Conservative education activists ripped the Biden administration over reports that the FBI had opened multiple investigations into parents protesting at their local school boards, saying the administration was attempting to silence parents.
The criticisms came after Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee disclosed, in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, that, based on whistleblower reports, the FBI and the Department of Justice had been actively opening investigations into parents for merely expressing disdain at school district policies. Parent activists denounced the news, calling the administration's actions "dystopian."
"Attorney General Merrick Garland authorized the Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate parents that exercised their First Amendment rights at school board meetings; and the FBI did exactly that, all based on tips from vindictive leftists who believe that 'speech is violence,'" Ian Prior, the executive director of Fight for Schools and a senior adviser at America First Legal, told the Washington Examiner.
"It is clear that the Biden administration is a catspaw of the radical Left and is sending this country down a dystopian path where government schools can encourage boys to be girls, girls to be boys, and parents need to sit down and shut up about it or face a federal investigation," Prior said.
Nicole Neily, the president of the parent activist organization Parents Defending Education, likewise blasted the administration's...
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