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Education Secretary Cardona Claims Teachers Not You Know What Is Best for Your Kid
One of the themes of local races during the 2020 election was “parental rights.” Despite Hillary Clinton’s idiotic “it takes a village” viewpoint, most Americans believe parents are the final arbiter over their children unless they are demonstrably and dangerously unfit. The US Supreme Court has stated, “the interest of parents in the care, custody and control of their children—is perhaps the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests recognized by this Court.”
In 2020, though, we saw startling revelations of how school systems routinely endangered children by refusing to respect the primacy and even the legitimacy of parental rights. In Loudoun County, Virginia, we saw how the school system protected sexual predators because they alleged they were “transgender.” We saw a parent arrested (Loudoun County Father Who Was Slandered, Beaten, and Arrested Speaks Out) for demanding answers about his daughter’s forcible sodomizing in a girls’ restroom (Loudoun County Grand Jury Gives Horrific Report on School Rape, Concerns Over ‘Transphobia’). We were treated to the pornography mainstreamed into the school curriculum under the guise of “diversity” and “inclusion.” Children have been encouraged to adopt a different gender and lie to their parents about it. They have been subjected to activities that can only be described as pedophilia grooming exercises. The more pressure applied by parents and relatively sane elected officials, the more insane these people have become (As Parents’ Rights Becomes a Hot Issue the Groomer Community Goes Nuts Fighting to Control Your Kids).
What we are seeing is not just the narcissism and sexual perversion of a handful of “educators.” The idea that teachers have the right to interfere in a child’s life or come between children and their parents is so pervasive that they don’t bother to disguise the contempt.
The escalating madness of woke dogma on college campuses
In footage posted onto Twitter by Students for Life of America, Rodriguez is seen tearing into a group of anti-abortion students who had been tabling in an academic building.
She accuses them of spreading “f–king propaganda” and engaging in violence, only moments before proceeding to push their anti-abortion materials onto the ground and walking away.
There was once a time when college campuses existed to be the battlefield of ideas, where discourse was welcome and differences of opinion were championed.
If even today’s college professors have lost sight of that, how can we be surprised that America’s young people have as well?
Contrary to her claim, it wasn’t the anti-abortion students who chose violence in that video. It was Rodriguez.
And as time would tell, it wouldn’t be the first time.
Days later, she held a machete to the neck of a New York Post reporter.
Rodriguez didn’t just choose violence.
She chose bigotry; she chose suppression.
NYC college professor who threatened Post reporter with machete is fired as her lawsuit against NYPD emerges
Shellyne Rodriguez was sacked by Hunter College just hours after the adjunct professor was caught on camera holding the blade to the veteran reporter’s neck while threatening to “chop” him up outside her Bronx apartment.
“Hunter College strongly condemns the unacceptable actions of Shellyne Rodriguez and has taken immediate action,” school spokesman Vince Dimiceli told The Post.
“Rodriguez has been relieved of her duties at Hunter College effective immediately, and will not be returning to teach at the school.”
The unhinged art professor wielded the machete and spewed the menacing remarks after the veteran Postie approached her regarding a viral video that showed her flipping out on pro-life students at Hunter College earlier this month.
Far-Left Professor Holds Machete To Reporter’s Neck, Threatens To Kill Him, Chases Him Down Street
“Get the f*** away from my door, or I’m gonna chop you up with this machete!” she yelled as she put the machete right up next to his neck. “Get the f*** away from my door! Get the f*** away from my door!”
The reporter and photographer quickly left the building, but were chased moments later when she came outside armed with the machete.
“If I see you on this block one more f***ing time, you’re gonna …” she said as she began to chase them. “Get the f*** off the block! Get the f*** out of here, yo!”
Six Maryland Parents Sue School Board For Forcing Kids To Read ‘Pride’ Books
The school board “claims authority to introduce pre-K and elementary school kids to certain books (the ‘Pride Storybooks”’) that promote one-sided transgender ideology, encourage gender transitioning, and focus excessively on romantic infatuation — with no parental notification or opportunity to opt out,” the lawsuit states.
