Daniel Kaplan, 15 year veteran public school teacher.
Written Mar 21
It is taking a lot to answer this in a non-sarcastic way. Bear with me. If you knew how much effort it is taking me not to say something like, "Of course it is. I've been reporting mine for weeks," you'd be shocked. We're talking Herculean effort.
First, the site which was cited as evidence (FBI Orders Teachers To Report Students Who Question Government) is an obvious conspiracy website. Of course not all conspiracy theories are untrue. This one is. It's up there with boxcars in Montana full of chains and manacles for conservatives which will be used when the New World Order takes over. Note that at the top of the site it says, "Submit your story." That smells bad right off the bat. In addition, their "legal disclaimer" supposedly makes them free from any liability for anything, including inaccuracies.
Proof? I don't know anyone in the teaching community who has heard of this... directive. If this "order" had ever been made, the teaching community would be ablaze. It would have made actual news, not just "Counter Current News."
Finally, were this to be an actual directive, it would incur literally millions of reports. I would have to report every one of my 160 students, even the ones who didn't question the government. Why? Because those are the ones who most need to be questioned by the FBI for "unAmericanism." It is our right and duty to question the government. The great democratic experiment which is the United States doesn't work otherwise. I'm kidding about reporting all of them, but it would be a huge number of students regardless.
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