The most important move for parents is to organize a counter-movement that ensures parental influence and/or control of school boards. Children are no longer safe from political indoctrination by school boards, teachers, school administrators and teachers' unions. Make no mistake, the Pride movement is a political organization bent on recruitment, as are all political movements. If you want to protect your children or you grandchildren, become activists and become school board members. To kill a snake you must first cut off its head.
Who would have ever thought that our schools would have gotten to the stage that they are but I guess the old adage "he who rocks the cradle rules the world" is true. Thank you, Brent, for the update on the various court rulings. Good comments by both Montecito93108 and Derek on ways to counter this insidious movement to corrupt our kids and distroy the family unit. I also very much agree that the teacher's unions, like all government unions, should be totally abolished.
The problem with public employee unions is that they fund political campaigns of politicians they are confident will be amenable to union demands. Once the union supported candidate is elected, that elected representative is beholden to the union when negotiating employee salaries and benefits. The taxpayers are not represented at the negotiation table. The compensation for public employees is usually significantly higher than comparable jobs in the private sector; the people and businesses who pay the fees and taxes that compensate the public employees.
While serving as President of the Santa Ynez CSD I signed a best and final offer to the SY CSD Teamsters unit, refusing to continue an excessive cash in lieu of medical insurance benefit voted in by the previous Board of Directors. We spent over a year of good faith negotiating but we had reached an impasse. After a mediation that didn’t lead to any concessions, our board was willing to let the matter be settled by the California Labor Relations Board. We were warned we would lose because it is impossible to win against a public employees union. Our Board decided to press forward and represent the interests of our ratepayers over the interests of the union. The union backed down and withdrew from our small community services district. The disbanding of the labor unit was not covered by the local media, who had repeatedly and erroneously claimed I was trying to slash salaries. You would think the disbanding of a public employees union unit deserved news coverage since it is a very rare event.
While my comment is off topic, the point I’d like to make is that these crazy people who facilitate pushing sexual deviancy on innocent children can be defeated at the ballot box. Elect strong school board members who are not intimidated by loud voices saying nasty things. Contrary to the conventional wisdom of the past couple of decades, words cannot hurt us. Being fearful and timid has only given agency to those who would strip us of our parental authority. Speak up and stand firm.
Congratulations on the victory with the unions in Santa Ynez! That is wonderful and yes, what does that say about our local media that would not cover the story. It's a good start to a long struggle but hopefully the wins will continue.
Did you know that out of a population of 330 million people only 1.3 million claims to be transgender. Out of that number, 341,800 (21.6%) are gender non-conforming, they can't make up their mind. 515,200 claims to be TG females. 481,000 claims to be TG males. The Cleveland Clinic reports the experts in this field estimate that only 5% to 13 % have the bottom surgery necessary for conversion to the full appearance and, perhaps some functionality, of the desired gender. Basically, it's mainly about a fake, external appearance for 95% to 87% of those who choose the opposite gender to conform to.
These facts are not what are conveyed to children, nor are the dreadful, non-reversible drugs and surgical mutilations that they have to suffer for the rest of their lives.
I love all the statistics used for non-important issues. In engineering, if something doesn't belong there, then it's simply removed. That's why you won't ever see me spouting off numbers for Dem subjects because they are irrelevant. They are like useless gears in a gear train that do nothing. Or bells and whistles in electronic circuits not needed. In a design review, I always had a field day at removing stuff from the designs of others.
Appreciate the legal update! Teacher unions must be abolished for starters, and a syllabus required from every teacher. Few even know the content of assigned books. (One book even includes the website for young students to hook up with strangers to learn sex. Parents asked me to join them for a meeting with the principal and librarian who argued free speech/reading minors!*!#! I had no idea the depth of this crazed insanity.)
Why not advocate for a statewide pilot project authorizing volunteer parents, or District taxpayers, to be assigned to sit in the back of every classroom to observe for accountability? Some teachers might also add ‘for additional safety.’ The mere presence of an adult goes a long way. The added benefit, we see classroom management plus learn from the books and discussions.
