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Today marks one year since theNational School Boards Association(NSBA) ignited a firestorm by issuing a letter to President Joe Biden likening concerned parents to domestic terrorists.

The letter accomplished the exact opposite of its purpose: It motivated parents and exposed the educational establishment as a paper tiger, so desperate to maintain control that it cannot tolerate legitimate criticism from moms and dads. Since then, the NSBA has lost 25 of its state affiliates.

The overwhelming backlash should have been a lesson for progressives: When you wage war on parents, you will lose. Instead, the left chose to double down on a failed strategy that is galvanizing families against the educational establishment.

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An early sign that Democrats learned nothing from the NSBA controversy was Terry McAuliffes failed campaign for Virginia governor. McAuliffe held a rally with teachers' union boss Randi Weingarten the day before Election Day. His opponent, Glenn Youngkin, embraced parental rights. McAuliffe, a Democrat, lost by two points; Biden had won the state by 10 points the year prior.

Education was a major factor: Exit polls showed that it was the top issue for 14% of voters, behind the economy and COVID-19 but ahead of healthcare, immigration, and law enforcement. Education is no longer a second-tier issue.

Three members of the San Francisco Board of Education learned this the hard way when they were recalled by voters in February. The recall effort had been brewing for nearly a year, after the board voted to permanently end a merit-based admissions policy at the elite Lowell High School and instead use a lottery system, all in the name of "equity." Parents were rightfully furious. The board refused to undo the policy, so parents undid the board by ousting three people, including its president. (The upheaval worked: The new board has restored merit-based admissions at Lowell.) When leftist identity politics have gone too far for San Francisco, of all places, it is safe to say that a tidal wave of change is coming.

The Biden administration made the same mistake of poking the bear mama bears and papa bears, to be exact by proposing a Title IX rule that would codify its gender ideology into law. The rule would force schools to treat students in line with their gender identity, meaning that schools must allow boys in girls restrooms and locker rooms, and schools would be forced to intervene if a teacher or student declines to use someones preferred name or pronouns.

Judging by the sheer volume of comments, a record-breaking 240,000, the Title IX rule is the most controversial rule in Education Department history. A quick perusal of the comments reads like an outcry of sanity against a radical rule. By law, the Department of Education must address the content of each comment it receives. It cannot legally ignore the tidal wave of people standing up for students and families.

Tristan Thorgersen puts pro-Youngkin signs up as people gather for a Loudoun County School Board meeting in Ashburn, Virginia, Oct. 26, 2021. (Reuters/Leah Millis)

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Despite all this, some activists remain committed to icing out parents at every turn: In New York City just last week, the teachers union shut the schoolhouse doors in parents faces by announcing that parent-teacher conferences will be virtual only. Parents can request an in-person meeting, but they must be vaccinated and able to attend a meeting during the workday. For many families, this is prohibitive. For all families, it is obnoxious.

All of this illustrates that liberals have learned nothing from the reaction to the NSBA letter. The people who refuse to teach also refuse to learn. Perhaps the clearest sign of this is that the Department of Justice never retracted its memo. The NSBA apologized for its letter, but the memo predicated on that letter still stands.

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This means that concerned parents are still operating under the threat of FBI investigation. The chilling effect the NSBA wanted, and that the Biden administration tried to facilitate, has not happened to the benefit of our nations students and families.

One year later, every attempt to silence parents has only made them louder.

Angela Morabito is a visiting fellow at the Independent Womens Forum and the spokesperson for the Defense of Freedom Institute.

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This football season, Progressive Insurance and creative agency Arnold Worldwide are taking the football replay challenge into homes to help homeowners settle common household disagreements. The second spot of the campaign, 'Scream,' features a father/son duo debating if the dad screamed when he saw a spider. The son is proven right through the help of Progressives 'What Really Happened Replay' as the scream replays loud and clear.

Arnold CCO, Sean McBride said, When your kids are young, your version of what happens in your home is really the only version. But as they grow up, an alternative view of who you are or how you sound shows up - one thats outside your control. Thats what l love so much about this latest instalment of our replay campaign for Progressive - that truth that how you sound in your own head isnt always how youd actually sound were you to check the replay.

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Oregons disastrous 18-month-old experiment in drug legalization is a lesson in why progressive social policy routinely fails: Its all carrots, no sticks.

The state dropped punishments for possession of heroin, meth, cocaine, and other hard drugs to a fine. The result? Less than 1% of eligible users admitted to the states costly therapy program while opioid overdoses have shot up by 56%.

Its the same story in New York, where criminal justice reforms has more teens carrying and shooting guns and more getting shot. Young and old, serial offenders walk free until they get caught drawing innocent blood.

Or look at San Francisco, where woke politicians offered nothing but services and treatment as the homeless, many with mental health or addiction issues, overwhelm the city (and ignore the offers). Friscos last tally of homeless hit 7,800, the second-highest level since 2005.

Look at the southern border, where President Biden, national Dems, and big-name non-profits are beckoning illegal migrants in by the million with material aid and whiffs of de facto citizenship.

All policies vastly increase the amount of human suffering in the world and all are undertaken in the name of compassion, the marquee virtue of contemporary progressives.

But making it easier for a heroin addict to shoot up is the opposite of compassion. So is removing real consequences when a kid starts heading down a criminal path. And letting homeless people suffer and die instead of forcing them to get off the street and get help. And waving illegal migrants in with zero plan for them to find jobs or housing and zero concern for the border towns overwhelmed by the influx.

That Americas most vulnerable groups are overrepresented among criminals, addicts, and the homeless, and so are disproportionately harmed by these terrible policies, doesnt seem to ruffle lefty feathers in the slightest proving yet again that progressive politicos and officials are all talks when it comes to actually help the disadvantaged.