The parents’ lawsuit argues that the board’s new LGBT book list and the lack of opt-out options violates a state law that requires school boards to notify parents beforehand about any curriculum material related to “sexuality” and allow them to “withdraw the child from the course or lesson.”
The Maryland law states that parents may “object to instructional material and other materials, … if the objection is based on beliefs regarding morality, religion, philosophy, any fundamental value system deemed important by a parent, or the belief that the materials are harmful.”
The board also violated one of its own policies, the lawsuit claims.
The parents’ legal team is asking the court to immediately block the school board’s no parental notice or opt-out option policy.
UConn to require students to pass ‘Anti-Black Racism’ course in order to graduate
The University of Connecticut (UConn) will officially make its “Anti-Black Racism” (ABR) course mandatory for all undergraduate students as part of the core curriculum's new social justice requirement.
Provost Anne D’Alleva announced on May 17 that the requirement will go into effect during the 2024-2025 academic year with a course that will be similar to the one-credit ABR elective that has been offered since 2021.
“An education at our university must provide many opportunities to confront the history and current reality of injustice and human rights abuses, and we expect our students to be leaders in creating a more just and equitable world. ABR and the curricular changes that are in development are a powerful point of departure from the status quo,” D’Alleva stated.
University Spokesperson Stephanie Reitz told Campus Reform that the course requirement was created by the University Senate, which approved the motion 36-25. “The Senate’s discussion includes different perspectives voiced by various members of that body, including faculty and students, so we would refer you to that discussion,” Reitz stated.
University of California sued for mandating DEI statements from applicants
The Pacific Legal Foundation filed the lawsuit on behalf of J.D. Haltigan, a former University of Toronto psychology professor, who argues the university’s DEI statement requirement runs afoul of the First Amendment because it requires Haltigan “to express ideas with which he disagrees in order to be eligible for employment.”
The lawsuit states UC Santa Cruz applicants “must express agreement with specific socio-political ideas, including the view that treating individuals differently based on their race or sex is desirable.”
But Haltigan’s support of colorblind inclusivity, viewpoint diversity and merit-based evaluations stands against UC Santa Cruz’s publicly stated progressive stances and policies, it alleges.
The Pacific Legal Foundation filed the lawsuit on behalf of J.D. Haltigan, a former University of Toronto psychology professor, who argues the university’s DEI statement requirement runs afoul of the First Amendment because it requires Haltigan “to express ideas with which he disagrees in order to be eligible for employment.”
The lawsuit states UC Santa Cruz applicants “must express agreement with specific socio-political ideas, including the view that treating individuals differently based on their race or sex is desirable.”
But Haltigan’s support of colorblind inclusivity, viewpoint diversity and merit-based evaluations stands against UC Santa Cruz’s publicly stated progressive stances and policies, it alleges.
Tennessee School District Sues Social Media Companies Over Growing Mental Health Crisis Among Students
“Over the past few years, we have observed and experienced a rise in mental health issues, threats of school violence, cyberbullying, inappropriate content, and other challenges, damages and disruptions linked to students’ use of social media – and the lack of protections and controls thereof,” CMCSS Director Dr. Jean Luna-Vedder said in a news release reported by local media.
“Without cooperation and support from social media companies, CMCSS has been fighting an uphill battle. We need to protect our children, our schools and our society,” Luna-Vedder added.
Attorneys at the Lewis Thomason law firm representing the district said the issues from such social media platforms had caused further disruptions, increased costs, and safety concerns in the school district.
“The Clarksville-Montgomery County School System is taking a brave and proactive step to seek accountability and marked changes in the way social media giants interact with children,” Chris McCarty of Lewis Thomason told a local Fox affiliate.
