Offensive language at a school board meeting

[Aqua Letifer]

@89th said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

I thought the chair handled that well.

I think so, too.

I just heard this recently, and think it explains why pretty much all conflicts happen:

Any time there's strong emotion behind what you're saying--excitement, humor, anger, sadness, disgust, whatever--what you really want from the other person is to be honestly understood. Once you believe that you've "gotten through" to the other person, which means you truly believe they have tried to understand your emotions, there's no conflict.

Also explains why facts never win an argument.

[George K]

@89th said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

I thought the chair handled that well.

Agreed.

The irony is that the board is not aware that this is in one of the books that they supposedly approved.

Is no one driving this bus?

[Jolly]

@aqua-letifer said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

@89th said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

I thought the chair handled that well.

I think so, too.

I just heard this recently, and think it explains why pretty much all conflicts happen:

Any time there's strong emotion behind what you're saying--excitement, humor, anger, sadness, disgust, whatever--what you really want from the other person is to be honestly understood. Once you believe that you've "gotten through" to the other person, which means you truly believe they have tried to understand your emotions, there's no conflict.

Also explains why facts never win an argument.

Ah, management is in your future!

[Jolly]

@george-k said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

@89th said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

I thought the chair handled that well.

Agreed.

The irony is that the board is not aware that this is in one of the books that they supposedly approved.

Is no one driving this bus?

Like a lot of oversight, they're taking the "professionals" word and rubber-stamping.

[Aqua Letifer]

@jolly said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

@aqua-letifer said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

@89th said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

I thought the chair handled that well.

I think so, too.

I just heard this recently, and think it explains why pretty much all conflicts happen:

Any time there's strong emotion behind what you're saying--excitement, humor, anger, sadness, disgust, whatever--what you really want from the other person is to be honestly understood. Once you believe that you've "gotten through" to the other person, which means you truly believe they have tried to understand your emotions, there's no conflict.

Also explains why facts never win an argument.

Ah, management is in your future!

That. Would be hilarious. And you know it.

[LuFins Dad]

The same thing with the same book happened at a Fairfax County School Board meeting a month ago. The chair did not handle it nearly as well. That was the impetus of the the debate question where McAuliffe stated parents should not be allowed to remove books from a school and have no say in what is taught.

[Jolly]

@aqua-letifer said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

@jolly said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

@aqua-letifer said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

@89th said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

I thought the chair handled that well.

I think so, too.

I just heard this recently, and think it explains why pretty much all conflicts happen:

Any time there's strong emotion behind what you're saying--excitement, humor, anger, sadness, disgust, whatever--what you really want from the other person is to be honestly understood. Once you believe that you've "gotten through" to the other person, which means you truly believe they have tried to understand your emotions, there's no conflict.

Also explains why facts never win an argument.

Ah, management is in your future!

That. Would be hilarious. And you know it.

I'd promote your ass in a heartbeat.

[89th]

@george-k said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

The irony is that the board is not aware that this is in one of the books that they supposedly approved.
Is no one driving this bus?

I have zero insight in how the board approves books but highly doubt anyone on the board has read the millions of books in the library, so let's cut some slack. If a book with that type of language is found, it should be (I would hope) a pretty fast process to get it removed.

[Jolly]

No school library has millions of books.

[Improviso]

@89th said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

If a book with that type of language is found, it should be (I would hope) a pretty fast process to get it removed.

One would think so... but apparently that is not the case.

[89th]

@jolly said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

No school library has millions of books.

The average elementary school library has 25,000 books. Fairfax County Public Schools has I think 220 schools in its system. This would mean there are 5.5 million books. Ok yes... many books are duplicate between schools, but let's stay at 25,000 at a single school. How can the "board" approve the contents of 25,000 books?

[LuFins Dad]

@89th said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

@jolly said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

No school library has millions of books.

The average elementary school library has 25,000 books. Fairfax County Public Schools has I think 220 schools in its system. This would mean there are 5.5 million books. Ok yes... many books are duplicate between schools, but let's stay at 25,000 at a single school. How can the "board" approve the contents of 25,000 books?

By not hiring insane Librarians.

[Doctor Phibes]

@89th said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

@jolly said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

No school library has millions of books.

The average elementary school library has 25,000 books. Fairfax County Public Schools has I think 220 schools in its system. This would mean there are 5.5 million books. Ok yes... many books are duplicate between schools, but let's stay at 25,000 at a single school. How can the "board" approve the contents of 25,000 books?

They probably need to check out the really popular ones first to make sure they're not promoting witchcraft or something.

[Copper]

@89th said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

How can the "board" approve the contents of 25,000 books?

One at a time.

They were all ordered by someone, one at a time.

[Catseye3]

@doctor-phibes said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

They probably need to check out the really popular ones first to make sure they're not promoting witchcraft or something.

Well, and books like this:

[Larry]

Are they talking about library books, or schoolbooks? That is 2 very different things, and usually the concern isn't over library books, the concern is over what is contained in textbooks.

[Jolly]

These are library books, in school libraries.