House passes Parents Bill of Rights, as enraged Dems level wild charges against it. Right to know what’s being taught in schools and see reading materials, Right to be heard, Right to see school budgets and spending, to protect your child’s privacy, to be notified of any violent activity at school.

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[–]passionflounderIndependent 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

The fact that Democrats are so rabidly against parents having any rights or say in their children's education screams volumes.

[–]LordoftheFlies 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I mean, the Republicans have their own problems when it comes to education policy, like sperging out over sex education. (And I mean the dry facts, "this is what happens, these are the possible results, and this is how you prevent those results" variety, not the current one that encourages little kids to come out of a closet that they're not even in.)

But yeah, it's really interesting that the party whose adherents are so rabidly against the so-called "fascism" of the other party are so invested in making sure that parents aren't the ones making the decisions any more.

[–]passionflounderIndependent 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I question whether the public school classroom is the appropriate setting for sex education to begin with so I can understand a conservative objecting to a subject that is by its very nature at the center of one's moral identity. Let's not forget that our illustrious tax-funded school system is increasingly revealing its stance on things like transgender and gender identity where I say, hell no- these same granite-heads should NOT be impressing on young minds anything involving the use and maintenance of one's genitalia.

Frankly, if a young person is to reap the benefit of institutional sex education then let the medical community do it. Dry facts are best sourced from dedicated sources- let someone whose degree was earned in part through advanced anatomical education and not a blue-haired Social Justice teacher who's monitoring a health class and thinks there are more genders than Starbucks franchises. I think I'd be spurging out myself.

[–]LordoftheFlies 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The problem on the conservative side of sex ed, however, was that their alternative was abstinence programs--which worked about as well as expected around horny and curious teenagers--or pretending that sex just didn't exist.

And I'll admit that my view of sex ed is probably influenced by the fact that it was precisely the dry, factual version that I got from my school. And my educational years were long back, before this stupid shit took over.

[–]passionflounderIndependent 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Teaching abstinence should be a parent's prerogative. If schools could be trusted to stick with facts and leave moral considerations to the parents then I'd have less of an issue with it being the purview of schools but the growing track record of so-called "educators" seeking to exclude parents from the process leaves me with a resounding, "hell no!"