On this episode of Conversations with Mark Bauerlein, USPIE President Sheri Few joins the podcast to discuss the state of public education in America and what parents can do to regain control of their schools.
USPIE MISSION United States Parents Involved in Education (USPIE) is a nonprofit, nationwide coalition that seeks to return education to its proper local roots and restore parental authority over their children’s education by helping parents and local communities to escape federal and other national influences. Grassroots leaders from around the country are working to 1) expose the lies being taught in government schools that harm children and threaten freedom, 2) encourage parents to take back responsibility to educate their children, 3) initiate and support efforts to return complete local control of government schools, and 4) encourage states to wean themselves off the federal education dole.
USPIE VISION It is the vision of USPIE to create a culture where parents, empowered with the authority to choose what and how their children learn, are the undisputed primary educators of their children, where local schools operate in support of families, and where education is unencumbered by federal mandates.
If you believe in the mission and vision of USPIE, please help support our work by giving a tax-deductible donation today. Every gift is greatly appreciated.
Great news! USPIE’s Open letter to Kevin McCarthy was published in Townhall.com! You can see the article here.
Now we are asking each of you and others in your state to please send this letter to their Republican US Representatives and Senators.
To find your Congressman, follow this link and submit your address. A list of your US Representatives and Senators will appear. You will click on “contact” under their name which will direct you to their website where you can send them an email and include the link to the Townhall article.
In your email, you can include a message like this:
Dear [Representative or Senator name here],
I am your constituent and a member of US Parents Involved in Education (USPIE). Our president wrote an Open Letter to the House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy in support of the Commitment to America with some suggested improvements. I hope you will read this Open Letter and support our ideas. Please feel free to contact me or our President Sheri Few at Sheri@uspie.org if you have questions or comments.
Sincerely,
[Your Name]
Thank you for helping USPIE expose the indoctrination happening in government schools. We need your help now more than ever to continue to employ our public relations firm to promote our new film Truth and Lies in American Education, and to enable USPIE to fight back against radical progressives who want to indoctrinate American children with an anti-Christian, anti-American worldview. Please consider a tax-deductible donation today to help advance the work of USPIE.
The term “school choice” is inadequate to describe the proper emphasis on parental authority needed in American education. Parents are a child’s first teacher, and they should have absolute say in what and how their children learn. Parental authority over their children’s education must be restored.
USPIE suggests redefining education choice from “school choice” to “parental choice.” Parental choice includes curriculum choice where classical, technology-free, and other non-Common Core curricula are available.
The current definition of school choice means a parent is simply empowered to choose which government-regulated school their child will attend. USPIE posits that this is no choice at all. Regulations can require schools to link into the federal government’s workforce development database, impose bad standards like Common Core, impose Marxist pedagogies like critical theories, and require inappropriate sex education like sexual orientation and gender identity.
Recently, the federal government began requiring all schools receiving “Free and Reduced Lunch Money” to allow boys to use the girls’ bathroom and locker room if they identify as a girl, and vice versa. This is an example of the coercive power of government money.
School choice options such as charter schools, vouchers, Title 1 portability and education savings accounts are being proposed across the country as a means to move away from government-controlled education. However, in all these models, government remains in control, which undermines true choice. In a 1980 court case affirmed by the US Supreme Court, the federal government prevailed over Hillsdale College asserting that when an educational institution accepts students who receive government funds, it is subject to government regulation.
USPIE’s primary mission is to close the U.S. Department of Education, eliminate all federal education mandates and return local, community, and parental control of education. Thereby, USPIE is opposed to Title I portability, vouchers, education savings accounts and all federally regulated choice options.
USPIE supports the parental choice option of increasing the federal Child Tax Credit for parents who do not choose to enroll their children in government schools. USPIE supports similar tax credits on the state level. Even if not initially, all other parental choice options implemented with government funding have the potential to become regulated and could harm private, home and Christian schools.
USPIE endeavors to help parents find ways to take advantage of independent, private, and home school alternatives to government schools, and is open-minded. However, USPIE opposes school choice options based on “money follow the child” legislation.
As an all-volunteer, grassroots organization, USPIE counts on your contributions to continue to sound the alarm about the indoctrination in government schools. Please consider a tax-deductible donation today and even consider a recurring donation to support this vital work.
Donate online or mail a check to USPIE, 998 Guion Drive, Lugoff, SC 29078.
