BILL: Should Parents Control School Curriculum? - Parents Bill of Rights Act - H.R.5

Oh good lawd, if you want full control over what is taught to your kids, home school them. Otherwise, leave it to the professionals. Also, pay attention and be involved with your child's education. If there is something you don't like TALK TO THE TEACHER so you can opt your kid out.

Why do people try make simple things difficult?

There is a huge difference between parent's controlling school content and keeping parents informed on what their children are learning. Parent's have every right to know what 5heir children are learning and have the option to opt their children out of certain courses

Parents HAVE the right to know what's being taught. All this will do will be to give radical voices power to stop real education. No more of this. Our children need to learn the real history of this country and learn to live and be with others different than them. This bill is deeply racist and discriminatory and must never pass. 

More from the Right-wing, White Nationalist, Bigoted/Intolerant, Shallow Minded, Sleepy, Stupid/Ignorant, BOOK BANNING, and other than that, mostly nice(?) people 🙄👎, side. They appear to be the ones INDOCTRINATING THEIR OWN CHILDREN to FAIL in life. Geez!
Hey dumbass Reps., this where you are trying to lead us? FU!

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/02/1179906120/utah-bible-book-challenge

I have heard a LOT about so-called "grooming" being bandied about these days and the hypocritical conservatives are trying to instill that in our public schools.  Book banning and avoidence of historical truths and scientific facts (I.E. the holocaust,  racism, climate change) are pushed.  WHY?  Because it makes students "feel bad"?  What  kind of wimps are we raising? In some states, they want to bring in chaplains instead of counselors and they want the 10 commandments posted in public schools.  (That last thing particularly boggles the mind because of the lack of any kind of adherence to those commandments by many of the so-called Evangelicals/the MAGA crowd and their "chosen one" Donald Trump).  The Separation of Church and State must be preserved.  We are NOT a "Christian" nation.  (Especially when you consider how many of those who claim to be "Christian" in ear splitting decibels, appear to care not for or are ignorant of, the actual teachings of Jesus.)

Only if I can send my kid to school in a fuck Jesus golf shirt

How did homeschooling work out during Covid? If we didn't need teachers, parents would get paid to do it. Get out of their way, let them do their jobs! ...shut down the damn book Nazis too!

I urge you to vote NO

As a former educator, I know that parents are too far removed from what is relevant to present day education.  Parents tend toward prejudice & the past.  

In my 32 years of teaching I didn't run into more than 2 parents that knew who Erdowan or Benjamin Netanyahu were much less if their kids should learn about them.  So No.  

Are you nuts? Haven't we been dumbed down enough??

Moms for liberty should not have any control over what my kid learns in school. 

Just like:

patients should dictate their treatment plans to doctors

diners should dictate the menu to chefs

defendents can dictate their own defense to lawyers

Readers can dictate what writers will write

homeowners can dictate how firefighters will put out fires

soldiers can dictate to the General how to fight the next war

Sounds ridiculous?

There IS a reason educators get a degree...or more likely degrees  WE ARE PROFESSIONALS! STOP DICTATING!

This bill is not about education  it's about right-wing indoctrination.

I am leaving in Florida as an educator, and a parent.  This bill which is fashioned after the bill here in Florida is a total redundancy of what we already do as educators.  What they don't tell you is what a nightmare this bill causes, the books that are being banned and the push against teaching kids all of our history and not select portions that may show the US in a poor light, or just to try to erase parts of history that parents may  not agree with.  This is just another way of trying to destroy public education by people who really do not understand it.  As a teacher I am now forced to make sure I have no books that are not on approved lists, if they are there I can be charged legally for having the book in my room where a student can access it.  I now fear that if a child is struggling in Middle school with an personal issue that if I want to help I my lose my job, so I stay silent I do not offer help.  Do we really want something like this across our nation?  We need to fund education more, we need to stop villafying educators.  We are losing teachers in mass amounts and not seeing new teachers coming into the field, a bill like this will only continue the flight of educators from the classrooms. 

Are you insane???

Oppose this: Parents Bill of Rights Act - H.R.5

Waist of time. Redundant. Disruptive to childs education. Smoke and Mirrors act from GOP. Tic Toc Collins...

Parents who want to control the curriculum need to find a like-minded private school, or homeschool. 

When are we going to discuss the REAL education problem in this country, teacher shortages caused by recruitment & retainment failures all across our nation? When?

The Parents Bill of Rights legislation seeks to make the will of the minority of parents over the will f the majority of parents. I certainly do not want the education of my children altered and perverted by these authoritarian white supremacists.

This is just window dressing for rightwing extremist to "sanitize" what kids learn-basically rewrite our history that is devoid of the truth.  While, I agree parents should have the right to know what is being taught, that does not give them the right to alter curriculum to support their etermeist views or to deny that our country is madeup of diverse people with diverse views, values, etc.  Frankly, I don't believe that schools have tried to hide what they teach from parents.  All the parent has to do is look at their kids textbooks and they'd have a good idea of what is being taught.  What this bill does is restrict/alter the facts which is the same thing that was done in Nazi Germany under Hitler, i.e. brainwash youth.  Children need to be taught the facts/truths about our country with all of its bright spots, its bleminishes, and yes, its dark sides (like Jan. 6th).  Teaching facts/truth should be our goal, not some fantasy that our nation is a white, christian, male bastion.  Diversity should be embraced as we can be a stronger and more interesting nation than if we pretend that their is only one right way to think/be.  Learning about many cultures-their beliefs, values, etc. helps us become a more inclusive/accepting people and allows us to have a more expansive view to use in problem solving, etc.

Funny how all these years, teachers were celebrated here in the good 'ole USA and suddenly they need to be micro-managed by the right wing whackjob party disgused as "parental rights"?  

Conservatives have for centuries had a history of suppressing the truth in favor of their own beliefs, from Galileo being threatened with death if he didn't say that the sun revolved around the earth, to the suppression of the theory of evolution in favor of the lie of creationism. It is vitally important for the U.S.A. to stay out of the dark ages by punishing the political parties, the politicians themselves, their billionaire supporters, and the religious leaders who try to meddle in education by depressing the truth and those other things they don't like to hear. Separation of church/ideology and state is an ongoing struggle. Education must be impartially fact-based.

Educators should drive education, along with the projected education needs of the students.  Parents can certainly have a part of that, if they are educated and licensed as professional educators.