Book burning in Tennessee

[Dr. Keith]

Any parent that wanted to homeschool their kids should be asked two questions:
1. What makes you think you know the subject matter well enough?
2. What makes you think you know how to teach?

They’ve done the research, have you!

/s

 

[Stacyhs]

Any parent that wanted to homeschool their kids should be asked two questions:
1. What makes you think you know the subject matter well enough?
2. What makes you think you know how to teach?

Exactly. Knowing HOW to teach is a skill.

 

[Stacyhs]

In the law I've seen proposed, teachers were required to post all their lesson plans for the year by June 30.

June friggin 30. 6 weeks before school starts in most places. They would be required to have all their lessons ready for May....in June of the previous year.

This is idiotic.

It's ridiculous. Lesson plans change. Any lesson plans made that far in advance will be obsolete the first month of school. What a complete waste of time. If you trust your teachers and schools that little, then pull them out and either teach them yourselves or put them in a private school that conforms to your belief.

Perhaps the DJT Patriotic School where history classes teach that slaves were so happy and well cared for that they spent their days singing in the cotton fields and loving their benevolent massas. Where the science class teaches that the Earth is 6,000 years old and that Creationism is just as scientifically valid as evolution.

 

[thaiboxerken]

Book burning doesn't see to be enough for Republicans. Now they "are trying to require schools to post all course materials online so parents can review them, part of a broader national push by the GOP for a sweeping parents bill of rights ahead of the midterm congressional elections.
At least one proposal would give parents with no expertise power over curriculum choices. Parents also could file complaints about certain lessons and in some cases sue school districts."

As a former teacher, this is just ridiculous. Schools aren't pushing outlandish, politically or religiously biased agendas. As teachers, we were well aware of just how ridiculous some parents could be and how carefully we had to trod...so were principals and school boards. The parents that were the most difficult were almost always religious and/or right wing extremists. Believe me, I had my fair share of these to contend with.

That is the problem. Republicans want schools to push their idiotic religious and political agendas. They want schools to teach that white people are victims and people of color are just whining too much. They want hatred of anyone not heterosexual taught. They want trans people to be hated. They want people of color to know their place. They want white supremacy to be indoctrinated. They aren't discriminatory, though, because they want all people to be indoctrinated into the white supremacist agenda.

 

[Upchurch]

I thought this got posted somewhere, but maybe not. If so, I apologize for the redundancy but it seems relevant even if no books are burned:

Alternative Math

Missed opportunity. She should have said it was $20,002,000.