In a move that could pit women’s advocates and transgender activists against each other, the Education Department has opened an investigation into an alleged incident involving a trans-identifying student exposing his male genitalia to freshman girls.
The Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which investigates schools for potential violations of the anti-sex discrimination statute Title IX, said Wednesday that it would look into the incident, which occurred in March. The investigation comes as a response to a complaint filed by the Wisconsin Institute for Law &amp; Liberty (WILL).
In <a href="https://will-law.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/OCR-Opening-Investigation-SPASD66.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">its response</a> to WILL’s complaint OCR says that it will investigate “Whether the [Sun Prairie Area School] District responded to a report of sexual harassment consistent with the requirements of Title IX.”
An investigation does not mean that OCR will determine the school district acted inappropriately when a student reported that a biologically male student identifying as a female entered the girls’ locker room and showered naked next to four freshman girls and exposed his male genitalia to them.
While Title IX in recent years has been used to adjudicate allegations of sexual assault and harassment, the Biden administration has signaled it would use the statute to punish schools for not adhering to the administration&#8217;s transgender ideology.
The incident occurred on March 3, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/18-year-old-male-identifying-as-female-enters-high-school-girls-locker-showers-naked-next-to-14-year-old-students-conservative-org-alleges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, at Sun Prairie East High School in Wisconsin. When the four freshman girls entered the lockers, they found a senior male student, believed to be 18 years old at the time, in the room that contained the lockers and benches. The girls said the student wasn’t in the class with them, but proceeded to the shower area even though they were uncomfortable. They were aware that the student identified as transgender and had used girls’ bathrooms previously.
<a href="https://onelink.to/dwapp" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-9096" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://onelink.to/dwapp&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1700760801843000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP</a>
The girls showered with their bathing suits on, which was common practice. Just when they started to shower, the transgender student fully undressed and entered the shower next to one of the girls. The student was initially facing the wall but then turned toward the four girls, exposing his male genitalia to all four freshmen.
The girls didn’t know what to do and didn’t immediately report the incident, but after one girl told another student what happened, that student said they should report it. Three days after the incident in the shower, the uninvolved student reported it to student services. The incident should have been reported under Title IX, but Associate Principal Heidi Walter didn’t report the incident to the Title IX coordinator, and instead asked for the names of the students involved, according to WILL.
On March 10, the student who reported the incident had gained permission to provide the students’ names and was ready to do so, but Walter said that the girls could approach her if they wanted. She later admitted, according to WILL, that she should have “dug deeper” into the issue.
The four girls should have been provided supportive measures under Title IX, but instead, the school focused on the transgender student, WILL said. EHS’ principal did, however, apologize to a parent in an email by saying the incident “should not have happened” and vowing to “continue to work to ensure no one has a similar experience,” though she didn’t outline any steps the school would take.
WILL said that the Sun Prairie Area School District dismissed the rights and concerns of the freshmen girls while assuring parents that the issue had been resolved. The district also pointed to its “Restroom and Locker Room Accessibility Guidance,” which may not have even been in effect. The guidance, according to WILL, suggests that if a transgender student “makes any request regarding the use of locker rooms,” the school will evaluate the request. The policy says nothing about students who don’t make requests, if permission is required, or who makes the determination on the student’s request.
The school district’s policy says that a “student who is transgender, nonbinary, or gender expansive will be permitted to access the men’s/women’s segregated restrooms in accordance with the student’s gender identity that the student regularly asserts at school and in other social environments.”
It further states that any “Student who has a need or desire for increased privacy, regardless of the underlying reason, may be provided with access to a single-access restroom where such a facility is reasonably available, but no student shall be required to use such a restroom because of the student’s transgender, nonbinary, or gender expansive status.”
The school district has also released a statement saying it stands by “LGBTQIA+ students and staff,” taking “seriously our responsibility to provide safe, nondiscriminatory, and inclusive environments for people of all orientations and identities as they reflect our diverse community around us.”
The statement also says that “all children will be safe and loved in our schools,” which WILL argued has not been upheld in this case.

Transgender Bathroom Sign

Education Dept. Investigating Alleged Incident Of 18-Year-Old Trans-Identifying Student Exposing Male Genitalia To Freshmen Girls

Department of Education

Sexual Harassment

Teenagers

Title IX

Transgender

U.S.

