Back in the '90s, a company called Cleanflicks started editing movies to make them 'Mormon family friendly.' It did so without the permission of the movies' directors, producers, and other owners, and got sued out of business.
“ Teachers get to go home without those kids every day, get to move on to the next batch every year, and can quit, change jobs, or change careers with little or no baggage, whereas parents are stuck with the outcome of what kids are taught until those kids become adults. Yes, many teachers take their jobs seriously, and feel responsibility for their students, but their “risk” is far, far less than that which parents face.
A parallel: this is why I recoil from the "stakeholder" notion of corporate responsibility. Without the assumption of risk, without that skin in the game, those who aren't shareholders have none of the pressure to demand or encourage things in the company's best interest. Stakeholders have the power of repercussion-free destruction, and they can tear a company they don't like down without any personal loss. So it goes for teachers inculcating divisive, racist, or mentally damaging ideas into young people. They aren't the ones to pick up the pieces when a kid is ruined.”
Truer words….
“ Teachers get to go home without those kids every day, get to move on to the next batch every year, and can quit, change jobs, or change careers with little or no baggage, whereas parents are stuck with the outcome of what kids are taught until those kids become adults. Yes, many teachers take their jobs seriously, and feel responsibility for their students, but their “risk” is far, far less than that which parents face.
A parallel: this is why I recoil from the "stakeholder" notion of corporate responsibility. Without the assumption of risk, without that skin in the game, those who aren't shareholders have none of the pressure to demand or encourage things in the company's best interest. Stakeholders have the power of repercussion-free destruction, and they can tear a company they don't like down without any personal loss. So it goes for teachers inculcating divisive, racist, or mentally damaging ideas into young people. They aren't the ones to pick up the pieces when a kid is ruined.”