education
No Democrats vote for ‘Parents Bill of Rights’ claiming it promotes ‘fascism’
Democrats say a newly passed Bill which protects parents’ rights is promoting “fascism.” The House voted Friday to pass the Parents Bill of Rights Act in a 213-208 vote. All Democrats and a few Republicans voted against it. The Act would require school districts to give parents access to curriculum and reading lists, as well as require schools to inform parents if school staff begin encouraging or promoting their child’s gender transition.
The GOP bill “is a response to growing anger across the country about access to information on everything from school curricula to safety and mask policies to the prevalence of gender ideology and critical race theory in the classroom. Parents’ anger over these issues at school board meetings led to an effort by the Biden administration’s Justice Department to examine the ‘disturbing trend’ of violent threats against school officials” reports Fox News.
The bill says parents have “the right to know if a school employee or contractor acts to… change a minor child’s gender markers, pronouns, or preferred name; or… allow a child to change the child’s sex-based accommodations, including locker rooms or bathrooms.”
Democrats are attempting to use fear tactics, saying the GOP bill wants to engage in a dangerous book ban. “They want to ban books, they want to bully the LGBTQ+ community, they want to bring guns into classrooms, kindergarten and above. That’s their educational agenda,” said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat. “Extreme MAGA Republicans don’t want the children of America to learn about the Holocaust” he ranted.
Republican Representative Ralph Normal from South Carolina rejected Jeffries nonsense: “Nowhere in this bill is it banning any books.” Rather, the goal of the bill’s language is to make sure parents are aware of sexually explicit books in school libraries.
Norman cited specific books that talk about kids who are “sexually active from the time I was 6,” or that include “explicit images of oral sex.”
“Parents, is this something you want your children to read?” Norman asked. “Parents, is this something that encourages academics and allows that child to compete in the 21st century?”
education
Department of Education Office of Civil Rights opens investigation into Harvard University
On Tuesday the United States Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights opened an investigation into Harvard University in order to determine if the school has fulfilled legal obligation to respond to the increase in antisemitic incidents after Hamas’ brutal attack on Israel on October 7th.
The university agreed to cooperate with the investigation in a statement issued Wednesday. “We support the work of the Office for Civil Rights to ensure students’ rights to access educational programs are safeguarded and will work with the office to address their questions,” the statement read.
The DOE has also opened investigations into Columbia University, Cornell University, Wellesley College, and the University of Pennsylvania this month over “discrimination involving shared ancestry” under Title VI.
According to a letter from the Department of Education obtained by the Boston Globe
the investigation was prompted after a complaint which stated Harvard “discriminated against students on the basis of their national origin (shared Jewish ancestry and/or Israeli) when it failed to respond appropriately to reports of incidents of harassment,”
National Review reports that while the Office of Civil Rights does not typically disclose which specific complaints prompted an investigation, there have been several high-profile incidents of antisemitism at Harvard and other Ivy league universities in recent weeks.
Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman sent an open letter to Harvard president Claudine Gay earlier this month which cited the confrontation at the “die-in” and urged her to take action to protect Jewish students.
“Jewish students are being bullied, physically intimidated, spat on, and in several widely-disseminated videos of one such incident, physically assaulted,” Mr. Ackman wrote. “On-campus protesters on the Widener Library steps and elsewhere shout, ‘Intifada! Intifada! Intifada! From the River to the Sea, Palestine Shall be Free!’”
Harvard President Claudine Gay released a statement about “combatting antisemitism” on November 9:
“I affirm our commitment to protecting all members of our community from harassment and marginalization, and our commitment to meeting antisemitism head-on, with the determination it demands,” Gay said. “Let me reiterate what I and other Harvard leaders have said previously: Antisemitism has no place at Harvard.”
Among the antisemitic events that have circulated national news are how just days after the Hamas attack, a 19-year-old Columbia student was arrested for allegedly assaulting an Israeli student who was trying to prevent the suspect from tearing down posters of Israeli hostages. Also at Cornell, a 21-year-old student was arrested for allegedly threatening to murder and rape his Jewish classmates on an anonymous online message board.
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Terryr
March 25, 2023 at 5:17 pm
What country are we today? We used to be the greatest country in the world now we have been lowered to a back world dung hole buy the despicable democratic socialist government we now have forced upon us. This can’t continue without some very serious, intelligent, Americans who live, pay taxes, raise children, and love what used to be the United States of America it’s time to begin to wake up and decide enough is enough we want our country back.