Does the government or the school board own your kids? Many seem to think:
Move aside, parents, we've got your kids. We decide what they learn and what they value. We protect them from you. Your values and opinions are wrong. Ours are right, so you must obey our agenda. Accept it: we are in charge, so move aside.
No one to my knowledge has actually said those words, but the attitude is very real. Here are the actual words of a real Ph.D. educator:
"Parents have always tried to interfere with curricula . . . Part of the problem is that parents think they have the right to control teaching and learning because their children are the ones being educated. But it actually (gasp!) doesn’t work that way."
Their goal, she says, is to train students in "empathy, passion, intelligence and engagement," in thinking for themselves--while parents' influence would produce "the exact opposite." So, in her view, parents want their kids to be cold-hearted, stupid and isolated.
When it comes to empathy, she seemingly has none for parents.
from NBC News
(cont'd tomorrow)
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