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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKansas Senate passes bill easing prosecution of teachers for distributing ‘harmful material’
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By Bryan Lowry - The Kansas City Star
A bill making it easier to prosecute teachers and school administrators for distributing materials deemed harmful to minors passed the Kansas Senate on Wednesday.
Senate Bill 56, which passed 26-14, removes a provision from current statute that protects schools against such prosecution. It keeps the protection in place for universities, museums and libraries.
Opponents say the bill would allow teachers to be prosecuted for teaching controversial works of literature or about human biology.
Sen. Tom Hawk, a Manhattan Democrat and a former school administrator, said that as a lifelong educator, he could not support the bill, which he viewed as having a chilling effect on teachers.
But supporters said the bill is necessary to ensure kids are protected from pornography at school and that teachers would not be prosecuted for teaching works of literary or scientific value.
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Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article11212511.html#storylink=cpy
A bill making it easier to prosecute teachers and school administrators for distributing materials deemed harmful to minors passed the Kansas Senate on Wednesday.
Senate Bill 56, which passed 26-14, removes a provision from current statute that protects schools against such prosecution. It keeps the protection in place for universities, museums and libraries.
Opponents say the bill would allow teachers to be prosecuted for teaching controversial works of literature or about human biology.
Sen. Tom Hawk, a Manhattan Democrat and a former school administrator, said that as a lifelong educator, he could not support the bill, which he viewed as having a chilling effect on teachers.
But supporters said the bill is necessary to ensure kids are protected from pornography at school and that teachers would not be prosecuted for teaching works of literary or scientific value.
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Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article11212511.html#storylink=cpy
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Kansas Senate passes bill easing prosecution of teachers for distributing ‘harmful material’ (Original Post)
tridim
Feb 2015
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msongs
(67,441 posts)1. uh oh teachers better keep their bibles to themselves now nt
tridim
(45,358 posts)3. Or start bringing bibles to class...
So as not to offend all the "oppressed" Christians of Brownbackistan.
gordianot
(15,245 posts)2. Sheesh everybody is a critic these day.
I am waiting for some Republican to call or equate teachers to ISIS, fear sells there are plenty of buyers.
Bandit
(21,475 posts)4. controversial works of literature or about human biology.
As in Evolution!!!!
tridim
(45,358 posts)6. Of course, that's why the bill was proposed. nt
sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)5. There go art classes. Oh, I forgot art was dropped a decade ago.
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)7. Why don't they just put on the fucking Swastikas and the Jackboots,
burn all the books and be done with it.
Necessary to ensure kids are protected from Porn? Really? Teachers are handing out porn so they had to make a law? Or did some teacher say it was ok to read Harry Potter?