Grumpy Educators: Parent Trigger: "Scholastic snake oil with a deliciously deceptive spin on parental engagement."

Grumpy Educators: Parent Trigger: "Scholastic snake oil with a deliciously deceptive spin on parental engagement.":

Parent Trigger: "Scholastic snake oil with a deliciously deceptive spin on parental engagement."

by Sandra

This Saturday morning, Florida State Senators attended a special budget meeting that included consideration of SB1718, the so-called Parent Trigger. The committee meeting was hastily called and hit several procedural speed bumps and political posturing by bill proponents. However, efforts to short-circuit the process and fast track it were denied by committee members.

Passing this bill is a priority for former Governor Jeb Bush, who issued a statement urging its passage, as well as funding speakers at today's hearing. Hailed by bill proponents as "giving parents that voice they need to make sure their children are receiving the best education possible," journalist Darryl Owens asked where the parents had been all along. In his piece published in the Orlando Sentinel, Owens precisely and perfectly describes the bill this way:

Scholastic snake oil with a deliciously deceptive spin on parental