Teacher told teens 'don't use pedophile' use 'minor attracted person'
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A Texas teacher was kicked to the curb after being caught on tape telling her teen students not to use the word “pedophiles”.
Instead, she implored her young students to use “minor-attracted persons”.
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English teacher Amber Parker, 53, a veteran educator at Franklin High School in El Paso is now unemployed after a video shared on TikTok captured her in all her whimsical glory.
In the 18-second clip, Parker tells her students: “Stop calling them [pedophiles] that. You’re not allowed to label people like that. Stop it, Diego. We’re not gonna call them that.”
She added: “We’re gonna call them MAPs, minor-attracted persons. So don’t judge people just because they wanna have sex with a five-year-old.”
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But was she kidding or awkwardly making a point?
According to the El Paso Times, Parker was teaching Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible when the discussion veered into pedophilia.
Students told the newspaper it was part of a class debate. Some students and parents defended Parker, saying the clip did not reflect the grandmother’s beliefs and that the situation was taken out of context.
The term “minor attracted persons” was floated by a former Old Dominion professor. They lost their job as well.
El Paso’s Independent School District board of trustees unanimously agreed to fire Parker.
Liza Rodriguez said Friday: “After a thorough investigation was conducted, on September 6, 2022, during a Special Board Meeting, the Board of Trustees approved a decision to notify a Franklin High School teacher of proposed termination. Any allegation of potential misconduct is investigated thoroughly, and the safety of our students is a top priority.”
Ryann Ruvalcaba, a junior at Franklin High School, told Fox 17: “She [the teacher] was expressing how it was ridiculous how we [society] might not be able to call people pedophiles.
“That we [society] will probably have to start calling them MAPs because it can be offensive to them [pedophiles]. The class agreed.”
Parker — a mother of five — told Britain’s Daily Mail she was “not legally allowed to comment.”
Meanwhile, trans former Old Dominion University professor Allyn Walker, 34, who resigned from the school after their spirited defence of pedophiles has now been hired by a Johns Hopkins centre aimed at preventing child sexual abuse.
Old Dominion’s Trans Advisory Board called Walker’s remarks “reprehensible”, damaging to the victims of pedophilia and do not reflect the views of the wider trans community.
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