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Just look at the headline… this new-and-improved legislation would “ban fewer ideas.” Think about this for a moment. Our non-expert legislators are seriously trying to enact laws that “ban ideas.” It doesn’t matter that they are trying to appear more reasonable by banning *fewer* ideas — the fact that they are trying to ban ideas at all is an absolute outrage. This is America, not North Korea or the Soviet Union or an Orwell novel. How dare these politicians try to “ban ideas” to score political points with their rabid, misinformed base. It’s shameful, and shows the world some characteristics about Indiana that are disgraceful and embarrassing. Time to stop this nonsense now!
A reminder that if you don’t like your kid’s school and what they teach, you can move them to literally any other school with your voucher, free of cost. Heck, you can move them to another school district if you’re unhappy that there’s too much diversity in the student body (read: too many brown people) and it’s allowed. And there’s plenty of private Christian schools that will take your voucher, paid for with our tax dollars, and teach your kids that the earth is 6000 years old and that girls are just less capable than boys if that’s what you want.
So I really struggle to understand the need for this bill. Heck, I don’t understand why our legislators just don’t hand down the lesson plans from on high that they want taught.
I agree…Banning IDEAS in education??? Education is all about ideas and freedom of ideas…Wait a Minute ! That sounds more like a violation of Freedom of Speech…isn’t that a Constitutional guaranty of our rights?
There is zero need for this or any version of HB 1134. It’s nothing more than the current Boogeyman/Strawman GOP issue to scare the easily manipulated straight white people in the suburbs and rural areas (a/k/a the Trump voter). The rest of us, certainly including nearly all Indiana public educators, wish the super-majority GOP would stop with the silly tactics and go back to substantive topics they actually know something about. (Truly, I don’t know what that would be, either. But I wish they’d go there anyway.)
Quote: …scare the easily manipulated straight white people in the suburbs and rural areas (a/k/a the Trump voter).
How insulting. Don’t you have anything better to do than dwell on such nonsense, Michael?
Bob, what’s nonsensical or insulting about Michael’s quote? He’s exactly right. This legislation is designed precisely to soothe and placate the fragile suburbanites whom you see supporting it.
And who is “dwelling” on this issue? Michael, with a single-paragraph article comment, or the bill’s authors, who’ve written a 40-page bill designed to ensure that students don’t feel discomfort?
Modern republican playbook. IMHO. The proposed ‘legislation’ isn’t about the issues, the people, or any form of actual service to the state. It’s about control – and FREE advertising. The republican party controls the state and they want to keep it that way. This is how they keep a grip on the state. They do it by making sure that everyone knows they are the party that protects ‘good ole ‘merican values’. You see, no one at all is looking out for the next generation. Those poor children are being lead to these godless, fear mongering, white guilt preaching, so-called teachers, like lambs to slaughter. BUT FEAR NOT! The republicans are taking a stand, and they will save your babies from the onslaught. It makes no difference whatsoever whether any form of this bill passes. The entire point is to get a divisive issue out in front of their constituents, which the press does freely, and keep the faithful in the flock by making them take sides. If any version of the bill passes, that’s icing on the cake. If no version of the bill passes, then it’s just ‘evidence’ that the onslaught is real, and more icing on the cake. We need our legislators to be better than this. We need our legislators to be solving actual problems. (No personal slam intended IBJ, y’all do a great job, but are forced into promoting a political agenda with ‘legislation’ like this. Carry-on.)
Why would schools, or ANYONE, feel the need to ban the teaching of ACTUAL history of the USA? Shame? Guilt? Embarrassment? None of those are a reason, and certainly not a “good” one…
Good! DEI ideology should stay out of the schools.
Teach our kids history and facts…. not modern day social/culture theories that are discrimination-based belief systems veiled in compassion and caring!!!
History shows us that limiting ones rights as opposed to expanding ones rights rarely expands democracy. Just look at prohibition to see how limiting rather than governing turns out.