By Judd Garrett
The bill in question, Florida’s HB 1557, was signed into law on Monday by Governor Ron DeSantis.
The bill is often mischaracterized as the “don’t say gay” bill, but actually
never uses the expression, “don’t say gay” or even uses the word “gay”. So, the
people who are opposed to this bill, are lying about the bill. When people lie like
this, it means they want something much more objectionable than what they claim
they are fighting for. They are doing what they always do, shrouding their
sinister agenda, under a more reasonable goal because they don’t want anyone
knowing what they are actually up to. This is why teachers do not want parents
involved in their students’ education because their indoctrination will be
exposed. The at home learning brought on by Covid exposed the nefarious
workings of the schools and teachers because parents saw first-hand what was
being taught to their children.
So, after spending 2 years locking kids out of school,
masking them, and forcing them to get vaccinated to protect them from a virus
that wasn’t any deadlier to the students than the seasonal flu, the people who
did all that are now vilifying the students’ parents who want to protect them
from the poison of radical gender ideology and Critical Race Theory, both of
which will have a more devastating effect on the students’ lives than Covid.
Should we be teaching 6-year-old children about sex, much
less homosexuality and transgenderism? In any other context, a grown adult
talking to a 6-year-old about sex, sexuality, hormones, and genitalia would be
considered borderline criminal. Do we really want adult teachers having these
types of intimate conversations with 5, 6, 7-year-olds? Medical doctors are not
allowed to be alone with minor children during an appointment to protect the
child from potential inappropriate interaction, yet we are opening the door for
other adults to talk to children about sex. Are we insane?
Discussions of sex and sexuality with children can be
seen in the same vein as teaching religion in public schools. Just as we would
not want public school teachers imposing their religious beliefs onto children
who come from families of all various religious backgrounds, we do not want
teachers imposing their beliefs on sexuality onto children who come from
families who teach differing concepts of sexual morality which are rooted in
their differing religious beliefs. Beyond the teaching of the pure biology of
human reproduction, the teacher should have no other role into the students’
sexuality or sex life. And the fact that these teachers and school boards are
so eager to get involved in these minor students’ sex life is very disturbing
and revealing.
The fervent and misguided objection to this bill by
teachers leads one to believe that maybe those objecting get some sort of
pleasure out of exposing young children to this type of sexuality. They pretend
that since this interaction occurs with a teacher, it makes it okay, as if a
teacher exploiting his or her position to have sex with a student never
happens. The school environment in our country is not pristine when it comes to
sexual matters between teachers and students. The incidents of teachers acting
sexually inappropriately with their students is on a rise and at a disturbing
level, so opening the door to teachers broaching the subject of sexuality with
students is creating a potentially dangerous situation. Every week, on average,
15 students in America are sexually victimized by the
educators entrusted to protect them. And we want to make it easier for
teachers to talk about sexuality with the most vulnerable students in the
school? Is this really what we want to do? Are we insane? The people on the
left continually tell the government to stay out of their bedrooms, yet they
are the ones who are opening the door of young students’ bedrooms to adult
teachers who happen to work for the government.
American teachers can barely educate our children in
reading, writing and arithmetic, and they want to take on the highly nuanced
and complex issues surrounding human sexuality? Our teachers are failing our
children across the board. Only thirty-five percent of 4th graders in America are
reading at or above proficiency level. Out of the top 64
industrialized countries in the world, American students rank 30th in math, 8th in reading, and
11th in science, even though the US is in the top 4 spending on education. We
spend 37%
more per student than the average industrialized nation, yet our
academic performance does not mirror the money invested. Maybe, we are lagging
behind because we spend too much time and money indoctrinating, and not
educating. And that is why many teachers want to do away with the traditional
grading system and standardized testing, because those measures of the academic
proficiency of the students expose the teachers’ inability to teach.
