Erika Sanzi
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Mom of 3 sons, wife, former educator, former school bd member, Dir. of Outreach at @DefendingEd, https://t.co/MSRAxvJnxH, LOVE my view LLC at https://t.co/GloIoC9ESg
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Joined June 2010
Why did Oprah require $1 million dollars to endorse Kamala? . I don't understand.
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She is a dean at Brown Medical School.
This is why they don’t want you to see #WhatIsAWoman. It’s because of moments like this. Gender ideology is an insane, incoherent mess.
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I feel qualified to speak on this as the mother of three teenage sons and this might be the most inaccurate, yet hilarious, tweet I've ever seen. .
Since #TamponTim is trending I'll point out that in high school, any boy who casually was like "Oh you got ur period? I stashed a pad from the bathroom in my backpack in case one of my friends needed it" -- that boy would be king stud. That boy would be drowning in prom invites.
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Love or hate her, @RealCandaceO talked during yesterday's hearing about how 75% of Black boys in California don't meet state standards in reading. Who else is talking about that (besides @LaComadreEdu)?.
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This is Serena Williams in 2013 stating an obvious truth that people (herself included it seems) are afraid to say in 2023.
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94% of Providence students aren't proficient in math. 86% can't read or write on grade level. Legislators who never talk about student outcomes proudly use students during school hours as foot soldiers for their activism.
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Welp, this piece clearly hit a nerve. 50,000 views in less than 48 hours. Lots of mothers (and dads too) saying "Thank You."
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I don't how the midterms will go but I've *never* in my life known of so many lifelong Dems planning to vote a straight red ticket. Don't underestimate the political effects of COVID policies coupled with so much ideological garbage in schools.
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There are schools in RI forcing students to eat lunch outside in 25 degree weather if they want to be allowed to speak. They can stay inside but must eat in silence. We have the highest vaccination rate in the country & teachers got to get it before the rest of us.
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When a school separates students by race *during the school day* for a book discussion and a student who is half white and half Asian chooses the "white-identifying" group but is made to leave and go to the BIPOC group. 🤷🏻♀️. I don't think that is even legal.
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If curriculum cannot be shared publicly—especially with parents—it should not be used.
NEW: Loudoun County is forcing parents to sign an NDA-style form to view its controversial curriculum.
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Parents are concerned over intrusive surveys and "screeners" that ask 12-year-olds if they are pansexual or gender fluid. The surveys are often created/administered by @PanoramaEd. Merrick Garland's daughter is married to the president and founder.
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Ppl are squabbling over @realchrisrufo claim that public schl teachers have sexually abused students at a scale 100x greater than Catholic priests. He's right based on most recent report commissioned by the DOE in 2004, pre iPhone. CBS covered it.
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"While others make a name for themselves awfulizing males, we moms of boys will tell our sons every single day not to believe the lies." (cc: @CaitlinPacific @HKorbey).
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The schools that are closing have mask mandates. The mask optional schools are staying open.
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"BLM At School" has put out a statement and it's exactly what one would expect if they're familiar with the stated mission of the organization. BLM never should have been in schools. I hope those who couldn't hear that before can hear it now.
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I find it hard to understand how this is legal let alone healthy or productive.
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Except when it comes to naked men in their locker rooms, stealing their podium spots and spiking volleyballs off their faces.
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New language rules just dropped for 5th graders in Vermont and they don't include the words boy and girl or male and female.
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In case you still wonder why so many of us said BLM doesn't belong in schools. It isn't just a political organization; it's a terror supporting organization celebrating those who paraglided into a music festival and murdered 260 people.
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I'm beginning to wonder how people like this remain absent from most articles in major outlets. Listen to what she is telling you.
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@Timodc @megynkelly She's talking about K-12, not college, Tim. And if you spent even five minutes looking at current policies and curriculum in schools you'd understand why so many parents (including lifelong Dems) are grappling with their vote this election more than ever.
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Message received, @michelleinbklyn. The allegation that has actually been confirmed by a rape kit and the perp has been charged is the lie because #believewomen and #metoo was NEVER really about victims. It was always about politics and power, even for reporters at the NYT.
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@realchrisrufo In our polling, Hispanic voters are also the most opposed to gender ideology in schools and Biden's Title IX rewrite.
