Fight the Power
As Covid wanes and the “free” $3.5 trillion “infrastructure” bill drowns, desperate factions try to maintain their stranglehold on power by branding parents as Public Enemy No. 1.
We wanted to end your week with a witty yet informative post, but we’ll have to settle for informative. This week was too replete with powerful public officials and groups making outrageous accusations and pronouncements about parents. So please excuse us for being disjointed and rushed as we give you a refresh of relevant events in the recent past, a round up of this week’s events, and the take-aways.
Schools and their allies are going on the offensive. They are striking as hard and as aggressively as they can by portraying themselves as helpless victims against mobs of powerful angry parents. As parents, we are facing valid threats and raising reasonable questions. Can we have an open and honest discussion about our children being taught they are oppressors or victims and can change their sex on any given day? Are our children being sufficiently prepared academically? When can our children go to school in person? When can our children stop wearing masks? Do masks cause irreparable developmental damage to children? As detailed in our September 28, 2021 post, parents questioned the mass data collection of their children’s mental health information by a for-profit group funded by Mark Zuckerberg.
But within the school system – the public and the “independent,” the school boards, unions, politicians, and NAIS are the lords. We are mere serfs, and we must be maligned and reprimanded for speaking up and rising above our station.
This past March in The Atlantic, Caitlyn Flanagan characterized Dalton parents as the enemy for daring to ask for something that was already occurring in the rest of the world – to let their children go back to school in person. Flanagan wrote that through the years parents had gained an “ugly new sense of power.” Obviously, we do not dispute that there are parents who have an inflated sense of entitlement. But upon reading articles by Flanagan and others, you would think all or the majority of “independent” school parents are out of touch tyrants.
Read the article:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/
A couple days later in response to Flanagan’s article, Patrick Bassett tweeted that the “most prominent danger for independent schools” is parents – not anxiety, not perfectionism, not entitlement, not lack of diversity, but parents. Us. You and us. Who is Bassett and why should you care? Bassett is the former President of NAIS and current senior consultant of – surprise! – an educational consulting firm specializing in leadership and governance and strategy training. Leadership and governance is how headmasters should run our schools, including how to choose board trustees who will support them without question.
Later in March in an episode of the NAIS podcast, The Trustee Table, Robert Evans and Michael Thompson, authors of the NAIS book Hopes and Fears repeatedly refer to parents as “angry,” “irrational,” and “entitled” and pit them against schools and teachers. While Thompson, who has served on the NAIS Institute for New Heads (a paid service NAIS provides for training new headmasters), does concede that parents have valid anxieties, Evans, Thompson, and the NAIS moderator of the podcast are uncompromising in casting parents as dangerous villains whom schools fear. They claim “independent” schools are vulnerable and must protect themselves from parents.
This past May, speaking at a Pollyanna Conference at Dalton, Rodney Glasgow, the supreme DEI industrial complex consultant who formerly served on the advisory board for the Vice President of Equity and Justice at NAIS, held various roles for NAIS Student Diversity Leadership Conference (SDLC), and began his career at cartel insider placement consultant Carney, Sandoe & Associates (NAIS’s gold level sponsor of all things DEI), likened “angry” January 6 Capitol rioters to “angry” “independent” school parents. This comparison echoed mainstream news equating Capitol rioters to domestic terrorists. By the transitive property, “independent” school parents are thus domestic terrorists.
Watch Glasgow:
Earlier this week, Former DNC Chairman and current Democratic Virginia gubernatorial candidate dismissed parents’ concerns about school curriculums saying, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” Parents may not be education experts, but we sure as hell have valid and reasonable opinions when American flags are replaced by Che Guevarra flags in our classrooms. There should be a partnership and open discussion when parents believe things have gone too far off course.
Then just two days ago – September 29, 2021, the National School Board Association (a union for public schools) wrote a letter to President Biden labeling parents as an “immediate threat” and asking for the federal government – from the DOJ, the Dept. of Ed, DHS, and the FBI, National Security Branch and Counterterrorism Division to treat parents as “domestic terrorists” committing hate crimes. Terrorists!! You and me! In glasses and yoga pants! Further, the NSBA asked that the full force and power of these federal agencies be used to investigate alleged threats made by parents. The threats cited by the NSBA included parents upset with mask mandates for children in school – something nearly all European countries have scrapped.
Read the Letter:
Then just yesterday, Education Secretary and proponent of Critical Race Theory in primary schools, Miguel Cardona, claimed that parents are not the primary stakeholders of our children’s education. Cardona also recently said about concerned parents across the nation, “I think it’s a proxy for being mad that their guy didn’t win.” “Their guy,” referring of course to Trump. Again, these figures characterize anyone who questions or disagrees with them as “right-wing” Trumpers.
This narrative that the greatest threat to America today is not Al-Qaeda, China, or even revamped letter added Isis K, but right-wing domestic terrorists is simply ludicrous. Who even qualifies as right-wing domestic terrorists? Anyone and everyone who disagrees with the current Leftist narrative. We say current narrative because last year if you supported the vaccine, you were a right-wing extremist. Today if you don’t support the vaccine, you are a right-wing extremist. In 2021, everything up is down, and everything down is up.
This narrative is not just an assault on everyday parents like you and us, it is a vicious and concerted purge political in nature in the pursuit of some kind of racial Marxist revolution. In purges, yesterday’s heroes are today’s villains, and today’s heroes can be tomorrow’s prisoners. Just look at Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller languishing in solitary confinement without official charges for the crime of publicly criticizing military leaders – something for which Alexander Vindman received exceptional praise and acclaim just two years ago. Or Lance Corporal Hunter Clark – the serviceman who lifted the Afghan baby over the walls of the Kabul airport, now under investigation for the crime of attending a rally with a former President of the United State of America. Whether its BLM marchers or healthcare workers who worked tirelessly around Covid patients for nearly two years questioning absolute vaccine mandates, anyone and everyone who ask questions are now sinners in the hands of an angry Left. Is it a coincidence that just last night news broke of the FBI requesting the account information for almost 200,000 @ProtonMail accounts in a mass “domestic terrorist” surveillance pursuit targeting dissenters? Will we be next? (Don’t forget to email us your thoughts and questions at BonjourUndercoverMother@protonmail.com.)
It can be anyone. But why are we, average parents, the prime consistent target? Because we stand in the way of the real prize and ambition – our children. Our children must be molded to comply in order for the fruition of the new racial Marxist “utopia” after the “dismantling of all systems” that the DEI industrial complex preaches. As parents, we are the first and foremost providers and protectors of our children. We provide our children with values and morals. We protect our children from indoctrination and abuse. That makes parents Public Enemy No. 1 in this current revolution.
Just remember: When people and entities begin to feel a loss of power and control, they tighten their grip even more firmly and brandish their authority even more severely. Like President Snow used children as shields in Mockingjay, our schools as coordinated by NAIS will use our own children to make themselves look virtuous and claim they are vulnerable. They will gaslight us and infer we are in a questionable mental state. As you continue to ask questions and press your schools, we expect your schools, headmasters, DEI industrial complex, and NAIS to repeat more fervently their narrative that parents pose security threats to everyone at the schools. They may attack us. But we are strong because we must be. Because if we don’t do it, no one will. This may all sound hyperbolic, but mark our words, these things will happen.
Let’s circle around our children.