The "No Teaching" Zone

I can't imagine anything more daunting than trying to teach in North Carolina's system of public education.  Even after receiving a music education degree (BME) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1985, the majority of information I would try to impart to students would be moot.  North Carolina has regressed so far in intelligence and civility, only tribal instincts seem to be important.  When did parents begin to dictate how and what teachers teach?  This only is an extension of the Far Alt Right Republican Trumptista philosopy where the rich control everything including your personal freedoms and your economic opportunities.  I can think of no other time when a quality music education program could be effective, but like so many other educators, our responsibilities have grown too great.  Arm ourselves to protect our students from mass shootings?  This broken record of passing the buck of Republicans to ensure radical, almost terrorist factions will continue to dominate American life needs fixing.  An eighteen year old can neither vote nor drink alcohol, but they can buy an assault rifle?  I am done with this debate.  It is ludicrous, and again like so many other educators we have chosen not to fight this battle.  I knew as soon as I stepped off the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill, it was not a level playing field.  Beginning teacher salary in 1985 from $18,000.00.  Why did I just spend the most challenging four years of my life earning a music education degree from a prestigious university, when my job actually would be in the trenches in the classrooms of North Carolina?  That was then.  Now it is worse.  Marching band parents dictate how the band director teach.  When I interviewed for a teaching job in Columbus, Ohio, during the interview I was told the mother's of the flag girls would chose the music for the half time show!  While a mass shooting is daunting, to me it isn't the greatest battle.  The greatest battle is trying to apply tough learning to a body of students who evidently have become special needs.  They needs to be called their chosen pronouns.  ?  What?  The focus of my teaching, creating higher functioning and more intelligent mature adults, is being undermined by a fixation on gender identity.  Never before in the history of America have children been confused by their gender.  That is an over-reaching blanket statement, but I believe it is true.  Always the human race has had homosexuality, but an issue where a child does not know how to act because of a confusion of gender?  Previously it was "Tomboys."  Still this is a common phenomenon, girls who identify with their more masculine brothers' activity.  Perhaps there are boys who identify with more feminine activity, but I am not familiar with this.  This battle is not appropriate in our system of public education, and it is far-reaching to expect our school professionals to kowtow to this desire.  Because young adults advance through puberty and adolescence while in school, it is a component of the public education system.  The gamut of that for me was getting sex education in health class in ninth grade.  That was it.  There was no discussion about personal gender identity.  I will be bold enough to say that even during my time of public education, we were a stronger race.  There was little time for weakness.  If you wanted to survive, you had to be tough.  That meant you could not waffle in confusion about your self.  No longer are we tough.  No longer are we physically fit.  No longer are we cognitively capable.  The communist siege has done their job.  They have brought down America.  "Officials" are afraid schools will be new breeding grounds for Monkeypox.  Let's make up some more reasons why American children cannot get an education.  First we decided to exploit our youth by targeting their expendable income.  Now students are emerging from our educational system with thousands of dollars of debt, even hundreds of thousands.  We have so exploited our children it should be of no surprise they are killing each other.  We continue to bombard society with harmful, inciting, extraneous radiation, but plead the fifth when trying to explain continued mass shootings.  This radiation is a primary problem in the world today, but it is not the only one.  The other problem we have is inbreeding.  Take a look at the pictures of the shooters.  Do you see something upsetting?  The genetics of these shooters have been compromised.  What does that mean?  Since the Alt Right has decried science and logic, the most conflicted and biologically compromised individual now is acceptable, because they create tumult, unrest, and reportable drama.  Instead of investing in the human race, its purity, integrity, and capability, we have decided to attack it.  We have become mutants of our own design, because no longer are we smart and savvy enough to ensure Capitalism works.  For Capitalism to function it takes sheer power in all arenas.  We gave up on that, because it is easier to own the plantation through corrupt politics.  (Mitch McConnell)  I did not choose to live the last chapters of my life in the Theater of the Absurd.  I would like to think that if I chose, I could teach music education to young Americans and it would be appreciated.  I would not have to stop and think about whether a student was a boy or a girl.  I would not have to kowtow to their "pronouns."  I would make them better smarter people by showing them things outside of their own issues, because it all has happened before.  We are a speck of dust in the universe, and if we took the time to embrace our personal history we would understand our selfish fixations should be secondary.  Loving our fellow man is more important, and I mean that in an altruistic sense.  Trying to snake your best friends asshole is depraved, and a bit of church would help.  Never have I felt that abortion should be used as contraception, so I agree with our Supreme Court's decisions.  I also feel marriage is a religious sacrament, and it should be reserved for man and a woman.  I believe the military has become 50% communist, and we need to keep an eye on their activity.  This insurrection has come from within, and they are listening to everything we say and watching everything we do.  (That is why my ears are ringing at the moment.  Their ISR systems have become a large source of this aberrant radiation.)  There is no need to shell the enemy anymore.  Just surveil them with massive amounts of microwave energy, and they will contract "Havana Syndrome" and disappear.  The priorities of this generation of Americans are skewed.  They are addicted, selfish, and ignorant, and I don't want to teach them.