Corey DeAngelis

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was proven to be a farce during covid what did parents do when they didn't like critical race theory after they saw it on remote learning well they listened and they said you know they told me to go to the school board meeting and maybe they'll listen to me and they had their mics cut off for trying to expose gender ideology and trying to rip out um sexually explicit books from the school libraries they

somehow it was okay for little kids to read these things without their parents.

But when the parents came to the school board meetings to read the same words in those books that were for the kids, all of a sudden it was not appropriate, which goes and goes to show you how ridiculous it all was to begin with.

And then when parents were protesting critical race theory in places like Virginia, they didn't just have their mics cut off.

They, uh,

They were labeled as domestic terrorists under the Biden regime.

They actually had a letter from the school boards association at the time to the Biden administration requesting that under the Patriot Act of all things, parents should be investigated for, quote unquote, domestic terrorism.

And a lot of people who even know that story don't know the backstory of the FOIA request that went through, showing that earlier drafts of that same memo that went to Biden, urging him to basically lay down the law on parents and to try to bully and silence them into submission.

They called for the military to be deployed to school board meetings to tell parents to sit down and shut up and not be involved in their kids' education and their upbringing.

Well, it was a bold strategy, Cotton.

It didn't work out for them.

It backfired.

Since then, 26 states have left the School Boards Association.

And now we have 18 states that have passed universal school choice, allowing all families

to take their taxpayer money to a school that works for them.

And the reason that this is such a great policy mechanism is that it creates competition.

I mean, just imagine if you were assigned to a government grocery store.

I know Zoe Ramamdani is trying to do that in New York City right now.

But just imagine, for most rational people, you'd understand that it's a horrible idea to try to assign people to a government-run institution for groceries.