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The contrast: Trudeau hiding from his people in an undisclosed location "because of a close Covid contact" and Zelensky refusing to leave and staying to fight alongside his people. Just incredible.
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🚨DOJ comes out in favor of slicing off the healthy breasts of adolescent girls & putting children on cross sex hormones and puberty blockers — irreversible medicalization that can have devastating and permanent consequences. Warning shot to state AGs👇.
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Teacher of 17 years in Maine has tendered her resignation, effective immediately. Read the reasons why. We at @DefendingEd hear from educators all the time who share these same concerns and want their districts exposed.
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Notice that he doesn't even mention literacy as a priority.
Prioritizing wellness, safety, and community in schools is long overdue. This is how we #RaiseTheBar in education.
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I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Are they trying to lose? Her last claim is so demonstrably false, I have to wonder if she's actually joking.
JEN PSAKI: Teachers should talk with kindergarteners about if they’re “a girl or a boy.”
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Imagine seeing your child's school stay closed for 10 months and its teachers now go on strike while others who live in the next town over or attend a Catholic school have been in school in person since September. Breaking point has to be near. This is madness.
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And do not accept the new line of "we can't share materials with parents or via FOIA because they are the property of our paid consultants.". They are spending public money, your money, on these materials they refuse to share with you. That is a huge red flag.
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I know people like to pretend this hateful rhetoric isn't out there. Or that it's no biggie and even justified. This is vile. And it's astonishing that so many have convinced themselves it isn't. cc: @CaitlinPacific @CHSommers @cvaldary @LisaBritton @IrshadManji @Miss_Snuffy
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Something I hear from parents constantly is that their daughters are embracing critical social justice ideology and their sons are rejecting it completely. I see the same dynamic in families I know personally. You seeing/hearing this @RichardvReeves?.
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Do you believe us yet?. This video is about "gender-affirming hysterectomies" at Boston Children's Hospital.
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We keep being told this "isn't happening." Our inbox at @DefendingEd is full of with testimonies from concerned parents (and teachers!), including official school docs, that say otherwise.
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Unfortunate choice of words for a governor who is ok with the literal castration of minors.
Maryland Democrat Gov. Wes Moore says restricting certain highly sexualized and racist books from school libraries is "telling other kids that they shouldn't understand their own power. It's castrating them."
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2 parents reached out today who say they are considering *moving* b/c of the obsession with race & race-shaming in their kids' schools. One is a Russian immigrant couple who see what they fled happening in their 3rd grader's classroom. The other is an interracial couple.
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Even if you can't stand Tucker or @realchrisrufo, everything reported here abt LAUSD is true & the practice of supporting/facilitating gender transition of children behind parents' backs is extremely widespread & written into policy in countless school districts, including mine.
Los Angeles Unified School District has mainlined academic Queer Theory in the K-12 school system, encouraging children as young as kindergarten to experiment with synthetic sexual identities such as "trans," "genderqueer," "pansexual," and "two-spirit.".
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Kids are being irreparably harmed by gender ideology and people are squabbling over who gets the credit for exposing it? . STOP. This is an all hands on deck crisis and I appreciate all of you, period, the end.
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Job well done, guys. By showing your complete disdain for parents, you helped to create a movement. 👍
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Next up on SPLC's list of hate groups: Moms. Let's remember that moms who wanted schools to open were called "white supremacists" and "right wing extremists."
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@bariweiss "we're demonizing white people for being born.". He admits his school is doing that. Holy cow.
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Now THIS is honest history.
My grandfather had to get off of the sidewalk when a white person passed by, but in just one lifetime, his grandson became a U.S. Senator… for a southern state. My family’s story is proof that America is not moving backward, but leaping forward.
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"I didn't see the hug. I don't know how long the hug lasted.". Our kids couldn't go to school because they sat at the same lunch table as someone who tested positive and never had any symptoms.
KJP and Dr. Jha are left essentially speechless when asked about Kamala Harris breaking CDC guidelines today.
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Just heard from another parent who decided to pull their 3rd grader out of her school because of gender ideology being taught in class. She's 8. They tried to work through it with administration to no avail. Headed to Catholic school.
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When you are used to never being held accountable—as has been the case with most school boards for decades—the learning curve is steep.
