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Like vaccines?
I thought we were against authoritarianism? Or is that just when it best suits our ideology and goals?
Don't twist my words, Skippy. As taxpayers and parents, Americans can and should mandate what is taught in the local schools. The government, nor the teachers' union, nor anyone else "owns" the schools except as a facilities maintenance and security system... but The People own what goes on in those schools as to curricula and their children's education.
Vaccines are an entirely different matter, and if you don't understand that... hmmm, well I could EXPLAIN it to you, but I can't UNDERSTAND it for you.
Mandating what is taught is accomplished by running for school board and atte ding meetings.
Too many people don't give a shit about that, and then when teachers are given the curriculum to teach parents get up in arms.
Leftists are fucking ACES at getting involved and steering society's ships.
Parents who send kids to private school do their due diligence and on top of that, PAY. Public schools are at the whim of the board, which is up to the local parents to choose and pressure.
True, nobody is saying otherwise.
Also true, nobody would disagree with that.
Not so much. Authoritarianism is authoritarianism. It is an appeal by right to authority over another group of humans. Mandating a vaccine, or mandating a surveillance apparatus, they are one in the same in that they are both subjecting a group to an unwarranted and unreasonable authority. Teachers answer to their principles. Principles answer to their District Directors. District Directors answer to the School Board.
You want to become involved? Learn your place in the chain of command, and the power you already have as a community member. School Boards have an insane amount of power. You would know that if you were deeply involved in one.
You may choose the curriculum, you may be involved in schools, you may sit in on the classes, and the school meetings, but you do not have the right to spy on other American workers, no matter if they are taxpayer funded or not. You would be violating basic human rights, and eroding trust in the institution and profession.
By your reasoning we should not be mandating...oh, let's say traffic laws. If you want to drive the wrong way on an interstate and high speed, according to your "logic" that should be quite alright, because by God no one's going to tell Skippy what he can do.... "You're not the boss of me!"
Mandating a curriculum is not authoritarianism, it's common sense. Otherwise you're going to bad things.... you know, like Critical Racism Theory, and Drag Queen reading hours with children. Again, if you don't see the difference, then I will be unable to explain it to you in any simpler, one-syllable words.
Police Officers are responsible for traffic safety and law enforcement, just as Principals are responsible for teacher conduct and lessons. Last time I saw a citizen impersonating an officer of the law and pulling a fellow citizen over, they were arrested. Your analogy is nonsensical.
You are correct. Curriculum can be standardized. It already is standardized. Those standards can be changed. What we are discussing is as a SURVEILLANCE APPARATUS to enforce that standard, which IS AUTHORITARIAN. Set the standard, attend the school board meetings, check in with the principals, get involved, but let the schools operate with dignity and trust.
You are acting under the assumption that every teacher, principal, and admin are criminals, and warrant subjecting to an authoritarian surveillance state. That is textbook extremism, and will lead us down a road we do not want to go down.
Well - read my post above. Those long. I wrote how to apply it "correctly". The thing however is even those "correct" way of applying it would cause too many dangers.
Simply you and u/undine53 are not too technical persons,don't you ?
Even if you ignore argument about liberty and privacy simply maintaining it at the level of security even big enough to protect it against teenage johny the chacker or ivan the chacker (chacker is IT slang for hacker not being too good in hacking ,"mistake" is purposeful) is quite big.
Technology has it disadvantages simply too,and you ignore it - examples:
Probably every day in USA likewise in Europe some paedophile log to chinese cheap camera some parent left to monitor his/her infant, and after copying it maybe edit to make it child porn - or fap to those baby.
Probably every day some grandma gets extorted or robbed by some criminals calling to her. And no,they don't need to play Nigerian Prince,sometimes they play for example as Amazon serviceman "wanting to help".
Election fraud happened - also on Dominion machines connected to internet.
To say sincerely - not all programmers and electronics engineers would be happy to read that,but sometimes too complicated technology is worse than crude and simple one. For example - don't be offended,but if I would have a choice to buy AR15 or AK47 I would chose AK47.