Higher Ground

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against...spiritual wickedness in high places. Eph. 6:12-13. Don't look to the right or left for saving, look up.

[Higher Ground @highergroundUT]

So social emotional learning is twirling in its new tutu across Utah in the form of The Dignity Index, which scores schoolkids & adults on the “correctness” of their speech

A short 🧵 on how *conservative* Utah is ground zero for making Chinese-Marxist speech policing go viral

[Higher Ground @highergroundUT]

Whatever you think you know about education, think again!

Flag Bearers host The Global and Digital Takeover of our Local Schools this Monday the 16th, 7pm.

[Higher Ground @highergroundUT]

@tvheidihatch @the_Greglodon Class sizes are the least of our education system's worries right now. You are welcome to attend this event to learn more.

[Higher Ground @highergroundUT]

@HarmeetKDhillon Just wanted to thank you for your help, Harmeet. Good luck in your continued adventures! Protections of religious belief and rights of conscience are crucial, so hopefully our paths will cross again in this pursuit.

[Higher Ground @highergroundUT]

@SophieAnde49073 That's a five-O ooooof from us, sis.

[Higher Ground @highergroundUT]

@JeffreyPierceUT @jcdav 🎯 Utah Republicans have no one to blame for the state's unaffordability and other big government policies than themselves. They've been running the show for 35 plus years.

https://t.co/p8DlbODZRI

[Higher Ground @highergroundUT]

Anyone else find it ironic that Utah Republicans act like they don't control the executive and legislative branches? Like they haven't controlled our legislature and the governor's office for the past 33 YEARS?

You would think if Republicans governed like Rs and not Ds, we wouldn't be begging for scraps trying to claw back the institutions that supposedly we run? It's so bizarre that we win and yet govern like losers.

👉We hear these excuses all the time from Utah Republicans on the Hill on why we can't have nice things—

"With decades of rot, one bill isn't going to stop it overnight."

...Yeah, but—who's been running the show for decades? How did Utah become a Democrat & Globalist BLUE State over these past decades with RED-blooded Republicans running it? We got here by running one Right-sounding but Left-leaning bill after another, digging our graves deeper and deeper.

"Little by little or we get nothing."

...Again, why do we beg for scraps as if we are the minority party? Why do we negotiate from a position of weakness when we supposedly run the show? 33 years of REPUBLICAN dominance in the state, and what do we have to show for it?

👉Well, here's a little refresher list of what we have to show for Republican dominance in Utah for the past 3 decades, and it doesn't look so hot...

🌐Education policies that swallow up the traditional role of the family and outsource local control to national & global activists six-degrees removed from the classroom
🌐lax immigration enforcement
🌐universal mail-in voting
🌐SB54 which allows any donkey to buy his way onto the ballot and bypass the caucus/convention system
🌐unaffordable & unattainable single-family homes
🌐DEI practices and policies embedded throughout various state and municipal agencies
🌐the embracing of stakeholder/PPP governance models
🌐authoritarian C-0v i D restrictions and diktats
🌐the disproportionate tax burden upon Utah families
🌐the gross expansion of power of the administrative state
🌐the continued GOP propping up of a woke governor, Spencer Cox, who has gone on record to support transgenderism & critical race praxis, has refused to be forthcoming on the provenance of the signatures he gathered to get on the ballot, and has endorsed SLC's radical Democrat mayor who fangirls over abortions, etc. etc. etc.
🌐the Maoist-Marxist speech policing by the legislature, governor, and other entities to target people who are politically inconvenient, most egregiously manifesting in them condemning to HELL a sitting state board of education member, but also showing up in authoritarian Dignity Index & #Disagree Better "public opinion guidance" initiatives
🌐the increased deployment of public surveillance systems
🌐a local media that acts as a blank check to the political structure instead of as a check-and-balance
🌐the overall lack of moral courage of our elected officials, and of those who should hold them accountable, both of whom time and time again seem to fear man more than God...🧵

👋Hey Utah's Republican politicians, how about we resolve in this 2025th Year of Our Lord to govern like, you know, Republicans? Like the party of Lincoln?

