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Amy Hamm: Not even parents can escape the speech police at B.C. schools

One district banned a mother from school grounds because she criticized a teacher's Progress Pride shirt. It's part of a bigger pattern

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    1. Comment by Richard Stewart.

      I'm a provincial government employee. I began tearing down virtue-signaling ribbons around my workstation about 4 years ago. This emboldened my colleagues to do the same. Our union never consulted with neither me or my colleagues whether we were okay with it. The ribbons gave the impression to visitors that we were endorsing the messaging when in reality I neither support or oppose it....at work I'm apolitical and expect the enviornment to be sanitized from politics. This summer I was pleasantly surprised to see the LGBTQ ribbons were never put out by my union.

      It's disrespectful to impose your ideology on others without consent....to give visitors the wrong impression of what your beliefs are. This is an insidious tactic designed to create the illusion that such ideology is at pandemic levels when in reality the reality on the ground is very different than what's being portrayed through the media and unions.

    2. Comment by John Doraty.

      Human beings, and Canadians in particular, are adverse to confrontation, whereas the progressive lefties thrive on it, and create it even where none is warranted. It's very difficult to confront school boards, even in venues where the public is allowed. Any opposing opinion is met with ejection from the meeting.

      If you oppose what your school board is doing, lobby your local MPP, or MP and attend such meeting as are possible to support those who are will to speak out. In school board elections, grill the applicants on their views, and record their responses to confront them later, if neccesary.

      So called democracy is hard work, but worth it.

    3. Comment by P. Robert Dooley.

      My Grandson (12 years old at the time) an I talked about "equality" in the schools:

      Situation 1: The assign project was graded and you received an A-grade. Some students failed the assignment and received a D-grade.

      My Grandson received an A-grade, but the teacher asked him if he would take a B-grade so a failing student could receive a passing C-grade.

      My Grandson said: "No way Papa, I worked for my A-grade, it's mine. No one can take it away.

      I knew right then, that boy is going to be OK.

      If the parents do their job, no one in the school system can influence a good kid.

    4. Comment by Curtis H.

      Why isn't there cameras in each classroom, parents should have the right to see how and what their children are being taught. Surely if every police officer is mandated to wear a camera; each classroom can be as well. Unacceptable performance by teachers can be even more damaging than unacceptable performance by police officers.

      The Progress Pride Flag has caused much damage to the hard fought gains of LGB people. It does not represent us, in fact it conscripts our agency. I have a little hobby of going into government/agency offices that have this disgusting flag displayed and asking who is funding them - is it trans/blm/intersectional people or Canadian taxpayers. Then I ask why they are displaying a flag representing a political ideology (that has caused so much damage to LGB people) instead of a Canadian flag that represents both their funders and everyone.

      The Progressive Pride Flag is a symbol of hate, intolerance and exclusion.

    5. Comment by Flavius Aetius.

      You see, many so-called "progressives" don't have children, or very few of them. They are viewed as a burden, an inconvenience, a way to make the planet burn, or a facilitator of women's oppression.

      Absent widespread adoption of reproductive technology to grow their ranks (which is unlikely), they simply cannot reproduce at scale on their own. Thus, they have to APPROPRIATE (their word), or to CONVERT a significant portion of OTHER people's children to their cult in order to REPRODUCE their hegemonic power over society.

      Thus they really don't like it when you interfere with their reproductive processes (even though they eagerly - and incessantly - seek to do the same thing with everyone else's).

      While, of course, they claim to be against "conversion therapy," that's exactly what they're hoping to do with YOUR children's minds.

      Mark my words: if you can gain back control of the schools, it will go a long, long way towards stopping the "progressive" left's hegemony, future growth, and help greatly to undermine its demographic future.

      Therefore, pick your battles carefully. Focus on the schools. Disrupt the school boards. Go after their funding, their budgets, their governance, their policies, just attack whenever they do anything that will help "progressives" reproduce. Fight strategically to help defeat the left, focusing where it has the most impact

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