After another year of lockdowns and mask requireds, one favorable impact of the left’s blossoming authoritarianism is that parents started focusing on what their children were learning in school and decided to do something about it.
Throughout the country, parents found that their children were being taught their gender is ambiguous and malleable, in addition to Marxist ideology crucial race theory– some tenets of which are resegregation, race essentialism, and the concept that non-white individuals arein some way typically incapable members of society. Mostly disregarded by establishment media, problems surrounding education grew out of control in school districts across America, culminatingincontroversial school board meetings, claims, and the Biden Justice Department under Attorney General Merrick Garland directing the FBI to look into moms and dads opposed to the leftist ideologies as”domesticterrorists.
“However as parents became conscious of issues in the education system that are the result of years of leftist policy that has actually slid under the radar and establishment Republican politicians dropping the ball by not paying attention to the issue, education– as an electoral concern typically related to Democrats– became a focal point of the conservative motion. Here are 7 defining moments of 2021 that handed the problem
to conservatives. 1. Loudoun County Rape Coverup: Loudoun County, Virginia, has actually been considered throughout the nation as” ground absolutely no “for nationwide education problems, consisting of crucial race theory, mask requireds, and gender ideology. One issue in particular, nevertheless, clearly took the county by storm: a supposed student rape coverup by the county’s school board. A woman sits with her indication throughout a Loudoun County Public Schools( LCPS) board conference in Ashburn, Virginia on October 12, 2021.(ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images )Loudoun County father Scott Smith was detained in June throughout a board conference at which numerous moms and dads voiced issues about a number of issues going on in the district. Smith’s case was cited by the National School Boards Association in their letter to the Biden administration asking them to check out parents as”domestic terrorists. “Smith, it was revealed, was reacting to superintendent Scott Ziegler appearing to lie about the reality that Smith’s daughter had been sexually assaulted in the ladies’ restroom by a kid using a skirt. The alleged coverup, it appeared to lots of, was done in an effort to pass a sweeping transgender policy that would
enable young boys to use ladies’ toilets and locker rooms, in addition to complete versus women in sports. As Breitbart News reported, conservatives have actually inundated the school board with over 500 FOIA requests seeking responses on the coverup. 2. Terry McAuliffe Sinks His Own Campaign: Simply as Loudoun Countyhas been thought about “ground zero,” Virginia as a state made heading after headline on the education concern, in part due to the off-year gubernatorial election. Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe(D), who has deep ties to instructors unions, the Clintons, and the Democrat Celebration establishment, was running for a second, nonconsecutive term in the guv’s mansion. As the education problem heated up in the Commonwealth, McAuliffe might be heard frequently
stating how critical race theory was not taught in schools or that some kids were really girls and it was therefore fair for young boys to contend against women, in spite of biological data. However McAuliffe from the beginning was thought about a shoo-in for the seat, as Virginia has actually seen a leftward relocation in the previous decade or more– till he said the peaceful part out loud:” I don’t believe
parents ought to be telling schools what they need to teach.”This gaffe, said at a September argument with Republican gubernatorial prospect Glenn Youngkin, has been commonly considered as a major pivotal moment in the project, which saw tightening up surveys and
ultimately a Youngkin triumph. Last I checked, it’s OUR taxpayer dollars funding OUR public schools for OUR children. And it’s our kids who are falling back in core competencies, we want better for them. https://t.co/faIyZ5KRV6
— Alleigh Marré(@alleighmarre)September 29, 2021 This was the specifying minute of the #VAgov dispute. https://t.co/K5tKvA0Fr5– Matt Wolking( @MattWolking) September 29, 2021 Virginia had not chosen a Republican statewide considering that 2009. 3. Fairfax County’s Pornography-and Pedophilia-Laced Books:
*** Warning Graphic Content *** In yet another Virginia story, Fairfax County Public Schools chose to reestablish to school libraries the books Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe and Yard Young Boy by Jonathan Evison, as, after a main review, they were discovered to have no adult or pedophilic content after they had been challenged by moms and dads. The problem, nevertheless, came due to the truth that both books have pictures and literature that plainly illustrate and explain pornography and pedophilia. These are the images in Fairfax County Public Schools libraries for even 12 year olds. Mother Stacy Langton revealed them to the @fcpsnews school board before @stella_pekarsky and @LJ4fcps rudely disrupted
the mama’s 2 minutes. And ran away. pic.twitter.com/LmUoaVRzWG– Asra Q. Nomani (@AsraNomani )September 24, 2021 As Breitbart News reported, Gender Queer: A Narrative “contains specific illustrations of sexual encounters, consisting of oral sex
and masturbation, including kids , “while Lawn Kid”includes graphic descriptions of sex between males and kids. “Despite FCPS’s denial, the depiction of pedophilic acts appears clear with a graphic illustration of Plato’s Symposium
, an essential philosophical work however also a manuscript popular for its account of pedophilia in Ancient Greece, in which a bearded guy is fondling the genitals of
a boy. Gender Queer: A Memoir”is a well-written, scientifically based story of one person’s journey with gender identity that contains information and viewpoint that is not widely represented
,” FCPS says in defense of keeping the book on the shelves.” This depiction consists of the problems nonbinary and asexual people may face.”Aside from the representation of Plato’s Seminar, an excerpt from Gender Queer: A Memoir consists of,”I can’t wait to have your dick in my mouth– I’m going to give you the blow job of your life. Then I want youinside me.”4. The “Secret Shift “: School districts” privately transitioning”kids from one gender to another without the understanding or authorization of moms and dads was yet
another outright policy that specified 2021 as the year of education. In Wisconsin, parents removed their 12-year-old daughter from the Kettle Moraine School District(
KMSD) after the school began a” social shift”so she could”present to others as the opposite sex.”They filed a lawsuit difficult KMSD’s policy that”permits minor trainees to change their name and gender pronouns at school without parental permission.”In Florida, moms and dads of a 13-year-old girl submitted a federal lawsuit versus a school district after authorities at Deerlake Middle School secretly”transitioned” the woman into a”transgender male.”According to the suit
