Newsflash: Middle class moms attending local school board meetings unmasked as violent domestic terrorists!
Santa Clara County parents are organizing to question radical critical race theories being taught in their kids’ schools. Attorney General Merrick Garland, once touted as a moderate, has responded by asking the FBI to treat them as domestic terrorists. Lia Resnin of the Alliance for Constructive Ethnic Studies (ACES) comments, and the New York Post explains.
ACES statement:
The Alliance for Constructive Ethnic Studies advocates for the inclusion of multiple viewpoints and robust debate so that we may teach our children how to engage with others in positive ways. Board meetings are the most effective way that citizens can express their opinions about what is happening in their children’s classrooms and with curriculum, such as Ethnic Studies. The majority of parent input is done respectfully, and there are ways to protect everyone against threats and violence without silencing comments. Respectful debate is core to democracy. We cannot shut down discourse simply because parents and board members may disagree. Stifling debate through fear of FBI retribution does a disservice to our students, our schools, and our entire education system.
New York Post:
The bigger problem is that school boards all over America seem to be growing ever more authoritarian themselves. Instead of serving as bastions of small-scale representative democracy, boards seem to regard themselves as above accountability to the voters and parents.
It was, after all, the National School Boards Association that, citing shaky claims of “threats,” asked the administration to investigate anti-CRT parents as “domestic terrorists,” specifically invoking the Patriot Act in its letter.
That claim of “threats” is an old move. Some readers may remember a story from Brooklyn five years ago, in which a father was arrested after complaining to a teacher. The teacher had refused his son permission to go to the bathroom and kept the son sitting in his own excrement for hours. When the father, quite understandably, showed up to complain, the teacher told police she felt “threatened”; the father was arrested, charged and subjected to an order of protection.
The magic words “I feel threatened” are now used by bureaucrats to escape accountability for their own misbehavior. That’s what the NSBA has done, on a larger scale, in the face of widespread parental dissatisfaction with curricula that tell white and Asian students that they are inherently racist and black students that they are permanent victims.
The go-to response: How dare you criticize us, peasant!
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