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DEFENDING PARENT'S RIGHTS: GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY, NOT IN HUDSON WISCONSIN!
Let’s unpack this…
The group psychotherapy model is not appropriate in the public school setting. 

Psychotherapy (sometimes called "talk therapy") is a term for a variety of treatment techniques that aim to help a person identify and change troubling emotions, thoughts, and behavior. Most psychotherapy takes place with a licensed, trained mental health professional and a patient meeting one-on-one or with other patients in a group setting.

Psychoeducational groups are led by a therapist who takes on the role of a teacher and trainer (Brown, 2018). This contrasts with process-oriented groups, where the therapist takes a background role as a facilitator of the group experience.

Psychoeducational groups are a form of education-based group therapy. Rather than focusing on individual client relationships, psychoeducational groups focus on providing education, training, and support.

Normally thee kinds of groups are led by licensed, trained mental health professionals. The English teachers are not trained sufficiently to facilitate this project. 

2.The books listed are sensitive and controversial, introducing students to subjects and risky behaviors, which in many cases students may not have known about until reading one of these books, participating in the group discussion, or reading the research-based, news-style article produced by fellow 9th graders.

Is the school ready to take legal responsibility for decisions students make as a result of introducing them to these themes, including “violence, depression, racism, sexuality, substance abuse, rape, and language?” 

When teaching minors to engage in risky behavior of any kind, the answer to the question is, “age appropriateness depends on the child, and the context of the instruction.

3.Students are not capable of dealing with adult level decision making at this age. We believe the lack of cognitive and developmental maturity levels of young people have been grossly overlooked by educators and curriculum authors.

Scientific findings regarding mental and emotional maturity are stunning. Conservative estimates indicate maturity at age 25. This is well known, throughout education, psychotherapy, and mental health circles.

Sandra Aamodt, neuroscientist and co-author of the book, Welcome to Your Child's Brain.

“Neuroscientists have found the brain scans show clearly that the brain is not fully finished developing until about age 25. The changes that happen between 18 and 25 are a continuation of the process that starts around puberty, and 18 year olds are about halfway through that process. Their prefrontal cortex is not yet fully developed. That's the part of the brain that helps you to inhibit impulses and to plan and organize your behavior to reach a goal.”

“We see that motor control, meaning the myelination of the motor pathways, occurs around 15 on average. Then the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, responsible for cognitive control and executive function, is pretty much myelinated by 25,” she says. “But then you start talking about emotions—and everyone realizes the impact of emotions on cognitive control. They can change how much control you have. So, when you look at the medial and orbital surfaces of the frontal lobe, which some call the ‘social’ brain, the mean age of myelination of those connections between the limbic system and those frontal areas is about 32. That’s a far cry from 18."

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Out of Line! Gender Expansive Guidelines, PART 4: Helping Parents Dodge the Psychologist

WALT HEYER STORY, THE PURPLE DRESS

SCHOOL BOARD GAMES

GENDER EXPANSIVE GUIDELINES

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OUT OF LINE! GENDER EXPANSIVE GUIDELINES,
PART 3: BEWARE! SCHOOLS KEEPING SECRETS FROM PARENTS!

OHIO: Hilliard Schools Law Suit

PRESS RELEASE

Oregon Want Schools to Hide Students Gender Identity From Parents

Out of Line! Gender Expansive Guidelines

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Doernbecher Children's Hospital
About Chest Binding
About Puberty Blockers
Changing Your Name
Preserving your Fertility
Safe Tucking

Scientific Studies show the brain does not mature until age 25…or later

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These are links to the two News Alerts featured in today's episode.

Oh...the Games People Play!

More Games People Play!

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NEWS ALERT

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The following is adapted from remarks delivered on November 3, 2022, at a Hillsdale College reception in Santa Clara, California.

Education as a Battleground

by Larry Arnn, the twelfth president of Hillsdale College. He received his B.A. from Arkansas State University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in government from the Claremont Graduate School. From 1977 to 1980, he also studied at the London School of Economics and at Worcester College, Oxford University, where he served as director of research for Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill. From 1985 until his appointment as president of Hillsdale College in 2000, he was president of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy. From October 2020 to January 2021, he served as co-chair of the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission. He is the author of several books, including The Founders’ Key: The Divine and Natural Connection Between the Declaration and the Constitution and Churchill’s Trial: Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government.

