Kamallawalla Ding Dong had a busy day on the Sunday morning talk shows, and probably didn't help her cause
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welcome aboard the short bus. Ms Vice President!
Harris frets that teachers can’t openly express their love in classrooms and decries the existence of pregnant women. (And what happened to “persons who can get pregnant?)
Red State’s Bonchie sums it nicely:
Putting aside that she obviously has no idea what the Florida law does (or she’s openly lying about it), Harris’ suggestion that teachers need to be able to “love openly” in classrooms is eye-raising, to say the least. As a parent, the last thing I want their teachers to do is flaunt their sexuality and love “openly” while in the presence of my children. That’s such a weird, disturbing thing for Harris to say, and even then, it may not be the most absurd.
In the second part of her statement, the vice president says that teachers should be able to “teach what they believe is important for people to understand.” Let me disabuse her of that notion with no equivocation. Teachers do not have a right, nor is it proper for them to teach what “they believe.” Rather, it is the place of parents to decide what should be taught in classrooms and what they want their children exposed to. The idea of teachers being autonomous and having some right to freedom of expression while on the job is insane, and there’s a reason there’s been a nationwide backlash to revelations of such.
I’ll point out that the issue of “teaching what they believe” goes far, far beyond sexual matters. In fact, I’m much more disturbed about teachers preaching what they believe about American history, science, and literature. The knowledge and personal beliefs of the product of a teachers college are no more relevant than the reading material they rely on, such as People and the Kardashian Digest.
