Ugh. Ok, never mind. Apparently it's not possible to teach conservativism.
VIDEO: Heated school board meeting in Loudoun County with
new transgender policy to take effect soon Sep 14, 2021
The Loudoun County Public School Board took heat from dozens of frustrated parents Tuesday night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1TBkjiQS_M
VIDEO: Watch
Black Father Blast Critical Race Theory At Board Meeting In Viral Video Jun 18, 2021
"How do I have two medical degrees if I'm sitting here oppressed?" Ty Smith, a Black father and radio talk show host, went viral after he heavily criticized the idea of schools teaching Critical Race Theory at an Illinois school board meeting that was caught on video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m66rcHzWaPU
VIDEO:
Angry father speaks out at school board meeting Jan 30, 2021
Brandon Michon says his message isn't political. And if parents want to keep their kids home, he's fine with it. But the Virginia father says he's gone to Loudoun County School Board meetings for months and feels like his voice isn't being heard. Then, when his 5-year-old and 8-year-old spoke at this particular meeting, he says the board didn't acknowledge them. That's when he stepped forward and did not hold back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIR8UVBu4sc
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@IvanKaramazov asked me in a previous reply, "What am I missing here?"
It's not just the issue of clearly coordinated and structured indoctrination aimed at Big Education to push a specific radical leftist agenda to create new future woke shock troopers for the Democratic Party.
The pandemic already put many parents on edge. School lockdowns put many parents on edge. The failures of many school districts and school boards to respond to the needs of working class parents put them on edge. For some, the entire issue of transgenders in sports where many feel girl sports are being mocked, diminished and punished for a specific political agenda will put those parents on edge. A lot of people also are struggling financially and emotionally from just not having their kids in school period.
Imagine if you are an embattled parent, already under the stress of the entire world in chaos and grim economic realities/prospects for many adults in America, and you have seen your school locked down, and you've seen your school district and your school board and your local school teachers just fumble the ball again and again, but those people are still getting paid, and you are worrying about the safety and security and future for your children, then you find out instead of figuring how how to get kids better at math or effective writing skills or learning more about science or participating in music or art or sports, that their teachers are shoveling their personal sexual lifestyles and sexual lives at them and the policy seems more oriented around defending books talking about dildos being accessible to kids and preteens than helping some kid do better at Geometry.
As
@rockaction so aptly points out in other threads,
public schools are the only option for most American parents. Nearly all Americans don't have the Gavin Newsom option to lock down all the schools then send his own kids to a swank secure privately guarded and elitist expensive academy that still is allowed in-person learning. When my godson was very young, I had the means and opportunity, from basically establishing literally a full working life to secure wealth beforehand, to have some choices in his education and his learning opportunities. Most parents don't have that. Many are trapped because they have to earn a living and they have to pay the mortgage and are locked into geography/logistics and they can't just pick up and move and leave or send their kids to private schools.
Ivan is taking the "college professor" perspective.
But what if this clear patterned agenda of sexual indoctrination of America's children is just the final nail in the coffin after a series of brutal nails already driven in to weary and frustrated and angry parents?
"It's Easy To Say Because It's Not Your Kid"
I inherited my godson to raise later in life. There were countless things I just ignored or passed by as a single person because I was just trying to keep my companies going, make a living and get by in life. I didn't pay attention to the schools around me or the quality of the teachers or the concerns of many parents ( I cared about my employees and their families and their ability to provide for their kids, but that's a different situation and context) or if the school boards were full of zealots or not.
But when I became a parent, all that stuff had to really matter. And I saw how much the average every day working class American parent had to suffer to raise, support, feed and protect their kids.
It's easy for a Limousine Liberal from a Big Blue City and living in a sprawl of infused mass transit and dense proximity of basics to shout at people to just go buy an Electric Vehicle if gasoline prices are too high.
It's easy for a "Coastal Elite" from Team Blue to snub their nose at people who live at the Southern Border who are watching rapists, felons, drug dealers, Cartel members, child molesters, and yes, even some nefarious types on Terror Watch Lists breach through hidden with all the rest, and yes, most being unvaccinated.
It's easy to talk about all of this as "isolated cases that should be sent to HR" when this is a very broad complex issue. Parents are hurting out there. They are angry for a lot of reasons about how their kids are being educated and what is happening all around their schools.
Is it not possible to "teach Conservatism"?
Here's a lesson for you -
YOU CAN ONLY PUSH PEOPLE SO FAR UNTIL THEY STOP BENDING AND THEY EITHER CHOOSE TO BREAK OR THEY CHOOSE TO FIGHT. MANY PARENTS ARE CHOOSING TO FIGHT. THEY LOVE THEIR CHILDREN TOO DAMN MUCH AND WILL NOT ROLL OVER AND DIE.
"It's Easy To Say Because It's Not Your Kid"
Scott and Jessica Smith had their 9th grade daughter raped in a bathroom in Loudoun County. For what? So some future Team Blue political candidate down the road can have some fruits of the new feeder system votes showing up for them at the booth?
It's easy to say 'So What' and 'Send It To HR', when it's not your kid in that bathroom.
Casual dismissal is not going to work here. This is a huge issue. How many people here suffer and toil and eat their pride and sacrifice and bleed for the pure love of their children and the hopes of giving them opportunity, safety and a future? And this about what happens to America for generations to come. Not just an issue for current politics but a critical juncture for all parents and for our entire Republic.
Is this the staggering price some of you want to pay to dogmatically defend your political tribe?