'The whole place is run by far left lunatics!' CUNY professor unleashes on 'Marxist' faculty which allowed law graduate's shocking commencement remarks
- CUNY today admitted the May 12 speech was hate speech and harmful
- Prof. Jeff Lax tells DailyMail.com it was the tip of an anti-Semitic iceberg
“As Israel continues to indiscriminately rain bullets and bombs on worshippers, murdering the old, the young, attacking even funerals and graveyards; as it encourages lynch mobs to target Palestinian homes and businesses, as it imprisons its children; as it continues its project of settler colonialism, expelling Palestinians from their homes … our silence is no longer acceptable,” she said, later saying she hoped “the rage” in the auditorium would “fuel the fight against capitalism, racism, imperialism, and Zionism around the world.”
Cruz responded to the remarks during an episode of his podcast “Verdict” on Wednesday, describing Mohammed as a “hard leftist.”
“The speech she gave was virulently anti-Israel – was slandering Israel with lies,” Cruz said. “She was reveling in anti-Semitism, and in a way that there really is no other bigotry that would be as welcome at a college graduation as anti-Semitism. She also, by the way, enthusiastically cheerleads open borders and releasing violent criminals from jail, and she refers to police officers as the, quote, ‘fascist NYPD.’”
Cruz declared that Mohammed’s remarks were “just a wild lie.”
Matef Harmachis is a leader in the “ethnic studies” movement who pushed Communism to his classroom of mostly Hispanic teens. In 2017, he was convicted of assaulting a teenage girl after admitting that he nibbled her ear in his classroom. The victim said that he repeatedly touched her buttocks.
Harmachis, who is a black American but contends that he is “African” and adopted the name of an Egyptian god, blamed racism for actions against him and, in a previous email to The Daily Wire, called the victim, a DACA recipient, a “Karen” for reporting the assault to authorities.
“I have never seen a case where a school district ignored so many red flags and allowed a dangerous individual to have unfettered access to vulnerable students,” said Morgan Stewart, an attorney for the victim—whom The Daily Wire is not naming.
Harmachis, who is a black American but contends that he is “African” and adopted the name of an Egyptian god, blamed racism for actions against him and, in a previous email to The Daily Wire, called the victim, a DACA recipient, a “Karen” for reporting the assault to authorities.
“I have never seen a case where a school district ignored so many red flags and allowed a dangerous individual to have unfettered access to vulnerable students,” said Morgan Stewart, an attorney for the victim—whom The Daily Wire is not naming.
It was so bad, in fact, that even in Southern California, the teacher has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation.
Now, you might say, well Jeff, the system’s working, the teacher has been removed from the classroom. I would answer, we’ll see. And I would also say: we need cameras in classrooms. But both answers miss the point.
The point is, there is a wicked zeitgeist, a demonic spirit of the age, encouraging teachers like this El Dorado booty instructor to constantly push the boundaries of what can only be described as LGBTQIA++ indoctrination. It seems to be some kind of a transgressive achievement for white, virtue-signaling female teachers to tell their students all about atypical sexual matters.
Here’s the thing: Straight parents DO NOT WANT their kids being taught about gay sexual techniques. Period. They want their kids to experience normal, traditional human lives, earning the gratifying fulfillment of the joys of parenthood, and achieving the full complement of adult maturity than can only be fully realized through natural childrearing.
Caring for a French bulldog is great, but it is not the same thing as caring for tiny humans.
It’s true that some gay folks prefer their issues to be normalized, for fairness, and treated in schools and elsewhere just like straight sexual issues. But if they want to get there, they must do it through persuasion, not indoctrination. This kind of sneaky propaganda is only hurting the cause.
Even more aggravating to straight parents than high school teachers encouraging children to experiment with atypical sex, is that RIGHT NOW the trans movement — the middle part of LGBTQIA++ — is pushing kids to seek out permanent, extreme body modifications, and in the meantime to telling them to treat their own parents as obstacles to their adult sexual fulfillment, which their undeveloped brains don’t even fully comprehend yet.
Many parents are beginning to view the aggressive trans movement as a real and present danger to their kids’ health and well-being.
Because the various alphabet groups have all joined together, normal gay people are unfortunately lumped in with LGBTQIA++. Why don’t gay folks flee from the LGBTQIA++? Why don’t they get a divorce, making LG separate from BTQIA++?
