Arizona Governor Will Decide Fate of GOP Bill to Make it Easier for Parents to Sue Teachers

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A bill to allow parents to sue Arizona teachers for “usurping the fundamental right” of a parent in raising their children won approval is now one signature from becoming law.

The state House of Representatives approved the measure on a party-line vote Monday, sending the legislation to Gov. Doug Ducey, who is expected to sign it into law.

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.yahoo.com/news/arizona-governor-decide-fate-gop-190100612.html

[Karadeniz]

1. Find a private school you like.

[blueinredohio]

2. What are they going to do when there are no teachers?

[Skittles]

3. I think that is their dream

since that's how they campaign, via ignorance and fear

[kimbutgar]

5. It's easier to control Uneducated people so the GOP likes it's citizens being uneducated with

No critical thinking skills which makes it easier to control them and manipulate them with stupid talking points.

Idiocracy is now no longer a fantasy funny movie.

[in2herbs]

4. I'm confused. It's practice for employers to indemnify their employees under their insurance

policies. Aren't teachers employees??? Doesn't Ducey and the Rs understand that if a teacher is sued the teacher, as an employee, will be represented at no cost to the teacher by an attorney chosen by the insurance company that insures the school district but more importantly, the insurance company has unlimited funds to litigate. Will the person who sues the teacher have the same amount of unlimited funds to defend against an insurance company?

Do Ducey and the R's believe that insurance companies are going to change their policies to suit the political wind of the Rs?

[rockfordfile]

6. Un-American gop pos