Multiple states have recently passed laws to permit parents of school children not to simply

[Atticus]

monitor what is being taught in the classrooms, but to CONTROL what is being taught and HOW it is being taught, all in the name of "allowing" parents to be "involved" with their local schools.

Perhaps I have led a sheltered life, but I have never known of a school district that did anything but strongly encourage parent to get "involved" with their child's learning experience. I have, therefore, come to the conclusion that parental involvement is not the purpose of this flurry of legislation.

They want control. They want to give high school dropouts who don't even live in the district the legal authority to force teachers to tell kids racism does not exist, homosexuality is a sin against God and global climate change---like covid---is a liberal hoax.

People who could not be bothered to attend PTA meetings now find time to scream obscenities at school board meetings and threaten board members with execution if they even mention a long list of "woke" words.

Is it any wonder why experienced teachers are leaving their profession?

[secondwind]

1. We're going to end up with the next generation being totally "brainwashed" ...

It almost feels as if they are setting us up for a Fascist government in the future. This is more scary to me than anything else I have been reading...

Indoctrinating the youth ........ UGH

[2naSalit]

7. That's what they're aiming for...

It's not a happy accident.

[OldBaldy1701E]

8. Exactly! (n/t)

[iluvtennis]

26. Exactly * 2. n/t

[TNNurse]

27. The uneducated are easy to control.

[Hugin]

5. Yep.

As with COVID public health measures, it will eventually work as they wear down the more rational and serious professionals who are only trying to do the correct things.

The evangelicals have weaponized the Gish Gallop. Leveraging media of all forms.

Open meetings are fine. The only solution I can come up with is for these disrupters to be called out to state their verifiable stake in the issue under discussion. Like in court, one must have “standing” to legitimately testify.

[Hugin]

3. It's all to get their 15 minutes...

Other than that the screamers really don’t care. They are pawns in a larger scheme of control driven by those zealots who encourage them.

[Wounded Bear]

17. I figure there is a percentage of them that are paid crisis actors...nt

[Hugin]

28. A good bet as it has been demonstrated to be true many times.

Brought to us by the inventor’s of Astro-turf.

[Wounded Bear]

29. Their accusations are usually (almost always) confessions...

[Hugin]

31. Agreed.

Raw projection.

[JI7]

4. These people want US Public schools to become Madrassas

[70sEraVet]

6. 'The Lowest Common Denominator' is threatening to take over our schools

and our Congress.
'Blessed be the Under-Educated"

[2naSalit]

9. Exactly. ...nt

[Wounded Bear]

30. trump did say he loved stupid people...

[tanyev]

10. It's only been a couple decades since they were screaming about homeschooling being the best option.

I guess they gave up on that and decided to just take over public schools.

[mwooldri]

11. Pretty simple to solve IMO.

Waivers, arbitration agreements, etc. People sign a lot of paperwork just to get their child into a school. Paperwork that probably in most cases doesn't get read.

Let the teachers do their jobs. They're the professionals.

[keithbvadu2]

12. 1+

[Magoo48]

13. Take California for example.

Here in California, we teach only the truth and all of it. Yup, and big fat avocados are a dime each.

Well, not quite, exactly.

It makes me sick what’s going on now. That said, I taught from texts which offloaded horseshit by the page; much of it pure lies. So, I was part of the last great brainwashing. When I suggested that Father Junipero Serra and Gaspar de Portola were not exactly loving California natives into the joyous arms of Christianity, but rather, conquers, murders, enslavers, and, oppressors of the nastiest ilk, I caught shit for it.

Details of hundreds of years of local racism in our communities and state were textually hidden rather than conscientiously explored.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

14. The next few years are going to see a LOT of teachers leave.

COVID has been horrible for school environments and morale. Add to that the general level of bullshit we have to put up with from communities about nonsense, and it's getting to the point where it just isn't worth it. If I weren't under 10 years from retirement and full pension, I might leave. It's not good.

[Rebl2]

18. My thought too

Would like to see teachers leave and start private schools that will teach the truth among subjects the right wing republicans want thrown out of public education. Don’t know how that would work or how it would be funded or if it would be affordable for families. Just a wish or more like a fantasy.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Uneducated parents are telling educated professionals how to do their job; same for doctors

During the Covid pandemic the stupid idiots were storming hospitals trying to force doctors to give their desperately ill patients Ivermectin.

[meow2u3]

16. They're the same fascist scum with the "Education, not Indoctrination" signs

They're the ones indoctrinating our children to accept arbitrary power as if it were all-American. They want to pit child against parent; to indoctrinate children into believing outright lies and religious extremism; and to cajole kids into turning in parents to secret police the GOP sets up to enforce their hate and racism.

[tiredtoo]

19. School Boards

Must require identification of all people attending their meetings. Many of the agitators at these meetings are not even residents of the school district.

[usaf-vet]

20. Lobotomized is more like it.

[patphil]

21. Parents don't have the time, education, or experience to do this job.

That's why school boards hire professional administrators, and teachers; so they can get the best possible staff to teach their children.
And then there is such a thing as state mandates for education.
But the Republicans have decided they want nothing to do with that.
It's a blatant case of infusing right wing propaganda into the classroom. This is all for the sake of grooming children to see the world through the distorted lens of right wing hated.
It's the next step in the destruction of the Republic, and the creation of a fascist dictatorship.
How very much like Hitler, and Putin!

[zanana1]

23. I predict a teacher stampede (shortage).

[Wounded Bear]

32. That's already started...

and, of course, they'll be replaced with talibangelist activists who want to spread the gospel.

[usaf-vet]

24. Lobotomized is more like it.

[samnsara]

25. they just need to yank their kids from public school and indoctrinate them at home