Teachers who break the law could face a $10,000 fine and lose their jobs
Anewlyproposed bill in Oklahoma from State Senator Rob Standridge would punish any public school teacher who promotes any position “in opposition to closely held religious beliefs of students.” Which — let’s face it — means the bill would punish any public school teacher.
Senate Bill 1470 was prefiled this week by Standridge, a MAGA cultist who made news last month when he filed a different bill to ban all books with sexual content (especially ones that affirm trans identities) from public school libraries. On Monday, he posted on Facebook about his desire to ban Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye from schools because it contains a rape scene.
But it’s the more recent bill that’s gotten plenty of attention online because it allows students and parents with irrational religious views to override the curriculum decisions of trained professionals.
A biology teacher who explains evolution could be ratted out by a Creationist who’s failing science class. A health teacher who educates students about different forms of birth control won’t be in that classroom for very long if an abstinence-promoting teenager is on the roster. A history teacher who correctly describes the Founding Fathers as a mix of religious and non-religious individuals could be a target of conservative evangelicals who believe Christian pseudo-historian David Barton’s lies. An English teacher who wants to challenge kids with controversial thought-provoking literature would be forced to stick to only the blandest books.
Give it time and the students would find reason to oppose math, too. The bill is vague enough to give them that leeway.
The bill would punish teachers by fining them $10,000 “per incident, per individual.” Want to raise the money via GoFundMe? Not an option. The bill says the fines must be paid “from personal resources” and offenders can’t get assistance from individuals or groups. If they catch you fundraising, the bill says you’ll be fired with no ability to go back into a public school classroom for five years.
All of this comes from Standridge, a member of Crosspointe Church in Norman, who has ironically railed against “cancel culture” and “censorship.” Like so many white evangelical Christians, he’s an expert in hypocrisy and an advocate for ignorance. He wants to make students in Oklahoma as dumb as the people he routinely surrounds himself with, while creating an obstacle for them to get accepted into better universities after they graduate. Why would any school want to admit a student who failed to get a proper high school education?
I have no clue if this bill will pass, but the story is that a legislator decided to file this bill at all. It seems safe to assume the overarching goal here is to simply scare good teachers out of the profession. Why subject yourself to the anti-educational whims of white evangelicals when you can find a better paying job outside the schools?
This is what conservatives want, though. They’ll do everything in their power to hurt public schools, make teachers’ lives miserable, and prevent kids from getting a comprehensive education. It’s not enough that private Christian schools exist; lawmakers like Standridge want to make public schools all but useless. Why educate students if that education makes them aware of how incompetent their elected officials are? Better to keep them in the dark by allowing the worst kinds of religious fundamentalists to control the classroom.
While it’s theoretically possible for Muslims, Satanists, and atheists to use this bill to challenge right-wing agendas in the classroom, there’s no secret about who this bill is written for: It’s a gift to conservative Christians who can’t accept that their faith doesn’t mesh with reality. They’d rather be blissfully ignorant than grapple with any kind of nuance.
My first brand new home cost less than my 2018 car. Then I could afford a new home, two vehicles, two motorcycles, and other luxuries on one working persons wages. Not now.
A living wage. Housing as a human right. Medicare for All. Building union power. Legalizing marijuana & expunging records. Tackling the climate crisis.
Republican fascism is here. FOX broadcasts the propaganda. Both thought they would restore past glory by scapegoating and violence.
Half the GOP in Congress will be in prison and they will still chant ‘lock her up’ because the brainless have no objective intelligence, just slogans and grievances.
We had all of our major cities BURNED TO THE GROUND!!!
We need to look at this for what it is — they’re trying to keep us from voting with the threat of violence, because they know they can’t win on the issues.
Because of the red states forcing in person schooling with no attempt at all to use precautions or mitigate the spread of Covid, so many teachers are out sick with the virus that there is no one left to watch the kids as the parents work. Think about the sign, it is not about educating the kids, it is about having a place to park them so the parents can make profit for their employers. If it was about teaching kids than the money would have been put into making the kids and adults safe.
Just what we need, a country that can not afford to take care of nuclear weapons and did not have the expertise needed to control them having them. But they are right they should have gotten much better security promises and treaties for giving them up.
Not quite that bad. There has been some hesitation as to how far to go with sanctions on the part of Germany because they get a large part of their natural gas for heating their homes from Russia. In the middle of winter I can see their issue, but I also want to note they have agreed to go along with the sanctions.
