Below is my column in The Hill on the ruling in Mahmoud v. Taylor in favor of parents who want to withdraw their children from LGBTQ lessons in public schools. I agreed with the majority, but it was Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent (joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson) that was the most striking in its apocalyptic take on allowing parents to remove their children from these classes. Despite the fact that various opt-outs have been allowed for parents, this one is deemed a threat to the very essence of public education.
Here is the column:
The end is nigh.
That seems to be the message this week from the three liberal justices at the Supreme Court when faced with the nightmarish prospect of parents being able to remove their young children from mandatory classes on gay, lesbian and transgender material.
The decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor was a roaring victory for parents in public schools. The Montgomery County, Md. school system fought to require the reading of 13 “LGBTQ+-inclusive” texts in the English and Language Arts curriculum for kids from pre-K through 12th grade. That covers children just 5-11 years old.
The children are required to read or listen to stories like “Prince & Knight” about two male knights who marry each other, and “Love Violet” about two young girls falling in love. Another, “Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope,” discusses a biological girl who begins a transition to being a boy.
Teachers were informed that this was mandatory reading, which must be assigned, and that families would not be allowed to opt out. The guidelines for teachers made clear that students had to be corrected if they expressed errant or opposing views of gender. If a child questions how someone born a boy could become a girl, teachers were encouraged to correct the child and declare, “That comment is hurtful!”
Even if a student merely asks, “What’s transgender?,” teachers are expected to say, “When we’re born, people make a guess about our gender and label us ‘boy’ or ‘girl’ based on our body parts. Sometimes they’re right and sometimes they’re wrong.”
Teachers were specifically told to “[d]isrupt” thinking or values opposing transgender views.
Many families sought to opt out of these lessons. The school allows for such opt-outs for a variety of reasons, but the Board ruled out withdrawals for these lessons. Ironically, it noted that so many families were upset and objecting that it would be burdensome to allow so many kids to withdraw.
The Montgomery County school system is one of the most diverse in the nation. And Christian, Muslim, and other families objected to the mandatory program as undermining their religious and moral values.
The majority on the Supreme Court ruled that, as with other opt-outs, Montgomery County must allow parents to withdraw their children from these lessons. The response from liberal groups was outrage. Liberal sites declared “another victory for right-wing culture warriors,” even though the public overwhelmingly supported these parents.
However, the most overwrought language came not from liberal advocates but liberal justices.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor declared that there “will be chaos for this nation’s public schools” and both education and children will “suffer” if parents are allowed to opt their children out of these lessons. She also worried about the “chilling effect” of the ruling, which would make schools more hesitant to offer such classes in the future. It was a particularly curious concern, since parents would like teachers to focus more on core subjects and show greater restraint in pursuing social agendas.
The majority pushed back against “the deliberately blinkered view” of the three liberal justices on dismissing the objections of so many families to these lessons. Nevertheless, even though such material was only recently added and made mandatory, the liberal justices declared that “the damage to America’s public education system will be profound” and “threatens the very essence of public education.”
The truth is that this decision could actually save public education in the U.S.
Previously, during oral argument, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson had shocked many when she dismissed the objections of parents, stating that they could simply remove their children from public schools. It was a callous response to many families who do not have the means to pay for private or parochial schools.
Yet, it is a view previously expressed by many Democratic politicians and school officials. State Rep. Lee Snodgrass (D-Wis.) once insisted: “If parents want to ‘have a say’ in their child’s education, they should homeschool or pay for private school tuition out of their family budget.”
Iowa school board member Rachel Wall said: “The purpose of a public ed is to not teach kids what the parents want. It is to teach them what society needs them to know. The client is not the parent, but the community.”
These parents still harbor the apparently misguided notion that these remain their children.
Today, many are indeed following Jackson’s advice and leaving public schools. The opposition of public-sector unions and many Democratic politicians to school vouchers is precisely because families are fleeing the failing public school systems. Once they are no longer captive to the system, they opt for private schools that offer a greater focus on basic educational subjects and less emphasis on social activism.
Our public schools are imploding. Some are lowering standards to achieve “equity” and graduating students without proficiency skills. Families are objecting to the priority given to political and social agendas to make their kids better people when they lack math, science, and other skills needed to compete in an increasingly competitive marketplace.
