Things are getting so bad for the neo-commie cause that woke teachers are now having to listen to parents and local governing authorities like everyone else.
The mainstream media could not be more upset.
The headline frames this as parents vs. teachers, with teachers being the clear good guys and parents being ignorant redneck rubes.
Because of course!
I won't even offer commentary on the article. I'll simply celebrate that the pushback against woke is slowly working.
Teachers are changing their lessons amid increasing scrutiny from parents and a raft of state laws and school policies that circumscribe lessons on race and gender, according to one of the first nationally representative studies of the subject.
A report published by the RAND Corporation on Wednesday found that of a nationally representative sample of 8,000 teachers, one-quarter said they had revised their instructional materials or teaching practices to limit or exclude discussions of race and gender. The report also found that some teachers were more likely than others to alter their lesson plans — including teachers of color, high school teachers and educators in suburban school districts. And the report found that teachers are feeling direct pressure from parents to shift their teaching habits.
Notwithstanding the spate of restrictive laws and policies, "teachers most commonly pointed to parents and families as a source of the limitations they experienced," the report reads.
Teachers are having to respond to the wishes of parents.
Laws limiting instruction on race, racism and history made up 28 percent of the total: 14 such pieces of legislation have passed in at least 18 states, The Post found. Laws circumscribing instruction on gender identity, sexuality and LGBTQ issues accounted for 23 percent of the total, with 15 such laws having passed in eight states, The Post found.
At the same time, individual school districts have begun passing policies restricting education on similar topics; barring books by and about LGTBQ individuals and people of color; and increasing parental and administrative oversight of the titles chosen for school libraries.
Meanwhile, U.S. adults are losing their confidence in the public school system. A Gallup poll this month found that Americans' belief in grade-school teachers' honesty had dropped to an all-time low of 64 percent, while a July poll found that just 28 percent of Americans have substantial confidence in public schools — the second-lowest this number has fallen since Gallup began asking about this topic in 1973.
Man, if we could only get that number even closer to zero! Maybe then we could finally do away with government schools.
Seventy educators who shared open-ended responses wrote that they no longer feel comfortable teaching or speaking about LGBTQ issues.
"They described … feeling greater hesitancy about exposing students to the notion of same-sex marriage and different kinds of family structures," the report states, as well as hanging LGBTQ pride flags or "using instructional content that featured characters" who identify as LGBTQ.
