{"id":1610186,"date":"2022-08-17T08:16:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T12:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1610186"},"modified":"2022-08-17T08:17:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T12:17:51","slug":"biden-admin-advances-their-war-on-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-advances-their-war-on-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Advances Their War on Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-advances-their-war-on-parents%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1610186&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">T<\/span>here they go again. The<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden administration<\/a><br \/>\n\u2019s campaign against parents continues \u2014 this time in a slightly different form. After first acting against the interests of parents and students during the<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COVID<\/a><br \/>\n pandemic and then working to demonize those who spoke out at local school board meetings, the political Left now wants to ignore parents and parent groups with whom they disagree altogether.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Education announced recently that it has created a National Parents and Families Engagement Council, the purpose of which is ostensibly to help parents and families engage with their local schools and districts.\n<\/p>\n<p>It all sounds very appealing \u2014 until one examines the details. First, the list of council members reads like a \u201cwho\u2019s who\u201d of leftist groups. Al Sharpton\u2019s National Action Network counts among the <u><br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/news\/press-releases\/us-department-education-creates-national-parents-and-families-engagement-council-help-ensure-recovery-efforts-meet-students%E2%80%99-needs\">participants<\/a><br \/>\n<\/u>, as do several other groups affiliated with Black Lives Matter, which supports the abolition of the nuclear family. The department has said the council \u201cwill reflect the diversity of the educational system,\u201d but a<u><br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-education-dept-sued-parents-council-groups-claim-cabal-left-wing-activists\"> reported 80%<\/a><br \/>\n<\/u> of the leaders of the council groups have donated to President Joe Biden or to other Democrats.\n<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the group has apparently met in secret in violation of transparency requirements under the Federal Advisory Committee Act. As a result, a group of parent organizations has had to <u><br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-education-dept-sued-parents-council-groups-claim-cabal-left-wing-activists\">sue the Biden administration<\/a><br \/>\n<\/u> just to learn more about this secretive, left-wing cabal masquerading as an \u201cengagement council.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>By this point, parents shouldn\u2019t be shocked at the lengths to which the Biden administration is willing to go to cut them out of the picture. The Left\u2019s war on parents started years ago and accelerated during the COVID pandemic.\n<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2020, teachers unions and their school board allies worked with Biden\u2019s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to keep schools locked down for months or longer, causing learning loss that will take years, or even decades, for students to overcome. Even after full lockdowns finally abated, strict quarantine requirements kept children out of schools due to potential exposures, while mask and vaccine mandates prompted some parents to pull their children out of the public education system entirely.\n<\/p>\n<p>How did the Left respond? With contempt, for starters. Recall former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe\u2019s infamous response during a gubernatorial debate last summer when asked about his approach to education. \u201cI don\u2019t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach,\u201d he said. He\u2019s far from the only Democrat who thinks this way \u2014 he\u2019s just one of the only ones willing to say so out loud.\n<\/p>\n<p>When parents raised objections to school districts\u2019 policies, whether regarding the pandemic or the ways in which schools indoctrinate children with racist and explicit sexual material, liberal politicians on local school boards and in state legislatures told parents to go away.\n<\/p>\n<p>Last fall, Attorney General Merrick Garland went even further. He sent a letter, after <u><br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/white-house-knew-about-letter-that-compared-parents-to-domestic-terrorists\">possible coordination<\/a><br \/>\n<\/u> with the White House, <u><br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/garland-says-authorities-will-target-school-board-threats-n1280774\">instructing federal prosecutors<\/a><br \/>\n<\/u> to investigate protests against school boards as possible incidents of domestic terrorism. Despite public <u><br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/republicanleader.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Leader-McCarthy-Letter-to-AG-Garland-10.26.21.pdf\">outrage<\/a><br \/>\n<\/u> that the Justice Department was potentially infringing on constitutionally protected free speech, Garland has <u><br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/education-news\/articles\/2021-10-27\/garland-refuses-to-rescind-memo-asking-fbi-to-probe-school-board-threats\">yet to rescind that memo<\/a><br \/>\n<\/u>, which conflates the legitimate concerns of worried parents with terrorist organizations.\n<\/p>\n<p>With the Left having spent the past several years alienating parents across the country, where else could this administration turn to for \u201cparent engagement\u201d than a self-selected group of political cronies?\n<\/p>\n<p>American families deserve better than the Biden administration\u2019s war on parents. And students deserve the right to a quality education. Indeed, if Biden truly wanted to bring parents together and empower them to do what\u2019s best for their children, he would support education freedom initiatives being passed in several states.\n<\/p>\n<p>But the Biden administration has made it clear from day one that it doesn\u2019t care about parents or their rights \u2014 it just wants to control them.\n<\/p>\n<p><i>Mary Vought is the founder of Vought Strategies and a visiting fellow at the Independent Women\u2019s Forum (<u><br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/iwf.org\/\">iwf.org<\/a><br \/>\n<\/u>). You can follow her on Twitter @MaryVought.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There they go again. The Biden administration \u2019s campaign against parents continues \u2014 this time in a slightly different form. 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