Arguably, the quality of education in America has greatly diminished in the past three decades.
This from westernjournal.com.
More germane, however, to the educational strategy employed by progressives during the Obiden Regime—to force conformity by confusing and conquering—their goal has obviously turned toward ensnaring our schoolchildren in the web of their radical agenda.
According to NBC News:
A North Texas school district whose superintendent was secretly recorded ordering librarians to remove LGBT-themed library books has been targeted by the U.S. Education Department’s civil rights enforcement arm.
A July complaint by the ACLU promoted the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights to open an investigation on Dec. 6.
The complaint accused the Granbury Independent School District of violating a federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender. Granbury is about an hour’s drive southwest of Dallas.
An investigation published in March by NBC News, ProPublica, and The Texas Tribune fueled the ACLU complaint.
Investigative reporting revealed that Granbury’s superintendent, Jeremy Glenn, instructed librarians to remove books dealing with sexual orientation and people who are transgender.
According to NBC:
This is the first case directly tied to the nationwide movement seeking to ban books with topics on sexuality and gender.
According to the Washington Examiner:
The Office for Civil Rights alerted Granbury officials that it is invoking Title IX to investigate violations of federal law that prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender.
Glenn allegedly discriminated against LGBT material in a leaked recording verified by multiple news outlets.
Glenn told librarians during a January meeting:
I acknowledge that there are men that think they’re women and there are women that think they’re men.
I don’t have any issues with what people want to believe, but there’s no place for it in our libraries.
Glenn later told the librarians that he was focused on removing books geared toward queer students.
He said in the leaked recording:
It’s the transgender, LGBTQ, and the sex—sexuality—in books.
Obviously, a conservative, Glenn reportedly told librarians that:
“[Our] school board [is] now very, very conservative.”
[A]nd that any employee holding opposing political views better hide it.
He added:
“Here in this community, we’re going to be conservative.”
The district has reportedly removed 130 titles that featured LGBT characters and/or themes.
Conservative parents and politicians across Texas had been pressuring districts for months to remove books that contain explicit descriptions of sex from school libraries.
Several young adult novels were labeled as “pornography.”
Those calling for the books’ removal have repeatedly said they are concerned only with sex and vulgarity, not with suppressing the views of LGBT students and authors.
Glenn made a similar argument during his closed-door meeting with librarians in Granbury:
I don’t want a kid picking up a book, whether it’s about homosexuality or heterosexuality, and reading about how to hook up sexually in our libraries.
As reported by the Examiner, ACLU attorney Chloe Kempf responded:
These comments, combined with the book removals, really send a message to LGBTQ students in the districts that: ‘You don’t belong here. Your existence is shameful. It should be censored.’
“Book removals creating a hostile environment for a particular
group of students is a novel argument to be tested in court.”
W. Scott Lewis, a managing partner at consulting firm TNG, told NBC:
It’s certainly the first investigation I’ve seen by the agency testing that argument in this way.
If Glenn is found to have violated students’ rights, the Granbury school district can be required to make policy changes and submit to federal monitoring.
“The question for the courts to answer is whose civil rights are
being violated? [Or] whose natural rights are being violated?”
In 1689, in his Second Treatise of Government, John Locke, who’s writing heavily influenced the U.S. Constitution, wrote that:
[A]ll individuals are equal in the sense that they are born with certain ‘inalienable’ natural rights. These rights are God-given and can never be taken or even given away.
“Do these inalienable rights include imposing fantasy on reality?
When a male feels like a woman does this make him a woman?
If a woman feels like a cat, does it make her a leopard?”
Do the inalienable rights include promoting sexual promiscuity in public schools?
Or is sex a private matter that should be dealt with in the privacy of one’s bedroom?
Finally, is it up to the federal government to determine reality or has God already done that?
These are valid questions. Will they be given fair consideration? We the People have doubts.
Remember: Supreme Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was unable to define a woman during her Senate confirmation hearings.
“The progressive confuse-and-conquer campaign
has infiltrated our highest court.
It is in our churches. It is in our schools.”
