Biden’s picks for certain positions in his administration would be laughable if they didn’t so completely align with his progressive, Marxist agenda.
For example, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona. On Thursday, Cardona testified in front of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee regarding schools reopening.
When asked the simple question of whether he thought that parents should be the “primary stakeholder” in their children’s education, Cardona said, “I believe parents are important stakeholders…”
So…No. The answer is no, he does not believe that parents are the primary stakeholders in their own children’s education.
As for vaccine and mask mandates in the schools, Cardona supports both. However, he said, “I believe the decision about mandating should be at the state and local level, and I support the efforts being made to promote vaccines and require them in places where spread is high.”
Last week, Cardona was also called out for using a study to push his own masking agenda in schools, by the actual senior author of the study. He cited a study from 17 schools in Wood County, Wisconsin, found on the CDC website.
In a tweet, he said, “A Wisconsin study found that schools that required masking had a 37% lower incidence (sic) of COVID-19 than the surrounding community.”
Secretary Cardona, I was the senior author of this study. Our study is not able to give any information about the role masks played in the observed low in-school transmission rates. We had no control group so don't know if the rate would have been different without masks.
— Tracy Høeg, MD, PhD (@TracyBethHoeg) September 28, 2021
Dr. Tracy Beth Høeg, senior author of the cited study, saw the tweet and responded to Cardona, saying, “Secretary Cardona, I was the senior author of this study. Our study is not able to give any information about the role masks played in the observed low in-school transmission rates. We had no control group so don’t know if the rate would have been different without masks.”
In March, Dr. Høeg co-wrote an op-ed stating that the CDC “misinterpreted” the data from her study and used it to restrict schools further than they should have been.
“The recent school reopening guidance released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is an example of fears influencing and resulting in misinterpretation of science and harmful policy,” the article read.
It continued, “Keeping schools closed or even partially closed, based on what we know now is unwarranted, is harming children, and has become a human rights issue.”
I guess Cardona can’t be fully blamed for his ignorance. After all, he’s only following the guidance of his boss.
This piece was written by Leah Anaya on October 1, 2021. It originally appeared in RedVoiceMedia.com and is used by permission.
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Its sure NOT YOU.
Government is, this is how Socialism operates.
As a whole, the citizens of this country need to reject the threats and fear mongering tactics being used to drive us into a chute devised to control us. This article and the response from the ignorant admin official is a perfect example
The primary stakeholder in a child’s education IS the parent(s). They are the ones who pay for the schools, teachers and even this Secretary of Education idiot. As a former teacher, we wanted the parents’ input AND involvement in their children’s education as we knew parent involvement meant better student leaning. Our PTA/PTO meetings in the 60s and early 70s were full of parents. But, by the time my daughter was in school we were lucky to get 20 or 30 parents. In fact, many teachers found it a chore to have “parent conferences” and attend PTA/PTO meetings. With the lock-downs, parents realized (learned) that turning education fully over to the schools was a BIG error and woke up to the indoctrination going on in many school systems. Now they need to run for school boards and change the current Marxist trend happening in the schools.
Oh how I long for those good old days when parents were allowed to be in charge of their children!
He’s VERY dangerous!
The US government is sounding more like the Soviet Union every day. If you don’t think civil war is inevitable, you aren’t living in reality.
WANT A GOOD EDUCATION LESSON? THEN ” FIRE THIS IDIOT ” WHO THINKS THE PARENTS SHOULD NOT HAVE TOTAL CONTROL OVER THEIR KIDS! MARXISM RUNNING RAMPANT IN OUR SCHOOLS NEEDING REMOVED AND BACK TO THE REAL EDUCATION STRUCTURE OF OLD!
Cardona, the White House squatter, Kamahahaha, et al, are all nothing but puppets in a circus performance! And they all follow orders to a tee. Pathetic, demented, and scary to the last one of them. And it’s frightening to see how far they have moved America away from our Constitution and assured freedoms and closer and closer for the socialist/communist country they long for.
Do any other commenters here receive the “awaiting for approval” notation every single time you comment? Or is it just me??? :-(
If we look back in history we find that the Nazis didn’t feel that the parents were the primary stakeholders in Children’s education, the state was. The same for the Russian Communist Party and the Chinese Communist party. In fact, wherever we have dictators, as in Cuba, or wannabees as here, we find that Education is the responsibility of the state and the state controls it. So what are you really telling us Mr. Secretary of Education?