Did you read the article you post that started this discussion?
In the article, the professor says explicitly that all bad actors need to be rooted out and that things that cause harm to students are addressed quickly. She called out examples of racist behavior.
Someone is saying that individual parents can't have veto power over any and everything that is in the curriculum or happens in the classroom if they don't like. What right-wing state legislatures are doing is bad. That teachers are qualified and should be trusted to do their jobs. Not blanket just, not blind trust, but pointed out that in important places people are taking their demand too far. She doesn't say that parents can't question what does on with their child in school
I just don't understand what is so unreasonable about that.
the convo expanded beyond the original article but,
I didn't say every thing in the article was wrong, I said if I was a teacher id keep this;
“Part of the problem is that parents think they have the right to control teaching and learning because their children are the ones being educated,”
she adds. “But it actually (gasp!) doesn’t work that way. It’s sort of like entering a surgical unit thinking you can interfere with an operation simply because the patient is your child.”
to myself. I think the analogy is self aggrandizing, and it's a good way to radicalize people against you.
and she goes back to this throughout the article
Teaching, too, is a science. Unless they’re licensed and certified, parents aren’t qualified to make decisions about curricula.
trying to paint disputes about curriculum,
like they are disputes with a scientists on Newtonian physics.
Which is why the ceaseless effort of parents and politicians to shape curricula by targeting
book selection, the
type of history taught in classrooms and even
specific terms used in classrooms should be ignored.
These distractions are nothing more than theater, and school boards and administrators should be protecting their teachers — and students — from it rather than bowing to it.
I may agree with some parts of the article but bottom line this reads mad arrogant,
"Public complaints about teaching, and curriculum should be ignored,
in favour of protecting unelected bureaucrats from parents trying to ensure the quality of their children's education."
the propaganda writes itself.
