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Kamaji:
New Hampshire Democrat Tommy Hoyt tells parent to ‘shut up’ about parents’ bill of rights

By Victor Nava
May 18, 2023

Democratic New Hampshire state Rep. Tommy Hoyt lashed out at a parent who urged him to support a proposed parents’ bill of rights in the Granite State this week, telling the person to “shut up.”

A “parent of four” emailed Hoyt imploring him to pass SB 272, a bill that seeks to establish a parents’ bill of rights that would prevent public schools from withholding information about their children, the NH Journal reported Thursday.

Hoyt responded to the message angrily, arguing that the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that parents are “incompetent teachers” and shouldn’t be involved in their children’s education.

“Do you know why children’s results tanked during COVID. Their parents were incompetent teachers. Do your children a favor, let the teachers teach, and shut up. You’re clearly no professional,” Hoyt emailed the parent.

The New Hampshire lawmaker confirmed the authenticity of the message to the NH Journal, telling the outlet that he “probably could have used better words.”

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/05/18/nh-dem-tommy-hoyt-tells-parent-to-shut-up-about-parents-bill-of-rights/

Kamaji:
Someone get this jacka$$ a one-way ticket to obscurity.

GtHawk:

--- Quote from: Kamaji on May 19, 2023, 02:31:12 pm ---Someone get this jacka$$ a one-way ticket to obscurity.

--- End quote ---
Sounds good but first he needs a Boot to the Head


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajEOZ4tBqjQ&t=3s

PeteS in CA:
Assuming NH’s shutdown date was similar to CA’s, On or about March 10, 2020, parents’ kids went off to school, and the parent went about whatever they did to put food on their table and have a habitable home in which to dwell. Suddenly, on or about March 15, 2020, schools locked their doors and parents whose lives had been built around their children being in school had to reorganize their lives entirely. This would have been particularly challenging for families depending on having two incomes.

NH’s shutdown and locking of school doors did not, contrary to this goobernor’s false snark, lessen the state’s and school districts’ legal obligation to educate children enrolled in public schools. Further, the shutdown did not magically make parents of public school students unpaid deputy teachers. Parents’ legal obligations remained the same, ensure that their students were not truant.

So, aside from parents who did not ensure their kids “attended” the online sessions the public schools provided, if students’ learning suffered, it was a reflection of the quality and suitability of the online curriculum and teaching. That many/most parents did much more than plop their kids in front of a computer and make sure they didn’t bail probably mitigated the damage done by public schools’ online curriculum and teaching.

Disrespect - and sometimes hatred - for parents is teachers union and Dem Party dogma. This goobernor was preaching it, and I hope NH parents listened and understood well.

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