Beliefs and attitudes about sex and human sexuality are
not scientific fact or universally accepted. There are many competing and
conflicting attitudes towards sexuality. Do we really want adults who we barely
know, and who may not have gained our trust, teaching our children about
homosexuality, transgenderism, premarital sex, abortion, promiscuity? These are
all subjects that will eventually come up when you open this door. How many of
these teachers will be able to resist the temptation of imposing their own
personal beliefs about these issue on the students? Have we looked at American
politics lately? All we see are people imposing their political beliefs on
others. Do we think that will stop at sex? Of course not. As we see with
political issues in our schools, conservative students are continually shut
down and silence by the liberal teachers and administrators who run the
schools. So, the sexuality that will be taught in schools will come strictly from
the far-left perspective. There will be no room for disagreement or dissenting
from the morality (or lack thereof) that is being taught in these matters, and
as always, those in charge want to keep the parents blind to what is going on.
In New Jersey, a public middle school was caught teaching children about transgender hormone therapy without the
parents’ knowledge or consent. That is how much respect schools
have for the parents.
Many of these students will get conflicting messages
about sex because much of what is being taught in school will be dramatically
different from the beliefs and morals that many of these children’s parents are
teaching in the home. And we wonder why we have a sharp increase of kids
throughout our country who are confused about their own sexuality. Many believe
that parents should not have a say about what is taught to their children, that
the so-called “professionals” should control the curriculum. Remember, the
teachers have no vested interest in the student lives, none. After the final
bell rings, the teachers go home to their house, and their family, and any
problem that arises in the student’s lives based on attitudes and morality that
are being indoctrinated in school, the parents must deal with, confront, and
work through, not the teachers.
The teachers have no real concern about the life outcomes
of the students. How much sleep are American school teachers losing from the
fact that only thirty-seven percent of 12th graders are reading at or above
proficiency level, and are not prepared to be a productive
citizens? Not only aren’t the kids being taught, their lack of proficiency is
not being identified by the teachers, as they are pushing kids ahead who are
not working at grade level. The teachers’ unions have made it virtually
impossible to fire teachers for poor performance. And what happens after the
teacher gets involved with the students, talking to them about sexual issues,
injecting their own beliefs and ideologies onto the child? The teacher goes home.
But the parents are the ones who have to deal with the fallout from their
child’s indoctrination or miseducation. The parents are going to have to pick
up the pieces of their child’s shatter life if they made a poor decision as a
result of what they “learned” in school. The teacher disappears from the
student’s life, never be heard from again while the parent is the parent of the
child for the remainder of their lives.
This desire to teach 5, 6, and 7-year-olds about radical
gender ideology, progressive sexual beliefs, and critical race theory, is
solely about getting to the children as early as possible, before their sense
of self, and their morality is developed, so they can indoctrinate the children
into their neo-Marxist, post-modernist worldview, which many parents are
fighting tooth and nail against not only in the schools but throughout most of
popular culture. Nothing good will ever come of this type of indoctrination.
What would the outcry be if a pro-life group we’re able to get access to these
children and teach them about their pro-life beliefs? The same people objecting
to the Florida Bill would be objecting to that practice because they are not
about teaching children, they are solely about indoctrinating them. And the
best way to indoctrinate the masses is get to them as young as possible. They
cannot allow these children to start thinking for themselves beyond their
indoctrination.
It is absolutely no business of any adult teacher in any
school to have any conversation with any child about their sexuality. None. Not
their business. None. 100% inappropriate. The children in question are
prepubescent, their bodies have not even begun to develop sexually so their
thoughts and minds are not on sexual matters, yet these teachers want to inject
sexuality into these young minds. If the parent believes that there is an issue
with a child, the parent can take the child to a trained professional to have
those types of discussions. The teacher is not qualified to have those
conversations. And any teacher who wants to or is forcing himself into those
discussions, suspiciously appears as somebody who gains gratification from
talking about sexual things with minors. These people in the education
establishment are hell-bent on corrupting the innocence of the youth, and they
will label anybody a bigot who fights to protect their children from their
corrupting influences.
This is why Jesus said, “whoever causes the downfall of
one of these little ones who believe in me – it would be better for him if a
heavy millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.” Mark
9:42
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Judd Garrett is a graduate from Princeton University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.
