Maine Educators Attack Bill to Prohibit Political Advocacy - tack Bill to Prohibit Political Advocacy in Public Posted: Feb 20th, 2019 - 7:41 am In Reply to: Radically Transforming the Nation: Our Politicized Schools - of Education
Teacher claims: "This institutionalizes "white fragility".
A code of ethics for public school teachers that was recently introduced in the Maine Legislature is making headlines, and will serve as an important test-case for efforts to prohibit indoctrination in our nation’s schools. But local educators are responding with hysteria to this commonsense education reform proposal, even as its legislative sponsor responds with calm and logic.
The bill, LD-589, was introduced by Rep. Larry Lockman and co-sponsored by several of his colleagues in the state legislature. It establishes a code of ethics for professional conduct that must be observed by public school teachers in the state and prohibits teachers “from engaging in political, ideological, or religious advocacy in the classroom.”
Specific provisions of the bill prohibit public school teachers from acting during class time or in their role as publicly employed educators to endorse or oppose elected officials and candidates and from “introducing any controversial subject matter that is not germane to the topic of the course being taught.”
The bill does not restrict teachers from bring up contentious topics that are relevant to academic discussion, but forbids teachers from “advocat[ing] in a partisan manner for any side of a controversial issue” and requires that teachers “provide students with materials supporting both sides of a controversial issue being addressed and to present both sides in a fair-minded, nonpartisan manner.”
The bill also outlaws “segregating students according to race or singling out one racial group of students as responsible for the suffering or inequities experienced by another racial group of students”—a tactic often used by educators who attempt to institute their vision of “social justice” by excoriating Caucasian students for their “white privilege.”
Teachers who fail to abide by these rules would face disciplinary action, including possible termination.
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