PROSECUTE THE SCHOOL BOARDS

Well, in 2022, the new swing voters will be “school board moms” — suburban women who are deeply concerned with the direction of their children’s education and are showing up at school board meetings across the country to make their voices heard. But instead of addressing their concerns, Democrats are likening them to terrorists and weaponizing the FBI to intimidate them.

Big mistake.

School board moms are furious about pandemic school closures, mask mandates and teachers unions that put the interests of adults over the interests of kids. They are irate that schools are indoctrinating their kids with extremist ideologies — teaching them to see everything through the prism of race and to believe that America is a systemically racist country. They are angry about the elimination of merit-based admissions and gifted-and-talented programs in the name of diversity. They are livid at politicians such as Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, who doesn’t believe “parents should be telling schools what they should teach,” and Cabinet officials, including Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, who won’t acknowledge that parents are the “primary stakeholders” in their children’s education. And they are exercising their constitutional right to free speech to express those concerns at school board meetings.

And what is the Democrats’ response? To treat them as domestic terrorists. Not figuratively; literally. In September, the National School Boards Association sent a letter to President Biden accusing parents of engaging in “domestic terrorism and hate crimes” and asking Biden — I kid you not — to deploy the “U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Secret Service, and its National Threat Assessment Center” as well as the FBI and “its National Security Branch and Counterterrorism Division” to investigate this “immediate threat” using the “PATRIOT Act in regards to domestic terrorism.”

Yes, you read that right. The school board association wants the Biden administration to use a law designed to stop al-Qaeda from carrying out another 9/11 against parents who come to school board meetings to exercise their First Amendment rights.