Parents nationwide are belatedly waking up and vigorously resisting the poisonous programs being inflicted on their children in our public schools. But Biden's ruthless Attorney General, Merrick Garland, has begun to employ totalitarian measures worthy of Stalin and Mao to suppress this righteous democratic movement. Garland is now labeling justifiably restive parents as "domestic terrorists" and marshalling the collective resources of the FBI and the nation's U.S. Attorneys in an unprecedented governmental assault on the right of parents to protect their children from educational abuse. The aroused parents, however, have no plans to submit to such blatant fascist oppression.
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Probably the most serious and pernicious problem now infecting the schools is the deliberate oppression of white children in the name of leftist canards such as "white privilege," "white supremacy," so-called Critical Race Theory (CRT), and the fraudulent "1619 Project" (designed to portray our Founding Fathers as racist villains). These programs, adopted and enforced by leftist school boards and allied teachers unions, inflict an enormous emotional and psychological toll on white children by shaming and bullying them for the crime of being white. It is remarkable that these programs have not yet been successfully challenged in court on the grounds that they create a racially oppressive educational environment in violation of Titles VI and IX of the Civil Rights Act and other antidiscrimination laws.
This phenomenon is poisonous and widespread and must be stopped. Fortunately, however, thousands of parents throughout the country are beginning to recognize this menace and raise their voices (often in public school board meetings) to protect their children.
Elsewhere, many school systems are requiring young K-through 12 school children to wear uncomfortable and confining masks all day in school, purportedly to prevent further spread of Covid-19. These requirements are mindless, unscientific, ineffective, and gravely harmful to the children, and are opposed by many parents for that reason. Governments and boards imposing these ludicrous policies refuse to undertake, let alone to follow, the cost-benefit analysis which would expose them for the follies that they are. Young school children are not vulnerable to Covid like the elderly (let alone to serious consequences from it), but they are vulnerable to the psychological, sociological, and educational harms caused by covering their young faces with creepy, germ-laden, and dehumanizing masks throughout the school day. But the school systems that enforce these mask mandates simply don't care; they prefer to wallow in the empty virtue-signaling of Covid fanatacism.
A further educational atrocity embraced by various state and local governments and school boards is the assault on merit and superior attainment by some categories of students, particularly in the science, math, and STEM subjects. It is hard fact that Asian-American students, and to a lesser extent white students, vastly outperform black and Hispanic students in these fields. As one result of this, the former cohorts far surpass the latter in admissions to selective magnet schools emphasizing STEM curricula (such as Fairfax County, Virginia's, illustrious Thomas Jefferson High School). Similarly, young Asian-Americans' superior academic performance has enabled them to gain a disproportionate share (relative to their percentage of the overall student population) of admissions to elite universities -- although the adoption of extreme racial preferences for blacks and other minorities by many such universities is now artificially (but intentionally) suppressing and reducing their Asian-American admissions.
In response to these circumstances, various state and local governments are taking outrageous measures to narrow the so-called "gap," or level the academic playing field, as between primarily Asian-Americans, on the one hand, and primarily blacks, on the other. On a broader level, they are actually eliminating advanced math and science courses in many schools because blacks and Hispanics do not pursue or qualify for such programs to the same extent as Asian-American or white students. Additionally, the necessarily demanding standards for admission to elite magnet and STEM schools like Thomas Jefferson are being eliminated or diluted for the sole purpose of increasing the admission of black and/or Hispanic students who otherwise could not meet those standards, and reducing the admission of Asian-Americans who do meet those standards.
In short, excellence in public education is being deliberately abandoned in order to appease the political demands of the race-obsessed left. And this comes at a time when our education standards urgently need to be strengthened in the face of global surveys consistently demonstrating that the students of East Asian nations (including China) are vastly outperforming American students, especially in STEM fields.
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Rightfully aroused parents are now (if belatedly) rising up to oppose these pernicious policies and programs in school board hearings, legislative settings, and other public forums. In the face of arrogant disregard for their concerns by many school boards and other educational agencies, justifiably irate parents have actually raised their voices, and maybe even occasionally shook their fists, in the time-honored (and constitutionally protected) tradition of "robust and wide-open debate" repeatedly enshrined in the Supreme Court's First Amendment decisions.
