During Thursday’s edition of NBC Nightly News, anchor Lester Holt and correspondent Antonia Hylton worried that the backlash against teachers who insist on speaking to their students about LGBTQ issues are quitting in record numbers and causing a teacher shortage. Many conservatives would argue that this is a good thing, yet apparently NBC finds this troubling.
“On the same day that high school English teacher Emily Ramser won an award for being an outstanding Texas educator, she stood in front of the Grapevine Colleyville School District to tell them why she was among dozens of staff members resigning this year,” Hylton reported.
Hylton claimed that “school districts across the country are facing a teacher shortage, fueled by burnout and low pay. But in Texas, many blame politics.”
The politics in question here isn’t politics at all. She explained that “last year, Ramser's district saw a 40 percent jump in resignations and retirements after new conservative school board members pushed to remove hundreds of books and restrict lessons about race and LGBTQ identities.”
“I have taught these kids for years to write and to grow their voices. And I'm not gonna let my actions say something different,” Ramser said on the verge of tears.
Failing to see anything wrong with this, Hylton groused that “Ramser, who identifies as queer, says she was asked to change some of her lessons and to remove classroom artwork and rainbow stickers.”
“Then one afternoon last year, a parent told a local news site that Ramser encouraged her child to become transgender by lending her a book called The Prince and the Dressmaker,” Hylton added.
Hylton added that “The mother who accused Ramser declined to speak with NBC News, but the child and her father say the allegations were false, that the child already identified as transgender.”
“The district cleared Ramser, but never made a statement for her to the public,” she added.
What happened to old fashioned reading, writing & arithmetic in public schools? Why can’t teachers simply leave it at that?
NBC promotes this all as normal and offers zero criticism or skepticism of the story. As always, NBC Nightly News carries water for the leftist agenda.
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NBC Nightly News
6/15/2023
6:50:40 p.m. EasternLESTER HOLT: Across the country, teachers are calling it quits, teeing up a shortage. But besides low pay and burnout, there’s now something else pushing them to leave the jobs they love. Antonia Hylton reports.
ANTONIA HYLTON: On the same day that high school English teacher Emily Ramser won an award for being an outstanding Texas educator, she stood in front of the Grapevine Colleyville School District to tell them why she was among dozens of staff members resigning this year.
EMILY RAMSER: This community has continuously harassed me for the past few years to the point that there were days I didn't even want to be alive anymore, much less be a teacher. So I'm going to listen to what I am hearing from this community, which is that y'all don't want people like me, people who might be gay to teach here.
HYLTON: School districts across the country are facing a teacher shortage, fueled by burnout and low pay. But in Texas, many blame politics. Last year, Ramser's district saw a 40 percent jump in resignations and retirements after new conservative school board members pushed to remove hundreds of books and restrict lessons about race and LGBTQ identities.
RAMSER: I have taught these kids for years to write and to grow their voices. And I'm not gonna let my actions say something different.
HYLTON: Ramser, who identifies as queer, says she was asked to change some of her lessons and to remove classroom artwork and rainbow stickers. Then one afternoon last year, a parent told a local news site that Ramser encouraged her child to become transgender by lending her a book called “The Prince and the Dressmaker."
RAMSER: All I did was give a kid a book.
HYLTON: What went through your mind?
RAMSER: I was terrified. I couldn't breathe. I couldn't think.
HYLTON: The mother who accused Ramser declined to speak with NBC News, but the child and her father say the allegations were false, that the child already identified as transgender. The district cleared Ramser, but never made a statement for her to the public. The district declined to respond to NBC News about this specific case, but acknowledged it has more openings this year than last year, saying many other school districts, not only in Texas, but across the nation are also experiencing this declining retention rate of teachers and other employees.
