Full Comment - Parents are fighting to take back race-obsessed, ‘hypersexualized’ schools

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00:00:26.700 What is going on with the school system in North America today? Should parents be worried? And

00:00:32.740 should they get in the game a bit more? Now, there are currently municipal elections underway right

00:00:37.220 now in Ontario, my home province, and a number of people have remarked to me that it almost seems

00:00:41.540 like school board trustee elections are garnering more attention than city council races, at least

00:00:46.840 in some neighborhoods. Could that be because the stakes for public education seem so much higher

00:00:52.180 right now and ripped straight from the news headlines? A transgender teacher wearing jumbo-sized 1.00

00:00:58.060 prosthetic breasts to class. I'm sure you saw that viral story. No longer requiring kids to take 0.92

00:01:03.400 exams throughout their whole high school experience that's happening here in Ontario. An increase in

00:01:08.220 politics in the classroom, and an obsession with divisive race and identity issues. That's what's

00:01:13.320 animating a lot of parents here right now. But while this seems to only just be flaring up in Canada

00:01:18.340 now, we are a good couple of years behind a parents rights movement that's been unfolding in the United

00:01:24.040 States. How'd that one get started? What were the issues that first got parents concerned? And what

00:01:29.860 could that experience perhaps teach us about what to expect here in Canada? Our guest today is one of

00:01:36.020 the parent activist voices who has been on the front lines of what's been called a mama bear movement.

00:01:41.020 She's been labeled a hero by many, but has also taken a lot of heat from detractors for it as well.

00:01:45.980 Azra Nomani was well known to many people for her work prior to speaking out on education issues.

00:01:51.640 She was a journalist for the Wall Street Journal for many years, as well as writing for the New York

00:01:55.140 Times. She later became an organizing voice for Muslim Americans who reject extremism and radical

00:02:00.340 Islam. Now she's a senior fellow at the Independent Women's Network and co-founder of a parent group

00:02:05.880 called the Coalition for TJ. We'll break down what that is in a minute. Azra Nomani joins us now.

00:02:11.820 Azra, great to have you on the show.

00:02:12.980 Oh, wonderful. Thank you so much. And it is so great to have this mission to draw lessons from

00:02:20.180 our experience in America, in the United States of America, so that our fellow brethren and sisters

00:02:27.820 across the border can take back our schools. I love that. I love that mission.

00:02:33.260 And I want to get a sense of what that mission sort of really is, how it came about. And I guess I'll

00:02:38.700 start with you as I described your experiences, your activism, your writing prior to this movement.

00:02:44.720 What got you first interested in what's going on in schools and what got you concerned such that you

00:02:50.820 became an activist? What were the issues?

00:02:53.180 Yeah, you know, thank you so much for bringing up my backstory because it's really important to

00:02:58.520 understand it, I think, to know what motivates me today. There's really two principles.

00:03:03.940 I am a classic liberal, and I have always voted Democrat in the United States. Well, those were

00:03:12.740 for values that I believed were ones for equality, justice, and transparency. Well, unfortunately,

00:03:21.540 as you all know, in Canada also, a lot of those values have been lost among liberals. And we have

00:03:27.940 this new illiberal movement. I saw this very clearly as a Muslim feminist when we saw compromise. 0.81

00:03:35.780 These important values of human rights as, you know, special interest groups made sure that we

00:03:44.420 just stayed silent on issues of extremism within my Muslim community. Well, I do not believe in a

00:03:53.320 hierarchy of human value, you know, whether it's women who have to pray in the back of the mosque, 0.88

00:03:59.320 or race issues. And that enters into the debate about what's being taught at schools.

00:04:06.120 And then the second value that's really, really important to me is one of children's innocence.

00:04:15.000 You know, it is one that is sacred to all of us. And these two principles have guided me.

00:04:22.920 And to take your listeners and you back, June 7, 2020, it was my birthday. And I was a child born in

00:04:32.480 India to a Muslim family. I came to America at the age of four. An immigrant girl who knew not a word 1.00

00:04:39.440 of English. We lived in a roach infested student housing barracks, old army barracks on the campus

00:04:47.760 of Rutgers University. This girl detective named Nancy Drew became my best friend. And that's how I

00:04:54.320 learned English. And it was in America's public school system that I was able to really find my voice.

