The high school course was not “Logic and Semiotics in Western Culture” — or “Eastern.” It was not “Memes for Momes.” Or even “Cartoons from Cave Walls to Bathroom Stalls.”
It was “A History of Ethnic and Gender Studies.”
Do we dare ask what’s in it?
Doesn’t matter. Because we’re not allowed to see what’s in it.
“Michigan parents can’t request some school curricula under public record acts after the Michigan Supreme Court chose not to hear an appeal from a lower court,” explains the Michigan Capitol Confidential.
“On Sept. 25, the state’s top court denied an appeal filed by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy on behalf of a Rochester parent who requested the curriculum for a class held in the Rochester Public Schools district.” Using the “the state’s Freedom of Information Act, Carol Beth Litkouhi in 2022 sought course materials” for the class mentioned above. “Rochester Public Schools refused. The district argued that the law did not require it to provide records held by teachers.”
And so far — and barring a revision of state law — the public schools have won.
Not a happy story, but even more than bad news for Michigan parents and (by extension) their children (the students in public schools), it demonstrates a mindset we’ve encountered before, and not confined to one school district or one state.
According to educators in public service, they have a right to teach your kids and not tell you what they are doing.
They are committed to doing this.
They are indoctrinators and not on your side.
They must be stopped. Politically.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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