Unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats running Minnesota’s Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board recently passed new requirements for teachers, compelling them to address students by their chosen pronouns (regardless of whether they match reality or are against the will of their parents), and to instruct children in topics such as Critical Race Theory (more aptly named “Divide and Conquer”).
Among other shocking edicts foisted upon educators and children by these “ministers of education,” the new standards require teachers to provide “opportunities for students to learn about power, privilege, intersectionality, and systemic oppression in the context of various communities” and to become “agents of social change to promote equity.”
That’s just a small sample of the far-left buzz words riddled throughout the new standards. Their language unmasks their agenda as a ploy to use our schools to promote socialism and communism, and squeeze out educational excellence, virtue and patriotism to the total detriment of our constitutional free republic.
Minnesotans don’t want these changes. The public outcry against these licensing changes was so intense that Minnesotans testified in droves during a seven-hour public hearing Aug. 24. The opposition outnumbered supporters 7 to 1 margin, but the hotly disputed standards were imposed anyway.
Americans across the nation can relate to the Minnesotans who’ve been grossly misrepresented by government bureaucrats. I’ve stood with hundreds of other California parents and teachers before our Senate Education Committee asking for transparency in order to protect our children from pornographic materials in schools. Though hundreds of us spoke, and we brought thousands of letters signed by Caliornians, those “representing” us voted in favor of the ten-or-so paid lobbyists from unions, Planned Parenthood, the PTA and ACLU – the very deep-pocketed special interests pushing the graphic materials.
Approved – Sully
