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What are they thinking? Oh yeah, they aren’t.

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Don't make that mistake. This is a concentrated and ongoing effort to control how people think and what they believe using the government like a handgun to your head. These lawmakers want to destory public schools and they are well on their way to doing it.

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I’ve got news, I’m not sure the students are really open to teachers indoctrinating them. The teachers are too busy trying to manage their classrooms to bother with propaganda.

And these legislators might be serious about trying to destroy public education, but they’re not smart enough to figure out what all the implications and effects of that are going to be.

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I agree that teaching is hard and students are not always attentive, but I also believe GOP lawmakers want exactly what they are likely going to get with this bill: A generation of knee-jerk "patriots" who worship folklore and military might without a hint of critical thinking.

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For the most part as always, they will be influenced to believe what their parents wish them to believe, which might or might not jibe with the people they vote for.

I can understand your concern, but the bigger one for me and these students are all the implications of the possible collapse of the public school system in Iowa. When I was a kid, I had no doubt about the idea leaders in this state wanted everyone to get a decent education, but I do not feel that way about our current leaders.

Full disclosure, I am a current special education teacher in Iowa.

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I think they know exactly what they’re doing: pushing the zygote as a living human by law until nobody even remembers thinking differently. People don’t know about the atrocities committed by Americans because we hide them and when someone brings them up, we accuse them of hating America. This is state-order thought control targeted at children. It will work because it worked on all of us. How many people believe the myth of Thanksgiving? How many people are still pissed off about Columbus Day not being a big deal? Or Confederate statues and flags?

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Isn't this plan almost exactly like education in the USSR back then? I continue to ask if there is any level of cognitive capability among Iowa Republican legislators. I surely have seen none.

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Again, I would caution against believing these bills are the work of fools. They are the work of lawmakers who want to use the government they claim to hate to impose their beliefs on all the people in Iowa. They're very likely going to get their way, which will do damage to the truth for generations.

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