Posted on 03/23/2023 2:50:41 PM PDT by fwdude
In a shocking undercover video released Tuesday, New Mexicans learned why attempts to get education officials to listen to concerns about critical race theory, transgender indoctrination, masking children, and school lockdowns have been such an uphill battle: New Mexico state officials have trained teachers and school boards that parents have no rights when it comes to their kids.
“Parental rights end when you decide to send your kids to public school,” claimed attorney, Andrew Sanchez (below), who conducted a recent training session for New Mexico teachers and school board members in Bernalillo County.
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Of course the fact that schools have been able to initiate and provide abortions for students for at least 25 to 30 years was a big step in that direction
Good grief. I don’t think they understand whom the customer is. He seems to think that education “professionals” don’t just get to decide _how_ to teach something but the board is allowed to decide _what_ to teach, even if it treads into political, moral, or religious grounds.
He needs a damn wake up.
Do ... not ... use ... public ... schools.
Anywhere.
“I don’t think they understand whom the customer is.”
A customer has a right to spend their money there, or not. US taxpayers have no such right, so we aren’t customers.
Thanks for pinging the list!
this issue would make a great GOP campaign ad
The ONLY thing that surprises me is that there are still some idiot parents who think they have any rights when it comes to the public schools they dump their kids in.
So don’t send your kids to public school. If a private school or a charter school is out of your reach, and you don’t have enough time or patience to home school, band together with other parents and form educational cooperatives, with those parents who do have the time and ability to teach makeshift classrooms in other parents’ living rooms, garages, even in parks and bowling alleys. Pool resources and get ‘er done. The urban pubic (sic) school system is done.
There are a whole lot of these cooperatives popping up in CA. these parents are in Home Depot all the time purchasing planting supplies, wood working supplies, ect. to teach the kids along with the basics of math history ect. They bring the kids in with them also teaching them to shop on a budget for the supplies!! These kids are so smart they ask all kinds of questions these cooperatives are a FABULOUS idea!!!
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Is this not the ultimate in reasons to homeschool?
Just the fact that they literally think this and believe it should be enough of a reason, all the other nonsense notwithstanding, to keep your kids as far away from public education as possible.
I thought I was the only one thinking along these lines. I’m glad to know that it’s being done and catching on. Wait ‘til the establishment starts noticing them, and prepare for a struggle.
The library at Lincoln City proudly proclaims on their website “A gender affirming closet” at Taft High with help of their “Friends of Driftwood Library” volunteers. Now students will be able to choose clothes, makeup, and accessories to express themselves at school even though parents do not support those choices. Notice this information comes from the coast and central Oregon and not from the liberal enclaves found in Portland, Eugene, or Ashland. I noted such public disclosure contradicts the approach taken by other states that transmit to their schools’ ways to shield parents from knowing the steps taken. That is why I saved a copy of the page I would expect to be deleted.
Driftwood Public Library
https://driftwoodlib.org/gender_affirming.php
New Mexico state officials have trained teachers and school boards that parents have no rights when it comes to their kids.
“Parental rights end when you decide to send your kids to public school,” claimed attorney, Andrew Sanchez (below), who conducted a recent training session for New Mexico teachers and school board members in Bernalillo County.
Unfortunately, that is probably the reality in our 50 states
in any public school in America.
Bkmk
The state owns your children.
Indeed, one thing that leftists tend to do better than conservatives is to keep the offense on the field, even if they have a 4th and out. To be fair, they can do that because this game's officials (the MSM, most of Leviathan, and about 20% of the nation) are either Establishment Liberals or Progressive Left. Thus, while most people would see a clean tackle on these issues, the officials call a personal foul on the defense and it's a new 1st and 10.
This 20%/statist lot have very quietly but very effectively built an offensive strategy aimed at parent's rights. And while this putz in New Mexico is annoying, he's right - under In loco parentis you surrendered certain parental rights when you turned Johnny or Mary over to the school. That is the foot in the door.
In the latest assault to bust that door wide open, the left turned "trans kids" into human shields. (In a few cases, there ARE actual medical situations where parents need care and support; it's a family matter. But those instances are rare. Many other cases are acts of rebellion.)
