The immensely popular Twitter
account “Libs of TikTok” recently posted a video of what it claims is a
Department of Education training session for teachers to learn how to be
inclusive of transgender and non-binary K-12 students. The teacher doing the speaking/training
on the now viral video has been identified as Sam Long, from Colorado.
In what appears to be a Zoom call
with DOE staffers and fellow teachers, Long states: "In our classroom we
need to be a stickler for inclusive language in any conversation, and
especially in the content that we teach. I’d like to give some examples from my
content, which is science. I’ve mostly taught biology, and we’re teaching about
life and living things.”
He added: "A lot of textbooks,
a lot of existing teaching will say, well, women produce eggs. Males are more
likely to be color-blind. The mother carries the fetus for this many months.
And some ways that we can show our support for trans and non-binary students
just to clean up that language, be more precise. We can be more accurate and be
more inclusive. So I would say, no, it’s not women that produce eggs. It’s ovaries that produce eggs. That’s accurate, that’s
precise. We’re acknowledging that not all women produce eggs and also, not all
egg producers are women, for example."
That is not accurate. Ovaries
don’t exist on their own as a separate genderless entity. And all egg producers
are, in fact, women.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said
she couldn’t define what a
woman is because she wasn’t “a biologist.” Long claims to be a long-time teacher
of biology and still doesn’t know what a woman is. He is doing the opposite of
what he purports to wish to do. He is deliberately being imprecise, inaccurate.
He obfuscates and confuses in order to push his agenda on his students. He lies
about biology…and then lies about his lying by claiming he is striving for
accuracy, precision and the truth.
Given what we have seen from
teachers of late, the sexualization of young students, pushing of a radical
LGBTQ agenda, demonization of America and her founding values, and the shocking
number of teacher-student liaisons, this is not surprising. Would that it was.
Combine this with the NEA touting Critical Race Theory (CRT) and the fact that there
are students in some districts that graduate from high school without the
ability to perform basic math functions or read at what should be considered a
seventh-grade level, and it is more than understandable that many parents are
angry.
Mark Steyn has said that America was
built by those with an eighth-grade education and is being destroyed by those
with an eighteenth-grade education. He is right. Common sense is no longer
common. Wisdom has been shown the door, replaced by a radical yet
unchallengeable belief in Pixie Dust and unicorns. If anyone dares to question
that belief, they are accused of trafficking in “misinformation” or
“disinformation” and are summarily dismissed as “haters,” racists, misogynists.
Here's a truly radical idea
based on common sense and wisdom: The Department of Education and the
National Education Association (NEA) should be abolished. Disbanded.
Unfunded. Cancelled. De-platformed. Disappeared. Un-entitied. Erased.
Memory-holed. Annulled. Dissolved. Abrogated. Eviscerated. (The other NEA, the
National Endowment for the Arts, should suffer the same fate. For that matter,
so should the DHS, the IRS, and several other federal agencies. And the U.N.
But I digress.)
Education should
be privatized and localized. Just like everything else. Ovaries included.