This decision may well save public schools from themselves by encouraging a return to core educational priorities.
It may offer some cover for more moderate school officials to push back against such demands for mandatory readings to young children.
What the majority calls “the deliberately blinkered view” of the dissent could just as well describe the delusional position of public school boards and unions. Schools are facing rising debt and severe declines in enrollment, yet unions in states like Illinois are demanding even more staff increases and larger expenditures.
The liberal justices are right about one thing: This is a fight over “the essence of public education.” However, it is the parents, not the educators (or these justices) who are trying to restore public education to meet the demands for a diverse nation.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University and the best-selling author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
How is this going to square with the new Muslim movement taking over the democrat party? LOL. Public schools need to stay in their lane.
A smart politician would move to exploit these obvious divisions in order to destroy unified opposition. Trump is doing that. RINOs just rolled over — they couldn’t even defend the girls’ bathroom, for crying out loud.
Amish
Good question
They won’t stop with LGBT books. They will move on to history, science, and any other topic they just don’t agree with. That is what will make the chaos.
They’ll say that every single well-known intellectual was trans, didn’t you know. It’s like we’re stuck with communist propaganda from the worst of the Soviet days.
That is what Turley conveniently leaves out. Alito just forced strict scrutiny of anything any conservative parent finds objectionable because they can’t handle the idea that there are things that run contrary to their beliefs and values their children will be exposed to in the real world.
Who knew republicans and conservatives could be such snowflakes.
You have the nerve to call anyone else a snowflake? You’re practically the dictionary definition of one. Go away loser, get your own blog, nobody here cares what you think. Everyone is laughing at your pathetic analysis below.
ROLF! Thanks for proving me right snowflake.
Conclusion not based on any evidence, Georgie. You’ve been trounced intellectually on this forum numerous times, even today, you’re just too dense to realize it. We’re simply tired of your infantile sniping to bother much anymore.
@George
You don’t contribute anything, you just regurgitate. You aren’t interested in discourse. You are a living example of why we have our Constitutional Republic in the first place. I fully respect your right to be a pedantic a**hat; don’t expect us to just go along with it. Post all you like. Find the spine and intelligence to deal with the backlash. Nobody cares about your trolling. Engage in actual conversation, and it might be different. You are a tool, George.
Snowflake…
Just tell us the truth george. You just like little kids.
The dem party strikes again.
The truth is you never have an argument. That’s why you’re always putting out petty and weak insults.
Funny how dustoff mentions kids and you’re right there. Makes one wonder about your proclivities.
Since there are only so many hours in a school day, perhaps parents would rather have their children spend their time in school learning to read and write and do some math, instead of being taught that they’re trapped it the wrong biological body and in desperate need of “gender reassignment” surgery? No, the parents must be a bunch of hateful bigots. That’s the only possible explanation in the George-a-verse.
“Exposed to the real world”-George—it used to be that such exposure happened naturally, within daily life (at home, in neighborhoods, among acquaintances and community),
NOT trapped inside a school room run by an UN-democratic, immoral, political ideologue, who greedily grabs-at and indoctrinates children for sexual herding.
It’s not a snowflake who fights this open-minded degeneracy; its a warrior. Bully for the 6-SANE justices!!!
Protecting against ANYthing parents (of their own children!) “find objectionable” is within the bounds of reason and morality, wisdom and guidance, which is the job of the family,
not the “stranger” who assumes a dictatorial moral-coup under the sanction of “education”—a nasty education, SO preoccupied with the gonads, as to bring U.S. educational performance well below top performers like China and Japan.
These so-called” teachers,” and the “educational” administrations/unions reinforcing them, are hiding the REAL damage they’re doing.
The heart of this matter is that the teacher unions and the Democratic Party are in alliance. The Dems further the economic interests of the unions and the unions support the Dems in the classroom and in elections. The problem began in the 60’s when teachers unionized. Prior thereto, public teachers were strongly patriotic. So, Republicans must attack the right of public employees to unionize.
There is no right to a government job. There is no right for public employees to unionize. Frankly, there is no good purpose for public unions other than to fleece the taxpayers. FDR was quite eloquent and forceful on this topic.