00:05:00.720 But there on June 7, 2020, the principal at my son's high school, Thomas Jefferson High School for

00:05:07.680 Science and Technology, sent our parents and students an email. And she wrote in it that we,

00:05:17.200 the parents and family of TJ students, needed to check our, quote, privileges. And it was the,

00:05:27.520 you know, virtue signaling of the moment after George Floyd's killing. But it was like a knife in our

00:05:34.480 hearts because we knew our stories. You know, we had parents who had survived the cultural revolution

00:05:42.960 in China, communism in Eastern Europe, my own family overcoming poverty. Well, our families were 70%

00:05:54.160 Asian at my son's school. And at that moment in the culture wars, we were the wrong side of brown.

00:06:03.040 We were the wrong kind of minority. And the school system started to put a target on our backs because

00:06:11.280 they wanted to increase the correct minority numbers at the school of black and Hispanic students. And so

00:06:19.520 that was my, that was my introduction to this new hierarchy of human value that has, you know,

00:06:27.840 plagued now the North American debate on race over the last two plus years.

00:06:35.360 And I understand that parents quickly organized. They were very frustrated with this idea that there

00:06:40.960 would need to be, I guess, entrance quotas based on the right, as you put it, minority groups of the

00:06:47.520 right skin colors. You got very organized and such that there's even court processes underway now.

00:06:52.400 Oh, yeah, it's just so beautiful. And I want to just inspire every parent because it was me, one mother who

00:07:00.480 received that email. Then it was another mother, Suparna Dutta, who also got that email. And she sent a

00:07:07.120 response to the principal the next morning. Another mom, Helen Miller, got the email. And she wrote an email back to

00:07:14.400 the principal that said, I'm hopping mad. She wrote it at three in the morning. I called us the hopping mad

00:07:21.840 parents for a while. But it was just half a dozen of us, you know, that's all it takes for a movement. And then

00:07:29.760 by September, we had created an organization, just like you said, called Coalition for TJ, just a Facebook

00:07:37.600 group. We used, you know, change.org for a petition against this new lottery system that they were

00:07:45.760 going to use to America's number one high school. They wanted to get rid of the merit-based admissions

00:07:52.400 tests and eliminate that test so that they would then be able to get the numbers that they wanted on

00:08:00.080 racial demographics. Well, guess what? We did organize exactly. We had a vigil for the death of TJ as we

00:08:08.640 knew it. And we were lucky enough to get these lawyers from this organization called Pacific Legal

00:08:13.840 Foundation to represent us in court. I just want parents to know that we didn't go to court and for

00:08:20.880 months until after we had been, you know, waging our battle in the court of public opinion. We have to win

00:08:29.920 in the court of public opinion in order to ever win in the court of law. And sure enough, in earlier this

00:08:37.280 year, in February 2022, we got a decision by the judge in this case that we had filed of discrimination

00:08:46.560 against Asians, and he ruled on our side. We, the parents, were correct. The school board had waged a campaign of 1.00

00:08:55.200 discrimination against the Asian families. The school board is now appealing because they're so stubborn. And 0.99

00:09:02.560 this case is very likely going to end up in the U.S. Supreme Court as a fundamental landmark case. Yeah, just like

00:09:10.640 Brown versus Board of Education in the 1950s integrated schools. That's the power. That is the power of a few 0.95

00:09:17.920 hopping mad moms. Well, here's something I don't understand, though. So we have this, I guess, 0.87

00:09:24.400 do-gooder principle, you know, good liberal intention saying, okay, I want to increase the

00:09:29.040 right kind of diversity or what have you. And then some parents who were of Asian heritage right back

00:09:34.560 and say, I'm unhappy with this. And I'm kind of confused why the principal didn't say, oh, okay,

00:09:39.280 okay, let's talk it out. And then, oh, whoops, I'm misguided. Fine, we'll figure it out. No,

00:09:44.240 instead, they dug in their heels. And like, how is it even going to court? I just find that kind of

00:09:48.400 remarkable that the administration would actually want to keep fighting on this. Yeah, that's where

00:09:53.120 our world has turned upside down, you know, and I'm carrying in my hands right now, the, you know,

00:10:00.240 manifesto for the ideology that has caused this upside down world called this book called the

00:10:07.040 critical race theory, the key writings that formed the movement. It's the big red book, I like to call it,

00:10:12.960 versus the little red book that Mao was pushing through the cultural revolution. Yeah.