At my neighborhood public elementary school, every parent (or their proxy) were asked to volunteer 3 hours a week at the school —whatever they could handle — to help in their child’s classroom, the office, library and/or playground. We got to know the students and other parents: each other’s life realities. Then when it came time to enter the nearby secondary public junior and senior high schools, some Montecito parents continued the tradition within preset parameters to ensure there were always parents on campus (band room, library, hallways, cafeteria, art center, theater, media, and classrooms) to either observe or assist as per teacher’s stipulation.
The federal RSVP Program (retired senior volunteer program) is one source of adults who could be vetted and fingerprinted to help stop the nonsense by simply their silent presence. On campus eyes and ears are needed. It’s been 9 years since my youngest left high school, and relationships continue with teachers and others committed to public education expecting student proficiency and standards of citizenship (civi duty) rather than schools serving as the government
machine’s political propaganda, indoctrination arm.
Avoidance with home schooling and going private is the answer for some families. I choose to be one of the parents on campus for 14 years. If we lose control of our public schools, we know the consequence.
Government schools today own our tax dollars, now they own our children too. But they refuse ownership of the egregiously deficient education they provide in return .
How do we change this? One school district at a time on the grass roots level. Never give up removing every vestige of this insider Democrat game. Defeats will be many, but the cause is just until one of two things happen: tax payers are no longer forced to fund wholly deficient government schools and/or parental choice and vouchers becomes the law of the land.
Basic education of young people is critical; but political indoctrination and partisanship school politics is not. We should not be forced to fund the present condition of our public schools. Enliven these currently stagnant tax payer-funded failure factories by the introduction of choice and competition.
People like these took their marching orders for the likes of Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler.......
You see this creep in the school system of Santa Barbara County and most definitely at the Board of Supervisors, and the Santa Bar school district.
We trusted for generations the basics of learning would be in our public schools. Now it is obvious the social dictators have every intent to destroy the family and make government paramount.
Hahaha! I never trusted them. I volunteered at every opportunity, served as room mother, formed relationships students and teachers and was never shy about contacting a teacher when I was concerned about something.
Our schools from pre-k through college have been taken over by ideologues who have adopted the Rainbow/DEI ideology imposed by the powerful few on our entire society. Pretty sure SBCC Board of Trustees President Jonathan Aboud violated the Brown Act recently when he inappropriately responded to Caroline Abate's public comments with a reprimand and a slander of "anti-trans." And by logic that can only be described as Orwellian, he said her comments on basic biological fact were not welcome at the "inclusive" institution of SBCC that is "welcoming of all people." By "people", it seems he means all people who share his Oligarch engineered irrational world view. Or perhaps he means that all people are welcome, but that those who don't share his synthetic and inconsistent DEI belief system need to keep their mouths shut. But is that genuinely welcoming? Please watch for yourself. https://youtu.be/IxlpE3eFl2A?t=6670 And please think hard about what you can do to join with others locally to stand up to this tyrannical imposition on all of our public schools and institutions.
"A shocking exposé of the inner workings of the $50 billion a year U.S. family law industry, Divorce Corp shines a bright light on the appalling waste, and shameless collusive practices seen daily in family courts. It is a stunning documentary film that anyone considering marriage or divorce must see."
Are there children and parents being destroyed rigth here in Santa Barbara in Schools & Divorce Courts? The answer is YES. I could provide you all with Documents that would make you uttterly SICK.
I have also been equally clear who is in town and since 2015 and if you have any experience in
Government of Military Operations you have to be dum, blind and death not to know that
ALL HELL HAS BROKEN LOSE .............. in lil ole Santa Barbara.
I have a suggestion for the SB So-Called Leaders ,,,, never and I mean NEVER conceal Corrupt Acts.
"Public corruption tears at the fabric of our communities and our national security. Elected or appointed officials are entrusted and expected to protect the interests of the people with integrity."
Howard Walther, member of a Military Family
PS - You all may want to ask. Is there any Integrity in SB?
If I was ever to be elected President of the United States ... well, let's start with Mayor of Santa Barbara.
