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Founder and President, @DefendingEd . Executive Director, @ActionPDE . Fighter for parental rights, limited government, and good breakfast tacos.
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🚨BREAKING:
@DefendingEd
led a coalition of 53 parent organizations — representing 805,645 members — in a letter to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to express deep opposition to the final Title IX rules released.
Parents will keep fighting back👇🏻
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Twenty years ago, if a 6 year old went to school and talked about sex, teachers would assume that child was being abused.
In 2023, children are not only learning about sex at school but are being told to keep secrets from their families as well.
Stop disrespecting parents and…
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🚨This is INSANE:
Dr. Phil correctly pointed out how school closures severely hurt children’s mental health, and the ladies of The View are *still* defending the decision to close schools four years later, despite all of the public evidence showing how harmful and unnecessary…
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As a society, we don’t put Playboy in kindergartens; this isn’t considered a “book ban,” but merely common sense.
Stop demonizing parents for wanting age-appropriate material in their children’s schools!
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🚨Secretary Cardona openly dismissed thousands of American parents who have been speaking out at school board meetings:
“I don’t have too much respect for people that are misbehaving in public and acting like they know what’s right for kids.”
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AFT President Randi Weingarten was at the Supreme Court earlier screaming in support of illegally canceling $400 billion in student loan debt.
Imagine if Randi and teachers unions were this passionate about allowing kids to go to school during the pandemic.
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Bill Maher is right. We can’t allow people who caused school closures to rewrite history and avoid accountability. Some parents were pleading with the so-called experts to listen to them at the time about the harm being done to children, and we were ignored:
“I get it that we…
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Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Levine — who transitioned *as an adult* — dismisses the question of why children can’t wait until they turn 18 to pursue sex change surgeries:
“Adolescence is hard and puberty is hard. What if you’re going through the wrong puberty?”
This…
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My grandparents met in an internment camp, I know what anti-Asian racism looks like.
It’s absolutely ridiculous to claim that exposing how China is influencing America’s K-12 schools is somehow racist. It’s a dishonest tactic meant to shut down the debate on the merits.
Parents…
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This is infuriating.
Twitter suppressed the views of an epidemiologist from Stanford University who strongly argued against school closures because they drastically increased learning loss and exacerbated mental heath issues.
Turns out he was 100% correct.
3. Take, for example, Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (
@DrJBhattacharya
) who argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children. Twitter secretly placed him on a “Trends Blacklist,” which prevented his tweets from trending.
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🚨The “book ban” narrative is a manufactured crisis to distract from families’ valid concerns about the quality of their children’s education and age-appropriate material in the classroom.
WATCH my full opening remarks to the
@SenJudiciaryGOP
exposing it.
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🚨BREAKING:
@DefendingEd
,
@IWF
,
@Speech_First
, and the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina just filed a landmark lawsuit against the Biden Administration over their illegal Title IX rewrite.
The role of Cabinet agencies is to interpret laws as written by…
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In March 2024, the New York Times admits it:
“The more time students spent in remote instruction, the further they fell behind. And, experts say, extended closures did little to stop the spread of Covid.”
Someone needs to share this with the co-hosts of The View…
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🚨NEW:
The Southern Poverty Law Center database has 1,225 total hate group entries.
Of the 1,225, we counted 303 groups involving “parents” or “moms.”
That means 24.7% of all groups on their list are parent groups!
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The Secretary of Education needs to brush up on his history:
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.'” - President Ronald Reagan
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona just said with a completely straight face "I think it was President Reagan who said, 'We're from the government. We're here to help.’”
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"There's no such thing as someone else's child. Our nation's children are all our children!" - Joe Biden
Absolutely NOT.
My children are my children. They don't belong to the government or ANYONE else!
Stay in your lane and stop trying to chip away at parental rights,
@POTUS
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🚨Last night in Virginia, Fairfax County School Board member
@KarlFrisch
was sworn in on a stack “LGBTQ themed” books, including one that depicts naked teenage boys.
Don't forget that the “book ban” narrative is part of a dishonest political campaign aimed at attacking parents.…
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🚨WOW
Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, likens the hate that led to the Holocaust to the frustrations of parents speaking out at school board meetings.