The BTQIA++ activists are out of control.
I know and often interact with regular, non-activist gay and trans folks, including within my extended family, and have perfectly ordinary relationships with them. One of the two trans folks I know is a valued former client for whom I obtained a great result, and the other is an opposing lawyer against whom I’ve been collegially litigating for several years. I don’t gaslight or lie to either one, but I respect them as people, and am very sympathetic about their struggle with body dysmorphia. (One of them has hinted about being an early child sexual abuse survivor.)
I have never discussed with them any of their sex lives or preferences. And I don’t want my children taught about any of their sexual preferences. I can love them without celebrating their choices.
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RECORDING: Texas teacher gives lesson on transgenderism, says Doctors can make a mistake when declaring baby's gender
Parents of Lockhart High School students were outraged to find out that gender ideology was snuck into the health curriculum without their consent. In a video circulating amongst the community Facebook group, a teacher can be heard instructing the students on the definition of transgenderism. "Transgender is when the doctor decided you are a certain gender based on what they assumed your outsides look like, and then later it turned out that it wasn't true," the teacher said.
The class was taught as part of what was supposed to be a lesson on healthy relationships. According to Texas Senate Bill 9, Lockhart High School, located in Austin, Texas, is required to provide instruction relating to the prevention of child abuse, family violence, dating violence, and sex trafficking. However, this class covered far more than just that. With guidance from the School Health Advisory Council, Lockhart ISD partnered with the Hays-Caldwell Women's Center (HCWC) to teach the class. HCWC is an organization that purports to offer community education throughout Hays and Caldwell Counties on topics relating to sexual abuse and violence. But a deeper look into the organization shows a hidden agenda.
The website contains anti-racist and other far-left messaging. “We have long recognized that domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, and racism are intricately linked,” the website states. “Racism permeates the building blocks of our nation, so being “not racist” is not enough for HCWC. We must be anti-racist. We must work to dismantle the systems that create oppression, hatred, and violence.” The organization does not stop there. It also reiterates its commitment to employ people who understand what it means to be anti-racist. “Some of us are just now learning how white people benefit from systems that oppress people of color,” they admit.
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Parents of Lockhart High School students were outraged to find out that gender ideology was snuck into the health curriculum without their consent. In a video circulating amongst the community Facebook group, a teacher can be heard instructing the students on the definition of transgenderism. "Transgender is when the doctor decided you are a certain gender based on what they assumed your outsides look like, and then later it turned out that it wasn't true," the teacher said.
The class was taught as part of what was supposed to be a lesson on healthy relationships. According to Texas Senate Bill 9, Lockhart High School, located in Austin, Texas, is required to provide instruction relating to the prevention of child abuse, family violence, dating violence, and sex trafficking. However, this class covered far more than just that. With guidance from the School Health Advisory Council, Lockhart ISD partnered with the Hays-Caldwell Women's Center (HCWC) to teach the class. HCWC is an organization that purports to offer community education throughout Hays and Caldwell Counties on topics relating to sexual abuse and violence. But a deeper look into the organization shows a hidden agenda.
The website contains anti-racist and other far-left messaging. “We have long recognized that domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, and racism are intricately linked,” the website states. “Racism permeates the building blocks of our nation, so being “not racist” is not enough for HCWC. We must be anti-racist. We must work to dismantle the systems that create oppression, hatred, and violence.” The organization does not stop there. It also reiterates its commitment to employ people who understand what it means to be anti-racist. “Some of us are just now learning how white people benefit from systems that oppress people of color,” they admit.
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My Advice for the Idaho Student Barred From Graduation for Saying 'Guys Are Guys and Girls Are Girls'
There is a tradition at Kellogg in which graduating seniors pass on bits of wisdom to underclassmen. Seizing the moment, Travis decided to depart from his pre-approved remarks and said, “Guys are guys and girls are girls. There is no in-between.” Now back during the Pleistocene when I was in high school, we would have wondered why someone needed to even bring this up since it has pretty much been a truism since life developed beyond single-celled organisms on this planet. But we know why Travis decided to say it, and we know why it needed to be said. But those two sentences were enough to keep Travis from walking with his class. The school principal, Dan Davidian decided Travis’ comment was enough to bar him from graduation exercises.
