Wrong.
167 is the Senate Bill that got thrown out because a Senator (you can guess which political party) made a stink about needing to be impartial when history teachers talk about "isms" (Nazism). The one I'm talking about is the basically identical House Bill that passed, as you can see in the article above.
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/...rs/9123302002/
That House bill will go to the Senate next. The state senate is ~80% Republican so I'd be surprised if it didn't pass.
@Pod
Yeah dude. Instead of coming together as a country to recognize actual problems and fix our public education, why don't we just completely extend our middle finger to the entire concept and subsidize private education instead! That's why charter schools are a shining beacon of hope and light in the education worldThat's not an argument for keeping government schools; at best it's an argument for subsidizing private education, but something tells me you're against that too.
Again, public education is not perfect, but if you think we can fix the problem by just building more private/charter schools, you really don't understand the internal rot that is education as a whole in this country. Having 50 state standards that are also tinkered with by thousands of counties nationwide is hardly a winning formula for success, especially when a substantial number of elected officials would not care at all if education went the way of the dodo and are clearly working towards that goal. Educated kids can't see through the religious and political that is the right-wing after all .
As for your rant about the Aztec prayer, I didn't even hear about that within my circle of teachers, likely because it is currently a non-issue because it isn't going to be a requirement until 2029-2030. Especially since it was going to be optional. Are you really comparing that to the current incessant being pulled in the here and now?
"Help! My children might be given the choice of learning a chant in Nahuatl in the next decade! Help help we're being repressed!"
That being said, if the chant is truly religious in nature, by all means remove it. I doubt it will have a drastic effect on the class structure overall.
I'd be much more concerned about the a public school in West Virginia just tried to pull than any pearl clutching over Nahuatl chants...
Edit:
Podromos I noticed you bypassed my query about private schools and how they would treat SpEd students without any government oversight. I'm not going to allow that.
As far as I know, private schools only have to follow SpEd rules if they take any federal funding (usually Title I, and not all private schools take even that federal funding at all), but the quality of those services offered can be...well, poor. As in nearly non-existent. I know this from my observations where a parent pulled their kid to a private school because she didn't like ours and then went all shocked Pikachu face when her darling child had no access to SpEd services. We actually are having to do the testing for the child right now even though they are not our student anymore (a rule that you can thank the state/federal government for making a reality, even if they won't get any SpEd services as a result of it)
Please Podromos, tell me about how you would fix this overall issue under the rightwing dream of a no-government school system. Enlighten me. Because I could definitely see some broken states reverting to "No SpEd at all" situations if they were allowed to. Remember it took a literal act of Congress to mandate that education in the first place...
Edit 2: I should specify IDEA was not the first. Education for All Handicapped Children and Rehabilitation Act came first. But again, acts of Congress...Imagine how poorly SpEd students would have continued to be treated nationwide without the government oversight Pod seems to hate for some reason.