As you check to see what is still good enough after one child has outgrown it to pass it down to the next in line, as you check the sales on crayons, rulers, notebooks, and lunchboxes, as you realize how much they have grown in what seems such a little time, there is something else…
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ORWELL’S 1984: DEPARTMENT OF DISINFORMATION
Dubbed the Ministry of Truth after Orwell’s counterpart in his book 1984, our federal government’s new Department of Disinformation has claimed the right to punish free speech if they don’t like what is said. As I can’t help but think how things will affect our kids, I wonder how this may filter down into school classrooms….
YOU’RE DOING A GREAT JOB!
Congratulations, parents. You have done a great job letting people know that you really do care about your kids’ education. And even better, lawmakers are taking their marching orders from you. Parentalrights.org recently covered the latest information about legislation being passed to protect your rights and the rights of your children. I’ll cover a few of…
IS VIRGINIA’S ELECTION REALLY A PRO-FAMILY VOTE?
The vote for a new governor for the state of Virginia has become national news. One candidate, Terry McAuliffe, has publically stated that he believes parents have no say in what is taught their children in public schools. The other candidate, Glenn Youngkin, says parents have a right to care about what is being…
PARENTS: ARE YOU DOMESTIC TERRORISTS?
According to Attorney General Merrick Garland, you might be a domestic terrorist. Effectively immediately, the National Security Division is handling the investigation of “harassment, intimidation and threats of violence against school board members, teachers and workers in our nation’s public schools.” I have long advocated that parents not sit back and be afraid that if…
TOM BRADY: NOT PLAYING—MIGHT GET BOOED
I just saw some football news that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will be playing against the Patriots for the first time since Tom Brady made the switch. But Tom Brady will not be the quarterback. He said the ones who used to be his fans might boo him. THAT IS NOT TRUE!!! I made that…
The SCHOOL Act of 2020: What It Means for You
In my last post I wrote about the complications involved in the legislation for school choice. Further research has led me to Senate Bill 4432 introduced by Senator Rand Paul in August 2020. It is called the ‘‘Support Children Having Open Opportunities for Learning Act of 2020’’ or the short version is SCHOOL Act of…
DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS
I remember a few words of an old song, “The stars at night are big and bright, deep in the heart of Texas.” The brightest stars in Texas right now are the legislature and Governor Abbott for signing into law the bill regarding what is to be taught in Dallas public school history classes. Governor…
CRT—ONE STEP TOO FAR?
Those who desire to change E Pluribus Unum—Out of Many, One—to Divide and They Will Submit, may have taken their plans one step too far. I must admit that I was getting discouraged. Turmoil erupted in city after city. Hate-filled signs and graffiti were impossible to ignore. High-end retail stores to mom-and-pop businesses were looted,…
CRITICAL RACE THEORY: LOUDOUN COUNTY PARENTS REVOLT
Critical Race Theory has the parents of school kids in Loudoun County, Virginia, in a full-blown revolt. They have more than 1,000 signatures on a petition to recall six of their nine school board members and are certain they will get the required 17,390 to get the job done. This is the kind of action…