Yes they do hate to be called out for what they are. Most racist say they are not racists. The fringe people want or need to think they are the majority and the ones with the truth.
Notice the cartoonist name. This same deep right wing person who fawns over tRump and rants against anything the Democrats want to do while promoting Covid misinformation is supporting the Canadian anti-maskers / anti-vaccine truckers. Do you wonder if there is dark money fueling all these people ranting against governments attempt to slow down and eradicate the virus?
This normally far right cartoonist is sort of correct above. But what it points out is not that Biden has fallen but that there is not one Republican willing to do the right thing for their country. It shows that the right is party first rather than the good of the country. They would see the country destroyed to make Biden fail, regardless of the cost to the nation.
How immature. The US government requires money to operate and provide services. The IRS exists to ensure that those who owe taxes pay the correct amount owed. The problem is that the Republicans have managed to shift the tax burden on to the lower incomes and poor and away from the wealthy. The Republicans have starved the agency so they can no longer go after wealthy people actively avoiding paying the taxes they owe. The wealthy want as much bad press and to demonize the IRS as much as possible so the people will try to do away with the agency in charge of making the wealthy pay their taxes. This is the right wing media doing the bidding of the wealthy to sway public opinion. Don’t fall for it. Don’t give the wealthy a pass from paying their taxes.
I noticed Goodwin never pointed out the injustice of appointing white people over qualified black women. Remember that Reagan promised to put a woman on the Supreme Court if he were elected—and he did. Was that pandering? Trump promised to put anti-abortionists on the Court, and he did. Was that pandering? Conserves are scared of a more balanced court. That’s why they stacked the Supreme Court with single minded simpletons who pander to the ultra right wing evangelicals.
You can no longer be neutral on this issue. You are either against white supremacy and the negation of black history, or, you identify with white supremacy and you require an anti-black agenda to exist.
Your exposure to humanity should make you curious. Tell your parents to open a book.
It is exhausting to see people decrying Biden picking “a less qualified” or “unqualified” Black woman for SCOTUS, without even seeing who the nominee is. You are essentially saying that you think there is literally no Black woman in this country qualified to sit on the Court.
Just a reminder that the Heritage Foundation, a pillar of conservative policy, is actively engaging in spreading anti-vax misinformation.
It boggles my mind that in 2022, with thousands still dying daily, a major think tank is still agreeing "shots don't prevent spread." 🤦♂️ pic.twitter.com/0fsGi6Lzge
Being a police officer isn’t even in the top 10 most dangerous jobs and it’s far behind such risky ( but genuinely useful ) endeavours as working on a farm and collecting garbage.
Not only that but COVID became the number one killer of cops « in the line of duty » last year.
— Scott #FuckElonMusk AbolishThePolice #ACAB Menor (@smenor) January 30, 2022
Also he’s a fantastic idiot if he thinks that violence against women isn’t a norm in society or that the threat of being punched (or whatever else) by men isn’t an actual risk that women constantly navigate
— E. McCumber @independentpen@mas.to (@independentpen) January 30, 2022
People can still travel by air, they just have to follow the rules as they always have had to follow the rules. The rules now include wearing masks and having the Covid vaccines.
My comment on the above cartoon was deleted as spam. I suspect that the cult followers of the right simply flag any comment that contradicts what they spew. The person writing the comment that was removed doesn’t get notified and has no way to know why it was flagged or who flagged it. There is a request for review and I hit them, but I have never seen the review have any effect. I have had comments on review for over two months with no resolution. So it scam to block non-right wing misleading comments. Below is the comment that was marked spam.
The southern border is secure, one of the most secure of borders. The norther border is not only not secure in many places it is not even marked or patrolled. In fact the northern border often runs through towns, down the center of roads, or is just sections of beach. Why do some people focus on the well patrolled and watched southern border and not the wide open northern one confuses me. There has to be something different about the people crossing them … Oh I got it skin color maybe?
The wall is not practical, it is not effective, and it is easily defeated. We all seen the videos of people scaling the new walls, cutting them with battery operated saws, or using makeshift ladders to go over them. The idea of a wall is only a media gimmick, a political tool, a pretend solution to please the anti-immigration crowd. There are long sections where the wall cannot be built due to terrain, where people don’t want to give up their land, where it is an environmental disaster. It simply is a not needed boondoggle.
Ah healthcare. Republicans have blocked every attempt to lower drug costs and to improve healthcare for the public. Look it up.
Why do we need to rebuild the military? Didn’t tRump brag he did that? Almost over night even. They were out of bullets until him he said. Thing was the military budget increased under Obama, under tRump, and under Biden. Those are facts, look it up.
