Public school pandemonium teaches a valuable lesson

FEE’s Jon Hersey writes, “On September 29, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) asked President Biden to use the full power of the federal government against parents. Their offense? Disrupting school board meetings to protest mask mandates for their children, and to question lessons tinged with identity politics.

When governments abrogate parents' right to choose, they instigate conflict between parents and teachers. https://t.co/It0jW9j08p

— FEE (@feeonline) November 3, 2021

The letter, signed by NSBA President Viola Garcia and Interim Executive Director and CEO Chip Slaven, acknowledged that ‘it is vital that public discourses be encouraged in a safe and open environment, in which varying viewpoints can be offered in a peaceful manner.’ However, when referring to meeting disruptions across the country, it pulled no punches. ‘As these acts of malice, violence, and threats against public school officials have increased,’ it reads, ‘the classification of these heinous actions could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes."

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