Arizona teacher says 'it's a mistake' to let parents vet books
An Arizona teacher has gone viral after she told a state education board that allowing parents to make decisions about what their children are taught is a “mistake.”
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An Arizona teacher has gone viral after she told a state education board that allowing parents to make decisions about what their children are taught is a “mistake.”
An Arizona teacher who said the "quiet part" out loud in a legislative committee hearing recently may wish she had kept her "advanced degree" thoughts to herself.
Parents aren’t qualified to determine what their children should, and shouldn’t, be taught, an Arizona teacher claimed last week, objecting to a parental rights bill under consideration in her state.
The Arizona Senate Education Committee has approved a bill that would give parents the ability to review books coming to school libraries. The measure, which has already passed the House of Representatives, allows parents to review the books for at least 60 days before the district buys them and raise any concerns to the governing board. While bill sponsor Beverly Pingerelli
Schools would be required to publicly post every new book bought for their libraries, have elected governing board members approve all new book purchases and...