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National School Board Association Demands Biden Treat Fed-Up Parents as Domestic Terrorists
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“I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach,” McAuliffe told his opponent.
Glenn Youngkin: “I believe parents should be in charge of their kids’ education.”
Terry McAuliffe: “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” #VAgov pic.twitter.com/LqIlRMLKgj
— Glenn Youngkin (@GlennYoungkin) September 29, 2021
There’s no question that critical race theory has become a flashpoint issue that has deepened the divide between the left and the right in America.
On Wednesday, the leftist National School Board Association penned a letter to President Joe Biden pleading with him to treat parents who oppose the teaching of critical race theory and mask mandates as domestic terrorists.
The NSBA begins by asking “for federal law enforcement and other assistance to deal with the growing number of threats of violence and acts of intimidation occurring across the nation.”
“Now, we ask that the federal government investigate, intercept, and prevent the current threats and acts of violence against our public school officials through existing statutes, executive authority, interagency and intergovernmental task forces, and other extraordinary measures to ensure the safety of our children and educators, to protect interstate commerce, and to preserve public school infrastructure and campuses.”
The group said they have already called on local and state law enforcement agencies to “prevent further disruptions to educational services and school district operations.” This is insufficient because “these threats and acts of violence have become more prevalent.”
What is really needed to address these threats, the NSBA writes, is assistance from federal law enforcement agencies – specifically the DOJ, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Secret Service.
They also “request the assistance of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service to intervene against threatening letters and cyberbullying attacks that have been transmitted to students, school board members, district administrators, and other educators.”
And here is the clincher: “As these acts of malice, violence, and threats against public school officials have increased, the classification of these heinous actions could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes.”
“NSBA requests that such review examine appropriate enforceable actions against these crimes and acts of violence under the Gun-Free School Zones Act, the PATRIOT Act in regards to domestic terrorism, the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, the Violent Interference with Federally Protected Rights statute, the Conspiracy Against Rights statute, an Executive Order to enforce all applicable federal laws for the protection of students and public school district personnel, and any related measure.”
NSBA presents school board members as victims. They make the claim that “extremist hate organizations” are showing up at school board meetings and “inciting chaos.” Parents are also “spreading misinformation.”
“These threats and acts of violence are affecting our nation’s democracy at the very foundational levels, causing school board members — many who are not paid — to resign immediately and/or discontinue their service after their respective terms.”
If only they would.
The letter cites examples of the pushback school boards have encountered from fed-up parents. The NSBA details several threats of violence and thuggish acts against the teachers and board members who truly care about the children.
Let’s get this straight. The left insists on presenting a controversial and poisonous Marxist theory as the truth to their children and parents are supposed to accept it. Because like McAuliffe, they don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
Critical race theory is, by definition, a theory. A theory is someone’s opinion. In this case, it’s the opinion of Karl Marx, the author of The Communist Manifesto. He advanced the idea of pitting one class against another as a means of achieving and maintaining control over the masses. There was a reason Karl Marx was reviled by so many in his day and ultimately exiled.
Why would anyone in America think this extremism is something to aspire to? Does the left really understand what they’re fighting for? It sure doesn’t look like it.
By imposing this radical ideology on American children against the will of their parents, progressives have migrated into very dangerous territory. And they should not be surprised by the consequences.
Consider how this would be handled in nature. An incensed mother bear catching an animal trying to harm her cub would tear the perpetrator to pieces.
These parents are not domestic terrorists. They are rightly concerned when they discover their children are being indoctrinated by anti-American propaganda. Rather than being taught an accurate version of history, their children are learning to view the world through the lens of race.
Unfortunately, NSBA’s letter will likely be taken seriously by Team Biden, an administration that has slowly revealed itself to be corrupt, power-hungry, shameless, and I would go so far as to say evil.
In a discussion about his then-newly released book, “American Marxism,” Fox News’ host Mark Levin told viewers, “We are not looking into the abyss. We are IN the abyss.”
Sadly, he’s right.
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Defund the NEA. Yesterday! Nothing but a bunch of angry, Godless feminazis, who couldn’t care less about your children, if you ask me.
It is attitudes and beliefs as expressed in the letter written by NSBA that will provoke large scale activism and revolt by parents (and grandparents) that might indeed resemble domestic terrorism, as “they” define it.
The two phrases emphasized are the source of a host of the nation’s current woes: the governance by executive authority and lumping every possibility under the sun into the Interstate Commerce Clause.
The intent of the use of the Interstate Commerce Clause is the very poor and defective reason given to grant Federal authority over a local issue.
