I have just come up with a plan to retire comfortably for the rest of my life. I will buy up all of the country’s teacher’s unions for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth. And if Elon Musk ever decides to buy Nevada, I could loan him enough to put the deal over. In New Jersey, a state I once had the misfortune of living in, they have taken idiocy to a whole new level.
The NJ Teacher’s Union is complaining because parents show up for school board meetings, complaining about the filth they stock in the school’s libraries. Any responsible parent should want to keep groomers out of their daughter’s bloomers. Especially if they are concerned for their success in life. What is more important? Knowing how many different pronoun combinations there are or how to calculate anything from the monthly household budget to the exact formulation of profit and loss for your business?
At this point, the ad shows black-and-white photos of parents protesting at school board meetings, with two news headlines: an article from NJ.com entitled “Some NJ schools under siege,” about parents attempting to remove books with explicit sexual and LGBTQ content from school curricula; and another from Patch.com entitled “Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Introduced By NJ State Senator,” about a parents’ rights bill introduced in the state legislature in May. “People who only want to fight to score political points should take that somewhere else,” the ad concludes.
Republican State Senator Ed Durr, who authored the Parents’ Rights bill mentioned in the ad, blasted the NJEA as “out of touch” to the concerns of parents about sexual content in schools.
“Despite what the NJEA says, parents are not extremists for expressing concerns about curriculum mandates or wanting to have a voice in their children’s education,” Durr said in a statement Tuesday. “It’s another example of the NJEA being out of touch with parents and totally tone deaf to their concerns that sensitive topics such as sex education and gender identity are not appropriate for young kids. Frankly, the NJEA is taking an extreme position by attacking parents instead of listening to them.”
Schools do not exist for the teachers. They exist for the students. You can no longer convince me that teachers are underpaid. Just the opposite.