So, when government school teachers don’t have the skillset and ability to teach math, reading, and science (as evident by their students who cannot perform at grade level), they default to teaching LGBTQ+ delusions. For the left, the party of slavery and segregation, this is a very effective way of keeping minorities and lower class whites on the plantation for life by not producing educated high school graduates that could compete with the left’s leader’s offspring, whether it be in college admissions or employment. Just look at the Chicago Teacher’s Union president who sends her children not to public, but to private school. Hopefully this Supreme Court decision, and especially the gang of three’s ridiculous dissent, will awaken the American public and encourage tax-supported vouchers for universal school choice.
Vincente,
If the American public supports vouchers/school choice, I think we will see traditional school vs progressive schools emerge. Traditional schools will produce well educated students who will be sought by businesses and will become productive members of society. Progressive schools will produce ill or even uneducated students, who will be angst ridden, confused about their sexuality, will not be able to get a job let alone if they do, keep it, live with their parents and be dependent on them for nearly everything.
I’ve been reading The Expanse series recently (amazing sci-fi, btw), and the system on Earth in the books is similar to what you are describing. People on earth have a guarantee to ‘basic’, which means default needs are met and paid. If one wishes to, they can spend 2 years to prove they can do more, work for the government, better education, military, etc., and then they are more set above those who would rather languish on basic.
In this case, the traditional schools are the extra, for those who wish to better themselves, whilst the progressive are the basic, but without the guarantee they will be able to live as they do now.
-Rabble
As usual Turley overdramatizes and mischaracterizes the dissent’s opinion. What Sotomayor pointed out is that we have what is in reality a whole bunch of religious snowflakes who can’t handle the thought that their children will be exposed to reality and the changing cultural landscape.
Alito and the majority is inventing a right of avoiding exposure to the idea that LGBTQ people exist. The burden of being exposed to a different viewpoint or culture. Turley omits a lot in order to paint mischaracterized narratives. Here’s what he left out from Sotomayor’s dissent,
“Today’s ruling ushers in that new reality. Casting aside longstanding precedent, the Court invents a constitutional right to avoid exposure to “subtle” themes “contrary to the religious principles” that parents wish to instill in their children. Ante, at 23. Exposing students to the “message” that LGBTQ people exist, and that their loved ones may celebrate their marriages and life events, the majority says, is enough to trigger the most demanding form of judicial scrutiny. Ibid. That novel rule is squarely foreclosed by our precedent and offers no limiting principle. Given the great diversity of religious beliefs in this country, countless interactions that occur every day in public schools might expose children to messages that conflict with a parent’s religious beliefs. If that is sufficient to trigger strict scrutiny, then little is not.
The result will be chaos for this Nation’s public schools. Requiring schools to provide advance notice and the chance to opt out of every lesson plan or story time that might implicate a parent’s religious beliefs will impose impossible administrative burdens on schools. The harm will not be borne by educators alone: Children will suffer too. Classroom disruptions and absences may well inflict long-lasting harm on students’ learning and development.
Worse yet, the majority closes its eyes to the inevitable chilling effects of its ruling. Many school districts, and particularly the most resource strapped, cannot afford to engage in costly litigation over opt-out rights or to divert resources to tracking and managing student absences. Schools may instead censor their curricula, stripping material that risks generating religious objections. The Court’s ruling, in effect, thus hands a subset of parents the right to veto curricular choices long left to locally elected school boards. Because I cannot countenance the Court’s contortion of our precedent and the untold harms that will follow, I dissent.
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By the majority’s telling, the Montgomery County Public School Board (Board) has undertaken an intentional campaign to “impose upon children a set of values and beliefs that are ‘hostile’ to their parents’ religious” principles. Ante, at 25; see ante, at 3–11. The Court draws on excerpts from Board documents and statements, shorn from context, see infra, at 30–33, and n. 16, that it claims reflect that intent. The full record reveals a starkly different reality.
…Because the majority selectively excerpts the book in order to rewrite its story, readers are encouraged to go directly to the source, reproduced below. See Appendix, infra; see also infra, at 19–20, and n. 8.[2]
The remaining books play on similar themes. Prince & Knight tells the story of a prince who falls in love with a young knight after the knight helps him defeat a fearsome dragon. Love, Violet describes a shy girl who has a crush on her classmate, Mira and eventually gives her a Valentine’s Day card that says “For Mira, Love, Violet.” Id., at 434a.