Travis is not alone in his sentiment. According to an article by the Idaho Freedom Foundation, Travis commented, “I didn’t direct it at any groups or anything like that; it was just something I chose to say in the moment. There was a short pause, and then an uproar of cheers.” After the news broke, 100 students walked out of school in support of Travis. Among them was school bus driver Dakota Mailloux, who was participating in the demonstration off the clock. But Mailloux’s presence was enough to get him called on the carpet by Davidian, who fired the man.
IFF notes that the school canceled classes for the day and issued a message stating that the sheriff’s office had concerns about safety issues posed by “outside groups and agitators.” In other words, the group of students and a bus driver. Graduation would be rescheduled when it was determined that commencement exercises could be safely held. IFF also stated that the new sheriff, Holly Lindsey, is married to Rachel Clark-Krusemark. Clark-Krusemark is an art teacher at Kellogg High School and is a proponent of the leftist agenda in the small mining town. But that is totally unrelated to Travis’ situation. Right? We can trust the government and our schools. Right? Right?
Travis not only lost his chance to walk at graduation. He also lost his job. The Blaze reports that Travis had been hired by the U.S. Forest Services as a wildland firefighter. But he was fired from that job. On one hand, I feel for him. I loved my time on the engine and the fire line. On the other hand, if he thinks he had a rough time at the hands of Principal Davidian and Kellogg High School, he would have had his hands full contending with the Dread Hydra of Wokeness that infests the federal government with its employees displaying their preferred pronouns on their name badges. Fate may have done him a favor.
Nebraska Teachers Union Launches Petition To End School Choice
The petition launched a day after Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen signed the bill enacting school choice — LB753, or the Opportunity Scholarship Act — into law. The legislation marked the first type of school choice program in state history. NSEA alleged that the school choice program was a tax scheme to benefit private schools.
“Diverting millions of tax dollars to private schools will hurt our public schools as well as other essential public services and infrastructure,” said petition sponsor Jenni Benson in a press release.
'You don't belong here': Teacher tells Muslim students they 'can't be Canadian' if they won't back Pride
"You are out to lunch if you think it’s acceptable to not show up because you think there's Pride activities going on at school," the teacher said, pointing out that non-Muslims had shown "respect" for their beliefs by taking part in Ramadan festivities.
"It goes two ways!" she says. "If you want to be respected for who you are, if you don't want to suffer prejudice for your religion, your colour of skin, your whatever, then you better give it back to people who are different than you."
She went on explain that not all countries were like Canada, citing Uganda in particular, where the law was recently changed to permit punishment of life in prison for simply being homosexual.
"If you believe that kind of thing, you don't belong here," the teacher stated. "That is not what Canada believes; we believe in freedom; we believe people can marry whoever they want. That is in law, and if you don't think that should be the law, then you can't be Canadian. You don't belong here, and I mean it."
"Freedom of Religion is a fundamental human right that protects the conscience of old people and allows us to think, expressed, and act upon what we deeply believe," said one of the demonstrators. "The issue of gender and sexuality are influenced by our faith, and we should not be caricatured as intolerant and all and our face perceived to be subversive because it doesn't align with your beliefs and tolerance of the faith community threatens to erode support for religious freedom. Therefore eroding the benefits it provides for everyone."
A supporter of the LGBTQ curriculum explained, "We support the expanded curriculum because it teaches students that there are many ways to be human." She continued, "Allowing families to opt out of this curriculum will perpetuate ignorance, intolerance, and fear of the LGBTQ voices and sends the wrong message that they are right to be afraid."
Maryland Muslims blast schools’ LGBTQ indoctrination, demand right to opt kids out
“Freedom of Religion is a fundamental human right that protects the conscience of old people and allows us to think”
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