I remember how it was -- JR
Friday, June 02, 2023
Some Democrats Give Hypocrisy A Bad Name On Education
"Public schools are good for your kids but not good for... my kids?"
This should be the Democrat Party's motto. They practice this hypocrisy, and sadly, get away with it. The liberal media is AWOL on challenging them.
Democrats would say "let public funds be used only for public schools." Translation: If you do not have the personal means, you are screwed; you have no school choice. That is not very American. All children should have an equal opportunity at success with no child being trapped in a failing school.
Why can't people take their resources (public funds derived from taxes paid) with them to the school of their choice? Why should only the wealthy be able to choose the school of their choice?
The landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954 changed America for the better. "With all deliberate speed," it put us on course for a desegregated educational system meant in the bigger picture to convert us into an integrated society with no second-class citizens.
For decades, the leadership of the teachers unions and their acts to deprive all children and their families of the fundamental right to select the school of their choice - as long as parents could transport their children to the school - is in direct opposition to the spirit of the aforementioned Supreme Court decision.
Having been a product of integrated schools, as well as my children, as well as my students at Georgetown and the University of Virginia, I will go out on a limb and say that students of color who attend integrated K-12 schools do better than those in segregated schools.
Thus, we know one of the solutions, yet we refuse to take one of the remedies to failing schools and allow for school choice.
The public gets it. They have been screaming to free our children. Polls show that 72% of Americans are in favor of K-12 school choice. Democrat leaders, however, are out of touch.
In fact, recently North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, made national news when he wrongly declared a state of emergency because the Republican-controlled legislature decided to expand school choice in the state.
Democrat presidents past and current, an award-winning Democrat educator now serving in Congress, Democrat governors, and a host of other Democrat leaders have exercised their right to send their children to non-public schools. And yet they all attempt to forcefully deny that right to their constituents. Their actions are disingenuous.
Back in the day, no member of Congress would be caught driving a foreign made car. It was considered hypocritical to encourage Americans to buy American, and then be seen driving a foreign made vehicle because you could afford to do so (now, many foreign cars are actually assembled in the U.S.).
But Democrats have no qualms about sending their children to non-public schools simply because they can afford to do so, while prohibiting others from doing the same. That is a classic double standard.
Democrats and teachers unions are inseparable and make an interesting pair. If you look at who these unions give nearly every dollar to in political campaigns (well over 90%), you would believe that the forced dues they collect from every public school teacher in the land means that nearly all teachers are Democrats. Well, no. Not true.
One of their top agenda items is thwarting any form of non-public school choice. Tens of millions of campaign contributions go only to those political candidates who accept this absurd position.
It begs the question: If Democrats can be hypocritical on this issue, what other issues are they not being "straight" with us on?
Economics play a role in segregated schools as neighborhood schools in all Black neighborhoods would be nearly all Black, but school choice helps to alleviate this issue by allowing a child to leave their segregated school for an integrated one.
Black Democrat politicians working with the teachers unions are actually keeping Black children trapped in failing public schools. They are inadvertently supporting segregated schools.
Black Democrats have drunk the "Kool-Aid" that more spending will yield better test results. Yet the record is clear that spending on education has continuously gone up over the years. Throwing more money at schools is not the solution. But it is the narrative that teachers unions have been promoting for decades. Doing the same thing year after year, decade after decade, and expecting a different result is the textbook definition of insanity.
Republicans practice what they preach. They believe in school choice for themselves and for all Americans.
The Democrats' do-what-I-say-and-not-what-I-do form of governance is not the message we should be sending to our children and future leaders of America.
We cannot be so cynical that we allow such hypocrisy to be "par" for the course.
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DHS-funded college program equates conservatives and Christians to militant neo-Nazis:
A college program that received taxpayer funds from the Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security equated conservatives and Christians to militant neo-Nazis, according to watchdog group MRC Free Speech America.
Documents obtained by the conservative media watchdog revealed that the DHS’ Office of Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention doled out $352,109 in fiscal year 2022 to a University of Dayton program that aimed to “develop and implement modules on the risks of and protective factors for radicalization to violence related to media literacy and online critical thinking for students,” the New York Post reported.
The DHS awarded 80 grants totaling nearly $40 million under its Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program to establish “media literacy and online critical thinking initiatives.” In an internal memo obtained by MRC, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas referred to the grant program as a “high priority.”
According to the watchdog organization, the University of Dayton’s PREVENTS-OH was “among the most radical grantees.” The program vowed to fight “domestic violence extremism and hate movements.”
