School Ties

We own you, she said:

The remarks came after she noted that “one of the first social studies lessons taught in kindergarten classrooms is of community” and because of this, kids “come to understand the connectedness of people and institutions.” “The attack on the idea of community is exactly the point,” she said, pointing to the “right-wing outrage” over a teacher who quoted African-American author James Baldwin during a rally last year: “The children are always ours,” she said. “Every single one of them, all over the globe.” “And what comes next is, ‘CTU, you think your children are its children,’” she said with a derisive sneer. “Yes. Yes we do,” she said to applause. “We do. ‘CTU thinks all children belong to it, and their socialist conspiracy ideology,’” she said, lapsing into the sneer again. “Well, I don’t know about all that, but we like children. We educate them, we nurture them, we protect them, we support them, we negotiate for them, we create space for them, we even have them in our homes.”

They love your kids for themselves...