Thursday, September 7, 2023

Gary Bauer: Back To School


By this point, every school district in America is now back in session. Already the government-run schools and the left-wing teachers' unions are asserting that the children God gave you belong to them. 


Radical school officials and leftist politicians from one coast to the other, in California, Maryland and New Jersey, are refusing to allow parents of all faiths to protect their children from graphic sexual material in every grade, including kindergarten. 


We're told that we must be tolerant of every bizarre behavior imaginable. But the same people claiming that have no tolerance at all for parents who don't want their seven year-old daughter to be taught about 52 genders and told she might be a boy. 


School mask mandates and even closures are already returning, in spite of the real science that shows masks are ineffective and school closures seriously harmed children


Meanwhile, Joe Biden is using the full power of the Justice Department and the Department of Education not to help your child, but to support the local neo-Marxists who are trying to indoctrinate your children.


As a reminder, I served as Under Secretary of Education in the Reagan Administration. I care deeply about this issue. 


And watching what's happening in our classrooms today, you're left with the impression that local officials have either gone insane or they believe they can get away with anything they want. 


How else do you explain the fact that a drag queen once charged for possessing child pornography was just hired to be the principal at an Oklahoma elementary school? As outrageous as that is, it isn't our biggest problem. 


The problem is that the leftist teachers are intentionally embedding unacceptable material everywhere and anywhere they can. This forces parents to spend precious time and resources to find out what is being put into their child's brain and then to deprogram the leftist indoctrination.


There will be state elections this year in Kentucky, Louisiana and Virginia. There will be federal elections next year. They are all extremely important. 


But there will be many local school board elections, too. And these races will have an equal, if not greater, impact on what happens in your local schools. We must be involved. Don't assume that the people on your local school board share your values.