{"id":2342170,"date":"2024-09-17T08:54:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T12:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-walz-thinks-your-kids-belong-to-the-public-school-system\/"},"modified":"2024-09-17T08:55:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T12:55:35","slug":"tim-walz-thinks-your-kids-belong-to-the-public-school-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-walz-thinks-your-kids-belong-to-the-public-school-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Walz Thinks Your Kids Belong To The Public School System"},"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\">22<\/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%2Ftim-walz-thinks-your-kids-belong-to-the-public-school-system%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=2342170&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--><p>The article discusses the political \u200bimage and record of Tim Walz, \u200bthe Minnesota governor and a potential vice presidential candidate. It highlights how Democrats are promoting Walz as a relatable figure, \u200cusing his background as \u200ca schoolteacher and coach to soften his political image. Despite this portrayal, the article criticizes Walz for supporting policies \u200cthat prioritize teachers&#8217; unions and radical ideologies over parents&#8217; rights and \u200bstudent well-being.\u2063 <\/p>\n<p>Specific accusations\u2062 against Walz include backing legislation that allows minors to undergo gender transitions without parental consent, supporting \u200cschool closures during \u2062the \u200dpandemic at the\u2062 behest of teachers&#8217; unions, and promoting curriculums aligned\u200c with \u200ccritical race theory while restricting parental control over educational content. The article argues that Walz embodies an &#8220;anti-parent&#8221; stance, believing schools\u2064 should dictate children&#8217;s\u2062 education rather than involving \u200dparents in \u2062decision-making. In contrast, the author, a superintendent in Oklahoma, argues that their state&#8217;s approach focuses on accountability\u2064 to\u2063 parents, suggesting that a different educational philosophy leads to better outcomes for students.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Democrats are leaning hard into the &ldquo;schoolteacher&rdquo; and &ldquo;coach&rdquo; personas for Tim Walz to paint their vice presidential candidate and the Minnesota governor as more relatable and less radical than he really is. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I was a schoolteacher for a lot of years,&rdquo; said the folksy Tim Walz in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sXo9GkBD3J4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">speech<\/a> last week at a Human Rights Campaign dinner, touting his time as a &ldquo;social studies teacher and high school football coach.&rdquo; Yet in the next breath, he praised LGBT &ldquo;allyship&rdquo; and declared, &ldquo;We must be the country that leads on &ldquo;gay and transgender rights.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>They used the same strategy during Walz&rsquo;s&nbsp;speech&nbsp;at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last month. Former students showed up to watch, teachers union officials played up that part of his resume on the convention floor, and Walz himself spoke about it in his speech to a crowd holding signs that said, &ldquo;Coach Walz.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Democrats and their media lapdogs are spinning away, but American voters should not be duped by the routine. As a former educator and the current superintendent of the<em> <\/em>Oklahoma State Department of Education, I can tell you that I have encountered many educators like Walz throughout my career. Every parent in the country should be on high alert if this man gets anywhere close to the vice presidency. He is as anti-parent as they come.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just look at his record. Walz&rsquo;s governorship has, of course, always been about putting teachers unions and radical political ideologies over parents&rsquo; rights and students&rsquo; well-being.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>He supports taking children away from parents who refuse to transition them while they&rsquo;re still minors. He supported a law that did that. The bill in question made Minnesota a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/tim-walz-signed-bill-making-minnesota-a-sanctuary-state-for-child-sex-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sanctuary<\/a>&rdquo; for child &ldquo;sex changes&rdquo; (so called) &mdash; i.e., a place for children to run away to and seek hormone treatments and surgeries. It blocked Minnesota courts and officials from complying with any removal requests, extraditions, arrests, or subpoenas that would get in the way of the procedures.<\/p>\n<p>And it&rsquo;s so extreme that even the corporate media tried to run cover for him,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/abc-falsely-claims-minn-law-wouldnt-take-kids-from-parents.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">but to no avail<\/a>. Facts are very stubborn things, and the fact is that Walz supports keeping your teenager from you under the force of law if you don&rsquo;t agree to help your teen &ldquo;transition&rdquo; before he is even old enough to vote. That&rsquo;s not just bad policy; it&rsquo;s evil.