I want to share a piece of legislation under consideration in Indiana. It's Senate bill 167. It makes clear that, though in one state, our system of public education IS under siege. Here are but a few of the portions of the bill (likely to pass!!).
* parents can opt out their child from any part of the curriculum and the teacher will have to provide a different lesson plan for that child.
* that the curriculum of the district will be determined by a committee composed of 60% parents and community members and 40% educators and all members of the committee must be school board approved but no requirement that a teacher be on the committee
* bans educators from repeatedly interacting with students on social-emotional issues without prior parental consent (example, an educator would be forbidden from responding to a student who discloses they're having suicidal thoughts if the student has disclosed this before and the teacher doesn't have the parent's permission to respond)
* as was discussed during this week's hearing on the bill, bans teaching the Nazi's and similar political parties were of low moral character
These are but a few of the provisions of Indiana SB 167. The bill is called Education Matters 184.175.130.101.
For now let me say this. This shows a lack of respect and trust in educators and it flies in the face of providing a healthy, comprehensive and fact based public education for children, to the detriment of their growth.
Dick
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