Infrastructure for political cronies like the one support by Republicans that just passed and was signed into law. Know why that is so popular with corporations and the wealthy? It gives large amounts of public assets to businesses so they can charge the public to use them. That is real crony problem, Republicans giving the country to the wealthy instead of having government working for the public.
Oh I agree that we shouldn’t have bribes to China for Ivanka’s trademarks. That was horrible. She got 18 in two months during first two years when China was on good terms with the former president. Russia got many good deals in the hope of approving serval ventures tRump wanted to in Moscow. He even offered Putin the top penthouse for free. it is a fact look it up.
OK so your opinion host talking points are bull. Go back to what I said, why are the GOP not talking about them? They are not pushing any policies. They argue culture wars, they talk about a kids potato toy not being called Mr. or Misses anymore as it is a national crisis. They screamed for weeks that Dr. Seuss was being canceled because the owners did not want to keep publishing books that were not selling out of the collect of his works. Look at what the Republicans are talking about and see it is fear and outrage they are trying to create. Move past that and they offer nothing to improve your daily life.
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These are polices the GOP are behind and all make American Lives better: Securing the border. Finish the Wall – the materials are there, awaiting construction, Ensuring we don’t have another chaotic exit, leave folks behind strategy, anywhere else. Improving Heath Care and reestablish Private Insurance with less government. Having Infrastructure that is really Infrastructure and not a money to political cronies bill. Stopping all of the concessions to our enemies in return for a bribe of a relative. Continuing what the new VA gov an other GOP govs are doing by ensuring the lies of CRT are not in school curriculum. Stopping using govt bureaucracies as political tools. Rebuilding the military. Withdrawing from Iran and Paris deals.
None of these divide the people like Dems policies do nor are they designed to keep Dems in power.
There are limits and rules to every right in the US. How is it freedom to push misinformation that is responsible for killing many people and holding back the recovery from a pandemic? It is not anti-freedom to make sure that the public has the correct true information and that misinformation distribution is curbed or labeled as such. Spotify has begun labeling all misleading misinformation about Covid and says they will include links to the correct information. It also is a free market decision for those who disagree with the company to remove their music. Again no violation of freedom.
The University of North Carolina, the flagship university of a state that is about is about ~25% black, is 7% black. And they are being sued by conservatives that think that number is too high.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but trickle down economics is nothing more than a cruel hoax designed to enrich the wealthy and corporations at the expense of the American people.
The way corporations and the wealthy work it so the lower incomes must always pay.
They really are a lure for black market profiteers. According to my (possibly out of date) information, the active ingredient of catalytic converters is platinum. Carbon based gasses ‘break’ against tough large molecule metal alloys which include platinum. It accounts for the high price of catalytic converters and why they are so much more expensive if their is no return of the used converter. I have no idea how difficult it is to render catalytic converters down to pure platinum and separate it from the other materials in the alloy.
oh no, you say your child read a book with the word “damn” in it during the break between active shooter drills? is he ok
The death cult announces new sacrificial policies.
Thank goodness I'm at a school with a robust testing/vaccination requirement regime. I rather like my colleagues and students and greatly prefer that they don't die. https://t.co/Rh3xlW4swr
Palestinians live as an occupied people under military rule. They are not covered by civil laws that Israeli population enjoys. Palestinians are dealt with in military courts by military judges following military rules.
Tough little one, was willing to let it go but they pushed the situation.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
Right but no mention of the millions tRump cost the taxpayer playing gulf at his properties. Need I say more? But I am running into complete amnesia over the things tRump did and said. His cult followers and the bots online seem unable to remember any of tRump missteps and false statements.
Remind us again why we should fund law enforcement that targets the poor and the minorities routinely to enrich themselves while enjoying immunity from any prosecution?
Fact: the United States of America has a greater percentage of it’s population in jail than any other country in the world. We need reform, all right, but not the reform conservatives favor.
• We put twice as many citizens per capita in prison than Russia, which is the only other big country that routinely imprisons a large fraction of their people
• 6 x more per capita than Canada
• 9 x more than Germany
• 12 x more than Ireland
• 14 x more than France
• 5 x more than China [not including their concentration camps]
• 5 x more than England
Americans are either :
❒ – the most criminal people in the world
or
❒ – we are doing something terribly wrong
The above cartoon was on comics kingdom. I have a bunch of those sites in my roundup check bookmarks. However often times the rabid insulting cult members get to post the most stupid disinformation, but my comments get removed or banned. Below is the one I wrote about this cartoon which has been removed. I have no idea why and there is no way to appeal.
