Now This Is Disturbing
I don’t normally rely on the NYPost for my news. I read the sports section, and Page Six (can never get enough of those Hadid girls), thats it. However, todays headline caught my eye and after listening to talk radio last night I decided to confront this issue today. China’s military aggression will have to wait.
It seems that the National School Boards Association has asked the Department of Justice to investigate threats and harassment against school board members by parents upset with curriculum and mask mandates. Obviously the Post has made this front page news and the sensationalism, which is a Post hallmark, is there but the story is disturbing on many levels.
Forget the Post’s coverage for a minute and just look at the bigger picture. The Department of Justice will use the FBI to investigate threats and harassment claims to see if they fall under the “domestic terrorist” umbrella. These are parents of students that are exercising their rights of free speech and they are going to be investigated by the FBI? Does that not strike you as six ways of wrong?
You have all seen the different YouTube videos of parents speaking their minds about what is taught in schools now. Critical Race Theory is that hot button topic and most of these parents make a great case concerning the teaching of CRT. They are entitled to voice their displeasure. Parents that feel it’s important to develop curriculum based on CRT also have spoken up. It’s a dialogue and dialogue is good. Where does speaking your mind and trying to work in the best interests of your children ever become a domestic terrorist situation?
The NSBA claims that there have been an increasing amount of threats against school board members and they want the situation elevated to a national level as opposed to reporting those threats to their local police departments. I am no legal scholar but if someone threatens me either in the supermarket or in a public forum, this is a situation where the police should be informed and let them investigate. I don’t call the local office of the FBI so why is the FBI now getting involved?
This is where it gets disturbing. The Department of Justice is a branch of the Federal Government and it answers directly to the White House. While the present administration may not directly get involved with something like this, I am sure that they know full well what the ramifications could be and they don’t seem to have an issue with it.
This is clearly an attempt to silence or at slow down opposition to changing the course of education in this country. Parents for decades have argued for and against decisions by school boards and the FBI was never called in. I can bet my last dollar that some of these arguments have turned to physical confrontations and the guilty parties were taken into custody and the legal system does what it does. However, now, all of a sudden the threats are increasing and the harassment is increasing and local police can’t handle it? Come on. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that this is an attempt to slow down or completely shut down opposition to a contentious educational directive.
Personally, I don’t agree with the teaching of critical race theory in schools. I am in favor in teaching facts. The good, the bad and the ugly. Teachings in school do not make racists, families do. I will say this again, this country is not racist, not by a long shot, but there are still racists in this country. However, a very very good sign is the fact that kids nowadays don’t think in terms of race at all. Talk to any kid 10 years or older and you would be very surprised how aware they are to race relations in this country.
Back to my point and that is that it is very disturbing to me that the Federal Government will now be looking into comments by parents regarding their children’s education. That seems to be an attempt to silence or intimidate people but I think what the DOJ and FBI will find is that parents do not care about what the school board thinks, what AG Garland thinks or what Joe Biden thinks, they care about what is best for their kids and while the FBI may have stymied the SDS and Black Panther Party in the 60’s they have never met a tougher group than mothers defending their kids.