David Strom:
Teachers are experts not only in their subject fields, but in teaching itself. They know their students. Know what they need to know and how it should be taught. And, just like doctors, we should defer to their expertise. This is one of the more successful lines of attack when schools are criticized—parents don’t know about education, so shut up and let the experts do their work.
The claim on its face is absurd for many reasons, but let’s start with the most obvious: almost all the teachers making these claims are dyed-haired freaky looking millennials who are experts in pretty much nothing at all except claims of oppression. They are obsessed with spouting off poorly understood ideologies, sexualizing children to the point of grooming them, and separating children from their parents.
# posted by Ranger @ 8:25 PM