00:10:19.920 And in this book is this new ideology of this upside down world. And what happened is that

00:10:28.080 you, you know, how language is exploited. So we, the Asians who had overcome, you know, tyranny,

00:10:36.560 poverty, poverty, and all of the, you know, elements of the oppression matrix, right, that's supposed to

00:10:43.280 grant you points. We were negated because we had dared to succeed in America academically. And so

00:10:54.400 a new term was assigned to us. And that is this term called being white adjacent.

00:10:59.360 What a term. What does that mean? When people say that, what do they mean by white adjacent?

00:11:05.840 I learned it in the summer of 2020. As I learned, you know, this, this, these three words, critical race 0.81

00:11:12.320 theory, it means that we have now the quote, privilege of, of education, jobs, perhaps employment,

00:11:25.680 that is part of the white society of oppressors. And then we have lost, you know, the elements of 0.65

00:11:36.400 oppression that would otherwise, you know, give us any kind of, you know, credibility among in the social

00:11:45.920 justice world. And, and so they even try to, you know, do this to Hispanics, right? Because they have

00:11:56.000 now differentiated with the white Hispanics versus the black Hispanics, which is the brown Hispanics.

00:12:03.360 Like there's this, this differentiation that's happening among people that is just convenient way to

00:12:09.920 erase the folks that are inconvenient in their narrative. And, and so we, we were termed white

00:12:18.720 adjacent. We were called resource hoarders. That's another slur used. We were called segregationists.

00:12:26.160 Can you imagine? Because our school had 70% Asians as if we had, you know, made this the rule. 0.99

00:12:35.360 All that had happened is I sat at the dining table every night with my son, you know, doing his homework

00:12:43.920 beside him, right? And that's how he passed these tests that got him into the school. But now we were

00:12:52.000 called the privileged class. And it was so disheartening to me, you know, I, I wanted to,

00:13:00.080 to be honest with your audience and you about, you know, being a classic liberal, because I think we have

00:13:05.840 to hear the voices and understand that this community has, uh, betraying those values of, um, you know,

00:13:15.920 fairness, just fundamental idea of fairness in society. When you start dehumanizing others, this is their

00:13:24.640 language, right? Like of, um, that I am just throwing back at them. Uh, they, they have,

00:13:31.040 they themselves have now created systemic racism. We'll be back with more with Azra Nomani in just a

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00:14:37.760 less. Azra, I want to ask you about how this movement went from you doing activism at your son's

00:14:44.240 school to a much bigger conversation in different states, a national one that's unfolding right now.

00:14:49.840 I know you were on Dr. Phil recently talking about other concerns with parents' rights in the

00:14:54.480 classroom. Lots of debates. When you first started the coalition for TJ, I understand that parents

00:15:00.560 really from across America got in touch with you and different parent groups arose and you realized

00:15:05.520 they were different individuals with different connected but slightly different concerns about

00:15:11.200 what was going on in the classroom and that's led to the point where we now have almost a national

00:15:15.840 movement going on that's that's showed up just over the past couple years. Yeah, and really it is a

00:15:21.440 national movement and that's what's so remarkable and I'm gonna just borrow again from the progressive

00:15:27.840 world and tell you all about a lesson I learned from this woman Eleanor Schmiel, right? She was a feminist 1.00

00:15:34.480 leader in the United States and she came to my campus when I was an undergrad at West Virginia

00:15:39.520 University at West Virginia University and she said at that time back in the 80s you only need five

00:15:45.280 people for a movement one person to back then think about it pick up the phone and call folks to invite

00:15:53.280 them to your rally number two make a poster number three put tack it up on bulletin boards you know

00:16:01.840 number four staple all your little educational material and number five pick up the phone and call a

00:16:08.800 journalist. Hey, it's the same now. You know, I told you about Sobarnadatta, Helen Miller, Yu Yanzhou,

00:16:16.320 she is a Chinese-American who survived the Cultural Revolution, Harry Jackson. We started with a

00:16:23.680 handful of parents all coming from a place of authenticity and you know why, how do we grow? Well,

00:16:31.760 I learned it from Nancy Drew again. I'm a loud mouth, right? I'm a journalist and I got a

00:16:36.960 Substack started and started just writing our story and that's where take lessons from you know the

00:16:44.320 activist movements that you see around you. Get an account on Substack or Medium. Patch.com is a

