You might not want to teach in Arizona if this passes...

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/02/13/423412/arizona-bill-would-likely-prohibit-teachers-and-professors-from-teaching-any-book-with-profanity/

Arizona Bill Would Likely Prohibit Teachers And Professors From Teaching Any Book With ‘Profanity’

By Adam Peck on Feb 13, 2012 at 11:30 am


A new bill in Arizona is seeking to impose harsh restrictions on teachers’ conduct, even in their own homes. The bill, SB 1467, states that educators at the state’s public schools and universities can be fined, suspended and ultimately fired if they “engage in speech or conduct that would violate the standards adopted by the Federal Communications Commission concerning obscenity, indecency and profanity if that speech or conduct were broadcast on television or radio.”

That does a great deal to limit what can be taught in classrooms. Banning books is certainly not a new practice, but this law would cover far more than controversial books. Here’s a look at some of the key books that would be outlawed in Arizona classrooms:



Worse, as Angus Johnston notes, the bill is so ineptly drafted that it could intrude deeply into teacher’s private lives. SB 1467 doesn’t just ban public speech or conduct, but all speech and conduct. That means public school teachers in Arizona will be forbidden from engaging in any FCC-regulated activities no matter where they are. That means no sex, no going to the bathroom, no cursing and no showering. Ever.

One of the bill’s five sponsors, State Senator Lori Klein (R-AZ), has some experience in the national spotlight. Last summer she raised eyebrows when, during an interview with a reporter from the Arizona Republic, she took out a loaded handgun and pointed it at the reporter’s chest. And in the middle of Herman Cain’s sexual harassment scandal, Klein dismissed the allegations against Cain because he had “never been anything but a gentlemen” to her, “and I am not an unattractive woman.”

[southernyankeebelle]

1. And these people call Obama Hitler. OMG some classics. I have some of these books I will make

sure to keep them so my grandkids can read them when they get older. I thank god I don't live in AZ. My mother-in-law had a brother who lived in AZ. Now I can see why he was a crazy loon. He just didn't seem all there. He passed it on to his daughter.

[WCGreen]

3. The Nazi's love to burn books...

[southernyankeebelle]

6. They sure do.

[Warpy]

2. I'm surprised there hasn't been a wholesale exodus from AZ

of all intelligent people. I guess with their real estate market so deeply depressed, many of them can't afford to leave.

Hispanics have already left in droves, here legally or not, and flocked to neighboring states.

All I hope is that this election season, there is enough of a backlash to hamstring Brewer with a Democratic lege and that Kyl is replaced by someone with a functioning set of synapses.

[fishwax]

4. Arizona's legislature seems always reaching for new levels of stupid

[baldguy]

5. One that's missing, but should be included by any reasonable standard:

[47of74]

14. Each and every one of those in this nation....

...should be required to have the following sticker placed upon it;

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. And Little House on the Prairie

Pa had a potty mouth at times.

[Downwinder]

8. Arizona may be desert, but it is a rain maker

for the ACLU.

[montanto]

9. Actually, I'd love to.

I'd go straight to teaching the bible as lit. How could they nail a person for that? That book has all the smut a person could ever need and I can't imagine a way that they could say it was wrong to talk about it.

[marybourg]

11. And in fact, another one of the

unending stream of blatantly ideological measures introduced into one or the other branches of our legislature is a statute permitting the teaching of the christian bible in public schools ( as literature, of course).

As to how or why people live in AZ: it's like having a mildly loony neighbor; the neighborhood is great, you love your home , your loony neighbor is mildly annoying, but mildly entertaining also and having a loony neighbor or legislature is simply not life-affecting enough to over-balance an oterwise great situation.

[TreasonousBastard]

10. Well, now... Since Arizona is proposing the "Spilled Semen Clause" not just...

teaching the Biblical story of Onan would be illegal, but discussing the latest state legislation would be, too.

Used to be Texas that had the rep as dumbest legislature in the country, but they might be unseated real soon like.

[Yavapai]

12. “and I am not an unattractive woman.”

All the mirrors must have been broken in "the Great Arizona Earthquake of 1991..."

[47of74]

13. These Arizona lawmakers are pigs

That's the nicest thing I could say about them.

[MadHound]

15. Well, hey, at least their codifying their behavior code

A lot of school districts have informal behavioral codes that aren't spelled out, leaving it wide open for teachers to be fired for posting a picture of themselves with a drink in their hand on Facebook or other such bullshit.