When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” – sometimes attributed to Thomas Jefferson
So, let’s get to it – once again as my collection of educational posts has been growing out of control. And in many cases, reformatted here and emphasis mine. So the Boston School District is fearing its Parents? Good! After all, who really is supposed to be in charge?
The trend of American public schools turning into radical liberal indoctrination centers that defy the rights of parents to control how their children are raised has been ramping up for some time now. But in recent years, encouraging signs have been observed as parents have sought ways to reassert their rights. Some have opted to abandon public schools, choosing either private schools or homeschooling for their kids. Others have run for and won seats on school boards to retake control of the curriculum and school policies. But a group called Parents Defending Education has adopted a far more confrontational approach. They have identified incidents where schools are promoting racism, transgender ideology, and the sexualization of children and have taken the school districts to court to stop it. They’ve been particularly active in Massachusetts lately and, as the Boston Globe reports, the schools are growing increasingly anxious in fear that any of them might be next.
An increasingly active right-leaning nonprofit called Parents Defending Education filed a federal civil rights complaint against Newton North High School last month, alleging that a student-led theater production broke the law by limiting auditions to people of color only.
The same group sued Wellesley Public Schools last year for alleged illegal discrimination when Wellesley High School hosted a forum for Asian students and students of color to discuss a mass shooting at an Asian massage parlor in Atlanta. The teacher who organized the session wrote that it was “*not* for students who identify only as White.”
So far, the national group has identified 43 “incidents” in which they say Massachusetts schools inappropriately — or even illegally — taught students about race, sexual orientation, or gender, setting school districts across the Commonwealth on edge that they might be sued next.
Sounds like good people to know! Go read the rest of the post. “Reverse Rascism” is still racism and it still it is wrong no matter what the SJWs/BLMs want us to believe. Breaking the Law on behalf of their Wokeness ideology is still breaking the Law. Even if it is President Asterisk’s:
A federal district court determined Friday that “sex” should not be defined to include “sexual identity” or “gender identity” in federal statues. The ruling, from the court case Neese v. Becerra, sets legal groundwork for restricting women’s sports at colleges and elsewhere to biological females. The ruling, which revolved around a Biden administration regulation that required medical professionals to provide transgender healthcare services, also struck down related rules that would require female scholastic sports to be open to men who identify as women. That’s because in both cases, the Biden administration argued that Title IX’s prohibition on sex discrimination applied to “gender identity” and “sexual orientation.”
Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal nonprofit, filed an amicus brief that argued against that interpreation. It represented two collegiate athletes in the brief – Maddie Dichiara at the University of Houston, Madison Kenyon at Idaho State University and high school long jumper Chelsea Mitchell. However, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Amarillo Division, decided that “because Title IX does not protect ‘sexual orientation’ or ‘gender identity’ status, neither does Section 1557,” according to its Friday ruling. The ruling also entails that Title IX does not guarantee the rights of males to participate in female sports teams, according to ADF.
“Title IX’s protections center on differences between the two biological sexes—not SOGI [sexual orientation and gender identity] status,” the court wrote in its opinion. “Title IX expressly allows sex distinctions and sometimes even requires them to promote equal opportunity… Defendants’ theory actively ‘undermine[s] one of [Title IX’s] major achievements, giving young women an equal opportunity to participate in sports.”Even more, “the Defendants’ reinterpretation of Title IX through the Notification imperils the very opportunities for women Title IX was designed to promote and protect—categorically forcing biological women to compete against biological men,” the court wrote.
And let NO AGE be young enough for schools to indoctrinate YOUR children into their sexuality moral code – and dismissing yours with disdain:
The largest school system in Maryland has unveiled a new book list loaded with LGBT-activist propaganda aimed at elementary schools and tailored to children as young as 4. The objective of the sexual content is to “reduce stigmatization and marginalization of transgender and gender nonconforming students.”
