New Hampshire Lawmakers Pass Law Allowing Parental Objections To Curriculum

world-shaker:

So is the Tea Party perspective to let parents object to any factual content they find to be inconvenient? This type of nonsense is ridiculous.

The Tea Party dominated New Hampshire Legislature on Wednesday overrode the governor’s veto to enact a new law allowing parents to object to any part of the school curriculum.

The state House voted 255-112 and Senate 17-5 to enact H.B. 542, which will allow parents to request an alternative school curriculum for any subject to which they register an objection. Gov. John Lynch (D) vetoed the measure in July, saying the bill would harm education quality and give parents control over lesson plans.

“For example, under this bill, parents could object to a teacher’s plan to: teach the history of France or the history of the civil or women’s rights movements,” Lynch wrote in his veto message. “Under this bill, a parent could find ‘objectionable’ how a teacher instructs on the basics of algebra. In each of those cases, the school district would have to develop an alternative educational plan for the student. Even though the law requires the parents to pay the cost of alternative, the school district will still have to bear the burden of helping develop and approve the alternative. Classrooms will be disrupted by students coming and going, and lacking shared knowledge.”

This shit is crazy.

Source: world-shaker

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    I just found this today. This scares me. Why? Because I have my NH license, and work in NH. This could be interesting.
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    I feel this is a fitting response: Tim Wise: “When Ignorance and Bigotry Become Parental ‘Rights’”
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    See, allowing your own ideas/ opinions/ bias/ and ignorance into education will lead to mis-education and ignorance of...
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    I don’t even know what to say…
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    NO. No. No no no no no no nonononononononononononononononono. What. Help, I’m alive. I can’t get the autistic kid being...
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    WHAT. Oh, God. You know what? People fart rainbows and the world is really the flat center of the universe, after all....
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