I would demand all kids dress in only red clothing to schools, all blue clothing banned. Pictures of donkeys in books would be replaced with pictures of elephants. An emphasis of teaching girls are always girls and boys are always boys; any mention of sexual identity is banned. Words banned would be dem, lib, liberal, all former Democratic President pictures and names banned from books; ban anything associated with the Democratic Mafia Party of the United States. This would be the first step toward normalcy. And teachers need to learn how to play the piano like in the old days so everyone can sing all those traditional American folk music tunes of the past (such as Stephen Foster tunes, Old Black Joe, a favorite). Kids learn to play the Flutophones and learn to spell, read, write, add subtract and multiply and American History (Obama, Harris/Biden never existed). And we can all watch the fading Dems vanish, disappearing into the past with no recorded history. And when Sally one day asks her parents why there are no pictures of donkeys in books, the parents can say, well, there was a time when they simply disappeared from the face of the earth.
Sounds like you’re not a believer in the U.S. constitution.
“A dictatorship is a government or a social situation where one person makes all the rules and decisions without input from anyone else. Dictatorship implies absolute power — one person who takes control — of a political situation, a family, a classroom or even a camping expedition.”
Yes, I agree ... I would be a benevolent dictator. And yes, I'm definitely one that takes control. But I guarantee you everybody would be happy and not half the country miserable (including myself) with regards to the direction of the country. I'm a believer in the U.S. Constitution, but right now it needs some help. Trump can dictate to his heart's content for all I care. Where in the Constitution does it say you need the government involved with teaching?
Keep in mind Trump is a business thinking guy guaranteed to be a most persuasive one. In other words, think like me or think somewhere else.
Yikes is so bland sounding, how about Yickity Yikes <g>! There are good dictators and there are bad dictators. Trump would be a good dictator with an appeal to the masses thinking. Trump knows what people wants and that will be his direction. You think the Dems follow the Constitution? Pardon me while I throw up. You wouldn't consider Biden and Harris being dictators?
Terrific piece, Brent. I don't think the answer is in going after the schools. I think we have to go after the medical industry which planned the trans epidemic years in advance just as they did Covid. Look at the website for Children's Hospital Los Angeles. That's where the monster is that feeds on misery and money. Bobby Kennedy is the hero who can do it. MAHA.
I say we go after all of it. The medical and pharmaceutical industries are a huge part of the problem but the schools have a role in the damage being done. I too am excited about the role RFKjr will play in getting our kids healthy.
I remember also near universal Big Pharm marketing and sexual mutilation of middle age women that persisted for decades, until the 1970's when women's liberation started questioning this medical abuse of mainly women in the US.
Until finally in the 1990's, when this long-standing standard of care was subjected to double-blind long-term studies. Only to learn those necessary"lifetime drugs" dedicated only to women, were found to cause the exact same harms they had long been claimed to prevent.
The current medical industrial trans-movement ( mutilation surgeries and lifetime harmful drugs) has historic origins. Just new targets.
You are so right. My comment wasn't meant to say that the schools don't need reforming, just that the schools are in league with the Medical Industrial Complex - and the trans stuff in school is not going to stop just by parents showing up. It's great that they do but Big Pharm will find a way to get to the kids. Must go after Big Pharm. that's what Bobby Kennedy understands.
Btw, I would like to know how much the teachers' unions get from Big Trans Pharm.
And a personal story - a family friend went to LA Pediatric because she has an autistic child. While there she talked about how her other child, a very young son, only wanted to dress up like a girl and do girl things. The hospital latched onto this woman, convinced her the child was trans and convinced her to become an evangelical activist for trans children. Schools were not involved at all.
I have so much faith in Bobby bringing our medical industry in line.
More crazed lunacy from the radical left. The disgusting indoctrination and grooming of our children continues at the behest of the judiciary. Clearly, level minded people have excepted homosexuality as an alternative lifestyle and should be given the same rights, privileges and responsibilities as heterosexual individuals. Ironically, the American Psychiatric Association up until 1973 viewed homosexuality as a “mental disorder.” While adult behavior is one thing, indoctrination or grooming of our children whose brain function has not yet fully developed is quite another.
We have all heard the horror stories of grown men in drag, performing and interacting with our children. If this isn’t a mental disorder, what is it?
Parents opposed to this behavior for religious or moral reasons need to push back, attend school board meetings and organize.
