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‘I have a master’s degree. What do parents have?’, asks teacher before getting schooled by parents
Twitchy ^ | 220/23

Posted on 02/20/2023 10:40:16 AM PST by MAGA2017

Special education teacher, Alicia Messing, testified before the Arizona Senate Education Committee in opposition to Arizona bill SB1700. The bill would give parents greater insight into materials used by their schools and a procedure for objecting to material they find objectionable, especially those that are found to be ‘lewd or sexual in nature, that promote gender fluidity or gender pronouns or that groom children into normalizing pedophilia’.

Messing seemed quite confident that her master’s degree qualified her to make these decisions for parents.

She went even further to explain her philosophy with the following quote:

‘The purpose of public education is not to teach only what parents want their children to be taught. It is to teach them what society needs them to be taught.’

‘What do the parents have?’ Messing asked, after touting her master’s degree.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: aliciamessing; arizona; chat; children; didyoukaren; didyousearch; education; localnews; looktwopostsdown; lookyourselfkaren; parents
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To: MAGA2017

I didn’t know, until now, that you could get a master’s degree in arrogance.


101 posted on 02/20/2023 1:27:17 PM PST by pfflier
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To: Joe Brower

I was thinking the parents have the tax dollars that pay that undereducated idiot’s salary


102 posted on 02/20/2023 1:31:35 PM PST by wgmalabama (Censored!)
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To: MAGA2017

‘The purpose of public education is not to teach only what parents want their children to be taught. It is to teach them what society needs them to be taught.’

1) All those this “teacher” works for must be required to state whether they agree with her premise. All who do, should be terminated. Frequently we read of all sort of workers being fired for expressing heir opinions publicly. That she hasn’t been fired tell us that her bosses share her views.

2) Exactly why does society “need” for children to be sexualized and propagandized by psychotics, and taught all sorts of political nonsense? Who makes this determination?
Parents do not necessarily know everything (nor do “teachers”), and are unlikely to agree a ong themselves on many issues. So who determines content? When did the taxpayers vote on what was going to be taught to the schools we pay for?


103 posted on 02/20/2023 1:32:30 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: crusty old prospector

Southern New Hampshire is a good university. It isn’t a diploma mill.


104 posted on 02/20/2023 1:35:58 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Defund the FBI, the American Stasi.. Hello 2023, can we get over 2020 yet? )
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To: Bratch

She looks like she needs to be in a special education class — as a pupil, not a teacher.


105 posted on 02/20/2023 1:38:47 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Defund the FBI, the American Stasi.. Hello 2023, can we get over 2020 yet? )
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To: FrdmLvr

A lot of stupid people with a lot of degrees ... as Dan Bongino says: Stupid smart people.


106 posted on 02/20/2023 1:59:12 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: Jamestown1630
"recent decades," equal the last seven decades.

Majors in agriculture have been demonstrating more academic aptitude than edukayshun since the 50s. "Education" has been consistently at the bottom.

Bachelors and Masters in Education are the college equivalent of a participation trophy.

107 posted on 02/20/2023 2:07:40 PM PST by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: Honorary Serb

“A master’s degree in EDUCATION? C’mon—get real!!!!”

If it was conferred in the last 20 years, this is roughly equivalent to a 1950’s high school diploma.


108 posted on 02/20/2023 2:24:49 PM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: MAGA2017
We Home Schooled....many, many years ago. In SoCal..and then in OK.

Yes..we sacrificed $$...for our kids.

They both are very successful adults now.

109 posted on 02/20/2023 2:29:50 PM PST by Osage Orange
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To: MAGA2017

I have a masters degree in adult Education. It wasn’t that hard to do. 😏


110 posted on 02/20/2023 2:32:09 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Honorary Serb

Like someone bragging about a Masters in “xxxx studies.”


111 posted on 02/20/2023 2:32:09 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Joe Brower

Her paycheck!


112 posted on 02/20/2023 2:44:45 PM PST by Nebr FAL owner (Treason is the reason for Democrat Sedition & Subversion)
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To: redgolum
the teachers DON’T See those parents. Because they don’t need to.

Which leads them to the false belief that those parents don't exist, and to the hubris that they (teachers) are smarter and better educated than most parents.

And that's where we are today: Parents are finding out that the teachers are teaching racism and perversion, and calling a halt to it. Teachers like the critter in the OP are shocked to find out that their self-image of superiority is unfounded. They're shrieking in horror, denying the obvious.

113 posted on 02/20/2023 2:50:31 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: MAGA2017

What do the parents have???

How about - the Birth Certificate???


114 posted on 02/20/2023 2:54:01 PM PST by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: MAGA2017

So? Higher “education “ is worthless.


115 posted on 02/20/2023 2:55:31 PM PST by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna!)
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To: chrisser

A friend had a Korean War story about shutting down pompous pr*cks asserting credentials based primacy.

Bob was a runner, in the CO’s bunker on the line when a wet behind the ears 2LT reported to his company commander in the 187 RCT, an airborne unit; Lt. “Smith”, West Point, ‘51, sir.

Bob said his CO, a hard bitten WW2, 101st Airborne vet with a battlefield commission recalled for Korea removed his cigar and returned the salute with “Scagnelli, Bulge, ‘44.”


116 posted on 02/20/2023 3:23:08 PM PST by skepsel ("A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime", Mark Twain.)
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To: Deplorable American1776; EQAndyBuzz

Just. kidding. Trying to get a rise.


117 posted on 02/20/2023 3:53:33 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: MAGA2017

Some of the biggest idiots I have ever ran across have Masters Degrees. Not even close.
There are some dumb people, but in general, they know they aren’t smart. It’s these highly educated idiots that don’t know how to do ANYTHING other than what they are educated on. And even then, many of them do not have practical, real world experience. All academic, theory, and no hands on reality.


118 posted on 02/20/2023 4:37:56 PM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: vpintheak

“Some of the biggest idiots I have ever ran across have Masters Degrees.”

In my last job, two of us didn’t have college degrees, much less Masters Degrees. We were the ones they called in to clean up the messes made by the others.


119 posted on 02/20/2023 4:40:28 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: MAGA2017

Q. What do you call an idiot with a master’s degree?
A. An idiot!


120 posted on 02/20/2023 6:17:13 PM PST by Mr. Rabbit
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