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How Much Of A Role Should Parents Have In Deciding Public School Curricula?

How much of a role should parents have in deciding public school curricula?

  • A major role

  • moderate role

  • minor role

  • No role whatsoever

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How much of a role should parents have in deciding public school curricula?

Major role
Moderate role
Minor role
No role whatsoever

Responses are private, so please be honest.
 
Depends on the education of the people wanting input, imo.
 
SkyChief said:
How much of a role should parents have in deciding public school curricula?

Major role
Moderate role
Minor role
No role whatsoever

Responses are private, so please be honest.
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If the parent in question has an education get their input. These guns and jeezuz book banning types need to sit and and shut up.
 
SkyChief said:
How much of a role should parents have in deciding public school curricula?

Major role
Moderate role
Minor role
No role whatsoever

Responses are private, so please be honest.
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well youd have to be more specific because its a multifaced answer
i voted in the poll minor but again thats not always true

schools are accredited and there is a standard of education that must be kept period for society. That part of the curriculum the parents get little to no say in. Math, science, history, health, civics and English really doesnt bend to the feelings of students and or parents.

now outside of required classes for electives, they get a major role but that varies from school to school of course . . . . those classes are electives for a reason

any parent who doesnt like that is free to home school and or private school and risk an education that is nonaccredited
 
A minor role.

Parents should retain the ability to opt their child out of individuals lessons, activities, etc

Public school boards should make materials available for parents to review - if for example they are choosing between a few options for curriculum (publication A, B or C for example)…and if there is a particular choice that the parents favor, that should be the choice given most consideration.

If there is room to expand a curriculum and add additional topics, etc - parents should be made aware and input asked (there is room in the budget to add music or a foreign language for example)
 
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SkyChief said:
How much of a role should parents have in deciding public school curricula?

Major role
Moderate role
Minor role
No role whatsoever

Responses are private, so please be honest.
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?????? They already have a major role. They elect, directly, the board that decides this. If not, then we also elect the state representatives that decide it all..............
 
A minor role.
Should parents have A voice? Yes but they are not trained educators and should not be the deciding factor.
 
tshade said:
?????? They already have a major role. They elect, directly, the board that decides this. If not, then we also elect the state representatives that decide it all..............
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A Major role means that parents may attend school board meetings and demand that a specific curriculum (or material) be discontinued.

For example, In Dearborn Michigan, children are exposed to sexually explicit materials - namely The Ins And Outs Of Gay Sex.

other smut books include:

• “Push” by Sapphire;
• “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold;
• “Eleanor and Park” by Rainbow Rowell;
• “Red, White and Royal Blue” by Casey McQuiston;
• “All Boys Aren’t Blue” by George M. Johnson;
• “This Book is Gay” by Juno Dawson.

These types of materials are inappropriate for school children. If parents had a major role in the curricula, they could force the Public School to discontinue offering these sexually explicit materials to the children.

If parents have no role whatsoever, then they just need to accept whatever the school board rams down their kids' throats (pun intended).

source: https://www.clickondetroit.com/news...orn-to-discuss-6-books-that-are-under-review/
 
SkyChief said:
A Major role means that parents may attend school board meetings and demand that a specific curriculum be discontinued.

For example, In Dearborn Michigan, children are exposed to sexually explicit materials - namely The Ins And Outs Of Gay Sex.

other books include

“Push” by Sapphire;
“The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold;
“Eleanor and Park” by Rainbow Rowell;
“Red, White and Royal Blue” by Casey McQuiston;
“All Boys Aren’t Blue” by George M. Johnson; and
“This Book is Gay” by Juno Dawson.

These types of materials are inappropriate for school children. If parents had a major role in the curricula, they could force the Public School to discontinue offering these sexually explicit materials to the children.

If parents have no role whatsoever, then they just need to accept whatever the school board rams down their throat (pun intended).
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Banning books is the worst thing a school can do. Parents push this because they don't trust their own kids. They are the last people who should be influencing education.
 
Form, function and layout are the wheelhouse for the parent but determining criteria for what qualifies as education is the domain of the very people who devote their lives to their field of expertise, otherwise we are not educating at all, we are conditioning, indoctrinating and acting as gatekeepers positioned against the growth of the mind.

Sorry but it is the educators who hold the dominant and superior role in a public school system.
Want something apart from this? It's your money, you pay for private school.
And yes, you still must pay taxes to support public school because generational ignorance is the death sentence for society and civilization itself.
 
