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Horrible for business
The more the Indiana legislature gets involved in education, the worse the educational outcomes. They think their bills on how to teach are a substitute for what they should do, which is restore the funding cuts they made back in 2008/2009.
We don’t fund K-12 then, double whammy, there’s no space for them at IU or Purdue or Ball State because they’ve shifted to taking more out of state or international students to make ends meet.
It’s almost as though we want our kids to be trained to work fast food, retail, manufacturing, or in a distribution center and don’t see the point in any of them dreaming to do more than that.
Parts of this bill related to reporting requirements are a disaster waiting to happen. Not only potential litigation and bad outside press but an increasing burden on the school systems that are currently understaffed and overworked not only due to Covid but in general. Think about it, who does this bill burden the most? The teachers and administrators of each school district! As if they don’t enough to do.
Parents have a right and should be encouraged to lobby their concerns via school board meetings. These meetings should always be open for commentary and feedback for this is the mechanism by which those who represent the parents in a community, namely those elected school board members, are able to hear concerns and then make appropriate decisions. To encourage micromanagement of review of teaching materials by individuals is burdensome. There is a place to discuss issues like these…the local school board meetings, not the state legislature.
Here’s a quick tip for elected school board members. When your constituents take the time to come to a school board meeting to address you, the governing body, have the same respect for each persons point of view by respectfully looking at them as they speak. Do not look at you phone or your computer or whatever else you might think is important at the time. And do that for each and every person, no matter the point of view. People want to be heard. But just because there might be a vocal minority doesn’t necessarily mean that everyone else thinks that way. That is what the school boards need to figure out.
If the purpose of this bill were truly to protect parent rights, it would also apply to private schools. It doesn’t, and it isn’t.
Local community votes put the current boards in place, so why is the state legislation trying to override the local decisions? Ponder that question and it starts to make sense why there are state legislators that don’t want anyone to teach that things like fascism are bad.
Pandering to a well-organized vocal minority with a solution in search of a problem. Wasted resources on a fabricated issue will be compounded with years of struggling to overcome the unintended negative consequences. Google “Moms For Liberty” (and note that any time a group or person uses “liberty” to describe it/themselves, it’s a dead giveaway that their objective is to impose their will on others).