Lisa Benson for September 05, 2023

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One parent has the right to impose his or her narrow views on whole school boards.

The left has no idea what they’re talking about.

They have no idea about the book Gender Queer and the illustrated child por nography in it.

But they have super charged, steroid infused, Dunning-Kruger confidence that they’re correct.

It’s mind-blowing

I wonder who Lisa believes elect school boards?

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Trump Disciple analysis skills.

It’s not just one parent

Calling yourself a Mama Bear doesn’t make your bigotry and censorship any more palatable.

There are other choices if you don’t like the current policies and want to micromanage without having to deal with all of the tedium of operating a school system:

Next election

Recalls

Petitions

Studies

Another school system

Private schooling

Home schooling

Add yours here_________________________

FORCING OTHERS TO ACCEPT WHAT YOU WANT BY YELLING AND THREATENING IS NOT AN ALTERNATIVE.

Students have the right to learn about the good, bad and ugly history of this great world… and yes be exposed to more than their family’s prejudices…

I was raised by a father who was an extreme racist. I was around 8 years old when I realized that he was talking BS. Where did I learn this? The public school system.

Teachers have always wanted parents involved with the teaching of their children. Also keep in mind teachers are professionals and do not need naive people with odd ideas telling them how to teach.

Moms For Liberty, Moms for America, et al — despite their names — represent only the authoritarian radical far right … NOT all parents, concerned about the quality of education for their children.

OTOH a little parental responsibility for the behavior of said children in the classroom would go a long way.

If someone accuses you of wearing a tinfoil hat, remind them it’s better than wearing a blindfold.

You don’t have a parental right to deny other parents their parental right to have their children receive a proper education free from racism, bigotry, and other religious ideologies.

Homeschooling solves this problem.

You send your kid to our piblic school you agree to follow our rules. If you don’t like it, homeschool your kid.

Every parent in the school has their own opinion about what should be taught. No way you can please all of them. What school systems try to do (in spite of interference) is to present proven facts. Like the line from the movie, some parents “can’t handle the truth”

Says the woman that never lets the facts interfere with her cartoons.

Re: “Moms For Liberty”

ANY GROUP with “For Liberty” in their name is AGAINST LIBERTY!!!

Parents have the right to bring up their children in way that will make them ignorant, tin hat wearing, conspiracy believing, sheep!

If you don’t like the school, take your far-right fundamentalist narrow-mindedness to a private school. I’ll help pay the tuition, just to keep your Taliban views away from normal people.

Ah yes; parental rights. Parents have the right to decide what their children are learning. But if the parent wants to help their own kid transition to another gender, then the government must step in and take those rights away and make those decisions on its own.

The hypocrisy is staggering.

Now stand up Mr. Government and right that on the board fifty times!

Some liberty- Mothers for Fascism and Racism!

Parental threats are not free speech.

Translation: A well-organized group of bullying bigots have more rights than everyone else.

Rip his head off, Mama!

But never “parental responsibilities begin at home”.

Darn right. Give our kids the chance to be as smart as MTG, Lauren Boebert, Jim Jordan, and the rest of the Republican Brain Trust.

Probably sick of all the liberals on school boards

So if a majority of “woke” parents show up at a meeting demanding CRT/1619 Project be taught in 4th grade then so be it, majority rules? If a 7th grader’s parents approve of his shoulder length green hair then the school should also approve?

I’m a parent and a Christian, and I don’t want public schools teaching my kids religion.

And I ESPECIALLY don’t want them taught the twisted, hateful form of “Christianity” that “Moms for Liberty” represents, which couldn’t be further from the teachings of Jesus if they were TRYING to be.

Hey, Lisa! OTHER parents have rights, too. Not just the filthy hate-mongers that you follow, and who want to indoctrinate our children with hate.

The female terrorist equivalent of Proud Boys. People should have to read books before they ban them.

The Minivan Taliban.

No, but parent’s rights do not supercede the rights of children or teachers or the interests of the State and the community at large.

Have they ever heard of home schooling, or do they just want to be the school czar?

The question I have is where do parent responsibilities come into play? The Right always seems to forget that part of the equation. Maybe that’s why they are the Right? Only rights and no responsibilities.

Those who prevent history from being taught intend to repeat it.

If my political party suddenly attracted racists, n*zis and bigots, I would be checking my values.

Hey Mama Bear, don’t forget the Hitler slogan! That’ll convince them.

The parent’s job doesn’t end as soon as they can drop off their kids.

There are too many tin-pot dictators in the school systems who’ve been indoctrinated out of common sense by liberal elitists in higher ed. A lot of whom have spent their entire working lives in front of or at the lectern with zero, ziltch, nada, no experience in the workaday world. They are cut from the same cloth as AOC — no sense but prepared to lecture us on how to live our lives.

Must have missed “Ruby Bridges” but I did watch “Ruby Ridge” re FBI standoff with a family with off-grid parents. Was that it?

