“It’s ultimately going to put more pressure on teachers to put all this information out publicly when your lessons plans can change very quickly and dynamically,” said Jayrod Garrett, a teacher at DaVinci Academy in Ogden.
He said he’s confused why parents want to be involved with curriculum materials when many don’t show up to or engage with parent-teacher conferences, where educators are happy to share what they’re teaching. But now, he said, it feels like they want to jump in and tell teachers what they can or can’t do.
Cooper questioned lawmakers’ motives: “What are you willing to do to help our teachers instead of finding ways to make their jobs harder?”, urged the committee to recognize the burdens teachers are already facing with the pandemic and not add more unnecessary requirements. One mom added that if parents are that worried about what their kids are learning, they should home-school.
These representatives are out of control. If I were still teaching I would be looking elsewhere, out of this state, to continue my career as a teacher. Where do these ideas come from?
This will never be able to be accomplished. Most teachers barely have a weeks worth of lesson plans completed due to over sized classrooms and enough preparation hours. Way to set them up for failure!
Maybe these folks should volunteer in the classroom if they want to know what is taught. Or maybe just ask the teacher directly?
Why anyone, other than RW fascists and religious zealots, would want to teach in Utah is beyond me. And that's the target teacher profile these measures are aimed at promoting.
I wish they would put effort into what they teach children of color, in these classrooms because those lessons on slavery was embarrassing, humiliating and shook my confidence.
Why do you ask what I'm teaching 'My kids?'
Of course there is strong support from the 3%er parents. Who do you think helped right these measures or are themselves in the Utah legislature? utpol utleg
This is straight-up intellectual terrorism utpol
Of course this is result. Does anyone really think the result would be any different?
If parents are that concerned send them to Private School or become a teacher yourself. If you keep up the nonsense you will be homeschooling your kids because e won’t have any teachers left. These are professional people.
This has Utah Parents United written all over it. That organization is dangerous and corrupt as hell
Teachers should just prepare and go on strike for as long as it takes to shake those ‘know it all parents’ off their back for good. If they want to dictate what their kids learn, put them in a private school or home school them. Public education can’t be tailor- made!
Remember. These are the same parents that fight against remote learning cause they just want time alone during the school year. If ya don’t like it, home school. Otherwise trust a system that has worked and grown kids for fucking ever. fizzsoda lazy
Why are teachers afraid of a little transparency?
Todays parents are soft and can’t handle a diverse world
Why are the only people whose wishes get granted these days ' conservative parent groups' - when most parents do not belong to these groups nor do they support the bullshit that they spew?
What are these parents afraid of? Teachers have enough on their plate, parents don’t need to add more. Are any of this group of parents substitutes?
Where is Parents United when the schools need substitute teachers?
There needs to be an addition to this bill that any parent that comes to a teacher and complains about the curriculum without bothering to go online and see what the curriculum is, owes that teacher $1,000 for wasting their time and loses any right to complain about curriculums.