Other books introduce readers to children from different backgrounds and identities. Intersection Allies features eight different characters, each with their own unique attributes. Alejandra, for instance, uses a wheelchair that allows her to “zzzip glide and play,” id., at 316a, while Kate prefers “superhero cape[s]” over “[s]kirts and frills” and is pictured in a gender-neutral bathroom, id., at 322a–323a. Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope tells the story of a child who likes skateboarding, “baggy blue jeans, button-front shirts, math, science, and getting straight A’s,” and “most of all” wants a “Mohawk haircut.” Id., at 452a. When Penelope tells his mother that he is a boy, she accepts him: “ ‘However you feel is fine, baby,’ ” she says. Id., at 458a. When Penelope’s brother expresses skepticism, his mother says, “ ‘Not everything needs to make sense. This is about love.’ ” Id., at 465a (emphasis in original).
The five Storybooks introduce readers to LGBTQ characters, but they draw on many of the themes common to children’s books. Indeed, Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) libraries are replete with children’s books that tell similar stories about overcoming differences, fairytale romances, and celebrating big milestones like weddings. See MCPS Library Portal, https://mcpsmd.follettdestiny.com /portal (online catalogue of MCPS elementary school books).
The Board directed the schools to use the new books in the same manner as all other books in the English language program, namely, to “assist students with mastering reading concepts like answering questions about characters, retelling key events about characters in a story, and drawing inferences about story characters based on their actions.” Id., at 605a. The Board made clear to individual schools that “there is no planned explicit instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in elementary school,” using the Storybooks or otherwise. Ibid. The Board’s policies, moreover, mandate that “no student or adult [will be] asked to change how they feel about” issues of “gender identity and sexual orientation,” ibid., and that, “[i]f a child does not agree with or understand another student’s gender identity or expression or their sexuality . . . , they do not have to change how they feel about it,” id., at 638a; see also id., at 520a.”
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/606/24-297/#tab-opinion-5072096
Alito cherry-picked excerpts and avoided the full context of the curriculum’s goals. The parents were being a bunch of snow flakes about the horror of their kids being exposed to reality. A reality conservatives hard at work trying to deny exists. Ignorance is preferable when their choice to follow a religion comes in conflict with reality.
That’s a lot of words to say very little. Misattributions, bad conclusions, you really are a waste of time. Get your own blog, loser.
So in other words you can’t read. Got it.
Me: Grok, summarize George’s post above.
Grok: A bunch of crap not worth your time. This person has serious mental illnesses. While her psychiatrist probably told her to write a blog, George stupidly decided to glom onto one of a successful law professor. We are all dumber for having her here.
It’s so amusing how many choose to insult and express ignorance at the same time. Everyone reads my posts.
When they can’t offer a cogent rebuttal or anything with substance it’s 5th grade put-downs and insults.
It’s truly sad how bad reading comprehension is here.
“Nobody can understand garbage arguments” is not the same as “people have a reading comprehension problem”, Georgie. It’s just that you and whomever you’re poorly quoting are making lousy arguments.
Says George the groomer. George was in favor of books in school libraries that depicted ten year old boys giving blow jobs to each other. Now here he is saying that this is only reality. He is correct. It is reality in his brain. How dare you keep him from getting his groove on. I’m always happy when he tells you who he really is. It’s very possible that he has a paid up lifetime membership in the Man Boy Love Association. Porn on George.
Thinkitthrough, who never thinks things through,
The excerpts you mention were never on K-12 bookshelf’s. They were alleged, but knowing how easy it is to lead you into ahem…thinking, you really are quite naive.
That’s your problem Georgie. You don’t think. It’s really too bad your mother didn’t take advantage of Roe v Wade when it was still in force.
Thanks again for demonstrating how you can’t make an argument with substance. Your weak insults are hilarious.
Maybe if Georgina here would ever make a decent argument, she’d have a point here. Instead she lashes out with insults, and stupidly fails to realize that she’s doing exactly what she accuses others of doing.