And instead, stigmatize those of Faith, especially Parents, that hold traditional values concerning sexuality.
Fox News Digital reported that a recent Montgomery County Public Schools PowerPoint presentation referenced a set of activist books that will be distributed to classrooms, from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. The books seek to undermine the concept of a gender binary at an early age and immerse children in the vernacular of LGBT activists, teaching toddlers words like “drag queen” and “intersex.”
Pre-kindergarteners will read or be read “Pride Puppy!” a book about a young child celebrating “Pride Day” with his grandfather. It is touted as an “affirming and inclusive book that offers a joyful glimpse of a Pride parade and the vibrant community that celebrates this day each year. Kindergarteners (i.e., children ages 5 and 6) will take a break from learning to tie their shoes and mastering the alphabet to read “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding,” a book about a gay wedding. Move over, “Clifford the Big Red Dog.” First-graders will read “Intersection Allies,” a “gleeful entry into intersectional feminism for kids … offering an opportunity to … connect to collective struggle for justice.”
…MCPS pre-K teachers were provided with a resource guide linking them to the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s glossary of “LGBTQ+ words.” Accordingly, teachers can provide toddlers with activist-approved definitions for words such as: “non-binary”; “transgender”; “pansexual”; “cisgender”; and “gender expression.”
Can’t get much more blatant than that, can they? Yes, read that whole post as well. And I can assure you that this next School Board will not warm the cockles of your hearts:
…In today’s edition Chaya documents how one school board in Michigan has appointed a truly scary new “Trustee,” as they style their School Board members. The Dryden Community Schools decided to appoint a young man with a substantial TikTok following to their Board, putting him on several committees. The school board had a seat open due to the resignation of a member, and they tapped Austin Grondin. The young man, Austin Grodin, “describes himself as “chaotic evil” and “unhinged” while posting pictures and videos filled with offensive language and sexually inappropriate attire.”
Chaotic evil and unhinged do not seem to be characteristics desirable in a school board member. Just sayin’. The former student/now school board member is an advocate of using the term “homophobic” as a weapon even in cases where it does not apply. He admits as much in one of his TikTok videos. Clearly he is a role model for the ages and representative of the larger community.
This is a verbal blackmailing abuser that is now a school board member. Nice philosophy, there, dude:
Perhaps that is how he got the gig? Through a sort of blackmail of threatening the committee with slander should they not appoint him? Who knows?…What I do know is that the ideological Left doesn’t hesitate a moment to pick these fights and dare parents to fight back. And fighting back is exhausting and time consuming. There will be acrimonious school board meetings, endless articles about the racistsexist homophobictransphobic parents fighting progress. Even if they win, parents will have to keep fighting these fights.
Can’t even give a child an aspirin without parental consent but surgical mutilation of minors is just perfectly fine:
We live in a society run by clowns. Totally, completely, thoughtlessly unserious people. The have replaced religion, tradition, and human reason with vague “feels” that are about as consistent as a 2 year-old’s identity preferences. I am a cow! Mooo! Superman! Fireman! A non-binary ghost-pronouned polycule Barbadian crypto-fraud! Children have the most amazing flexibility.
New York, home of some of the most radical gender politics in the country, also has some of the strictest laws against child mutilation. Because children are not old enough to make decisions such as getting a tattoo, even if they have their parents’ permission.
Amazing. The article quotes an official with the American Academy of Pediatrics who says that kids don't have the "agency" to permanently alter their bodies. And yet the American Academy of Pediatrics fully endorses gender transitions for minors. https://t.co/1emRoJOz73
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) November 14, 2022
Last month, a 10-year-old boy walked into the nurse’s office of his elementary school in Highland, N.Y., and asked for some Vaseline. He wanted to rub it onto his new tattoo — a crude rendering of his name in large block letters on the inside of his forearm.
The nurse called the police.
