Bill allowing teachers to be sued for 'usurping' parental rights clears Senate

[turbinetree]

BY: JEROD MACDONALD-EVOY - APRIL 18, 2022 4:09 PM

A bill to allow parents to sue Arizona teachers for “usurping the fundamental right” of a parent in raising their children won approval from state Senate Republicans on Monday and is one vote away from Gov. Doug Ducey’s desk.

Supporters of the bill said it was necessary to subject teachers to lawsuits in order to bring transparency to schools, which they said have been asking “inappropriate questions” of students. The main impetus for the legislation were student surveys sent out by schools — often aimed at identifying students struggling with mental health during the pandemic — that made headlines in a number of states and locally.

House Bill 2161 by Rep. Steve Kaiser, R-Phoenix, began its legislative life as a more controversial bill that would have forced teachers to tell parents everything a student tells them — including outing them if a student confides in a teacher that they are LGBTQ.

https://www.azmirror.com/blog/bill-allowing-teachers-to-be-sued-for-usurping-parental-rights-heads-to-ducey/

So if a kid comes to school with out lunch because said parents can't feed them.....does Kaiser and his gang have a plan for that.....

[calimary]

1. O. M. G.

Day by day I find myself losing confidence that this country will survive.

This shit just will not stop!

[SoonerPride]

2. They will succeed in driving every teacher out of the profession

This is a feature not a bug

[lpbk2713]

3. It won't be long now.

No one with good sense would want to pursue a career as a teacher. Not with shit like this
going on. (R) politicians want to make it look like teachers are Public Enemy Number One.

[BigmanPigman]

4. Does this mean that their union won't be able to defend them?

Does Arizona have teachers unions?

[ChazII]

14. Yes, when I was teaching

in the Paradise Valley Unified School District we were part of the NEA at the national level and we had our local union or association as it is called.

[BigmanPigman]

16. I hope their union protects them.

I was the site rep at my school and was part of the city (SDEA), state (CTA)and narional (NEA). Our union would stand by the teachers when there was an issue with administrators and parents too.

[sop]

5. How about a law allowing voters to sue their elected representatives for lying? We need that.

Voters should also be able to sue elected officials for greater transparency, to see who's corruptly bankrolling their campaigns.

[Walleye]

6. The law should also require all parents to attend curriculum planning meetings at night

[Irish_Dem]

7. Our country is turning into Russia and China in front of our eyes.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Our country is turning into Russia and China in front of our eyes.

[a kennedy]

9. It's just insane, what the hell is happening to this country.......

[abqtommy]

10. [snark on]: Well, if anybody knows about 'usurping' it's the reTHUG Fascist

Insurrectionists. [snark off] It's way past time that we usurped them.

[dlk]

11. Republicans are ramping up their efforts to destroy public schools

They don’t believe in democracy and strong public schools are the foundation of democracy.

[lindysalsagal]

12. Democracy requires an informed electorate. So they're attacking democracy.

The last thing GQp wants is voters who can catch them lying

[raccoon]

13. Republicans are going to drive all the teachers from teaching. Nt

[gratuitous]

15. Are those "parental rights" enumerated?

Or is every parent a law unto himself to decide when his rights have been usurped? Nothing could go wrong with that!

Seeing this explosion of bad policy legislation, I get the feeling that Republicans don't see themselves staying in office come election time, and they're trying to inflict maximum damage on the country and its institutions before their greedy little fingers are pried off the levers of power.