Ned Yeung

"Parental rights" is right-wing code for dismantling public education, privatization of schools, & indoctrinating children with religious dogma. This has been slightly rebranded by the UCP as "Parent's Choice" then later "Choice in Education". It is the same movement.

If you care about children, then FIGHT FOR THEIR RIGHTS.

Not your rights over them as your possessions, nor the rights of other parents to push their agenda on your child against the public good. #abpoli

https://www.mediamatters.org/critical-race-theory/unmasking-moms-liberty

Unmasking Moms for Liberty

Media Matters for America
Jun 13, 2023 at 3:20pmWeb
Show threadNed YeungJun 13, 2023

If a parent says that your child attending school is like putting a spoonful of feces into the baking, while the Convention on the Rights of the Child says that every child deserves the right to education, who do you think is "protecting the children"? Not the one pushing for "Parental Rights", that's for sure.

Look at what they're pushing, then choose to fight for your child's rights through Public Education, not the agenda to overrule their rights and put foreign lobbyists in control. #abpoli

Show threadMonica RooneyJun 13, 2023
@ned children are not possessions. They are people.
Show threadNed YeungJun 13, 2023
@monicarooney It can't be said enough. <3
Show threadDwight Williams (💉 x9)+😷🇨🇦Jun 14, 2023
@monicarooney @ned The recognition of this fact is one of the things that offends the organizers of "Moms for Liberty".
Show threadNed YeungJun 13, 2023

"Parental Rights" is also code for "the right to discriminate". Public Education DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE, and that is what they do not like.

They want privatization so they can say, "you aren't going to mix your -spoonful of feces- trans child into my school!"

(Sorry to repeat the disgusting feces analogy, but I need to make it clear that this is not hypothetical. This is what is happening right now, pushed by real-life UCP politicians holding seats in government at this very moment.)

#abpoli

Show threadMichael PorterJun 13, 2023
@ned In a similar vein, any time I hear a group saying they represent “family values” it sets off alarm bells. They are almost always looking to suppress someone.
Show threadNed YeungJun 13, 2023
@MichaelPorter La Famiglia.
Show threadMichael PorterJun 13, 2023
@ned 😄
Show threadgwendolenauJun 14, 2023
@MichaelPorter @ned
In such cases, I always mentally replace "family" with "patriarchal". Then it all makes sense.
Show threadJoe  Jun 14, 2023
@MichaelPorter @ned , if a group represents family values then surely they won't need/accept donations or monetary extras of any kind since one of the prime family values is to live within your means !
Show threadNed YeungJun 14, 2023
Another big part of the push for private schooling against public education, is to shift the focus away from social knowledge and history, because that inevitably leads to an understanding of cultural diversity.
Even though all academics criticized the UCP's K-6 curriculum and we lost our long-standing arrangement with the NWT to use our curriculum, UCP pundits still applaud the curriculum for "getting back to basics" with math and writing, at levels experts say is not age-appropriate. #abpoli