Sub HB 327 & HB 322
Hurt Students, Families, Educators, and Ohio
These bills hurt Ohioans by prohibiting, censoring, and restricting the essential truths, critical perspectives, and in-depth analyses of America's past and present necessary for healing and growth.
These bills cheat students, families, and educators of a quality-education and instead promotes an incomplete, substandard, reductive education that shuns intellectual curiosity and closes minds rather than expanding them.
These bills create distrust among students, families, teachers, and local communities.
These bills leave students, communities, and Ohio woefully ill-equipped to thrive in a dynamic, globally-connected, 21st Century world.
These copycat bills promote the political interests of a national censorship campaign,
not the unique needs or desires of Ohio.
Our students deserve more. Our families expect more. Our teachers want to teach more.
Our state needs more.
These bills cheat students, families, and educators of a quality-education and instead promotes an incomplete, substandard, reductive education that shuns intellectual curiosity and closes minds rather than expanding them.
These bills create distrust among students, families, teachers, and local communities.
These bills leave students, communities, and Ohio woefully ill-equipped to thrive in a dynamic, globally-connected, 21st Century world.
These copycat bills promote the political interests of a national censorship campaign,
not the unique needs or desires of Ohio.
Our students deserve more. Our families expect more. Our teachers want to teach more.
Our state needs more.
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IMPACT ON STUDENTS
They encourage narrow, singular viewpoints that perpetuate racist, discriminatory and exclusionary abuse, trauma, behavior, and narratives They normalize and model how to perpetrate and tolerate abuse and trauma within staff and students. They prevent pathways to historical, social, and intellectual reckonings, reconciliations, growth, and healing. They jeopardize the safety and emotional well-being of students by restricting social-emotional learning programs, like advisory groups. They prevent students from better understanding their differences in individual identity, experience and culture by preventing them from participating in diversity, equity and inclusion programs. They devalue students by assuming they cannot handle complex and sometimes conflicting ideas. They prevent student discussion, debate, and analysis of controversial topics in which students often have a keen interest. They discourage student voice, student agency and advocacy for others. They discourage informed citizenship, civic engagement, and community outreach through action civics, service learning and advocacy projects. |
IMPACT ON FAMILIES
The prohibits collaboration between families, educators and school districts by limiting Local Control of communities to shape their own educational environment. They create distrust and disharmony among families, students, educators, and communities. IMPACT ON EDUCATORS
They undermine the learning environment by restricting the exploration of ideas, teaching methods, curriculum, and lesson plans. They restrict essential professional development and training. They restrict access to critical sources of funding for curricula and materials. They violate academic freedom in higher education. They threaten and intimidate educators with severe penalties without clear standards for violations. They remove the autonomy of school districts and families to interpret and apply educational standards. They create distrust and disharmony among educators, students, and families. |
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IMPACT ON OHIO
They adversely impacts Ohio’s economic growth and viability by restricting the development of skills necessary for job readiness and productive teamwork. They hinder strong workforce development by driving competitive talent away from Ohio. |
IMPACT ON DEMOCRACY
They limit understanding of American institutions, systems, policies, and power dynamics. They discourage our young citizens from becoming civically engaged. They distort patriotism by denying the need to fight for equal and equitable rights for all people. They discourage challenging of institutions, systems, and policies in order to improve them. They view American history as so shameful we have to hide it, rather than learn from it. |
Sub HB 327 & HB 322
are BAD GOVERNANCE
Education Bills Are Not Being Evaluated in an Education Committee
SLG vs SP or HE
Education Bills Are Not Endorsed or Supported by Education Experts
Ohio agencies have condemned the bills, national education sign-on letter
Education Bills Are Copycat Bills that do not represent the needs or values of Ohio
Language in Bills is Intentionally Vague & Ambiguous
Bills Use Excessive Punishment to Force Compliance
SLG vs SP or HE
Education Bills Are Not Endorsed or Supported by Education Experts
Ohio agencies have condemned the bills, national education sign-on letter
Education Bills Are Copycat Bills that do not represent the needs or values of Ohio
Language in Bills is Intentionally Vague & Ambiguous
Bills Use Excessive Punishment to Force Compliance