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Offline Kamaji

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Parents and the left are in an all-out war, and the kids are collateral damage

By Andrea Peyser
August 21, 2022

It’s war. And our kids are cannon fodder.

Amid a national struggle waged by parents for control over their kids’ hearts and minds, the New Jersey chapter of the country’s largest teachers union posted an ad to YouTube that paints conservative parents as radical “extremists” and book-banners bent on contaminating their own children with racism, sexism and homo- and trans-phobia.

“When extremists start attacking our schools, that’s not who we are,” the video’s narrator intones, while the screen flips back and forth between colorful, cheery photos of teachers with students and sinister-looking black-and-white images of evil parents.

“People who only want to fight to score political points should take that somewhere else.”

A leftist sham
But this brazen effort by a leftist organization to bash concerned adults while seizing influence over kids is a sham based on falsehoods. It’s the same way recent headlines have stated — wrongly — that Texas schools were banning both Anne Frank’s diary — and the Bible because of conservatives.

In fact, some parents, likely liberals, have complained about sex, slavery, bestiality, torture and other elements of the Christian Bible.

Others have taken issue not with the beloved diary written by Holocaust victim Anne Frank, but by a more recent “graphic adaptation” of the tome, which highlights her post-pubescent fascination with homosexuality.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/08/21/collateral-damage-in-war-on-parents-kids-caught-in-the-middle/

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Nothing new there.  Liberals have always used working-class and poor public school students are subjects for their social experiments.

Their attempt to "desegregate" Boston public schools led to white flight.  Those that could afford private and parochial school tution, pulled thier children out of public schools.  When Cardinal Medeirous closed Boston parocial school enrollment, middle class whites moved to the suburbs, or sent their children to live with a relative in the suburbs.  Though Howie Long is from Charlestown (Boston), MA, his family sent him to live with a relative in a suburb, Walpole, MA, to avoid Boston's Froced Busing.

Federal Judge Wendell Arthur Garrity Jr., who lived in the rich suburb of Lincoln, MA, saw fit to use poor and working-class Boston Public Schools students as guinea pigs for Forced Busing.  Yet, that same judge did not inflict the same social experiment on nearby rich, white suburbs - like Newton, Brookline, Cambridge, Weston, Wellesley, etc.

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Yes, this hypocrisy is rampant in every way.  I know a couple who refuse to have their children go to a safe private school because it's "elitist." (They can afford a private school.) They would prefer to have them go to "PS 666." Meanwhile the husband actively applied to elite universities like Harvard for his MBA!   :shrug:
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Some hope in Missouri:
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BREAKING: Missouri AG @Eric_Schmitt announces that he is expanding his investigation of Springfield Public Schools for potential civil rights violations. Thank you, Mr. Attorney General!

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Our kids are the reason, not collateral damage... if there were no kids, we would not be fighting this "war"

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Our kids are the reason, not collateral damage... if there were no kids, we would not be fighting this "war"

Agree @EdinVA    :thumbsup:

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Leftist limit their worship of "choice" to killing babies. School choice? Not so much.
Tw*tter thread from AZ:
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Today my wife and I spoke with someone gathering petition signatures. They are trying and stop the school choice bill recently passed in AZ. We talked with this person for a total time of just under 2 hours.

They lied to us. A lot. Here are a few of the lies they told.  ...

https://twitter.com/grantbotma/status/1563748401014968320
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