Pink or green haired freaks indoctrinating: CRT, “gay is BETTER” [using gay porn instruction books, and sharing their personal gay life,] and “Trans is good” “It doesn’t matter what you were born as, you can be the opposite if you WANT to.”ALL BS! That’s what parents are objecting to! Kids should be kids! They need to learn to reading, writing, and arithmetic. [They naturally make friends, regardless of skin color, UNLESS their minds are poisoned by CRT BS!]

Students in the United States have fallen drastically behind grade level expectations – – a consequence of the pandemic when students were stuck at home. Apparently attending school is a pretty good thing. Apparently staying at home – –where parents know best – – has consequences.

Parents have a right to have input, however people with a myopic world view should not be able to dumb down the whole system to support their less than ideal, ideals.

Creation is not a science, it’s a fairy tale story that has no place in children’s education.

Public school money should only go to public schools, not private and religious schools. School vouchers shouldn’t pay for trips to amusement parks, home 65" TV’s, X boxes, and such. The religious wrong are really good at stealing tax money for their own personal enrichment. While, at the same time complaining about people on welfare who are using the money for their survival.

yes indeed as it should be

‘Friday Night Lights’ author ‘raised a ruckus’ to get his book unbanned from Iowa school

For many, “Friday Night Lights” is a beloved sports journalism classic dealing with the struggles and triumphs of a high school football team in a small Texas town.Others, however, apparently think the book is worthy of being banned from school libraries.

As a parent, you have rights…until you try to change the curriculum for ALL the students because of your puritanical, superstitious beliefs. You don’t like it? Home school, and screw up your own progeny.

In history the people who want to ban books are never the good guys.

It’s a shield, not a sword folks. It’s not your right to deny other people theirs.

Parental Rights also do not end at the doctors door…

Parents have to hold school boards accountable.

So-called “parental rights” do end when they violate the Constitution… e.g., the First Amendment.

What are you going to do when your kids eventually find out that reality has a liberal skew? What are they going to think of you for lying to them to ‘protect’ them from life?

She’s got a point, and here’s a suggestion: We should set up a system of public schools which are free for children to attend and where parents and other community members can express their wishes by voting for school board members, attending board meetings and voting to approve budgets.

And those who disagree with the majority in this democracy of ours would have the right to either send their children to private schools that meet their standards, or to home school them.

That’s how parental rights work in a free society.

Stolen from The Daily Cartoonist.

How does banning books work with the parent’s right to decide whether their child will read a particular book or not? Also, aren’t these the same people who want to take away a parent’s right as to whethr their child gets gender-affirming care?

This is about the book banning frenzy. Idiot parents unable to communicate with their children. Respect your children and explain why you don’t wan them to prepare for adult life. Be a parent your child is not afraid to confide in. You cannot ban ideas, they will always be out there. Maybe it’s best that your child feels safe exploring them with you through a book, instead of making them “forbidden fruit” which they will eventually explore anyway if they have any gumption or curiosity, but will explore these tantalizing ideas with anyone BUT you.

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio sentenced to 22 years, including “terrorism enhancement”

A parent has the right to express his or her concerns at any school board. The taxes or tuition they pay, and the child they are responsible for raising, and free speech, gives them the right.

Good one Lisa. Don’t mess with mama bear.

And just because you scream the loudest, doesn’t mean you’re right. Too many ignorant people are trying to influence the teachings of others.

Save your time and effort, Mrs. Bear. There’s no stick large enough to bang any sense into that head.

Those book banners don’t want to keep their kids from reading things. They want to keep YOUR kids from reading things.

It’s parental responsibility that shouldn’t end when they drop off their kids at school as though it is their babysitter.

Yes the do. Their are ways we parents to control what their children are taught and it involves going to a private school or being home schooled. The state provides a free education but that is biased entirely on the state’s vested interest in ensuring that its future citizens are well educated and knowledgeable in the topics they will encounter as adults so as to be productive members of society. this involves an education only includes facts and science. Their is a large body of case law upholding this concept. The idea that parents have “rights” snort in the class room was started recently by unhinged evangelical conservative fascist republicans as part of their culture wars. But we all know you are one of those unhinged republican fascists Lisa so no one is surprised that you are spewing this complete nonsense.

No, they don’t end there. But they change there. Don’t like it? Take your kid out of school.

So when do Teachers’ rights kick in? Violent, disrespectful children are taken to the office or another room, given candy or a toy, and told to be nice. Then they’re dumped back into the classroom to do it all over again. “What gets rewarded gets repeated.” And when the parents are forced to face the fact that their kid’s a terror, it’s never their fault for raising the kid poorly or not at all, heaven forbid! It’s always the teacher’s fault. So I’ll ask again, when do teachers’ right kick in? When will there be some parental accountability for their kid’s actions???

Grin & Bear It; Parents are against the GROOMING of kids by pedos via indoctrinated libs.

Those who are for the blatant directive to “not tell your parents” are paving the way for a society of young sex slaves. It’s what we call you and how you dress for now, to the eventual sexual rights for underage children, aka, the pedo wish list for enablement.

Talk to the adults who listened to their pastors, priests, teachers and scout leaders who sexually abused them before you get on your high woke, pronoun-ed correct horse.

Leave the kids alone.

You are the best Lisa.