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From Newsweek:

"An elementary school teacher in Texas was suspended after she allegedly spoke about

her sexual orientation with her students, officials said Tuesday.

Charlotte Anderson Elementary art teacher Stacy Bailey, 31, was suspended with pay in

September.

Officials with the Mansfield Independent School District (ISD) said it received complaints

from parents about her discussing her sexual orientation with students.

… District officials said the teacher was not suspended over her request to include

LGBTQ language in its nondiscrimination policy.

Instead, the district said, Bailey was suspended because she "insists that it is her right

and that it is age appropriate for her to have ongoing discussions with elementary-aged

students about her own sexual orientation, the sexual orientation of artists, and their

relationships with other gay artists."

"Parents have the right to control the conversation with their children, especially as it relates

to religion, politics, sex/sexual orientation, etc.," the statement continued."

Now, it could be the case that the school district simply phrased this poorly.

But such a policy as stated would be disingenuous in the extreme.

On its face, this stance presents an appearance of neutrality, treating sexual orientation

altogether as something to be discussed by students' parents and guardians rather than

their teachers.

But in practice, it's hard to imagine such a policy being applied neutrally at all.

When was the last time a teacher was put on leave for mentioning her husband?

When was the last time a teacher was put on leave for mentioning his wife?

Really, when was the last time a history teacher was disciplined for teaching about kings and

their many wives, or First Ladies and their role in American civic life?

This is clearly a non-issue – when it's about straight people.

Yet when a teacher – or an artist being studied – has a same-sex partner, this is

now treated as a fact of their life that needs to be quarantined and kept out of the classroom.

When the sexual orientation of straight people is a constant and unquestioned presence in

the curriculum, this supposedly neutral policy really only serves to elevate one sexual orientation

above the rest.

Such policies are a cousin to the UK's Section 28, which required that schools "shall not

intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality"

or "promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality

as a pretended family relationship".

The ambiguous scope of this law created an atmosphere of overbroad caution and wariness,

where schools now felt it was necessary to shut down gay-straight alliances and teachers

were discouraged from stepping in when students were subjected to homophobic bullying.

This school district's policies may not single out queer sexual orientations by name,

but their uneven enforcement effectively singles them out as a uniquely unwelcome intrusion

into the learning environment.

"The sexual orientation of artists, and their relationships with other gay artists"

is not some ancillary or trivial area of study that can be so easily discarded.

When I was in 6th grade, my art class had a unit on Keith Haring during which we somehow

managed to learn almost nothing about him.

Sure, we learned plenty about the technical aspects of his work, and some recurring visual

themes like babies and dogs and UFOs.

We were even tasked with creating our own art incorporating some of his best-known motifs.

But it wasn't until years later, when I looked up Keith Haring online, that I found

out he was gay.

We didn't learn that Keith Haring was a gay artist.

We didn't learn about his AIDS activism, or his work Silence=Death.

We didn't learn that Keith Haring died of AIDS.

In our class, all of his extensive commentary on social issues of the 1980s had been silenced,

cut out, quarantined.

We received a deficient education because someone took it upon themselves to section

apart the life of this great artist, and decide for us that his illustrations of dogs and

hearts were more important than the reality of the inspirations and life circumstances

that fueled his creative work.

All we were left with was art, a very limited selection of art devoid of anything remotely

challenging, without an artist.

I see this school district trying to cut such an inappropriate line through their art curriculum

and through the lives of the faculty tasked with teaching it.

It's as if they want the event of teaching to take place, without the inconvenience of

a teacher who exists in her fullness as a person with a life of her own – the same

life that heterosexual teachers are allowed to live unhindered.

That is the furthest thing from neutral.

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Studying Japanese History & Philosophy for Budo Practice - Seido Talks [Vlog #02] - Duration: 26:26.

So today we're heading to Mito for a shooting of a Matsuri, so it's festival

that is a commemoration for the samurai who committed the assassination of Ii Naosuke,

Minister of the Shogun at the end of the Edo period.

