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Woke Portland teacher says colleagues who don t want to teach anti-racism are like PEDOPHILES and warns they ll be fired if they refuse to do so Katherine Watkins, a teacher at Cedar Park Middle School in Portland, told colleagues they would be fired if they kept up old views of colonialism Watkins equated teachers who don t agree with her views on race to pedophiles and said her colleagues must evolve or dissolve Her comments were made during a private $5,500 equity summit that was compulsory for teachers in the Beaverton School District to attend They only came to light after the group Parents Defending Action posted a clip of the conference to YouTube ....
Twitter Outraged Over Teacher Telling Educators to Embrace Anti-Racist Thinking or Be Fired On 5/28/21 at 5:00 PM EDT A Portland, Oregon teacher told her fellow educators at the Beaverton School District to embrace anti-racist thinking or it will lead to being fired in clips surfacing on social media sending social media abuzz from a February Zoom conference made public. Eighth grade humanities teacher Katherine Watkins made her comments during the district s virtual equity summit published to YouTube by Parents Defending Education (PDE) in late April and clips of her comments were shared to social media Thursday, garnering many reactions. If you re being resistant, I understand that, but you re going to have to eventually come to the light because if you re going to keep up those old views of colonialism, it s going to lead to being fired because you re going to be doing damage to our children.trauma, Watkins said during the Zoom call. ....