Ed. Sec. Cardona Says “Teachers Know What Is Best For Their Kids.” Sorry, Whose Kids?

Miguel Cardona is the Secretary of the Department of Education, a massive government bureaucracy of unelected overlords that should be abolished entirely, and which certainly does not represent the best interests of Americas children and families. In a bizarrely tone-deaf tweet this week, Secretary Cardona said the quiet part out loud about what they think of parents, parental rights, parental responsibilities, and parent involvement in their kids’ lives.

He really said this. In an published tweet. On his official Twitter account. For millions of Americans to see. To be memorialized on the internet forever. He really said that teachers know “what is best,” the insinuation being that they know what’s best compared to parents, who he clearly believes don’t know “what is best.” That much by itself is astounding because he’s further insinuating that what teachers think about your kids should trump what you think about your kids. What teachers want for your kids should trump what you want for your kids. That’s bad enough, but he takes it further.

He then uses the words, “their kids,” as in, “teachers know what is best for their kids.” Uh, I’m sorry, but whose kids, you say? Whose kids? Because they aren’t the teachers’ kids. They aren’t their kids. They’re the parents‘ kids. This language literally indicates that he believes that your children belong to their teachers more than they belong to you, the parents of your kids.

Then he gives his justification for why he thinks that your kids belong to their teachers and that their teachers know better than you what’s best for them, and it’s ridiculous. He says, “because they are with them every day.” And you’re not with your kids every day? Seriously? Also, should we have a conversation about how much better society would be if kids weren’t expected (required?) to be with their public school teachers as much as they are? How much better off would we be if kids were spending more time with their parents rather than sitting in a government classroom?

But all of this leads him to declare that “we must trust teachers.” We must trust teachers to know what’s best for the kids the government has apparently given them control over? Or…and just hear me out on this one…we, the parents of our children, only have to trust the teachers who have earned our trust. I know, novel concept. But maybe, if teachers have proved themselves to be the kind of people who go behind our backs to indoctrinate, damage, or endanger our children, then we don’t have to trust them. How about if teachers have proved themselves to be more concerned with cultural indoctrination than practical education, then we don’t have to trust them. Maybe decades of blindly trusting teachers who were simultaneously working as cultural activists is part of the reason our society is in the mess we are now, with abysmal education and rampant indoctrination. There are good teachers out there, and any parent who puts their kids in someone else’s care necessarily has to have a level of trust in that person. I’m not the least bit afraid to say that while I expect my kids to respect their teachers, I don’t trust them as far as I can throw them. I am 100% involved, aware or, and on top of everything that is going on in the classrooms because I have realized that I can’t trust teachers. It’s too great a risk for me as a parent who is trying to raise healthy, happy, successful, not woke children.

Bottom line is that they believe you are irrelevant and they would prefer if you weren’t in the picture at all. They are doing everything they can to neuter you and render you obsolete so you can’t get in the way of their agenda for your children. And they’re so confident that they’re saying it out loud.