{"id":2018132,"date":"2023-08-31T13:45:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T17:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-tread-on-your-own-children\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T13:49:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T17:49:34","slug":"dont-tread-on-your-own-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-tread-on-your-own-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Protect your children from harm."},"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\">10<\/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%2Fdont-tread-on-your-own-children%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=2018132&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 class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>This week, a \u2063Colorado Springs elementary \u2064school teacher was filmed \u200cexplaining to a woman\u200c named Eden Rodriguez that the Gadsden flag patch on her \u2064son\u2019s \u200bbackpack is banned from school\u2062 because of its \u201corigins with slavery,\u201d and that\u2019s \u200bwhy\u2064 Jaiden keeps getting kicked out of\u2063 class.<\/h2>\n<p>The Vanguard\u200b School is a tuition-free K-12\u200c charter that looks pretty amazing\u200c \u2014 the type of place I\u2019d want to\u2063 send my kids!<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1566105616\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ecf9e38813d13f28a66303ff9105775a fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ecf9e38813d13f28a66303ff9105775a\"><\/div>\n<p>In the video, Ms. \u200bRodriguez explains to the teacher that the flag, with its iconic drawing \u200cof the snake rearing up and\u200d the words \u201cdon\u2019t tread on me,\u201d is from the Revolutionary War \u200cand therefore symbolizes\u200b America\u2019s \u200brefusal to capitulate to a\u2063 tyrant \u2014 \u2064wink, wink!<\/p>\n<p>We can see in the video that her son, 12-year-old memelord \u2063Jaiden, has some\u2062 other interesting patches on his \u200bbackpack, including one with the Doge meme, one with St. Michael the Archangel, and one that simply says \u201cBASED.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bit\u200d on the \u200cnose, that last\u2063 one.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, you are indeed hella based, Jaiden \u2014 and extremely online for a 12-year-old! Of \u2063course, even my 7-year-old knows who Doge is,\u2064 but there\u2019s no way my own \u206212-year-old son knows\u200d the arcane lore of Revolutionary War symbols. And if he did, I doubt he\u2019d want\u200c it on his backpack.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-89a07c4cadc6b9ffbcd6c48644a2613b fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-89a07c4cadc6b9ffbcd6c48644a2613b\"><\/div>\n<p>I remember stories from\u200c the early Trump days\u200d where some brave kids got in trouble for wearing Trump \u200bhats and T-shirts to school. I\u2019ve also seen dozens of videos of the\u2062 Tolerant Left smashing\u200b Trump signs on people\u2019s homes, punching people in the face for wearing MAGA hats, and\u2062 burning American flags.<\/p>\n<p>So why shouldn\u2019t \u200bJaiden, the dissident sh-tposter, stick whatever memes \u200bhe wants on his backpack? Why not add a few rare Pepes, an \u201cAll Lives Matter\u201d \u2063pin, \u2062the Trump mugshot, and the Betsy Ross flag? Why stop with the \u2062snake?<\/p>\n<p>After all, it can be alarming to look around in\u2062 your K-12 \u200bgovernment indoctrination center and\u200d notice that \u200bhalf\u2064 the kids put little rainbow pins\u2063 and various \u201cpride\u201d flair on \u200btheir backpacks \u2014 and all the teachers\u2062 do. Classrooms\u200d themselves\u200b are transformed into year-round Trans Safe Spaces by\u200d their \u200bgenderless\u200c furry teachers. It is a small but mighty \u200bact of rebellion, therefore, \u2062to teach your children to value \u2063the symbols\u2064 and flags\u200d that\u200b represent our side. You \u2062know, the side that doesn\u2019t want their 12-year-olds doing butt\u200d stuff to\u200c each other. The \u2063side that likes weird things like \u201cfree speech\u201d and \u201crepresentative government\u201d and \u201cfreedom\u2064 over tyranny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not that long ago expressing \u200bsuch beliefs would \u200bhave made little Jaiden a\u2064 good kid, not \u2062the based, \u200calt-right sh-tlord of the Colorado\u2062 Springs charter school system.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-96ef857a48e8e514d13e62f778c2a5a5 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-96ef857a48e8e514d13e62f778c2a5a5\"><\/div>\n<p>After the video came out, the school decreed that actually Jaiden was right, the teacher was wrong, \u200cand he was permitted to return to class.<\/p>\n<p>But a \u2064friend of \u2063the family <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cboyack\/status\/1696696889507287337\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posted \u2062this tweet<\/a> in the aftermath: \u201cJaiden ate lunch alone today. Played chess by himself.\u200c But I told his mom that he\u2019s got \u200d <strong><em>millions of friends<\/em><\/strong>  \u200dacross the country now who are inspired by\u2064 him. Leave a comment\u200c to Jaiden below\u2063 and I\u2019ll share \u200cit with\u200b him!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Is this good \u200bfor him? Does Jaiden\u2019s mom \u200bwant her son \u2064to get DMs from\u2064 millions of adult Twitter\u2064 randos?<\/p>\n<p>Or does she want him to be a kid?<\/p>\n<p>I \u2064don\u2019t know if his mother is\u2062 doing this for the\u2062 clout, as the\u2064 rainbow moms do. I don\u2019t know her motives, and I have\u2063 no \u200dreason to \u2063doubt \u200bthat she is simply standing up for her son and \u2062defending his right to free expression. This kind of exposure on social media might feel like \u200dthe only way she has \u200cto fight\u2062 back against \u200ca system that \u200cwould clearly crush her son\u2019s spirit if it\u2063 could. \u200cAs often as not, it\u2019s \u2064the teachers who are bringing their crazy politics into the classroom, not \u200cthe \u200ckids.