Education
VA High School Teacher Says ‘Following Directions’ and ‘Sitting Quietly’ is White Supremacy
There are calls for a Virginia high school teacher to resign after he posted a video suggesting encouraging students to behave is White supremacy. Josh Thompson, an English teacher at Blacksburg High School, posted a video to the popular social media platform TikTok in order to criticize the concept of students behaving themselves and sitting quietly.
Originally posted in May, Thompson said in the video, “I stated that PBIS is a White supremacy with a hug and a lot of y’all wanted to know more about that…to support positive academic and behavioral outcomes for all students.”
PBIS refers to the learning model, Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports. Thompson’s video appears to have been removed from TikTok as of Tuesday morning, in which he expressed his belief that behaviors such as sitting quietly and being told what to do is part of “White Culture.”
“So if PBIS concerns itself with positive behaviors, we have to ask ourselves, ‘Okay well what are those positive behaviors?’ And it’s things like making sure that you’re following directions, and making sure that you’re sitting quietly, and you are in your seat and all these things that come from White culture.”
Thompson continued, “The idea of just sitting quiet and being told stuff and taking things in in a passive stance is not a thing that’s in many cultures. So if we’re positively enforcing these behaviors, we are by extension positively enforcing elements of White culture. Which therefore keeps Whiteness at the center, which is the definition of White supremacy.”
The Montgomery County School District told Fox News of the video that, “A teacher is entitled to their personal belief regarding any division program. The statements made by this teacher do not reflect our PBIS program or the behavioral expectations that we have of students in our schools.”
The school added, “MCPS has used PBIS in our schools for eight years. We are proud of our PBIS work. This work helps create a standard for social-emotional learning and behavior expectations in the school building.”
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Mary
October 4, 2021 at 11:04 am
Firstly this guy is white; secondly most people cannot learn in a chaotic system. So who are the cultures that teach just the opposite of a calm atmosphere. Well, think of any terrorists and people who capture innocent people and use them as an example of punishment by torturing and killing them. This definitely shows the difference of a learning example.
You can figure out who the torturers are for yourself.
willyb
November 28, 2021 at 5:24 pm
Following directions and sitting quietly…that’s how we got to be supreme.
Kim
November 30, 2021 at 5:06 pm
The bigotry of low expectations.
Heartland Patriot
December 1, 2021 at 11:45 am
One of the tactics of these radicals is to create chaos to break down the current system. Once the system is broken enough, the leftists will push forward “the fix” of authoritarian socialism. Of course, this time it will be the Chinese Communist version of authoritarian socialism.
mach37
February 4, 2022 at 4:03 pm
Promoting disorder and disruption is not a good thing. Josh Thompson had his head up his hindquarters. As for “A teacher is entitled to their personal belief regarding any division program” – if the teacher’s statements are against the division’s standards of behavioral expectations that we have of students in our schools, the teacher’s “entitlement” can get him fired, and he should be fired.
katherine ayers
February 10, 2022 at 9:47 pm
It, like everything else these days, is all about, and ONLY all about, SEMANTICS.