This Video Really Chaps Me

[claireokc]

Instead of teachers thinking about how they should be making up the classes that their students have missed for the last two years, they are now worried about how to get around or skirt by a recent law passed by the majority of their state. This particular report is from Idaho, but I've seen it in my home state too where CRT has been outlawed. Apparently now it's called SEL and it's not teaching it's mental health. Excuse me but when did the teachers start teaching mental health? Do they have a degree in psychology? Do any of the school board members have a degree in psychology? What in the world authorizes or even broaches close to believing that these teachers are qualified to teach mental health?

The whole purpose of this article, particularly after watching this horrific video, is that parents must continue to stay in constant monitoring situations in the classroom, school boards, and administrators. I personally think the best solution is to have the money follow the child. If the student isn't learning what the parent wants, the parent can have the choice of sending the student to a charter school or private school, and that tax money collected for public schools, will follow that kid to the charter or private school. This causes the public school to be more receptive to being responsive to the parents as well as making sure the student is learning the correct skills and information to become a contributing member of the workforce. It is also making sure that the teacher isn't trying to fill the child with all sorts of superfluous information that is virtually useless in the real world, to assuage the teacher's guilt for something that is the teacher's fault and certainly not the kids' fault.

We have too many teachers who are way more concerned about how they live than teaching what the students need to learn.



I think of some of the first schools set up in this country where they were concerned with teaching agriculture, vocational skills, and skills that were needed to live in a brand new country. That mentality and focus is gone now. It's all about teaching inclusivity, even for a tiny minority of the population. I wouldn't be surprised to see programs developed for Martians and Venusians because we might have to live with those people someday! Honestly, there is no end to this sort of harassment - unless it's taking the money away from the six-figured administrators and over-inflated school programs and get back to some worthwhile education.