“I have a Masters’s degree! We all have advanced degrees! What have parents got? Are we vetting the background of parents?” the teacher says at the school board meeting. Senate hearing was discussing a proposed bill that would ban books that are “lewd or sexual, promote gender fluidity or gender pronouns or groom children into normalizing pedophilia.”
An Arizona teacher spoke out against a proposed bill for schools to bar books discussing sexuality and LGBTQ ideology, claiming parents have no right to decide what their children learn.
In an example that perfectly illustrates the entitled mentality of the radical left, a woke Arizona teacher during a Senate Education Committee hearing last week claimed only she and others with “advanced degrees” were qualified to indoctrinate children about sexuality.
“I have a Master’s degree because when I got certified, I was told I had to have a Master’s degree to be an Arizona-certified teacher. We all have advanced degrees! What do the parents have? Are we vetting the background of our parents?” the teacher said.
“Are we allowing the parents to choose the curriculum and the books that our children are going to read? I think that it’s a mistake, and I’m just speaking from the heart.”
The educator then recited a quote, “‘We must remember that the purpose of public education is not to teach only what parents want their children to be taught, it is to teach them what society needs them to be taught.’”
In other words, reading, writing and arithmetic, the subjects parents overwhelmingly want their children to learn, is taking a backseat to what “society” wants to indoctrinate them with.
This may explain why reading, writing, and math scores have been plummeting in the U.S. over the last several years.
The proposed bill, called S.B. 1700, would require the Arizona Board of Education to “maintain a list of books that public educational institutions may not use or make available to students, including books that are lewd or sexual, promote gender fluidity or gender pronouns or groom children into normalizing pedophilia.”
The philosophy that children don’t belong to parents is a key feature of the modern Democrat Party.
Pushing back against parents angry by CRT and LGBTQ material being taught in class, Joe Biden proclaimed last year that children belong to teachers when “they’re in the classroom.”
“They’re all our children. And the reason you’re the teacher of the year is that you recognize that. They’re not somebody else’s children. They’re like yours when they’re in the classroom,” he said.
