Watch: Teacher refuses to teach grammar,
claiming it is part of white supremacy
Washington Examiner,
by
Luke Gentile
Original Article
Posted By: Frederic F. Frew,
12/7/2022 12:21:24 PM
A teacher in California who identifies as "cringey" is going viral after claiming she does not teach grammar usage and writing skills in an attempt to defeat white supremacy.Marta Shaffer teaches English at Oroville High School and uses linguistics to fight "white supremacy in my classes" and be "inclusive of all kinds of ways we use the language," she said.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
sunshinehorses 12/7/2022 12:23:30 PM (No. 1351227)
And this will guarantee that her students, no matter what color, have even less of a chance to succeed. If they cannot communicate with people properly, they will be ignored at the very least.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
BarryNo 12/7/2022 12:28:35 PM (No. 1351230)
She's being paid to teach, not propagandize or indoctrinate. Or is the problem she'too incompetent to teach the subject?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
stablemoney 12/7/2022 12:30:55 PM (No. 1351233)
The teacher is refusing to do her job, so should be immediately terminated.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 12/7/2022 12:32:29 PM (No. 1351236)
I'd like to see her argue a case before the Supreme Court of the United States with her gutter-mouth.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jalo1951 12/7/2022 12:39:11 PM (No. 1351241)
If we do not expect "children" of color to realize that 2 + 2 = 4 why should we think they are smart enough to understand their, they're, there or verbs tense, or that "I seen" is cringe worthy, or "we be going to rob the 7 11" is correct English. You are immediately judged on two things. Your looks and what comes out of your mouth. The woman is an idiot. If she is not going to teach correctly then I must assume her services are not needed. Her reasoning will simply reinforce that people of color are basically ignorant, stupid and incapable of being educated.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rich323 12/7/2022 12:39:53 PM (No. 1351242)
Her bros be gone to da baf woom wif da blue walls. No problem with all these illegals and no common dialect or grammar.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jalo1951 12/7/2022 12:40:47 PM (No. 1351244)
"we be going to rob the 7 11" is correct English. OOPS, that is NOT correct English.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
kono 12/7/2022 12:42:25 PM (No. 1351247)
Not yo langwedj, crinjee. Teach the common language so the kids can choose whether THEY want to communicate with the rest of the civilized world. You are hired to teach, not to play God.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 12/7/2022 1:00:12 PM (No. 1351261)
Try getting an important job, and lucrative, writing and speaking with a watermelon accent.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
singermom9 12/7/2022 1:07:06 PM (No. 1351264)
She wants to teach linguistics but that what they hired her for? If they contracted for her to teach English then she voided the contract and can be fired. Not put on leave but FIRED. She BROKE the contract and voided it. Fire her immediately.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
pugetpower 12/7/2022 1:09:35 PM (No. 1351266)
With this teacher at the helm, these kids are going backwards.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 12/7/2022 1:29:15 PM (No. 1351277)
My grammar was a wite suprumacyst to.
So was my gramper and ant and onkel.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bighambone 12/7/2022 1:35:08 PM (No. 1351279)
She needs a new job, maybe working on a garbage truck.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Dipi 12/7/2022 1:39:30 PM (No. 1351282)
Should be grounds enough to fire her.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 12/7/2022 1:43:34 PM (No. 1351286)
She is doing a terrible disservice to her students. If you can communicate well you can be wildly successful in many careers, even if you are as dumb as a box of rocks.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
kono 12/7/2022 1:53:15 PM (No. 1351295)
Slight correction, Cringee -- learning proper grammar is WRITE supremacy. Literacy is the ability to read and write the language. And our common language has been, and is still, English. Do what you were hired to do, teach English.
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We ain't having none of that uppity grammar up in here!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
jasmine 12/7/2022 2:18:35 PM (No. 1351320)
Good grief! This woman doesn't belong in a classroom. She's not fighting bigots, she's helping them.
In the US, under federal law, all children are entitled to a free and appropriate education. Her plan to deny her students their right to learn to read, write and speak standard English, is a burden she has chosen to inflict upon them. That's not her call.
She is willfully disarming her students. Those who don't learn to speak standard English at home will be further disadvantaged by their inability to compete with students who received the instruction she denied her students. She needs to be sent packing TODAY.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Venturer 12/7/2022 2:21:28 PM (No. 1351323)
Does anyone wonder what is wrong with a school system that allows this?
Anybody wondering what political party she belongs to?
Am I allowed to call her a "she" or to say "her"?
Or is this person a they or a them>
I get so confused. Maybe If I am confused enough I should run for President.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Sanchin 12/7/2022 2:21:59 PM (No. 1351325)
Just as the Roman Empire was overrun by the Vandals and Barbarians which led to its demise so to today is the United States being destroyed within by an aggressive cancer.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Rinktum 12/7/2022 2:35:26 PM (No. 1351339)
This woman is the reason so many students are intellectually stunted. It’s her job to teach grammar. She is not there to preach her political religion to the classroom. Parents, this is on you. If you do nothing you are complicit in your child’s academic failure. Demand she be fired along with every other wacko teacher who holds similar views.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
The Remnants 12/7/2022 2:36:47 PM (No. 1351342)
"A day that will live in infamy." Wasn't that long ago that some of our politicians were telling us there was no such thing as "American Excellence".