Judicial activism is yet another argument for school vouchers, giving parents a choice and the ability to vote with their feet. Public schools unfortunately have become an abysmal failure of late and continuing to fund schools that engage and encourage this behavior needs to stop.
Some self-righteous Christians who refuse to acknowledge the importance of separating church and public schools are one reason vouchers won’t pass in CA. I’ve participated in meetings to craft bond initiatives for school vouchers that could and would be approved. Then the zealots come in demanding that school vouchers paid with tax money include payment for the private school’s specific religious denomination instruction (Muslim, Baptist, Catholic, Mormon, Brethren, or whatever). These Christians kill voucher passages every time in the last 40 years. To gain voter approval, carve out payment for specific religious instruction/ indoctrination and voters will likely approve vouchers. Otherwise many of us will keep voting no because we’re supporters of separating church and state.
Teaching Comparative World Religions is acceptable, desired and will not jeopardize passage of vouchers. Teaching the values, beliefs and practices distinct to each religions is acceptable. Teaching only one religion is not. Teaching captive audience 3-16 year olds deviant behaviors is wrong: to condition their unquestioning acceptance of deviant behaviors is destructive. Elections matter! POTUS appoints judges.
Just now 2-Biden judges out voted 1-Trump appointed judge to allow non-citizens to vote.
What’s the value of citizenship? Watch how many vote for anchor baby, culturally foreign assimilated in Canada and India Kamala Harris. Isn’t it time to for a Constitutional amendment? Only second generation Americans can run for federal office; or be appointed to federal positions (judges).
No, I disagree with your premise. What does BYU, Loma Linda, Westmont and Notre Dame all have in common? Yes, religious institutions which all enjoy students which have used federal grants in order to attend, and did so without indoctrination. What’s good for colleges should be also good for primary education.
Why relegate students to falling public schools because of optional religious studies in private schools?
Further, should we now withhold healthcare because some hospitals are of religious denominations paid for by public funding?
College age students self-select where they fit in. You site private not public taxpayer supported owned schools. Big difference! Hospitals and skilled nursing & rehab facilities must comply with federal laws to receive federal reimbursement. Catholic hospitals desiring federal funding perform procedures that the affiliated group — Dominican sisters, Sisters of Mercy etc— may not support but the Hospital Board accepts to access federal funding. There are restrictive loan covenants on bond financing of religious affiliated construction projects. Every student needs to feel comfortable and part of his/her school community.
How do you feel about a significant added property tax to pay for bond indebtedness for student housing at public SBCC as compared to private Westmont College?
I agree with some of what you’re saying, but I have no problem with vouchers being used at schools affiliated with specific religions. Two of my children attended a Catholic parochial school even though we are not Catholic. The school produced excellent results.
When did the PTA become a mere extension of the teachers unions? How soon after JFK allowed teachers to form unions in 1962, did we lose the volunteer engagement of parents within our public schools?
I recall my early school days in the 1950's when parents were very present through the local PTA, offering one hot lunch a week -Hot Dog Day-, in the era when we all carried our homemade lunch boxes to school, to running bake sales for special projects with the the fun making popcorn balls at home the night before, to parents always coming along on our highly anticipated field trips.
Yes, the presence of adults was the way to keep all of us coloring within the lines. We knew those parents, knew our parents.
Thanks Montecito, for reminding this bygone era is not completely lost, even if now only in a few select local schools.
Check out the Children’s Educational opportunity Act which is slated for the 2026 initiatives in California
We need to take the tax money squandered on public school brainwashing and give it to the parents to create a free market of education for everyone, not just those wealthy enough to opt out of “ public education”
The most important move for parents is to organize a counter-movement that ensures parental influence and/or control of school boards. Children are no longer safe from political indoctrination by school boards, teachers, school administrators and teachers' unions. Make no mistake, the Pride movement is a political organization bent on recruitment, as are all political movements. If you want to protect your children or you grandchildren, become activists and become school board members. To kill a snake you must first cut off its head.
Or cut the snake body from the head? Never mind.
Equally effective.
Who would have ever thought that our schools would have gotten to the stage that they are but I guess the old adage "he who rocks the cradle rules the world" is true. Thank you, Brent, for the update on the various court rulings. Good comments by both Montecito93108 and Derek on ways to counter this insidious movement to corrupt our kids and distroy the family unit. I also very much agree that the teacher's unions, like all government unions, should be totally abolished.
