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A flood of families are canceling their Disney memberships — from amusement parks to Disney+ streaming — over the woke entertainment company’s leftist, LGBTQIA+ agenda, with one parent noting, “Walt would turn over in his grave” if he saw what Disney has become. Loyal Disney consumers and saying the company has gotten out of control with its wokeness in recent years and now they believe there’s a left-wing political agenda in virtually every facet of the company — from its movies, streaming service shows, to its theme parks and other offerings from its entertainment and media conglomerate. Last year, Disney...

The Iowa House on March 29 voted to pass a bill that would require public schools in the state to publish their curriculum materials and library books online for parents to view, and give them the power to request that certain books be removed from classrooms.A file photo of 4- and 5-year-old preschool students listening to their teacher read at a Des Moines, Iowa, elementary school. (Steve Pope, File/AP Photo)The House voted 60–36 to pass HF2577, which would introduce a string of changes for both parents and teachers, as well as students and the school districts. Every Republican member of...

WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said Monday that his department will monitor Florida’s implementation of a controversial new education law that restricts classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity to determine whether it violates federal civil rights law. Mr. Cardona’s statement hints at potential legal ramifications for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision Monday to sign the legislation, which critics have called the “don’t say gay” bill, into law. But it does not specify what actions the Biden administration could take in response. “By signing this bill, Governor DeSantis has chosen to target some of Florida’s most vulnerable students...

After two years of pandemic frustrations, new conservative groups are sprouting across Colorado as women lead the GOP ballot for statewide elections.. Seven members of the Liberty Girls on March 15, 2022, in Highlands Ranch. About 315 women make up the Liberty Girls, a group organized by Donna Tompkins (lower right). “We're trying to stand up for things in our state and county and for electing people that we think will represent our values for our kids,” Tompkins said. ... Loveland grandmother Mickie Nuffer grew more concerned by the day as she watched people on television shouting about “defunding the...

One of the most controversial bills to go through the legislature this session is HB 1557, described by progressive groups such as the HRC, the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. The upset is over the idea that this bill is anti LGBTQ+ and that it aims to prevent children from hearing about diverse families and any person who isn’t from a standard nuclear family. The question is, is any of the rhetoric true? Here are some questions and answers from the House staff that explain the truth about the bill. Question: Does the bill say not to use the word gay?

Teachers and staffers at the public schools in the Eau Claire Area School District in central Wisconsin have been busy receiving all manner of training in how they should perform their duties. At least some of that training, however, has parents seeing red and driving some of them to run to replace members of the school board. The specific training program in question was provided by the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire’s Gender & Sexuality Research Center. It dealt with how to deal with children who are supposedly going through “gender identity transition.” A more accurate way to describe it...

The lawsuit contends that Christopher and Roberta Laundrie concealed that their son had confessed to the murder from investigators and Petito’s parents while the search for Gabby Petito was ongoing.

It’s all part of The Great Gender Reset to destabilize society and help pave the way for the broader Great Reset to condemn capitalism and Judeo-Christian values to the ash heap of history. During a recent Eau Claire Area School District (Wisconsin) staff development training session, a slide informed teachers that parents are “not entitled” to know their kids’ gender identity. Via Matt Margolis of PJ Media: The slide was obtained by Empower Wisconsin, and purportedly reads as follows: Slide 56- Talk amongst yourselves! Facilitators, guide this discussion. Remember, parents are not entitled to know their kids’ identities. That knowledge...

Several parents at Aspen Leaf Preschool are furious that state child care licensing investigators questioned their children without supervision. Summary During the investigation, regulators separated children and interviewed them without familiar adults present in isolated rooms. Many Aspen Leaf parents said they believed such severe tactics were only meant to be used in child abuse investigations. Stephanie and Richard Rosado recently told their 4-year-old son about the importance of not talking to strangers. Only days later, state regulators came to the child’s preschool, isolated him in a room away from his teachers and friends and asked him questions about masking....

States accuse Biden administration of concealing and downplaying its 'culpability' in school board memo.. Thirteen states have signed on to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking Biden administration records on any FBI surveillance of parents protesting school boards. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, a former member of Congress, has taken the lead in the lawsuit against President Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, citing a failure of U.S. officials to honor FOIA requests. The Indiana attorney general previously demanded all communications and records relating to the FBI's decision to investigate violent threats against local education...

