Saturday, November 5, 2022

The Battle Over Parents’ Rights in Education Is Just Getting Started

 Jay W. Richards, Ph.D., Director, DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family

It should come as no surprise that parents have been fighting for their rights so vociferously when it comes to public education.

Critical race theory is far less shocking than the radical gender ideology that seems to have overtaken our nation’s schools.

Universal school choice for everyone would not just make schools better and more competitive. It would make them less of an arena for the culture war.

  "It should come as no surprise that parents have been fighting for their rights so vociferously when it comes to public education. They’re fighting because they sense that those rights are under attack.

"It started with the lockdowns in 2020. For the first time, many parents suddenly saw, courtesy of online conferencing apps like Zoom, what their kids were being taught. And they didn’t like it: Toxic and divisive ideas about race—disguised as lessons on slavery and racism—contradicted the belief in racial equality that most Americans—whatever their politics—shared with civil rights leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"But critical race theory is far less shocking than the radical gender ideology that seems to have overtaken our nation’s schools. It teaches children that “some people are boys, some people are girls, some people are both, neither, or somewhere in between”’—as one popular children’s book puts it.

"Schools are promoting the notion that some kids—perhaps many kids if recent trends continue—are born in the wrong body. Suddenly, from Florida to Texas to Wyoming, parents are discovering that schools are teaching, seemingly across the curriculum, that an internal sense of gender trumps biological sex. Worse, some schools are changing, at their students’ request—but without their parents’ knowledge or consent—their students’ names and pronouns to conform to a child’s surprising new “gender identity.” 

"When parents come to school board meetings to complain, far too many are met with silence or risible accusations that they are politicizing education. Parents have the primary right and responsibility to raise and teach their children.

"Many parents delegate part of the teaching task to schools, in an act of trust. Rather than acting as faithful stewards of that trust, too many schools have decided that it’s their job to alienate kids from “regressive” views of their parents.".

"Is it any wonder that this has proved controversial?We could dissipate some of the heat by increasing the rights of parents over their children’s schooling. States should connect school money to children, rather than to school buildings. Universal school choice for everyone—rich and poor, conservative and liberal—would not just make schools better and more competitive. It would make them less of an arena for the culture war that is otherwise roiling our culture.". . .

Increasing chaos engulfs CNN as its ratings hit rock bottom with no end point in sight

While CNN seems to this writer to be staffed with high school airheads, much more insidious is MSNBC. What channel sinks lower nor more venomous than Joy Reid, Joe Scarborough, Nicolle Wallace, Chris Hayes and the mostly-peaceful- but-fiery Ali Velshi, to name a few.


Peter Barry Chowka    "Big news this week in the world of left-wing mainstream cable news.  It almost gives one hope that the fake news house of cards that has ruled the roost since 2016 or earlier may be coming to a well deserved end.

"While the rest of the MSM won't admit and scarcely report it, the future of fake news leader CNN is bleak at best and possibly terminal.  Its leader during the Trump era of pioneering woke news, Jeff Zucker, was offed earlier this year.  His successor, leftist programmer Chris Licht, has produced nothing but failures.  These are now reaching critical mass as the channel's prime-time hour at 9 P.M. lacks a host while ratings for CNN's new nightly show from 10 P.M. to 12 A.M. are shockingly low, possibly the worst in the channel's entire history.  In addition, the move of leftist prime time host Don Lemon to co-hosting the channel's morning show is proving to be another looming disaster.

"The two most recent cable television ratings reports, by Nielsen Media Research, for Tuesday and Wednesday of this week are astonishing.  On Wednesday, for instance, CNN's 11 P.M. hour, CNN Tonight, hosted by Alysin Camerota and Laura Coates, had only 260,000 total viewers.  At the same time, Gutfeld! on Fox News had almost ten times as many viewers — 2.5 million.  In the advertiser-preferred demographic, viewers between the ages of 25 and 54, CNN had only 44,000 viewers versus Fox News Channel's 417,000.  The number of total viewers CNN had is approximately 0.1% of the U.S. population.

"These ratings are not anomalies but are reflective of most of the day, when Fox News had more than twice as many viewers overall as CNN and MSNBC combined.". . .

Who has really been running our country?

Right now, job number one is openly exposing the "shadow government" that is really running America, and doing everything possible to drive them completely out.  Seeing what is happening now (and learning from the past), it is not an exaggeration to say that we are all on a freight train headed to hell.  If we don't derail it soon, there will eventually be no turning back. 


