“For too long, left-wing politicians and school administrators have kept parents in the dark about what’s being taught to their kids” — U.S. Rep. Mike Collins, March 3, 2023.
By Jack Bernard, contributing columnist
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga., May 23, 2023 | U.S. Rep. Mike Collins represents the gerrymandered Georgia 10th Congressional district, including parts of eastern Gwinnett. Collins and his GOP House cohorts do not believe that our school teachers are dedicated professionals… or that states and local governments are fully capable of managing their own schools.
So, he and his over-the-top conservative buddies in the U.S. House have voted to enact a revolutionary national “Parents’ Bill of Rights,” making parents, rather than schoolteachers and administrators, the ones who decide what to teach and set policy.
Collins, et al, believe that our teachers are all unionized radicals trying to brainwash our poor little kids. Yes, his statement is incredulous, but that is typical of what we are seeing from the MAGA Republicans nowadays.
I’m not sure exactly who Rep. Collins is slamming, but all of my friends and relatives that are teachers are working in the field to help kids…not brainwash them. I know them as underpaid folks with the best of intentions, not radical leftists pushing some sort of extremist agenda.
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In addition, every county in Georgia has a Board of Education that is elected. If we (the voters) do not like the way that our school administrators are acting, the board can and certainly will make its wishes known and possibly adjust policy. The county or city school superintendent works directly for each local board.
This uncalled-for national Parents Bill of Rights legislation, which passed the House on a party line vote, is an obvious attempt to politicize what is taught to our children. Do not teach them facts about the Civil War and slavery. The truth might upset them! So, just say that the Southern states wanted to destroy the Union on a whim. State’s Rights have no underlying cause, even though succeeding states clearly indicated in writing that they were leaving to protect slavery.
These GOP House representatives also do not want to let our school kids know that Rosa Parks was not able to sit in the front of the bus because she was black. That would be so disturbing! Just say that she was some malcontent who simply wanted to kick someone out of a better seat to get a better view.
Do not let the kids know that there are people in our nation who are gay, bi or trans sexual. That might make our children suddenly turn into awful deviants! God forbid! Just say “boys are boys” and “girls are girls”, OK?
Right wing politicians need to get out of the way of such shenanigans in school matters. Simply allow our professional educators to accurately educate our children, based on history and facts, rather than what someone wants or wishes were true.
There are currently 181 school districts, large and small, across Georgia, containing over 2,200 schools that employ over 114,800 teachers. Let these Boards of Education and administrations of each district allow its teachers to do professional work in instructing our children, with no interference from outside sources. We do not need to supplant our elected BOE and educational experts by trying to manage the process via direct parental administration as seen by these radical Republican measures as passed by the U.S. House.
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