The Biden Admin’s vitriol toward parental involvement in education knows no bounds.
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Your children were locked at home and forced to learn ineffectively behind a computer screen because “6-feet social distancing” guidelines just sort of appeared out of thin air, without any scientific basis.
Dr. Fauci should never impact public policy ever again.
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A public school district in Massachusetts no longer offers advanced math in middle school to “reduce disparities between low-income children of color who weren’t often represented in such courses.”
The result:
Rich parents paid for their children to get private lessons outside…
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🚨BREAKING: Doctors from the infamous St Louis transgender clinic told a teacher to 'affirm' an entire group of 5th graders coming out as transgender simultaneously - despite the teacher’s serious fears they were being socially influenced by their friends.
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Two decades of academic progress erased.
The devastation of school closures summed up in a photo:
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🚨The CDC is pushing teachers to conduct self-assessments to measure how committed they are to “LGBTQ inclusivity” in their instruction.
Shocking that the same agency that worked hand-in-glove with the unions to keep schools closed is now pushing this controversial guidance.
🤦🏻♀️
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When a school’s gender identity policies are resulting in girls refusing to change in locker rooms because they’re so uncomfortable — there’s something deeply wrong with the policies.
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🚨BREAKING:
@DefendingEd
’s lawsuit against Linn-Mar Community School District in Iowa has ended in a settlement agreement that will result in the district ending the use of a speech-silencing policy that punished students who “misgender” others.
This is HUGE victory for…
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🚨California is about to adopt a policy of removing Algebra I from all of their middle schools in the name of “equity.”
In their eyes, it’s unfair for gifted students to receive accelerated coursework.
This is how you turn the greatest country in the world to a mediocre one.
"When I decided to read every word of California’s 1,000-page proposal to transform math education in public schools, I learned that even speculative and unproved ideas can end up as official instructional policy," Brian Conrad writes:
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🚨Rep.
@ChipRoytx
: Have you rescinded the October 4, 2021 memo that you issued directing federal law enforcement to target concerned parents?
Attorney General Garland: No.
WHY NOT?
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The attempted student loan handout was also an insult to everyone who paid off their loans in good faith or made decisions about where to go to school based on what they could conceivably afford and repay (as I did).
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It's unconscionable — and unconstitutional — for schools to intentionally exclude parents from their children's medical decisions.
Period.
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🚨BREAKING:
@JudiciaryGOP
issues first subpoenas to Attorney General Merrick Garland over his role in weaponizing the DOJ to investigate and intimidate concerned parents.
Finally, the American people are going to get answers.
Thank you,
@Jim_Jordan
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🚨NEW from
@DefendingEd
:
Immediately after the terrorist attacks on Israel, the Superintendent of Revere Public Schools in Massachusetts sent an email to staff promoting a resource that claimed “Israeli terrorism has been significantly worse than that of the Palestinians.”
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🚨A Colorado school is helping transition a student to another gender despite their parents explicitly telling the school NOT to do so.
This is OUTRAGEOUS! Parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their child — these schools are blatantly rejecting that.
Emails reveal that Laurel Elementary School in Poudre, Colorado guides gender transition of students despite objections from parents.
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When you destroy merit-based admission systems, you’re punishing the brightest students.
Parents have every right to be furious.
Asian students are biggest losers in new NYC school admission system
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To this day, not a single person who was involved in the genesis of the infamous DOJ memo comparing concerned parents to domestic terrorists has been held accountable.
We deserve answers on how our tax dollars were weaponized against us as parents.
@ChipRoyTX
@JudiciaryGOP
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Today marks the one-year anniversary of the NSBA’s infamous letter sent to President Biden asking for law enforcement to be deployed against parents who were speaking out at their local school board meetings.
🧵Thread recounting the full timeline
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🚨NEW:
Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia required their teachers to undergo professional development training on equity grading.
Their training tells teachers that “equal is not fair.”
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🚨🚨Randi Weingarten likened parental rights and school choice advocates to segregationists:
She says the words “choice” and “parental rights” are the same kind of words that were used in reaction to school desegregation by opponents of the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
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🚨Today's school walkouts in VA were apparently coordinated and funded by Democrat-backed donors and groups! 🚨
Parents should be indignant that their children are being manipulated and weaponized by political activists to advance their cynical agendas.
