If the pandemic has taught us anything, it is that the political and media elites will go to great lengths to shame and insult Americans who do not conform to the woke, leftist groupthink. I experienced this firsthand when NBC 4 in Washington, D.C. targeted me, and sought comment from my employer, for my views on masks for school children, and the practical impact of trans-gender students in school restrooms.
I may just be a Fairfax County teacher, but I will not be intimidated by the news media doing Terry McAuliffe’s fear-based bidding in a campaign year. As leftist elites try to jam political agendas into the classroom, like Critical Race Theory, and ignore the ramifications of men identifying as women entering the girls’ restrooms and locker rooms, I won’t be silenced. We must end discrimination in our schools – and teach love and respect to all, but not at the expense of love and respect for those who disagree. It is the media and the left’s political agenda that is a threat to our kids, not me exercising free speech that has been a pillar to this country’s foundation.
Virginia’s career politicos have spent the last 18 months issuing edicts to the people of the Commonwealth. They shut down our economy, killed our jobs and put our families’ incomes in jeopardy. They kept Virginia’s schools closed, while countless sons and daughters fell through the cracks of ill-conceived remote learning. They targeted Virginians who believed in personal freedom and shamed those of us who want to open classrooms and not force our young children to wear masks. Their elitist ideas and mindsets are not rooted in a time-honored scientific process, but fear. In a time of chaos, when dialogue and a proliferation of information would help us avert the crises erupting across the globe, they will say, without remorse, that those of us who do not conform to their agenda are the greatest threat of all. When an arrogant and pompous establishment continues encroaching on our freedoms each and every day, it generates a catastrophe that cannot be ignored.
If the media is so eager to cover a controversy in schools, perhaps they should cover the steep losses in learning caused by the Commonwealth’s failed remote learning experience. Better yet, they could take a look into how former Governor and now-democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe’s lowering of standards has led to a precipitous decline in students’ results. These petty distractions, calling out a teacher for her personal views, all while ignoring the terrible policies that have harmed hundreds of thousands of kids, are meager sideshows in the state’s circus of disasters. It is exactly what is wrong with the media today. No wonder so many Americans have tuned out the liberal “news” and sought alternatives that drive towards the truth.
For many families, the utter disarray our education system has devolved into has passed the breaking point and become unbearable – most simply could not remain silent and needed to speak out. Meanwhile, a political outsider has emerged to retake the governor’s mansion and help us retake our schools. Businessman Glenn Youngkin knows what his plan will be from Day One. Critical Race Theory (CRT) could become a thing of the past. You and your children can count on their school being open not one, not two, but five days each week. Students will be pushed to rise above mediocrity and strive for excellence. Virginia’s schools will get the makeover they desperately need to rebound from the nightmare they are today. For the many parents who’ve started demanding accountability in their school board meetings and fighting to regain control over their children’s education, they finally have a candidate who will be a resolute voice for them.
For the sake of our children’s futures, we must foster a respectful and positive learning environment that our kids can depend on, producing model citizens that this Commonwealth can depend on. Political correctness in the classrooms and viewing the world through a permanent lens of race will not get it there. Let’s get back to common sense and get as far away as we can from CRT.
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