Parents deserve full transparency
I wish to respond to Svetlana Wasserman’s op-ed from Feb. 15. The United States Department of Defense’s “official” Website ( www.defense.gov) about page makes clear the branches of the military that comprise and define the Armed Forces of the United States of America. The statement reads, “The Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force and Coast Guard are the Armed Forces of the United States. The Army National Guard and the Air National Guard are reserve components of their services and operate in part under state authority.”
I cannot respond to all the remaining topics Svetlana Wasserman lists in 300 words. I will reply to two: “Bills to prevent discussion of race and gender in the classroom, and to restrict diversity, equity and inclusion training” and “Bills to allow parents to drop in on public school classes to monitor teachers.”
I seriously doubt any Connecticut legislator would be inclined to support an act that would purposely cause disruption in the classroom. However, parents are their children’s primary educators and they must never be obstructed in their teaching by not being given full disclosure to what is being taught or occurring in their children’s Connecticut classrooms, especially occurring without their consent. At the start of this school year alone, we heard disturbing stories such as:
A Hartford school nurse posting on social media of teachers and administrators identifying transgender students and counseling them without parental consent or awareness.
An undercover video revealing a Greenwich assistant principal stating he would not hire a teacher who questions the transgender agenda.
A Southington teacher upsetting parents, discussing white privilege, indigenous peoples, transgender people, institutional racism and gender pronouns.
A middle-school class in Enfield giving students the assignment to choose pizza toppings as a code for their preferred sex acts.
These certainly are not innocuous matters and most certainly not the responsibility of Connecticut schools to covertly indoctrinate. Parents must always be given full transparency to what is occurring in their children’s schools and must never be left unapprised of or barred from curricula and activities involving their children. I am not a parent; but rest assured, I strongly support legislation that legally assures parents the legal right to call upon any teacher or administrator attempting to present discordant material or activities involving their children without parental consent.