Whoever would have thought that school teachers and administrators would spend hours discussing how best to work against parents knowing about their kids’ lives and troubles?

Well, if you have been paying attention the past few years, you would have not been left shocked, as many parents have been in the wake of an explosive report from the Daily Mail Online about a 4-hour Zoom meeting held by the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center (MAP), which is funded by the Biden Administration and provides advice to educators throughout the Midwest.

🚨Teachers trade tips on transitioning kids without telling parents during online session hosted by the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center (MAP, which is funded by the Dept of Ed) attended by 30 teachers from Michigan, lowa, Ohio, #Illinois https://t.co/CfjnUFijBP

— Awake Illinois (@Awake_IL) June 19, 2023

Conspiring is not a word I chose lightly. In many cases, these educators were swapping tips on how to evade laws that have been put in place to explicitly prohibit the activities these teachers are engaging in.

Dozens of Midwestern teachers met online this week and traded tips on helping trans students change gender at school without their parents’ knowledge, while criticizing a raft of new Republican laws on sex and identity.

DailyMail.com gained access to an online session hosted by the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center (MAP), which is funded by the Department of Education, attended by some 30 teachers from Michigan, Iowa, Ohio, Illinois and beyond.

In the four-hour workshop, they discussed helping trans students in the face of new laws in Republican-run states on gender, pronouns, names, parents’ rights, bathroom access, and sports teams.

Even a couple of years ago I would have been shocked to find out that government-funded organizations were engaging in conspiracies to evade laws and strip parental rights, but now it seems like just another day ending in -day. Of course, they are conspiring against parents. Of course, they are evading or breaking laws. This is their primary mission in life, which long ago quit being preparing students to become educated and productive citizens of society.

There is a reason for that: they think American society sucks, and will openly tell you that. This belief is their North Star, their daily affirmation, and destroying America and the American family is the only truly worthy goal in their eyes. You don’t even have to believe me; they declare it all the time.

Kimberly Martin, the DEI coordinator for Royal Oak Schools, which serves 5,000 K-12 students in Michigan, spoke about helping trans students keep their gender change a secret.

‘We’re working with our record-keeping system so that certain screens can’t be seen by the parents … if there’s a nickname in there we’re trying to hide,’ Martin told the online gathering.

Jennifer Haglund, counselor for Ames Community Schools, which serves 5,000 K-12 Iowa students, complained about Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds in March signing a law that bars biological males from competing on female sports teams.

She bragged about her ‘own activism’ and of taking part in protest marches.

‘I know that I have my own right code of ethics, and that doesn’t always go along with the law,’ Haglund said.

Shea Martin, an Ohio-based trans educator, who writes a ‘socialist, feminist, and anti-racist’ blog called Radical Teacher, said she worked against ‘laws that prohibit or restrict trans advocacy.’

‘The stakes are very high for trans youth,’ Martin said.

‘I think that requires working subversively and quietly sometimes to make sure that trans kids have what they need.’

Needless to say, this is not the sort of activity for which Americans created the public schools.

Schools have always played a role in ensuring that children are not being abused, but until recently no reasonable person would have presumed that a school teacher whose education was in teaching 5th graders would feel themselves equipped to become the mother, father, confidante, and counselor for 30 kids they see 5 days a week for 165 days in a year.

The idea is absurd on its face unless you begin with the assumption that the traditional family structure itself must be abolished. Once you get to Middle and High School, teachers see these kids for an hour or two a day, 165 days a year, with hundreds of students being their responsibility any given year.

Somehow they love and care for a child better than the average parent. They are better equipped to determine what is the proper life path and even their medical status based upon this paucity of knowledge and experience.

No. If a child is being physically abused or is a danger to themselves or others, teachers have a responsibility to pass that along to the appropriate government agency.

That’s it.

There are great teachers and terrible teachers, but there are no teachers who love everybody else’s child as much or more than their parents. This is not a knock on teachers; it is a simple fact of life. We love our own. I don’t see any of these teachers who conspire against parents saving for the kids’ college education, getting them braces, staying up with them when they are ill, or taking them to the playgrounds on the weekend.

The hostility toward parents in the public education system is now common, and it must be stopped and these people must be punished for overstepping their bounds. Good teachers should be cherished for their accomplishments and their sacrifices, but even the best teachers are not parent substitutes and it is bizarre that anybody would assert anything else.

There are abusive parents, but parents as a class are not abusive. This movement starts with the assumption that all parents are, in fact, potential abusers and must never be trusted or empowered.

That has to stop. It is destroying children, families, and all social trust.