For as long as I can remember, the phrase 'don't tell your parents' was not a good thing. Unless it was grandma or grandpa giving you chocolate cake for breakfast. Otherwise it was an adult trying to harm a child in some way shape or form. Whatever they were doing was not good for the child and might land that person in jail. My how that has changed.

We now have government officials and school administrators telling children not to tell their parents what is happening in their lives. Politicians are passing laws making it illegal to notify the parents of a child if they want to live as something other than what they currently are. That could be a different gender or even live as something other than a human being. I've read multiple stories about administrators allowing children to claim they are a cat or a dog or a cartoon character and allowing them to behave in whatever manner they wish. When a child acts out in this way it can be an indicator of a significant emotional or mental health issue. That is when the parents need to be involved.

The people pushing these actions assume the parents will not 'accept' their child's wishes and might even physically harm them. The facts are that 99.9% of parents love their children and will find a way to get them the help they need. All of us love our children and accept them for who or what they are but if there's an issue we want them to get treatment. Assuming parents will automatically harm their children it's just a way to create fear in the general population and gain acceptance for their actions.

They are hiding their real agenda which is to separate the children from their parents. The bureaucrats want the children to lose trust in their parents and believe the government is the one that cares about them most. They want them to trust the government and as soon as that trust is established, the manipulation of their lives we'll kick into high gear. They can then convince them to place computer chips in their bodies, to promote government policies, to comply without questioning, to create the one world order. Compliance will be the expectation and anyone that doesn't comply will be ostracized, cut off from not only family but any benefits the government provides. Our children will see it as 'justified' and will accept it.

Think about when you were growing up, the education of our children was a partnership between teachers and parents. Whether it was a lifelong educator and administrator. She was an advisor to at least three governors and one US senator. She believed in the partnership between parents and teachers and was always saddened when parents did not want to be involved. She knew that those children might not ever reach their full potential because they were not getting the education and support at home that they needed to flourish and to learn.

Now at almost every turn parents are told to go away. Not to question anything and to not be involved. If they persist, they are often arrested or threatened with legal action. I am around quite a few young people, of junior high and high school age. They regularly tell stories about their experience in our education system. Almost to a person, none of them believe they're getting an education. Rarely do they have homework and tests are a "joke." And much of what they are taught, not all of it, is more of indoctrination than education.

We still have time to do something about it but it takes us putting forth the effort. Being willing to suffer vitriol, not just from those who we are challenging but maybe from friends and family. By getting involved including running for elected positions or standing up to those that hold those very same positions and demanding that they answer our questions. And letting them know that we do not like the direction this is headed. It won't be easy but nothing worthwhile ever is.

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