Context: SF Peninsula, California, mid 2020’s

A few years ago, I wrote about a parent who verbally defended her fat child on the playground merry go around after her child clearly pushed my child off of the plaything. Her statement “but my child did nothing wrong” was not inaccurate. My son was trying to not fall off the edge of the merry go around and tried to move her son to a more central position on the playground merry structure. In the context, since my child was a head shorter than hers, and when mine fell off, he may be hurt where as her son can move to a more central and would not be hurt.

As luck would have it, she may be his new gymnastic teacher. And she has repeatedly raised question as to his behavior during class with respect to safety and etiquette.

I’m a typical non-white white American. I can’t really tell one Latino from anther. That she’s quite uppity and well off because of that is clear. I mean I meet a lot of decent uppity Latinos and they’re all pretty decent people, maybe not well off as her since she’s gained social status have excelled at an uppity sport. But this one lady, just keeps on picking on my son.

So, this gymnasium is founded by a Russian couple years ago. My son’s normal teacher, as luck would have it, is one of few men who teaches in the gym, and he has somewhat Russian sounding name, maybe *-ian-American not sure which. He’s be try motivated, can maintain discipline, and keeps the boys in his class motivated.

This is notable because the uppity Latino lady teacher was not able to do since form very first class. She seemed to hand off the boys (and only boys) to the more junior *-ian-American man teacher, who has never had any problem keeping class together and I can see him working them all the way through the end of the class. Oh btw, the class is all Asian and East Asian boys.

So, over all, I’m pretty unhappy that such a person exists. Not just because I suffer as a consumer. I am really worried about what created such an awful minority in the Bay Area. My son, and his classmates all go to public school and many other activities, they are rarely disturbing class in a way that adult professional teachers found problematic enough to need to meet with us. And plus one of the largest gymnasiums wants to make money but can’t keep kids happy and learning? It really seems very stupid problem for me to have. Why make money if money buys you this kind of racist and sexist shit?!

I am really worried about what created a person like this. The managers are minority immigrants. My son is not in any way threatening *-ian-American or Latino American gymnasts in a competitive way, we’re just trying to keep him fit. What politics and racism can there possibly be for this person to target him (and his, Asian+male classmates too btw)? It’s not a top-down disparagement effort like Trump and ICE, and it’s not for selfish reasons like my son might compete with her kids or her friends kids…

What creates such a person? What is the internal drive behind this persecution? Why would this happen at all?

Chinese people used to use this as self motivation—I was wronged, that’s why I need to work hard. Japanese killed a lot of Chinese out of greed(I believe, not that they’re seriously joining Hitler’s level of racism), I need to be stronger. … But adversity is ultimately limiting. I don’t want to only operate on this frequency and I don’t want my kids to. She’s not doing me any favors creating this pressure.

And we haven’t really learned anything from this experience. Like this institution is still pumping out people like this. They seem to operate in a mode that makes no sense. She’s an employee who oughta try to help her boss run their business. WTF is this work place vigilantism ? What justice she has in mind to accomplish?

Teachers teach. Their job is to run the freaking classroom and teach the kids. If they can motivate them to engage in superior level of learning, then they are superior teachers.

I mean this is almost like when police comes to someone’s home and says “what? Again? There was a burglary? This place is so bad! Can you do something about it?” I thought I was paying her to show kids sportsmanship and hard work and technique…

Being the parent of my own child, I’m well aware of his shenanigans, so definitely will empathize with her having trouble keeping class in order. But it’s just really really bad when there is clearly a teacher who kept students engaged and learning for many months, and then for a manager to come and tell me that the kids are badly behaving.

And since she said specifically the boys were disrespectful to a young girl substitute because of her gender. I will say that she has mistreated my child’s class of all Asian and east-Asian boys because of their ethnicity and sex. This uppity Latino gymnastics teacher in a gym on the SF peninsula has mistreated my child’s class because of their male sex and ethnicity. There is really no other way for me to see it, it isn’t even incompetence, it really is discrimination on the part of management at this gymnasium.

But to what end? What just doesn’t make sense in my mind is what ha the purpose of that? What the fuck is wrong with this lady? Like was she abused as a child athlete or something? Why is this necessary? What is possibly the point of this repeated and deliberate behavior? What in someone’s life could condition a person to do this to innocent kids whose parents are paying her?

I just cannot understand it. Like does she get high laughing at stupid Chinese and Indian boys? Did she do that as a young girl growing up in California or while competing in gymnastics? Because we know gymnastics they really abused their girl athletes even at Olympic level… like is there pant up anger? it’s okay to have feelings to like or dislike boys… just as a managing teacher, letting these feelings affect the job is wrong.

Work place vigilantism is not good as general practice. Like if it was life and death situation like occasional slightly excessive force employed by police to prevent crimes whatever, but if it’s repeated and persistent vigilantism, to target minorities, that’s really hurtful.