Democrats started the war over school boards by treating parents as threats
Zachary Faria
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The fearmongering over Republicans focusing on winning school board victories is a direct result of the utterly bizarre insistence by Democrats that parents should be cut out of the lives of their children at school. That reality can’t be ignored or dismissed.
The New York Times has tried to do so anyway. In a dive into the politics of the Chino Valley Unified School District in California, the outlet paints Republicans as Bible-thumping culture warriors who are distracting from actual learning in schools and harassing transgender children. And yes, the outlet even goes as far as to parrot the line from “some parents” that keeping parents informed about the mental health of their children puts those children in danger.
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What is the reality in California? Republican Assemblyman Bill Essayli wrote a bill that would notify parents if their children tried to change identities at school. That bill failed in the legislature, but local school boards began adopting the policy. All this moral outrage and fearmongering occurred because some school board officials think parents should know if their children are trying to change their identities at school.
Meanwhile, Democrats continue to throw a tantrum about this basic idea at various levels of government. That includes State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, who wants to run for governor and crashed a school board meeting in Chino Valley to grandstand over the policy.
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On one side, you have people who think that parents should be informed when their children are struggling with their mental health and trying to change their identities. On the other side are the New York Times and Democrats such as Thurmond, who think parents should be cut out of their children’s lives because they think parents will abuse their children if they are struggling with their identity. That second group is the one who started this culture war by trying to force teachers to keep secrets about children from their own parents. Essayli and Chino Valley are simply responding to the absurdity.
This is a simple question of whether you think parents should be allowed to be parents to their children or if you think that schools should undermine parents and treat them as de facto threats to their children. Again, Democrats started this fight by choosing the latter. The scandal isn’t then that Republicans are trying to make it right.