but a lot of the teachers are fine with the changes.
In your “not undermined free speech”, what stops a teacher from simply teaching that the blacks were lucky and should have been happy to be slaves? or would you enforce a certain “factual viewpoint”, and by your own argument, undermining free speech? after all, it is “their truth”.
No, we put limits on free speech all the time for a lot of good reasons, we don’t let people call themselves doctors without the qualification, nor police, we don’t let people sell you paint stripper and call it milk, etc, etc, etc…
I hear your point about limiting people’s free speech in a narrow band, like misrepresenting themselves as doctors. And I’ll admit my argument breaks down a little here because I do believe teachers should generally have to follow an approved plan. My overall point here is that Republicans are weaponizing any exception to the rule of free speech. So we should be very careful about how we use it. That’s the whole point of free speech. No one can be trusted to be the referee.
With free speech there’s millions of ideas out there and most of them are shit, it’s very difficult to find the good ones. And that sucks. I hear you. But without free speech we get to have one idea and you don’t get to pick what it is. If that doesn’t scare you I don’t know what would.
If teachers are allowed free speech, you’re right, some might teach kids slavery was beneficial. But without free speech, teachers are being FORCED to teach that slavery was beneficial. You see how that’s worse right?
and? it used to be the other way around with the teachers, now it’s just in the racist disinformation direction. It used to be that many teachers also complained that they were forced to teach “woke propaganda”
by your logic, any teacher that believes the POC/LGBTQ are trying to destroy America should be able to instill that into their students. And yes, often times you don’t get to pick the truth, you don’t get to pretend that the holocaust was a Jewish plot to try and destroy the white man, you don’t get to call for lynching that N***** because he kissed a white lady, and you don’t get to advocate for dragging gays down the street via rope from a car.
As for weaponizing any exception to the rule of free speech. have you been asleep for the last 50 years? Republicans are across the board the most anti-free peach group in America, only allowing its existence in so far as it serves their hate filled ideology, they don’t weaponize restrictions on free speech, they bitch and moan if they literally can’t call for the holocaust 2 electric boogaloo.
As for the “No one can be trusted to be the referee”. that is bullshit. somehow, most of the rest of the 1st world manages to do just fine, But i guess this is just another one of those unavoidable things that strangely only happens in the USA.