the tree
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gunplagirl
10/08/21 9:46:27 AM
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BignutzisBack posted...
In washington!? What the hell
Puyallup is pretty fucking conservative. Besides the Puyallup fair, there's no reason on Earth for me to ever even get close to that city.


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Pitbuller_26
10/08/21 9:56:59 AM
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I'm guessing this town is in east WA?
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AwesomeFawful
10/08/21 10:10:12 AM
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BignutzisBack posted...
In washington!? What the hell
Trust me. We have plenty of crazies up here. We aren't safe.

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Hexenherz
10/08/21 10:11:41 AM
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SergeantGander posted...
"Being pro-mask/pro-vax" = getting into a heated political argument with students when you're supposed to be teaching
This.

There's a way to teach things, just yelling at kids and telling them they are human petri dishes for the downfall of civilization you're not doing it right.

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_HayleyWilliams
10/08/21 10:12:19 AM
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Mr Hangman posted...
Oh, come on. Variants are of course possible and we want to prevent as many infections as we can, but this is ridiculous. Over a hundred million people have been infected. If a variant that would kill millions, let alone everybody on the planet, was "very likely" it would have happened already. That's not likely at all. Students know when they're being fed strident bullshit and react negatively to it, like anti-drug programs that are hyperbolic about the risks of drugs. Not that there's any need to suspend the teacher for it.

Thinking that we should force everyone to be vaccinated is a political opinion. It doesn't matter if it's a popular idea or a good idea, the desire to use government force is what makes it political.
There are no opinions. Only truths and falsehoods. Anti-vaxxers are an enemy of truth.

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Samurontai
10/08/21 10:15:22 AM
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Sounds like the teacher was being an idiot, and wasn't placed on admin leave for being pro-mask/pro-vax at all, but rather for getting into political arguments with students during biology class. What a fucking moron lmao

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skermac
10/08/21 10:18:20 AM
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Im sick of hearing my body my choice, its not a legal choice to kill someone , in this case i side with the teacher

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skermac
10/08/21 10:18:59 AM
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_HayleyWilliams posted...
There are no opinions. Only truths and falsehoods. Anti-vaxxers are an enemy of truth.

this is true

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skermac
10/08/21 10:36:19 AM
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shockthemonkey posted...
Teachers should not face discipline for educating their students just because their students dont want to hear it

this

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Oeoeo23
10/08/21 10:48:04 AM
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Pitbuller_26 posted...
I'm guessing this town is in east WA?
nope, sort of alongside Auburn/Federal Way/Tacoma
haven't been there in 20 yrs so I was surprised at the topic title and at what Gunpla said, but yeah, the Fair, the Fair, the Fair, otherwise why go there?

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gunplagirl
10/08/21 11:16:04 AM
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Oeoeo23 posted...
nope, sort of alongside Auburn/Federal Way/Tacoma
haven't been there in 20 yrs so I was surprised at the topic title and at what Gunpla said, but yeah, the Fair, the Fair, the Fair, otherwise why go there?
Sports meets for high school my sophomore year, but then they changed around which schools were in the league and they swapped to a different sports league. Those are the only two reasons I've ever had.

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Zikten
10/08/21 11:17:21 AM
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God damnit those kids sound like idiots
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Sackgurl
10/08/21 11:18:37 AM
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SergeantGander posted...
"Being pro-mask/pro-vax" = getting into a heated political argument with students when you're supposed to be teaching

she's teaching biology

this seems like an entirely legitimate discussion of biology on her part

the only ones interjecting useless political bullshit are the students

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millions have died already

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

the development of new variants like delta with higher r0 is a direct consequence of manufacture of the virus in people's bodies. the more people who willingly let themselves be infected, the more random mutations occur until one forms that we can't stop

the biology teacher was correctly pointing out that one of the reasons we have a responsibility to get vaccinated is to limit the formation of new variants of the virus.

DNA mutation is a curriculum subject in high school biology.

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AwesomeFawful
10/08/21 11:23:37 AM
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Oeoeo23 posted...
nope, sort of alongside Auburn/Federal Way/Tacoma
haven't been there in 20 yrs so I was surprised at the topic title and at what Gunpla said, but yeah, the Fair, the Fair, the Fair, otherwise why go there?
Yeah be glad you left. This place is ass.

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Master_Materia
10/08/21 11:35:57 AM
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She was too dramatic and overly aggressive about her approach. Not a good way to convince anyone of anything. She should know better as a teacher than to act that way even if her basic position on the issue is correct.

Id say she should just get a warning not to behave in that manner.

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Sackgurl
10/08/21 11:53:04 AM
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Mr Hangman posted...
Mutations are slow and small.

D614G was neither slow nor small



Mr Hangman posted...
This teacher's hyperbolic fearmongering is counter-productive, you don't persuade people to get vaccinated by wildly misrepresenting the risks. They'll notice the dishonesty and discount whatever else you have to say.

unproductive, not counter-productive

i'll grant you their statement was hyperbolic but there's nothing that will persuade antivaxxers to get vaccinated now- they'll discount whatever we have to say regardless.

we just have to let them catch the virus and suffer

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Ruvan22
10/08/21 11:53:06 PM
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Mr Hangman posted...
Also false. There's still almost a million vaccinations per day being administered in the US. Too many to attribute to just being people forced to get them, the proposed OSHA rule hasn't even been formally announced yet.

So why not attribute it to fear mongering? Or the fear of leaving their children orphaned etc?
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