The drums of war are always being beaten by those who find profit in wars. The defense contractors building everything the military needs to the contractors that supply the services that come with moving and caring for troops over seas. There is the money the media gets to both promote what side pays the most to filling peoples needs for the most sensational news to feed clicks. There are people like Lindsey Graham that have never seen a military intervention and police action he was against to people who really don’t want our troops injured like the families of those troops. Notice it is not the children of the high ranking politicians on the front line even if they join the National Guard during a war sucking up able bodied men to kill and main, like W Bush did. However we do have a duty to democracy and human rights. Some times the US has to stand up to the bullies and try to defend the ideals we claim to have. Even if we are violating those ideals at home and abroad ourselves.
Vaccinated people are LESS LIKELY to be hospitalized and may even be completely symptom-free. Vaccinated people are therefore LESS LIKELY to transmit the disease to others. Is it perfect? Of course not. Is ANYTHING perfect? Of course not.
I wonder if it was made in China like the trump maga hats.
Oh yes that is what we should strive for in the US is vigilant justice and gang enforcement instead of a government rule of laws. Heck why have courts, save the money and let police met out what ever punishment they want. Let every private citizen met out justice according to their mood and recently watched movies. that would be fair right? Because that will make everything so much better for everyone.
No I am not in favor of crimes nor criminals. But we need a uniform system of justice and reasonable responsive punishments for breaking the laws to have a civilized country. We really need to address the reasons for crime, what makes the criminal and why they do what they do. Ask why the US has so much more crime than other developed countries and such a higher prison population than any other country in the world. Is it just the US is more criminal? Are we just worse people? It is not a bumper sticker response that fits on a cartoon but it works far better than just locking everyone up and having for profit prisons charge the taxpayer for profit. Crime and how it effects people is a serious issue, and just wanting a feel good retribution fantasy is not a viable solution.
Yup just want it was designed for right? Talk about shifting the conversation. The vaccine also wont lift a rocket to the moon. But inflation and crime it might help reduce as people go back to work feeling safe both crime and inflation will drop.
PSA: The Trump coup never ended. In 2021, more than 440 voter suppression bills were introduced in 29 states. The attempt to upend our democracy is very much ongoing.
“States are not engaging in trying to suppress voters whatsoever” Mitch McConnell claimed last year
Here are facts: "During municipal elections in Nov, Georgia voters were 45 times more likely to have their mail ballot applications rejected—and not vote as a result—than in 2020" pic.twitter.com/3f0B73ICLj
Less than two weeks ago, Joe Manchin remarked, “We act like we’re going to obstruct people from voting. That’s not going to happen.”
Hello? Black voters accounted for half of all ballot application rejections in Georgia. People of color are being disenfranchised as we speak. https://t.co/WtH1z5ZFCR
Parents who want submission from their kids, who fear their curiosity, and want to negate their exposure/inclusivity, are vile.
Attn: fragile white people
I guess those decades of homeschooling hiding from reality/diversity/science was not good.
Respect labor. Respect women. Invest in education. Increase school resources.
Republicans have controlled the PA Senate every year for the past 28 years and the PA House every year for the past 11 years. Billions of dollars in road and bridge funding went to the state police instead because that's how Republicans wanted it. https://t.co/exSwXgkM7A
After the bridge collapse today, I don’t know why Democrats aren’t all over the media pointing out that the entire Republican Party votes against improving America’s infrastructure, at every turn.
All the gun control legislation up north does no good whatsoever when a quick trip down south can re-stock your arsenal! For 110 years there has been a flow of illegal guns into NYC and other cities like Boston or DC from States with lax or no gun laws. Prior to 1968 there were almost zero federal laws regarding handguns allowing bulk smuggling of cheap throw down “Saturday Night Special” pistols. Today the story is things like $500 Glock in a Free State goes for $3,000 on the street in NYC. Guns be cheap and available down south, then can be sold up north. Profitable!
“One of the more strange, uniquely American phenomena over the past two years is when media personalities and politicians talk about Covid like it’s a sentient, rational enemy that must be defied, stood up to, and spited.” https://t.co/RjCe1m91gP
Refusing to wear a mask does not make you "free," in the same way that refusing to wear a seat belt does not make you free. Why has something this simple become this controversial?
Hey, hey, my, my, hope other artists leave Spotify.
One person can start the conversation that brings change
Just goes to show cops don’t follow rules. They think they are beyond reproach. They never atone.
