Posted on 08/26/2024 1:39:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Chandler public schools are asking parents to sign off on teaching their kids things like "integers" and "geometric figures."
Is it OK if your child is taught the probability of a coin flip landing on heads? What about who crossed the Delaware River during the American Revolution? Or how to order breakfast in Spanish? Before it shares such controversial knowledge, the Chandler Unified School District wants to make sure.
That’s according to forms sent to parents of Chandler public school students, which were shared on social media Wednesday by Save Our Schools Executive Director Beth Lewis. Parents are asked to sign off on the subjects their kids will be taught this school year, and critical race theory is nowhere on the list. Instead, the schools are seeking approval to teach things such as basic math and social studies.
“It’s unreal for a district to have to do that,” Lewis told Phoenix New Times.
Lewis has two kids in Chandler schools, which serves 44,000 students throughout parts of Chandler, Gilbert and Queen Creek. She first learned of the forms this week when her middle school-aged daughter brought one home for her to sign. Lewis was asked to “acknowledge” approval for 11 study units in math — including integers, rational numbers and probability.
Half an hour after she filled out that slip, her seventh-grade son reached into his backpack and pulled out two more for his Spanish and social studies classes. Lewis said the first form requested parental permission for students to “learn breakfast and lunch words in Spanish,” among other things. For social studies, parents were asked to approve topics such as the Enlightenment, industrialization and revolutions.
If a parent checks that they have a “parental conflict” on a certain topic, the form states that “the teacher will reach out regarding options,”
(Excerpt) Read more at phoenixnewtimes.com ...
When parents get snarky letters like this they should know it’s time for home school or Christian school.
Do the teachers have the ability to comprehend basic math, let alone teach it?
EVERY SINGLE DAY I AM GLAD I WENT TO A ONE ROOM SCHOOL.
Public education? Stick a fork in it. It’s done.
Notice the parents are not asked if they have “potential conflicts” if the school teaches about anal sex, masturbation techniques, how to get abortions, changing their sex, getting their dicks and boobs wacked off, the evils of white supremacy and privilege, that if they’re white they’re irredeemable racists, etc, etc
Those are all standard required subjects, the others are electives.
“Specifically, the form is meant to comply with A.R.S. 15-113, which gives parents “the right to review learning materials and activities in advance” and the right to withdraw their student from the activity or “request an alternative assignment” if the parent objects and finds the activity or material “is harmful.”
The law defines “harmful” as having to do with “sexual content, violent content or profane or vulgar language.” It’s unclear how concepts like integers or ratios might qualify.”
Strange interpretation of the law. It’s obviously on purpose to try to ridicule the law.
““Lewis said. Teachers really deserve the trust of parents.””
They should look in the mirror to see who destroyed that trust.
Really? What have modern public school / union teachers done to deserve anything other than a presumption that they are attempting to abuse their position of authority to attempt to forcibly indoctrinate children into the teachers' ideology and virtue signaling?
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Well, with math being racist and white supremacist and all, we wouldn't want the schools polluting the kid's minds with something useful like real life skills.
WHY are people still putting their kids in public government indoctrination centers???????
The irony is that the kids are in SCHOOL, which should be presumed that they are being taught those things to begin with.
That’s what school is for and by sending your kids there, you’re kind of giving them implicit permission to actually educate them.
The public schools are evil and must be destroyed.
Chandler and Gilbert are upscale. Queens Creek is affordable but mostly a new bedroom community for people willing to have a long commute. NOT inner city folk.
“Strange interpretation of the law. It’s obviously on purpose to try to ridicule the law.”
Not ridicule. The purpose is to make the law of no effect, because parents will receive so many of these notices that they will begin ignoring them altogether. It’s “malicious compliance”:
“Malicious compliance (also known as malicious obedience) is the behavior of strictly following the orders of a superior despite knowing that compliance with the orders will have an unintended or negative result. It usually implies following an order in such a way that ignores or otherwise undermines the order’s intent, but follows it to the letter.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious_compliance
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The kids need to learn breakfast words in Spanish, otherwise how can they order breakfast tacos at a Taco Bell?
Jill?
Babylon Bee is a hoot.
Same here. A one house school with a great big library and a devoted teacher with nothing more important to do. My kids will never attend public school either.
Sounds like a step in the right direction, at first. Then when you go in to “discuss options,” one of them is probably a probe from CPS.
There's a lot of stuff young parents don't know.
Older, wiser heads here on FR have grandkids and great-grandkids in public school; there's little they can do about it. I was lucky, my mom figured it out before she turned 12, and decided she'd never subject her children to such a waste of time and mind.
Grandparents, if you can't influence your adult descendants, at least teach the tots to read, count, and reason, before their lights go out.
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