Libs of Tik Tok is probably not a potential comrade from my point of view, but this is…piquant.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1484347783020646400
It’s about “ways to support your LGBTQ students” – which rather assumes “you” will have lots of them, which in fact is unlikely.
Step one, she says, is to “normalize pronouns in your classroom.”
You what? Nobody needs pronouns “normalized” in a classroom or anywhere else – they’re a core part of our language, which we start learning by osmosis in infancy. Children aren’t stumped for how to express “you” or “I” or “them” or any other pronoun, they’re dab hands at it by the time they’re in school.
A great way to do this, she goes on, is to use … Read the rest