“For example, a chart used by DHS and its grantee in a training program equates mainstream groups with militant neo-Nazis, including: The Heritage Foundation, Fox News, the National Rifle Association (NRA), Breitbart News, PragerU, Turning Point USA, the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), the American Conservative Union Foundation (ACUF) and the Republican National Committee, among others,” MRC stated.
The chart, labeled “The Pyramid of Far-Right Radicalization,” sorted various Christian, conservative, and known neo-Nazi groups into a pyramid. It placed “smaller” organizations with an “increased level of extremism” closer to the top.
During the university’s seminar, the presenter explained that groups listed at the bottom of the pyramid are considered “mainstream conservatism,” including the Republican Party, Fox News, the Heritage Foundation, and the Christian Broadcasting Network.
The second level of the graphic was labeled “alt-lite” and included Breitbart News Network, PragerU, Turning Point USA, Infowars, and “Make America Great Again.”
The final top two tiers, labeled “alt-right” and “accelerationist terrorism,” listed known radical hate groups.
“The seminar also compared former President Donald Trump to Pol Pot and suggested Florida Governor Ron DeSantis might wish to start a second Holocaust,” the watchdog group stated.
A DHS spokesperson told the Post, “This seminar was not funded, organized, or hosted by the Department of Homeland Security.”
“Similarly, the presented chart was not developed, presented, or endorsed by the Department of Homeland Security, and was not part of any successful grant application to the Department of Homeland Security. DHS does not profile, target, or discriminate against any individual for exercising their constitutional rights protected by the First Amendment,” the spokesperson added.
However, a DHS employee participated in the university’s seminar to discuss the department’s Center for Prevention Programs and Partnership. Additionally, Dayton researchers noted that the seminar was part of the DHS grant program.
MRC’s vice president Dan Schneider accused the agency of “lying through its teeth once again.”
“DHS did indeed fund the PREVENTS-OH program a year after a graph and documents were presented that equated Nazis to conservatives, Christians, and Republicans,” Schneider stated.
“Laughably, the DHS Ohio grantee quickly scrubbed its website following this report, something innocent groups don’t do. But it is too late; we have already copied it. We also have proof that ‘PREVENTS-OH’ actually hosted the conference and that DHS was an active participant, including featuring a senior DHS official at the conference,” he continued.
Schneider called on Mayorkas to “step down immediately” and urged Congress to launch a criminal investigation into the DHS.
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Virginia mom denounces book with illustrations of ‘deviant sex acts’ in school library, demands answers
A “frustrated” Virginia mother told Fox News Digital that Fairfax County Public Schools Board members need to address sexually explicit books found in their school library.
Stacy Langton, a mother of six, called out Fairfax County Public Schools for lack of inaction and accountability after she called to attention a book that contains illustrations of “deviant” “sex acts” that she discovered in the Fairfax County Public School Library.
Langton said that over the last 18 months, she spoke about several other books during the public comment period at school board meetings, a series she has titled “porn book story hour.”
“They have never once reached out to me,” she said. However, she did hear a response from the school board about “Queer: A Graphic History.”
“But when I spoke about this particular book, two weeks ago, they sent me an email the next day and that has never happened before,” she said. “It sounds like, they intend to speak to me about this book, which I find interesting because they’ve never done that before… maybe for them–maybe this book was a bridge too far. I don’t want to get overly optimistic because they’ve never done anything about these books.”
Langton added that “Queer: A Graphic History” is “especially egregious.”
She said “there hasn’t been any further motion” from the school board since she spoke up about the book two weeks ago.
On May 11th, Langton showed the board images from “Queer: A Graphic History,” a book authored by Meg-John Barker and illustrated by Jules Scheele during the public comment period.
She said to the board that the book “teaches that there is no good or bad kind of sex and that there are only a diverse range of practices and attractions.”
She described to the board an image in the book that involves “mom and dad” having “anal sex” but with the roles reversed with the mom using a strap-on dildo.
“Kids are supposed to think that this is normal and what parents are doing in private?” she told the board.
Other images in the book contain three people, including two men and one woman engaged in sexual intercourse.
Furthermore, the book delves into the history of sexual therapy, which was pioneered by Virginia Johnson and William Masters in the 1960s.
Langton told Fox News Digital that she wants accountability against the school board for allowing kids to have access to “sexually explicit” books.
“I’ve been looking for accountability on all of this from the beginning. I’ve been asking these questions on accountability from day one and nobody ever gives any accountability,” Langton said. “So one of the things I’ve asked is, how did this kind of material end up in the system? Who is bringing this into our school district? Right? And I can’t get any answers on that. And then the other part of the accountability is I’ve been saying from day one, this is illegal. You cannot put sexually explicit imagery in front of minors. It’s against the law.”
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