A Georgia school board voted along party lines Thursday to fire a teacher after officials said she improperly read a book on gender fluidity to her fifth grade class.
A Georgia school board voted along party lines Thursday to fire a teacher after officials said she improperly read a book on gender fluidity to her fifth grade class.
Don’t teach my kids reading!
Don’t learn my childrens ‘bout no demonic algebra.
Don’t read that evil evolution book to my offspring.
I mean, have you seen the symbols they use in math? It’s obviously a demon summoning. No kid of mine will learn about librul irrational numbers. /s
But naw, that’s what they sound like. They want to pick and choose facts to teach their kids. They might not be going after math symbols this time, but they’re still anti-reality. Parents can have some leeway in how to raise their kids, but they don’t get to choose to keep their kids ignorant of reality. Well, unless they live in Georgia apparently. Or Florida. Or one of several other states that have done similar and just coincidentally happen to be red states.
Full of nuance. Love it!
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Oh, my bad. I didn’t realize the parents were all experts in education and also made the rules and could even change reality to fit their whims.
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Says the person doing exactly that.
Like it or not, parents don’t own children, nor do they have an absolute authority over them.
If parents abuse or neglect their child (and yes, depriving them of an education is both) then the other responsible adults in that’s child’s life have not only every right, but the absolute responsibility, to override the abusive parents’ instructions or demands, and intervene in the child’s best interest.
Hey now! You stop it with that reasonable speak! That isn’t allowed on the internet.
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jesus tapdancing christ, just say you think parents should control every aspect of their child’s lives including everything they THINK and HEAR.
Child disagrees with parents? Fuck em, parents are always right. Always. Right?
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one of the man benefits of public education are having the kids taught by people who actually know what they are teaching, rather than random parents who think they know. yeah, its not perfect, but parents generally make worse teachers than, ya know, trained teachers.
its classic micromanagement of the kid. let go
Conservatives believe that their children are their property. Or a close analog thereof.
So you teaching their kid something they don’t want the kid to know is treated like you’re damaging “their stuff”.
Conservatives are all about protecting property, even when said property is actually a person who might not want their “protection”.
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You contradict yourself.
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You mean what you say, but don’t understand it. So you contradict yourself.
Two things can be true. Reading sure is tough!
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@vlad76 @originalucifer
It takes a village to raise a child, for good reason.
That’s some absolute nonsense. I shouldn’t have to rely on other parents for my kid to be able to learn certain things in school. They don’t like it, they can pull their kid from the class during that instruction. This whole thing of “I don’t want it, so no one gets it” is absolute bullshit.
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Parents have the option of homeschooling their kids. That’s them exercising their authority. But public school curriculum should be decided by an apolitical body that follows evidence based practices. Don’t like it as a parent? Then homeschool.
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Try getting a majority of parents to agree to your opinion first.
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Did you read any required books in school? Did you parents have to fill out a form agreeing to those books? If not, then maybe “you need the parents to be on board” is a bullshit excuse.
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@vlad76 @Decimit
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PaKjRMMU9HI
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