Carrots only policy wrecks lives, communities and cities.Its time to bring back sticks.

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Progressive policy is all carrots on crime, drugs and homelessness and it's failing utterly - New York Post

The streets of American cities arent even safe for one of the great big men in NBA history. Hall of Fame center Bill Walton, 6-foot-11, the proud pot smoking bon vivant who has openly supported Black Lives Matter and a host of other progressive causes has suddenly turned tough on crime. Why? For the same reason so many Americans have: because he was a victim of it.

In a fiery letter to San Diego mayor Todd Gloria, Walton wrote, Once again, while peacefully riding my bike early this Sunday morning in Balboa Park, I was threatened, chased, and assaulted by the homeless population in our park. Once again, youve done, and continue to do, nothing.

Funny how an up close and personal experience with violent crime can change ones perspective, or dare we say, as Irving Kristol once famously quipped, mug ones reality?

And its not just former hoops heroes who are hopping off the soft-on-crime bandwagon. In Los Angeles, mayoral hopeful Rep. Karen Bass, who once had never seen a police department she didnt want to defund, is now worried about her own safety. Bass said in a debate months ago that she does feel safe in LA, but after her home was robbed and two guns stolen (which she had for protection) the would-be mayor now says, I did feel safe until my safety was shattered, like so many Angelenos. I guess its good she finally noticed?

Meanwhile, two progressive lawmakers one in Illinois and one in Pennsylvania were both carjacked within just a couple of hours of each other. Yes, thats how common its getting. State Senator Kimberly Lightford and US Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, respectively, were both champions of relaxed policing, and sadly, they reaped what they have sown.

Staying in Pennsylvania, senate candidate John Fetterman has done his own 180 on his previous, absurd call to release all second degree murderers facing life sentences. Even left-wing loony Fetterman, who regularly campaigns in sweatshorts can now see what abject foolishness he has been spouting.

Clearly the Democrats understand they have a massive problem on the crime issue. New York House candidate Democrat Max Rose, hoping to win a rematch over Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, who bested him 2 years ago, sent out a mailer flat out running against his own party on the issue.

Max Rose rejects liberals soft crime policies, blares the broadside, adding Max blasts his own party to demand NY fix . . . bail reform. Never mind that he marched with BLM in 2020. Maybe he saw the new ABC/WaPo poll that shows American prefer Republican policies on crime by a whopping 22%.

Democrats want a do over on defund the police. But Americans arent dumb. They heard the left wing of the party demand defunding, and they saw the supposed centrists meekly go along under the guise of repurposing funding from police to social workers. Now they say they want to be tough on crime, and we are actually supposed to believe them? As the president might say, cmon, man!

Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans have wisely made public safety a key to their Commitment to America. Here in the Empire State, GOP gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin is flooding the airwaves with brutal ads featuring viral videos of crime and attacking Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul who cant seem to combat it.

With inflation, gas prices, a crisis at the border and more, Republicans have any number of ways to point out how Democrats have failed. But crime hits home, the heart and the gut. Americans are afraid and they want sensible policies on public safety.

More and more progressives are realizing this, but Republicans have known it all along they should remind voters that it was people like Bill Walton, Karen Bass and Max Rose who got us into this mess in the first place.

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Progressives only care about crime after they're robbed or about to lose an election - New York Post

Schools never have been as controversial as they are now.

Oh sure, there were traditional battles over spending remember the school budget vote but the current dispute centers on something more basic: whats being taught.

In a polarized world, everything is political and Republicans are the ones drivingthe issue. It was last year at this time when Republican Glenn Youngkin used education standardsin his successful campaignto become governor of Virginia.

That was hardly an isolated case. ConservativeRepublicans throughout the country followed suit, challenging so-called critical race theory and how sex education is taught. The criticism surged over the summer at new, New Jersey standards that critics claim wrongly introduce sexually explicit subjects to young children.

This has given rise to a mantra that it is parents, as opposed to, say, trained educators, who should decide what gets taught in the classroom.

Buoyed apparently by last years success in Virginia, Republicans continue to push the issue, seemingly convinced a majority of voters are on their side.

Well, maybe.

A Rutgers-Eagleton poll out Wednesday reports that large majorities of Garden State residents support the teaching of health and sex education in high school and middle school. How large? Thenumbers are 88percent for teaching such topics in high school and 71 percent in middle school. However, respondents were split 46 percent in favor and 51 percent opposed on such instruction in elementary school.

Nonetheless, the poll hardly showsgenuine discontent with teaching sex ed in New Jersey public schools.

Ashley Koenig, the poll director, noted the ongoing controversy, but added the following:

Yet, according to these numbers, those who have been most vocal in New Jersey do not necessarily reflect a majority of residents or even parents views.

Many Republicans likely would disagree. After all, this is merely one poll.

Clearly, the GOP remains convinced that questioning public school curriculum is going to pay dividends on Nov. 8.

Tom Kean Jr., the GOP candidate in CD-7, appeared on Fox News a few months ago to condemn the new state education standards. He also held a closed-door Parents Coalition meeting a few weeks ago presumably to do the same.

Local schools are not necessarily a federal issue, but quite obviously, its the overall narrative that counts.

And Kean is not alone.

The state Republican committee in a recent push to register voters says parents deserve a say in what gets taught. Public education is mentioned as a top issue to spur registration along with such things as ending one-party rule in Trenton and bringing about a change inWashington.

More broadly, go to any GOP gathering these days and you can expect someone to talk about students being groomed by the evil progressives.

That said, the poll suggests something different. So says Jessica Roman, a researchassistant at the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling. She put it thusly:

Opposition to sex ed wont play well with a key voting bloc like women, who are already dissatisfied with other issues like abortion this midterm cycle.

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