The problem with public employee unions is that they fund political campaigns of politicians they are confident will be amenable to union demands. Once the union supported candidate is elected, that elected representative is beholden to the union when negotiating employee salaries and benefits. The taxpayers are not represented at the negotiation table. The compensation for public employees is usually significantly higher than comparable jobs in the private sector; the people and businesses who pay the fees and taxes that compensate the public employees.
While serving as President of the Santa Ynez CSD I signed a best and final offer to the SY CSD Teamsters unit, refusing to continue an excessive cash in lieu of medical insurance benefit voted in by the previous Board of Directors. We spent over a year of good faith negotiating but we had reached an impasse. After a mediation that didn’t lead to any concessions, our board was willing to let the matter be settled by the California Labor Relations Board. We were warned we would lose because it is impossible to win against a public employees union. Our Board decided to press forward and represent the interests of our ratepayers over the interests of the union. The union backed down and withdrew from our small community services district. The disbanding of the labor unit was not covered by the local media, who had repeatedly and erroneously claimed I was trying to slash salaries. You would think the disbanding of a public employees union unit deserved news coverage since it is a very rare event.
While my comment is off topic, the point I’d like to make is that these crazy people who facilitate pushing sexual deviancy on innocent children can be defeated at the ballot box. Elect strong school board members who are not intimidated by loud voices saying nasty things. Contrary to the conventional wisdom of the past couple of decades, words cannot hurt us. Being fearful and timid has only given agency to those who would strip us of our parental authority. Speak up and stand firm.
Congratulations on the victory with the unions in Santa Ynez! That is wonderful and yes, what does that say about our local media that would not cover the story. It's a good start to a long struggle but hopefully the wins will continue.
P.S. The tail wags the dog.
Did you know that out of a population of 330 million people only 1.3 million claims to be transgender. Out of that number, 341,800 (21.6%) are gender non-conforming, they can't make up their mind. 515,200 claims to be TG females. 481,000 claims to be TG males. The Cleveland Clinic reports the experts in this field estimate that only 5% to 13 % have the bottom surgery necessary for conversion to the full appearance and, perhaps some functionality, of the desired gender. Basically, it's mainly about a fake, external appearance for 95% to 87% of those who choose the opposite gender to conform to.
These facts are not what are conveyed to children, nor are the dreadful, non-reversible drugs and surgical mutilations that they have to suffer for the rest of their lives.
I love all the statistics used for non-important issues. In engineering, if something doesn't belong there, then it's simply removed. That's why you won't ever see me spouting off numbers for Dem subjects because they are irrelevant. They are like useless gears in a gear train that do nothing. Or bells and whistles in electronic circuits not needed. In a design review, I always had a field day at removing stuff from the designs of others.
Appreciate the legal update! Teacher unions must be abolished for starters, and a syllabus required from every teacher. Few even know the content of assigned books. (One book even includes the website for young students to hook up with strangers to learn sex. Parents asked me to join them for a meeting with the principal and librarian who argued free speech/reading minors!*!#! I had no idea the depth of this crazed insanity.)
Why not advocate for a statewide pilot project authorizing volunteer parents, or District taxpayers, to be assigned to sit in the back of every classroom to observe for accountability? Some teachers might also add ‘for additional safety.’ The mere presence of an adult goes a long way. The added benefit, we see classroom management plus learn from the books and discussions.
At my neighborhood public elementary school, every parent (or their proxy) were asked to volunteer 3 hours a week at the school —whatever they could handle — to help in their child’s classroom, the office, library and/or playground. We got to know the students and other parents: each other’s life realities. Then when it came time to enter the nearby secondary public junior and senior high schools, some Montecito parents continued the tradition within preset parameters to ensure there were always parents on campus (band room, library, hallways, cafeteria, art center, theater, media, and classrooms) to either observe or assist as per teacher’s stipulation.
The federal RSVP Program (retired senior volunteer program) is one source of adults who could be vetted and fingerprinted to help stop the nonsense by simply their silent presence. On campus eyes and ears are needed. It’s been 9 years since my youngest left high school, and relationships continue with teachers and others committed to public education expecting student proficiency and standards of citizenship (civi duty) rather than schools serving as the government
machine’s political propaganda, indoctrination arm.