Brian Camenker  "On the day that Joe Biden was sworn into office, he signed dozens of extensively radical executive orders.  Then the Biden administration began populating the federal government and the federal Judiciary — including the new Supreme Court vacancy — with hundreds (probably thousands) of the most extreme anti-American people imaginable. 

"The administration has re-crafted an enormous number of laws and regulations — often illegally — to push the hard-left, woke, LGBT agendas throughout business, government, education, and society in general.  U.S. foreign policy, including the hideous abandonment in Afghanistan and unhinged Ukrainian response, has clearly been coordinated to weaken America and strengthen our enemies.  Our military is being emasculated — and proselytized to consider patriotic Americans as the enemy.

"The Biden administration ignores our immigration laws and welcomes millions of illegal aliens to swarm across our southern border, and then methodically ships them to cities across the country (and even gives them cell phones to use).

"The administration's aggressive "green new deal" is paralyzing our transportation system and causing crippling inflation never seen in this country before.  Federal agencies, spearheaded by the Justice Department and FBI, have viciously become weaponized against conservatives, at the same time allowing "Antifa" and other left-wing hoodlum groups to terrorize citizens at will.

"As many have observed, it's a controlled demolition of America.". . .

This has all the fingerprints of the Soros organization.  The people there are extremely intelligent and proficient, they passionately hate America, they've been leading up to this for several decades, and they have access to untold wealth and influence.  Everything mentioned above is something they are more than capable of organizing and carrying out.

The Walls Are Closing In on Woke DAs

American Greatness

The media wants us to believe record crime spikes arriving on the heels of a series of rogue district attorneys getting into office must be pure coincidence.
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 "Throughout America’s run as the freest country in history, we have implemented a broad range of ideas on governance, with varying results. Having a Bill of Rights in our Constitution, for example, was a very good idea. Allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections, not so much.

"Among the notions firmly in the “bad idea” box has been the recent trend of advancing radical, “progressive” district attorneys in a slew of metropolitan areas. These DAs have unleashed a torrent of violent crime, illegal aliens, and general lawlessness that has made these once-sparkling cities unlivable. With residents of these cities pushed to the breaking point, many are beginning now to push back and it may signal the end of this horribly destructive experiment. 

"Installing extremist prosecutors into large U.S. cities has been the pet project of George Soros, the Hungarian-born leftist billionaire who appears fixated on dismantling capitalism in America. By funneling donations through a network of political action committees and nonprofits, Soros has been successful the last few years in getting DAs elected who push through initiatives like eliminating cash bail, “reimagining” the role of police, and assisting criminal aliens to avoid deportation.

"Thanks in large part to fawning coverage from the corporate media and support from leftist politicians in Washington, these radical prosecutors were allowed to put their policies into place. Today, the consequences of those policies can no longer be hidden or explained away. After crime spiked to absurd levels in San Francisco, the residents of that proudly progressive city voted in June to remove their rogue DA Chesa Boudin.  

"On the watch of the Soros-backed Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, the city set an all-time record for homicides in 2021. After Krasner’s now-defunct “Conviction Integrity Unit” helped free Jamir Harris from prison for a 2013 murder, Harris is now wanted for the murder of a 50 year-old Philadelphia man in September.

"In 2021, an investigation by the Immigration Reform Law Institute revealed the extent to which Krasner is turning Philadelphia into a magnet for criminal aliens. Shortly after assuming office in 2017, he appointed immigration attorney Caleb Arnold to consult on criminal cases involving non-citizens.". . .

Brian Lonergan is an adjunct fellow of the Center for American Greatness and director of communications at the Immigration Reform Law Institute, a public interest law firm working to defend the rights and interests of the American people from the negative effects of mass migration.

Ngo interview: Hungary defends the banning of transitioning children

 Andy Ngo Live


Budapest—On Oct. 25, 2022, Andy Ngo interviewed Balazs Orban, the political director of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban (they are not related) and MP in the nationalist-conservative Fidesz Party. Hungary is being taken to court by the European Commission after it passed the Children Protection Act in June 2021 which banned "LGBT propaganda" for minors. Hungary had already banned gender transitioning services for minors but the act further bans what LGBT content can be taught in schools or shown to children. A referendum put up to voters prior to the law being passed showed that over 90 percent opposed the transitioning of children. Please follow and support my journalism at https://www.andy-ngo.com,