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.
A typically arrogant progressive-fascist, who believes in central planning, and that a debt-fed diploma and state-licensing confers magical powers
They pay your f-ing salary, benefits and pensions with their tax dollars. They sure as hell should get to say what you can teach their kids.
Close the public schools. Seriously. They do more harm than good.
Lesson plans?
I love how school teachers now call themselves “educators,” as if that makes them any less stupid.
If they want a fancy title, “Indoctrinators” is more appropriate.
She is only saying what the vast majority of educrats are thinking.
Tyranny of the over credentialed.
Huge disappointment that the GOP doesn’t have this DEM stance plastered on billboards across the country. This would hit home with a lot of parents.
I bet if the situation were different, and the school was teaching right-leaning material, this buffoon would be croaking a different tune.
As a matter of fact, that is exactly what happened and now kids are being churned out of school knowing nothing about anything.
Pull them out of school parents!
Thanks for putting the state in title. Good job by you. Not the original reporter.
The lesson plan is yours: the curriculum is ours.
Boy, did it burn my ass to read that quote.
She only said it aloud.
There are tens of thousands more like that dimwit who believe the same thing just as passionately and for the same arrogant reasons, but are smart enough not to say the quiet part aloud.
How adorable. It takes a village! …of Sodomites and Transgenders to raise a child in 2022 USA 🇺🇸
An intelligent distinction, FRiend.
Sorry, we don’t care how much out of pocket you are in order to become fully brainwashed.
It’s a convenient position to take on the issue, if what you are aiming for is a free hand, and total impunity.
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