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Banning Critical Race Theory

“Bureaucrats”, schools are inanimate buildings, and most of the costs of running a school don’t change based on the amount of students. A teacher in a class of 20 makes the same salary in a class of 30. Heating the building costs the same, requires nearly the Same amount of maintenance. Principle/Vice principle/Secretary/guidance counselor/nurse
cost the same. There’s plenty of data showing that enrollment based funding (from school choice process) sabotages older/lower income schools. De-populating a “bad school” functionally strangles it to death and punishes the remaining students.
 
WokeandBroke said:
Who is defunding schools? What I want is to tie the money to the student, rather than the teacher. If the student sees a public option that meets their needs, the funding should follow their choice (within the closed universe of public options). The amount of money allocated to public schools would remain completely unchanged, but would be allocated within the public system based on the choices of the stakeholders, rather than the bureaucrats.
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But how do I choose a school that teaches racism and the holocaust exist when your party is trying to make that illegal?
 
This American Life has put out some great shows about race in this country lately. This episode discusses the swing we seen from summer of 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, to the winter of 2022 book banning bonanza. The intro is about a black high school principle that sent a heartfelt letter he sent to parents in the summer of 2020 about race and anti-racism in the school system, that was later used as evidence of his extreme views and that he was teaching CRT in the school system to indoctrinate children. He was fired last summer for losing community confidence and violating communication policies.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/758/talking-while-black
 
Feel bad for these kids whose parents are leading this shit, it’s like a big blinking light that says I am a shitty parent.
 
WokeandBroke said:
Who is defunding schools? What I want is to tie the money to the student, rather than the teacher. If the student sees a public option that meets their needs, the funding should follow their choice (within the closed universe of public options). The amount of money allocated to public schools would remain completely unchanged, but would be allocated within the public system based on the choices of the stakeholders, rather than the bureaucrats.
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you?

the last part can't be true if you are pro voucher (credit or whatever you want to call it). as mdmh says, removing that money from public schools harms public schools.
 
How does banning books that make white, cis, "Christian," Republican lemmings feel "uncomfortable" improve education?
 
Or restated, how does banning books by Black, Latino, and Native American authors about how white people have been racist improve education?
 
How those white Confederates and the white people who put up those statues treated Black people.
 
GOP Chair of KY State Senate Education Committee unveils new bill that micro-manages the "parameters" under which KY Social Studies teachers could discuss racial topics. Teachers may teach about slavery and oppression, but must also state that they run counter to the country's founding values and be "consistent" with "American principles". KY teachers complain that the bill would still make it difficult for them to teach about the negative parts of American history.

"Among [these principles] are the values that all people are created equal and individuals are not responsible for things those of the same race or sex did. People should be judged by their character, not their race or sex, the bill says.

Students should be taught slavery, segregation and racial discrimination are "contrary to the fundamental American promise of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," it says, but blaming racial disparities solely on the nation's history is "destructive to the unification of our nation."

Teachers would need to remain consistent with the notion that any American can succeed when they are "given sufficient opportunity and is committed to seizing that opportunity through hard work, pursuit of education, and good citizenship," the bill continues. (Bootstraps!)

"school districts would not be allowed to require teachers to discuss controversial public policy topics or current events with students. Educators who do take on these conversations would be required to do so from "diverse and contending perspectives" without deferring to any perspective."

If it becomes law, the bill would also require that two dozen documents be taught in middle and high school history classes. Some - like the Constitution and Brown v. Board - are standard, but also among the required documents would be Ronald Reagan's 1964 speech "A Time for Choosing" in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy. Teachers also couldn't require or give credit to students who lobby for legislation or any sort of policy advocacy (isn't that the whole purpose of Civics classes - to get students engaged in the political process? I've known Civics teachers who did give assignments and credit for writing letters to members of Congress or state legislatures on issues they cared about. Why teach Civics if you're not going to get kids involved in the political process? It's absurd.)

Link to Louisville Courier Journal article: https://www.yahoo.com/news/amid-critical-race-theory-fervor-165908734.html
 
Because you know if Republicans want an institution to succeed, they make sure government micromanages it. That’s how you know they care.
 
The party of small government goes Orwellian in classrooms. And btw, these same Iowa Republicans also banned the press from the state legislature floor.

 
“For too long, power-hungry bureaucrats and self-interested teachers unions have kept students shackled to failing government-run schools. They have done everything in their power to maintain a tight monopoly on K-12 education. During the pandemic, we saw just how detrimental this can be for students. That is why we need school choice now more than ever.”. Virginia Foxx
 
Who is stopping parents from getting off the government dole and putting kids in the private school of their choice?
 
WFFaithful said:
“For too long, power-hungry bureaucrats and self-interested teachers unions have kept students shackled to failing government-run schools. They have done everything in their power to maintain a tight monopoly on K-12 education. During the pandemic, we saw just how detrimental this can be for students. That is why we need school choice now more than ever.”. Virginia Foxx
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And yet in NC there are no teacher's unions, as public sector employees are forbidden by state law from being able to collectively bargain. The NCAE is nothing more than a lobbying group, which our GOP legislature has mostly ignored over the past decade.
 
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