00:16:52.480 platform in the U.S. Go on Nextdoor which is another platform. Start your Facebook groups. That's all it

00:17:00.720 takes in order to be real, you know, to let the world hear that tree falling in the forest. And yes, I

00:17:10.800 just started hearing stories from around the country, parents watching what was happening in their schools

00:17:18.240 and as we all know we all started speaking at our school boards and our one-minute and two-minute videos

00:17:26.080 we started sharing and one parent inspired another parent. I'll never forget the day that I watched

00:17:32.640 this dad, Ian Pryor, testify before his school board in Loudoun County, Virginia across the border

00:17:40.320 from where we were living and guess what? All he did is he stood there and he had not a note card in front

00:17:49.120 of him. He just looked each school board member in the eye and said his truth. And I thought to myself

00:17:57.440 that's all it takes, you know, we just have to speak from the heart, look them in the eye,

00:18:03.520 challenge them on these principles, simple principles of fairness, transparency, you know, and equality that

00:18:10.800 I had started talking to us about at the beginning. And that's that inspired me to go before my school

00:18:17.840 board at this time without my speech just written out in front of me reading from it and look them in

00:18:23.520 the eye. And what did they do at that turn? Cut off my mic, you know, because our power is so strong

00:18:30.880 because we and we took on this idea of the mama bears because, you know, Asian moms have been maligned

00:18:39.280 as, quote, tiger moms, right? Right, right. Yeah. And I said to myself, like, I want parents to have that

00:18:46.720 sense of honor, you know, that it is to be a parent. And are they maligning the idea of hard

00:18:54.720 work? Because I know I've heard the tiger mom idea is about, you know, make sure as you said, 0.97

00:18:59.200 sitting down at the table with your son, do your homework every day, we're going to make sure it's

00:19:02.480 there. And, you know, we're hearing more and more, I alluded to here in Ontario, you don't have to do any

00:19:08.320 exams, hypothetically, ever in high school to graduate, they still do it a little bit, but there's no,

00:19:13.120 it's not required at all. And it seems like very different than when I went to high school,

00:19:16.960 and just there's no standards anymore. So some kids, I guess, are just not going to adhere to

00:19:21.200 any standards. And then we're told that that is when, to your point, tiger moms, or whatever term

00:19:26.960 you want to use, do enforce standards in their own home. Oh, well, that's, that's not fair. That's not

00:19:31.600 fair, because it's not going on in other households. So we got to somehow, instead of celebrate that and

00:19:38.400 encourage it to be replicated, we got to drag that cohort down.

00:19:42.400 Yeah, you know, the New York Times just did this back to school issue on what school is for. And

00:19:49.680 I yeah, and so I got an email on a Thursday. And my experience is emblematic of, you know,

00:19:57.280 the crisis we're in today, because the editors realized, oh, darn, we don't have an argument that 0.87

00:20:02.640 school is for merit. Because exactly to your point, it's now an afterthought, you know, 0.86

00:20:07.760 the idea that we're actually supposed to excel and do our best. So can I write an op ed?

00:20:14.720 By Monday, I'm like, Okay, I can do it, you know, because we have to be involved in the debate,

00:20:20.720 right? Any opportunity we get. So I banged it out, we got it published by the next Thursday.

00:20:26.480 And I told our story, you know, my family story. And what did I get from this theology lecturer at

00:20:34.960 Harvard, I had lived with privilege of having had a father who became a professor in the university

00:20:41.920 system in America, and that I had, you know, educational social capital, or like some jargon

00:20:49.600 that I can't even understand. Well, we understand what it is. It's just, again, the privilege, you know,

00:20:54.640 used to negate us. And, and, and then I told the story in the op ed, I told the story about how as

00:21:02.560 a single mother, I chose to leave my job at the Wall Street Journal, so I could drop off my son,

00:21:07.920 pick him up, volunteer when I needed, read aloud at book cafe. And I was lectured and told, Oh,

00:21:15.120 that must have been nice to have had the privilege of leaving your job. Well, I didn't leave.

00:21:19.840 They have a problem with every choice you're making in life.