SkyChief said:
• “Push” by Sapphire;
• “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold;
• “Eleanor and Park” by Rainbow Rowell;
• “Red, White and Royal Blue” by Casey McQuiston;
• “All Boys Aren’t Blue” by George M. Johnson;
• “This Book is Gay” by Juno Dawson.
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You've read these books?
Tell us the KEY passage that led to “The Lovely Bones” being banned, please.
 
A moderate role.

If multiple school options are available, parents can choose which school the kids go to.

They should have a minor say in accreditation standards or graduation criteria and classes that adhere to those standards.

A stronger say in classes that do not fall within accreditation criteria, such a certain electives.

A large say in noneducational activities such as sports, band, and glee club.
 
SkyChief said:
A Major role means that parents may attend school board meetings and demand that a specific curriculum (or material) be discontinued.

For example, In Dearborn Michigan, children are exposed to sexually explicit materials - namely The Ins And Outs Of Gay Sex.

other smut books include:

• “Push” by Sapphire;
• “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold;
• “Eleanor and Park” by Rainbow Rowell;
• “Red, White and Royal Blue” by Casey McQuiston;
• “All Boys Aren’t Blue” by George M. Johnson;
• “This Book is Gay” by Juno Dawson.

These types of materials are inappropriate for school children. If parents had a major role in the curricula, they could force the Public School to discontinue offering these sexually explicit materials to the children.

If parents have no role whatsoever, then they just need to accept whatever the school board rams down their kids' throats (pun intended).

source: https://www.clickondetroit.com/news...orn-to-discuss-6-books-that-are-under-review/
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The board is elected as reps to the local people, and I am reluctant to take away too much of their decision-making power once put on the board. It becomes chaos. Too many wacky people out there who get loud and tend to control the rest--------------think: Trump rallies.....

I agree that some of those books are a little too much, perhaps,. but.........
 
tshade said:
The board is elected as reps to the local people, and I am reluctant to take away too much of their decision-making power once put on the board. It becomes chaos. Too many wacky people out there who get loud and tend to control the rest--------------think: Trump rallies.....

I agree that some of those books are a little too much, perhaps,. but.........parents need to be parents too
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Manc Skipper said:
It's not to comply with the whims and strange beliefs of parents, it's to educate kids.
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How is it that adults are too incompetent to educate their own kids, yet these same adults are eminently qualified to vote in elections? Letting them vote would be far worse for society, since they would be imposing their "whims and strange beliefs" on other people by force.
 
SkyChief said:
A Major role means that parents may attend school board meetings and demand that a specific curriculum (or material) be discontinued.

For example, In Dearborn Michigan, children are exposed to sexually explicit materials - namely The Ins And Outs Of Gay Sex.

other smut books include:

• “Push” by Sapphire;
• “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold;
• “Eleanor and Park” by Rainbow Rowell;
• “Red, White and Royal Blue” by Casey McQuiston;
• “All Boys Aren’t Blue” by George M. Johnson;
• “This Book is Gay” by Juno Dawson.

These types of materials are inappropriate for school children. If parents had a major role in the curricula, they could force the Public School to discontinue offering these sexually explicit materials to the children.

If parents have no role whatsoever, then they just need to accept whatever the school board rams down their kids' throats (pun intended).

source: https://www.clickondetroit.com/news...orn-to-discuss-6-books-that-are-under-review/
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Since when are library books, which students are free to check out and read or not, considered part of the "curriculum"?
 
aociswundumho said:
How is it that adults are too incompetent to educate their own kids, yet these same adults are eminently qualified to vote in elections? Letting them vote would be far worse for society, since they would be imposing their "whims and strange beliefs" on other people by force.
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A lot of parents can barely do 7th grade math, I don’t want those morons to determine the math curriculum.

Heck I believe a lot of people are too stupid to make intelligent choices when voting
 
Lord Tammerlain said:
A lot of parents can barely do 7th grade math, I don’t want those morons to determine the math curriculum.
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Thanks to government-run schools.
Lord Tammerlain said:
Heck I believe a lot of people are too stupid to make intelligent choices when voting
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Yes, like voting to have the state educate their kids after the state system failed to educate them.
 
aociswundumho said:
Thanks to government-run schools.


Yes, like voting to have the state educate their kids after the state system failed to educate them.
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Without state schools 70 % of the American population would not get past the equivalent of grade 4
 
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