AH YES, THE LOGIC THAT BUILT WESTERN CIVILIZATION: “Teacher tells parents to back off – because they wouldn’t dare tell a SURGEON what to do.”

A former Michigan teacher is the latest to not get the warning signs from November 2: She tells parents to clam up about what their children are taught in school because they wouldn’t dare tell a surgeon what to do regarding their kids.

 

“Part of the problem is that parents think they have the right to control teaching and learning because their children are the ones being educated,” Wyman writes. “But it actually (gasp!) doesn’t work that way. It’s sort of like entering a surgical unit thinking you can interfere with an operation simply because the patient is your child.”

 

Wyman further compares teachers to medical professionals by saying that “teaching, too, is a science.” (This isn’t surprising; she highlights in her piece she has PhD, and her Twitter handle — like Jill Biden’s! — includes “Dr.”) “Unless they’re licensed and certified,” Wyman says, “parents aren’t qualified to make decisions about curricula.”

 

Parents might, after all, “attempt to influence curricula with their personal opinions, ideologies and biases.” (We know teachers would never do such a thing.)

 

STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES. I’m sorry, precious, but courses in “Bulletin-Board Design” are not legitimate academic courses: “Schools face parents who want to ban critical race theory — and don’t get how teaching works: An educator’s top goal is to teach students to think. Parents who dictate curricula with their personal opinions, ideologies and biases hinder that goal.”

Part of the problem is that parents think they have the right to control teaching and learning because their children are the ones being educated. But it actually (gasp!) doesn’t work that way. It’s sort of like entering a surgical unit thinking you can interfere with an operation simply because the patient is your child.

 

Teaching, too, is a science. Unless they’re licensed and certified, parents aren’t qualified to make decisions about curricula. In fact, parental interference can actually hinder student advancement. An educator’s primary goal is to teach students to think. Parents who attempt to influence curricula with their personal opinions, ideologies and biases hinder that goal. . . .

 

[T]he ceaseless effort of parents and politicians to shape curricula by targeting book selection, the type of history taught in classrooms and even specific terms used in classrooms should be ignored. These distractions are nothing more than theater, and school boards and administrators should be protecting their teachers — and students — from it rather than bowing to it.

 

GOOD: “NBC News hammered for piece declaring parents aren’t qualified to make decisions about school curricula.”

NBC News was hammered on Thursday for publishing an opinion piece that declared that parents aren’t qualified to make decisions about school curricula for their children.

 

The column, “Schools face parents who want to ban critical race theory — and don’t get how teaching works,” written by author Christina Wyman was swiftly roasted on social media. . . .

 

Wyman, who spent some time discussing her own schooling and Ph.D. in curriculum, painted parents as underqualified to chime in unless they have achieved the same level of education that is required of most teachers.

Wyman then compared parents wanting to have a say in what their children learn to someone barging into an operating room during surgery on their child.

 

“Teaching, too, is a science. Unless they’re licensed and certified, parents aren’t qualified to make decisions about curricula. In fact, parental interference can actually hinder student advancement,” Wyman wrote. “An educator’s primary goal is to teach students to think. Parents who attempt to influence curricula with their personal opinions, ideologies and biases hinder that goal.”