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NEILCAR » 20 Aug 2022, 5:55 am » wrote: ↑

20 Aug 2022, 5:55 am

Well, if parents want to go over to the school board and talk about what and how their children are being educated ... I do not see anything wrong with that.
You are taking their money and using it in the school system, they should have a say and it is their children we are talking about ...

I think sometime the teachers forget that they are not the parents...

Well, this has been brought up in my first thread on the subject. And to a point it's a valid argument.

However parents also need to realize that a school is comprised of students (well, most public schools at least) from various walks of life. Including some gay and transgendered kids. And laws that directly (or indirectly) demonize certain groups of kids infringe on the rights and well being of students (and their parents) who may not fit into the mold that right wingers are trying DICTATE to schools, teachers, and school boards.

In many of the articles I've posted in various threads on the subject, it has been shown how the ideologies being promoted by DeSantis, Abbott and other right wingers have resulted in bullying and emotional trauma for such students.

Efforts to regulate curriculum under vaguely worded anti-"CRT" legislation has resulted in the banning of lessons and books about notable figures in Black history like MLK, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and the like.

Teachers are being told what personal items, family pictures etc. aren't being allowed in classroom. While concurrently, the right is promoting and pushing their OWN curriculum and ideologies, including mandating that "in God we trust" posters be installed in Texas classrooms.

It is not a movement of freedom nor of acceptance. It is a fascist movement of exclusion, repudiation, and demonization of people and thought deemed unacceptable to the radical right.