USPIE has been fighting against the sexualization of young children for years. We understand that schools are ground zero in the current culture war on sex education. The LGBTQ+ agenda is a political movement foisted upon schools under the guise of diversity and civil rights. This is why USPIE supports Christopher Rufo’s new Parent’s Guide to Radical Gender Theory.
USPIE believes this is a great resource for parents. Mr. Rufo discusses topics like herteronormativity, drag shows for children, transvestitism, neo-pronouns, pornography, and more.
CONTACT: Hamilton Strategies, Media@HamiltonStrategies.com, Patrick Benner, 610.584.1096, ext. 104, or Deborah Hamilton, ext. 102
Grandmother fights back; announces lawsuit against Kershaw County School District in South Carolina for hiding CRT in teacher training
News conference will be livestreamed on Facebook Thursday, July 7, 2 p.m. EDT
CAMDEN, S.C. — Sheri Few, Founder and President of United States Parents Involved in Education (USPIE), Executive Producer of the new film, “Truth & Lies in American Education,” and resident of Kershaw County, is announcing a lawsuit at a news conference this Thursday, July 7 against the South Carolina Kershaw County School District for hiding Critical Race Theory (CRT) in its teacher training and promoting CRT in district classrooms.
Few will be joined by parents and children for the news conference this coming Thursday in front of Kershaw County School District offices at 2 p.m. The news conference will be livestreamed on Facebook.
WHO:Sheri Few, Founder and President of United States Parents Involved in Education (USPIE) and resident of Kershaw County, along with parents and their school children
WHAT:Announcement of the lawsuit against the Kershaw County School District to halt CRT training and promotion in the school district
WHY: To let the concerned public know the school district refused to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request and continues to hide the facts about its CRT teacher training from tax-paying parents whose children attend district schools
USPIE has established 27 state chapters and is growing rapidly amid the national outcry from parents who want to regain control of their children’s education. Few is a nationally recognized leader on education policy who has spent much of the last year exposing Critical Race Theory and the schemes behind the workforce development model of education and indoctrination efforts in schools most recently in “Truth & Lies in American Education,” a film for which she is the Executive Producer.
United States Parents Involved in Education (USPIE) is a nonprofit, nationwide coalition that seeks to return education to its proper local roots and restore parental authority over their children’s education by helping parents and local communities to escape federal and other national influences. It is the vision of USPIE to create a culture where parents, empowered with the authority to choose what and how their children learn, are the undisputed primary educators of their children, where local schools operate in support of families, and where education is unencumbered by federal mandates.
For more information on United States Parents Involved in Education, visit www.uspie.org or follow USPIE on Facebook or Twitter.
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To interview a representative from United States Parents Involved in Education, contact Media@HamiltonStrategies.com, Beth Harrison, 610.584.1096, ext. 105, or Deborah Hamilton, ext. 102.
Earlier this month, subpoenas were issued to seven school districts by Missouri’s Attorney General. The subpoenas allege that the student surveys collect data about families’ political beliefs, income levels, racial identity, sexual behaviors, and mental health. The surveys were created by Panorama and Project Wayfinder, corporations known for promoting transformative social emotional learning, and equity and inclusion, a.k.a. Critical Race Theory.
Concerns have been expressed that SEL programs and collected data may potentially be misused with a captive and vulnerable audience for indoctrination, social and emotional engineering, to influence compliance, and to predict future behavior.
The progressives have become very bold in the information they are collecting from school children, which raised concerns from Missouri parents.
*Excerpt from The Epoch Times article*:
“There are federal statutes that they’re not supposed to ask these questions,” said Andy Wells, the Missouri chapter president of No Left Turn in Education, a national education advocacy organization.
“The problem is that school districts, and some of the companies that are being hired by school districts, don’t care. They just ignore it. They do it anyway and if somebody doesn’t like it, you’ll have to sue them.”
Second-graders were asked, “When is the first time you noticed that people can be different races from you, what did you notice, and do you feel more comfortable around people who look like you?”
“The goal here is to teach these kids that America is a white country of white supremacy and to destroy the nuclear family,” Hermann said. “If bad actors in the progressive left are not stopped, then we’re just going to have a further divide in this country among our kids.”
In response, Schmitt has opened an investigation into the use of student surveys in Mehlville, Webster Groves, Jefferson City, Lee’s Summit R-7, Park Hill, Springfield, and Neosho schools—with an eye on violations of Missouri’s Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment.
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The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution is an example of the intent to restrain government and fellow citizens in this regard: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
Elected officials from both political parties somehow conclude that personal information collected or seized without a warrant by the federal government belongs to the government, thereby granting government the right and obligation to integrate all personal information to make it accessible to all government agencies as well as the private sector.
