What do you mean?! That possibilty has always existed. Parents can sue teachers if they think they're harming the mentality of their child. To pretend that it's only now possible because of these bills is alarmist at best.

Just for example, this case where a black mother sued her bi-racial child's school for trying to force him to confess the privilege bestowed upon him by his deceased white father, predates any of these bills.

Again, if teachers don’t know how to talk about race without creating anguish and guilt in their students, then they shouldn’t be teachers. So to answer your question, yes, if a teacher makes no attempt to manage student’s feelings/reactions, they should face penalties of some description and if it’s a consistent pattern of behaviour they should be fired. Isn’t that obvious?? Part of the job of a teacher, arguably the most important part, is to consider the impact of the things they say to their students, and present information in an appropriate way.

The bills don't in any way limit the first amendment right of the teachers. Nor do they in any way suggest that teachers can't teach children that some people believed/believe that one race is superior to another. What they're being required to do is not teach children that that belief is the truth.

It's horrifying to me that we're even debating this. If Democrats were passing this language into law and the Republicans were opposing it, we'd all be talking about how this is proof that they're all Neo-Nazis. Yet here we are, seriously talking about teachers' right to teach race essentialism to children. Surely there have to be some ideas so universally bad that we're willing to oppose them regardless of which "side" suggests them. No?