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Seth Leibsohn: Parental Rights Before the High Court
Manage episode 478739280 series 3343739
The US Supreme Court this week heard arguments about whether children can be exempted from instruction their parents consider offensive.
What kind of instruction? From the Washington Post: LGBTQ story-books featuring gender transitions; same-sex playground romance; and questioning “cisnormativity” and “power hierarchies.” The picture book “Pride Puppy!” asks students to search a Pride parade for “underwear,” “leather” and a “lip ring.” A book that invites kindergarteners to ponder what it means to be “nonbinary” and “What pronouns fit?” Kindergartners.
Another book for youngsters called “Intersectionalities” comes with a foreword from a Marxist law professor at Columbia explaining the need to teach children not English and math but social consciousness.
When your kindergarten book needs a law professor’s foreword, you know you’re not in Kansas anymore—or anything near age-appropriate education. You’re in the realm of indoctrination. And that’s not what schools are for.
Parents have every right to opt their little one out of this.
The Supreme Court seemed to agree. We’ll find out in late June or early July.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
4066 episodes
Manage episode 478739280 series 3343739
The US Supreme Court this week heard arguments about whether children can be exempted from instruction their parents consider offensive.
What kind of instruction? From the Washington Post: LGBTQ story-books featuring gender transitions; same-sex playground romance; and questioning “cisnormativity” and “power hierarchies.” The picture book “Pride Puppy!” asks students to search a Pride parade for “underwear,” “leather” and a “lip ring.” A book that invites kindergarteners to ponder what it means to be “nonbinary” and “What pronouns fit?” Kindergartners.
Another book for youngsters called “Intersectionalities” comes with a foreword from a Marxist law professor at Columbia explaining the need to teach children not English and math but social consciousness.
When your kindergarten book needs a law professor’s foreword, you know you’re not in Kansas anymore—or anything near age-appropriate education. You’re in the realm of indoctrination. And that’s not what schools are for.
Parents have every right to opt their little one out of this.
The Supreme Court seemed to agree. We’ll find out in late June or early July.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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