, the district’s”LCS Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Gender Nonconforming and Questioning Support Guide … expressly directs school administrators to prevent
daughter into identifying as’ trans fluid.’ “One moms and dad stated the teacher implicated her of not being”emotionally helpful “of her daughter’s brand-new gender identity, and stated she needs to be utilizing her daughter’s brand-new name and pronouns. 5.”Passing the Trash”– The Biden Administration Attempts to Stop Tracking Instructor Sex Criminal Offenses: President Joe Biden’s Department of Education, headed by Secretary Miguel Cardona, attempted in November to stop tracking teacher-on-student sexual attack allegations as part of its Civil Rights Data Collection. Tracking such accusations was initiated by previous President Donald Trump’s Education Secretary Betsy DeVos with the goal of offering”a fuller understanding of sexual violence perpetrated by instructors and personnel against students. ” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speaks throughout the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021.( AP Photo/Susan Walsh)”While I was in Washington , we stopped the unions from’passing the garbage’– relocating predator instructors without divulging their conduct to the brand-new district,” DeVos said at the time, continuing to say that”there is no logical method to validate sweeping teachers sexually attacking trainees under the carpet. The only description is that the Biden Administration is a wholly owned subsidiary of the teacher union bosses.”After much public backlash, and obviously some soul browsing, Biden’s Education Department was forced to retreat and reinstate the information collection on sexual attack accusations. Talking about the turnaround, DeVos called it”sad”that the Education Department needed to be”publicly shamed and humiliated into doing the best thing.”6. Intimidation Tactics– Districts with Their Own Authorities Forces: In possibly the most underreported education story of the year, Texas’s Round Rock Independent School District added a brand-new dimension into the debate over education. As Breitbart News reported, RRISD used”its own armed representatives to apprehend parents who speak out versus the school board’s policies.”The parents were not merely apprehended at a school board meeting, however. They were apprehended in their own houses by a police force that is answerable to the superintendent and the school board– not to the city government. And after that they came for the moms and dads … https://t.co/Yn5Gf2cB7P– Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul )November 30, 2021 RRISD has its own police force “with a three-layer hierarchy, patrol units, school resource officers, an investigator, and a K-9 system.
” While numerous parents in Round Rock believe the school board is trying to send the message,”if you speak up against us, we will turn you into crooks, “this is not the only instance in the nation where the school management has control of its own police force or has actually requested the militarization of school board conferences to daunt parents who disagree with policy.”In Loudoun County, Virginia, for instance, where parents have objected versus vital race theory and a sexual assault cover-up, the superintendent asked the county sheriff to release
a SWAT group, riot control system, and undercover representatives to monitor parents at school board conferences,”Breitbart News reported. 7. Resegregation: The last year has actually also seen a movement by the left to resegregate schools. Utilizing 
the crucial race theory ideology, and frequently under the pet name”affinity groups,”leftists school authorities have actually begun organizing racially segregated events at
schools for a variety of reasons. A civil liberties grievance was filed with the U.S. Department of Education against Denver Public Schools(DPS)after among its primary schools hosted a racially segregated”families of color play ground night.”From”separate however equivalent “to”separate however fair.” pic.twitter.com/NcUVqXe0Du– Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo )December 14, 2021 Another civil liberties grievance was submitted with the U.S. Department of Education versus an Illinois high school after it advertised an allegedly racially-segregated “trainees of color excursion opportunity.”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 trainees of color to be partnered with a group of teachers who look like them and have had similar life experiences.”– Christopher F. Rufo( @realchrisrufo) December 16, 2021 Two Massachusetts schools decided to have racially segregated “safe areas “to”
process”the verdict in the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse.”The Kyle Rittenhouse conclusion will likely be seen as yet another unjust reality for numerous Bigelow households, personnel, and trainees– particularly our community members of color,”a December 1 letter to students from Bigelow Intermediate school Principal Chassity Coston checked out. At Newton North High School, nevertheless, Principal Henry Turner stated”this divisive case will be seen as a blow … particularly to black andbrown individuals who are frequently reminded that their bodies are dealt with as less than others.”Apparently displaying an essential lack of understanding of the Rittenhouse trial, where the then-17-year-old shot three white people in self-defense, killing two of them, throughout riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Turner went on to say, “There is a long history of acquittals such as this when white individuals get off for murdering black individuals.
… To ignore bigotry in these circumstancessimply empowers racism.”[ Emphasis added] As Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts(R)informed Breitbart News,”Important race theory is discussing resegregation. It is speaking about discriminating his people based upon their skin color. It is a betrayal of the civil liberties motion and Martin Luther King, who desired his kids to be judged by
the material of their character, not the color of their skin.”The View for 2022: As a result of the left’s policies being brought to light throughout the year, conservatives have actually begun targeting untapped capacity in school board races as 2021 saw districts exposed throughout the nation as left-wing”brainwashing mills,”setting up ripe political battlegrounds in 2022. In an effort to reclaim control of school boards in America, Republicans are pressing modifications that would turn the usually nonpartisan races into partisan, political ones with contested primaries . In Republican-led states throughout the nation, legislatures are seeking to alter the way school board elections are run in order to bring genuine contests, rather than the
standard of uncontested, low-voter-turnout elections for offices that have an outsized
amount of power. As Breitbart News reported, “Republicans throughout the country gearing up for the midterms are guaranteeing a significant education reform push focused on parental rights and instructional requirements.
” Breccan F. Thies is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter @BreccanFThies.