Parental Rights and Educational Wrongs
What to know: Montgomery County (Maryland) schools will no longer allow parents to opt their children out of LGBTQ+ lessons and readings.
The TPPF take: Parents must remain vigilant and work to protect their children’s innocence.
“My confidence in public schools to be a safe place for kids to learn was shattered last August when I read quotes from a sexually graphic book displayed in the library at Belton Middle School,” says parent Hillary Hickman, writing for The Cannon Online. “Since that day I have discovered over 100 sexually explicit and age-inappropriate books in every secondary school library of Belton ISD. These books contain narratives and graphics that normalize child sexual abuse, sexual assault, incest, drug abuse and suicide.”
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Crime Victims
What to know: The newly elected mayor of Chicago says people “shouldn’t demonize” teens who organized a “teen takeover” of downtown after “the event turned violent with cars burnt and minors shot.”
The TPPF take: No, Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson, the violent criminals are not the victims here—Chicago residents who can’t afford to flee the city are.
“Crime victims who live in high-risk communities where liberal DAs or basic cash bail policies operate have strong incentives not to report crime,” notes TPPF’s Chuck DeVore. “Should they report the local gang member who robbed their shop or mugged them, the gang member, if arrested, will quickly make bail and then come looking to exact revenge.”
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The New Segregation
What to know: The Seattle public school system is facing a federal civil rights complaint over segregated programs, which offer students different opportunities, based on their race.
The TPPF take: Critical race theory is behind the “equity” movement, which discards the equality that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. advocated.
“The logical outcome of these progressive policies won’t be the world King dreamed of — where ‘the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood,’” says TPPF’s Richard Johnson. “It will instead be a dystopia not far removed from the reality that so deeply disappointed King, with segregation that is at once educational, societal and economic.”
For more on CRT and segregation, click here.