“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“We have an urgent problem. Challenges even great challenges like the pandemic will come and go, but educating and preparing the rising generation of a nation is a timeless pursuit. It’s also a can’t fail exercise. It’s no exaggeration to say that our future hangs in the balance. The world is changing rapidly. Our economy has changed fundamentally.
Globalization demands that we educate our kids to be aware of and know how to handle global foes. Today’s children will be tomorrow’s national leaders and we need to give them every opportunity to be successful. In America the solution to a problem is always found in freedom.
The solution to our future will be found in education freedom. Freedom from centralized control. Freedom from a one size fits all mentality. Freedom from “the system.” The education dogmas of the quiet past are truly inadequate today. Parents all over America are awakening to this fact. We must think anew and act anew. We are too great a nation to do anything less and our children deserve nothing less. A better and brighter future awaits each and every child if we have the courage and the political will to set them free. Only through education and freedom will they be hostages no more.”
– Betsy DeVos
‘Hostages No More; the Fight for Education Freedom and the Future of the American Child
Not all, but far too many, modern school counselors are zealous social justice meddlers bent on replacing parents and exposing your children early and often to anti-white, anti-American, anti-nuclear family propaganda. Speakers at the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) brag openly about being “master manipulators” of children and train their members on how to “become an LGBTQ-inclusive school.”
Whistleblowers at Courage Is a Habit, a group founded by Indiana parent activist Alvin Lui, videotaped multiple seminars held at ASCA’s 2022 national conference in July. They collected conference materials outlining learning objectives such as being able to “define transgender, gender expansive and other important terms related to sexuality and gender identity” and “how to identify legal resources” for transgender and gender expansive students.
School counselors at the conference, ironically called ‘No Limits,’ were told to collect data and snitch on any student “who is not transgender and complains about being uncomfortable” with transgender and gender expansive students, complaints which ASCA deems a form of “bullying and harassment.”
Courage Is a Habit also caught ASCA’s past president and current Ethics Committee Chairman, Carolyn Stone, laughing as she told attendees about a school counselor who took a child to a clinic to obtain contraceptives in defiance of her mother’s wishes. That counselor asked Stone for advice on what to do next. Stone gave a group pop quiz: Do you tell the counselor to tell the child “to tell her parent,” or two, do you tell the girl’s mother yourself and confess, or three, withhold all information and “hold your breath and pray?” The conference broke out in cackling laughter as they all voted for the third, parental autonomy-undermining choice, at which point Stone exulted that you are all ready to be part of the ethics committee.
It’s no wonder math and reading scores hit 30-year lows, but at least all the kids know what their pronouns are. ◆
