Denver, CO – The Washington Post recently published an article titled, “School board members face dark new reality of abuse, threats from parents,” by Hannah Natanson.
The article tells the story of Beth Barts, a (now former) member of the Loudoun County School Board. That’s THE Loudoun County, Virginia. Loudoun County has been the epicenter of the fight for parents’ rights in the education system this year. Loudoun School Board took a ton of heat from parents after they came out in support for teaching “Critical Race Theory” (CRT) in their schools.
CRT is talked about almost night and day on conservative media, and many consider it as revisionist history with socialist intentions. But that’s not all, Loudoun School Board also received criticism from its parents when It mandated all their students wear masks for this school year.
Parents stood up and took action. School board meetings were no longer procedural dribble where the board could do whatever they wanted unopposed. Instead, they were a platform for parents to speak their minds. One Loudoun meeting was so packed to the brim with irate parents, it lead to arrests for COVID capacity violation.
The school board refused to listen to their electorate – those who have a right to control their children’s education – the parents. Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe even came out publicly stating “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” That statement just may have cost him his election.
But this is happening all over the country. The meetings have become so tumultuous that the National School Board Association (NSBA) openly threatened parents who argued with school board members in a letter.
Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a Department of Justice letter backing up the NSBA and threatened to arrest parents who didn’t comply. Garland even called parent activism a “form of domestic terrorism.” The public backlash eventually forced NSBA to rescind their letter and resulted in a Congressional hearing for Garland (who has yet to walk back the DOJ letter).
But back to Barts. . .
Barts resigned her position after even more public backlash following the sexual assault of two high school girls in Loudoun County. The assaults were perpetrated by the same male student in two separate high schools in the women’s bathrooms. The perpetrator allegedly self-identified as female and gained access to the restrooms without any pause.
That bathroom policy was enacted a couple of years ago, a measure that Barts voted for. Worse yet, the school district went as far as to cover up that the assaults happened at all. The Washington Post article includes the stories of a few more school board members nationwide who have faced similar pressure from their constituents.
Look, no one should receive death threats, not to school board members, or anyone for that matter. But the article is not even focused on threats. Instead, the Washington Post makes it evident that they disagree with a parent’s ability to have input on education. Just read it for yourself.
It tries to paint itself as a sob story of school board members getting yelled at by this angry and unruly mob of parents, but the fact of the matter is that parents have a reason to be angry – a reason to yell. Because they are being silenced. Silenced by the media (like they are in the article), silenced by the school boards, silenced by the teachers’ unions, and silenced by the state and federal governments.
The Washington Post is clear. They don’t care about parents.
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let’s go Brandon!
Ordinary taxpayers cannot defeat the public school system. But they can abandon it. As with many issues, the heart of this problem lies within the notion of public education itself. Clearly, our public system, K-12 through our best universities, has collapsed intellectually. Currently, the U.S. is surviving its terrible system but we plant in our youth an almost indestructible socialist taproot. Teachers will tell you breaking away is impossible. But education is legally and logically a private matter.
The central problem is acceptance of government control of our children. Parents also don’t feel they have a financial stake in education. School taxes are blended with property taxes and often are forgotten because they’re mandatory whether or not they have school-aged children. Students will improve when parents feel education is a financial acquisition. And parents will be more engaged when their private money is at stake.
The primary problem with the K-12 segment is it’s a monopoly in a nation where monopoly is considered a criminal enterprise for everyone else. Another major flaw is taxpayers, with no children in public schools, have no voice in where and how their money is spent. These people make up a vast majority but the government chooses for them. Taxpayer money also passes directly to colleges without regard to whether students succeed or default on their loans.
Public teaching has been fundamentally transformed into an enormous entitlement, and dispensing entitlements is the heart of the democrat strategy. Political corruption is a byproduct and easy loans have created colossal private debt, far beyond forgiveness or refunds. A solution is state governments may immediately allow per pupil allocations to any accredited institution according to parental choice. Many states already have such private systems.
Free enterprise education eliminates the ability to trample one civil right by supporting an opposing civil right. It also precludes indoctrination to unwelcome political agendas. School choice is defined neither by teacher nor the union. We need a robust free market able to deliver general subjects as well as specialties including athletics and arts. It’s a bad idea for any government to educate its children but existing government school facilities should be available for lease by private institutions.
If the Democrats,but as I call them demonic stay in office they will take all of our rights away. They are evil
Are self-identified Democrats born stupid or does something happen to them later that causes them to act that way? I ask this question in response to the way the Democrats think that parents should not be responsible for what their children are being taught in school. When a man and woman decide to have a child the government isn’t there when the child is conceived. It is those who will become the parents. When the child is young it is not the government that feeds, cleans, teaches and nurtures the child. It is the parents. As the child grows and matures it is not the government that instills the lessons of life the child will carry into adulthood. It is the parents. So, why in hell do those in government believe parents should have NO say in what their children are being taught in school?
Our Government has become Marxist and Nazi’s
In my opinion the union(s) are running the school systems. The union brings both money and votes to those who run for office. It is then a forgone conclusion that laws will be passed by these “elected?” persons. One solution that would help would be every bill (at all levels) must contain only one subject thus we would not be inclined to allow stupid and costly pork to be added just to get what is actually needed. I do know in my state if an initiative is proposed by the non-elected public it is one narrow subject with many hoops to jump through to even get it put on a ballot.
this is what you get with a illegal president, socialist pigs ( animal farm) in a brain dead area
There was an invasion of alien bean pods from outer space that body-snatched citizens of California and turned them into non-human replicas of human beings. They are no longer individuals but serve the ‘collective’ like ants or lemmings. By now their species has spread all over the US, concentrated in epicenters of population. They subsumed the old Democratic Party and are now called DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS. The moral of the story: don’t fall asleep!