The boy had gotten the tattoo with his mother’s permission from a neighbor, according to local authorities. While some states have no minimum age for receiving a tattoo if a parent allows it, New York State forbids anyone younger than 18 from getting tattooed with or without parental consent. Last month, both the tattoo artist, Austin Smith, 20, who was unlicensed, and the boy’s mother, Crystal Thomas, 33, were arrested, as pictures of the boy’s arm stirred outrage across local and international news sites and social media.
Now subject that boy to “bottom surgery” and his parents will be hailed as tenderly loving parents who wish to affirm their 10 year-old’s believe that he is now a she even as he can’t make up his mind over which cereal to have in the morning or which video game to buy. He’s called a MINOR for a reason as Society knows young kids don’t have the agency to decide on “important” stuff. Yet, with this overwhelming urge by sexuality activists tearing and shredding our norms, many just smile over ruining their lives by those that will never be held responsible for shoving this evil onto us. And yes, I do mean evil in making young kids to believe they can be something that they can never be – and then never do a “reset” to go back to what they really are.
We’re back in the Middle Ages when people believed in stuff they shouldn’t have – but no one stands up now to tell these charlatans they are nothing more than grifting snake-oil salesmen. After all:
- THERE DOESN’T SEEM TO BE MUCH “MAY” ABOUT IT – Puberty Blockers May Have Severe Longterm Effects on Kids.
…Surprisingly, it’s the New York Times that published an in-depth piece seeking to answer the question: “They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost?” The cost not only comes in delayed sexual development but in serious effects such as permanently retarded bone growth, infertility, and potential retarded brain development.
“Many physicians in the United States and elsewhere are prescribing blockers to patients at the first stage of puberty — as early as age 8 — and allowing them to progress to sex hormones as soon as 12 or 13,” the Times said (emphasis added). But yet, “the United States had produced no data on the impact or safety of blockers, particularly among transgender patients under 12.” There are 300,000 “trans” young Americans between the ages of 13 and 17, the Times reported, and an unknown number younger than that. That’s a whole lot of children potentially seeking these treatments. So puberty blockers were being used on kids as young as eight, with no data on the safety and side effects? How is that allowed?
There’s a lot in this Times article, including a lot of framing to make puberty blockers sound very helpful to a good many trans youth—for instance, by saying blockers can mitigate the high depression among “trans” kids. And the article does not mention certain important facts, such as that a recent projection estimated that transgender surgery will likely be a $5 billion industry by 2030 (from $1.9 billion in 2022), which indicates a high financial incentive. The Times also did not note that a majority—as much as 80%—of “trans” youth later change their minds and wish to return to their biological sex, though they are less likely to do so once they take puberty blockers. That said, the Times was far more honest than might have been expected, even putting potential harms toward the top of the article and alleged benefits much farther down.
Just another male “erasing” females in sports – and doing so with a self-righteous, self-glorifying sense of glee
A biological male won the women’s elite division of a cycling race in Massachusetts on Saturday. Austin Killips, who identifies as a transgender woman, won the Verge Northampton International Cyclocross held in Northampton.
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The wins were not the first by Killips this year. The cyclocross competitor has also kept biological women off the podium in other women’s races, including a third-place finish at the Women’s Elite Cyclocross in Rochester, New York, in September, along with two wins in other events in Massachusetts. Killips made headlines in 2019 as a cyclocross racer, later becoming the first biological male to race in the sport’s World Cup in the women’s field. In an interview on the topic, Killips called the achievement significant.
“I haven’t pored over records, but I think I’m the first trans woman to race a World Cup in the Women’s field. I know Molly [Cameron] has raced, but she’s always raced the Men’s category,” Killips said. “I do think it’s significant and notable. You know, when I’m at bike races and have other queer and trans folks come up to me, it’s super meaningful, and I guess I’m very aware you can’t just separate the two out. When I’m training and racing, I’m just a bike racer. I’m out here competing with these people.”
