{"id":600216,"date":"2021-07-22T13:51:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T17:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=600216"},"modified":"2021-07-22T13:51:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T17:51:42","slug":"oregon-middle-school-educators-fired-for-emailing-ben-shapiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oregon-middle-school-educators-fired-for-emailing-ben-shapiro\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Middle School Educators Fired For Emailing Ben Shapiro"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foregon-middle-school-educators-fired-for-emailing-ben-shapiro%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=600216&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1071955284-shapiro2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Two middle school educators in Oregon were fired for emailing Daily Wire co-founder and editor emeritus Ben Shapiro about their thoughts on transgender bathroom policy, with the school district claiming it amounted to using school resources to work on a political campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Grants Pass school board voted 4-3 to terminate assistant principal Rachel Damiano and science teacher Katie Medart, <a href=\"https:\/\/ktvl.com\/news\/local\/email-to-ben-shapiro-used-as-evidence-in-termination-of-grants-pass-educators\">KTVL<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>In response to pending legislation in Oregon dealing with transgender students in bathrooms and locker rooms, the teachers wrote to Shapiro about an alternative proposal designed to \u201cmove[] away from an argument about \u2018right\u2019 or \u2018wrong.\u2019 It instead focuses on ways in which we can be respectful to all parties involved, while ultimately protecting the hearts and minds of our youth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The proposal said that bathrooms could be re-designated as \u201canatomically-male\u201d and \u201canatomically-female\u201d and that anyone who did not feel comfortable using those facilities could request a private space. The women called their advocacy for the alternative policy \u201cI Resolve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A district investigation held that the pair \u201cused social media and public websites in such a manner that it disrupted the school environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the disruption they were being punished for actually referred to the actions of activists who were angry at the educators for voicing their opinions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clear from the complaints received that the \u2018I Resolve\u2019 video posted on YouTube and Facebook, as well as the \u2018I Resolve\u2019 website, that a substantial disruption in school occurred,\u201d the investigation said. \u201cThis included student protests, staff complaints, citizen complaints, division among the staff, and was interpreted by some who would be affected by the \u2018I Resolve\u2019 resolution as disrespectful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eighth-grader Stephanie Eminowicz, who KTVL describes as a \u201cmember of the LGBTQ community,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/ktvl.com\/station\/middle-school-student-initiates-petition-to-have-two-grants-pass-educators-fired\">said<\/a> that when she heard that some teachers wanted students to use bathrooms corresponding to their anatomical sex, \u201cit was just so shocking to me and I couldn\u2019t believe that this was like the world that I was living in.\u201d She wrote her preferred pronouns on her forehead and started a petition to fire the educators.<\/p>\n<p>The two educators have filed a <a href=\"https:\/\/ce526d10-6ab1-412e-badf-57729a7d2636.filesusr.com\/ugd\/16d254_94edd046fd694ba8bcaadaa1edf1f69b.pdf\">lawsuit<\/a> against the district and school board members. They are represented by Ray Hacke of the Pacific Justice Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Hacke said, \u201cBecause there was a backlash from fellow employees and community members who didn\u2019t like what they had to say you know the district basically threw them under the bus.\u201d He said although the email to Shapiro was sent from a school email address, they generally used their own time and resources to express their opinions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are allowed to have discussions with people about political topics on their own time,\u201d he said, according to KTVL.<\/p>\n<p>Oregon, which is dominated by Portland \u2014 one of the whitest and also most progressive cities in America \u2014 is not known for keeping politics out of schools.<\/p>\n<p>Examples are endless. Last year, a charter school that was not offering actual education in-person, citing coronavirus, found it possible to gather in-person after all \u2014 to have eight-year-olds chant and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecottonwoodschool.org\/2020\/06\/19\/cscs-held-a-protest-and-march-for-black-lives-matter\/\">march<\/a> in a Black Lives Matter protest. \u201cOur students learn from participation and from the example the school and parents set,\u201d the school said.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigard-Tualatin School District advertises racial segregation, which it calls \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttsdschools.org\/Page\/10341\">Affinity Groups<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under the state\u2019s Ethnic Studies <a href=\"https:\/\/defendinged.org\/incidents\/ethnic-studies-standards-require-kindergartners-to-develop-an-understanding-of-their-racial-gender-and-religious-identity\/\">Standards<\/a>, teachers will train children to think of themselves as part of racial factions by \u201cDevelop[ing] an understanding of one\u2019s own identity groups including, but not limited to, race, gender, family, ethnicity, culture, religion, and ability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As early as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pps.net\/cms\/lib\/OR01913224\/Centricity\/Domain\/51\/3.31.14%20Five%20Year%20Equity%20Plan%20Narrative-2.pdf\">2011<\/a>, the Portland schools developed a \u201c5-year racial equity plan\u201d saying \u201cIn order for the district to achieve educational equity, we must undergo a cultural and organizational transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the 5-year period, in 2016-2017, fewer students were achieving at the highest levels of math and English than in previous years, according to district <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pps.net\/\/site\/Default.aspx?PageID=2080\">data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is rather obvious that if these teachers had emailed Rachel Maddow and asked her to support a movement in favor of gender non-specific bathrooms, they would still have their jobs. The only reason this is being treated as a fireable offense is that these teachers expressed an opinion of which the social Left does not approve,\u201d Shapiro told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/oregon-teachers-fired-ben-shapiro-email\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/loudoun-teachers-attack-parents-protected-free-speech-mulls-banning-trump-flags\">Loudoun Says Teachers Who Attack Parents Protected By Free Speech, Mulls Banning Trump Flags<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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