Feel free to use this speech with your own school board meetings. You can safely substitute pedagogy/curriculum or program for book challenge. It matters not.
Until we stop begging government…
Until we take our power back, ONE AT A TIME…
Until we STOP saying “It’s hard,” or “I can’t,” or “My neighbor is my enemy because we think differently about education…” our kids will SUFFER.
I want ALL parents to have the same freedoms I want for myself.
I am NOT interested in dictating what education should be to any other parent.
As long as they are not literally abusing their children, and denying them ANY access to educational opportunities, it’s NONE OF MY BUSINESS how they do it, especially if my money isn’t paying for it.
The MINUTE you spend a cent of my money, it becomes my business, and that is true in reverse as well. I don’t want to pay for your way, and I do not want you to pay for MY way.
If you are walking this Earth believing you have a right to tell other people how to raise their kids, and that means how to educate them, then you are not only not “liberal,” you are a TOTALITARIAN.
You have no more say in how someone else raises their children than in where they work or whom they marry. This is not complicated. It’s as obvious as saying water is wet, and yet every single day I see OUTRAGED parents all over social media insisting THEY should be able to take other people’s money wherever they want to go, to purchase the kind of education they want for their individual kids, and claiming to be the good guys, the “liberty-minded.”
Excuse my French, but bullshit. If it were liberty you wanted, you wouldn’t be asking—no, demanding—tax redistribution to pay for your choices. You’d recognize there is no liberty in such a demand, not for the people paying, and ultimately, not for you either. There might not be strings today, but there will be soon enough, for the same reason the school boards of public districts are so intractable today: where tax money goes, politics follows.
This is an immutable fact.
I don’t create reality, I just point it out.
Sue me.