Districts over the policies claiming they were illegal and harmful to transgender students. Now, trumps former Education Secretary betsy is blasting the infestation. It is really rather Mind Boggling that were even in a place leak this today where parents have to sue and or push School Boards to know and learn about things that they should be informed of as a matter of course with their children. There is no wonder why participants have begun to speak up across the Country Whether At School Board Meet Lings or voting with their feet and going somewhere else with their children. Parents need to know whats going on in their childrens lives and schools but parents in georgia are putting one up in the win column for the fight against woke Ideology Cobb KpghtSchool Board Just fired a Fifth Grade Teacher for reading a book on gender it called my shadow is purple. The Controversial Book challenges the concept that there are only two Jengders Genders so strange thing about this fight in particular new jersey on one hand we have this crazed Gender Ideology that the that the teachers and administrators are clearly rying to push on the kids but now you have a situation where you actually have a School District trying to cut parents out of Like Health Care decisions for their children. If you in cases where you actually have actual gender disforya, you have which is very closely aligned with teen suicide. You have these administrators and district officials trying to keep parents from being part of the of the emergency that is this. Youre a parent. Could you imagine allow stepping out of the way for Health Care Decision for one of your children . Especially like a mental issue . No, you know earlier this week we had someone on our air guest a mother who said we get phone calls this is true as a parent you get phone call when is your kid gets sniffles if your kid has maybe oh a little bit warm maybe a fever you get lots of phone calls you have to run down to the school to take care of your kid. This is such a major moment for a child possibly and i say possibly because when youre talking about kids as young as kindergarten theres a lot there to be discovered figured out. Honestly worked out with the parents and i understand where the one argument where they say well we have to protect some kids you dont want to out a child thats not ready to be outed. And there are families out there that are not going to handle this in a healthy way that could be damaging i understand that but this goes so much farther than that where the parent isnt included in the conversation not even beginning of the conversation and that part i agree with secretary devos it is Mind Boggling to think im handling over handling over your child right to people youre supposed to trust. And then they wont even communicate with you for something so significant. Well, obviously, you know, you have children in abusive situations. And schools forever have wrestled with that thats an important thing for them to take into consideration but thats really not what were talking about. No thats not what happening here. Whats happening is School Districts now an entire state in the case of new jersey is waging war on parental rights, and the parents access to their own child. Were talking about babies. Fiveyearolds, look, i get them. We sign them every week my daughter goes on a field trip i have to sign a waiver she wants an aspirin i have to sign a waiver but now school board is telling me were going to introduce her to blatant sex acts sending her on the path of Gender Reassignment but you dongt have a part in this mom and dad im sorry thats crap the 14th Amendment Of The Constitution protects the parents parental rights as due process rights. This needs to be taken i think to the federal level. Because it is not just happening in new jersey. It is happening in california, it is happening in other states. It needs real scrutiny. But the fact that you would cut parents out while in doctrinating children down a path confusing about who they are with parents not a part of the conversation im sorry should never be allowed. As if being a teenager werent confusing enough listen to parents talking about this. Parents were not necessarily aware that this was even a policy that was in existence at one point do we become the guardians over children . These are still parents responsibilities to raise their children. And in every other situation in a School District we inform the parents of everything from a child had a stomach ache and visit the nurse to sign a form for what movie youre watching. They think parents are a danger and that the kids will be will be in harm if they know about it. Fact that we are having this Discussion Concerns everyone. And the parents and the children do have a right to know and thats to backbone of education america in our country. You know, tommy i cant help but imagine a lot of those parents are you know theyre not like right wing activist theyre not probably probably many of them are not even Republican Voters. Right. This is across the board. Might soon be Republican Voters because this is an opportunity for conservatives for republicans, to remind voters in general from both sides of the political divide that parental rights as you mentioned are so important and they are on the ballot in 2024. Make no mistake they are. You look at the side of the aisle thats pushing this, this Gender Ideology in schools, pushing to push parents out calling parents domestic terrorists for speaking up at school board meetings. Look at the party and the side of the political divide that is pushing this and you will see a clear distinction we need parental rights and parents involved in their childs education you brought up a good Point Charlie thing to talk about Mental Health. We know that our young people are already struggling with Mental Health. Because of covid and lockdowns and shutdowns, and the masking and now youre putting in another layer where youre telling them they can be any gender they want to be. I learned that they added another acronym to the Lbgtq Bash Key now a two spirit with two Different Things we need to bring back some sanity to public education. And realize that none of this stuff has a place there we need to be getting back to reading, writing and arithmetic because students are failing in metrics before we Start Talking about being a mentar or two spirit whatever they are trying to teach but it is a dereliction of duty as educators. Most alarming should be alarm bells is that if kids are spending so much time thinking about these things then they have too much time on their hands theyre not learning actual stuff. Right. In the classroom. Exactly and tommy is exactly right weve seen it across the country test scores and i live in a liberal city of denver. Denver Public Schools that School District is having a huge problem right now. There are signs all over the district with parents that say to the board resign. Because they didnt know i was one of the parents my kids were inside of a school and there was a school shoot that can happened in the spring, and it was by a kid who was undergoing patdowns because he was considered so dangerous parents didnt know, we found out when two deans were shot inside the school. And were all looking around going how did no one tell us and theyre saying well we have to protect the privacy of the kid. Not to mention the safety of the rest of the children. So i want to get back to teacher that was fired Fifth Grade Teacher fired in georgia for reading this book. Quote from her the district is setting a harmful message not all students are worthy of affirmation being unapologetic and authentic selves based on vague policies will result in more teachers not knowing where the invisible line will be and censorship presents harm and this was the teacher