These idiots, full of bad judgment and racist confirmation bias, eschew all training, and act out white supremacist ‘judge and jury’ violence and ‘I was so scared’ cowardice script.
Yes there are some really whacked out ideas like the flat earth movement or the anti-vaxx people. But the thing to understand is most ideas that become mainstream started as fringe ideas.
Benson is very annoyed that Breyer chose to give Biden the opportunity to replace him before the midterms. Be sure that McConnell, Manchin, et al will do everything they can to delay it until after the newly elected Senators are seated.
Lisa and the other Trump Disciples were deliriously happy when Ruth Bader Ginsberg died. They had her replacement nominated before she was even buried. They celebrated the opportunity to put a perjurer who was also credibly accused of sexual assault, on the court.
Fear, be very afraid. That is the message the misleading right wing wants to sent to their followers. Keeping them fearful and outraged so they wont notice that the Republicans have no polices to make the public lives better. The only polices the Republicans have is to empower themselves and to divide the country while denying rights to diverse segments of the population.
As stated often enough despite the right wing talking points wanting to make it so the withdrawal from Afghanistan was not a disaster. Biden’s actions on the Ukraine issue seems to be working well, Putin has hesitated and not invaded as of this time. I have not figured out the right on this. Do they want Biden to insert troops into Ukraine to start a war even the Ukrainians don’t intend to fight in an army to army way? That wouldn’t be smart at all. Does the right want the US to step aside and let Putin have the entire country of Ukraine like Tucker Carlson is pushing for? What is it the right wants here?
He also said he was picking the most qualified person he could find. Is it really a big surprise that judge that is also a black woman would fit that bill. No it would not. The Supreme Court needs more diversity, not less. It certainly needs fewer religious nuts and sexual predators to be sure. All things being equal, is there any reason not to have a black woman’s viewpoint on the high court? If Mitch had wanted a moderate, he should have confirmed Merrick Garland. That ship has sailed, especially with all the right wing hacks that are currently sitting on a bench that they aren’t even qualified to clean.
A court that represents the entire nation should be as diverse as the nation it represents.
If the USA hadn’t been so thoroughly racist for so long, there wouldn’t be a need to try and ensure that the diversity of the court reflects that of the nation.
It would be great if we didn’t have to manufacture this kind of diversity, but in reality, we’re still not there yet.
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The southern border is secure, one of the most secure of borders. The norther border is not only not secure in many places it is not even marked or patrolled. In fact the northern border often runs through towns, down the center of roads, or is just sections of beach. Why do some people focus on the well patrolled and watched southern border and not the wide open northern one confuses me. There has to be something different about the people crossing them … Oh I got it skin color maybe?
The wall is not practical, it is not effective, and it is easily defeated. We all seen the videos of people scaling the new walls, cutting them with battery operated saws, or using makeshift ladders to go over them. The idea of a wall is only a media gimmick, a political tool, a pretend solution to please the anti-immigration crowd. There are long sections where the wall cannot be built due to terrain, where people don’t want to give up their land, where it is an environmental disaster. It simply is a not needed boondoggle.
Ah healthcare. Republicans have blocked every attempt to lower drug costs and to improve healthcare for the public. Look it up.
Why do we need to rebuild the military? Didn’t tRump brag he did that? Almost over night even. They were out of bullets until him he said. Thing was the military budget increased under Obama, under tRump, and under Biden. Those are facts, look it up.
Infrastructure for political cronies like the one support by Republicans that just passed and was signed into law. Know why that is so popular with corporations and the wealthy? It gives large amounts of public assets to businesses so they can charge the public to use them. That is real crony problem, Republicans giving the country to the wealthy instead of having government working for the public.
Oh I agree that we shouldn’t have bribes to China for Ivanka’s trademarks. That was horrible. She got 18 in two months during first two years when China was on good terms with the former president. Russia got many good deals in the hope of approving serval ventures tRump wanted to in Moscow. He even offered Putin the top penthouse for free. it is a fact look it up.
OK so your opinion host talking points are bull. Go back to what I said, why are the GOP not talking about them? They are not pushing any policies. They argue culture wars, they talk about a kids potato toy not being called Mr. or Misses anymore as it is a national crisis. They screamed for weeks that Dr. Seuss was being canceled because the owners did not want to keep publishing books that were not selling out of the collect of his works. Look at what the Republicans are talking about and see it is fear and outrage they are trying to create. Move past that and they offer nothing to improve your daily life.
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