Avoidance with home schooling and going private is the answer for some families. I choose to be one of the parents on campus for 14 years. If we lose control of our public schools, we know the consequence.
Government schools today own our tax dollars, now they own our children too. But they refuse ownership of the egregiously deficient education they provide in return .
How do we change this? One school district at a time on the grass roots level. Never give up removing every vestige of this insider Democrat game. Defeats will be many, but the cause is just until one of two things happen: tax payers are no longer forced to fund wholly deficient government schools and/or parental choice and vouchers becomes the law of the land.
Basic education of young people is critical; but political indoctrination and partisanship school politics is not. We should not be forced to fund the present condition of our public schools. Enliven these currently stagnant tax payer-funded failure factories by the introduction of choice and competition.
Parents we don't need no stinkin parents.
People like these took their marching orders for the likes of Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler.......
You see this creep in the school system of Santa Barbara County and most definitely at the Board of Supervisors, and the Santa Bar school district.
We trusted for generations the basics of learning would be in our public schools. Now it is obvious the social dictators have every intent to destroy the family and make government paramount.
Hahaha! I never trusted them. I volunteered at every opportunity, served as room mother, formed relationships students and teachers and was never shy about contacting a teacher when I was concerned about something.
Our schools from pre-k through college have been taken over by ideologues who have adopted the Rainbow/DEI ideology imposed by the powerful few on our entire society. Pretty sure SBCC Board of Trustees President Jonathan Aboud violated the Brown Act recently when he inappropriately responded to Caroline Abate's public comments with a reprimand and a slander of "anti-trans." And by logic that can only be described as Orwellian, he said her comments on basic biological fact were not welcome at the "inclusive" institution of SBCC that is "welcoming of all people." By "people", it seems he means all people who share his Oligarch engineered irrational world view. Or perhaps he means that all people are welcome, but that those who don't share his synthetic and inconsistent DEI belief system need to keep their mouths shut. But is that genuinely welcoming? Please watch for yourself. https://youtu.be/IxlpE3eFl2A?t=6670 And please think hard about what you can do to join with others locally to stand up to this tyrannical imposition on all of our public schools and institutions.
I read this disturbing and informative article by Mr. Zepke titled
"Parental Rights Rescinded by Schools (and Judges) that should be
Titled "Parental Rigths Obliterated in Family Law Courts in the United States,
California and Right here in Santa Barbara."
There is a much bigger problem well-known about Parents and thier children
used as Pawn's in the Educational System and furthremore in the Family Law Court
System that utterly destroys children and thier families and for yes..... of course.....
MONEY, MONEY and more MONEY. Any doubt looks at this Documentary DIVORCE CORP>
https://www.divorcecorp.com/ and I quote from this weblink>>>
"A shocking exposé of the inner workings of the $50 billion a year U.S. family law industry, Divorce Corp shines a bright light on the appalling waste, and shameless collusive practices seen daily in family courts. It is a stunning documentary film that anyone considering marriage or divorce must see."
Are there children and parents being destroyed rigth here in Santa Barbara in Schools & Divorce Courts? The answer is YES. I could provide you all with Documents that would make you uttterly SICK.
I have also been equally clear who is in town and since 2015 and if you have any experience in
Government of Military Operations you have to be dum, blind and death not to know that
ALL HELL HAS BROKEN LOSE .............. in lil ole Santa Barbara.
I have a suggestion for the SB So-Called Leaders ,,,, never and I mean NEVER conceal Corrupt Acts.
https://oig.justice.gov/reports/FBI/a0537/chapter10.htm
"Public corruption tears at the fabric of our communities and our national security. Elected or appointed officials are entrusted and expected to protect the interests of the people with integrity."
Howard Walther, member of a Military Family
PS - You all may want to ask. Is there any Integrity in SB?
If I was ever to be elected President of the United States ... well, let's start with Mayor of Santa Barbara.
