And there's the ubiquitous liberal female scarf...
Posted on 09/23/2022 10:27:15 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
A former teacher running for a seat on the Forest Lake School Board once unequivocally stated that parents should have no say in what their children are taught.
Back in February, prior to running for school board, Ashley Bulmer posted a 26-second video to TikTok declaring that “teachers should be allowed to teach” without parental input in how they construct their lesson plans.
“I’m a parent, and I’m sorry to all you parents out there, but you do not get a say in your child’s teacher’s lesson plans,” she said. “I spent thousands of dollars on a degree and my educator’s license, and I would be gosh-darned if parents tried to tell me how to write my lesson plans that I literally went to school to learn how to write.”
Bulmer added that parents who want more control over what their children are taught should “homeschool them” instead.
The school board candidate appears to have voluntarily deleted the video and her entire TikTok channel, but only after the video spread like wildfire on social media.
Center of the American Experiment’s Bill Walsh wrote that Bulmer’s “arrogance and dismissiveness towards parents is exactly what got [Republican] Glenn Youngkin elected Governor of Virginia last year.”
“After Democrat candidate Terry McAuliffe told Virginia voters he didn’t think ‘parents should be telling schools what they should teach,’ parents overwhelmingly flocked to Youngkin’s campaign and carried him to victory,” Walsh said.
In a statement posted to Facebook this week, Bulmer clarified her comments without explicitly disavowing what she said in the video. She also noted that she originally posted it to TikTok “months before” she filed to become a school board candidate.
“There should always be a partnership between parents and teachers,” she said. “Parents know their student best, and as such will be a huge asset to a teacher. Teachers know education and curriculum practices best. They know the state standards. They know how to write lesson plans and evaluate a student’s progress.”
Bulmer previously taught children of various ages in south Minneapolis, Blaine, and Forest Lake throughout her decade-long career.
“I spent thousands of dollars on a degree and my educator’s license...”
Wasted money.
Teacher to Parents: You don't get to tell me how to teach your kids
This snot-nosed B***H.
And there are tens of thousands teaching kids JUST LIKE HER.
Those wascally parents always throw monkey wrenches into grooming schemes
SHE spent thousands?? Wonder if she really did. And considering a degree costs TENS of thousands, maybe she did spend thousands, while the taxpayers spent tens of thousands on her. Oh well, all she’s missing is some 0s, no big deal.
Excellent point regarding past education battles. One can think for only a moment to dredge up memories of conflict over Bible readings, prayer in schools, evolution, pledge of allegiance, Mark Twain, Dr. Seuss, etc.
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Hey, being young and loud mouthed like the squad and Thunberg is probably the inspiration for wannabe know it alls like this one.
And it makes me very happy that at 75, I have no grandchildren for these commies to indoctrinate.
Thanks. She went to school and paid all that money to learn how to teach, not what to teach.
deserves a put down: teachers take the easiest courses in college.....I am sure there are people who just wanted their whole lives to be teachers but lets face it, many people just stumble into teaching degrees because everything else required very hard subjects and much more time in the lab.....
I find her terms . . . acceptable.
If she took out loans, the American taxpayers spent thousands of dollars on her degree.
Construct the lesson plans however you want, but stick to the subject and leave out the social brainwashing.
And there's the ubiquitous liberal female scarf...
If she had to go to school in order to learn how to write a lesson plan she has already admitted she is too stupid to be in the business of molding the minds of children.
Even more so if I can opt out of the tax burden I am forced to experience to pay Statists like her...
Here in Florida, I have two homestead exemptions to my property tax I’m going to apply for next year. I could not this year because I closed on my home in mid-January. It’s a shame that only one of the exemptions covers education taxes.
Boy, wouldn’t that be great!
In a previous life I met a few incredible mathematicians and physicists.
No arrogance. Just quiet confidence from them.
OTOH, the two teacher Phds I’ve run into were insufferable jerks.
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