Teacher surveillance: How to culture war

Antonia Scatton from Reframing America advises us how to frame the fascist, vigilante  assault on teachers and education. The latter wants to monitor teachers in the classroom, a direct assault on their freedom. This is her suggestion for an effective narrative on the issue:

"We strongly object to this teacher surveillance bill. These bills are part of a coordinated attack by people who want to privatize public education for corporate profit and to politicize public education to further divide our society.

"Parents already have plenty of legitimate ways to learn about what is being taught to their children. This bill is an invitation to vigilante parents with radical minority views to harass teachers with complaints and even nuisance lawsuits. It is an attempt to censor teachers by radical right-wing parent groups bankrolled by Republican/corporate SuperPACs as part of their political strategy to destroy trust in our public schools.

"Democrats always fund our schools and support our teachers and our children because we believe that every child deserves a great education. We believe that public schools are what unite us and make us all Americans. They are where our children learn core American values like equality, fairness and responsibility for each other.

"Republicans politicize public education to distract people from the fact that they routinely vote to slash school funding and don’t want our public schools to succeed."