I call bull s**t on many of you! I will put forth just two examples to justify my calling BS. Both are occurring right now while the bulk of Americans, fathers, mothers, grandfathers, and grandmothers, are turning a blind eye.
Right now, as you are reading this post, millions of American children are being denied their right to an education by foolish mayors, state governors, and cowardly teachers. Teachers are all too happy to lay blame at the feet of their unions. Don’t buy that nonsense. Teachers don’t work for the unions, unions work for teachers. If teachers don’t demand an end to the political posturing of their unions they will continue to lose the support of parents. The damage being done to our children may not be known for years. One needn’t possess a PHD in education to recognize that damage, perhaps irreparably, is being done. It is not a reach to call it child abuse.
Democrats tell us they are the party of the middle class and the poor. These are precisely the children that are being harmed the most. Wealthy families can send their children to private schools, or hire tutors. Too many poor children in America get their nutritional needs satisfied, Monday through Friday, at their schools. A lot of poor children don’t have access to WiFi which makes online learning impossible. So the very children who most need educational help are locked out of the place where it is available. Many suicide hotlines are reporting an increase of 300% or more. Clark County, the county where Las Vegas is situated, just reported 18 students have committed suicide this school year. Children desperately need the person to person contact with their friends as well as their teachers. Is there an increase in child abuse? We will have a better idea when schools reopen because school is where many child abuse cases are detected.
Since COVID was first diagnosed our elected representatives told us they would follow the science. As it pertains to education they lied. The science couldn’t be more clear. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has repeatedly said that data proves children are not at significant risk of catching COVID, or transmitting it. Multiple countries have reported the same data. The CDC has repeatedly stated that the safest place for our children, in respect to COVID, is in their schools. But the teacher’s unions refuse to go back to the classroom. In Los Angeles the unions said they wouldn’t report back to the classroom until the police were defunded and a moratorium put on charter schools. These demands have nothing to do with COVID. It is reported that as many as 39% of the children of Chicago teachers attend private schools. Those children are in school today. It is unconscionable that so many people in other professions are back to work yet teachers choose to stay home. When teachers are asking for raises they don’t hesitate to tell us how critical they are to our children’s future, and how much they care about their students. Yet when our children need them most they are AWOL. Perhaps if we stopped paying them, hmmm.
The second example was just brought back into focus when President Biden signed one of his many Executive Orders (EO). With the stroke of his pen Biden pleased something under 1% of the American population. At the same time he put the rest of American children at risk. On his first day in office he signed an EO that allows transgenders to use the bathroom, locker room, and play on the sports teams that match their “gender identity”. As he signed the EO he said: “Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports”. As if children couldn’t learn before he signed the dangerous document. No student has ever been denied the use of a restroom, locker room, or the opportunity to compete on an athletic team. What about protecting the privacy and safety of our school age children? What about protecting the safety of the girls who will be forced to compete against bigger, stronger, faster, boys?
Title IX of Federal Civil Rights Law was passed in 1972. In a nutshell Title IX said that any school receiving federal funds must create equal opportunities in athletics for girls and boys. If a school offered 8 boys sports they must also offer 8 girls sports. It is hard to believe it took Congress until 1972 to do so! The idea was to create equal opportunities for girls. Then in 2016 the Obama Administration’s Departments of Education, and Justice, issued a “Dear Colleague” letter that included significant guidance to schools concerning civil rights for transgender students under Title IX. The NCAA created rules that boys, who identified as girls, would have to follow in order to compete on girls athletic teams. (When Trump was elected he immediately reversed Obama’s guidance). High schools have not as yet required anything other than a statement from the athlete stating what sex he/she identified as. So we have witnessed girls being removed from the medals podium at state championship track meets. Many long standing girls state records have been erased by boys. With Biden’s EO we can be certain there will be more of the same everywhere across the country. If something isn’t done girls will lose the level playing field that Title IX created for them. It is the first step toward drastically reducing/replacing competitive sports for girls. Hey dad/mom and grandpa/grandma, how excited are you about your teen age daughter/granddaughter showering and changing clothes with boys? How excited is she?
The answer to both of the problems mentioned above is to get off the couch and in front of your school superintendent and school board. You must let them know in no uncertain terms what you think of schools being closed. You must adamantly demand that they ensure your school will not allow students to participate on sports teams of the opposite sex. And under no circumstances are boys and girls to be allowed to shower and change clothes in the presence of the opposite sex. We always declare the slogan: The majority rules. But the only majority that matters is the majority who speak up! Superintendents and school boards aren’t clairvoyant. They need to hear from stakeholders. So far they have only heard from a tiny, loud, and well funded LGBTQ constituency. Our response, if there has been one, has been tepid at best. Let’s change that. Let’s protect the safety and privacy of our kids.