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Jan 17,, 6 tweets, 2 min read
BREAKING: Following a lawsuit from parents, the State of California has permanently removed the "In Lak Ech Affirmation" from the state curriculum, which would have forced students to chant to the Aztec god of human sacrifice in order to become "warriors" for "social justice."
I broke the story about this curriculum for City Journal last year. Parents took immediate action—and now they have won.
city-journal.org/calif-ethnic-s…
Congratulations to attorney @PaulJonna, who represented parents and forced the State of California to abandon the controversial curriculum, which violated students' right to conscience. When parents stand up for their kids, they win.
I grew up in California and we recited the Pledge of Allegiance every morning. It's truly mind-boggling that, one generation later, they're trying to make kids chant to the Aztec god of human sacrifice. But that's what happens when you let neo-Marxists take over the institutions.
Sadly, it is not.
I almost forgot: Snopes once called my reporting about the Aztec chant "false." They were wrong at the time; but, given that California has now removed it, they are doubly wrong now.

I'll say it again: fact-checking is the lowest form of journalism.

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Jan 12,
The AP, WaPo, and PolitiFact all said it was "false" that the DOJ was investigating school board protests as "domestic terrorism."

They lied: we now have documents that prove the Biden Admin solicited the initial letter and mobilized the counterterrorism division of the FBI.
The original fact checks were easily debunked in real time.
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Jan 9,
Fact-checking is truly the lowest form of journalism.
Last year, AP did a laughable "fact check" on the Biden DOJ going after school board protestors as "domestic terrorists." Editor @KarenMahabir locked her account and has been hiding ever since.

Cowardly hairsplitters who run interference for the regime.
The issue isn't vaccines or the FBI—it's that our purportedly neutral news organizations are all voluntarily coordinating in service of the dominant left-progressive ideological regime, then laundering that political agenda through the pseudo-scientific "fact checking" process.
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Jan 7,
My goal this year is for 10+ state legislatures to pass curriculum transparency bills, requiring public schools to make all teaching materials easily available to parents via internet.

It's time to get the political predators out of the shadows—and return power to families.
The strategy here is to use a non-threatening, liberal value—"transparency"—to force ideological actors to undergo public scrutiny. It's a rhetorically-advantageous position and, when enacted, will give parents a powerful check on bureaucratic power.
The Left will expect that, after passing so-called "CRT bans" last year, we will overplay our hand. By moving to curriculum transparency, we will deflate that argument and bait the Left into opposing "transparency," which will raise the question: what are they trying to hide?
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Dec 16, 2021
BREAKING: A public high school in suburban Chicago has created a racially-segregated field trip program for "students of color."
In a statement, the principal of Downers Grove South, Ed Schwartz, told me that the school planned the racially-segregated program to "provide the opportunity for students of color to be partnered with a group of teachers who look like them and have had similar life experiences."
I have documented multiple cases of public institutions promoting "segregation for social justice." This practice can be traced back to critical race theory, which teaches that white and black students often need separate pedagogies and spaces.
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Dec 15, 2021
My speech in support of @GovRonDeSantis' anti-CRT agenda, which will ban critical race theory in schools, provide curriculum transparency for parents, and put families back in charge of their children's education.
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