Posted on 11/19/2021 5:24:31 PM PST by simpson96
Welcome to Bizarro World, otherwise known as NBC “Think”. In an essay NBC published last night from Christina Wyman, parents want to have children “indoctrinated” while schools want to free their minds. Wyman decries parental resistance to progressive pedagogy, arguing that parental involvement in education is as dangerous as it would be to have parents in the operating room.
No, I am not kidding:
While the political climate and national involvement in school districts give the phenomenon a broader platform and have more serious ramifications, this behavior is nothing new. Parents have always tried to interfere with curricula, as I observed when teaching middle school in the mid-2000s. Even then there was no shortage of parental input about the content of my instruction, from books to test questions. 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. It’s sort of like entering a surgical unit thinking you can interfere with an operation simply because the patient is your child.
Teaching, too, is a science. Unless they’re licensed and certified, parents aren’t qualified to make decisions about curricula. In fact, parental interference can actually hinder student advancement. An educator’s primary goal is to teach students to think. Parents who attempt to influence curricula with their personal opinions, ideologies and biases hinder that goal.
As long as we’re using medical analogies, that’s the most pernicious case of projection I’ve seen in a long time. This is a Stage 4 case of projection, one in which delusions of credentialism take over and the outward symptoms of elitism and totalitarianism become impossible to mask. In other words, Wyman’s a goner.
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If I’m paying for a product, I don’t have a say??? Up yours, NBC
NBC: You are not qualified to have a broadcasters license. Turn yours in immediately
And NBC not qualified to be a network.
Democrat scum have always believed this.
When you are taking flak, you are over the target..
All politics are local, the democommies figured that out before the parents of the young children of today were born. They dug in like an Alabama tick.
Well, as usual, the democommies have overreached, and now face the backlash..
I’m old enough to remember Global Cooling and teachers complaining that they wanted MORE parental involvement.
I don’t think parents (or grandparents) will play that game.
You aren’t NBC’s customer. You are their product.
I was referring to paying for the public school system.
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That makes more sense ...
“Wyman decries parental resistance to progressive pedagogy, arguing that parental involvement in education is as dangerous as it would be to have parents in the operating room.”
If your child is in the hospital to have his tonsils removed and the parent notices the doctor is cutting open the abdomen, well then the parent is perfectly proper to say hold it a minute, something is wrong here.
A student is there to learn things like math, reading, history, etc. When the parent notices the child is being taught pornography, the parents are right to point out the teacher has forgotten their function.
Proverbs 22:6 “Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it.”
Teachers are expected to learn and believe certain social doctrines (not the same as pedagogical methods), and they pass these doctrines on to their students to learn and believe too, but that isn’t indoctrination; that is freeing students’ minds. Uh huh.
What arrogant, high-handed trash. Perfect candidates for American Nuremberg II.
Is it possible to loathe these people anymore?
I’m sure I’m not the only one whose IFF transponder squawks “Enemy!” when the word “science” appears. NOT saying there aren’t legitimate sciences, just that the political left has made that word a red flag. Climate scammers, covidians, sexual deviants, die hard communists, and all kinds of charlatans *love* to hide behind the magic “S” word.
To continue her analogy, the classroom today is more like sending your child i to surgery to remove an appendix and interfering because the surgeon is more interested in cutting off his privates.
The leftists change their views and tactics on a dime.
“The issue is not the issue. The revolution is the issue.”
That is why it is pointless to debate issues with them.
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