Tea at Trianon: Secretary Cardona's Post Seems To Support Parental Rights But...

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Secretary Cardona's Post Seems To Support Parental Rights But...

From Jan at The Easton Gazette:

THIS IS PART OF OUR EDUCATION EMERGENCY SERIES

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From Red State:

Cardona was most definitely not advocating for school choice, but the words were so perfect that they could have been said directly from DeAngelis or any other school choice advocate's own mouth.
The liberalization of schools has become rampant. One of the biggest concerns is gender ideology and what is being taught to our children about sex. Parents are not asked what topics they want to be covered or how they want them covered, and they have virtually no rights to contest with the school. Some states also have stricter homeschooling laws, which make it even harder for the parents, if not impossible, to have control over what ideology is being taught to their children. Is this what Cardona was referring to? Because this is how millions of Americans feel under the education system he leads.
He also tweeted on Friday a claim that the Biden-Harris team is helping kids everywhere to thrive, in comparison to others who just sow strife. In reality, the Left's blatant agenda in the schools is exactly the reason we are seeing more division now than ever. (Read more.)