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What's something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 64 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That’s generally not what they’re really concerned about. “I don’t want teachers teaching my children to be gay” is just code for, “I don’t want teachers teaching my children that it’s ok to be gay.”

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 5 months ago

Or just tolerating them in front of their kid. In fact, they'd probably prefer the teacher teach Timmy to hate like mom and dad do.