I remember how it was -- JR
Second grader calls out school boards over mask mandate
After months of remote learning, children are finally back in the classroom. However, radical liberal COVID policies are traumatizing kids inside their schools. Despite little scientific support to level rigid COVID protocols on children, school officials are doing it.
One heavily debated school mandate is the wearing of a mask all day. There aren’t many adults who can adhere to that unthinkable task. The so-called scientists refuse to discuss the list of the obvious health risks from constantly restricting normal breathing through a mask.
However, kids, despite no data to show it would benefit them in any way, are having masks literally tied to their heads. One little Tampa Bay, Florida girl, is pushing back. She’s acting like an adult, while thousands of liberal adults are acting like spoiled little children.
Fiona Lashells is a second grader who is fiercely insightful for her age. She has resisted her school’s insane mask mandate. Fiona hasn’t sidestepped the rule a handful of times. Lashells has been suspended from school 38 times for refusing to wear a mask all day.
We say, good for her. Twice, the eight-year-old has spoken about the reasoning behind her resistance in front of local school board officials. They were shocked at her candor. Fiona firmly feels that those who promote this senseless, unnecessary rule should be in jail.
Those are some pretty prophetic words from an eight-year-old. Fiona’s mother insists that she is “on a mission to take back, not only her rights but every American child’s constitutional rights, from the tyrant school board.”
This courageous student has also been threatened with failing her grade because of her outspokenness. Reports indicate that this is a blatant threat made by her teacher. This is clearly a manipulative lie trying to force her to conform since Fiona is up to date with her assignments.
These idle threats aren’t about a savvy second grader's classroom performance, but a mandate against her and her classmates to be silent and conform. Fiona will do no such thing. In fact, she has vowed to continue fighting for school children all across the country.
“I’m doing it for other kids, not just myself”, Fiona told Fox 8 News in Tampa Bay. A perceptive second grader appreciates the brevity of what it means for Americans to be forced to conform. She thinks those who trample these American freedoms should receive harsh punishment.
Maybe the thought of a little jail time would change the radical maneuvers these liberals are using to overtake our society. We can only hope. In the meantime, we say hurrah for a courageous little second-grader from Tampa.
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Connecticut School Teaches Kindergarteners About Transgenderism as Part of Its 'Social Justice' Lessons
An elementary school in Connecticut is requiring its students to engage in its "Social Justice Lesson Standards," which includes transgender content being exposed to children as early as kindergarten.
Parents of students attending West Hartford Public Schools contacted nonprofit parent group Parents Defending Education about the material, and expressed concern over it being used by the district to push group identities through books about transgenderism being included in the curriculum.
District officials informed parents that they will not be allowed to opt out of the curriculum.
One parent was particularly disturbed by a book taught to fourth graders entitled, "When Aidan Became a Brother," which the parent described as "full on gender theory" that teaches students their biological sex is "wrong."
"When Aidan was born, everyone thought he was a girl. His parents gave him a pretty name, his room looked like a girl’s room, and he wore clothes that other girls liked wearing," the book's description reads. "After he realized he was a trans boy, Aidan and his parents fixed the parts of his life that didn’t fit anymore, and he settled happily into his new life."
The description goes on to say that, when Aidan’s parents announce that they are having a second child, Aidan "wants to do everything he can to make things right for his new sibling from the beginning" including selecting the "perfect name" and picking out the right clothes. The book asks what "making things right" actually means.
Another fourth-grade title is about pronouns, called "They She HE Me; Free to Be!"
Meanwhile, kindergarteners are taught about a text entitled, "Introducing Teddy," which tells the story of the character's teddy bear explaining their wishes to change from a boy teddy bear to a girl teddy bear.
"One sunny day, Errol finds that Thomas is sad, even when they are playing in their favorite ways, the description reads. "Errol can't figure out why, until Thomas finally tells Errol what the teddy has been afraid to say: 'In my heart, I've always known that I'm a girl teddy, not a boy teddy. I wish my name was Tilly, not Thomas.' And Errol says, 'I don't care if you're a girl teddy or a boy teddy! What matters is that you are my friend.'"
Books about crossdressing and avoiding the use of pronouns are taught to elementary school students.
The district’s director of equity advancement, Roszena Haskins, wrote in an email to parents that the schools have "redoubled district-wide efforts to attend to the social and emotional needs of children and adults."
The email explains that the "social justice standards" stem from the framework of the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning.