Georgia parent reading sexual content from library at school board meeting is cut off: ‘Inappropriate’
https://www.foxnews.com/us/parent-reading-sexual-content-school-cut-off-board-member-irony
Florida TV Cuts Feed as Ron DeSantis Shows Explicit Content in School Books
https://www.newsweek.com/florida-tv-cuts-feed-ron-desantis-shows-explicit-content-books-1786589
Audio Cut From Broward School Board Meeting As Parent Reads Explicit Passage From Novel
https://redbroward.com/2024/04/16/watch-audio-cut-from-broward-school-board-meeting-as-parent-reads-explicit-passage-from-novel/
Florida school board removes parent from meeting for reading out of sexually explicit book from HS library
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/florida-school-board-removes-parent-from-meeting-for-reading-out-of-sexually-explicit-book-from-hs-library
“Four copies of the book ‘Gender Queer’ were in three of our 22 high schools,” OCPS Director of Media Relations Shari Bobinski said in a statement. “The School Board was unaware this book was available in school media centers. At this time, the book is not on library shelves and is under review.”
@George
It’s great the way you need other people to tell you what your opinion is, and then still others to justify it. Must be nice never having to think for yourself, you are an AI company’s wet dream.
James, so why are you so ignorant about what the dissent said? Obviously you don’t want to read it because you’re afraid it will make sense.
Ah, the siren call of the bigoted leftist. Everyone is ignorant but me. Must be nice to have such (undeserved) self-confidence, Georgie.
Again, you keep demonstrating that you don’t have anything of substance to refute or argue your point of view. That you’re so mentally weak and it shows is why you can only muster insults and name calling. Ignorance seems to be your biggest impediment to understanding anything. Truly sad.
What’s really sad is that you fail to realize that you haven’t even offered an argument or point of view that is intellectually coherent enough to critique. That you’re so challenged as to be unable to see that only reflects poorly on yourself, Georgie.
TS:DR. Too stupid, didn’t read.
HullBobby,
Not worth the time to read. Just scroll past.
* the slow dumb one got more comments than the article. Lgbt is perversion. The nature of perversion is psychiatric. Perversion may or may not be attached to s#x. Power can be confused with it for instance and power must be linked to it or human connection isn’t possible for them. This is the perversion of r#p#.
I won’t even say it. These “justices” are perverted. I doubt they know it.
Fyi- done
I got more comments because too many snowflakes got triggered by the idea that there is a valid counter argument and pointing out Turley is being disingenuous like Alito. Fun times.
No, we just like to make sure that none of your trash goes unanswered, lest someone stumble across it later and actually believe that you had any point worth making. Hint: you don’t. You’re only a legend in your own mind. Stop trying to ride a successful law professor’s coattails.
George: Here’s a substantive question for you, pursuant to your request.
On a daily basis, you generally start out each comment with a derogatory statement about the good professor Turley. Even though you insult him with demeaning commentary (your favorites: “hypocritical,” “naive,” “disingenuous”), you are neither a lawyer nor a scholar, -and certainly not more informed or intelligent than your fellow commenters here. You also have a feigning condescension and feigned superiority with repeated invocation of “ROFL” and LOL.”
We all sense something off here, but by your standards, we are not smart enough to know what the problem is, or why you come here everyday?
So my substantive question for you is (please educate us): What classification do you fall under in the DSM?
This will help us better understand your problem and perhaps be more sympathetic toward you.
yours truly, lin
^ lin.
@George
No, it’s because for some bizarre reason you have chosen, for years, to spread your nonsense on a blog where people really, really know better than you do. You are almost certainly very, very privileged and bored to do this everyday. The rest of us actually care about things and one another. Whatever is below a clown or a mental midget, that is you, George. Your emotional IQ is equally in the toilet. *Flush*
no.no.no. he’s busy with airplanes, remember? But seeking out Turley’s blog every day, checking in multiple times, is very important to him for some reason.
*^^^ If people don’t understand the nature of perversion how do they read and understand “Othello”?
These books do nothing for the understanding of literature but the age group target speaks of social engineering entwined with learning to read.
Perhaps the children will read while engaging in s#x as adults. There first self gratification fantasies? Gosh thanks mom dad dad. I REALLY love my teacher.
WHAT THE HE!! ARE YOU PEOPLE DOING?
(“If parents want to ‘have a say’ in their child’s education, they should homeschool or pay for private school tuition out of their family budget.”) So, you think that anyone who doesn’t like the compulsory education provided by agenda-driven progressives should pay for a private education out of their own pockets?