In doing so, these statists have recast (intentionally) this as an issue of contemporary morality, a "civil rights" issue. In this offensive play, it absolutely IS the job of the teacher to address pronouns AND keep it from the parents, because the teachers have an ethical responsibility to the child which trumps the parents' right to know. In this separate article, it was stated that:
Educators have also said they feel bound by their own morality to affirm students’ gender identities, especially in cases where students don’t feel safe coming out at home. (emphasis-added)
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Other teachers believe they have a moral responsibility to withhold such information. "My job, which is a public service, is to protect kids,” said Olivia Garrison, a history teacher in Bakersfield, Calif., who is nonbinary, who has helped students socially transition at school without their parents’ knowledge. “Sometimes, they need protection from their own parents.”
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Courts have ruled that under the Fourteenth Amendment, parents get to make medical and mental health decisions for their children, as well as direct their education and upbringing in other ways, unless they are abusive or unfit. But lawyers for schools have countered that parental rights aren’t absolute. Under the Biden Administration, the Department of Education has said that discriminating against students based on gender identity violates federal policy, although its guidance doesn’t specifically address parental rights.
The American Civil Liberties Union has also argued that it’s unconstitutional for public schools to reveal a student’s gender identity to others. Angry parents can put their child in private school or home-school them, said an A.C.L.U. lawyer, Jon Davidson, who is co-counsel for a school district that was sued by parents in Wisconsin. "Parents don’t have a constitutional right to dictate to schools how they should create an optimal learning environment for students,” he said.
There is even more. The National Association for the Education of Young Children in 2019 argued that if a teacher deems a problem (e.g., comply with this family’s request to keep a son from activities associated with girls or femininity) to be that of an ethical responsibility (a situation with just one morally justified course of action) and not an ethical dilemma (a situation for which there is more than one possible resolution, which can be justified in moral terms) , THEY CAN IGNORE THE PARENTS.
In the summmer of 2020, when most of us were dealing with re-election and the pandemic, the ACLU wrote a letter to school principals and superintendents saying:
Specifically, without full and voluntary consent by the student, it is against the law to disclose a student’s sexual orientation or gender identity, even to a student’s parents (emphasis added) or other school administrators.
Finally, the National Association of Secondary School Principals issued this ruling in February 2017 (based on the date stamp in the html code) that:
Privacy: Unless the student chooses to disclose certain information, his or her transgender status, legal name or sex assigned at birth is confidential medical information and considered “personally identifiable information” under the Family Educational Rights Privacy Act (FERPA). Disclosure of that information to other school staff or parents could violate the school’s obligations under FERPA or constitutional privacy protections. (emphasis added)
The groundwork for this teacher takeover of parent's rights was laid years ago. To a certain extent, the pandemic messed up their plans because many parents who aren't political saw on Zoom what their kids were learning, and got involved. But, as I said, the left is really good at being aggressive, even if they lose on 4th and goal. Because they know, with a lot of spineless opponents, they'll get the football back.
Anyone who homeschooled their kids had many reasons, but at its core we believe that WE, the PARENTS and GUARDIANS, are the ones who can best call the shots. Our rights in that regard are plenary. And yes, as with all rights, abuses occur. But just like with the right to keep and bear arms, plenary rights cannot be watered down due to the behavior of bad actors.
And yes, while all this may SEEM like a trans or gay thing, that's just the entertainment division of the Educational/Industrial Complex hypnotizing you. Maybe the kids are becoming "trans" like kids became goths as an act of rebellion. They outgrow it (usually).
But the left plays the entire game. They know this whole debate will play out in the public and courts for YEARS. By then, even if we get a win, the damage will be done and a generation of confused kids will not know of parents rights. In fact, the ones on the margin and who aren't totally brainwashed will ask Mom and Dad "why the f didn't you pull me out of school?" What will be YOUR response? We needed two incomes, we had a mortgage, you weren't that important.
The left's end game? It's always speculative, but it's worth noting that the 10th plank of the Communist Manifesto is "Free education for all children in government schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. etc.
Or, as the Dead Kennedy's said, you'll work harder with a gun in your back, for a bowl of rice a day.
This won't be solved by letters to the editor, getting on the School Board, or ranting on FR. If you have a child, you must understand this gridiron, and that the officials are on the other team's payroll. You must also understand that what's at stake is more than whether you son gets to be called Florence at school.
Be MacArthur and leave Corregidor NOW. You can always return later, BUT LEAVE NOW.
/rant
Excellent explanation. People often do not believe when I say this takeover of children is a long term thing. 35 years ago we homeschooled for this very reason. Your post needs to go viral. All over twitter.com.
Does anyone know how to hostit as a post to be linked to?
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