Conservative values, small & limited government, fighting corruption, embracing honesty & transparency, upholding the Constitution, and honoring & protecting faith, family & freedom are what we want, it's not rocket science... 🙏🏻🏡 🇺🇲

Is this too much to put on the bucket list for 2025?

[Higher Ground @highergroundUT]

Booo. Why are Republicans slobbering over the 24/7/365 school model pushed by the Obama administration? Are they bonkers or do they just hate kids?

https://t.co/57smieOGiS

[GOUD Maragani @goud4utah]

I guess this is a solution for people who want free daycare 🤦‍♂️

It would be better if we made America more affordable so couples could have one parent stay home and raise their kids

No one wants to take the steps necessary to make that happen, so instead the govt will raise your kids for you

Will there ever be a party that actually wants to revive the American Dream for Americans?

[Higher Ground @highergroundUT]

@goud4utah Booo. Why do Republicans push the 24/7/365 school model pushed by the Obama administration? Are they daft or do they just hate kids?

https://t.co/57smieOGiS

[Higher Ground @highergroundUT]

The "Right" demands schools provide comprehensive community programs because these "help" families & the "Left" demands them because now the state can help itself to replacing families—either way, both sides meet in the middle, where govt. control masquerades as charity🧵

[Higher Ground @highergroundUT]

@HarmeetKDhillon 👋🏻 Hey Ms. Dhillon, glad you came and got the bird's-eye view of our state capital. Also glad you didn't get to see the results of the globalist and leftist policies that have ruined it close up because that would have ruined your trip.

[Crystal Marull @crystalmarull]

For TEENS reading on a third grade level, Newberry High School offers "Charmed", a "high-interest, low-reading level" novel in which a girl is lured by a "great looking school dropout" who "sells her into prostitution."

Because nothing says "we believe in you" like stearing struggling readers toward the track. @alachuaschools, maybe aim a little higher?

(And third grade parents, you might want to keep an eye on what your kid is reading. Just because it's on their level does not mean it's appropriate for them.)

@HenmackIII @rpetty @gchristiemd @Collinslayla @DanFoganholi @StasiKamoutsas

[Sophie Anderson @SophieAnde49073]

🚨Are you a concerned Utahn and have wondered how you can help or get involved?

Here is an opportunity.

When the state overcharges for public records it's always because they're hiding something, seriously. 👀

I'm helping raise $850 for a new public record request. I just posted about how the state overcharged me $10,000 dollars for records that exposed DEI and other 🥩 dinner scams.

Now they want to charge over $2000 this time, so the request was scaled down but it's still not cheap, so I'm asking for help!

Please donate whatever you can so we can get eyes ASAP on these thousands of critical documents they're holding back on. If we're right we'll need a dump truck for all the dirt that will come out. 🚛 Venmo: @fight4freedom (last 4 numbers of phone - 0990)

[Higher Ground @highergroundUT]

And yet 13 of the Board's Republicans vote hand-in-hand with Democrat Sarah Reale the overwhelming majority of the time.

Oh Utah. 🙄

[Michael Clara @donMiguelSLC]

The @VoteSLCo dropped ballots in the mail today.

☎️ I received a couple of frantic phone calls from neighbors, wondering why my name was not on the ballot.

🐘 I had to tell them that I was the @UtahGOP nominee for @UTBoardofEd Dist. 5.

☠️ And back in May @SLCountyGOP Chairman @MikeCarey4CC sabotaged my campaign, forcing me to withdraw my name from the ballot.

🗳️ Carey had four months to submit the name of a new GOP candidate to the @LGHendersonUtah to replace me on the ballot.

⚾️ Carey dropped the ball, handing Democrat Sarah Reale a sure path to victory.

[Higher Ground @highergroundUT]

@donMiguelSLC @VoteSLCo @UtahGOP @UTBoardofEd @SLCountyGOP And yet 13 of the Board's Republicans vote hand-in-hand with Democrat Sarah Reale the overwhelming majority of the time.