Wisconsin

A House Republican is not feeling jolly about a &#8220;Satanic <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/christmas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christmas</a> tree&#8221; that is generating holiday buzz around his home district in the Green Bay area.
In <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6341798237112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an interview</a> that aired on Sunday, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) criticized the National Railroad Museum&#8217;s <a href="https://www.nbc26.com/news/local-news/satanic-temple-of-wisconsin-tree-draws-controversy-at-festival-of-trees" target="_blank" rel="noopener">embrace</a> of the Satanic Temple of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wisconsin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wisconsin</a>&#8216;s tree adorned in red lights and Satanic ornaments.
&#8220;Thus far, the Railroad Museum&#8217;s response has been insufficient,&#8221; Gallagher told Fox News guest-host Sean Duffy, who pressed the congressman on what he described as the &#8220;Satanic Christmas tree&#8221; in the museum&#8217;s seasonal Christmas display.
&#8220;When parents and concerned citizens have contacted the railroad museum, they have said, well, this is an educational opportunity for kids, which is completely ridiculous, right? I think it&#8217;s impossible to overstate how offensive this is to Christians. It would be, in quite a little sense, the same thing as waving a Hamas flag inside of a synagogue,&#8221; he added on &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures.&#8221;
The Satanic Temple of Wisconsin tree, along with a Bay Area Council on Gender Diversity tree, have received &#8220;some pushback&#8221; from visitors to this year&#8217;s 66-tree display, but Museum CEO Jacqueline Frank said they are within the proper guidelines because they do not promote hate, violence, or drug use, according to <a href="https://www.nbc26.com/news/local-news/satanic-temple-of-wisconsin-tree-draws-controversy-at-festival-of-trees" target="_blank" rel="noopener">local NBC affiliate WGBA</a>.
&#8220;We believe that everybody should be included regardless of their religious group, regardless of any business or organization that they&#8217;re a part of. So we don&#8217;t discriminate, since we&#8217;re not a religious group ourselves, we&#8217;re going to allow anyone who wants to take place to take part,&#8221; Frank said.
To Gallagher, &#8220;it&#8217;s just absolutely crazy that we would allow this to happen&#8221; for a museum that &#8220;does something very interesting and cool and fun for kids&#8221; every year.
&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t take my kids to it now. I don&#8217;t want them to be surrounded by Satanic trees. The local reporting has been insufficient, so the whole thing is absurd. And I would say one final thing. Conservatives are often accused of launching a culture war or focusing or fixating on cultural issues, but here is a perfect example of how that&#8217;s not what&#8217;s happening,&#8221; Gallagher said.
&#8220;What&#8217;s happening is, we&#8217;re just trying to defend basic traditions or defend our children in the midst of these basic traditions from the encroachment of woke ideology or offensive, upside-down cultural propaganda,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And so the whole thing is a shame. I thought that Northeast Wisconsin was at least immune to something that you might see in New York or California. But we need to be vigilant as parents.&#8221;

