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The Trump administration has once again reaffirmed its commitment to protecting the rights of parents while noting that Democrats in the Biden administration weaponized the federal government against parents with the claim that protesting government school policies amounted to “terrorism.”
A press announcement released Monday drew a sharp contrast between the Trump administration’s clear acknowledgment of parental rights and the Biden administration’s move to demonize parents who objected to government school policies.
The Departments of Education (ED) and Justice (DOJ) note that, under the Biden administration, some investigations of parents were actually led by the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division and Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate.
“One FBI field office interviewed a mother because she was a member of Moms for Liberty, which it disparaged as a ‘right wing mom’s group,’” the departments asserted. “Another FBI tip launched an investigation into a father opposed to mask mandates because he ‘fit the profile of an insurrectionist.’”
A joint letter to all state Attorneys General (AG) from the ED and DOJ warns the chief state law enforcement officers that federal law – the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA) – requires schools to inform parents “of the most sensitive and personal information pertaining to their children.”
The letter was delivered to all the AGs as both ED and DOJ also announced a new law enforcement action against the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) for enforcing policies that require school personnel to hide students’ sensitive information from their parents.
As Assistant Attorney General (AAG) Harmeet Dhillon told Newsmax’s Carl Higbie Frontline on Tuesday, “California passed a law … that basically forbids school districts from complying with these federal laws, and it says that parents can be kept in the dark about these issues.”
“So, there’s a direct tension between California law and federal law, in my opinion, and a federal law should prevail in every circumstance like that,” Dhillon asserted. “These are fundamental rights; these are natural rights. Parents should never be lied to by teachers. Children should never be ‘transed’ and sexually manipulated against the knowledge of the parents, or at all, frankly, in my opinion.”
The AAG emphasized that the issue of parental rights is “fundamental,” and pointed to states that “go after people who homeschool” and attempt to place parents “under the thumb of the government.”
“That’s where DOJ comes in to equalize those forces, and we will not let any kid, even in the inner city of left-wing Los Angeles, be left behind,” she added.
The letter also observes to the state AGs that ED and DOJ “have found that schools continue to violate PPRA with their administration of ‘mental health screenings.’”
“If any school expects students to complete ‘mental health screenings’ or any other similar evaluation or coursework, they must FIRST effectively notify the parent and obtain written consent to administer such screenings,” the departments instruct. “When schools ask parents to opt out instead of obtaining prior written parental consent, they violate PPRA.”
The departments provide the following directives regarding fulfilling PPRA requirements:
Dhillon observed how the Biden administration and many Democrats used weaponization of government to intimidate Americans opposed to their policies.
“Of course, we have the Jack Smith weaponization, and we have the prosecution of Christians praying outside abortion clinics as domestic terrorists under the FACE Act, and so many other abuses,” she recalled, adding that the Trump DOJ will continue to “get to the bottom of the abuses and make sure that they don’t happen again.”
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