Instead of lowering expectations for students through measures like eliminating “F” grades, states and local school districts should pursue policies that enable students to select into learning environments that meet their unique needs.
No child of any age should be forced by law to enter an environment where they do not feel safe — and apparently are not safe — on a daily basis, with no alternative unless their parents are wealthy enough to buy their way out of the system.
There is one helpful solution: Parents of students unhappy with radical curricula infused into their children don’t go to college board meetings to complain. They pull their kids out and send them to colleges that share their values and their hopes for the children’s future lives and careers.
Leftist activists want parents classified as domestic terrorists because parents and grandparents do not want their children’s schools to become America-hating camps. Parents have both a right and responsibility to protect their children from bad actors.
The school leadership boasts that they are implementing a “radical change” in the way students are taught. But never mind, it is not “explicit.” This is deliberate misinformation by the school board.
Our school system has become dominated by leftwing partisans who believe their newfound experimental ideology must be inflicted on other people’s children — whether they approve or not — to save the world from various disasters.
A website that tracks critical race theory (CRT) in K-12 schools and higher education institutions released a study Monday that shows CRT, “equity” and other initiatives are being pushed at the U.S.’ top 25 elite private schools, according to a database compiled by CriticalRace.org
A Florida mom this week called for a “mass exodus” from the public school system, saying that public school officials aren’t listening to parents and so the only option left is to pull kids out and look for new alternatives.
Republican attorneys general across the country criticized Attorney General Merrick Garland for inserting the federal government into protests against school boards that centered on mask mandates and critical race theory.
“Certainly I’m critical of 1619 and of Critical Race Theory, and of other things that have cropped up in the classroom, but the real point is to provide all students with a solid background in American history and literacy,” former Education Secretary Bill Bennett said.
“If you’re one of those troglodytes who think you should have some say in what your children are taught in the schools that you pay for, you should know the Biden administration now views you as a domestic terrorist.”
“It is shameful that activists are weaponizing the US Department of Justice against parents,” Nicole Neily, president of Parents Defending Education said in response to the memorandum. “This is a coordinated attempt to intimidate dissenting voices.”