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As the author explained, parents have an indirect way to control what is in the curriculum, by voting for the school board. I think parents are also within their rights to express concerns about certain topics that may be in the curriculum, but I agree with the author, who seems to be saying that individual parents should not be able to dictate the curriculum in a classroom. That’s what a school board (which you voted for) and school administration (who were hired by the board you voted for) are for.
We now know that the Parents who attempt to go to the school board are not allowed to speak, they now run the risk of being investigated as Domestic Terrorists — as dictated by the National Association of School .boards in thrur Letter to the President of the United States and the US Attorney General. We know this because the Letter to Biden was published, the Order from the AG was published and through Congressional Testimony by A.G. We also know from FOIA Releases that Teacher Unions & the NASB conferenced with the White House before the “Domestic Terrorist” letter was written.
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They didn't want parents seeing them teach online either. Why? What are they trying to hide?
I think some need to be reminded that as taxpayers, they work for us, it's not the other way around.
Teacher Unions are behind much of this. Parents did monitor what their kids were being taught when they were locked down at home for learning. Many were shocked. The Lockdown had an Unintended Consequence for the Teachers. Their methods were exposed.
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Any good teacher wants the parents to be involved with their child's education, but they don't want to be micromanaged. No one wants to be micromanaged, and the types of talented and versatile teachers who we should be wanting to attract to the profession are either going to be repelled by that or going to quickly burn out and leave.
Im sure many teachers ARE leaving. I have a relative who has been teaching for almost 20 years. Head of a STEM department and loves teaching, loved by the Students. She quit teaching, 2 other Department Heads also quit. Not Burnout. The schools are doing away with AP courses and forcing these CRT types of programs that now go by many other names because the public has caught on to the Toxic CRT name.
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You're getting hung up on semantics. Parents have called it CRT. So don't call it CRT because it doesn't align with what is being taught in universities.
When black and white parents are complaining to school boards that their lessons are teaching racism, whatever you want to call it is a problem. When kids are being taught that police officers are racist and unfair to black people, whatever you want to call it is a problem. When kids are being taught that by virtue of the fact that they've been born with white skin, they're born biased or racist, whatever you want to call it is a problem.
“We commit to dismantling systemic racism, we commit to embodying and spreading anti-racist practices, and we commit to building systems of opportunity and possibility for students of color,” Panorama Education CEO and co-founder Aaron Feuer wrote. “Important areas of impact include student voice, social-emotional learning and mental health, anti-racism practices, diversity and inclusion practices, equitable [Multi-Tiered System of Supports] and behavior practices, conversations around race and identity, recruiting and supporting teachers of color, and systemic approaches to equity.”
The term CRT has become Toxic, so they just rename and call it something else —- SEL (Social Emotional Learning) is a big one. That one (Panorama) is sold (Millions of dollars) to some of the largest School Districts in the USA by AG Garland’s Son in Law. It’s all the same CRT type stuff, just re-packaged to hide the content. That allows School Boards to claim “ we don’t teach CRT”
Those parents are fortunate they have meetings they can physically attend.
My house is in Texas, and is in the only county in the U.S. where Trump beat Hillary by more than 100,000 votes, and where Trump got more than 70% of the vote in both elections. Still...I happened to drive by a public elementary school the other day and there was a message on the school's permanent message board by the side of the road that the future Parent Teacher Organization meetings will be held via Zoom.
Your argument's based on a fallacy. Just because the government washes its hands of it doesn't mean it won't get done.
Also, if you want kids, have at it. But I'm not paying for them.
If you think you will ever get Medicare you might want to rethink that. Those kids will be paying it. Best they know how to read, write and give correct change.
If you think you will ever get Medicare you might want to rethink that. Those kids will be paying it. Best they know how to read, write and give correct change.
I have absolutely no confidence that either medicare or social security will be around (or solvent) by the time I retire. Probably will need to start shopping around for someplace to retire eventually.
What I pay in school taxes, compounded at 5% a year (HALF the historical return of the S&P) over 35 years, is a lot of money, and probably enough for me to retire wherever I want that isn't London, New York, San Francisco, Sydney etc.
When the teachers have a problem with parents hearing what is being taught to their kids...we have a huge problem.
Leftist in citydata love to tell the parents to back off and leave it to the “expert” educators.
Also leftist “hey police cops, we want to tell you how to do your job. Let’s have social workers responding to traffic stops or how to disarmed a gunman”
I always thought teachers were suppose to teach from text books? Teach nothing more and nothing less. What text books to use seems to be something parents have not been involved in very much, but should be.
Go back to using text books. Have parental involvement in the decision of which text books to use. This would mean parents get to review all text books before they are used, and have a vote on which text books will be used.
Then, it should be required that teachers will teach only what's in the text books that have been approved by both the board and parents.
Classrooms should be monitored to confirm teachers are teaching only what's in the approved text books. Video cameras should be in each (gov) classroom for anyone to review, even the public (with students identity blocked and voices muted). The purpose of the camera is to record what the teacher is saying and doing.
Then, everything is back to normal.
Text books are mostly at the state level, teachers should not be limited by parents that is the job of administrators. I recall some parents and legislators in Texas wanted creationism added to science text books, this is best left to state educators. Parents should not be involved in the details of instruction.
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