"Public education is an important component of the prevailing administrative system. The roots of the system are in Washington, D.C., and the tendrils reach into every town and hamlet that has a public school. These tendrils retain some measure of freedom, especially in red states where legislatures do not go along automatically. In some red states, the growth of administrators has been somewhat slower than average. But this growth has been rapid and large everywhere. In every state, the result has been to remove authority and money away from the schools where the students learn. In every state, the authority and money drained from the schools have flowed toward the bureaucracy. 

The political battle over this issue is fraught with dishonesty. Any criticism of public education is immediately styled as a criticism of teachers. But as the numbers show, the public education system works to the detriment of teachers and for the benefit of bureaucrats. The teachers unions themselves, some of the largest of the public employee unions, claim to be defending teachers and children. That cannot be more than half true, given that they are defending an administrative system that has grown by leaps and bounds while the number of teachers has grown very little.

Worse even than this is the tendency the system sets in all of us. Bureaucracy is a set of processes, a series of prescribed steps not unlike instructions for assembling a toy. First this happens, then that happens, and then the next thing. The processes proceed according to rules. It is a profession unto itself to gain competence in navigating these rules, but nobody is really competent. Today we tend too much to think that this kind of process is the only thing that can give legitimacy to something. A history curriculum is adopted, not because it gives a true account of the unchangeable things that have already happened, but because it has survived a process. The process is dominated by “stakeholders”—mostly people who have a financial or political interest in what is taught. They are mostly not teachers or scholars but advocates. And so we adopt our textbooks, our lesson plans, and our state standardized tests with a view to future political outcomes once the kids grow up. 

I have said and written many times that the political contest between parents and people who make an independent living, on the one hand, and the administrative state and all its mighty forces on the other, is the key political contest of our time. Today that seems truer than ever. The lines are clearly formed."

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More Than Prayer and A Vote

For the Record... 

I must address the obvious up front. it may be construed by some that my story is just a reflection of a “sour grapes” attitude, because the outcome of my electoral race was a loss. if i had won, would the message be any less necessary? uh...no! 

True, the election was a grand disappointment. however, i will admit and others concur that my personal life is much better because i did not win. if that sounds selfish, it is. Serving in the legislature is no picnic. i might have driven my fellow legislators crazy with my get to it attitude and efficient use of time and extreme dislike for rambling verbiage. i know that the media is upset as they would have loved attacking me as they generally do with politicians of integrity and conviction to moral principles. 

Nonetheless, my loss for a house seat was critical. it brought us closer to losing the majority. it was the house of Representatives who kept many pieces of liberal legislation from making their way to the governor’s desk and becoming law. Final straw: During the next election cycle we did lose it, all of it! 

Alas, in 2007 all three branches of the legislature were controlled by the liberals. The majority rules and they certainly did. They revealed their real agenda by passing domestic partnership laws overriding the initiative passed by the voters in 2004 to protect traditional marriage. They continued to move oregon further into socialism threatening the middle class, while not enforcing laws to report and arrest illegal immigrants jeopardizing the basic protection of citizenship and liberty. 

We lost everything because the other side slowly and persistently took control. Where were you? god’s people have been asleep at the switch when it comes to elections. We are not really committed to winning, unless you consider football. no, that doesn’t count when future lives are at stake! Some very good people have been let down, people we should be helping and supporting. We are being intimidated and run out of town by those who are committed to winning; secularist liberals! 

Apathy is not just an Oregon phenomenon. it is common knowledge within national policy and legal organizations that god’s people have lost much of their “chutzpah” when it comes to engaging the culture and getting involved in defining the laws that govern them, er...us. 

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the university of edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier: 

“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. 

From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship. 

This is serious. it is happening, but we can and we must stop this trend toward socialism and a godless society. We can and we must get energized and get moving, or the freedoms and opportunities we cherish will be forever lost! 

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