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FTA:

"The father was placed in handcuffs after recounting the sexual assault of his daughter by a transgender student in a school bathroom and demanding answers.

Smith was later pardoned by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

Loudoun County parent Scott Smith was arrested in 2021 at a school board meeting after his daughter’s sexual assault.

“A lot of us thought that that was a turning point,” said another local dad whose child will graduate out of the district this year."

So you know that demands a fact check:

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/loudoun-school-sex-assault-investigation-unsealed-by-judge/3423751/

"In May 2021, a male student sexually assaulted a girl classmate inside a restroom at Stone Bridge High School. He was transferred to Broad Run High School for the next school year, where he assaulted another girl."

Clearly a failure on the part of the school system... But then we get to the right wing talking points:

"After much discussion over whether the perpetrator was transgender or wore a skirt to get into the restroom where the first teen was attacked, the report found no evidence that the attacker identified as female or gender fluid. It found no evidence that he wore a skirt or kilt that day, and no witnesses reported seeing him in a girl’s bathroom or trying to get into one."

The assaults definitely happened, but not in the way dad describes them as happening.

So test scores for public schools are gonna go up, then.

Those poor kids, it’s bad enough they have bigoted morons for parents.

lol what a garbage article. They’re mad about trans kids using their preferred bathroom.

Classic NYPost garbage

What whiny fucking children.

Conservative parents should think about staying in school as long as they possibly can. I mean, they’re dumb enough as they are. Can you imagine if they all dropped out?

That guy looks like a South Park caricature of a Trump voter.

Get the fuck out, then. I don't like that their children are going to end up being the ones getting punished, but at least not everyone else's kids are getting punished along with the children of these extremists.

Good. That's the way choice is supposed to work. If you object to your kids getting indoctrinated or whatever, your remedy is homeschool or private school not trying to force everyone else's kids to fit into your worldview.

It drives me crazy here in Florida, it's easy to homeschool, so much support from the state and clear rules about evaluations. But no, these absolute racists (autocorrect of facist but if the shoe fits..) want to force all the kids to follow their rules. That's bullshit.

I have plenty of problems with the local schools and have homeschooled some of mine off and on when I couldn't find a good fit for them but one of the nicest things about public schools is the kids' complete indifference to gender or preferences. These kids are so nonchalant when someone who was a girl last year is a boy this year or whatever, and the raging homophobia that was part of my high school experience (people getting beaten up for being different in any way) is just gone. Not that there aren't fights and drugs like at any school but the kids overall are nicer and not so beaten down.

They want to ruin public education and have it pay for private school so no one's child might learn anything they seem progressive. That's been the game plan, that's what DeVos was working on - underpaid teachers and a stifling censorship environment causing teachers and students to leave public Ed is by design.

We gotta get some real regulations for homeschooling in this country.

Nothing new, here in SC several right-wing nut jobs I've come across homeschool their kids in order to indocrinate them with the crazies

Please find a better source than the NY Compost.

These christofascists aren't worried about their children being indoctrinated. They're worried about the indoctrination to fear, hatred, intolerance, and self-loathing that they have been given at home and in their "churches" being depeogrammed.

Exposing children to ideas you don't agree with is not indoctrination. Exposing children only to ideas you agree with is the definition of indoctrination.

Every accusation is an admission.

I’m totally down with conservatives educating their kids poorly so they can’t get into college and are forced to take jobs cleaning my left wing toilet. It’s for the children, remember?

Unfortunately, a lot of parents are in a far-right media bubble that tells them that public schools are teaching third graders about anal sex and trying to make every kid trans. And that any mention of racism is the dreaded CRT. The people with the money behind this propaganda want to eliminate public schools and put every American kid in a private Christian school.

Here's a pledge from a group of privately owned charter schools that RELY ON TAXPAYER MONEY. The head of the schools refuses to disclose his salary.

I pledge to keep myself healthy in body, mind, and spirit, staying physically fit, mentally awake, and morally straight.

I pledge to be truthful in all my works, guarding against the stains of falsehood from the fascination with experts, the temptation of vanity, the comfort of popular opinion and custom, the ease of equivocation and compromise, and from over-reliance on rational argument.

I pledge to be virtuous in all my deeds, with the courage to exemplify faith in my beliefs, hope for a better future, and charity towards my neighbor – with prudence in new undertakings, with justice when called on to judge, with fortitude in the face of adversity, and with temperance toward temptation.

I pledge to be obedient and loyal to those in authority, in my family, in my school, and in my community and country,

So long as I shall live.

The owner of these schools took a case all the way to the Supreme Court on the issue of whether he could require girls to wear skirts because girls are "fragile vessels."

https://newrepublic.com/article/171824/charter-school-north-carolina-requires-girls-wear-skirts

https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/who-behind-attacks-educators-and-public-schools

Fantastic news!

Taking your ball and going home, Christofascist edition.

I would say, "Good, go," except this leads to children being taught bullshit and radicalization. And there's no real education to go with it.

sounds like we have a case of michael scott win win win conflict resolution here