Ep. 40: Faith Ham: Why There is Distrust in Education (Pt. 2)

Faith Ham — operations director for the Charter Oak Leadership Program, school board member, and a former teacher — returns to the podcast to discuss why there is such widespread distrust of the education system. Speaking from experience, she reveals how local boards of education members have limited control, noting that members are actually “agents of the state” beholden to Hartford’s mandates.She also comments on recent education bills introduced by the General Assembly, as well as the future impact of the Right to Read legislation. Some of the proposals include making teacher-student communications exempt from FOIA; mandating elementary students be taught climate change is caused by humanity; and limiting local school boards’ authority to prevent educators from indoctrinating students with their own ideologies.