Rep. Mike Gallagher

GOP Congressman Blasts ‘Satanic Christmas Tree’ In His District

GOP Congressman Blasts 'Satanic Christmas Tree' In His District

Christmas

Congress

A Wisconsin woman who is a former teacher faced a maximum punishment of 624 years for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy but will only receive 10 years.
Anne Nelson-Koch, 75, was convicted in August on 25 counts of sexual assault of a child, child enticement, exposing genitals, exposing intimate parts, and intimidation of a victim, People Magazine <a href="https://people.com/teacher-sentenced-sexually-assaulting-boy-school-basement-8387127" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Nelson-Koch was teaching at Tomah Baptist Academy when she repeatedly sexually assaulted the boy throughout the 2016-2017 academic year.
After she is released from prison, Nelson-Koch will be supervised by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections for 15 years, the Tomah Police Department (TPD) said in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=724160959758479&amp;set=pb.100064937430050.-2207520000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a Facebook post</a>.
Nelson-Koch repeatedly sexually assaulted the teen boy during school hours, court documents showed, according to the TPD. After a jury found her guilty, Nelson-Koch faced a maximum 624-year sentence, including 373 years in prison and 251 years of supervised release. Even though she was found guilty, Nelson-Koch was “released into the community to await sentencing,” the TPD wrote. The prosecution objected to the release.
The Department of Corrections recommended Nelson-Koch serve 24 to 32 years in prison followed by 20 to 24 years of supervised release, and Assistant District Attorney Sarah Skiles asked the judge to sentence Nelson-Koch to 100 years in prison and 60 years of supervised release, saying the damage the former teach did to the young boy could not be undone. Skiles also noted Nelson-Koch’s lack of remorse, saying she put on a virtuous masquerade that acted as “a calculated attempt to conceal her predatory tendencies.”
Skiles argued that the lengthy sentence was necessary to show that the sexual assault of a child in school, and the pain that assault caused to the victim, were not ignored. She argued that the public needed to be protected from Nelson-Koch.
The victim’s father spoke during sentencing to say that his son came forward to ensure Nelson-Koch would not hurt any other children, and asked for a sentence that would keep Nelson-Koch in prison for the rest of her life.
<a class="c-link c-link--focus-visible" href="https://onelink.to/dwapp" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://onelink.to/dwapp" data-sk="tooltip_parent" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-3196">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP</a>
Judge Richard Radcliffe, who won the State Bar of Wisconsin’s 2023 Judge of the Year Award, elected to sentence Nelson-Koch to just 10 years in prison. During sentencing, Radcliffe said Nelson-Koch used her authority over the victim for her own gain, and that she had been trusted by the victim. Radcliffe also thanked the victim for coming forward, calling him “a leader of his family and community.”
Radcliffe said that Nelson-Koch’s character helped reduce her sentence, describing her as “nice,” “selfless,” “giving,” and “hardworking,” according to the TPD, in a move not often seen when describing perpetrators of sexual assault. The judge added that someone with Nelson-Koch’s education and employment history was “not someone who normally would be [seen] in the criminal justice system facing 600 years of prison.”
The case highlights the lighter sentences given to female predators of children. In June of this year, a 75-year-old man <a href="https://www.fox26houston.com/news/elderly-child-molester-given-20-year-prison-sentence-for-luring-child-with-sundae" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was sentenced to 20 years in prison</a> for sexually assaulting a 5-year-old in 2011. In another example, a 75-year-old man <a href="https://www.yourconroenews.com/neighborhood/moco/news/article/75-year-old-sex-offender-sentenced-to-life-in-9275722.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was sentenced to life in prison</a> after failing to register as a sex offender after he was paroled from a 99-year sentence.

Anne Nelson-Koch Mugshot

75-Year-Old Female Former Teacher Gets Just 10 Years In Prison For ‘Repeatedly’ Sexually Assaulting 14-Year-Old Boy

Crime

Sexual Assault

The “most dangerous” movement in the West is composed of radical Islamists and their enablers, according to Daily Wire Editor Emeritus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ben-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a>.
Shapiro delivered a speech on the “Superiority of Western Values” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Monday evening. The Daily Wire host said the West must decide to stand again for the values that made it great, or risk losing to radicalism.
The immediate threat to Western values is the terror group Hamas. But after October 7 when Hamas killed over 1,400 civilians in Israel and abducted over 200 more, the West is facing a growing crisis from radical Islamist sympathizers and enablers within its own borders.
“Why are there so many in the West eager to make excuses for today’s Nazis, barbarians who carve live children out of their pregnant mothers? Why are so many in the West trembling to find evidence of Israeli errors in their prosecution of war against Hamas, so as to set up some sort of retroactive moral equivalence between the Jews and their genocidal neighbors?” Shapiro asked.
The Daily Wire cofounder gave two reasons: complicity and cowardice.
For the complicit, Shapiro gave examples such as Queers for Palestine and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. These groups seemingly find common ground with Islamist terrorists because the LGBT movement and BLM “agree with Hamas about one key notion: that the West is evil and exploitative,” Shapiro said.
“These Hamas fellow travelers are members of the so-called ‘decolonization’ coalition. They believe that the West, because it has been uniquely powerful historically, is also uniquely bad and uniquely sinful. And thus it must be torn down,” he continued.
Of the cowards, Shapiro said that UW-Madison counted as one after the university put out an ambiguous statement after the October 7 attack. The university president later clarified, after backlash, that the university condemned the Hamas attack, but questioned why such pressure was brought to bear on him.
Shapiro said the university’s reaction drew a stark contrast to how it embraced social justice in the wake of George Floyd’s death, which the Daily Wire host said exemplified a “double-standard.”
Shapiro said: “The cowards have spent generations apologizing for Western civilization. They have refused to acknowledge two obvious truths: first, that Western civilization has, of course, committed atrocities and evils in the past; and second, that nevertheless, Western civilization is, in fact, better than its competitors. All civilizations have attempted to engage in colonization and exploitation. Only one civilization has spent its own blood to free slaves throughout the world. All civilizations have engaged in ruthless suppression. Only one civilization has spread liberty. All civilizations have engaged in economic imperialism. Only one civilization has spread prosperity. Western civilization is great because it has provided unique good, and continues to do so.”
The cowards have created a “dreamworld in their own head” that sees the atrocities committed by Hamas as a “rational result of oppression,” Shapiro said.
Shapiro called the alliance between radicals, sympathizers, and cowards “the most dangerous phenomenon in the West.”
He ended his speech on a hopeful note, but with a warning.
“I believe that the West will once again stand up for its own principles. The West’s freedoms are good, they are morally good and must be protected. That means opposing moral relativism. Loving freedom does not mean that every expression is equivalently valuable. Freedoms should not be trampled upon, and those who oppose freedoms should be opposed,” Shapiro said.
“The West has a long history of resilience. The West should not and will not go down without a fight. But that requires actual moral courage. That requires recognizing the greatness of the West, and not being shy about proclaiming that greatness in the face of alternatives. It requires moral clarity. It requires the tough business of saying things that are true. If the West does the business of saying things that are true, the West will emerge successful and stronger than before. If the West does not, it will fall to the darkness,” he warned.
<iframe loading="lazy" title="Stop Being Apologetic About the Superiority of Western Values | Ben Shapiro LIVE at UW-Madison" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LUq2d3-kViY?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Ben Shapiro