USPIE’s primary mission is to close the U.S. Department of Education, repeal all federal education mandates and return control of education to parents and local communities. USPIE’s efforts include protecting the privacy of student data from government-directed collection, integration, and sharing. Big data is big business and America’s children are not for sale.
If you support the work of USPIE, please consider a donation today!
USPIE is a volunteer-based organization who counts on the support of patriots like you!
In response to intense debates over critical race theory, masks and the LGBTQ agenda in schools nationwide, the U.S. Department of Education launched a new council to allegedly improve working relationships between parents and local school boards.
USPIE suspects their efforts are insincere and believes local schools need less federal involvement rather than more. The Feds continue to bribe states with our tax dollars to implement nefarious pedagogies from Common Core to Critical Race Theory, and now even transgenderism.
The new council was instituted just months after the Federal Justice Department and the National School Boards Association labeled parents “domestic terrorists” because they speak out at local school board meetings against materials and policies that don’t reflect their families’ values.
Most disturbing and telling of the federal government’s agenda are the members chosen to serve on the new parent council. Its members include Al Sharpton’s community organizing group, activists who lobby for the sexualization of children including gender identity theory in school, and open borders groups.
USPIE understands that the Federal government establishing this new initiative sounds great to the average citizen, but people need to understand that they stacked the council with extremely progressive individuals who are intended to represent parents. They want to control the narrative and will likely suggest parents are in favor of their liberal agenda.
This is what USPIE is up against. It is USPIE v. the Federal government and its billions of dollars (our dollars – we might add).
USPIE needs your help! We are an all-volunteer organization that counts on your support as we keep you informed about the indoctrination happening in government schools with your tax dollars.
USPIE seeks to return education to its proper local roots and restore parental authority over their children’s education by helping parents and local communities to escape federal and other national influences.
Please consider a one-time donation today to help us continue our work. Or better yet, consider a recurring monthly donation of any amount.
Thank you in advance for your support as we work together to protect children and our country’s freedom!
Florida legislators aretaking a standagainst the LGBTQ+ community with legislation that would make it a felony to bring a child to a drag show. The bill is a direct response to a Texas bar hosting a “Drag The Kids to Pride” drag show that allowed kids to dance with performers on stage.
For years USPIE has been fighting the sexualization of children. This is why USPIE’s Truth and Lies in American Educationdocumentary is so important, because we address these very serious issues in the film. We need your help now more than ever to continue the fight against woke indoctrination. Will you help support the work of USPIE by giving a $5 donation today? Thank you!
USPIE Official Position on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Schools are ground zero in the current culture war on sex education. The LGBTQ+ agenda is a political movement foisted upon schools under the guise of diversity and civil rights. United States Parents Involved in Education (USPIE) strongly opposes these efforts to confuse and sexualize America’s children.
The LGBTQ+ agenda is based on the controversial research of Alfred Kinsey. Despite the questionable nature of his findings, his work and the LGBTQ+ agenda are supported by such professional organizations as the American Psychological Association, American Psychiatric Association, American Medical Association, and National Association of School Psychologist. Many were co-opted into endorsing LGBTQ+ doctrines that were not supported by medical science. These organizations were led to declassify and eventually endorse a range of questionable activities, including sexual deviancy, as normal and healthy. Since then, LGBTQ+ doctrines have been integrated into America’s government schools in order to influence students beginning in Kindergarten to see LGBTQ+ doctrines as normal and healthy.
Many states have established a K-12 Health curriculum promoting LGBTQ+ doctrines and recommend a K-3 book titled Who Are You?, which introduces children to an array of genders, not just two. According tothe book’s lesson plan, students work through the three layers of “The Gender Wheel” learning that “grown-ups look at a baby’s body when they are born and make a guess: boy or girl.”
These programs have little or no medical justification and, in many cases, hurt children, parents and families. Gender dysphoria shows indications of being contagious by infecting children in clusters who suddenly display gender confusion. Moreover, medically affirming treatments like hormone suppression therapy can cause children to lose their ability to have children themselves, and sex change surgery permanently disfigures young children with no evidence of benefit. Individuals who undergo sex change operations have significantly worse mental and physical health ten years after surgery and are much more likely to commit suicide than the general population. Most concerning is the fact that parents who refuse to consent to these medical treatments can lose their parental rights altogether.
It is the position of USPIE that sexualizing and confusing children in government schools is outrageous and must be stopped immediately.
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