Posted on 05/31/2021 4:22:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber
"I've been hearing about this stuff happening in California and New York and all over the place. I didn't realize it was happening in my own backyard." And in Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana, neither did parents. It took a young, courageous Spanish teacher to stand up and say, "Not in my school district" to open the eyes of Americans all across the country. Now, a month later, his viral video is sparking a nationwide movement to expose the Left's biggest lie: it's not happening here. It is, Jonathan Koeppel insists. People just don't know it.
Jonathan didn't plan to be on Fox News or Newsmax or headline stories around the country. He just knew something in his classrooms was wrong -- and if he didn't say anything, he worried no one else would. "When I found out that kids in my community were being exposed to this wokeism -- woke curriculum and woke education -- I said somebody needs to expose it. Somebody needs to let the public know what's going on," he explained. "I just happened to be the guy to do it."
When Jonathan stood up in the school board meeting last month, his goal was to warn local parents. Thanks to a powerful message that caught fire online, he ended up warning a lot more. "A man cannot menstruate," he argued when it was his turn for public comment. "A man cannot lactate and breastfeed a child. You cannot give birth if you're a man. If you want to be an adult and do whatever you want with your life, I'm okay with that. Don't push this ideology on children. I'm not going to work in a district that's okay with that... Parents are already pulling their kids out of public school...
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It is like the switch has suddenly been thrown on civilizational craziness.
This is all coordinated by the Department of Education. Local school districts comply or risk losing funding. Curricula in university Education departments where teachers are trained, hiring standards for local school districts, and the curricula for local school districts all have to meet federal standards. That's how they do it. It has been this way since the Carter administration created the DOE back in the 70's. Regan promised to get rid of the DOE but did not succeed.
No one with school age children can afford to be so uninformed
Trump could have eliminated the department of education with the stroke of his pen. I had at least hoped DeVos would stand up. She did nothing. Well, she did cower when she got yelled at.
Nothing.
Nada.
That may be my greatest disappointment in the Trump admin.
Bookmark.
I have wondered for some time about a major change in the tax system in our country & what it might do to transform our educational system( and other things as well). Instead of federal income tax going to D.C. & then being redistributed, why not go “from the bottom up” with all taxation filling local needs first, then a remainder of what is left going to the state level, & finally what is left(if any) would go to the federal level. It would certainly put schools back under local control. Federal spending might get a little closer to being under control also.
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