Political Quotes

“I come to the floor today to talk about America's education system. As a result of the pandemic, parents have had a front-row seat to their kids' education. Parents are now engaged with their kids' schools much more than ever before. Many parents have had to make tough decisions about a number of things during the pandemic, but especially about their children's education. Yet parental involvement, I believe, is a good thing for kids in our schools. The more parental involvement, the better. Parents deserve a say in what their kids learn and how best to learn it. But all across America, school boards and teachers unions and city councils have been outraged to see parents involved as they have been. Many parents are furious right now. In many cases, they have found out their kids were spending more time on liberal ideology than they were on science or on math. Earlier this year, the State of California proposed teaching math-- hard to believe, but this is what they said--from a social justice perspective--math from a social justice perspective. Parents, appropriately, were furious, and the proposal was not rejected completely, but just postponed until next year. Oregon now allows students to graduate--graduate--without proving they are proficient in reading, in writing, or in math. San Francisco schools spent the entire last year closed, yet the San Francisco school board had spare time to propose changing the name of Abraham Lincoln High School.…”