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🚨EXCLUSIVE video from
@DefendingEd
:
Students at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) — the top STEM school in the state — staged a sit-in and walkout last week over grievances related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
Student demands for punitive…
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Every school board in America should require parental notification if a child is identifying as a different gender or going by a different name at school.
Parental exclusion policies are indefensible and unconstitutional.
California school board votes to allow parents to be notified if child identifies as transgender
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You didn’t need to be a constitutional law expert to know the President of the United States didn’t have unilateral authority to wipe away $400 billion in student loan debt.
The White House needs to read up on the separation of powers.
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JUST IN: A federal judge strikes down President Biden's student loan forgiveness program, which is already on hold due to a separate legal challenge
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Judges and elected officials are trying to claim that parents don’t have a fundamental right to:
Know if their child is going by a different name or gender at school.
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Opt their child out of curriculum material that conflicts with their religious beliefs.
This is wrong.…
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💣BOMBSHELL report from
@DefendingEd
:
🚨Some of the wealthiest billionaires in the world are funneling millions of dollars into schools to push left-wing education indoctrination efforts at the expense of students academics. 🚨
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Our public schools and our tax dollars are being abused to code children along racial lines – it’s despicable.
We cannot relent in the fight against DEI until it’s eliminated from American education completely.
📺
@IngrahamAngle
@realchrisrufo
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Randi Weingarten claiming Joe Biden has done more for students than any President since FDR is like claiming Bill Clinton has done more than any President to improve workplace relationships.
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We have to return to a place where students don’t know their teacher’s politics.
A teacher’s job is to teach the curriculum material, not to indoctrinate children into adopting their worldview.
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Shot/chaser
LA Teachers' Union: "It’s OK that our babies may not have learned all their times tables. They learned resilience.”
NY Times: Pandemic Erased Two Decades of Progress in Math and Reading
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🚨
@RepMalliotakis
pressed Randi Weingarten on why more than $100 billion in funding was necessary to safely reopen schools in early 2021 if the majority of the money remains unspent to this day.
Kids were held hostage while teachers unions & the Biden Admin shook down taxpayers!
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🚨Over the past decade, more than $17 million from Chinese government-linked entities has flowed to 143 districts and private K-12 schools across 34 states plus DC.
WATCH my full opening remarks to the
@EdWorkforceCmte
exposing how the CCP is influencing American education.
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The state of education:
All the teachers are amazing but all the students are failing, according to the state of Illinois
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🚨This woman is running for election in VA:
“I’ve seen some of the parents that live in Virginia, you shouldn't have them dictating what your daughter & son’s curriculum looks like. If you want to do that, there’s a thing called homeschool—indoctrinate them there—not in my kid’s…
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It turns out when you severely politicize and damage children’s education — parents will take matters into their own hands.
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“5th graders are 10 years old, many of them still believe in Santa Claus, they climb into bed with their parents when they have a bad dream. . . So the idea that these [gender] concepts are appropriate for them and not totally confusing to them is pretty absurd.” -
@esanzi
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"But on the left, there is a rot, and it comes from academia, and it filters down.” -
@BillMaher
When you send young adults to college where there’s no viewpoint diversity and free speech is stifled — it will have larger consequences in our society down the road.
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🚨UPDATE: Emails FOIA’d by
@DefendingEd
from Mount Pleasant High School in Rhode Island show that the assistant principal knew she was raising money for human traffickers and was aware that student’s family was in danger.
🧵
LATEST FROM RHODE ISLAND: Assistant Principal at Mount Pleasant High School sends email to faculty/staff listserv soliciting donations to pay Coyote on behalf of student
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Since it apparently needed to be said, normal people don't use the term “chestfeeding” or “birthing person” or any of this nonsense stuff.
Teachers' unions are completely out of touch with the concerns of normal parents.
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Bill Maher nails it:
“New rule for all the progressives and academics who refer to Israel as ‘an outpost of western civilization’ like it’s a bad thing, please note, western civilization is what gave the world pretty much every God damn liberal precept that liberals are supposed…
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🚨They're trying to paint parents as dangerous and unsafe:
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi suggests if schools are not allowed to help children transition behind their parents' backs — children's “safety and well-being” could be put at risk.
