The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Who Owns Your Children? The Government Keeps Acting Like It Does Derrick Broze Governments across the world continue to take actions that reflect the belief that it is not parents who are the guardians of their children but the state itself. In September, the First Circuit  Court of Appeals  heard arguments in a high-profile case  regarding whether a school violated parents’ constitutional rights by actively encouraging their 11-year-old daughter to transition her gender while keeping it a secret from the parents. School officials followed a school board policy that encourages them to privately meet with the child and affirm her gender transition, allow her to use the boys’ bathroom, and instruct everyone at school to use her new name and pronouns. The school also asserted that the parents weren’t providing a safe environment at home. The school’s attorney argued in court that parents do not have a right to know about their child’s “gender transition” because “you can’t decide to hav

  The Secret Sauce for Not Shooting Each Other The Washington Post goes to a Public School and, like the Students and Teachers, Learns Nothing. LIBRARIAN OF CELAENO I really didn’t intend a series inspired by the  Washington Post , but reading that august journal is much like watching  Neil Breen films , so-bad-it’s-good entertainment, but with a bigger budget. As I had to give them an email address when looking up the original story that  inspired the last   two essays  in my  WaPo  rabbit hole, I now get regular announcements for their new material, and since they’ve algorithmically deduced that I am a teacher, I get a lot of their hot takes on the world of education. Needless to say, their content is undeviatingly homogenous neoliberal boilerplate, the kind of stuff that could be (and may be) produced by an AI trained by reading NEA press releases and watching TED Talks. Not the good ones, though Most of you reading my essays probably don’t read the  Washington Post , as I hope that