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>And while he was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/06\/walz-let-rioters-burn-minneapolis-while-harris-fundraised-to-bail-them-out-of-jail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letting Minneapolis burn<\/a> without National Guard backup in 2020, Walz was also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/harris-vp-pick-walz-big-win-teachers-unions-pushed-schools-stay-shuttered-over-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">doing the teachers unions&rsquo; bidding<\/a> and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/walzs-freedom-message-clashes-record-covid-school-closures-indoor-mask-mandates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">locking down schools<\/a>, setting kids back years in their education.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What was the result of all this union pleasing and catering to special interests? Disastrous test scores. According to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/08\/10\/us-news\/minnesota-education-plummeted-under-democratic-vp-pick-tim-walzs-leadership-critics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Post analysis<\/a>, reading and math scores fell dramatically under Walz, while student truancy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexperiment.org\/minnesotas-chronic-absenteeism-rate-has-more-than-doubled-since-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">skyrocketed<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, instead of making sure that Minnesota&rsquo;s students were proficient in things like reading and math or simply showing up to school, Walz&rsquo;s department of education was implementing a curriculum better fitted for a progressive political activist than a student. He promoted adding&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexperiment.org\/magazine\/article\/doubling-down-on-crt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ethnic studies<\/a>&nbsp;(code for critical race theory) requirements to K-12 education. He proudly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mn.gov\/governor\/newsroom\/press-releases\/?id=1055-615074\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">supported<\/a>&nbsp;and signed legislation to prevent parents and local school boards from removing pornographic materials from school libraries. <\/p>\n<p>Naturally, he also has a noted history of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/investineducation.org\/parents-group-gives-harris-walz-an-f-on-school-choice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fighting school choice programs<\/a>; those, after all, would have empowered parents to opt their kids out of his radical indoctrination agenda. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/walz-behind-appointment-board-requiring-minnesota-teachers-affirm-students-gender-identity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">appointed the members<\/a> of the teacher licensing board that recently mandated that teachers <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/09\/factchecker-makes-fool-of-herself-claiming-minnesota-didnt-ban-christian-teachers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">embrace and propagate<\/a> radical gender ideology.<\/p>\n<p>The common thread behind all of this is simple: Tim Walz is the kind of educator who thinks that your children actually belong to the local school district. In his case, &ldquo;anti-parent&rdquo; isn&rsquo;t just an adjective; it&rsquo;s a noun. <\/p>\n<p>Anti-parents like him believe they should be the final deciders in what your children learn, how they learn it, and what they&rsquo;re supposed to think about it. They believe that the only say you should have as a parent is what to pack for their lunches &mdash; if even that. Because anti-parents &mdash; whether teachers, union bosses, or politicians &mdash; don&rsquo;t think you&rsquo;re qualified to make those decisions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Oklahoma, we&rsquo;ve taken the exact opposite approach, and both our students and our schools are reaping the benefits. We are showing&nbsp;up to work every day with the conviction that we work&nbsp;<em>for&nbsp;<\/em>parents and we answer&nbsp;<em>to&nbsp;<\/em>parents.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;ve overseen the implementation of a sweeping school choice scholarship program, as well as a vibrant network of innovative charter schools around the state. We believe that schools should be focused on education, not indoctrination, so we rooted out things like critical race theory and pornographic materials in schools and doubled down on reading and math. Instead of catering to unions, we attract top talent through merit pay and signing bonuses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We have implemented new leadership in our two largest school districts &mdash; Tulsa and Oklahoma City &mdash; and they are now working with us rather than against us to implement these new approaches. <a href=\"https:\/\/ktul.com\/news\/local\/tulsa-public-schools-make-leaps-bounds-and-the-new-year-has-just-started-osde-dr-ebony-johnson-tps-designation-mri-lewis-and-clark-elementary-board-meeting-oklahoma-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Within one year of these changes<\/a>, more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox23.com\/news\/tps-announces-12-more-schools-in-the-district-are-off-the-failing-list\/article_39b2bb24-af4e-11ee-9418-2753d12d2b0e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">than one dozen schools<\/a> have been removed from a list of failing schools. This is just the beginning of improvements we will realize.