Obama used the word ‘fake’, which implies a dishonest scale was used against another, in a speech to persuade voters to vote for a Democrat Governor?
The Purpose of This Post
Is to relate an ancient proverb. an idiom, for interested readers to decide the issue of “parents should (not) be telling schools what they should teach.”
King Solomon
The LORD detests dishonest scales, but accurate weights find favor with him. (Proverb 11:1)
Excerpt – Biblehub Benson Commentary Proverb 11:1
Highly abominable to him, both because this wickedness is practiced under a color of justice, and because it is destructive of human society, and especially of the poor, whose patron the Lord declares himself to be: see on Leviticus 19:35. “This rule may hold, not in commerce only, but also in our judgments, and in our whole conduct toward our neighbor. In everything respecting him, employ the balance of equity, void of all selfish views, passions, and prejudices.
https://biblehub.com/commentaries/proverbs/11-1.htm
Scales of Justice are Blind
Justice is Blind and therefore, in result of that blindness, justice is best delivered in an objective and impartial way. So, now you know why the Lady of Justice is wearing folds! In another fact, the Lady of Justice statue is also referred to as Blind Justice and the Scales of Justice. (Google)
Excerpt – Obama Speech
“We don’t have time to be wasting on these phony, trumped-up culture wars, this fake outrage that right wing media’s pedals to juice their ratings.”
Excerpt – McCallie’s War on Parents
In response, McAuliffe said, “I’m not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decisions,” adding, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/10/terry-mcauliffes-war-on-parents/
Excerpt – Wikipedia Fake News
However, recent reviews of fake news still regard it as a useful broad construct, equivalent in meaning to fabricated news, as separate from related types of problematic news content or information disorder, such as hyper partisan news, this latter being a particular source of political polarization.[29][46]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news
What’s My Point?
Obama and a host of top Democrat Politicians are using their political “weight” to obtain votes for a Democrat Governor Candidate who believes that: “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
In My Opinion
Everyone should read the following Excerpts and deicide if they should trust the scales of words, they are hearing by people to determine if they should trust the weight of the information being set before them.
Then discern the Idiom to consider if who they should “blindly “vote for in the upcoming election or consider if the scales of the words used to describe their choice for Governor.
You Decide
Do you believe that government knows better than parents what they should be taught in school?
Should voters also discern if now is the time to only support legislators who support school vouchers to return the choices of who should decide what their children should be taught? Preferably the same Christion religious values their parents may have been taught by their parents who fortunately could afford to send their children to private schools same as most politicians now do and 40 percent of public-school teachers.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
Previous Posts on this Issue
Previous Post – Parental Rights Attack
Citizen Tom – Your Chance to Vote on the Issues
School Vouchers
Rudy u Martinka 
Just a couple observations about all this parents-and-schools argument. Context is important.
If we remove all the current confrontational issues regarding education to our kids… the CRT nonsense, the mask mandates, blah, blah… even if we remove all the zero-tolerance judgements in interpreting even the simplest of kids’ graphic and/or communicative schoolyard communications as somehow being a threat to school safety… if we remove all those things to where we have just another “normal” school year, parents on the whole will not give even a second thought to what is going on in the classroom. School is just the place to drop your kids off for free day care. It’s been that way for decades. Of course.. SOME parents get involved, but by and large parents pay little attention to what goes on in school… and ethnic families care even less because the parents themselves were under-educated.
So.. to presume in the least that all these screaming parents are suddenly concerned for their child’s education is sheer garbage. Those screaming parents are imposing their Trumpian politics (and science denial) under this ridiculous populist concept that only parents know how to teach their own kids and “no Liberal government is going to brainwash my kid.”) blathering.
You wanna teach your kid yourself then do home schooling. You wanna get involved in curriculum then go to the board meetings or run for school board office. At the beginning of the school year what parent actually looks at the teacher’s classroom teaching syllabus their kids bring home?
Personally, I WAS active with my kids’ education and with the school district on a couple levels. In a couple instances I did indeed have a private consult with board members over a couple classroom presentation exercises that bothered my kids. This was back in the late 80’s and 90’s before all this nonsense.
This much I do know about parents… up to 15-20% of those screaming parents are abusing their children at home in one way or another, physically or emotionally, likely because of the upbringing incapabilities from their own parents. Abuse easily follows generations.
“I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” could’ve used more context to lower the already inflamed rhetoric.. but in essence there’s some truth to that. This does NOT mean parents should not be involved and have input. That’s what board meeting are for. But right now the public is way too divided politically, each side fears the other side is “brainwashing” their kids. Nothing will get done to anyone’s satisfaction. This Trumpian crap is killing the nation. It’s keeping Americans from being American.
