Frontpage: Maine state representative Lawrence Lockman isn’t backing down after a committee in the state legislature killed his proposed bill that would have forbidden political and ideological indoctrination in the public schools of the Pine Tree State.
Leftist indoctrination in the classroom “is a violation of the civil rights of the students,” Lockman told FrontPage. Politically correct identity-group politics is now the norm in Maine’s classrooms, he said. (FrontPage published an op-ed by Lockman on March 5.)
“Realtors, architects, dental hygienists, have a code of ethics,” he said. “Why not teachers?”
Teachers were wrong to get involved in and bring students to a previous demonstration to lobby for the passage of legislation restricting firearms, Lockman said.
“It’s outrageous that teachers are taking sides on a legislative issue.”
“The kids were used,” he said. “They were pawns. They were dupes.”
“If the gun owners of Maine were having a demonstration or a rally to press for pro-firearms legislation I would just as strongly have opposed teachers getting involved in that.”
Lockman said his 501(c)(4) nonprofit, the Maine First Project, is moving forward with a “forgotten parents’ initiative” to get parents involved at the local level.
Lockman’s comments came after his fellow Republican lawmakers abandoned him and allowed his bill, known as LD 589, to die in committee. The measure, which the David Horowitz Freedom Center helped to draft, was unanimously voted down by the joint House-Senate Education and Cultural Affairs Committee Feb. 28. Not surprisingly, the teachers’ unions and the ACLU opposed the bill.
The legislation would have required the State Board of Education to “adopt rules prohibiting teachers in public schools from engaging in political, ideological or religious advocacy in the classroom.” Those rules “must be clear and provide enforcement mechanisms for appropriate and professional ethical behavior by teachers licensed in the State in tax-supported schools.” more here
One of the biggest betrayals in American history. And worse, nothing is done about it.
^^^ Ironically they don’t even teach American History anymore!
“Leftist indoctrination in the classroom “is a violation of the civil rights of the students, ………. ”
Right offhand, I’d say it’s a violation of the parents rights as well.
Not that parents really mean that much in the public school systems.
Does Maine have a “Freedom of Education Choice” law in effect. Or are all school aged children trapped in a public indoctrination “scrool” (h/t Rush Limbaugh)?
Give me 4 years and the seed I plant
will NEVER be uprooted. ,V.Lenin
Now you know why you cannot argue/debate
a libtard/progtard ever!
Like Yuri said “the brainwashing can
never be reversed”. SCARY! Only one thing left
to do… OH BTW= THE 4 YEARS IS NOW 50!
Up here in the whitest state of the nation, pols do NOT go up against, or even question, the Maine State Teachers Association AKA the Maine Teachers Union.
Larry Lockman is a conservative hero up here in the northern interior, and as such, has had a bullseye on his forehead, put there by the coastal elite libtards. mostly implants from Mass, NY, and Conn.
I call them implants because when they show up, they’re usually fake and they act like big boobs.