Special guest Rachel Snyder, chair of the local chapter of Moms for Liberty, joins Danny and Josh to talk about the origins and objectives of the nonpartisan organization. She discusses their focus on defending parental rights in public schools, and how involvement in local politics and school board meetings became ignited during the Covid pandemic. They delve into issues such as declining test scores, and the over-emphasis on social emotional learning to the detriment of traditional academic subjects. Rachel also gives a synopsis on the Biden administration’s redefinition of Title 9, why some local school districts are hiring the Independence Law Center, and specific recent developments at Penn Manor School District. She also describes some of the pushback against her and M4L, including a brazen misrepresentation of her views by a local pastor giving presentations on “Christian Nationalism”, shocking levels of vitriol towards her, and the Southern Poverty Law Center’s smear label.
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Timestamps:
0:00: Intro
0:38: What is M4L?
2:00: The School Board is most effective level for citizens to interact with government
3:00: Reflections on the election
4:25: 5 Main tasks of local chapter: Educate, speak, engage, endorse, and host
5:30: Origins of M4L and the role Covid-19 played
8:05: Question about Pennsylvania
8:45: “Local is where your power is as a person”
10:00: Of nonpartisanship
11:20: School policies during Covid-19 a real wake-up call
11:45: Department of Education
15:25: Will states embrace school choice, post-DOE?
16:45: On Trump dismantling DOE, parallels to Ron Paul’s plank
19:00: Important for people to know DOE was not part of our original government
20:10: On report cards for public schools and test scores going down
21:50: Josh on homeschooling
22:40: Standardized testing as a metric for funding
25:30: Subjectivity of testing
27:15: Good intentions exploited
29:10: Lost proficiency
30:00: Rachel on resources on the national page and this year’s summit
32:20: Josh on the decrease of male teachers and the increased likelihood of women going left more so than men
34:40: Rachel on seeing an inverse in trends between men and women
39:00: Revisit of school choice discussion
40:20: On social emotional learning, and the nationalization of education
43:00: Danny on curriculums being broadly lumped in with “anti-bullying”
45:05: On “equity” and the equality of outcomes
46:20: Question about activism in the healthcare realm
47:15: Declaring medical adult at age 14 in Pennsylvania
48:30: Mass psychosis in public schools, issue of transgenderism
52:15: Actions of Biden administration and Dept. of Ed: Title 9 redefinition
55:15: Aside about gender roles and the involvement of government in it
58:35: Complexity of the legal arguments
1:00:00 First amendment and other violations: preface for school districts turning to ILC
1:03:30: ILC defined as “hate group” by ILC
1:05:45: Discussion about free speech absolutism
1:08:15: When Danny first met Rachel at Libertarian “What is a right?” roundtable
1:09:45: On Penn Manor hiring ILC law firm
1:11:15: Tense environment, roar of the crowd
1:12:45: Book challenge procedure vs. “book banning”
1:15:20: Spoonfed “news”, logical fallacy of invocation of authority, and different belief and value systems
1:16:15: “Christian Nationalist” term
1:17:15: Presentation by local pastors
1:19:00: Rachel on attending presentation and speaking with pastors afterward
1:22:10: Josh on redefining and co-opting the term “Christian Nationalist”
1:23:40: Josh on Facebook conversation
1:25:15: How many of the boogeymen actually exist?
1:26:00: Josh on Pledge of Allegiance
1:29:20: Anecdote on victim of fearmonguering
1:30:50: A lot of conservatives don’t understand how bad it is
1:32:40: Rachel on organizing
1:35:40: Tangible victories
1:38:18: Freedom comes with risks
1:40:35: A lot of work still ahead
1:41:18: Fundraiser plug: Liberty Beans Coffee & M4L partnership
1:43:15: Majority of Americans come through the public school system…resist Marxist & neo-Marxist indoctrination