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This is the kind of freedom-focused, parent-driven system that we can replicate on a national scale, but we won&rsquo;t do it with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz making the decisions. We need Donald Trump and J.D. Vance to take education freedom nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>In this election, parents have a choice: they can choose to be in the driver&rsquo;s seat of their children&rsquo;s education, or they can be shoved in the trunk. That&rsquo;s not an exaggeration by any means, and Walz&rsquo;s record proves it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>   Ryan Walters is superintendent of the Oklahoma State Department of Education. You can follow him on X: @RyanWaltersSupt.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are heavily promoting Tim Walz&#8217;s image as a &#8220;schoolteacher&#8221; and &#8220;coach&#8221; to present their vice presidential candidate and Minnesota governor as more approachable and less extreme than he truly is. In a recent speech at a Human Rights Campaign dinner, Walz, who has a background as a social studies teacher and high school football coach, emphasized his teaching experience. However, he quickly followed this by advocating for LGBT rights and asserting that the U.S. should lead in supporting gay and transgender rights.<\/p>\n<p>This strategy was also evident during Walz&#8217;s address at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last month, where former students attended to show support, teachers&#8217; union representatives highlighted his educational background on the convention floor, and attendees held signs reading &#8220;Coach Walz.&#8221; While Democrats attempt to spin this narrative with help from sympathetic media outlets, American voters should remain vigilant against such tactics. As someone who has worked extensively in education as both an educator and now as Oklahoma&#8217;s State Department of Education superintendent, I can attest that there are many educators like Walz whose policies could be detrimental to parents.<\/p>\n<p>Walz\u2019s record speaks volumes; his governorship has prioritized teachers&#8217; unions and radical ideologies over parental rights and student welfare. He supports legislation that allows minors to transition without parental consent\u2014essentially making Minnesota a sanctuary for children seeking gender reassignment treatments while shielding them from legal repercussions related to their parents\u2019 wishes.<\/p>\n<p>During 2020\u2019s unrest in Minneapolis, rather than providing necessary support for law enforcement or prioritizing education during lockdowns\u2014which set students back significantly\u2014Walz catered to teachers&#8217; unions. The consequences of these actions have been disastrous: test scores plummeted while truancy rates soared under his leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of focusing on essential subjects like reading or math proficiency for Minnesota students, Walz\u2019s education department pushed progressive curricula more suited for political activism than actual learning. He advocated for ethnic studies requirements (often associated with critical race theory) in K-12 education while also supporting legislation that prevents parents from removing inappropriate materials from school libraries.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, he has consistently opposed school choice initiatives that would empower parents by allowing them alternatives outside of his radical educational agenda. His appointments have led to mandates requiring teachers to endorse extreme gender ideologies.<\/p>\n<p>The underlying issue is clear: Tim Walz embodies an anti-parent mentality where local school districts dictate what children learn without parental input or authority over their own kids\u2019 education decisions\u2014reducing parental roles merely to logistical concerns like lunch packing if they even allow it at all.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Oklahoma adopts an entirely different approach focused on empowering parents within the educational system. We prioritize accountability towards families through comprehensive school choice programs alongside innovative charter schools statewide while eliminating indoctrination practices such as critical race theory from classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Our efforts have resulted in significant improvements within our largest districts after implementing new leadership committed toward collaboration rather than opposition regarding these reforms; numerous failing schools have already seen progress just one year into these changes\u2014a promising start toward further advancements ahead!<\/p>\n<p>This model emphasizes freedom-driven systems centered around parent involvement which could be replicated nationally\u2014but not under Kamala Harris or Tim Walz\u2019s governance; we need leaders like Donald Trump &amp; J.D Vance championing educational freedom across America! <\/p>\n<p>In this election cycle ahead lies an important decision: will parents take control over their children&#8217;s academic journeys? Or will they find themselves sidelined? This isn\u2019t hyperbole\u2014it reflects reality backed by evidence found within Walz&#8217;s track record! <\/p>\n<p>Ryan Walters serves as superintendent of Oklahoma State Department of Education; follow him on X @RyanWaltersSupt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3434,"featured_media":2342171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Copy-of-Untitled-2024-09-12T175808.510.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2342170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Copy-of-Untitled-2024-09-12T175808.510.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3434"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2342170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2342171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2342170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2342170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}