And never forget – teachers are YOUR employees. YOU are the ones that have the primary responsibility for raising and teaching your kids to be normal adults. Are you listening, former NH State Senator Jeanne Dietsch??
There seems to be a common thread among the overeducated, elitist class — the same class that is currently in charge of our public school system. They have the idea that they are more qualified than parents to decide what is best for children. It’s an arrogance that has always been on display on the left, but one that came to a head in 2016, after Trump’s historic victory. The mantra of the left became, “white, uneducated voters.” Their idea of “uneducated” rested on one metric — who went to college and who didn’t. Somehow, the prevailing common wisdom from the progressive elitists is that if you didn’t go to college, you’re not really educated.
It is ridiculous, of course, and rather pathetic. It would be laughable if this weren’t the attitude currently infecting our public education system. It is an attitude that separates parents from their children in the name of “expertise.” It is an attitude that has led us to a constitutional crisis, as parents cede more and more of their authority to the state.
Let me be blunt – our educational system screwed over the parents by not teaching them the Proper Role of Government (and the various fences that are supposed to protect us from Goverment) so they can screw over our kids even more. And I’m willing to have that screaming match with anyone because I KNOW most Parents know little about Civics.
They want to shame you into acquiescing to the teachers’ unions — the Experts™. Take this post from school choice advocate Corey DeAngelis, who shared a very disturbing tweet from the NEA. They knew what the response would be so they closed the replies, but DeAngelis opened new replies with a thread of his own. Unsurprisingly, it has been getting a lot of responses.
they closed their replies like they closed schools. pic.twitter.com/mqtbErpV3Q
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) November 14, 2022
I forget who said it but some teacher, that he had never met, had this same ‘tude and telling him that this self-indulgent teacher cared more about his kids than he did. His simple response (which I have adopted and used a number of times in the past):
Go ahead – tell me their names
How DARE these teachers, sitting on their self-elevated perches, have the temerity to adopt that attitude to make us believe that they are something that they are not. Yes, they have studied, yes, they have experience. And we carefully vet the teachers that the Grandson had/has now and we are satisfied. But TMEW is a teacher and knows the ins and outs and I certainly know the politics of this situation – a dangerous pairing. We’re NOT going to put up with this if some educational professional decides to give us a hard time (are you listening, my school board? You still have two outstanding emails asking detailed questions that you STILL haven’t answered!!).
And the best way to say “YOU SHALL NOT PASS!”:
The parental rebellion against wokeness, radical gender ideology, and misguided COVID-19 policies continued, producing some solid results in school board elections across America. Again, it wasn’t a red tidal wave, but commonsense candidates found success in an arena long dominated by the Left and public sector unions. Unions still dominate at the local level—in both organization and money—but the landscape is changing.
Though they are often “nonpartisan,” school board elections have become a serious battleground in debates over K-12 education. Nonpartisan does not mean that there isn’t a serious debate about ideas. As local schools—even in “red” districts—increasingly promoted critical race theory and radical gender ideology alongside stringent COVID-19 lockdowns, parents began organizing in earnest.
A few national organizations, such as the 1776 Project PAC and Moms for Liberty, added much-needed support and financial backing for citizens to step into the arena to save their local schools. For instance, Bridget Ziegler, a Florida mom who not only won her Sarasota County School Board election back in August, now helps educate other potential candidates as the Leadership Institute’s director of school board programs.
This kind of organization and institutional support has proved invaluable and means that campaigns once dominated by left-leaning insiders are now open and competitive. Over the past year, the 1776 Project says it has flipped more than 100 races nationwide.
And some big wins came during the midterm elections. These groups helped flip school board elections in Florida, Maryland, Indiana, and Michigan, according to The Daily Caller.
“Of the 67 candidates Moms for Liberty supported in Florida school board elections, 41 won,” the Caller reported.
March and May are both coming soon and that means local elections for a lot of towns here in NH. Including School Board.
