seems perfectly reasonable (this is the Indiana state senate they’re talking about)
https://twitter.com/AlexDanvers2017/status/1480266895613964291
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Seems like the inevitable long term outcome of all of these insane education laws is that the good people will leave the profession and be replaced by right wing nut jobs. Much like what has happened in politics, if you consider any of the replaced to be good people.
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But trigger warnings are an overbearing restriction on the freedom of education. Oh no we memory holed that garbage didn’t we.
This is going to be a banner year for batshit insanity coming out of the state legislatures. There are legions of RWNJs trying to primary incumbents or make a name of themselves in national politics. And lots of insane stuff from 2020/2021 that RWNJs are salivating to replicate across all red states, which is like most of the states at this point lol.
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“Bans teaching that Nazis have low moral character” is just ripping the mask off so hard and fast it leaves burn marks conveniently shaped like swastikas all over the face.
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SO MUCH FOR THE TOLERANT LEFT!
teacher’s must post lesson plans
Oops, must have “opted out” of the lesson on apostrophes.
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We need to Teach The Controversy and let kids make their own decisions about whether the many good things the Nazis did justify the bad things they are alleged to have done (allegedly).
Train schedules were good, the use of trains was bad.
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You’re right - no Nazis in the bill.
Searching the pdf version for “character” comes up with this section:
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I’ve read #4 like five times and still have no idea what it means.
You can’t call someone an asshole just because they support and vote for assholes. It’s literally the anti-FlyWF rule. They put Mason in charge of children’s education.
Okay then. Well then I’m against it.
Huh, #4 to me seems to be anti-anti-color-blindness. That you can’t teach that trying to be color-blind w.r.t. race is just trying to ignore or cover up past injustices and perpetuate the status quo.
Was watching an old movie, Support Your Local Sheriff.
Jack Elam: I was raised up in Indiana.
James Garner: Well, that could be either good or bad.
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To me it sounds like you must always consider someone’s sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, national origin, or political affiliation when determining how to treat them.
Also are they saying “sex” instead of “gender” as some sort of gotcha?
It’s a triple negative. It forbids teaching people that they should not treat people without regard for race, sex etc., so you can only teach that people must be treated without regard for race, sex, etc.: mandated color-blindness.
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They’re probably not unaware of the distinction, but the use of sex (and not gender) is pretty standard in other discrimination law (like Federal Title IX and a bunch of court rulings). The last time I looked into it, Scotus had ruled that discrimination claims based on sexual orientation or gender expression could be brought under statutes that referred to “sex”, so for now it probably doesn’t make much practical difference in how this law might be applied.
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Emphasizing experience and moderation, however, is an almost guaranteed way to place last in a Republican primary. Despite a stellar résumé and a Hispanic surname, Guzman has stayed in the single digits in polls and faces a heavy lift to become known across the state. Money will help, and she’s stayed competitive in fund-raising so far, getting support from a lot of donors P. might have liked to recruit. But money is not the thing that counts in a Republican primary in Texas.
What does count? You know it when you see it. Louie Gohmert, the fourth candidate to announce, has it. Gohmert, who has represented East Texas in Congress since 2005, has the unfair reputation of being “the dumbest guy in Congress,” as Gohmert himself pointed out this year on the House floor.
But intelligence in a member of Congress is overrated, and besides, it comes in many different forms. Gohmert is a performance artist, and he’s damn good at it. From the perspective of legislating, he’s a mostly irrelevant House backbencher. But he has built a national profile, and he’s very rarely out of the news for more than a few days. He provokes and entertains and drives liberals nuts, and that’s how Republicans get elected in Texas.