Monday, February 21, 2022

GET ME REWRITE: Blinkered Assembly Education Chair Jeremy Thiesfeldt floats lame excuse to stall bipartisan Asian-American curriculum bill


Thiesfeldt spoof found at Alchetron

One barrier to the passage of the bills — AB 381 and SB 379 — is a legislative committee chair saying he doesn’t want to increase the number of mandated courses. But that committee has approved bills that would mandate other courses, including financial literacy and cursive handwriting, as well as divisive bills that would require the creation of firearms education and law enforcement interaction classes. 
[snip] 
Assembly Education Committee chair Jeremy Thiesfeldt, R-Fond Du Lac, said he typically doesn’t like passing a bill mandating a course unless that bill also removes a different instructional mandate. 
He added that he’s less disposed to hearing a bill when the bill author isn’t advocating its passage. 
But Thiesfeldt has allowed hearings for bills requiring the creation and teaching of other courses, and Snyder said he spoke with Thiesfeldt about the bill recently and asked him to give it a hearing.  [emphasis added]

So we can add 'bald-faced liar' to the list of Jeremy's faults.  


12/14/2018 update, "Wisconsin legislator with no public school experience reappointed as Assembly Education Committee chair", starts here.


Weird headlineStudent discipline bill heads off critics.  (Wisconsin State Journal. 1/1/2018)
Nicole Weigel, of Wisconsin Dells, told The Associated Press while she was waiting to address the committee that her 11-year-old son, Caleb, is autistic and that police have removed him from school at least twice, leaving him traumatized. In one instance, he barricaded himself in a bathroom and plugged up a toilet; in another he got agitated after a teacher refused to let him take a break when he became frustrated with a math problem, she said. 
“We need to be teaching kids to understand their feelings,” she said. “They don’t know how to handle them.” 


2/18/2018 update, "The Peter Principal in action", starts here.


Wisconsin legislator, school principal deletes tweet about guns, apologizes.  (Fond du Lac Reporter, 2/17/2018)

Related reading:
Flashback 30 Years: Guns Were in Schools ... and Nothing Happened.  (PJ Media, 2/15/2018)

Guns in America, By the Numbers.  (NRP, 1/5/2016)
According to the Congressional Research Service, there are roughly twice as many guns per capita in the United States as there were in 1968: more than 300 million guns in all.

2017 update, "Legislator with no public school experience continues to serve as chair of education committee:, starts here.

And he's supporting the private school voucher industry candidate for WI State Superintendent of Public Instruction. 

In fact....

Reported in Republican lawmakers differ on state superintendent race.  (Madison.com, 1/20/2017)

Related posts:
With State Superintendent candidate John Humphries, it's surface over substance.  (1/20/2017) 

Meet John Humphries, your GOP/private school voucher industry candidate for WI State Superintendent of Public Instruction.  (1/19/2017)
Dodgeville School Board to John Humphries: Have we got a deal for you!! (1/5/2017)


Original 12/16/2014 post, "Meet Jeremy Thiesfeldt, Chair of the Assembly Education Committee", starts here.

News release announcing appointment.

Photo credit:  Wisconsin State Legislature
Text from biography on Thiesfeldt's website


While every institution has its strengths, Martin Luther College is distinctive. We are the WELS* College of Ministry. We exist solely to train future pastors, teachers, and staff ministers for the public ministry in the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. If you are considering service to the church in one of these capacities, then we are the college for you. [Emphasis added.]

Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, the most conservative and smallest of U.S. Lutheran Synods.

Thiesfeldt is in favor of repealing the Common Core standardsRepresentative Thiesfeldt Applauds Governor’s Request Seeks WI Repeal of Common Core Standards.

Thiesfeld is in favor of school choice and the expansion of the voucher programSchool Choice Works!

Related posts:
Environment? Forestry? Apparently, committee chair Jeff Mursau gets to take his pick.  (12/15/2014)
Meet Al Ott, Chairman of the Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Natural Resources & Sporting Heritage.  (12/15/2014)

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