Is there anything about what he said that is unreasonable?

Their goal is to make good citizens. Good citizens respect the identity of others.




Racism begins at home and its a disease Parents love to spread to their kids. Teaching your kids to be racist or homophobic is abusive.

This post was edited by Skinned on Aug 10 2020 01:46pm

ayup and look at the two privileged lefties in this thread ranting about it




this peaceful protester seems more concerned with his feelings than the education of the students he is supposed to facilitate. this peaceful protester and you two would have the classics, math, science, and enlightenment authors banned because that’s all associated with “old white men of power”

just because you two are from racist pale pasty privileged lefty families (which shows in your posts here) doesnt mean all other children are

This doesn't concern me. If the parents want to teach something contradictory to the teacher, that's their prerogative. Just don't do it on the teacher's time.

Super triggered

Agreed. I still think, however, that this is largely a partisan issue.

Assume for a moment that the roles were revered, that we were living in a world where teachers, lecturers and professors are mostly reactionary conservatives instead of predominantly being staunch liberals. If schools were teaching creationism and all around bigotry, and the reactionary teaching staff wanted to shut out liberal parents from their classes, would you really still argue the same way? Would you still argue that students should be separated from their parents to break down cultural barriers and be able to be taught things their families/culture dont like?

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Aug 10 2020 03:04pm

Most teachers aren't staunch liberals. That's a ridiculous stereotype that the right loves to parrot so they can demonize education.

If the subject is a) factually accurate and opposed to the culture, then parents wouldn't really belong. In your proposed world it fails on a, because the reactionary conservative stuff is just wrong on a factual basis if you're referencing the kind of thing I think you're referencing. If they were talking about vaccines and teaching that they are undeniably a great thing, and the parents were staunch lefties that believed in crystal healing, then yes, I would think the same way.

This post was edited by Thor123422 on Aug 10 2020 03:18pm

do you have ANY evidence to back that claim up? sounds like you get your world views straight from branco cartoons...

The National Education Association, the largest labor union from the education sector in the US with over 2 million members, almost exclusively supports Democrats, is actively involved in the selection of Democratic nominees and about 97% of the political donations from their members go to Democrats.They have endorsed every Democratic candidate for president from Carter to Biden, and never endorsed a Republican. [1]

The American Federation of Teachers, the second largest such union in the US with over 1.7 million members, similarly endorses the Democratic candidate in presidential elections; 95% of the campaign donations by their members go to Democrats. [2]

Note that there are roughly 3.7 million teachers in the US. You do the math. [3]



[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Education_Association
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Federation_of_Teachers#Political_activities
[3] https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372

oh i see, and to you 'democrat' and 'staunch liberal' are simply interchangeable terms, huh? like i said, straight out of a ghot cartoon, lol.

Maybe not all of them are staunch liberals. But as a group, teachers are undeniably liberal-leaning. Staunch liberals are really not rare among the teaching staff, while staunch conservatives are.



I'm thinking of stuff like "girls have dicks too", "the world will end if we dont reach net zero carbon emissions by the year 2030", "systemic racism is ubiquitous in this country" and similar stuff. To be fair, I shouldnt have mentioned something absurd like creationism.