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Progressives Against Transparency. The ACLU joins Democratic politicians in opposition to making school curricula available to parents.
City Journal ^ | 26 Jan, 2022 | Zaid Jilani

Posted on 01/27/2022 5:54:25 AM PST by MtnClimber

In at least a dozen states, Republican lawmakers have introduced bills seeking to make instruction in public schools more transparent. Pennsylvania’s bill, for example, would require public schools to post their curricula online. Democrats have largely opposed these bills, viewing them as the latest conservative salvo against critical race theory–inspired pedagogy. In vetoing the Pennsylvania legislation, Democratic governor Tom Wolf warned that the “legislation is a thinly veiled attempt to restrict truthful instruction and censor content reflecting various cultures, identities, and experiences.”

Taken literally, Wolf’s statement is false. Requiring schools to be transparent about what they’re teaching does not inherently restrict instruction or censor content. But Wolf, like many progressives, is obviously concerned that if citizens knew what is being taught in schools, then they might demand a change in curriculum.

As debates over school curricula have raged for the past year, progressives have openly expressed anti-democratic views about how the education system should operate. Nikole Hannah-Jones, progenitor of the New York Times’s 1619 Project, made her view clear during an NBC appearance. “I don’t really understand this idea that parents should decide what’s being taught,” she said. “I’m not a professional educator. I don’t have a degree in social studies or science. We send our children to school because we want them to be taught by people who have expertise in the subject area.” Meantime, Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe arguably cost himself a second term in the governor’s mansion by admitting that he didn’t “think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”

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TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: aclu; arth; cnbc; communism; glennyoungkin; msnbc; nbc; nobrainscollectively; pennsylvania; terrymcauliffe; tomwolf; virginia; winsomesears; zaidjilani
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1 posted on 01/27/2022 5:54:25 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

If schools are going to insist on teaching Marxism then the parents and the rest of society have an obligation to stop them and tell them what they are allowed to teach. We pay them and we will have to set the rules and punishment for noncompliance.


2 posted on 01/27/2022 5:54:36 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

A story for those who ever respected the ACLU.


3 posted on 01/27/2022 5:57:47 AM PST by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: MtnClimber

They do not want their indoctrination exposed.

Too late, parents already got to see what is happening as a result of the lockdowns.


4 posted on 01/27/2022 5:59:01 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: MtnClimber
Sending your children to public schools is by large, child abuse. Homeschooling and private schools provide many educational options with the opportunity for great results.

The same people ruining public schools and using them for political indoctrination send their loved children and grandchildren to private schools.

Observe what they do, not what they say.

5 posted on 01/27/2022 6:03:41 AM PST by blackdog (# We Are Corn-Pop, turn off the news.)
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To: MtnClimber

We can’t handle the truth...?


6 posted on 01/27/2022 6:04:35 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Vision
"A story for those who ever respected the ACLU."

For me it's not "respect," but I believe they've done some good things in the past.

But this stance is disappointing, just wrong.

7 posted on 01/27/2022 6:07:02 AM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: MtnClimber

They decry even possible censorship at schools, while actively calling for more censorship of media organizations, including social media. If it weren’t for double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all.


8 posted on 01/27/2022 6:08:32 AM PST by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: MtnClimber

It is long past time to tear down the entire public school system in America and completely rebuild it.

The system is worse than a failure. Not only does it fail to teach the basics, it has become a source of communist indoctrination, societal division and hatred against white people.

It does not want to teach the “truth” about history. Ii is a system built upon racist lies and propaganda. It teaches disrespect for America and its founders and it attacks the best features of America.

Many public school teachers don’t even want to show up at school to teach anymore. During the pandemic, they have been paid to stay home.

Of course those in charge want to conceal what they are teaching. It is disgusting and divisive. The idea parents should not know what their children are learning is right out of the propaganda handbook of communism.

Tear public education out, root and branch, and rebuild it so children are not raised in ignorance, hatred and bitterness. We need children to learn respect and not be raised to be at war with their parents’ values and the greatness of their country.


9 posted on 01/27/2022 6:12:28 AM PST by Gnome1949
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To: MtnClimber

Truthful instruction my a**

They’re NOT YOUR KIDS and maybe it’s time to destroy “public” education if the rot is this entrenched.


10 posted on 01/27/2022 6:13:42 AM PST by Skywise
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To: MtnClimber

Honestly, I thought that’s what a school board was supposed to be, parents overseeing their local school system.


11 posted on 01/27/2022 6:15:39 AM PST by grame (May you know more of the love of God Almighty this day!)
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To: MtnClimber

ACLU = American Communist Lawyers Union.


12 posted on 01/27/2022 6:16:35 AM PST by unread (Everything you ever thought was right, fair and just is completely wrong..... I think..(?))
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To: MtnClimber

The ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center reside in Hell.


13 posted on 01/27/2022 6:21:55 AM PST by Herodes
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To: MtnClimber; 6amgelsmama; 100American; AAABEST; aberaussie; AccountantMom; Aggie Mama; agrace; ...

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the other articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

The left could not be doing more to deliberately destroy public education than they already are.

14 posted on 01/27/2022 6:27:17 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: MtnClimber

They are raping the souls of your children and making you pay for it. This is the long term consequence of departing from theTorah, the eternal Law of God.


15 posted on 01/27/2022 6:29:09 AM PST by Torahman (Remember the Maccabees)
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To: MtnClimber

‘You have to pass it to know what’s in it’ .. and even then, it’s 5000 pages with no word search so good luck.


16 posted on 01/27/2022 6:30:10 AM PST by Track9 (Agamemnon came home to a HRC type party. )
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[voiceover in Khmer Rouge reeducation camp] They tell us that God is dead. And now the Party, they call the Angka, will provide everything for us. He says, Angka has identified and proclaims that the existence of a bad new disease, a memory sickness like those that think too much about life in pre-revolutionary Cambodia. He says, we are surrounded by enemies. The enemy is inside us. No one can be trusted.

[young boy Xs out parents in stick figure family on blackboard]

Dith Pran in a scene in The Killing Fields.


17 posted on 01/27/2022 6:33:17 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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Taxpayer dollars funded the development of these curricula. They should be publicly available. Period.


18 posted on 01/27/2022 6:34:50 AM PST by throwthebumsout
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To: OttawaFreeper

That was a great movie.

L


19 posted on 01/27/2022 6:45:42 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: blackdog

One reason this played out this way is the dwindling number of Americans in public schools; there is no real “next generation” of American children, so the border gates are flung open to entice a new wave of public school students. My town is “white” in terms of the 60+ age group, and heavily foreign in terms of the 40-and-under age group; it is by design.


20 posted on 01/27/2022 7:09:28 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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