Meeting Public Comments

Jessica Chrystal

Again, Taylor Collins and Republicans are showing they don't take governing seriously. This is another extreme bill that does nothing to help Iowa families to improve their quality of life.I'm in opposition of this bill for mutiple reasons. Republicans shouldn't be brining in a out of state extreme think tank from New York with ZERO evidence and data to dictate public policy for our insutions. Maybe they've forgotten who they work for. Again, NO ONE asked for this bill.It makes no sense to punish my college age kids s and take away their freedom to pursue degrees that align with their interests and skills. Taylor lied about theatre majors when this bill was 1st brought up. My oldest studies theatre and education at Grinnell. No one is pushing a "woke" agenda. He spends his time building sets,writing scripts,creating marketing pieces for plays and learns how to make films. Despite his worthless opinion of what he thinks my son can make in that field despite having ZERO exprincr,he and our govenrment shouldn't be dictating from Desmoines what our childrens can be. According to this bill and his logic even my degrees and courses in Public Administration in Agriculture,Agribusiness and Leadership Studies are worthless despite using every single course I've taken.I worry about the burden and short time frame this will place on department heads like my cousin who chairs the Political Science Department at Iowa State.This is another solution in search of a problem thay doesn't exist. If Taylor and Republcians wnat to take away our children's freedom of their career choice and have the Department of Education and Regents rule over them with a iron fist,they should resign and join Universities in Beijing and Moscow as staff.Another bill that's a worthless idea that should never make it to the floor. Republcians wonder why families and high shchool graduates keep leaving this state to never return and we have workforce shortages. Knock off the culture wars and stop acting like clowns in the MAGA circus of unqualified fools and take your jobs & governing seriously instead of trying to make headlines.