The upcoming election for the Sparta Board of Education has attracted two slates of candidates and one independent.
When asked “Why are you running ... ” by the Sparta Independent, the answers vary from fiscal woes to inclusivity to a learning environment and vagueness.
Why are the answers so disparate? What is the real issue? Could it be that it is the insidious and provocative policy of transgenderism? How did this issue creep into education?
In 2010, ObamaCare wrote into law insurance coverage for gender-affirming care. This coverage became a gateway for the medical-industrial complex to develop a trans-humanist market to grow profits.
It quickly morphed into corporate policy and was spread by human resource departments into the left-leaning universities in the United States because, after all, who funds research at these universities?
The policy quickly filtered down to their education departments and then to the teacher unions and governments of liberal (read left/Marxist) states.
What better evidence than New Jersey’s governor and the New Jersey Education Association’s support of this “woke” liberalism?
They have done their best to stigmatize normalcy and usurp the right of parents to provide a moral compass to their children.
It is time to push back against the insidious policies of “pronoun training” and sloganeering like “DEI” (diversity, equity, inclusion) and have the teachers provide the one thing they were hired to do ... educate!
We do not hire teachers to be quasi-psychologists nor do we want guidance counselors to do the same. School psychologists should not play into gender confusion, which leads to identity crises in children who have not even gone through puberty.
Sparta is a family-oriented community and traditional family values will prevail. I think the election results will reaffirm this belief, which is why I will vote for the candidates noted on the red signage: Longo-Keiling, Dumpert, Meara.
Jerry Murphy
Sparta