One of the recurring news stories over the last few months is that parents are speaking out at school board meetings to protest Critical Race Theory, masks, and transgender pressure in their public schools. The schools respond by trying to silence them and there have been a few minor scuffles that local police quickly settled. The National School Boards Association (“NSBA”) responded by demanding help from the FBI—and “moderate” U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has agreed.
George Floyd’s drug overdose while under police restraint gave the leftists populating American schools license to put their Critical Race Theory and transgender agendas on overdrive in American schools. Parents have responded with protests at school board meetings (see, e.g., here, here, and here, to give just a few examples).
In turn, school boards want to silence parents. They’ve put limitations on their speech, cut their mics, and arrested them. I’m certain that some parents have sent nasty letters or left angry phone messages. Ironically, if they were arguing in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens and followed politicians onto airplanes, into bathrooms, or stalking their houses (as the left does often), that would be a big “meh.” Indeed, we’d be told that the politicians deserved it for not listening to the voice of the people.
But when parents are horrified by what public schools are teaching their children—Whites are inferior, kids can magically change sex, and masks forever—that’s a different story. On September 29, the NSBA wrote to Joe Biden begging for federal protection for school board members.
The letter alleges “the growing number of
threats of violence and acts of intimidation occurring across the
nation,” beyond local police departments’ abilities. However, John
Hinderaker took the time to follow-up on the news stories the NSBA cited to justify its plea for the FBI and those allegations seem overwrought:.........To Read More....
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