It's an assassination which led to the Meiji period, the restoration of the Emperor,

and the birth of the modern Japan, including the modern Budo that we practice today.

Today for this second Sato talk that we are shooting at the back of the car,

on the way to the event,

we were discussing the relevance of studying Japanese history, and...

actually the work we're going to do today

for martial art practitioners. So, as practitioners we are also doing this

work of documenting Japanese history for a reason and we think that it is very

important for any serious martial artist you know the history of Japan and the

question is why to what extent should we study Japanese history in order to

understand the video we practiced today and jean-francois here we joined the

Sado a few weeks ago he is also an adept of Japanese culture and history when you

started studying Japanese history and philosophy I guess you were maybe

surprised by a few facts or the the reality of the history based on what you

you've seen before on TV or popular culture yes that's that's absolutely

true there I think for most people if you want to say it fast you can I think

almost everybody that starts martial arts start for the wrong reasons

and most of those will go on they go on for the good reasons which means that

usually you have a lot of prejudices when you start martial arts because

because we don't know first hand of course we're Westerners so all we

know of Japanese culture history and so on we we get it from from the popular

culture from from books from far away and it builds this image we have of

Japan in our minds in the West and often it's quite a romantic image that is of

course absolutely wrong like every image you can have of an external culture so

you start because you have this seducing image and you want you want to go closer

and as you as you get closer to this image you realize that actually it's not

it's not the right picture you got it wrong but if you're earnest in your

practice you will realize that this new image is more and more interesting so

actually the image you have of the Buddha of Buddha of Japan and so on is

you you read it through your own Western concepts and the closer you get to the

real Japanese culture the more you can can adjust this picture be good because

you get the the new tools from directly from the Japanese country will help you

understand firsthand what is really at stake here and that's where things start

to get interesting it's because probably more more than anything else in Japanese

culture the the Japanese who used we used the samurai culture throughout the

years the times to create romantic image of the past and use it as a foundation

for for the culture of the time students happenes history was interesting in that

ideas what we call push Edo for example was different five hundred years ago for

a good 200 years ago 50 years ago or today it adapt to be relevant to the

ideas of the time and once you got that idea then you can start working on

Japanese history and start trying to understand what was the the sinking of

the time 200 years ago when you say Bureau or when you see Bushido if you

don't precise from which period from which time you take that we took the

world then it can mean plenty of different things almost all the books I

could find at least those that are translated that in which you can find

something about Bushido or in which you can find traces

of the faults of the of the samurai about their own status

their own their own culture it's almost almost everything is from the everything

I know at least is from the Edo era so roughly from the beginning of the 17th

century to the middle of the 19th century and because it was finally a

period of peace after a period of great military troubles like all the samurai

finally after years of fighting and years of building a status of samurai

and and thoughts of Bushido they finally had the time to kind of formalize all

those thoughts into something but the trick here is that then at the moment

precise moment when they were writing it down kind of it was already changing

because the the time was not a time of war anymore so they kind of already at

the time they are they were already modifying that the thoughts the original

thoughts that you could probably find during the Sengoku Jidai during the

period of the warring States where the the actual culture of Buda with the

culture of the samurai was probably much more rough in every sense and then you

have the Meiji era after the Edo era so from the middle of the 19th century and

things change again and you have actually new books like the Bushido by

by a little bit which is yeah it's something else what's interesting in

this book is that nito Bay was not an historian it was an educator basically

very much influenced by Western education ideas and erode his it was

Christian he was influenced by Christianity and he wrote his book

directly in English to explain the Japanese culture to foreigners so from

that point it is very every single academic it was just about writing

stories for foreigners but it still says something at the time what the Japanese

wanted to show of themself to foreigners and that's very interesting as well so

the example of Bushido is it's a book that should be studied when studying

Japanese philosophy and 9 from the Meiji period but probably not for accurate to

do opposite over ended the research it's true I think it's true to say you you

cannot study philosophy out of its context not completely out of it context

of course the thoughts you can find in in philosophy in books are always

interesting at the present you can always do something with the at the

present but if you want to get what the author meant or what the people who said

what is written down really thought or really felt you have to do this at least

a little this history historian work so today is about one of the very last

events of the Edo period right before the Meiji Revolution a group of samurai

from the the middle hand the metal clan decided to go rogue and to kill what

could be considered at the prime minister of the time so it wasn't the

Shogun but it was the number two of the government this guy in aus K was

basically trying to eliminate all the resistance against the Shogunate which

wanted to open itself to the foreigners who just arrived in Japan after almost

200 years of of sakoku of the closed country to summarize saw that Japan

should protect itself from foreigners so they killed him and this region of Japan