Haskins points out that "CASEL acknowledges that ‘While SEL alone will not solve longstanding and deep-seated inequities in the education system, it can help schools to promote understanding, examine biases, reflect on and address the impact of racism…close opportunity gaps and create a more inclusive school community.'"
"Essentially, SEL provides students with understandings and skills that they need to increase their social consciousness and act in ways that foster respect, empathy, fairness, and universal humanity," the email continues. "SEL instruction sits at the cross-section of prosocial education that fosters safe, positive, inclusive, equitable and supportive learning environments."
Haskins adds that the school district teaches SEL through an "equity lens, adapted from the Learning for Justice social justice and anti-bias framework."
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Parents' Bill of Rights is needed to combat Left's indoctrination of students
As just about every parent with school-aged kids knows, the Left is trying to shut parents out of education.
Joe Biden’s Justice Department has tried to turn the FBI into a monitor of school board meetings, with one DOJ official going so far as to draw up lists of federal crimes for which parents could be prosecuted. Failed Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe spoke the Democrat Party’s mind when he infamously said, "I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach."
Wrong. Parents have every right to direct their children’s education, as the U.S. Supreme Court has long recognized. Parents make our schools work. The Left’s concerted effort to silence parents’ speech and ridicule their concerns is dangerous – for our children, our schools, and our democracy. It’s time to do something about it.
That’s why I’m proposing a Parents’ Bill of Rights, for every mom and dad in America. My proposal would guarantee them the seat at the table they deserve, one that no bureaucrat – or political party – can take away.
The need for action is urgent. Democrats and their allies in academia increasingly view our schools as laboratories for the indoctrination of American children. Over the past year, we’ve learned how school districts have quietly introduced new learning materials in classrooms related to critical race theory – often without parents’ knowledge, let alone approval.
Faced with backlash, now the Left denies there is any such thing as critical race theory, and the media gladly repeats the falsehood. But parents know better.
Emails reveal coordination between NSBA and White House that targeted parentsVideo
An Illinois teacher reported being required to teach students that "racism is a white person’s problem and we are all caught up in it," that "color blindness helps racism," as well as the need "to disrupt the Western nuclear family dynamics as the best/proper way to have a family."
Seattle Public Schools released a draft math curriculum including discussion questions like "where does Power and Oppression show up in our math experiences?" – as if addition and subtraction could somehow be racist.
The Virginia Department of Education even issued a document denouncing "microinvalidations," or "communications that subtly exclude, negate, or nullify the thoughts, feelings or experiential reality of a person of color."
Parents have had enough, as the recent election results in Virginia and New Jersey attest. In other words, the search for truth takes a backseat to racial identity politics.
To make matters worse, much of this propaganda was pushed into schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Few school boards were holding lengthy in-person meetings where parents could weigh in on curricular changes. Indeed, many school boards didn’t seem particularly interested in reopening schools at all. But the Left was interested in force-feeding students a poisonous, anti-American ideology. And all this while millions of American parents struggled to balance work with child care.
Parents have had enough, as the recent election results in Virginia and New Jersey attest. They’re tired of education bureaucrats and teachers unions keeping schools shuttered for months on end, while still finding time to wallow in woke sloganeering. They’re tired of being called racists for holding to Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of a colorblind society.
No matter how the media may try to spin the narrative, those are the real reasons behind this month’s remarkable political swings.
But parents shouldn’t have to fight these battles for their children’s future alone. It’s past time for Congress to declare, clearly and firmly, the rights that American parents have over their children’s education.
Those parental rights begin with a right to transparency – to know what their kids are being taught, and by whom.
Likewise, parents have a right to know whether their tax dollars are funding trainings saturated with racist agitprop. Parents should be able to check in on their kids at school, and to know immediately of any safety issues at their kids’ campuses. And parents should be able to access all school data concerning their children, as well as control how any third-party groups use that personal data.
Finally, parents should have the right to be heard at school board meetings, without any fear of reprisal from Biden’s Justice Department.
In addition to writing them in law, Congress also needs to give these parental rights teeth. Where any of these rights are infringed, parents should be able to sue to enforce them. If schools or districts refuse to cooperate, their federal funding should be on the chopping block.
Protecting these basic parental rights can help start a new era of openness in schools. These rights will help parents get the information they need, and deserve to have, about their kids’ education. Empowering parents will, in turn, hold administrators accountable – and stop activists from lacing school lessons with toxic ideology disapproved by parents.
America’s schools should be the envy of the world. And they will be, if America’s parents are empowered. The Parents’ Bill of Rights is a start.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/parents-bill-rights-combat-left-indoctrination-sen-josh-hawley
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