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Monday, July 24th, 2023

GOP Planned to Destroy Public Education in Ohio. We Defeated Them — for Now.

Author:     Pranav Jani
Source:     truthout
Publication Date:     July 22, 2023
 Link: GOP Planned to Destroy Public Education in Ohio. We Defeated Them — for Now.
Stephan:  

All over, in the Republican controlled Red states, there is an aggressive attack on on both public primary and secondary education as well as university curriculum. The Republicans do not seek to foster wellbeing. They do not want a fact-based educated population. They wanted indoctrinated serfs. Children trained in racist christofascist nonsense, where heterosexuality is the only God give form of sexuality, White people are the superior face, women are subordinate to men. Students trained in a history showing that slavery was beneficial for the slaves. But there is resistance to this and, as Ohio shows those interested in educational integrity can prevail. And in Ohio here is how they did it. If you live in a Red state perhaps this is something you should get involved with.

Illustration by: Andre Hunter, Charles Deloye / Unsplash / Truthout

Ohioans invested in the integrity and well-being of public universities across the state breathed a sigh of relief in late June after Ohio Senate Bill 83 — Republicans’ big push to overhaul higher education across the state — failed in its bid to become law before the summer recess began.

A few of the bill’s lowlights — in its original and revised forms — include:

  • banning and regulating how educators teach topics or use concepts that the GOP specifies as “controversial” or “ideological,” including climate change, structural racism, allyship, gender identity, diversity, foreign policy, abortion, immigration policy, marriage, and concepts like oppressor/oppressed;
  • conducting surveillance (including “post-tenure review”) of faculty deemed to be “indoctrinating” students;
  • banning strikes at universities and restricting faculty voices;
  • banning mandatory diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) trainings and programs; and
  • imposing some boycotts on universities (banning relations with Chinese institutions) while forbidding others (no “boycotts, divestment, sanctions” campaigns, clearly referring to the Palestine solidarity movement, BDS).

SB 83 teems with contradictions. Universities are told not to take positions on matters of public […]

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