A Democratic lawmaker in New Hampshire lashed out at a voter who urged him to support a parental rights bill, telling the voter in a nasty email to “let the teachers teach, and shut up.”
After a local parent of four contacted New Hampshire state representative Tom Hoyt to ask the Democrat to pass a parental bill of rights measure “without any amendments,” Hoyt responded aggressively, emails obtained by the NH Journal show. “Do you know why children’s results tanked during covid? Their parents were incompetent teachers,” Hoyt wrote. “Do your children a favor, let the teachers teach, and shut up. You’re clearly no professional.”
Hoyt’s outburst comes as states across the country work to pass laws that prevent public schools from withholding information from students’ parents. Florida, Georgia, and Arizona have all passed such legislation, despite fierce opposition from liberal teachers’ unions. In New Hampshire, for example, the vice president of the state’s American Federation of Teachers chapter promised to pull support for all state Democrats who backed the parental rights bill. The New Hampshire House in a Thursday vote went on to narrowly reject the legislation.
Hoyt, who took office in December 2022, declined to…