Oh Utah. 🙄

[Higher Ground @highergroundUT]

@lynnsdavenport Borrowing this meme for Utah, we are going full tilt on this work-based "learning" racket. No child left unexploited in the name of college and career readiness.

[Higher Ground @highergroundUT]

@sappholives83 Beautiful family, he didn't deserve them and they didn't deserve him.

[Higher Ground @highergroundUT]

So hear us out. This teacher has a point. If she's trying to teach the right way and the kids are struggling with the most basic of basics than that's not good, parents need to know the hazards of sending their kids to school tabula rasa.

BUT...

Schools have brought on this learned helplessness by infantilizing parents AND by complicating the basics.

We didn't need Common Core math. All that did was alienate parents from helping their kids do the basics because now it's Fancy Feast instead of addition and subtraction.

We didn't need Common Core English. Kids are stuck with the most stupid, pedantic reading selections and excepts on the planet instead of wholesome, witty writing. Plus the nonsense words are idiotic. If literacy is making meaning out of the written word and using the written word to make meaning then nonsense words don't help that cause.

When schools position themselves as the "experts" and condescend to parents every step of the way, it's no wonder we get this kind of dysfunction.

Sorry to this teacher, it's a bad time to be in the profession.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

American teacher breaks down into tears because teaching American elementary school students has become so hard

🚨 She says she only has 1 student out of 34 kids who passed

She says it’s gotten so bad, “I literally put the word on the board. I write it on the board and I say copy it, and they're copying it wrong — it's almost scary because you're like, dude — then you start questioning yourself. You're like, is it me? Like, what?
— I'm exhausted”

“I’m exhausted — like, there's some days that I like doing it, but man, to do that every single day it's exhausting — Breaks my heart”

She extremely frustrated because she knows by the way the students are performing that their parents are not doing what they are supposed to be doing with their kids

It comes down to the parents. Our education system and parents are failing our kids. I remember going to school and everyone had to behave, everyone had to learn and do the work to pass, you weren’t even given an option

We have gotten too soft and there needs to be punishments and accountability again

[Higher Ground @highergroundUT]

@FYCTiffany Absolutely. Schooling robs kids of the best educations.

[Higher Ground @highergroundUT]

A tsunami of AI, SEL, mental health interventions, and character transcripts tied to workforce readiness. It's gonna be rougher then rough to be a kid as the globalist ghouls figure out how to monetize every aspect of your existence.

[Ryan Delk @delk]

Almost no one understands what's about to happen in US K-12 education.

[Higher Ground @highergroundUT]

The change is happening now and has been for oh, the past 7 years in overdrive.

Goodbye to everything you knew about schools, they are not what they were and they're never going back to that either.

[Joe Connor @josephjconnor]

We’ll see more change in K-12 in the next 10 years than we’ve seen in the previous 100.

[Higher Ground @highergroundUT]

@FNguywthebeard @MikeBelcher14 In Utah we fought really hard to get homeschool freedom. Now that freedom is under attack because traditional homeschoolers are being conflated with home-based voucher students. The general public and many legislators are too uninformed to understand or respect the distinctions.

[Higher Ground @highergroundUT]

Govt-funded school choice always means more oversight & regulation because there's never funding w/o accountability. There's no rolling it back once it's in place.

Homeschoolers ≠ *scholarship* students, but the conflation will drag homeschool OGs down with those who take the money. Just sickening. We tried our best in Utah, but too many got cold feet and protected their relationships with lawmakers instead of protecting homeschoolers.

@FYCTiffany @iamlisalogan @NatalieJCline @MonicaBWilbur
@CoalitionUtah

[Anita Hoge @HogeAnita]

BEWARE OF THE OMBUDSMAN pg 71
Proof Page Number in ESSA for private, religious, & homeschools will be forced to comply to federal strings under the banner of equity. Federal choice money given to a parent ESA would force private schools to succumb to an ombudsman from the state