A Georgia school board voted along party lines Thursday to fire a teacher after officials said she improperly read a book on gender fluidity to her fifth grade class.
A Georgia school board voted along party lines Thursday to fire a teacher after officials said she improperly read a book on gender fluidity to her fifth grade class.
I don’t disagree that progressive ideas tend to be accepted as time goes on and that the “left” tends to be the main driving force behind them. However I also don’t think that the people that are on the left or right are inherently different. They believe different things and act on those beliefs, but underneath that there’s a common biological limitation of being human with a human brain. And I don’t think that we humans are as smart as we think. So, even the good side needs to have a limit on its power. Every government thinks they are the good guys. Because of that I fundamentally oppose creating systems where power is centralized in “the few”.
That’s the crux of it though. Public education and the standards of it are by default driven by a consensus on truth and rational. What’s perceived as truth can change over time as people learn amd society accepts new norms, but by the fact that these things are at least obstensibly deemed by the majority of credible bodies to be true, that by definition doesn’t make it power centralized in the few. The outliers that reject the standards are the few in this case and are welcome to voice their opinions through whatever reasonable means they wish, but are not permitted to deny the existance of or silence the generally accepted norm.