In September 2020, January Littlejohn went to pick up her 13-year-old daughter from middle school. Littlejohn is a stay-at-home mother to three children and a licensed mental health counselor in Florida. So when her daughter informed her that the school administration had begun encouraging her to identify as transgender, Littlejohn was shocked. Littlejohn's daughter told her that school administrators had asked her about changing her name, which restroom she wished to use, and whether she wanted to sleep with boys or girls on school trips. According to the district, parents were to be cut out of the loop unless the...

...Republicans are more likely than Democrats to want parents to be the only decision makers when it comes to protecting their kids from both the coronavirus and controversial ideas. In polls, they are more inclined to say that protecting personal liberty is more important than the common good; that masks and vaccines shouldn’t be mandated in schools; and that parents should get a say in what children are taught. “I feel like, as a parent, we know what’s best for our children,” Erica, a Virginia mother...told me. “If you want to wear a mask, please do. But please don’t force...

Forcing 10-year-old girls to sleep quartered with grown men is the kind of behavior you’d expect from a sexual predator.WARNING: This article features explicit material unsuitable for all readers.Coaxing 10-year-old girls away from their parents, promising a fun and safe environment, and then forcing them to sleep in the same room as grown men is the kind of behavior you’d expect from a sexual predator. It’s child endangerment at best and traumatizing abuse at worst. Yet that’s exactly what California’s Los Alamitos Unified School District forced little girls at a school-organized science camp to do for three nights in San...

Jill Griffin had a panic on her hands. Teachers and staff members of her school district in Bethalto, Illinois, a small town outside of St. Louis, were suddenly worried that they would not be paid. They had seen videos posted online in which a parent who objected to the district’s Covid mask mandate said that she had filed a claim against the district’s insurance, causing the schools to lose all federal funding. Griffin, the Bethalto schools superintendent, has spent weeks dealing with the fallout. The parents’ strategy is simple: Try to use obscure and often inapplicable legal claims to force...

“What the masks showed us, the parents, the most powerful group in the country, is that we are taking back the wheel.” “We are taking back the wheel from Washington to Raleigh all the way to the local school board. Because CRT, the parents don’t want it.” #parentalrights

Nearly 73 percent of Democrats believe teachers’ unions should have more authority over children’s education than parents, according to a Trafalgar Group survey. When asked “Do you believe parents should have greater authority than teachers’ unions in directing the education policy in their local school districts?” 72.8 percent of Democrats said “no.” Only 12.3 percent agreed with the statement.

Democratic State Rep. Lee Snodgrass of Wisconsin was forced to apologize Thursday after writing on social media that parents who want to have control over their children's education need to home school them on their own dime. "If parents want to 'have a say' in their child's education, they should home school or pay for private school tuition out of their family budget," the legislator tweeted on Thursday. Snodgrass is the second vice chair of the state's Democratic Party. Within hours, Snodgrass was beset by an avalanche of criticism. The tweet was quickly deleted and is no longer available. The...

A school district in Enfield, Connecticut was left with pie on its face after asking eighth-graders to share their sexual desires in the form of pizza toppings. 'Now that you know this metaphor for sex, let's explore your preferences!' explained the instruction pamphlet distributed to students in a recent health class at John F. Kennedy Middle School. 'Draw and color your favorite type of pizza,' it added. 'What's your favorite style of pizza? Your favorite toppings? What are your pizza no-nos? Now mirror these preferences in relation to sex!' As if that wasn't explicit enough, the instructions offered some suggestions....

Angelique Contreras dared to exercise her rights as a free American by running for the local school board and protesting peacefully at our nation’s capital. Leftist thugs on Twitter were outraged, so the hate began. Anonymous leftist losers on Twitter started circulating a photo of Contreras at the nation’s capital on Jan. 6. In the photo, Contreras is pretty far away from the capital. Contreras did not break any laws and left as the violence was beginning.

A single mother faces one year in prison after she let her 14-year-old daughter babysit her siblings while she went to work at the beginning of the pandemic - an act some are calling 'reckless,' and others defend as the act of a desperate mother. Linley was reportedly engaging in online learning and did not notice that her four-year-old brother, Thaddeus, had slipped out of the house when he saw his friend outside and went to play with him in Blairsville, Georgia. Within about 10 to 15 minutes, Linley noticed he was gone and found him at his friend's house...