00:21:21.680 Exactly. I worked, I worked like every parent knows, every working parent knows. I worked to

00:21:29.600 raise him, put him to bed, and then start another shift, right? Till two, three in the morning to

00:21:35.840 earn the keep to keep a roof over our heads. So no matter what, if our argument is, is opposite theirs,

00:21:45.680 they will try to erase you. So that's why one important theme that we learned from the parents

00:21:50.960 in New York, who have fought this fight, they told us this dad, Chan Cook from the fight on the

00:21:59.360 merit schools in New York, he told me early on, it was Father's Day 2020, he said,

00:22:03.760 be unapologetic. Do not let them shame you. And that is the principle. Every time that we go before

00:22:15.520 the school board, we are unapologetic in the values, you know, that we believe the ones that you were

00:22:21.760 raised with, because that's what's going to uplift children, right? This race to the bottom by the

00:22:28.480 activists is devastating for not only society, but for our individual children. And that's what we

00:22:34.080 have to fight to protect. But they have attempted to shame you. I know in stories about you, I see

00:22:40.080 there's a profile in a long profile of you in Mother Jones, which is not particularly flattering,

00:22:45.120 tells your story, but lots of criticisms and talk about how quite remarkable that that you and the

00:22:51.040 people you do activism with have been labeled as white supremacists, you've been called QAnon moms,

00:22:56.480 I guess the idea that everything you're saying is just a conspiracy theory, to have concerns with

00:23:02.720 these things that are happening in schools, the admissions criteria, the critical race theory.

00:23:07.600 It is quite remarkable that the system, or at least some figures in the system,

00:23:12.160 in the entrenched establishment are very unhappy with you and other parents speaking out.

00:23:16.160 Yes. And, you know, it was my experience at the Wall Street Journal that always, you know,

00:23:21.760 taught me to follow the money. And it is money interests that want to shut us up. And who are

00:23:27.280 those interests, Anthony? Of course, it's the teachers unions. It's democratic party politics,

00:23:33.360 unfortunately, in the United States that the teachers union fund. And that is why it's just

00:23:39.840 was so exciting for me to hear what you said at the very beginning, that the school board race has

00:23:44.880 become the hottest ticket in town now, in Canada, because that's what's happening in the US. Because

00:23:50.880 we saw over these two plus years, that school boards are political, they are run by a machine,

00:24:00.400 and they shut you up, and they shut you out. And the only way you can prevail in crafting public

00:24:08.240 policy that fits your values is to get a seat on the board. But it's that simple. And parents have to

00:24:15.360 vote. We won the governor's election in Virginia, a year and a half into our battle. And who was one of the

00:24:26.000 moms that led that battle? It was the mom that I mentioned at the very beginning, Suparna Dutta, who received

00:24:33.920 that email from our principal, never involved in politics. And she ended up becoming the head of 0.88

00:24:40.400 the Educators for Youngkin coalition that ended up getting parents forward. And the governor Glenn

00:24:49.920 Youngkin was then elected after his opponent, Terry McAuliffe said, parents don't have a say in what's

00:24:58.160 taught in schools. You know, it's a remarkable line, but a remarkable tell, because we're increasingly

00:25:04.640 learning that that it is actually technically true. So people don't like that. And how they're pushing

00:25:08.720 back. Right, because this is a parents rights movement, really, you know, and the assumption that

00:25:17.440 we don't know what is best for our children is just so paternalistic, ironically, and patronizing. But

00:25:27.440 ultimately, we know it's ideological, you know, you divide the family, and you have more,

00:25:35.280 you know, persuasion than on the young mind. And this is, again, something I learned, you know,

00:25:41.200 fighting the extremists within my Muslim communities, like I knew that they were indoctrinating

00:25:48.240 our children in these madrasas or religious schools, and that we had to, you know, challenge that

00:25:56.160 interpretation of my religion that was being taught in those schools. Well, it's the same thing with

00:26:00.800 wokeism. It's a religion, and they are trying to go after children. They are going after children.

00:26:06.800 I have beside me, you know, book after book after critical race theory, the pronoun book. If you're 0.59

00:26:13.680 a drag queen, and you know it, the hips on the drag queen go swish, swish, swish. 1.00

00:26:19.040 Let's talk about it. The teen's guide to sex relationship and being human. And one of the lines

00:26:26.400 from it, I can't believe it, Anthony, is literally this one. It says to children, to teenagers,

00:26:33.280 a great place to research fantasies and kinks safely is on the internet. 0.69

00:26:39.120 Wow.

00:26:39.600 I know. I know. So from race, they have now gone to gender and sexuality. But ultimately, it is about,

00:26:49.920 you know, winning the hearts and minds and bodies of our children. And it's our sacred duty as parents

00:26:55.600 to protect them.