I agree, amend the school tax so that the amount of funding allotted to each child will now be attached to the child rather than the district; their “own pockets” will now contain the amount that governments now spend per child and let the NEA types compete for the money allotted to each child.
Let the parents decide just which school they want to patronize and let us also see just how empty the public schools will become. Up until the industrial revolution, most children were educated privately or at home. There is no universal requirement that US children need to be drawn through an indoctrination mill at taxpayer’s expense.
Private funding of most activities is the best way to ensure economic efficiency. As has been exposed through DOGE, if a government agency is involved, eventually there will be, not only corruption and collusion, but a very efficient bureaucracy to camouflage such corruption from public view.
It is much more difficult to hide corruption and collusion at the city and county level and that is where our constitution originally placed power – just familiarize yourself with the 10th amendment to understand that.
whimsicalmama,
Well said. We need to pass more parents rights and school choice laws.
George’s religious place of worship is the temple of the Levi zipper. Every service proclaims the sacred right of penis removal on children under the age of consent to please his gods. At the evening service the doctrine of breast removal from young girls is explored in detail. Yet somehow, George would have us believe that he is not a religious man. His incantations prove the opposite.
george
religious snowflakes who can’t handle the thought that their children will be exposed to reality and the changing cultural landscape.
So in other words. What george really ,means, he wants to seduce children.
Typical lib.
*. I looked it over. It does appear to have its origin in pedophilia. Let’s not forget Senator Cruz questions to jackson about lighter sentences for child porn crime. She thinks freedom of press and speech allows child porn as long as the defendant didn’t make the video. He’s just using his freedom to see and listen. This is big business in child porn AI films.
Pedos and Jackson is fine with it. You’ll find it at the theater soon.
//thought that their children will be exposed to reality and the changing cultural landscape//
This sounds like the defense of the “Canadian Indian Residential School System” that blew-up Canada over the non-existent mass graves in Kamloops, British Columbia. In that case the Left found it appalling that the State was allowed to supersede parental rights in order to expose “children to reality and the changing cultural landscape” … for the children’s benefit as well as the benefit of society.
The Left should teach a class about how to acquire, cultivate and live in a state of chronic cognitive dissonance. (sigh)
Gee, one has to wonder how public schools have survived all these years without mandatory LGBT+ material but did so well with teaching students things like reading, writing, math, history, science.
Unlike the potential “Autopen Justice” KB Jackson in her CASA dissenting diatribe, at least Sotomayor’s dissent did not invoke Martians in support of her apocalyptic predictions. And these people claim competency to interpret the Constitution? Yikes!
Plus the juvenile line, “wait for it” that the newest worst Justice wrote.
At least she didn’t write “drumroll please”
Please tell me that she didn’t include that too. I’ve seen better writing from phone-addicted tweens.
Now we know for sure that jackson is a DEI hire.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise the left demands to be told what to think.
I think that the 3 Blind Mice on the Supreme Court have it all wrong. They forget that we are a Federal Republic and chaos is our norm. Now 330 million + people going their own individual way and periodically allying into political parties and other movements in order to further the public good or just keep the government out of our business.
Public school is paid for by our taxes and therefore as voters we have the RIGHT to tell school boards what we will and will not tolerate being taught in our schools. We also have the RIGHT to tell state governments as to whether we want a voucher system WITH OUR TAXES or continue the public sector schools as long as they teach what WE demand they teach.
The teachers unions are beholden to their members for contracts on salaries and benefits and hours of work. That does not mean they have been elected to determine the curriculum.
The Supreme Court has given parents the tools and it is time for the people to inform the school boards what they want and turn them out of office if they fail to perform. The Supreme Court has given parents the greater amount of power to enforce their will and do it by lawsuit if necessary. I would say parent groups now have clear standing in courts of law to sue school boards and force a change.
A caution-school boards and unions may try to intertwine LBGQT++++ in all the subjects in order to complicate their removal from forced attendance. It would behoove parents and boards to limit the subject matter to a single discrete course that can be removed from a students schedule cleanly.
Parents groups should organize and force the issue in school board elections by researching the candidates and sending all candidates questionnaires on all pertinent subjects and then rate and publicize the answers. The Old Saying knowledge is power.
