BY GWENDOLYN SIMS | P J MEDIA
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Last week, PJ Media covered the hysterical and threatening letter written by National School Boards Association
(NSBA) president Viola Garcia. In the letter sent to none other than President
Joe Biden, Garcia accused America’s concerned parents of threats, intimidation,
and even “hate crimes” rising to the level of “domestic terrorism” for having
the gall to speak up at their local school board meetings. The NSBA also
requested “federal assistance to stop threats and acts of violence against
school board members, school officials, and teachers.”
This week, however, the leaders of almost two dozen parent organizations fired back with a scathing letter of their own—and it is epic. The letter, written on behalf of members of several parent organizations, made clear that the NSBA’s claims of “hate” and “terrorism” were shameful:
NSBA
cites a tiny number of minor incidents in order to insinuate that parents who
are criticizing and protesting the decisions of school boards are engaging in,
or may be engaging in, “domestic terrorism and hate crimes.” NSBA even invokes
the PATRIOT Act. The association of legitimate protest with terrorism and
violence reveals both your contempt for parents and your unwillingness to
understand and hear the sincere cries of parents on behalf of their children.
To equate parents with terrorists dishonors the thousands of victims of actual
terrorism around the world. Have you no shame?
The parent organizations pointed out that the NSBA’s call
for the federal government to use its power against parents was in itself a
menacing and “thinly veiled threat, intended to intimidate into silence and
submission the very constituents that [the NSBA] members ostensibly represent.”
I mean, what else would you call asking the president to sic the Department of
Justice, the FBI, Homeland Security, the Secret Service Assessment Center, and
the Postal Service on America’s parents?
By contrast, America’s parent organizations
“unequivocally oppose violence” and are made up of, not “domestic terrorists,”
but “concerned citizens who care deeply about their community’s children – and
who are concerned by the direction that America’s schools have taken.” It’s no
secret many parents across the country are angry with what is happening (or not
happening) in our taxpayer-funded schools:
Citizens
are angry that school boards and school officials around the country are
restricting access to public meetings, limiting public comment, and in some
cases conducting business via text messages in violation of state open meetings
laws.
They
are angry that schools are charging them thousands of dollars in public records
requests to view curriculum and training materials that impact their children
and that should be open to the public by default.
They
are angry that pandemic-related learning losses have compounded the already-low
reading, writing, and math proficiency rates in America’s schools.
Parents are ultimately angry that rather than working to
improve student achievement so our children actually learn in our country’s schools,
“large numbers of districts have chosen to fund, often with hundreds of
thousands of dollars in taxpayer money, ‘social justice’ and ‘diversity,
equity, and inclusion’ programs with finite resources.”
It is very revealing that instead of listening to and
addressing the concerns of parents, the NSBA chose “to smear their constituents
rather than engage with them in good faith.” The concerns of parents are, of
course, due to the leftist policies embraced and implemented by the school
boards that are supposedly accountable to the parents of their respective
districts.
“It is appalling that [NSBA] would choose to threaten
your fellow Americans for having the courage to hold you accountable for your
failures,” said the parent organizations. “We will not be bullied. We will not
have our speech chilled. We have a constitutional right to petition our
elected officials, and we will continue to do so” in order to “address
and improve the quality of America’s public education system for all
children.”
Bravo to America’s “parents, grandparents, and concerned
citizens” for not being intimidated by the NSBA’s shameful tactics and for
putting America’s children first in the face of blatant leftist bullying.
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BY STEPHEN KRUISER |P J MEDIA
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One of the things I was grateful for all during the Wuhan
Chinese Bat Flu nightmare is that my daughter is older and we didn’t have to
navigate the school shutdown stuff. I know it was an enduring shock to the
system to my friends and colleagues who have kids at home of all ages and had
to figure out how to keep the education going.
An unexpected byproduct of all of that has been that
parents began to notice more and more some of the unsavory things being passed
along to the youth of America via our taxpayer-funded public school
leftist-indoctrination-mill system.
Operating under the presumption that they had a say in
the lives of their children as well as the way their tax dollars are spent, the
parents began making their displeasure clear to various school boards around
the country.
Well, few things irritate the public education indoctrination
pimps more than parents who are involved and aware.
The powers that be ran their concerns about the pesky
parents up the flagpole to the Biden administration. As Ol’ Joe is literally in
bed with the teachers’ unions, the power of the federal government was
immediately weaponized to handle the problem.
In what can only be described as a tactic to suppress
dissent, Attorney General Merrick Garland directed the FBI and U.S. attorneys
to meet with federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial leaders in every
federal judicial district in the next 30 days. What is the threat to the
homeland requiring this urgent response? Parents are objecting to critical race
theory and other left-wing curricula in their children’s classrooms.
Once again, thank you Mitch McConnell for keeping this
psychopath off of the Supreme Court.
The great news is that the parents who already weren’t
amused are really not amused now.
Last week, PJ Media covered the hysterical and threatening letter written by National School Boards Association
(NSBA) president Viola Garcia. In the letter sent to none other than President
Joe Biden, Garcia accused America’s concerned parents of threats, intimidation,
and even “hate crimes” rising to the level of “domestic terrorism” for having
the gall to speak up at their local school board meetings. The NSBA also
requested “federal assistance to stop threats and acts of violence against
school board members, school officials, and teachers.”
This week, however, the leaders of almost two dozen
parent organizations fired back with a scathing letter of their own—and it is
epic. The letter, written on behalf of members of several parent
organizations, made clear that the NSBA’s claims of “hate” and
“terrorism” were shameful:
My favorite line from the letter is: “To equate parents
with terrorists dishonors the thousands of victims of actual terrorism around
the world. Have you no shame?”
I think we long ago established that the American left
doesn’t even have a passing familiarity with shame. I would love to be able to
say that this is beyond the pale, even for them, but they’ve been pulling this
“everyone who disagrees with our politics is a terrorist” nonsense for a while
now and that’s really been escalating this year.
Make no mistake, the Democrats very definitely want to
use the government to shut down any dissent. They’re letting their fascist
freak-flag fly all the time now.
Angering the moms and dads of America was a real
boneheaded move, though. Even this administration must realize it can’t start
rolling up federal paddy wagons to PTA meetings and hauling everyone away. This
is a fight that they probably already know they shouldn’t have picked, hence
the overkill by getting the DOJ involved.
I keep saying that the incessant, egregious overreach by
Biden’s Democrats is going to backfire on them in a big way. The mobilization
of parents who are committed to preventing the teaching of extreme leftist
insanity like Critical Race Theory is hopefully just the beginning of the
blowback.
There’s hope for this hot mess of a country yet.
