With the new "parents' rights" concepts being touted in several states, one has to ask:

[Atticus]

why require any specific degree or training or certification for teachers?

If all parents are competent to decide WHAT to teach, HOW to teach it and what facts are NEVER TO BE MENTIONED in a classroom, which child gets promoted and which is held back, then ANYONE should be able to be hired as a teacher.

Obviously, this will eliminate all racism and guarantee that all children will be heterosexuals who profess the "right" religion and mature into "good guys with guns". What could go wrong?

This solves so many problems it is a mystery why no one thought of it before the Florida Man made it his policy and other governors saw the attention it got him.

Who knows? Maybe 2 plus 2 really does equal 5.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Parents rights is not about the children of the christofascists...

it is about imposing the beliefs of the christofascists on all children. Naturally.

[spooky3]

6. +1 as a non parent but a taxpayer, I'm going to demand that *I* get to

Dictate. Hey, I’m paying the bills…

[Lovie777]

2. I can see a great migration of people who still believes in democracy leaving . ..

and moving to states that are more democratic.

[mopinko]

5. schools work that way.

ppl will move to get their kids into good schools.

[kcr]

12. That's what my family did

Best decision we ever made. I feel for those who don't have the means or have obligations that prevent them from escaping.

[Freethinker65]

3. Give the snowflake students a graduate degree in ignorance and send them home.

[walkingman]

4. In the case of Texas it is total BS with Abbott trying to get

re-elected. Maybe an Texas IQ test might be more appropriate. Who would elect such worthless people over and over.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Why have any PhDs or professionals?

If the average Joe knows more and the best way to proceed on any topic, what is the point of spending all that time and money to get advanced degrees?

[eppur_se_muova]

8. All teaching used to be in the hands of priests.

Before that, it was mostly Greek slaves.

Either approach would be OK with the RWNJs.

[Mad_Machine76]

9. Exactly! All of this!

Republicans say that they want "parental input" and "transparency" but what they are really trying to implement is make it so THEIR people- MAGAs, Qs- can create havoc in the schools with any and all curriculum that THEY disagree with and don't want taught. The obvious solution in all of this is for "concerned parents" to pull their kids out of school and home school them or send them to private schools (on their own dime) so that they can indoctrinate them in whatever "woo" they want to promote.

[Whiskeytide]

15. Republican politicians merely realized that stupid people can vote, and ...

… are taking advantage of that realization.

[NightWatcher]

10. The worse thing about these idiots is that they think they're wise.

They think they're Epidemiologists, Immunologists, Educators, Petroleum Supply chain Experts, Transportation Logisticians, .......

This happened because we've told people that their beliefs matter and must be acknowledged and respected.

Fuck these idiots who are so idiotic that they don't realize to what extent their idiocracy is idiotic.

Hallelujah. Holy shit where's the Tylenol?

[Iggo]

11. I never made any kids, but I've raised a few...

...and I think they've found their perfect target.

If there's one group of people who will band together to fight against the betterment of any child except their own, it's the parents of school aged children.

Been there. Done that.

[jcgoldie]

13. Im looking forward to parent teacher conferences

… so I can just ask parents if their kid is going to pass and I can quit worrying with all this grading…

[BlueIdaho]

14. Best of luck getting into a good college!

These helicopter parents can fuck up a high school curriculum but in the end, colleges have entrance requirements. If they manage to erase math and science requirements at a high school, their kids will never get accepted by an accredited college.