https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/sc...cna1284185
"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."
One persons opinion that had not gone public due to being unpopular. Now losing the political edge on this topic they've gone public.
Wait, Terry McAuliffe went public with his personal and previously closely held thought. So that's two people.
I've been both licensed and certified for close to a decade. It means little. No one should know more about their child than the parent. And in reality that's true.
Teachers too have personal opinions, ideologies and biases. But as in this piece and from the mouth of McAuliffe unions, teachers and administrators are superior. Why? Pride, power and money.
I will admit from observing the last 40+ years that too many parents were in absentia. It had little to do with education and more with their own priorities like wealth accumulation. With Covid the latter was paused and the former was placed front and center with a dramatic shift in roles. It was a needed wake up call in my opinion.
But really the point here is who should and does generally know best? And in those 40+ years of a growing absence it's clear who filled that void with their own opinions, ideologies and bias. And they don't want to let your child go. Or at least their candidates, union bosses and mainstream media pundits.