I would demand all kids dress in only red clothing to schools, all blue clothing banned. Pictures of donkeys in books would be replaced with pictures of elephants. An emphasis of teaching girls are always girls and boys are always boys; any mention of sexual identity is banned. Words banned would be dem, lib, liberal, all former Democratic President pictures and names banned from books; ban anything associated with the Democratic Mafia Party of the United States. This would be the first step toward normalcy. And teachers need to learn how to play the piano like in the old days so everyone can sing all those traditional American folk music tunes of the past (such as Stephen Foster tunes, Old Black Joe, a favorite). Kids learn to play the Flutophones and learn to spell, read, write, add subtract and multiply and American History (Obama, Harris/Biden never existed). And we can all watch the fading Dems vanish, disappearing into the past with no recorded history. And when Sally one day asks her parents why there are no pictures of donkeys in books, the parents can say, well, there was a time when they simply disappeared from the face of the earth.
Bill, you silly goose!
Sounds like you’re not a believer in the U.S. constitution.
“A dictatorship is a government or a social situation where one person makes all the rules and decisions without input from anyone else. Dictatorship implies absolute power — one person who takes control — of a political situation, a family, a classroom or even a camping expedition.”
Yes, I agree ... I would be a benevolent dictator. And yes, I'm definitely one that takes control. But I guarantee you everybody would be happy and not half the country miserable (including myself) with regards to the direction of the country. I'm a believer in the U.S. Constitution, but right now it needs some help. Trump can dictate to his heart's content for all I care. Where in the Constitution does it say you need the government involved with teaching?
Keep in mind Trump is a business thinking guy guaranteed to be a most persuasive one. In other words, think like me or think somewhere else.
You state that “Trump can dictate to his heart's content for all I care”, yet you state that you’re a “believer in the Constitution”?
Yikes!
Yikes is so bland sounding, how about Yickity Yikes <g>! There are good dictators and there are bad dictators. Trump would be a good dictator with an appeal to the masses thinking. Trump knows what people wants and that will be his direction. You think the Dems follow the Constitution? Pardon me while I throw up. You wouldn't consider Biden and Harris being dictators?
Awesome logic!
Terrific piece, Brent. I don't think the answer is in going after the schools. I think we have to go after the medical industry which planned the trans epidemic years in advance just as they did Covid. Look at the website for Children's Hospital Los Angeles. That's where the monster is that feeds on misery and money. Bobby Kennedy is the hero who can do it. MAHA.
I say we go after all of it. The medical and pharmaceutical industries are a huge part of the problem but the schools have a role in the damage being done. I too am excited about the role RFKjr will play in getting our kids healthy.
I remember also near universal Big Pharm marketing and sexual mutilation of middle age women that persisted for decades, until the 1970's when women's liberation started questioning this medical abuse of mainly women in the US.
Until finally in the 1990's, when this long-standing standard of care was subjected to double-blind long-term studies. Only to learn those necessary"lifetime drugs" dedicated only to women, were found to cause the exact same harms they had long been claimed to prevent.
The current medical industrial trans-movement ( mutilation surgeries and lifetime harmful drugs) has historic origins. Just new targets.
You are so right. My comment wasn't meant to say that the schools don't need reforming, just that the schools are in league with the Medical Industrial Complex - and the trans stuff in school is not going to stop just by parents showing up. It's great that they do but Big Pharm will find a way to get to the kids. Must go after Big Pharm. that's what Bobby Kennedy understands.
Btw, I would like to know how much the teachers' unions get from Big Trans Pharm.
And a personal story - a family friend went to LA Pediatric because she has an autistic child. While there she talked about how her other child, a very young son, only wanted to dress up like a girl and do girl things. The hospital latched onto this woman, convinced her the child was trans and convinced her to become an evangelical activist for trans children. Schools were not involved at all.
I have so much faith in Bobby bringing our medical industry in line.
More crazed lunacy from the radical left. The disgusting indoctrination and grooming of our children continues at the behest of the judiciary. Clearly, level minded people have excepted homosexuality as an alternative lifestyle and should be given the same rights, privileges and responsibilities as heterosexual individuals. Ironically, the American Psychiatric Association up until 1973 viewed homosexuality as a “mental disorder.” While adult behavior is one thing, indoctrination or grooming of our children whose brain function has not yet fully developed is quite another.
