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“Senators tend to have more experience in politics and represent more people, and take more time to think through legislation.”
More to the point, only half are up for election each cycle, so can more easily ratchet back the primary-voter-focused legislation from the House.
I don’t want my white kid to feel uncomfortable. /s
Is this about voting along with the supermajority of politicians, or is it about voting along the lines of what the majority of the constituents believe is appropriate? It seems like supporting a vocal minority of constituents in defiance of the interest of the constituent majority is a clear way for politicians to be shown the door.
If the Republican Party wants to destroy public education so education tax dollars can be redirected to charter and private schools, then why not use the supermajority to simply go straight for that instead of all this indirect effort to destroy the public school system?
“Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country.”
– Noah Webster, On the Education of Youth in America, 1788
When Noah Webster penned these words, not long after American independence was achieved, there was a greater consensus about what ideas would be “useful . . . in life and practice” and what the “history of his own country” was. A whitewashing of history serves no one well, but the average teacher then would have held views more in line with the average American, and as often among the most educated in their communities, teachers were held in very high regard. Today, teachers are often no more educated than many in their community, and there has been a growing divide between what teachers are taught and encouraged to teach about our history and what at least half of Americans believe to be true. The education system has largely been captured by a particular ideological camp that not only are convinced that they are right, but that any who would disagree with their ideology are at best ignorant and at worst “deplorables” who need to be silenced. By straying so far into ideological partisanship and arrogance toward parents with differing views, I would argue that it is professional “educators” who have significantly weakened trust in public education in general.
I would love to hear some examples of how you feel that the education system has been “captured by a particular ideological camp that not only are convinced that they are right, but that any who would disagree with their ideology are at best ignorant and at worst ‘deplorables’ who need to be silenced.” I see no such thing. It seems that, instead, you are describing those who want to whitewash history and de-professionalize education masquerading as “parental rights” groups, e.g., so-called Purple for Parents, or even Republicans in the IN legislature. Having been raised by a public school teacher and knowing many of them, I resent your weak argument that they are arrogant toward parents with differing views.
In addition, which parents are these bills meant to provide comfort and choice to? It’s certainly not Black parents, many of whom would strongly object, I’m sure, to the whitewashing of American history.
Suffice to say William, these are the ramblings of a dolt. On one hand you make the case that teachers are necessary and valuable in the need to relay American History. On the other, you mention “what at least half of Americans BELIEVE to be true”. Belief is not knowledge and parents with “differing views” are trying to force their beliefs onto the education system.
Not all teachers are perfect. They are human, after all. Yet this is their job, and a thankless one at that. There seems to be, really, only one political party that is pushing their ideology on the education system- and it’s not the one you avoid mentioning above. I’m sure Mr. Webster would find the rich irony of you using his quote much like the talking heads abuse Dr. MLK’s famous speech.
Well, William, Noah Webster might well be one of those who today’s right-wing would likely censor. During the economic downturn of the early 1790s, while toiling as a lawyer in his hometown, Noah joined the fledgling Connecticut Society for the Promotion of Freedom. In the first wave of the antislavery movement, similar abolition groups cropped up in states from Massachusetts to North Carolina. In 1793, at the Connecticut society’s annual meeting, Webster delivered a memorable speech, “Effects of Slavery on Morals and Industry,” later expanded into a widely disseminated 56-page pamphlet that emphasized how the barbaric institution dehumanized everyone. Citing mountains of demographic data, Webster also maintained that slavery would continue to be a drain on macroeconomic productivity. In our America where 700,000 of the four million inhabitants were then slaves, exports per capita were about two thirds of the comparable figure in Great Britain where slaves had never comprised more than a tiny fraction of the population. “Men will not be industrious,” this keen observer of human nature concluded, “without a well founded expectation of enjoying the fruits of their labor.”