Educational censorship

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About

Educational censorship occurs when authorities act to hinder the teaching or classroom discussion of certain subjects. This can take the form of book banning or other initiatives designed to create a chilling effect around the topics in question.

The motives appear to be:

• rage farming: the subjects chosen are typically outside the mainstream, and can therefore be misrepresented (to the uninformed) as innately harmful
• preventing access to important information which would reveal the censors' political stances as inaccurate and harmful, thus maintaining an audience of the uninformed for future rage-farming

Events

• 2022-01-24 Virginia EO 1: Governor Glenn Youngkin's "educational tip line"
  • (2022.02.04) MoJo: Glenn Youngkin Set Up a Tip Line to Snitch on Teachers. It’s Only Gotten Weirder Since.
  • (2022.02.03) ABC8: Gov. Youngkin’s office denies request to make 'tip line' emails public
  • (2022.02.01)
    • YT/Beau5C: Let's talk about tips, tiktok, and Virginia.... (video, 5:04, Beau of the Fifth Column)
    • RTD: Youngkin’s tip line spoofed on 'Saturday Night Live'; TikTokers spam line with fake tips
  • (2022.01.25) New Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin launches tip line to report educators for teaching 'divisive' subjects after signing order banning Critical Race Theory

• 2022-01-11 Florida HB 1557 "Parental Rights in Education", aka "Don't Say Gay" or "No Promo Homo": FL Senate
  • (2022.04.15) How the "Don't Say Gay" Bill May INCREASE Child Grooming (video, 16"50, Rebecca Watson): basically, preventing teachers talking with children about a subject enables abuse. This is kind of obvious to everyone except, apparently, conservoids.
  • (2022.01.27)
    • Slate: The New Face of “No Promo Homo” Laws «None of the censorious conservatives behind these bills are going to bring a lawsuit against a school district whose social studies curriculum teaches, for example, that George Washington was straight-married to Martha.» ... «But it is not necessarily the point of these laws to be read and followed precisely as written. Instead, the lawmakers who advance them intend to create a chilling effect, such that teachers and school administrators are too afraid to teach LGBTQ history, discuss relevant current events, or offer support to queer and trans students, lest they run afoul of a vaguely written law.»
    • Fox13: 'Don't say gay' bill proposed to limit classroom discussion about sexual orientation, gender identity «Advocates of HB 1557 say there should be limits on classroom discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity, citing parents' rights surrounding their children's knowledge and education of such topics.»
  • (2022.01.26)
    • ABC8: Youngkin asks parents to use new email tip line to report 'inherently divisive' concepts in schools
    • ABC: 'Don't Say Gay' bill moves forward in Florida
    • Newsweek: 'Don't Say Gay' Bill Aimed At Florida Teachers May Violate Students' Right to Free Speech «would prohibit school districts from "encouraging classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary grade levels or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students."»
  • (2022.01.24) CNN: Florida state GOP lawmakers advance bill prohibiting schools from 'encouraging' talk of sexual orientation and gender identity in some classrooms
  • (2022.01.21) WFLA: Florida bill would ban talk of sexual orientation, gender identity in the classroom
• 2021-06-10 Florida’s state Board of Education bans "critical race theory" from public school classrooms.
  • (2021.12.18) DKos: DeSantis' critical race theory attack ensures schools won't teach about successful slave rebellion «On Dec.15, DeSantis took it even further with a proposal that would give parents the power to sue local school districts that teach anything supposedly "rooted" in critical race theory.»
  • (2021.06.10) AP: Florida bans ‘critical race theory’ from its classrooms

Links

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• 2021-06-28 TNR: The Republican Plot to Ban LGBTQ History in Public Schools