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…
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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…
Government-backed Pre-School
The tragedy of what is happening in Afghanistan is pretty much directing our concerns right now, but let’s not let the plans for public pre-school drop from our focus. If we do, the government control of our kids at ages three and four could be almost as great a disaster as letting the Taliban take…
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…
SCHOOL CHOICE LEGISLATION IS COMPLICATED
In my last post, I suggested you consider placing your children in a parochial school rather than continuing to send them to the public school where one problem after another seems to rear its ugly head. Now we have to talk about how to accomplish that. Here is an excerpt from my book, Who’s Got…
GETTING READY FOR “BACK TO SCHOOL”
Back-to-School ads are everywhere. More cars are in school parking lots as teachers prepare. Children (most of them) are excited. School is about to start again. If you are a parent, you probably don’t need me to tell you that. But, as a parent, you may need a reminder about some things less mundane than…
“LET THEM DIE!”
Those words, “. . . let them die,” referred to any parents who disagreed with a multitude of educational and ideological positions of the speaker and teachers. You may have heard of the rant by NAACP first vice president Michelle Leete. She is also vice president of training at the Virginia state PTA and vice…
DROWNING CAN HAPPEN IN SECONDS
Driving past a number of fire stations this summer, I kept seeing the sign in front of them, “DROWNING CAN HAPPEN IN SECONDS.” A fire department website has a video that scrolls through similar messages: “Drowning can happen at any age” and “Never swim alone at any age.” Most of us probably know the truth…
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…