John Deering for May 18, 2023

You forgot the turtles holding it all up.

Mr. Deering, we know LEARNS act is just the opposite.

What an asinine cartoon.

The dumbing down of education is increasing. In red states, the rate is exponential.

The GQP does not want educated voters.

From “drbee” [in case of thread deletion] Unfortunately, it’s coming all too true in some areas. One ‘offended’ parent can be enough to see a teacher fired, or doxed and driven to quit, while any forms of Questions-and-wide-ranging-discussions are often Explicitly forbidden. Condemning one’s children to live in the same ignorance the parent is comfortable with, even tho the beliefs held often may be untrue- is in my view child abuse of the most repugnant sort. And demanding everyone Else’s children be held to one’s personal standards of what or what may not be deemed ‘proper’ is even Worse, bordering on the outright criminal. If a parent wishes to handicap their child in this way- then there is home-schooling, and they can insulate their children from reality as much as the parents wish, until the kids decide to make their own way in the world, and leave the parents- Or Mother Nature steps in and the parents die on them, leaving them totally unprepared to cope with the world into which they will be thrust. That is your ‘privilege’ as their parent. But to demand that all Other children be held in Similar ignorance is a Large step too far.

This business of encouraging people with no actual standing to sue is a dangerous thing. It’s in authoritarian regimes where people are urged to rat each other out. Abortions, school curriculum, drug approvals… And if we go down the road to courts being able to second-guess medical professionals, we’re going to a bad place, where people will die.

Why DO too many on the right think that this dumbing down of our society will allow us to compete with friend or foe world wide? Is the goal to out stupid the Taliban?

One can only hope that principals and teachers are not that spineless.

Ignorance is a core Republican Party value.

Soon, the Flat Earth and The Big Toe Theory. I blame the introduction of The New Math in third grade. Or it might have been my constant day dreaming…

Welcome to Floriduhh…

We know the Earth isn’t flat. If it were, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now.

Every list I’ve seen about books to be “reviewed” state “a parent” or “one parent”. There is going to be one nimrod that you can find that will object to anything, no matter how ridiculous. Why should one parent’s narrow POV be a determining factor?

These policies will produce a glut of Darwin Award Winners in the next generation. It’s ironic that Darwin is something that won’t be taught.

Welcome to the USA.

Welcome to Florida,where the sun sets in the East

“[Womankind and] Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.”― Samuel Johnson

“Either you think—or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.”― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

welcome to Florida, trying to start the fourth Reich

No MAGAt left behind.

I am retiring from teaching this year so that I can stand up and speak out against this way of thinking as loudly and as forcefully as necessary.

Repubs love it

Created flat a mere 6000 years ago

The USA will be the laughing stock of the world if we don’t vote all the Repubs out of office and keep them out. The Republican Party is no different than the Taliban.

The panels are out of order.

Maybe the teacher is close friends with Kyrie Irving…