This is why it is incumbent upon critics to provide and document specific examples–hopefully in the form of tangible lesson plans, teaching materials, etc.–of what is being taught. CRT is an amorphous term and simply using it as a catch-all for complaints will not be effective since it leaves defenders of the practice room to move around. I live very close to ground zero for this debate in Virginia, and the most effective weapons have been documents indicating exactly what the problem is.
My son is a member of the NEA, and he’s not a femin… nevermind.
Check out this article from Twitchy about a VA middle school teacher who indoctrinates students. PLEASE look at all three tweets!
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2021/10/01/fat-drunk-and-stupid-is-no-way-to-go-through-life-loudoun-county-va-middle-school-teacher-thinks-its-funny-to-openly-brag-about-indoctrinating-your-kidsa/
I was wondering why that was in there! I didn’t know that. Thanks for informing me.
Teachers can really say just about anything when they’re in a classroom with students. Students need to start recording them on their cell phones.
There have been a few instances of that as you’re probably aware. But actual teaching materials have not been that hard to come by. It seems teachers/school boards have been so convinced of the rectitude of their stance (i.e., living in a bubble) that they did not go to great lengths to conceal racially-motivated attacks on “whiteness” in the curricula. You’re probably also familiar with the reprehensible “privilege walks.”
We need declare Communism to be a contagious health emergency and issue a bunch of orders to stop they pandemic.
Yesterday’s Deplorable is today’s Domestic Terrorist. Take them to a hospital and drug them senseless to cure them of their gun ownership.
It was probably drafted by Team ‘Biden’. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a ‘settlement’ of a lawfare suit secretly lodged by the union that will commit the Federal Gummint to funding DoE SWAT teams (and, why not, drones) to be directed by the union against their ideological enemies ie us. Chief Justice Roberts will uphold the settlement in order to preserve the ‘dignity’ of the Court, but only after a decade of trying to avoid hearing the case at all.
Politicizing law enforcement has two functions. The first is to nationalize policing. The UK is an example of nationalized policing. All decisions are made by the Home Office in London. An example of how this can go wrong is the Rotherham debacle.
The second function is to destroy trust between local police and local residents. The second function is necessary to accomplish nationalized policing through DOJ Consent Decrees. Your local law enforcement will answer to Washington DC and your local concerns will no longer come first.
Very good point about nationalizing policing. Nancy Pelosi’s move to create regional offices for the US Capitol Police, who report to her, is a stealth step to creating a national police force. If they arrest you, the local cops can’t do anything about it.
Federal agencies can’t be reformed. Abolishing compulsory education at the state level is the only sure way to avoid all this dangerous nonsense.
At this point, I predict that Youngkin will win. Perhaps this will be a wake-up call to woke Dem’s. Probably not.
Woke Dems think that Americans chose them. No, Americans rejected Trump and by default elected Biden.
That’s exactly where my mind went, too, Doug. We’ll be hearing more about their activity.
I wouldn’t want the harridans pictured anywhere near my children!
Waiting for someone to mention the cliche, “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.”
As always, follow the money.
Some months ago, I noted in a post on ricochet that 100 billion dollars was set up as Fed funding for schools in the USA to adapt to “needed COVID policies.”
Now I am hearing that funding has grown to over one Trillion dollars!
Has anyone else here seen the youtube video of the local mom standing up to the school board in Vandalia Illinois? I wanted to watch it a second time as it was so spectacular. She had researched exactly what dollar amounts the county health and school officials were receiving to keep the kids masked up and plastic enclosure-protected from each other. I wish I had noted the link but it seems to be erased from my history due to virus and ad tracker scans I ran.
Tell the NSBA that those parents were staging “mostly peaceful protests”. And infinitely more peaceful than the protests that NSBA endorsed last summer.
That is an extremely common attitude among liberal/leftist school teachers. Sometimes it is expressed as a declaration of “academic freedom”: Teachers are free to indoctrinate students however they wish. Parents are free to shut up and pay their taxes. This illustrates, once again, how the left has abandoned (as if it ever sincerely embraced) the idea of self-government.
They understand alright.
I thought that was odd.
Except that it’s BS. Wickard v. Filburn will go down at some point.
Just like Roe v Wade, right? Our courts, yes, I’m looking at you John Roberts, give me no reason for hope.
Lots of government agencies voluntarily enter into consent decrees with leftist organizations (particularly environmentalists). This way, they can
launderfunnel money into those organizations and tell the public, “Hey, we have to do it because of this decree.”Odd, how the debate between Parent and Unionized Public sector employees (euphemistically called Teachers based on the assumption that a job description describes a real inclination) on what to instruct students never seems to focus on the basic curriculum of reading, writing and arithmetic but the proselytization of immoral values to the degradation of the culture.
The NEA and AFT go to wire to be granted the right to corrupt children but show little interest in actual edification, instruction and enlightenment.