We have all heard the horror stories of grown men in drag, performing and interacting with our children. If this isn’t a mental disorder, what is it?
Parents opposed to this behavior for religious or moral reasons need to push back, attend school board meetings and organize.
Judicial activism is yet another argument for school vouchers, giving parents a choice and the ability to vote with their feet. Public schools unfortunately have become an abysmal failure of late and continuing to fund schools that engage and encourage this behavior needs to stop.
School vouchers now!
Some self-righteous Christians who refuse to acknowledge the importance of separating church and public schools are one reason vouchers won’t pass in CA. I’ve participated in meetings to craft bond initiatives for school vouchers that could and would be approved. Then the zealots come in demanding that school vouchers paid with tax money include payment for the private school’s specific religious denomination instruction (Muslim, Baptist, Catholic, Mormon, Brethren, or whatever). These Christians kill voucher passages every time in the last 40 years. To gain voter approval, carve out payment for specific religious instruction/ indoctrination and voters will likely approve vouchers. Otherwise many of us will keep voting no because we’re supporters of separating church and state.
Teaching Comparative World Religions is acceptable, desired and will not jeopardize passage of vouchers. Teaching the values, beliefs and practices distinct to each religions is acceptable. Teaching only one religion is not. Teaching captive audience 3-16 year olds deviant behaviors is wrong: to condition their unquestioning acceptance of deviant behaviors is destructive. Elections matter! POTUS appoints judges.
Just now 2-Biden judges out voted 1-Trump appointed judge to allow non-citizens to vote.
What’s the value of citizenship? Watch how many vote for anchor baby, culturally foreign assimilated in Canada and India Kamala Harris. Isn’t it time to for a Constitutional amendment? Only second generation Americans can run for federal office; or be appointed to federal positions (judges).
No, I disagree with your premise. What does BYU, Loma Linda, Westmont and Notre Dame all have in common? Yes, religious institutions which all enjoy students which have used federal grants in order to attend, and did so without indoctrination. What’s good for colleges should be also good for primary education.
Why relegate students to falling public schools because of optional religious studies in private schools?
Further, should we now withhold healthcare because some hospitals are of religious denominations paid for by public funding?
College age students self-select where they fit in. You site private not public taxpayer supported owned schools. Big difference! Hospitals and skilled nursing & rehab facilities must comply with federal laws to receive federal reimbursement. Catholic hospitals desiring federal funding perform procedures that the affiliated group — Dominican sisters, Sisters of Mercy etc— may not support but the Hospital Board accepts to access federal funding. There are restrictive loan covenants on bond financing of religious affiliated construction projects. Every student needs to feel comfortable and part of his/her school community.
How do you feel about a significant added property tax to pay for bond indebtedness for student housing at public SBCC as compared to private Westmont College?
I agree with some of what you’re saying, but I have no problem with vouchers being used at schools affiliated with specific religions. Two of my children attended a Catholic parochial school even though we are not Catholic. The school produced excellent results.
Many thanks to Brent for highlighting these cases. I don’t know what to say but: Crazytimes!
That said, I learned a lot from Brent, as well as from reading through this entry in Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_Queen_Story_Hour
Big surprise, Drag Queen Story Hour was started by a Bay Area activist. Who’d have guessed?
Bizarre the way the whole trans thing has become such a big deal, isn’t it? Hard to explain too.
When did the PTA become a mere extension of the teachers unions? How soon after JFK allowed teachers to form unions in 1962, did we lose the volunteer engagement of parents within our public schools?
I recall my early school days in the 1950's when parents were very present through the local PTA, offering one hot lunch a week -Hot Dog Day-, in the era when we all carried our homemade lunch boxes to school, to running bake sales for special projects with the the fun making popcorn balls at home the night before, to parents always coming along on our highly anticipated field trips.
Yes, the presence of adults was the way to keep all of us coloring within the lines. We knew those parents, knew our parents.
Thanks Montecito, for reminding this bygone era is not completely lost, even if now only in a few select local schools.
Check out the Children’s Educational opportunity Act which is slated for the 2026 initiatives in California
We need to take the tax money squandered on public school brainwashing and give it to the parents to create a free market of education for everyone, not just those wealthy enough to opt out of “ public education”