<\/p>\n<p>So\u200d nobody wants\u200c to\u200c teach her kids not to stand up for the values they learned at home. However, in a world where small snippets of video \u2064quickly become national\u2063 news stories, do\u200c we \u200creally want \u2062to put our kids \u2062out there as based, right-wing\u2062 activists when they \u200dmay not really understand that this will stay with them for the rest of their lives?<\/p>\n<p>We all agree\u200b that 12-year-olds cannot possibly consent to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-candidate-dr-oz-had-repeatedly-platformed-transgender-activists-on-tv-show\/\" title=\"GOP Candidate Dr. Oz Had Repeatedly Platformed Transgender Activists on TV Show\">transgender medical interventions<\/a>. But isn\u2019t\u200b 12 <em>also<\/em> too young to commit to a lifetime as a doxxed, right-wing activist? I don\u2019t want my little kids talking about politics at school\u200c any more than they absolutely\u200b have to. At \u200chome is fine, but I\u200c don\u2019t want my 12-year-old\u2062 forced to defend a position he may not\u2063 understand that well.<\/p>\n<p>Literally the last \u2062thing I would\u2064 want is for one\u2064 of my minor children to expose himself publicly \u200bas \u200b\u201cbased and red-pilled.\u201d Ask me how I, a Twitter anon who\u200c lived in terror\u200c of\u2063 being\u200b doxxed for years, knows this.\u200b In this hyper-politicized country, \u200cI still want my kids to \u200bhave \u2064 <em>normal<\/em> childhoods \u2014 the apolitical kind. Of course, these days \u200bonly\u2062 a \u200chardcore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1684513529\/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1665348221&#038;refinements=p_27%253APeachy+Keenan&#038;s=books&#038;sr=1-2&#038;text=Peachy+Keenan\">domestic extremist<\/a> would want \u2062to give a kid a \u200cnormal childhood.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Rodriguez has exposed one reality of raising based \u200dchildren: It involves our own form of political indoctrination. Our indoctrination is \u2062good and wholesome \u2014 crucial in fact. But because we believe experiencing freedom means creating and protecting spaces that are \u200dlargely free from\u200b politics, there are limits. There is a fine line between\u2062 teaching your kid to stand up for\u2063 the values \u2064he learned at home and his social studies teacher reading his essay on how Peter Strzok railroaded Mike Flynn.<\/p>\n<p>If you live behind enemy lines, even in purple Colorado, and you send your kid to a government school, even a charter school <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DC_Draino\/status\/1696596735986909632?s=20\">staffed with open and unashamed far-left lunatics<\/a>, you should probably not put your\u2063 kid out there on the front lines as the sole right-winger in the middle school.<\/p>\n<p>I confess\u200b that I, too, want to indoctrinate my offspring! I desperately want them to willingly adopt our beliefs, our religious faith,\u2064 our values, \u200dand,\u200c yes, when they are\u2064 old enough, our politics. I want my kids to be based, OK? To \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-tread-on-your-own-children\/\" title=\"Protect your children from harm.\">reject hideous progressive ideologies<\/a>\u2063 and all their works and deeds. Yes.<\/p>\n<p>But at 12 years old, I\u2019m not\u200b sure it\u2019s appropriate \u2063to <em>encourage<\/em> your child\u2019s activism when he has no allies yet. <em>And post it all on Twitter!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/military-academy-chiefs-grilled-over-race-based-admissions-dei-programs\/\" title=\"Military academy chiefs questioned about admissions based on race and DEI initiatives.\">safe\u2062 space<\/a> for Jaiden in \u200chis \u2062world. The school year has just begun, and his mother is\u200d busy booking him on TV shows and\u200c podcasts, handling requests from \u2062the media. Will Jaiden \u2063appear at the next GOP State\u200c of the \u2064Union address, or\u2062 maybe even be interviewed by Tucker Carlson himself?<\/p>\n<p>Yet the whole saga and incessant posting of the newest <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cboyack\/status\/1696995017699496021?s=20\">Jaiden reaction videos<\/a> on Twitter makes me uneasy. \u2064It\u2019s the left that has decided to use children \u200das pawns to advance\u2062 their causes, up to and including surgically mutilating their\u2064 bodies. California is now \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/p\/californians-write-to-rob-bonta-today?utm_source=post-email-title&#038;publication_id=484195&#038;post_id=136505351&#038;isFreemail=true&#038;utm_medium=email\">willing to tear apart families<\/a> that don\u2019t support this.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Rodriguez, on \u2062the other hand, is probably just a patriot raising her child\u2064 to\u2064 be \u2062like her and is just trying to be a good\u2062 mom.<\/p>\n<p>Same, girl. And any \u200bgood\u2064 mom should be defending his right to let\u200c his freak Gadsden flag fly.<\/p>\n<p>But maybe we can \u200bdo\u2064 that without turning our 12-year-olds into\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/possible-drug-overdose-at-jojo-siwas-home-during-pride-month-celebration\/\" title=\"Possible Drug Overdose At JoJo Siwa\u2019s Home During \u2018Pride Month\u2019 Celebration\">social media stars<\/a>?<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5136009d65a2798b6fd9741a1bf68835 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5136009d65a2798b6fd9741a1bf68835\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, a Colorado Springs teacher at The Vanguard School informed Eden Rodriguez that her son&#8217;s Gadsden flag patch is prohibited due to its association with slavery. Consequently, Jaiden faces repeated class suspensions. 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