Teachers dedicate their lives to the children in their classrooms on a level a loud minority (conservatives) love to smear. In reality, teachers are passing on knowledge for living their own lives, not just the curriculum. But what about all the teachers out there who vote against the rights of these children and their own parents? One Georgia teacher argues voting conservative breaks your vow as an educator, and aren’t a good fit for the position.
TikToker Ms_ryan shared her thoughts of teachers voting conservative as bluntly as possible. If you’re voting right-wing, then you are breaking your vow as a teacher and should “quit your job.” As a teacher herself, she’s made it her mission to pass on knowledge and life skills to her students. You take a vow to protect them, a vow just as serious as a doctor.
Ms. Ryan says, “When you go into the voting booth and you vote for the people who separate them from their families, who remove their rights, who dehumanize them as people, you are a messed up individual. You deserve to lose your job.”
How else can you look at it other than evil? Vice President J.D., for example, has been threatening ICE will be going “door to door” looking for illegal immigrants. The definition of what an ‘illegal’ immigrant changes as often as the wind. Not to mention so much ICE activity in states like Minnesota that schools are closing. That’s a direct attack on a child’s education, immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
As Ms. Ryan put it, telling your students you “care about their success” straight in the eyes, then voting against their interest hurts those odds. You are being a detriment and a wet noodle.
We have to remember Republican lawmakers don’t want to see these families succeed, let alone think of as human. We need people to stand up and protect them, including our educators across the country. Ms. Ryan says these Republican leaders are going on “public platforms” on the daily to acknowledge they outright “hate” these families. In her eyes, teacahers should be willing to “vote for your students.”
One commenter agreed, “The amount of teachers in my district who are MAGA. While actively having Hispanic students in their class. Like. How could you?!”
Another shared their personal story, “An eleventh grader of mine couldn’t do her homework because she was working 12+ hour long days to provide when her uncle was deported. I exempted all her work and hugged her so, so tightly.” It’s simple: if you voted Republican, you voted for this. Education is equal parts political, too.
