Unthinking Majority wrote:
LOL nice try.
You still haven't answered my questions so I will assume you would silence teachers if they espoused conservative views like pro-Trump, anti-abortion, anti-trans etc.
You've also said that not being political is "conservative" and that you're against this, so I'll also assume you want to insert leftwing political activism into the classroom.
Pants-of-dog wrote:
@Unthinking Majority
Feel free to assume whatever you wish about me. My actual position is so much more radical that this kind of confusion is irrelevant.
Now, back to the facts:
Current events show us that if we leave it to state governments, conservative governments will censor people while progressive ones will not. Consequently, I can see why conservatives like this “states rights” position.
Do we see a similar sort of dynamic when school boards choose for themselves?
I don't know why everyone is *pussyfooting* around the core / crux of the issue, which is *government power* -- the Confederacy-type states want power *devolved* (down to 'states rights') for the prevailing Northern-half, if you want to look at it that way, or red-vs.-blue.
The 'state-vs.-classrooms' thing, though, is just *quicksand* since they're practically *synonymous* -- as long as there's a bourgeois state there will be bourgeois (civil-society-type) *laws*, since that's what the bourgeois private-property revolutions were all founded on, with commodity production and mobile exchanges, surpassing feudal estates.
Teachers are *state employees*, so under bourgeois law they're subject to supervision, administration, etc., the same as any *private-sector* employee / worker. Presumably this extends to the subject matter taught in the classroom as well, as seen from the politics of historical-accounts being in the news -- 'woke history', or the critiquing of early American history.
Subjects like evolution or sex ed are going to be a matter of state policy and surrounding politics, of course, particularly societally formalized in the classroom.
In a post-capitalist *absence* of bourgeois administration, teachers, as workers, would be in collective common control of their own labor -- teaching. But I think there would *still* be a need for some kind of 'professional association'-type organization, meaning the organic self-organization of whatever group of teachers themselves, workplace-by-workplace -- for the 'standards' aspect of the profession, as for the 'vetted' approach to history.
Institutional racism in history is *undeniable* these days, though, and I'd go so far as to say that much of the Biden *campaign*, and the 2020 election, *hinged* on police brutality and killer cops:
Former Vice President and 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said "these shots pierce the soul of our nation" and called for an "immediate, full, and transparent investigation".[83] Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris spoke to Blake's father for an hour.[84] On September 3, Biden and his wife Jill met with multiple members of Blake's family at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport for 90 minutes; Blake joined the meeting by phone from his hospital bed. Biden then went to Kenosha to speak with members of the community at a local church. This was his first campaign trip to Wisconsin.[85] Harris spoke to Blake by telephone on September 7.[86]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_ ... Government
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Also:
Uvalde school district suspends entire police force, superintendent to retire amid fallout from shooting
https://abcnews.go.com/US/uvalde-school ... d=91172897Security footage released from inside Uvalde, Texas, school confirms police ran away from gunfire, loitered in hallway
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/0 ... i-j13.html