Education Briefs
On September 16, the Parents Demanding Justice Alliance (PDJA), made public a letter from former Phyllis Schlafly Eagles President, Ed Martin, Jr., who is currently Director of the [Federal] Weaponization Working Group by President Donald Trump. The letter shows that the U.S. Attorney General’s office is partnering with PDJA to investigate the targeting of parents who raised concerns over the past 4 years about the safety and education of their children in public schools. According to Freedom Talk, the letter was addressed “
to one of the many parents targeted” for voicing such concerns. Kelly John Walker, co-founder of PDJA, called Martin’s issuance of the letter “a watershed moment,” adding, “parents across the country have been harassed, defamed, and retaliated against for speaking up. Now, the highest levels of justice are moving to correct those wrongs, case by case.” Martin’s letter expresses deep concerns “about parents and parents’ advocates who have been targeted by federal, state or local government or quasi-government officials or entities. For these and other reasons, your situation has drawn my attention, and I respectfully request that you share all relevant documents with me directly.” The letter is likely the first of more to come, and serves notice to the guilty parties that “the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Attorney General’s office are actively working to right the abuses that began with Attorney General Merrick Garland’s October 4, 2021 memo—widely criticized for labeling parents as potential domestic terrorists.” PDJA is working with like-minded associates “to secure a corresponding Executive Order from the Trump Administration to permanently safeguard parental rights.” Walker stated: “We are Americans. We do not tolerate tyranny.”
New Jersey wants to regulate homeschooling families by proposing that they be forced by state law to teach DEI and other woke curricula. Although still under review, Fox News reports that the new legislation will “require homeschooling parents to teach their kids about controversial topics such as diversity, equity and 
inclusion (DEI),” and enable the state to usurp parental rights by mandating that homeschoolers “submit a curriculum in line with state learning standards.” Parents would be required to include subjects such as “gender identity, sexual orientation, and climate studies,” all of which are examples of the woke indoctrination foisted on children in public schools. The measure would add more oversight to homeschooling, requiring that families “submit a portfolio of student work every year to be evaluated by either a teacher or a licensed psychologist.” For most homeschooling parents, such objectionable mandates are the reason they are teaching their children at home in the first place, of which state education departments and teachers’ unions are doubtless aware. Interestingly, the blue state of New Jersey is reportedly “one of a dozen states with looser homeschooling restrictions,” and supporters of tighter control say the bill would “help improve transparency about what kids are being taught at home.” Are they worried that kids are learning such things as how to read and do traditional math? What if they are learning Christian moral principles and biological reality? — gasp! Last June, homeschooling families in Illinois defeated an attempt by the state to legislate a restrictive burden on them. New Jersey parents will hopefully do the same, and homeschoolers in every state should be on alert for similar mischief.
A wave of news reports has surfaced of teachers and professors in hot water and even being fired after publicly celebrating the death of American patriot and leader of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), Charlie Kirk. The murder of Kirk was, in the words of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles’ John and Andy Schlafly, “premeditated and executed with vengeance against an innocent victim merely for exercising his constitutional right of freedom of speech.” 
Leftists across the country have done little to hide their glee over the tragedy, and many are paying the price. The Daily Caller reported that several high school students passionately requested the firing of a teacher at a school board meeting in Rhode Island after the teacher posted a TikTok video celebrating the assassination and saying he “had no sympathy” for Charlie Kirk. That teacher has been suspended. The College Fix reported that law professor Kelly Carmena was suspended from Louisiana’s Southern University and is being investigated after she posted on Facebook: “I will 1000% wish death on people like him [Kirk].... He is the epitome of evil and I have no compassion, not even a minute ounce of it for people like him who go around spewing hate the way he does.” The Fix further publicized that a Kansas Department of Education official was fired after referring to Kirk’s murder as “well deserved.” A number of professors nationwide have tried to claim that Kirk’s murderer, Tyler Robinson “was not necessarily liberal” even though evidence emerging since the assassination strongly suggests otherwise. But some liberals are learning the hard way that the very “hate speech” they accuse conservatives of and that they have unleashed on Charlie Kirk, is coming back to bite them. As the Schlafly brothers point out in their column: “The federal hate crime statute — and the federal death penalty — should be applied to prosecute this assassination of an outspoken Christian. The Trump Administration should ensure that Americans are fully informed about what encouragement the assassin may have received from well-funded Leftist organizations before and after this crime.”
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