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@Doug
Why does everything have to go back to Trump? The School Choice movement predates Trump by decades.
Democrats have revealed themselves. McAuliffe actually told the truth. Apparently, he thought most people would agree. Why? He probably only talks to people who share his beliefs.
Parents need to be involved in the education of their children. If parents are given vouchers, I don’t doubt some parents will go looking for a babysitter, but most will try to find a good school, and the good schools will strive to show parents how they can help their children. Competition will encourage them to do that.
The public schools are monopolies. And the have become monopolies with a political agenda. Just like you they have little respect for parents. In fact, we have caught school boards, that are lying to
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@Doug
Typing with thumbs means I am always thumb-fingered. Sigh!
Anyways, here is the last part. We now have school boards in some of our nation’s wealthiest counties (Loudoun and Fairfax) that have been caught lying to parents. That is why the rhetoric has become so heated. No parents want people in charge of their children that they know cannot be trusted.
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Then you vote them the hell outta their jobs or if they commit crimes then send ’em to jail. That’s the process. Not fair enough for you?
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@Doug
You familiar with the prosecutors a certain billionaire helped get elected?
Many of people in those counties are doing exactly what you just suggested. Your complaints don’t make sense. You just trying to find fault.
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Tom, – You stated.
Tom
Like your comment – “Public schools are monopolies.”
I thought monopolies were illegal… wait… that only applies to private enterprises.
Sad.
I will remember to use your word ‘monopolies’ in a future post on the how US citizenry are victims of monopolies, in my opinion, is a form of “ taxation without representation” treatment when citizens go to object to school board meetings and leave with the feeling that they are being treated like peasants by elites governing over them.
Regards and goodwill blogging. –
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Tom,
I posted today: Are Public Schools Monopolies?
Are Pubic Schools Monopolies? King Solomon Wisdom Blog – Rudy u Martinka
(rudymartinka.com)
PS Even found one of my previous posts in 2020 that I also linked because I used the word monopolies for this issue but forgot about. .
Must be getting old. Oh Well!
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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Doug,
My experience in school board meetings after voicing my opposition on school closings was that the school board listens to concerned parents only to make them feel better that they tried to change the mind of the board members who had already made up their minds on the issue.
As for critical race theory, for what I saw was people who are fed up with politicians and school boards who by law are mandated to teach CRT to young children in spite of their objections and are now emulating what they saw working to obtain results on TV riots, which seems to have worked to get politicians to respond to their violence at the expense of people who by rioting obtained power even though they destroyed property and even lives and without penalties
And because they cannot afford to send their kids to private religious schools of their choice, same as most politicians including Obama and 40 per cent of public-school teachers.
And if parents object to their second grader being taught to read about two male prices marrying and living happily ever after, because they fear it is a form of indoctrination and the Courts tell them if they don’t like it, they can always home school them instead of working to feed and house them.
As for CRT theory, from what I understand it is not age appropriate to teach impressionable children until college age.
And yes, there is a difference in public vs privates school parents becoming involved band that is because in private religious schools the schools require parents become involved in discipline problems a child may encounter.
The question we all should be asking our legislators is why is that Democrat politicians refuse to support school choice or school voucher options to parents instead who cannot afford to send their kids to private religious schools, in my opinion.
Especially since it is their taxes.
Or in other words the same objections made in the American Revolution from England, taxation without representation, …. or participation, …. or objections to what their children are being taught opposite the religious values?
Which religion is supposed in spelled out in the first Amendment Rights of the Constitution?
Sad especially when most historians believe the best chance for any Democrat Republics is to have citizenry and leaders with religious morals to guide them and their communities.
And the first sign of every nation that failed was soon after the society morals deteriorated. Same as what is happening to the USA, same as what you and I have witnessed in our lifetimes in the USA…
Thanks for your comment.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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I recall a then-president Barack Obama drinking a glass of Flint, Michigan water, signifying that the water was safe to drink, which he must have known really was not. As a then-admirer of Obama, I muttered ‘Say it isn’t so’. I henceforth saw U.S. presidents, along with Canadian prime ministers, essentially as instruments of big corporate and power interests.
I know that the lead-tainting was not his doing; however, what he did was a major shock to and disappointment for the lead-poisoned Flint folk, who’d expected far more/better from him. To a lot of people, he had behaved like some TV-promotion actor hired by an (in this case) seriously ethically/morally challenged corporation. Though I would expect it from a Republican president or even then-president Bill Clinton, I found it very disappointing of Obama (maybe because he is Black, as were many/most of the lead-water-ingesting Flint folk), regardless of the big business and/or political pressure he probably had on his head.
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