An anti-mask parent shows a pro-mask school board member photos of her not wearing a mask in public during a school board meeting and the board member storms out of the meeting. This is incredible:
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People's heads are gonna explode when they see how much the words "decolonize" and "decolonization" show up in curriculum currently used in K-12—especially in "ethnic studies.".
If land acknowledgment means we honor who originally owned the land, why does this work with American Indians and not the Jews?
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These are questions deemed appropriate for all children as young as 9 by the state of Illinois. The surveys are administered in schools. "Does your current gender identity match your sex assigned at birth?" . This is ideological capture and it has no place in a school. Ever.
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Proud to work with these women (and moms!) at @DefendingEd. We're hearing from parents & teachers on the left & right, from every walk of life who know that what is happening in too many schools is activism—compelled speech, race/gender shaming, political indoctrination.
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@KamalaHarris @AndrewUjifusa Really Kamala? There is so much variety in salary between states — let's not pretend Boston teachers and Oklahoma teachers are even close to being in the same boat. Oh, and their job is protected regardless of performance. Some would say that too is a national failure.
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@BridgetPhetasy As of today, thanks to the Biden-Harris rewrite of Title IX, half the states' must allow males to self identify into restrooms, locker rooms & athletics that are exclusively for women girls. The other half sued and got preliminary injunctions to block the law taking effect.
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We all have our tipping point. I've reached mine I think. @realchrisrufo @nickgillespie @IrshadManji @thomaschattwill @seerutkchawla @jonkay @DeAngelisCorey @JohnRWoodJr @Smith_Surge @RealTalkGwenS @InezFeltscher @rpondiscio @ColleenDippel.
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My first piece for Newsweek:. "We did not immigrate to this country for our children to be taught in taxpayer funded schools that punctuality and hard work are white values," one father tells me.
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Whoa! . District tells teachers not to give out pronoun questionnaires or promise to keep information from parents. Union says just do it in paper and pencil and destroy the documents after.
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I have one more right than men in this country — I never had to do this. All 3 of my sons will. All your boys will too or they risk penalty under federal law. Remember this when you hear people claim that women don't have the same rights as men in America. We have more.
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Head exploding warning 🚨. This is the 4th year in a row I have submitted testimony in support of legislation to make it a crime for teachers/school staff to have SEX WITH STUDENTS. Currently that's LEGAL in RI (as confirmed by the AG.). Hearing in Sen Judiciary is tomorrow.
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$1.9 TRILLION in COVID money. $279 BILLION just for education aid. And we're back to schools closing and @rweingarten whining about masks, testing and ventilation and pretending to be a partner to parents. Where is the money, Randi?
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Thinking back to a year ago and being called a "white supremacist" for thinking schools should open. I see the script is still the same today. Good luck with that strategy, guys.
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Weird that decades of teachers' unions pumping money into school board races wasn't seen as politicized or partisan 🤔.
Republicans across America are pressing local jurisdictions and state lawmakers to make typically sleepy school board races into politicized, partisan elections in an attempt to gain more statewide control and swing them to victory in the 2022 midterms
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The backlash against critical race/gender theory in our schools is bipartisan—all who want you to believe it is coming from "the right" are wrong. It's the most bipartisan thing I've seen in a very long time.
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He was 12 when his step-mother arranged it, his father agreed to it & for $200 a doctor performed it. He survived to tell the story. We are about to see another wave of victims — sterile, unable to orgasm, without body parts— asking the grown-ups, why didn't you protect me?
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Friendly reminder that while they spend 7 hours renaming schools, the achievement gaps in San Francisco are over the highest in the nation.
BREAKING: after a seven hour meeting the SF school board voted to rename 44 district schools, more than a third of all public schools in the city. Lincoln, Washington, Diane Feinstein, Sutro among schools to be renamed. Schools have until Apr. 19 to suggest new ones.
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"Email correspondence obtained by nonprofit Parents Defending Education and first reported by the Washington Free Beacon shows that White House officials coordinated with the NSBA to iron out the details of the letter before it was officially published.".
The National School Board Association communicated with the White House before releasing a letter asking the FBI to probe alleged threats made against school-board members. | by @carolinedowney_
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This is quite something happening in the Lexington Public Schools.
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We remember you. That knife used to slice off the healthy body parts of children is hard to forget.
Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan: "My name in the Ojibwe language is Ejee Wei-Woddam Ukwe. Or in English, speaks with a clear and loud voice woman. I'm a member of the White Earth Nation and my family is the wolf clan."
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RI businesses will get relief from mask mandate this Friday. School children? Not til March 4th. This is unacceptable.
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My husband is heading into open-heart surgery tomorrow. We thank everyone who has already offered up prayers & and msgs of encouragement. I humbly ask for prayers for: . -his surgical team. -his piece of mind. - strength for me . - that our sons be not afraid. #RossProcedure
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Pundits & pols denying that CRT has infected curriculum/instruction in K12 have obviously not taken the time to look at *any* curriculum, trainings, or DEI contract and scope of work language. What happened to "doing the work"?. Journalists saying it's not in schools, AYFKM?.
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"I spent over ten years working in schools and I have three children of my own; my jaw hit the floor when I saw this.". @KDansky @kmele @AsraNomani @SwipeWright @karol @IMAO_ @InezFeltscher @lukerosiak @JeffOnTheRight @wil_da_beast630.
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Wasn't sure what reactions I'd get wearing this t-shirt to the grocery store but I'm happy to report that all the comments were "great shirt" or "I love your shirt" from fellow shoppers & employees. And a few looks of "who is this weirdo?". NSBA, DOJ and NEA won't silence us.
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Friendly reminder that a majority of Black and Hispanic voters support charter schools. It’s the white woke folk — with teachers’ unions at the helm — who oppose them.
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This is our Secretary of Education. (He has since deleted it.)
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Your vision excludes boys.
President Biden and I released the first ever National Gender Strategy. This is our vision for the future of our nation—one that is bold in strategy and one that this moment calls for.
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This is the person appointed by Tim Walz to draft the framework for the ethnic studies program that all MN schools must offer per state law. Not surprising that they are slow-rolling it now and missing deadlines so it won't become public before the election. cc: @annbauerwriter.
Brian Lozenski, appointed by Gov. Tim Walz's administration to an ethnic studies working group, says the United States needs to be "overthrown" in a video unearthed by @NRO . "You can't be a critical race theorist and be pro-U.S. and that's why I'm a critical race theorist."
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One reason so many adolescents are suddenly identifying as non-binary/trans:
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This handy dandy pronoun guide is courtesy of the American Federation of Teachers, the 2nd largest teachers' union in the country.
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The bad news is that my husband suffered a stroke yesterday w/ just my 2 younger boys at home w/ him. I got a frantic call. He was in an ambulance in the driveway when I got home. The good news is it was short, he recovered quickly & is getting excellent hospital care.
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Trans activist & guest speaker for middle schoolers suggests in email (included below!) that school officials call child protective services on parent upset that during "art club," her daughter did no art & was told she was trans & her parents aren't safe.
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Too many school districts: . "We have an unprecedented student mental health crisis.". and . "If you celebrate Thanksgiving, you are celebrating genocide.". You reap what you sow.
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That mask your 5 year old has worn for two years? The one people said was "no big deal," "it's just a piece of cloth," "kids don't even mind them.". USELESS they now tell us. "Throw it away" they say. We knew this over a year ago and were accused of spreading misinformation.
This new CNN declaration that masks “are not appropriate in this pandemic” is an Orwellian escalation. Can the media produce amnesia on demand? And will the people cooperate by wiping their own memories?. Completely intentional. The ultimate power move .
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Brazen. Women say they don't want men in their sports and you call them bigots. Women say they don't want men in their changing rooms and you accuse them of transphobia. Women say they don't want men in their restrooms and you call them hateful. Women say men can't get.
Trust women. Trust them to make decisions about their own body, health care, and future.
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This is a lie.
@KyleDeMarino @nypost We wanted kids in school. I have been arguing for that since April 2020. .
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On the phone w/ a 1st gen immigrant mother from the former USSR concerned abt her school district's "Ethnic Studies" program: . "They are teaching hatred. It is becoming scary.". I hear something similar almost daily—especially from parents who fled authoritarianism for America.
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They'll tell you only MAGA Republicans and right wingers oppose this. They're lying. It's a 70-30 issue.
NEW POLL: "Do you support or oppose allowing public school teachers to provide classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity to children in elementary school?". Support: 27%.Oppose: 70%. New York Times / Siena Poll, September 2022.
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