High Court Rules Against Schools Pushing Transgender Secrecy

On March 2nd, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Mirabelli v. Bonta that California public schools cannot hide the gender transitioning of children from their parents. The justices overturned the stay of the permanent injunction by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, allowing the lower court action to proceed. In a press release celebrating the victory, the Thomas More Society called the decision “groundbreaking,” holding that “secret gender transition policies in schools violate the religious liberty and due process rights of parents.”

The Supreme Court left standing a decision by U.S. District Court Judge Roger Benitez, who ruled in favor of teacher and parent plaintiffs objecting to the state’s disregard for the rights of parents. At issue was the California Department of Education’s “guidance” that forces teachers to treat children in accordance with their preferred gender, “even lying to the parents if necessary.”

States Attempt to Force J6 Propaganda in Public Schools

With the election Donald J. Trump to a second term, the lies, exaggerations, and general hysteria over the events of Jan. 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol appeared to lose steam. Immediately following his inauguration, the president pardoned hundreds of J6 defendants in an acknowledgement that they had remained imprisoned for political rather than criminal reasons, most without due process.

But lest the uproar over J6 be allowed to ebb, as liberals and mainstream media outlets have done with the “mostly peaceful” BLM and Antifa riots, at least two blue states are pushing the J6 propaganda where they believe it will have the greatest impact, the public schools.

More on the Rebirth of Phonics & the ‘Mississippi Miracle’

“Balanced Literacy” is a topic that has grabbed headlines in recent years. On March 11, pundit, TV host, and writer, John Stossel, bemoaned it in a Reason Magazine Roundup article. As Education Reporter has pointed out, Balanced Literacy, or “Critical Literacy,” is simply another label for whole language, cueing, and sight reading. Some kids manage to learn despite these fads, but most never become proficient readers.

Stossel writes that failure to teach structured phonics “is popular because its ‘drill and kill’ technique is tedious.” But phonics has always gotten a bad rap because of its effectiveness. When the hidden goal of public education is to mold social justice activists, churning out good readers might potentially thwart that effort as children learn to think for themselves when they accumulate knowledge through the written word.