Posted on 03/06/2022 4:44:39 AM PST by MtnClimber
This is the most important battle parents face and they’d better engage in it because the other side is loaded for bear and completely insane.
In 1991, the European release of Zero Wing, a Sega video game, contained a now-classic badly translated phrase: “All your base are belong to us.” In the massive battle shaping up across America, public school districts are metaphorically carrying a banner saying “All your children are belong to us” in their battle against parents over children’s gender (not to mention racial issues). What’s happening in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, exemplifies this battle and can be summed up in a sentence from a staff training session: “[P]arents are not entitled to know their kids’ [gender] identities. That knowledge must be earned.”
That arrogant message came from a “professional development facilitator guide” that was used in the school district at a staff development session:
“Teachers are often straddling this complex situation. In ECASD, our priority is supporting the student,” the professional development facilitator guide states. Teachers were encouraged to “Talk amongst yourselves!”
The lesson — that teachers know better than parents about what is best for their kids — is not sitting well with some community members.
“We are appalled that ECASD would display such blatant disregard for the parents and guardians of our community’s children. We are equally dismayed that current school district leadership would pressure teachers into breaking a social contract that we all know and understand—that parents and guardians hold primary responsibility and decision making for the welfare and care of their children,” said parents and school board candidates, Nicole Everson, Corey Cronrath and Melissa Winter in a joint statement.
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Re: 2 hours
True!
I have been preaching that since I joining Free Republic. My 3 homeschoolers rarely spent more than 2 hours a day in direct instruction.
Re: Property tax
1) Property tax is embedded in rents.
2) Businesses pay property taxes and therefore pass on their taxes to every consumer in their prices.
It is impossible to escape property taxes.
The big computers and printers of the 1960s-1970s didn't have lower case.
My college professors in the physics department had the same mix. One was a platoon Sargent in the 101st. He said Bastone was pure hell. Another was a ground crew chief for B17s operating out of England. Still another was a tail gunner in a B17 over Africa and Europe. (He double upped with two tours)
If they succeed it will be our fault.
Agreed. It is a fight worth anything and everything it takes to win.
This is a battle that parents lost in the 1960’s, 1970s, and 1980s..
They meekly surrendered all their parental rights...
That war is over...
It will take 60-years (a few generations) of real effort to win the children back...
There might actually be something to those ‘Sconsonites being CHEESE heads!
Your children do not have to be in the school system for you to be involved. It is not fun. It is not engaging. But just by simply reading their books and bring up what is in them you can have their heads spinning and them puking pea soup. And that is kind of fun.
Be polite but insist on being heard.
One of my proudest accomplishments politically is I have a letter signed by both the school board AND the teacher's union complaining about me.
That was fifty years ago.
People who talk about how it is a recent thing are deluded. It has been at least 80 years that the schools have had the official policy of perverting the kids and rendering them illiterate.
"Why Johnny Can't Read" was published in 1955. It was obvious at that point there was a problem.
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Wow... Good for you!!
The lefties swarm the oddball off cycle elections, the ones in May and April that are usually local and cover school boards and other low level “inconsequential” stuff…
Draw the line on your local scrub elections and there is fertile ground to start the counter offensive…
BTTT
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