Yup!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Axeman 12/7/2022 3:06:00 PM (No. 1351362)
Is it White to follow rules, to learn rules, or even to have rules? Should all races not follow any rules, or just some rules, or just certain races? Who gets to decide?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DVC 12/7/2022 3:22:44 PM (No. 1351384)
Yes, of course.
Speaking and writing like ignorant gutter trash is the perfect way to "show them all".
Trash, acting like trash.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
paral04 12/7/2022 3:24:43 PM (No. 1351386)
Knowing the idiots in California, they will give her a medal.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
DougTN 12/7/2022 3:28:32 PM (No. 1351391)
This alleged teacher needs to be shuttled off to the nearest unemployment line. I imagine she doesn’t teach it because she is incompetent, not because it’s racist. The movie Idiocracy wasn’t supposed to be real.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
rytwng 12/7/2022 3:42:04 PM (No. 1351407)
Fire her stupid ass.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
hershey 12/7/2022 3:58:31 PM (No. 1351417)
Throw her buttisky out the door...with a 'beat it momma' comment....
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
skacmar 12/7/2022 5:11:40 PM (No. 1351478)
Sure, lets let the students learn early on that it is ok to speak like you are illiterate and wish to be member of the permanent welfare underclass. She is making sure that the only jobs her students are qualified for are Rappers or drug dealers. Maybe a cheap prostitute working a corner for the drug dealer. Maybe they will make this teacher the Head of Curriculum for their school system.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/7/2022 5:14:11 PM (No. 1351481)
If you're white, you aren't actin' white, you are speaking English. Everybody wanted to desegregate schools back in the 60s but that's not looking like such a good idea these days. If you can't learn the basics of language and math maybe you should be in a "special" school.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
lakerman1 12/7/2022 5:29:22 PM (No. 1351487)
In 1973, the Modern Lnguage Associatiin (the dominant organization in teaching English)
issued an edict that there is no one form of English superior to any other form of English.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
6079 Smith, W 12/7/2022 7:11:25 PM (No. 1351544)
Who could have guessed that she is a white female with a college degree? Liberal, too!
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 12/7/2022 8:04:53 PM (No. 1351561)
And you wonder why some want to have the education dollars be attached to the student like they now do in Arizona.
Parents should not be forced to have their child be taught in this manner if they choose not to.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
rochow 12/7/2022 8:32:57 PM (No. 1351569)
Hey Marta, did you know that in Africa they did not have reading, writing and arithmetic??? Nor geography, science, physics, chemistry etc. etc..... that all that the whites brought along and taught to stone age people. Did you know that people were classified according to the weapons that they used??? Did you know that African chieftains put their own people in cages and brought them to the sea in order to get a lot of beads???
So why don't you pack your bags, get a one-way ticket to you know where, and don't ever come back!
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Italiano 12/7/2022 8:37:16 PM (No. 1351570)
Like it or not, not teaching grammar is tantamount to teaching incoherent Ebonics.
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Why does this moron have a job? Ignorance of this level should never EVER be allowed near our kids of any age. She is guaranteeing the minority community she teaches will be in permanent poverty. But maybe that is her racist point.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 12/8/2022 12:16:05 AM (No. 1351625)
She ain't about due to teach no honky grammar to them homies. Fuggabout it. Ethnicity doesn't mark you as less intelligent than your cohort, but language usage surely does.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Trigger2 12/8/2022 12:46:34 AM (No. 1351631)
Fire her arse. She's no teacher.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
RWPollock 12/8/2022 3:53:25 AM (No. 1351660)
Let’s just keep putting our children further behind the rest of the world. Scraping the bottom of the barrel for teaching staff. Time to close public schools and go on a voucher system.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
mifla 12/8/2022 4:45:20 AM (No. 1351680)
The parents of the kids she "teaches" should yank their kids out of her class.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
5 handicap 12/8/2022 6:29:17 AM (No. 1351708)
FTA: "Marta Shaffer teaches English at Oroville High School". Like most garbage from the Examiner this is a LIE! She was HIRED to teach English At Oroville High School. Obviously Luke Gentile is an Asshat like George Conway!
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 12/8/2022 7:17:49 AM (No. 1351735)
On the other hand I bet her students know their pronouns.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Birddog 12/8/2022 9:32:09 AM (No. 1351848)
Oroville Ca? Where the dam self destructed last year? due to lousy math..even worse communication skills.
Many of the students there are Latino...she "should" be teaching them Latin...Right?
Buuuuut....she never learned Latin, only gibberish, so she teaches gibberish.
Perhaps she should learn and teach the "Native" language of the area....except...there really isn't ONE, even 20 miles away they do not understand each other.
While all Maidu spoke a form of this language, the grammar, syntax, and vocabulary differed sufficiently that Maidu separated by large distances or by geographic features that discouraged travel might speak dialects that were nearly mutually unintelligible.
There were four principal divisions of the language: Northeastern Maidu, Yamonee Maidu (known simply as Maidu); Southern Maidu or Nisenan; Northwestern Maidu or Konkow; and Valley Maidu or Chico.
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They aren't even hiding it now. She put this out on video.