As part of an ongoing overhaul of policies intended to boost parental rights, curtail teacher activism, reign in explicit sex education and restrict the use of LGBTQ pronouns in public schools, the Mat-Su School Board is set to vote on a new library policy at its Aug. 2 meeting.
The proposed library policy will delete language which describes libraries as “safe spaces” that provide “equitable” and “inclusive” materials. The updates also strongly emphasize that libraries are to be primarily “academic” resources, rather than places that facilitate ill-defined “ethics and values.”
The proposed library changes state that, “All materials depicting human sexuality will require parental consent before students may access the materials.” Additionally, it removes wording that gives school librarians authority to purchase books and materials without prior committee recommendations or school board approval.
In June, the school board approved a slate of updated policies that strengthened parental rights and restricted the ability of educators to push controversial social and sexual ideologies on students. School employees are no longer allowed to take up school time or resources to promote “activist” causes, and schools must get “written permission” from parents before referring to kids with alternative pronouns that conflict with a child’s biological sex.
Another recent policy update states that school counselors are first and foremost “academic” advisors who must consult “primarily with the parents,” and they do not have authority to offer advice to students about gender issues or personal problems without parental involvement.
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Neo conservative Christian nationalists score a win!
Neo, what are you taking about Lucinda. You and your crazy woke agenda groups are pushing this bull crap in are faces. So yes we Christian have had enough. Go back to your sick evil city’s Portland, Seattle, San Francisco. We Alaskans don’t want you here. Have a nice day.
I will take them every day over your pathetic, soulless and corrupt lot. Begone.
You’re absolutely clueless as to who the necons are and what they stand for, Pablo.
Neo, what are you taking about Lucinda. You and your crazy woke agenda groups are pushing this bs in are faces. So yes we Christian have had enough. Go back to your sick evil city’s Portland, Seattle, San Francisco. We Alaskans don’t want you here. Have a nice day.
Nice mess of labels. Here’s some that are more accurate: Kind, thoughtful, careful, sensible, honest, generous, decent. You might like hanging out with perverts and shouting insults, but the rest of us have kids to raise and lives to live, and we know we answer for our choices and behavior. Good luck being in one hot mess after another, dear.
Gosh,Tamra, what narcissism.
Take your L you God Hating Communist Mongoloid of a Groomer!
Thank you Mat-Su School Board for listening to the majority of the community and for following what your own hearts are saying is right.
Thank you to a school board for your effort to uphold parental/guardian rights and restricting the promoting of questionable ideologies. This is refreshing. What a sad day we live in where so many desire to exchange light for darkness, and good for evil, and then force it upon others. It takes constant vigilance to protect our kids.
I hope that this will lead the way for us up here in Fairbanks. There is a battle to gain parental rights. With a different superintendent it is hard to know at this point….
I have fought this BS school system the whole time my kids were growing up in it. Now one might think I have nothing else to say once they are out. But that’s wrong. I still pay taxes and I have a say. There are many of us that have a say and I am one of them, regardless of whether I have kids in the system. It is still my tax money and you will listen to me. Because I will fight for parents rights, because they have them. People in government that think otherwise get voted OUT.
It’s getting to the point at which no one will want to go into teaching anymore, for fear of being bullied by culture warriors like Moms for Liberty. But I think that’s just part of the long-term strategy in the GOP to weaken and ultimately dismantle the public school system. Then wealthier parents will send their kids to fancy boarding schools, while poorer parents will do their best to teach their kids to read and do math at home, or just forego the process altogether. Education in general will become stratified economically, with an overall dumbing-down of America.
If the teachers would just teach the 3 Rs in school, then we would not be having this problem.
But no you, and your cronies want to push all this evil stuff onto our children. We’re not having it.
> It’s getting to the point at which no one will want to go into teaching anymore
That would be a win. Add this to your lyrics > “Imagine no N.E.A.”
Go Mat-Su board. Be fearless.
> It’s getting to the point at which no one will want to go into teaching anymore. That would be a win.<
Because an uneducated, illiterate populace is a compliant populace.
You should have been bullied more, Chuck, you repulsive degenerate. Stay away from kids.
Let us not confuse indoctrination with teaching/education… CAPTAIN KIRK:.. “”Mr Spock.. What is your findings on this Chuckie”” ? SPOCK;… “Captain, I see no intelligent life there””
Culture warriors? Really? What would you call “teachers” and “counselors” who tell children to cut off their genitalia and act like something they are not? How about “teachers” and “counselors” telling preteen children to engage in selfish, lustful, dangerous homosexual sex? I’d call those people the culture warriors, intent on destroying children’s innosence and health all so the “adults” can feel that their sins are not really all that bad. And in case you hadn’t noticed, public education right now is a sewer of leftist nonsense, where kids are probably dumber when they are done than when they started.
The Matsu refuses to be ruled by deviant Rainbow Haired Mongoloids!
So Chuck, right now most Alaskan kids go to government schools staffed by left wing teachers, and only 30% of those kids read at grade level. Holy Rosary, a Catholic school in Anchorage boasts kids reading at 2 to 3 grades above. Now who is the problem here?
You need a good swat with the stick of critical thinking.
Your thinking is in “critical” condition.
Chucky and Lucy are union rats trying in vain to defend their union rat brothers. Our remote village kids cost up to $50,000 each PER YEAR by union rat teachers, and are ILLITERATE. The blame here is clearly on the union rat government teachers.
I had this same thought about Lucinda. Chuck in that mix also sounds right!
I guess I’ll respond. I’m not part of any union.
Results show our state has low testing, no real life skills teachings, missing our known history to follow what is happening now, agenda to dumb down our kids, books that are inappropriate for schools to allow, politcal minded staff and teachers, and CRT is what public schools turn out whether they admit it or not. Home schooling seems much better.