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This bill needs to be shredded. We don’t need more partisan politics injected into school boards with political party leaders choosing candidates with litmus tests on issues that have little or anything to do with the job of running public schools.
Apparently Republicans don’t think they can win elections without branding themselves as Republicans, that they have to win based on straight ticket voting.
This bill is even dumber than the cursive bill which is saying something.
Where does the Indiana State Teacher’s Association (ISTA) stand on partisan politics? Firmly in lock-step with Democrats. I agree that politics should be limited from influencing education decisions and management. Best way to do this is give as much control as possible to local communities and school boards. That is where the tax revenue that funds schools originates. Also de-certify ISTA. Total hypocrisy for John O’Neill from ISTA to comment on this matter as ISTA is totally partisan. I agree that this bill needs to be shredded, and so does ISTA.
If you want politics out of the classroom, go talk to Indiana Republicans. They’re the ones interesting in mandating what can and can’t be taught and seem to be all hot and bothered about critical race theory … they’re so angry, they can’t explain what it is, but they’re sure against it. But it does lead to exchanges like this at the Statehouse:
Legislator: “Should students be able to learn there’s a group called BLM and what it stands for, or do you want that forbidden?”
Parent: “Forbidden.”
As a reminder, if you don’t like your kids school, as a parent you already have the right to vote with your feet and move your kids to any other public or private school district in Indiana and have the state pay for it. If you’re a parent, or anyone else, you have the ability to run for per school board elections if you don’t like your local school.
Why is that not enough?
Now I’m really confused. Everybody tells us there is no CRT in public schools. But Joe seems to say there is or should be. There is no debate about teaching historical facts in school. The Good, Bad and Ugly. And yes, this includes racism. What should not be taught is race division policy’s, fake history about the date our country was founded and by whom and allowing cancel culture to permeate historical truths.
What is the fake history about the date our country was founded and by whom?
I never said any such thing. If the teaching of history is CRT I am not sure what to tell you. But, please, articulate all the fake history taught in K-12 schools using the curriculum that Indiana Republicans have already prescribed.
Look at the above quote from a legislative hearing yesterday. We have parents who don’t want the existence of Black Lives Matter to be taught. That speaks to the actual issue – a bunch of people upset that you could teach that racism have been a through line in American history – from slavery, to the Trail of Tears, to racist Jim Crow laws, to the Black Panthers shooting cops, to the history of race riots, through to today. They find that threatening. Why?
Because maybe if you taught kids that racism has been a problem for many years, they’d learn from history and not make the same mistakes. They want the pretty version of history to be taught, not the actual history. That’s what these bills are after.
If you don’t like what public schools teach, pull them and send them to a private religious school and learn some Christian nationalism from a Bob Jones University approved book. Your voucher will pay for it. Just don’t complain when your kid comes home and wonders why the boys who with great grades are given advanced assignments while the girls with the same exact grades aren’t.