Re: Have an Opinion? You're Violating the Law!

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On 2/12/2011 9:16 AM, George Conklin/Sociation Today wrote:
And having elected officials give a citizen-supported
study back to hostile staff is an invitation to destroy it. It
is
a
pure
conflict of interest. Elected officials know that they are
frequently lied
to by their own staffs, so when they ignore the advice they
are
given it
is not out of ignorance, but because they know the advice is
political, even
if it has an "engineering" stamp on it. Writing an article
about
mortality
patterns is not doing medicine without a license. Writing
about
traffic
patterns (by whatever label) is not practicing engineering
without
a
license. Predicing the future is not an engineering-only
undertaking.

Imagine if only educators were allowed to analyze and comment on
school
performance.

Maybe it should be -:)

We certainly have a lot of folks who appear to think that they
could
do
better than teachers, even though they have never taught a class.


So parents shouldn't have input into the education of their child?

It depends. Are the parents trying to impair the quality of the
education of their child? If they are, their opinion should be
completely ignored. Schools should not avoid teaching facts that
children need to learn just because their parents want them to
remain
ignorant about it.


Bullsh*t!!!!!!!!!!

If I want to teach my child the world is flat I should have that
right.

Why?


Because if it is what I believe and I want my child to believe it that
is
my
right as an American parent. Because schools should respect the right
of
the parent to have the child educated with information consistent with
their
parental values and beliefs, not undermining them.

Why should they support the falsehoods that the parents teach? I agree
that parents generally have the right to teach anything they want to
their kids as long as it doesn't cause harm to the kids, but I don't
believe that the parents have the right to force schools to join with
them in their conspiracy against knowledge. False beliefs need to be
undermined. Ignorance needs to be destroyed.

Okay what about parents that don't believe in the Pledge of Allegience?

What knowledge is contained in that pledge?

Irrelevant. You said schools schould wipe out ignorance. If a parent
doesn't want to respect the pledge is that being ignorant? Parents can
object to the pledge as something they don't believe being thrust upon their
children.



Or the Constitution?

They have no right to expect their children to be protected from
knowledge about it.

Why not? Are you saying parents don't have the right to decide their own
method of parenting? Who are you to make that decision?

Or parents that believe their child should have the
opportunity for silent meditation (not prayer) during classes.

Again, this has nothing to do with teaching accurate information about
the world.

The whole conversation has nothing to do with teaching accurate information
about the world. It has to do with who decides what is taught in
classrooms. School boards and educators are not the final word on knowledge
and beliefs.



What about
Muslim parents that believe their child should be allowed to pray to Mecca
if the school is run by athiests?

What about them? Giving the child the opportunity to pray is not the
same as expecting the teachers to lead them in prayer.

But if someone doesn' believe in a deity they would consider praying tone
ignorant. Henace it should not be done to stop the spread of ignorance.


Are they going to say the parents belief
is ignorant and should be wiped out and over ruled?

I was quite specific about what teachers had the right to teach.

No you just said they should stop ignorance. What if a school believed that
everything you wanted taught your child in school was ignorant and shouldn'
be taught? Would you object?

Should those parents beliefs be destroyed by the school and the
government?

This isn't about destroying beliefs. It's about teaching facts.

Who decides what the facts are. Ask Ward Churchill the "facts" about what
happened on 9-11. Ask OSB what the "facts" are ab out 9-11.


Are you now going to judge what is ignorant and what isn't?

It's not that hard.

No it means you have a delusion that what you believe and what you know as
facs are 100% correct for you not to consider another position.


What gives schools and government that ultimate authority?

What gives parents the right to expect teachers to tell students
falsehoods because the parents want falsehoods taught?

Who said anything about falsehoods. What about alternative ways of thinking
and respect for other perspectives?



Again I say BULLSH*T!!!

Abut what? Teaching falsehoods is indefensible.

So is believing that yours is the ony truth.


.

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