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What can you get Chief Justice John Roberts and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi to agree on?
That President Biden’s vote buying scheme on student loans is unconstitutional:
“Among Congress's most important authorities is its control of the purse…It would be odd to think that…
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We are framing this tweet on the walls of
@DefendingEd
headquarters.
We stopped trusting “experts” when they locked our kids out of classrooms, tried to force-feed them propaganda, and proved that their political agendas were more important than our kids’ wellbeing.
Please tell me what I’m missing here. What are we doing next? Putting patients in charge of their own surgeries? Clients in charge of their own trials? When did we stop trusting experts. This is so stupid.
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@JonKarl
: “Was it a mistake in so many states and so many localities to see schools closed as long as they were?”
Dr Fauci: “I don’t want to use the word mistake. . .”
If he wont say it, I’ll say it for him — school closures were one of the biggest mistakes EVER.
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🚨
"Sam Brinton … played a key role in developing a model school policy adopted in multiple states that instructs school districts to keep 'unaffirming' parents in the dark about a potentially suicidal child’s gender identity or sexual orientation.”
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🚨
@DefendingEd
FOIA'd records showing Columbus City Schools paid nearly $25,000 to consultants for a presentation on “Queer and Trans inclusion,” which included a recommendation that the district hide student records from their parents!
Thread🧵
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Nearly a year later, and we’re still seeing members of Congress baselessly smear concerned parents for simply wanting a say in their children’s education.
This is the exact opposite way of restoring parents’ trust.
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA):
"People at school board meetings will never forget MAGA Republicans descending on their school board meetings just like they did on January 6. It was a coordinated attack happening across the country."
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The Secretary of Education is fixated on identity.
American families wish he was fixated on student achievement instead.
My name is Miguel, but a lot of my teachers called me Michael.
In 7th grade I finally had the courage to tell my principal that I’d like to be called by the name that my Latino parents gave me -- Miguel, not Michael.
To any student that is reading this, your identity matters.
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Pay attention:
Who has been the loudest voice pushing to repeal standardized testing in education?
The teachers unions because they don’t want to be held accountable for their failures.
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🚨BOMBSHELL REPORT FROM
@DefendingEd
:
Members of the Democratic Socialists of America have sought and gained top school board and teachers union positions in at least 15 states.
DSA members are exploiting their influential positions to push politically-charged and dangerous…
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🚨UPDATE: Following the emails uncovered by
@DefendingEd
, the
@DailyMail
reports that a whistleblower has come forward about the terror at a Massachusetts school after activist teachers let a troubled trans kid return to class after naming 45 fellow students on a “hit list.”
🚨BREAKING from
@DefendingEd
:
A transgender student in middle school within Watertown Public Schools in Massachusetts created a “hit list” with the names of families and staff on it in January.
Parents Defending Education FOIA’d emails that show in the days following the…
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🚨
@DefendingEd
has uncovered disturbing evidence linking Chinese Communist Party-sponsored financial entities to American K-12 schools.
143 school districts across the U.S have engaged in contracts — totaling more than $17 million — to establish Confucius Classrooms.…
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A member of the
@JudiciaryGOP
needs to ask Attorney General Merrick Garland why his infamous October 4, 2021 memo — that directed federal law enforcement to investigate concerned parents — has NEVER been rescinded?
Here’s How The House Should Grill Attorney General Merrick Garland
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“I have a masters degree! What do the parents have? Are we vetting the background of parents?”
Credentialism at its worst.
A masters degree doesn’t mean you’re a good teacher.
But having a hostile attitude toward parents suggests you're probably not.
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🚨HUGE news🚨
A coalition of 18 Attorneys general filed an amicus brief in support of
@DefendingEd
’s lawsuit filed against an Iowa school that hides students’ gender transitions from their parents.
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This is a must watch.
@MaxEden99
fully debunks the false “book ban” narrative:
“To put it bluntly, booked aren’t being banned.”
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🗣They’re NOT your kids!
