E309. Hey! Teacher! Leave Them Kids Alone! - Erika Sanzi
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🗓️ 31 October 2024
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Bridget sits down with Erika Sanzi, the Director of Outreach at Parents Defending Education (PDE), an organization dedicated to addressing ideological biases in schools. She and Bridget discuss PDE’s mission to bring political neutrality back into classrooms, the indoctrination of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and gender identity policies in schools, the suppression and compelled speech of students, and how we got to this point. They cover the reemergence of treating people differently based on their immutable characteristics like skin color, the oppressor/oppressed frame that’s being taught to children, the emphasis on ideology over basic skills like reading and math, the realities of “gender affirming care", how gender ideology is chipping away at kids’ childhoods and why it has no place in schools, the Biden administration’s gutting of Title IX, and how easy it is to brainwash children.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, I'm with Erica Sansi, everybody. Welcome to Walkins. |
| 0:03.2 | Welcome, thank you for coming through. |
| 0:05.2 | Thank you for having me. I'm so happy to finally meet you. |
| 0:08.4 | I know, likewise. Tell me about your organization. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm really excited to hear about this because I've seen kind of what you've been up to and |
| 0:17.3 | I know you've been fighting the good fight out there and I want to hear more about your organization, |
| 0:23.8 | what led you to this organization |
| 0:25.6 | and doing what you're doing, your history |
| 0:27.8 | and education in particular, |
| 0:29.7 | because I do think these are all kind of issues that are for someone like me who didn't have to care about them. |
| 0:39.0 | Now that I have a child, I'm like, oh shit, I've got to care about this stuff now. |
| 0:44.0 | Oh yeah and I remember same thing when my oldest I mean he's in college now but when he was |
| 0:48.6 | starting school same thing like suddenly these issues become important and things that you took for granted just |
| 0:54.8 | based on your own experience you discover like aren't really the case anymore or where you're |
| 0:59.2 | living currently. So I work at parents defending education Education. I'm the Director of Outreach there. We formed in March of 2021. |
| 1:10.9 | And we do a lot of things, but I would say the main goal is that we are trying to get political neutrality or as close to political neutrality back into classrooms. |
| 1:25.0 | What we have seen over the years and it was very accelerated in 2020 |
| 1:31.0 | is ideology coming into schools, |
| 1:34.1 | coming into schools, |
| 1:36.3 | students speech being suppressed, |
| 1:38.9 | students speech being compelled. |
| 1:41.9 | And just like what used to be sort of like, |
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