Sure. Because no one was educated before the 2010s, and clearly today’s students are light years ahead in their abilities. 🙄
This is a 90/10 issue to the best of my knowledge; another instance where they *really* picked the wrong line to cross. Sotomayer is lying, and she knows it. It’s despicable.
All they know is how to double down. I’m not even sure they know how to handle pushback and defeat.
As long as we can watch videos of Svelaz (aka George aka Franke aka TDS Green Anonymous aka Gigi aka Dennis aka Wally etc) strutting xis/xer/dem strutt with hair, nails, hips, heels, the future is bright
State Rep. Lee Snodgrass (D-Wis.) once insisted: “If parents want to ‘have a say’ in their child’s education, they should homeschool or pay for private school tuition out of their family budget.”
Pol Pot would be proud. Children belong to the state. Parents are just there to pay for them (that’s sarcasm for those of you on the left).
If conservatives can’t opt out of LGBTQ+MOUSE training, then liberals can’t opt out of the pledge of allegiance… but they do.
Allowing parents to opt-out “threatens the very essence of public education.”
According to Leftists, the basic purpose of education is to propagandize students with their brand of sexual orientation.
And the purpose of the media is to propagandize the public with Leftist politics.
The purpose of art to to propagandize the public with a twisted, bizarre view of life.
And the purpose of business is to propagandize consumers with Leftist memes.
I think there’s a theme here.
It’s the Fabian’s insider strategy. Bore your ideology into a cultural institution. Then rewire it according to your Leftist ideology.
Sounds very Third Reich-ish
The Nazis were socialists, after all. Just national instead of international.
Gender: masculine, feminine refers to sex-correlated attributes (e g. sexual orientation). Trans- refers to a state or process of divergence. The Rainbow symbol and rhetoric in human context are albinophobic. The transgender spectrum has no redeeming value to society or humanity. That said, Diversity (i.e. color judgment, class bigotry), no. DEIsm (e.g. systemic, institutional Diversity), no. The human, humane ideal is diversity of individuals, minority of one. #HateLovesAbortion
any teacher saying that gender is anything other than biology, should be fired!
LGBTQ is a death cult which can produce NO CHILDREN!
“These inner-city rats, they live off the federal government. And that’s one reason we’re $37 trillion in debt. And it’s time we find these rats and we send them back home, that are living off the American taxpayers that are working very hard every week to pay taxes.” – Steven Miller
Is he talking about trumps sons that were born to a non U.S. Citizen?
My mistake Wrong attribution, that was the (non) illustrious Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama
This is the kind of insight we get from the the party of Patty Murray and Mazie Hirono. Real MacArthur geniuses, those two. You’re really bad at this, go back to Politico.
One parent US citizen, therefore children are US citizens. You’re bad at this.
it is time to END Public Unions, the political army of the Democrat Party!
“since parents would like teachers to focus more on core subjects and show greater restraint in pursuing social agendas.”
Exactly!! Only far left wing nuts want this garbage taught. Everyone else wants to see a return to core educational studies.
“If parents want to ‘have a say’ in their child’s education, they should homeschool or pay for private school tuition out of their family budget.”
Then they should not have to pay for public education and homeschool or pay for private school at the same time.
“. . . families would not be allowed to opt out.” (JT)
Why is the Left so vehemently against parents opting out of such propaganda lessons?
Because its collectivist premise is that your children belong to the state —
Chicago Teachers Union (CYU) president Stacy Davis Gates:
“CTU thinks your children are its children.” “Baldwin says the children are always ours. Every single one of them . . . CTU thinks your children are its children. Yes, we do. We do. We do.”
Did anyone notice the undisputed fact that this school first extended opt out and then quit because too many parents opted out? In this culture war liberals may be horrified to see their own tool applied against them from the Vietnam Era: What if they gave a war and nobody came?
My mistake Wrong attribution, that was the (non) illustrious Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama
So glad I’m retired. There is no way I could have stomached pushing this illogical, LBTGQ stuff on my HS students. The thought of this instruction being in ES makes me fear for my grandchildren.
When students can’t read, write, do simple math or for that matter think analytically spending time on gender studies is a waste of time.
Parents of gender confused students are responsible for dealing with that issue NOT THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEMS.
Your pathetic attempt at snark has you replying to the wrong post, even? You’re terrible at this, get on back to Politico where losers like you belong.