veto is also the birthplace of the Mito gaku which is a philosophical current in

Japan that was very conservative this samurai wanted to protect the traditions

and the samurai social status of the time and to do that they just just gone

rogue and they became running that they basically betrayed everything they were

believing to save what they were believing well it's interesting to study

a little what happened to the very last samurai of Japan and hold the changed to

become a modern society with modern thinking that came not entirely but

at least half from the West and another thing that I'd like to mention about

that is that judo or kendo all the bureau where I built on education were

concept and at the time there was no mandatory education in Japan that just

really set up everything in 20 or 30 years and they used a lot of European

concepts so while judo comes from jujitsu and can

do from kenjutsu Aikido from digits which are all arts the way they were

changed rebuilt and repacked in an educational tool was partly based

on Western ideas so studying the media is very interesting in that many

Japanese many philosopher and thinker try to cross to to merge Japanese

philosophy and Western philosophy Western education and Japanese education

and that's only by studying the specific period of time that we can understand

where the Buddha will practice come from I think we can compare a little the

Meiji Meiji era to the end of the actually it was almost the same same

time but the the end of the 19th century when the Third Republic started in

France and there was finally a common education program built for the whole

country and so on it's a bit the same for the Meiji era from what I know and

Kendall I mean kenjutsu was seen as maybe a way

to unify the country I just it was just part of the programs of course program

for education were much bigger than that with a lot of different matters but that

was thought as more like a sport of course at least physical physical

practice for students that would both keep them in good shape and teach them

something about their something important some something deep about

their culture so probably it's the beginning of the popular popularization

probably the beginning of the popularization of a really of the elite

culture it was the the culture of the samurai so it was only a few a little

percentage of the population at the time we were able to practice below to

practice kenjutsu because you had to me from a restaurant receipt and to have

time to practice this and they took those techniques

and they brought it to the to the people through education and through of course

modifications as a kind of yeah physical physical practice like the morning

training that keeps you in shape and get your body and mind ready for studying

I've seen some a few photos from the time you can see all the little students

in the playground with the book and the book tool and they would they would

practice kind of super EE and so on so at the time I don't know if you can

really call that kenjutsu but at least I know for for sure that they used the

basic key home kenjutsu practice to to to do physical exercises for their for

the students and that's probably where kendo started because wow we have to we

have to understand that Kendall is is it's still brutal or it's still martial

arts I mean we can we can discuss about that translation of Budo but it's not a

sports we we don't want nobody wants to call it a sport but it's closer to sport

than the actual boodle was I mean that the actual kenjutsu was because Kendall

was only about fighting fighting for your life and Kendall it's not for your

life anymore so even if during the Edo period I think

the goals were already shifting maybe towards something more spiritual it was

really I think something really changed when

it was brought to the people by this those educational issues whole treating

movies changed your your practice that is there not a time you wanted to stop

well I wanted to practice for some reasons and and it changed so it's not

relevant anymore or obviously you still practicing and you living in Japan which

means you made peace with it how did that happen actually it did

change my practice of course to understand those things but it never

never questioned my practice I mean this is personal but candle for me is a bit

like a faith I mean means that I'm I truly believe since the beginning since

the day I started that kendo can bring me something important in my life and

probably my whole life so and like any faith at some point you have like you

question it of course that's the that's how it works

but when when I learned about that it didn't really question my practice I

just changed the way I saw it particularly because I think if you are

aware that at some point there was a difference in the

in the thoughts that are behind the practice you you feel like you don't you

don't want to betray the idea you had in the first place so you try to go back in

