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?
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…
There’s a massive amount of teachers that don’t agree and would face legal troubles if they say anything to the contrary
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?