00:26:56.800 And let me ask you about some things that are happening here in Canada, how it relates

00:27:01.520 to the issues that you've seen. To the point of the transgender issue, there is a teacher who's

00:27:06.400 gone viral around the whole world, pretty much. This teacher at Oakville High School, who has been

00:27:12.400 wearing these jumbo-sized fake breasts to class. It has not gone away. The person still shows up every 0.96

00:27:19.600 day, teaches shop class. I have some parent whistleblowers who tell me about it. And, you know,

00:27:25.280 I think what parents are mostly saying is just, this isn't appropriate attire. It's an odd situation.

00:27:29.920 It's distracting from work. And then there's other people who get hostile at it, who somehow think

00:27:35.840 it's like about transphobia or what have you. Nobody's talking about, I'm sure there are a number

00:27:40.320 of transgender teachers teaching in the Toronto area, and it's never been a news story. Nobody's

00:27:44.160 talking about them or vilifying them. It's this extreme scenario. And yet one thing that's been

00:27:49.120 remarkable for me as someone reporting on it is the school board and the administration just

00:27:53.760 constantly send back these antiseptic press releases or press statements just saying,

00:27:59.360 we support gender rights. We support inclusive environment. And you're asking them things like,

00:28:03.200 will the teacher be placed on leave? What's going to happen? We understand that some students have

00:28:07.360 been told they're not allowed to protest it. And you're asking these detailed questions and they

00:28:10.480 just give the same sort of automaton response to all of this for a scenario that's just out of control.

00:28:17.840 But yet they're fine with it continuing.

00:28:20.320 Yeah. And I think it goes back to this lesson that I learned, because it's just like what you

00:28:26.320 said at the very beginning. How do they justify this? And in our case, it was blatant racial

00:28:35.120 discrimination. In this case, this is blatant hypersexualization in the classroom that would

00:28:42.160 not be appropriate for a heterosexual or anybody, right? So what I learned is that we're up against

00:28:52.400 a machine, a political machine. And having any expectation of a reasonable resolution from them

00:29:08.480 is not realistic. Like we have to get our expectations in line with the reality of the

00:29:12.960 politics. We have to keep holding them accountable. But I'll tell you, like I sincerely, like as a

00:29:19.600 parent, like I sincerely, sincerely for six months thought I could persuade our school board to rational

00:29:26.880 thought on this. But what I didn't realize was, you know, the political contributions from the teachers'

00:29:32.960 unions, the fact that the Democratic Party had 12-0 on our school board in terms of seats.

00:29:40.640 And they had a lock, you know. And now I can see that the Virginia Democratic Party,

00:29:47.600 you know, is using the school issue to, you know, try to win back the governor's seat that they're lost

00:29:54.800 because of their own positions. But they're all doubling down. Like they don't

00:29:58.960 care about the sensible politics even to me. They're just going to keep losing because there's

00:30:05.280 more parents and sensible citizens on our side than theirs on these issues. But we're up against

00:30:13.120 a lot of money. That's really the challenge. But, you know, the great civil rights movements of

00:30:21.680 of history, we're up against a lot of moneyed interests. And I put us down as civil rights

00:30:27.680 activists myself.

00:30:29.840 Azra Namani, it's been a fascinating conversation to hear what's really unfolding on the ground

00:30:34.800 right now with the Parents' Rights Movement. Thank you so much for joining us today.

00:30:38.000 Thank you so much. And all the mama bears and papa bears, grandma and grandpa bears, neighbor bears,

00:30:44.080 stand up. You've got a sacred duty and have moral courage while you do this because you're not

00:30:49.360 alone. We're all in it together. Thanks so much for listening to today's show.

00:30:53.520 Before we go, I want to let you know that this is my last episode as host of Full Comet.

00:30:58.080 I'm moving on to pursue other opportunities, but it's been a privilege to be an editor,

00:31:02.240 columnist, and podcast host of Post Media all these years. I want to thank executive producer

00:31:07.120 Kevin Libin and technical producer Andre Pru for playing such key roles in making this show a success.

00:31:13.360 This podcast will continue with a different host, so stay tuned for more great episodes.

00:31:18.400 Thank you and all the best.

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Full Comment - October 10, 2022

Parents are fighting to take back race-obsessed, ‘hypersexualized’ schools

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