Lamentably, however, the Biden Administration and many state and local governments have little sympathy for parental concerns regarding the educational welfare and well-being of their children. So far from lending any support to such parental concerns -- some of which are based on legal and constitutional violations of their children's rights -- the Biden totalitarians and many state and local governments have turned against the nation's concerned parents and actually threatened them with investigation and prosecution for the crime of rising in defense of their children.
The most egregious and disgusting example of this outrage is the recent announcement by Biden's Stasi-like Attorney General, the odious Merrick Garland, that the federal government will investigate and pursue these aroused parents as though they were "domestic terrorists."
Characterizing legitimate parental complaints as "harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school board members," Garland issued a deeply menacing totalitarian decree on October 4. Garland's decree announced nationwide deployment of the FBI and the Justice Department's Criminal, Civil, and National Security Divisions, as well as all the Department's U.S. Attorneys, in a totalitarian investigation and persecution of parents who vigorously defend their children's educational safety against the dangerous abuses of the radical educational policies described above. Relatedly, a telephone hotline is to be established facilitating the reporting of allegedly excessive protests and similar parental misbehavior (undoubtedly by leftist "citizen snitches").
A more outrageous and oppressive abuse of governmental authority would be difficult to imagine. When issued by the man who is responsible for the enforcement of the nation's constitution and laws, this complete subversion of law, truth, and justice is doubly distressing. Garland's decision and directive reflect a complete corruption and distortion of the actual facts at hand.
In fact, if any offenses requiring DOJ investigation are occurring in this context, it is not the vigorous exercise of First Amendment rights by rightfully angry parents. Rather, it is the cultivation of a racially hostile education environment through the shaming and oppression of white children by accusing them of collective "white privilege;" declaring them guilty of bogus "white supremacy;" and in some cases even forcing them to confess their racial guilt in exercises of self-criticism reminiscent of Maoist China's Cultural Revolution.
The creation of these conditions in various public school systems violates the anti-discrimination prohibitions of Titles VI and IX of the federal civil rights acts. These are the kind of blatant illegalities that the Justice Department should be investigating and prosecuting. Instead, Merrick Garland and his DOJ and FBI jackboots are marshaling their enforcement resources against the concerned and frustrated parents whose children are the victims of these race-based educational abuses.
Moreover, Garland's claim that it is the frustrated parents' protests against school system abuses that may violate federal law is a complete perversion of the actual truth. On the contrary, Garland and his DOJ/FBI minions have studiously ignored actual conspiracies to suppress civil rights engaged in by the proponents of the above-described educational abuses.
A prime example occurred in March of this year in Loudoun County, Virginia. When various parents expressed concern about the dangers and fallacies of the so-called "equity" and diversity programs (including CRT propaganda) being inflicted on their children, the leftist proponents of these programs quickly conspired to suppress the incipient protests. A group of current and former teaches, officials (apparently including the county prosecutor), and other activists, employing a 624-member Facebook group, compiled a list of those parents suspected of disagreeing with the racialist programs. The evident purpose of the undertaking was to infiltrate the protesting parents, expose and shame them publicly, and even to use hackers to suppress the objecting parents' communications.
The malicious campaign by the Loudoun educational leftists presents a textbook example of the kind of criminal conspiracies to suppress the exercise of constitutional rights prohibited by18 USC sec. 241and civilly actionable under 42 USC sec. 1985. Section 241 applies when "two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person" in the exercise or enjoyment of their constitutional rights -- including the rights of free speech and assembly and to petition the government for redress of grievances.
Needless to say, the Biden/Garland Justice Department neither noticed nor responded to this patent conspiracy to suppress parental protests. On the contrary, they have declared war on the parental and student victims of these systemic educational abuses and openly allied the federal government with the perpetrators of these educational outrages.
If there were any doubt as to the lawless malice of Garland and his legal dragoons at the Justice Department and the FBI, Garland's marshaling of the full panoply of federal enforcement resources to persecute the justified protest of student parents should remove it once and for all.
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