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riversedge

(70,215 posts)
Wed Jul 7, 2021, 10:29 AM Jul 2021

Tucker Carlson Goes Full '1984' With 'Cameras In The Classroom' Proposal




POLITICS 07/07/2021 07:14 am ET

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-tucker-carlson-cameras-classroom_n_60e5810ae4b0c9b3714557f8?d_id=2363422&ncid_tag=tweetlnkushpmg00000016&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=us_politics

The Fox News personality suggested police-style body cameras to check on what every teacher is telling their students.

By Lee Moran

Fox News personality Tucker Carlson railed against the teaching of critical race theory in schools on Tuesday and suggested cameras should be used in classrooms to check on exactly what teachers are telling their students.

Carlson, in a rant reminiscent of something from George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel “1984,” called the teaching that racism is at least partly systemic ― currently a focus of anger from conservatives ― a “civilization-ending poison.”


He warned “we can’t really be sure” how far it is being spread until “we finally get cameras in the classroom, as we put them on the chests of police officers.”....................

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lindysalsagal

(20,683 posts)
6. Been there. Done that. It's was covid, you fool. (to tucker)
Wed Jul 7, 2021, 12:32 PM
Jul 2021

Parents watched teachers for a year. Oh- and no kids were zoom-bombed, either.

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