John Peter Ricketts (born August 19, 1964) is an American politician and businessman serving as the 40th governor of Nebraska since 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Posted on 11/13/2021 5:06:45 AM PST by Kaslin
To say that modern conservatism has failed egregiously in our school systems would be a monumental understatement. As a survivor of the Nebraska Public K-12 education system, I witnessed firsthand how deep and depraved the left was willing to be to win the war for the most vulnerable minds imaginable: children and young adults.
In 2017, my high school paper asked me to write a piece regarding race relations. As a seventeen-year-old, I recognized what we now know to be the Marxist group, Black Lives Matter, were a violent and hostile group of radicals who sought to tear at the social fabric of this country. For pointing out that simple fact, a teacher with whom I had never had class sought me out to lecture me about how white sins of the past justified acts of violence today.
I regret nothing that I wrote for publication that day. But I do regret one thing: shrugging off the confrontation and moving on. I thought to myself, “it doesn’t mean that much, it’s just one teacher, I’m going to graduate in a year, what’s it really worth?” Well, as time has moved on, it’s now clear that those confrontations mean everything. If students don’t speak up about teachers forcing their left-wing politics and talking points on their students, then there is no boundary to what they will push.
I am now the Student Body and Student Senate President at Wayne State College in Nebraska. This past week, the Nebraska State College System adopted new policies that allow for students to be punished by the Title IX office for “misgendering” someone or participating in “innuendo” about a “protected social class.” The State College System Board, whose members are appointed by the governor, passed these changes. Only two brave men: Bob Engles, and Jason Zeiss, had the courage to stand up to this obvious disregard for basic human rights on our campuses.
One of the adopted policies disallows faculty or staff to enforce gendered bathroom rules on campus. When the majority of the public testified in the meeting against the proposed rule, referencing the recent incidents in Loudoun County, Virginia, a student trustee remarked, “I can see where the concern about the bathroom safety is coming from, but frankly, there’s just a larger picture” and that “right now, we need to focus on diversity, inclusion, and equity.” There’s a larger picture than the ability for women to use the restroom without fear of a biological man following closely behind her? I don’t think so.
Wayne State Student Senator and campus tour guide, Kyle Jedlicka told the board: “I give about 3 tours a week, and about once every week, I am asked by the mothers and fathers of young women if we have bathroom policies like that on this campus. Before, I have been able to answer: ‘no, it is safe to use the restroom here.’ Should this policy pass, I won’t be able to answer that way honestly any longer.” Blake Aspen is the Student Senate and Student Body President at Wayne State College. Blake is active in local and statewide politics in Nebraska and interned for Congressman Adrian Smith in his Washington, D.C. office. That testimony fell on deaf ears. The board passed the resolution 4-2. This all occurring in deep red, rural Nebraska, no less. The members who voted in the affirmative are all safe from being replaced by the Governor until at least 2023.
mbers who voted for Board Policy 5007 or 5012 will have to live with the consequences of their actions. Additionally, they were unwilling to even consult the full student or faculty senates from any of their member schools before forcing these radical policies down the students’ throats.
Opportunity exists right now for conservatives to stand up to these deeply unpopular, radical, and dangerous policies. We must make our education system in elementary, secondary, and even college a safe place for children to learn. This is a debate we cannot afford to lose.
Conservatives must speak out in their city councils, in their school board meetings, in their board of trustees and board of regents meetings. Don’t be afraid to challenge the incompetent public servant for the job that they are failing at. When they surrender their duty to advocate on behalf of the public, they have lost all credibility as a public servant. We must challenge and fill those voids.
Blake Aspen is the Student Senate and Student Body President at Wayne State College. Blake is active in local and statewide politics in Nebraska and interned for Congressman Adrian Smith in his Washington, D.C. office.
And we thought we were worried about Target.
“Protected social class”???
So that’s what we have now in the formerly and constitutionally egalitarian USA. Disgusting.
That language should not be allowed to stand.
>>Well, as time has moved on, it’s now clear that those confrontations mean everything. If students don’t speak up about teachers forcing their left-wing politics and talking points on their students, then there is no boundary to what they will push.
I recently ran across people who were voting opposite their neighbors who were unwilling to host a political yard sign opposing their neighbor’s sign. Conservatives need to get in the game and not be cowed by Leftists.
The deeper problem is that now "diversity, inclusion, and equity" are deemed to override our Constitutional rights.
Conservatism will stand or fall, based on whether we openly and without ANY reservation declare that the Constitutional rights of American citizens are more important than "diversity, inclusion, and equity".
Blake....Thanks for the information.
Now what are you going to do?
I guess the bathroom policy doesn’t affect you, right.
You wrote the letter......will you follow through with a protest on campus?.....an interview with Tucker Carlson?
Just asking
read your own tag line and get yourself involved.
I am
Are you?
A local radio talk show host remarked that several years back he looked at the jobs page on the CPUSA website and the majority of jobs were for teachers.
HOW SAID THAT THE MAJORITY IN THIS COUNTRY COWER TO THESE MENATLLY ILL COWARDS AND ALLOW THEM TO DESTROY WHAT WE ALL ENJOY, ITS TIME TO MAKE THE DONUTS!!!
John Peter Ricketts (born August 19, 1964) is an American politician and businessman serving as the 40th governor of Nebraska since 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Diversity, equity and inclusion is code for you will adhere to our narrow definitions or you will be excluded and have no equity.
How times have changed... Some 30 years ago I was a consultant for various elected and appointed governmental bodies. Increasingly, I saw that the elected boards who were once filled with professional, competent people were replaced by dunces who couldn't even balance their own checkbooks.
The appointed boards were often a different story. One of the boards in Texas I found especially impressive had professional people with a broad range of expertise whose abilities related to their function on the board. Surprisingly, several of the members had been appointed by Ann Richards who was then governor of Texas. Even then a Democrat could appoint competent people. What does it say when the Republican governor of Nebraska can't find anybody with common sense?
As with every revolution, the good, the bad, and the ugly-— it’s not the majority that revolts, and it’s not the majority that wins. The people who prevail are the people who are willing to take the fight to the extreme... it was true in the eighteenth century, it was true in the French Revolution, it was true in the Bolshevik revolution. If we are not willing to fight back just as forcefully as the communists,—they WILL win.
Good points.
Good points.
That’s why the Left is so outraged over Kyle Rittenhouse. One 17-year-old basically stopped/crushed a Leftist uprising in Kenosha and took out three of their foot soldiers.
Imagine what would happen if we got serious about this.
I would prefer we get serious at the ballot box. But . . .
BINGO!
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