Leave Them Kids Alone
12th March 2023
A teacher testified before the Arizona state Senate education committee earlier this month and claimed that she and her colleagues knew better than parents what books belonged on school library shelves. “I have a master’s degree,” she said. “What do the parents have?” In the video, now widely circulated on Twitter, she continued, “The purpose of public education is not to teach only what parents want [students] to be taught. It is to teach them what society needs them to be taught.”
Back when I was a kid and teachers reflected the values of the parents, that might have been true. Since the education industry has been taken over by radical progressive unions and various species of Wokerati, it is manifestly untrue.