time to the real thoughts that were behind kenjutsu and you want to bring it

back to your actual practice in the present I I think that's what it did

what this knowledge did to my practice I do I don't wouldn't pretend I I'm

succeeding in it but that's at least why I think I'm trying to do is I'm aware

that kendo can can be can become a sport really easily also because of the

competition the way it is done the point system everything in the fact that you

have referees of course a lot of efforts are made to keep it

linked to the original Buddha to the original kenjutsu into the what what is

at stake something you often hear from teachers is like think about so that she

winning first everything so so we have we still have in kendo those thoughts

linked to the fact that can do is to actually protect your life and to

overcome an opponent but knowing knowing this knowing that there was modification

in the teaching of Kendall it makes it even more important to focus on those

things back in the kenjutsu days in order not to forget why why you are

practicing why why can do is here this idea of fighting for your life or at

least not practicing it only as a sport but as

something more and linked to the the ancient samurai culture is very well

should be the central point in practice but it's not many people practice kendo

for the sports aspect especially in Japan actually I don't criticize them

because I think it's totally enjoyable - that's just not what I am seeking in it

well I did the same for Aikido judo basically not so many people anymore

really practicing in it with the martial ma mind but it's interesting because in

Aikido I know a few people who are doing the same thing they go back to the roots

of died to do a key jujitsu to find where the Aikido taking come from but by

doing that we're actually acknowledging that the Aikido and kendo and the doodle

are not martial arts but educational arts and we have to go back to what was

there before to find the marshal the real martial

aspect of it so well it really depends in people and then what's your goal and

where where you practice probably also because practicing in Japan in a very

safe country doesn't really push people to think about

life danger or stuff like that if you practice in the US I guess that's

probably something that cross your mind more often to conclude and that's

cheating the the history and the philosophy of Japan and perhaps at some

point the art will proceed which precede the one we are currently practicing well

well it's not mandatory you can practice kendo 0x3 do karate do whatever you want

with the mine you want I mean if your teacher is teaching you something that

you like that that's good enough what you cannot really do is claim things to

be Japanese or from Japanese history without studying it and actually

checking out if it did exist or if it does exist actually if it is really

still actually taught in the art or by your teacher for it you're practicing

you can pretty much always find what you're looking for in in practice of

Budo you might have to take the road and then not go to the closest dojo but you

probably well we ended up in Japan somehow we we did actually that's that's

also what's funny is to go from a place to another even inside Japan and you you

will have really different ways to teach and really different thoughts behind the

teaching and I don't know for Aikido before kendo it's pretty true and and

that's also what I like because I also enjoy the this sports side of kendo

sometimes I'm not a great competitor but I like competition sometimes so take a

bit of everything can be nice but of course yeah you have to understand

what's what's behind if you want to be able not only to select but to

understand what you're selecting to understand what's coming to you

yeah so well I think maybe you can agree to conclude on that studying history and

philosophy of Japan is something that helps you understand what you're doing

and that enlarge your your possibilities what you can choose from if you want to

practice something that is more like self defense that will be something very

modern or if you want to practice something which is linked to the life or

death which come from the the samurai time or if it's more educational and

that would be maybe more from the media and what you choose will probably

influence a lot if you're going to stay and keep practicing or if you leave or

do something else so we're almost there it's going to take a while before we

release the video we're going to shoot today there will be a lot more coming

before there is the Kimura is consensus interview coming in the next few weeks

then with semi sensei didn't tell you from this video which is going right

after that we'll have a few Ambu video demonstrated demonstration probably meet

a pro I think hopefully fewer the Sato talks in the meantime so see you soon

and sorry for the shaking we we put the cameras on there on the car well we have

three good gears but it's not designed to do that so we've tried to do the best

we could the light with shifting and everything that we're going to try to

make it better in post but we're really not sure what the result is going to be

but well we were in the cow for more than

one hour and was a good opportunity to talk about a few things

so so we've done it see you soon and on our youtube channel or no website if you

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