Reynolds Offers Teachers a Bonus Before Announcing Plan to Defund Public Schools

[TexasTowelie]

Gov. Kim Reynolds is using books as the latest excuse to defund public schools.

Reynolds used Tuesday’s 2022 Condition of the State address to hitch her wagon to state Sen. Jake Chapman’s crusade against books he finds objectionable being placed in public schools.

Presiding over a joint session of the Iowa Legislature, Reynolds echoed talking points from the Republican Senate president who, a day prior, decried teachers as having a “sinister agenda.”

Reynolds compared the books to X-rated movies while not providing any context around them. She also argued that schools should be required to publish what they are teaching despite this information already being readily available on many school district websites.

“We live in a free country with free expression,” Reynolds said. “But there’s a difference between shouting vulgarities from a street corner and assigning them as required classroom reading. There’s a difference between late-night cable TV and the school library.”

Read more: https://iowastartingline.com/2022/01/11/reynolds-offers-teachers-a-bonus-before-announcing-plan-to-defund-public-schools/

[madaboutharry]

1. Another loathsome libertarian hypocrite.

Reynolds is ignorant and incompetent. She would run a lemonade stand into the ground. Her conduct over the course of the pandemic has been disgraceful. Thousands of Iowans are dead because of her failure to impose even the minimum of a masking mandate.

[Frustratedlady]

2. I hope she loses before she ruins the schools (and, the state).

I wondered how long it would take for her to hit the libraries. She should have spent more time in them when she was a student.