fired for reading this Jengsdzer Ideology Thing to her students. Look, i know a lot of teachers. I meet with librarians and teachers all the time. Theyre focused primarily is introducing kids to literacy and to the history of their country or their region. And they labored to fine books that are age appropriate to do that. Why this teacher has made it her mission to somehow teach kids that they are other jengders available to them. If its a picturebook you probably overstep your bounds okay. This is something for parents to consider. If parents want to read this at home more power to them. But to suddenly decide you as the teacher in this in this situation you would never have a teacher get up and read the quran because it is infringing on rights of the family this is a personal right of the family and it it leads the child to question things that frankly theyre not prepared to do at that moment in time. Theyre five or younger i i do shake my head age appropriate books are really important. As a childrens author i write for an audience of a particular age. Youve got to read to the right audience it is a great point vast majority of teachers are passionate and love their kids. And the fact that you have this ideology sort of swamping them out is just it is appalling. Okay coming up, Vivek Ramaswamyuation in on being number two plus youre not rooted in principle, if all we are is listless vessels supposed to follow whatever happens to come down the pike on truth social every morning, thats not going to be a durable movement. Did ron desantis have a basket of deplorable moment thats next when the Big Weekend Show returns. This isnt just freight. These arent just shipments. Theyre promises. Big promises. Small promises. Cuddly shaped promises. Each with a time and a place theyve been promised to be. And the people of old dominion never turn away a promise. Or over promise. Or make an empty promise. We keep them. A promise is everything to old dominion, because it means everything to you. My father didnt know his dad. 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But thats not what this is about. This is about reviving our missing national identity. Reaching the next generation of americans who are badly diseffected from politics. So meanwhile Florida Governor ron desantis has a new strategy to get elected president go after Trump Supporters. We have a strand in our party that views supporting trump as whether you are a rhino or not so you could be most conservative person since sliced bread theyll call you a rhino if youre not rooted in principle if we are listless vessels supposed to follow whatever happens to come down the pike on true social this morning thats not a durable movement. Okay. So charlie ive covered a lot of trump all rallyings i can tell you calling it, listless vessels is going to be on a tshirt it is not already on one right now. Whats i think thats a safe bet. No it is a terrible strategy. And it is so frustrating because ron desantis has a tremendous record to run on he has so much promise for him. But hes really failing like we have seen few politicians with so much going in their direction fail as bad as hes failing. Hes not very good at politics. It is appearing and if biggest tell is when you go after the voters that youre supposed to win over and you attack them and mock them you know weve seen Hillary Clinton tried it with the basket of deplorables as you pointed out and it didnt work for her. And so hes coming up not only coming up with something i dont know what a listless vessel is, xepght that it is insulting and suggestion is that these people are nots only all of the things that Hillary Clinton thought they were but also stupid and theyre get thing snookered. Trump voters are very, very wise to that. And hes doing himself serious damage that is going to carry with him not only through this primary but it is going to hurt him four years from now. For sure Governor Desantis never thought that he would would be compared to Hillary Clinton. Lets go to a flashback. You can put half of Trump Supporters into what i call the basket of deplorables. The racist sexist Homophobic Xenophobic you name it empty vessels so tomi is this a fair comparison . Not to compare anybody to Hillary Clinton i consider her to be the Fourth Sanderson sister so i think that we leave it to halloween when we make comparisons to hilary moving forward it was not a good comment to make and im sure hes kicking himself and im sure he wishes he could repaparazzi it now when i heard him say is maybe a colonel of a truth ill tell you what i believe he was trying to get across and he failed at it. I think what he was trying to say is this, im not a rhino simply because im running against donald trump. I think thats what he wanted to say and i think further what he wanted to say where he messed up with the listless vessels comments and rings like deplorable is what he should have said is listen, i understand that you follow trump because you love him and lover his policies and you see whats going on with him and you see the indictments and sham and witch hunt, however, we need to look beyond that and just what were talking about with all of the circus of chaos and indictments and understand that we as a movement have to be durable. We have to live beyond donald trump, and we have to have the America First policies be our bedrock. Now thats what he should have said. Unfortunately he did not say it that way and it will hurt and bruise him badly but hes had to walk land mines hes the only trump competitor maybe outside of mike pence a little bit. Who has had to navigate maga supporter because trump does not attack competitors the way he attacks ron Desantis Vivek will go on and take shots at trump but trump will never take a shot because he doesnt see him as a threat what the Trump Campaign did before desantis announced was label him a rhino out the gate and hes been unable to escape that. The fact is when youre 40 down on the other guys movement. You need chunks of that movement to be competitive and to win by alienating them this way thats a basically what ron desantis has done incredible record incredible family a smart guy lets say that. As a precursor, but to consign yourself to chris christieville it is a bad move looks to me like unforced error and have to walk it back. But clearly this is bad. To tomi point near Impossible Task to walk that balance trying to say that youre the better candidate without insulting the people who are doing a good job hes actually come up with these Ten Commandments for his campaign he put out on twitter or x and those began with two genders, three Human Flourishing requires fossil pulse and parents determine the education of their children. The Nuclear Family is a greatest forming of governess known to man kind do you think parents are paying attention . These facts as they call them you know what is interesting about them is if founders were around today they would be like really we have to write had down yipght know we have to establish all of this. This is all a given. But going and by the way, one of the things that vivek is doing so brilliantly and i get it he does have a slightly different dynamic with his relationship with trump. But he has done such a good job of running a very promising Visionary Campaign where hes presenting something. Which is always a winning strategy. The problem for desantis is when you get stuck talking tactics about well these different batches of voters, you a politician always loses when he starts doing that. We have to start to see what happens at the debate on wednesday watch the first republican primary debate on fox news as i mention on wednesday at 899 p. M. Eastern straight ahead another rogen roast Joe Rogen Scolds Climate Activist after restricting our way of life another liberal doubl