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27 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Following Loudoun schools' enemies list of parents who were critical of school policies, a quasi-official school advisory committee says "WE CAN AND WILL SILENCE THE OPPOSITION," a promise which a school board member and schools staff amplified.

dailywire.com/news/after-ene…
1. LCPS tried to pass a policy saying "First Amendment… may be outweighed... racial equity"
2. Parents critical of racial policies put on list to "infiltrate, hack, expose"
3. Equity Committee tried to ban Trump insignia as "marginalization"
4. 'Silence the opposition'
5. ?????
The doxxing of parents by officials appears to have continued post enemies-list revelation. After one parent emailed the sheriff about the list, and copied school board members, her message — including contact information — was shared among activists.
The Minority Student Achievement Advisory Committee (MSAAC), which pledged to "silence the opposition," appoints four members to LCPS school board's Equity Committee, which is responsible for most of the racial policies that are dividing America's wealthiest county.

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25 Mar
A Daily Wire review of tax filings and labor disclosures finds that teachers union officials have infiltrated PTAs from top to bottom, which may be why the PTA's priorities seem to reflect teachers' union interests, not parents'.

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National PTA director Eric Champy was on the board of the NEA for years. After losing a race for president of the Massachusetts teachers’ union in 2018, he was elected to the National PTA Board in 2019.

Is the woman below wearing her union hat or PTA one? Who knows?
The examples abound. And could be why parents who assume that PTA is a place to advocate for their and their children’s interests – like getting them back to school – might find themselves instead told to bake cupcakes to raise money for teachers who are working from home.
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24 Mar
As American K-12 schooling has virtually collapsed, one major group has been conspicuously absent: the PTA.

A Daily Wire review shows how the PTA sold out parents for politics, pushing unrelated liberal policy items while not demanding schools re-open.

dailywire.com/news/how-the-p…
“Being involved in education is not selling wrapping paper to help teachers. That’s what the role of parents has been reduced to by the PTA. Parents would be asking tough questions, because there are a lot of problems. Yet the supposed parents’ association is planning parties?”
The PTA has repeatedly pushed for positions at odds with polling of parents.

It opposes school vouchers, which 3/4 of parents want. It advocated for transgender students in bathrooms, which 2/3 of parents opposed.

Does this look like something parents would ask for?
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22 Mar
Loudoun schools superintendent responds to infamous enemies list of parents, says "LCPS recognizes the right of its employees to free speech."

Meanwhile, a member of the system's Equity Committee proposed banning Trump paraphernalia in schools.

dailywire.com/news/loudoun-t…
Super apparently believes 1A protects supporting Equity policies, but not criticizing them: In September, he introduced a policy saying “An employee’s First Amendment right to engage in protected speech… may be outweighed by the school division’s interest in… racial equity.”
Loudoun is the district where a Facebook group including current and former teachers and parents made a list of parents who were skeptical, critical or simply neutral about the schools' heavy focus on race, with some parents believing it amounted to political indoctrination.
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16 Mar
A group of teachers and others in Loudoun County compiled a list of parents suspected of disagreeing with schools' actions — in part to “infiltrate,” to use “hackers” to silence parents’ communications, and to “expose these people publicly.”

dailywire.com/news/loudoun-t…
Their opponents were those who objected to, sought to debate, or were even simply “neutral” about “critical race theory,” a radical philosophy opposed by many liberals and conservatives but increasingly embraced by governments.
A onetime high school Latin teacher put one man on the list for asking how Dr. Seuss was racist. The group erred on the side of convicting the innocent rather than letting a guilty party go free.
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6 Oct 20
After I wrote stories about political indoctrination in K12 schools last year, tales of shocking incidents--& requests for help from parents who felt powerless and ignored--began pouring in. I began to see K12 schools as the most important, but least scrutinized, area in politics
This is a $1 trillion industry that affects our lives-and the future of our country-more than anything else government does. But no one pays attention to their local school boards. Special interests have utterly colonized them. They flout the law and harm kids. It's widespread.
We hear about cops killing people, but we rarely hear about teachers training kids by the 10s of millions to be crippled by fear and anxiety, directed to feel oppressed when they do not, and teaching them demonstrably false things, while disregarding reading, writing & arithmetic
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2 Oct 20
@ConceptualJames @MattFre29255087 I made WhatAreTheyLearning.com for this reason. Not only is there so much indoctrination in the 13,000 school districts that even a superhero like @ConceptualJames can't keep track of it all, but parents can't rely on outsiders to save them. Parents have to, er, "do the work."
@ConceptualJames @MattFre29255087 Professional activists have been running asymmetrical warfare on schools. They know how to work the obscure levers of power, and they have templates that they deploy. Regular people are confused and overwhelmed. This site builds community and shares info, but it's parent-powered.
@ConceptualJames @MattFre29255087 Schools count on the fact that most people don't know what's going on in classrooms, and if they find out, it's kind of ephemeral, lost in the flood. It needs to be documented in one place for perpetuity. The site can do that, and make it easier for parents to take the first step
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