Concerned parents and political leaders “should keep their noses out of school curricula,” according to a columnist at NBC News.
“Parents and politicians across the country are interfering with the curricula that public schools use to teach students,” author and professor of teacher education Christina Wyman wrote in NBC News’ THINK newsletter. She concerned herself chiefly with the banning of Critical Race Theory in public schools, the removal of “literary classics” from libraries for explicit sexual content, and parents “trying to shield students” from the topics of mental health and suicide.
“Part of the problem is that parents think they have the right to control teaching and learning because their children are the ones being educated,” Wyman wrote. “But it actually (gasp!) doesn’t work that way.” She then likened parents taking issue with course materials to interfering with surgery because the patient is their child.
“Teaching, too, is a science. Unless they’re licensed and certified, parents aren’t qualified to make decisions about curricula,” she continued (emphasis added). “In fact, parental interference can actually hinder student advancement. An educator’s primary goal is to teach students to think. Parents who attempt to influence curricula with their personal opinions, ideologies and biases hinder that goal.”
Wyman went on to argue that only licensed professionals should be able to instruct students, citing the list of requirements needed to become a teacher, including years of college study, intensive examinations, and strict licensing requirements. She argued that these requirements are needed to become an effective teacher. “Anyone can walk into a classroom with an understanding of (or at least an opinion about) the content,” she wrote. “But not everyone can succeed in teaching it.”
They didn’t learn anything from the recent election in the Commonwealth of Virginia!
A liberal communist bastion turned conservative by the citizens!
It is GOVT BY THE PEOPLE in America Not People by the Govt !!!! GET used to it !!!!!
Govt should keep Their Noses OUT of OUR business !!!! PERIOD
No one is complaining that teachers have a hard job or that they must go through college and testing to do their job.
It’s the BRAINWASHING and POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION that parents so vocally dispute.
They don’t want their kids to be told how “normal” it is to want to drees like a girl and wear make-up.
That ain’t “normal”. Sorry.
Nor do they want their children to be told that even though they’ve never uttered a racist word in their lives, they are implicitly racist and need to learn just how corrupted and bad they are, you know, deep down inside.
They don’t want them to be taught that Jefferson and Washington were nothing more than racist bastards and the country they formed (which saved the WORLD, TWICE) is a bad, bad, nation, oppressing the entire world with “white supremacy”. (and that is why men and women risk their families lives to come here, don’t tell anyone THAT).
They don’t want their children to be taught that there are several answers to “what is 5+5?” and that writing coherently is not really that important, nor is being able to spell words correctly.
They don’t want math, science, English, and history relegated to the back-burner of classes while they get indoctrinated with leftist political views about “diversity”, inclusion, and race theory.
They want their children to be able to get a job at somewhere other than clerk at 7-11 or be full-time protesters.
Yes, parents have EVERY right to have a voice in the teaching of their children. Every right.
So, STFU, bit**.
What if parents who are teachers are against this garbage? Sort of takes the air out of the room, eh?
GOVT is NOT Qualified Period !!!!
Half the teachers are not qualified either!