Kamala: "When you see our kids, and I truly believe that they are our children, they are the children of our country, of our communities, I mean, our future is really bright if we prioritize them, and therefore prioritize the climate crisis."
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🚨The Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) released a template letter encouraging parents to send it to their school & employer when they “release a biased statement about Israel and Palestine.”
They ignore Hamas terrorism and point to “Israel’s recent assault of Gaza.”
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Randi Weingarten: We’re not politicizing education at all, we just want to teach!
Colorado teachers union: We’re trying to destroy capitalism.
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Two days ago: Young people on TikTok are proudly spreading Osama Bin Laden’s infamous “Letter to America” that blames America for 9/11 and calls for the destruction of Israel.
Today: Biden campaign is considering joining TikTok to “reach more young voters.”
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Someone needs to contact Nina Jankowicz after Randi Weingarten’s disinformation-ridden testimony today before Congress.
Randi accepted no responsibility while trying to pretend she cares about students after working so hard to prevent them from going back to school.
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📊POLL:
77% of Americans say it’s inappropriate for teachers to discuss trans identity in kindergarten through third grade!
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Parents are sick of the gaslighting from Dr. Fauci and others.
We know they bear some responsibility for locking our kids out of school, and we need to refuse to cede them any further authority or funds moving forward.
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Every student deserves access to a high-quality education free of politicization from activists.
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The damage Randi Weingarten did to American children could last a lifetime.
We cannot allow her to rewrite history and avoid accountability.
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If the White House is ordering government agencies to have federal employees remove TikTok on their devices due to national security concerns — why is TikTok being used in school assignments for children?
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Since some elected officials seem to have forgotten:
Children belong to families, not the state.
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Who kept the schools closed?
Who injected politics into the classroom?
Who tried to block parents from having a say in their children’s curriculum decisions?
Who is trying to hide children’s gender transitions from their parents?
You started the “culture wars.”
There’s been a concerted right-wing attack on public schools and these culture wars hurt our kids.
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🚨NEW from
@DefendingEd
:
An elementary school in Portland, Maine encouraged their fifth graders to participate in a school-organized Black Lives Matter march.
The students marched and shouted "Black Lives Matter" at the behest of the staff leading them in the march!
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Remember when Dr. Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to President Biden, said that schools couldn’t safely reopen if the $1.9 trillion boondoggle didn’t pass in early 2021?
Or are we just going to rewrite history altogether?
Jean-Pierre blames Trump for schools being closed during Covid and says schools re-opening “was the work of Democrats in spite of Republicans”
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Randi Weingarten: We’re not politicizing education at all, we just want to teach!
California teachers union: If the Los Angeles Dodgers don’t re-invite a group of drag queen nuns to Pride Night, students could die!
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🚨BREAKING: The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled in favor of
@DefendingEd
’s lawsuit against the Linn-Mar Community School District in Iowa.
This is a huge victory for students’ free speech!
My full statement⬇️
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🚨BREAKING from
@DefendingEd
:
A transgender student in middle school within Watertown Public Schools in Massachusetts created a “hit list” with the names of families and staff on it in January.
Parents Defending Education FOIA’d emails that show in the days following the…
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Today is an opportunity for parents to deliver accountability to the leaders who harmed their children over the past two years.
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Since it needs to keep being said:
Parents and families are the ones who have their children’s best interests at heart.
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🚨A majority of Americans in every racial group support the Supreme Court’s historic decision to ban the use of race in college admission decisions.
That’s because it’s immoral and unconstitutional to treat students differently based on the color of their skin.
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🚨BREAKING:
According to new documents obtained by
@DefendingEd
, Fairfax County Public Schools’ top STEM academy fund — Thomas Jefferson Partnership Fund (TJPF) — received over a million dollars in funding from Chinese interests since 2014!
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🧵THREAD🧵
@DefendingEd
released a report detailing red flags around an emerging new program being offered in K-12 schools across the country — School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs).
Under the guise of 'reproductive care,' some SBHCs offer contraception, so-called…
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“We know the only way to stop something cold in its tracks is to try and shut things down.”- Dr. Fauci
The "experts" still view the devastating learning loss & mental-health toll inflicted upon children as necessary “collateral damage.”
They will try this again— if we let them.
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