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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.
You’re one of those who cheered on the Patriot Act, aren’t you? Never able to see how abuse could occur, bc you still honestly believe everyone is still just “so good” inside.
Bad actors control what gets seen. Example: one kid is bullied for months by another kid. The bullied kid suddenly stands up, but only his response is broadcast to the masses. The masses then come for the kid and his parents, and “demand” something be done to this kid (who finally stood up for himself).
If you don’t have the furtive imagination to think of what the deep state might manipulate to satisfy their own agenda, look no further than the Patriot act.
But “it’s live-streamed”. Okay..... who is watching 24/7? With how nefarious we know people to be, who’s not to say that that can’t be manipulated? Basic bank robbers have done that to security cameras for years.
Put nothing past these people. If it sounds like a perfect answer to something that otherwise takes a lot of work- then it’s just that...... too good to be true. Literally.
How much lazier do we have to get.
You are acting under the assumption that every teacher, principal, and admin are criminals, and warrant subjecting to an authoritarian surveillance state.
Nope, I'm acting under very clear evidence that teachers, principals, and administrations (and school boards) ARE evil people who are, as we speak, indoctrinating kids. Surely I don't have to repeat to YOU all the stories that have come out in the last year about shoddy teachers pushing a Marxist agenda. Nor, I'm sure, do I need to repeat the many stories about CRT being taught, about white students being singled out and shamed for their "whiteness"... and so forth.
I'm saying without apology that our schools need to be purged, everyone above the level of janitor being summarily fired, and then replaced by people who will follow the curricula and standards of the community. I realize that is too much to hope for, but there you have it.
Are there a few good teachers? Yeah... maybe, but we rarely hear about them. My daily news feed is a constant diet of dreary news of a mind-numbing, politically correct, LGBT-friendly or even LGBT-ENCOURAGEMENT themes, that make schools sound more like a North Korean prison than an agency of learning.
Are some teachers Marxists? Yes, in a society that is becoming infected with socialism it is inevitable that some teachers are going to be Marxists. Do we need to confront these teachers about their bringing politics into the classroom? Definitely. Do we have means of doing that without subjecting Patriot teachers to unwarranted violations of their basic civil liberties and human rights? Yes, we do.
There have been some videos and stories about some teachers pushing their Marxist agendas. These teachers are being enabled by state legislation. If you want to fix the Marxist agenda, start with the legislature. Be logical, not irrational.
You are afraid that white students are being shunned and selectively discriminated against, yet you plan to indiscriminately purge all teachers based on an unfounded assumption that all teachers are Marxists. What makes your breed of socialism better than theirs?
Do you want to know why you never hear about them? It is because the vast majority of GOOD teachers are busy doing their jobs, working hard for their students and parents, and trying to stay afloat with the impossible expectations placed on teachers today. The teachers you do hear about are the ones that gain news traction because their stories are sensational. Many of these teachers are teaching in liberal strong hold cities. Social media gives you a reflection of precisely what you want to see, and only that. If you go looking for Marxist teachers, the algorithms will throw you a hundred of them while ignoring the millions of upstanding patriot teachers that are out there. If you haven't learned by now, QUIT EXPECTING SOCIAL MEDIA TO MIRROR REALITY! It doesn't! It is meant to distort reality and present you with a world that doesn't exist. Just as Trump undoubtedly won 2020, so to are there undoubtedly more Patriot teachers out there than Marxist ones. Take care you don't fire upon friendlies in your crusade against Marxism. This is how fanaticism and extremism are born.
Move out to the countryside and you will see a completely different picture. Open your eyes. You cannot solve these issues with indiscriminate mandates of surveillance apparatuses. You will end up alienating all of the good teachers (or purging them as you suggested) and will be left with absolutely no teachers, because nobody would be willing to work under such draconian and authoritarian standards. Teaching is already a thankless and underpaid job. Good luck finding anyone to fill those jobs if you go down this road.
I don't think anyone in this thread would last a week as a teacher with the present standards and expectations of the profession, let alone a single day under the proposed 1984 surveillance state with parents and community members breathing down your neck at every perceived slight they caught on film.
If you say so. If TSHTF, however, I'm pretty sure the first thing to be addressed across the country will be schools and other basic institutions.