The Rude Pundit: One More Time: Nearly Every Parent Is Too Fucking Dumb to Decide on School Curricu

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1/28/2022
One More Time: Nearly Every Parent Is Too Fucking Dumb to Decide on School Curriculum


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In Florida, the state legislature is considering two bills, both recently voted out of committees: one would prevent teachers from discussing anything related to LGBTQ topics and allow parents to sue a school if a teacher does; the other forces educators to "objectively" teach everything and not do or say anything that might make a student "feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race, color, sex, or national origin." Think about that from the perspective of a teacher. You've already got parents screaming at you every time you give their tender babe a grade below A. You've got administrators demanding you do more and more work with assessment and planning. You have to buy toilet paper for the school with your own money. You have to teach so that students can do well on annual tests that lawmakers demand they take. And now you've gotta gauge if talking about Ruby Bridges to your 5th graders in Social Studies is going to cause distress? Fuck that. Why bother? And who the fuck are parents and legislators to tell you how to do your fucking job?

By the way, what if not teaching about, say, Ruby Bridges causes distress to Black students? What if whitewashing that history gives them feelings of anguish? But, of course, these bills are written by people who don't give a shit about the feelings of non-white students or LGBTQ students. They are strictly for parents who think they know better than teachers and they fucking don't. But expertise doesn't matter any more in this stupid country where some troglodyte grunting on a YouTube video or podcast has more authority and sway than people who devoted their lives to something.

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Importantly, our parents respected the teachers. Those oil field workers and store clerks and shrimp boat workers didn't try to fuck with the schools just because of their beliefs (and, besides, the Supreme Court had recently slapped down Louisiana on a creationism law). Parents who gave a damn were at-home partners with the schools, helping their kids get their homework done and supporting the efforts of the teachers. And, to be honest, a good many parents just didn't care.

It wasn't perfect. There were conversations and conflicts. There were shitty parents and shitty teachers. But, mostly, teachers got to do their fucking jobs without a bunch of assholes telling them they know better.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Ignorance and ego drive modern life

A cult is a cult.

[MissMillie]

2. Those GQPers only know outrage

Rather than a meeting or phone call with the teacher, the organize to "storm" the school board meeting--usually over materials with which they have no familiarity or experience.

I have no problem w/ parents getting involved with their kids' education, but it never starts with them learning about the curriculum and materials in advance and then TALKING to the educators about the material, the lesson plans and what the child is expected to learn.

And of course, there's always the option of checking the kids' homework and talking it over with the kid.


Won't happen. The Right needs their fix of outrage.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

5. The fascists are only catering to the Outrage Machines of social media, they are both trapped

in the matrix.

And it’s all free of charge… download the apps and instant outrage connection is made to millions of always outraged voters.

Then send your Outrage Swarm into the virtual world to threaten and terrorize those who are not usually outraged, but inexplicably remain in the matrix with their own Outrage machines directly connected to the source.

[Bettie]

12. Actually, it starts with GOING to, for example, parent/teacher conferences

you know, when they talk about what they did so far, what direction they are moving next, and how the kid is doing socially and academically.

I have never missed a conference and the few times I've had concerns, they were dealt with pretty quickly. Teachers want parents to be involved.

[MyOwnPeace]

3. There are two things.......

at which EVERYBODY is an expert:
1. Medicine: because everybody has an Aunt Ruthie or a neighbor or a friend who knows a guy that's had every possible ailment or disease - and THEY alone know more about it than some white-coated geek who spent 12 years actually studying the stuff.......

2. Education: because everybody's been in school (even if it was only to the 8th grade) and again, they KNOW a whole lot more about education than those geeks that 'only teach because they want their summers off.'

And the internet has given all of them their degrees and licenses.....

[Alexander Of Assyria]

7. Yes, sir...you forgot Law, and Engineering and couple of other things taught in Higher Education.

Policing, Pharmaceuticals, why the earth goes around the Sun…Long list actually.

Why bother with universities if everyone is an internet expert on everything and can discuss recent breakthroughs for example in all the fields of expertise with billions of equal experts in everything?

Intellectualism is not the enemy of the not intellectual, intellectuals made the Twitter machine you idiots all love, for example. And thst car u drive in etc. etc. etc.

P.s…by you and didn’t mean u…that’s another huge thing ofc…misunderstanding on social media…when isn’t something misunderstood?

[scarletlib]

8. Don't forget that old adage that those who can't do(other skills) teach.

Totally wrong. I have nothing but tremendous respect and admiration for teachers. I learned so much from them even the occasional “bad” one.

[sop]

4. These imbeciles know more about epidemiology than physicians and understand climatology

better than scientists. We shouldn't question their views on history and biology.

[cayugafalls]

6. Idiocracy got it right...sadly.

[slingsam]

9. I just told my RWNJ cousin "NO, YOU WEREN'T CREATED TO BE AN A**HOLE, YOU EVOLVED INTO ONE!"

[JT45242]

10. Why good teachers leave...and bad ones stay

I was a HS science teacher for 20 years. I have left the profession because if this kind of shit and taking away binding arbitration so crazy scho board members could make your life hell.

One if the intended consequences of these laws is that only people so racist to believe that the laws are good or too dumb to be a good teacher will stay or enter the profession.

Why would someone smart enough to make it through organic chemistry, physics, and calculus choose a profession where a religious fanatic can get you fired? If you were listening in your college history and econ classes and understood that history is driven by money, why would you teach?

I know many teachers who are contemplating leaving the profession, if they can afford to. Some will try to hide out in the classroom until they can retire. But rest assured the quality of people willing to go into the thankless job of teaching will greatly decline as a result of these laws.

[mgardener]

11. Elise Stefanik R NY 21

Asked parents to call and report schools that were making their children wear masks.
There is a mask mandate that got knocked down in court but there was an appeal.
She created a LOT of confusion.

It is so hypocritical of a party who abhors " big government" yet turns around and uses big government to their advance their agenda.

[jaxexpat]

13. Today's parents were home-schooled by C- high school parents.

Whaddayaexpect?

[paleotn]

18. The prepetuating cycle of mediocre.

I've been blasted here for posting that, but I don't give a shit. Besides the social development aspects, unless one is a trained and licensed educator, one has no business homeschooling one's children. Period. And for every success story the "blasters" throw at me, I've got a whole case of "Madison Cawthorns" to throw back at them.

[Joinfortmill]

14. Love this dude.

[49jim]

15. After 45 years

as an elementary teacher, elementary school principal and adjunct community college instructor, I am very glad that I don't have to deal with those issues on a daily basis.However, it's sad to watch, the continued demonization of educators.

[paleotn]

16. Amen, amen and a-freaking-men!!!!!

Let the experts do what they do...please! Like any scholarly discipline, education has tons of peer reviewed research behind it. Parents and politicians simply have their assholes from which to pull their "wisdom."

[niyad]

17. Spot on, RP.

My OP on this su ject pales in comparison.

[LiberalFighter]

19. There really needs to be a test parents need to pass to be a parent.

[Martin68]

20. It's not that parents are "too fucking dumb." Like most people, they have no idea what teaching

involves. Most know little outside a field or two that they might have been interested in when they were in school. Lastly, our history classes have always been greatly skewed toward a belief in European superiority and the many myths about American history designed to cover up the slightest hint of anything negative about our past.