Ben Shapiro: ‘The Most Dangerous Phenomenon In The West’ Is An Alliance Of Radicals, Sympathizers, And Cowards

University of Wisconsin

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/milwaukee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Milwaukee</a> County passed a resolution granting nature equal rights to mankind — the first move of its kind in the state.
The “Rights of Nature” <a href="https://milwaukeecounty.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&amp;ID=12288004&amp;GUID=D5D6F125-A5D1-4D55-92C7-DFB182990505" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolution</a> passed on Friday, issuing specific protections for bodies of water in the county. The resolution originated from a greater indigenous-led movement to ensure that nature has the same legal protections as humans. Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley said that the resolution was a means to both honor indigenous beliefs about nature and to more effectively execute conservation efforts.
“This effort recognizes the legal rights of natural areas &amp; waterways to exist &amp; thrive without interference from human activity,” said Crowley. “It’s important for us to appreciate the outdoor environment that Milwaukee County resides on and acknowledge the Indigenous people whose deep relationships with these lands pre-date our own.”
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
I joined tribal leaders &amp; local advocates at <a href="https://twitter.com/urbanecology?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@urbanecology</a> to sign the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RightsOfNature?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RightsOfNature</a> resolution, making <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MKE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MKE</a> County the first in Wisconsin to do so.
This effort recognizes the legal rights of natural areas &amp; waterways to exist &amp; thrive without interference from human activity. <a href="https://t.co/2HDagqMAWa">pic.twitter.com/2HDagqMAWa</a>
&mdash; David C. Crowley (@DavidCrowleyWI) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidCrowleyWI/status/1718025110404129258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
The county struck draft language from the resolution acknowledging the indigenous “rights of nature” perspective as “symbolic in nature,” thereby rendering it to be factual.
“Milwaukee County recognizes the ‘rights of nature,’ which was initially enacted by the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin, as a sacred idea and policy to protect Southeastern Wisconsin’s waterways and bodies of water from human harm,” stated the resolution.
The greater “rights of nature” movement believes that all of nature have the same rights as humans. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) — established in 2012 at the behest of the United Nations — <a href="https://www.ipbes.net/policy-support/tools-instruments/rights-nature-ron%23:~:text=Rights%2520of%2520Nature%2520(RoN)%2520is,to%2520exist,%2520thrive%2520and%2520regenerate." target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes</a> the rights of nature as a means to achieve environmental protections by affording ecosystems the same legal protections as people and corporations. IPBES considers the rights of nature, or “RoN,” to be one of their public policy instruments.
The Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin originally <a href="http://files.harmonywithnatureun.org/uploads/upload981.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">enacted</a> the “rights of nature” in a January 2020 resolution, which Milwaukee County cited as a model for this latest resolution. The tribe declared that its resolution was enacted to thwart a proposed open-pit metallic sulfide mine, the Back Forty Mine.
<a href="https://onelink.to/dwapp">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP</a>
“[T]he tribe recognizes that environmental laws which regulate the use and exploitation of nature are incapable of protecting the Menominee River and Mother Earth,” states the resolution. “[T]he tribe recognizes to protect the Menominee River, it must secure the highest protections for the river through the recognition of the river’s inherent and legal rights.”
The tribe declared that the river had a right to naturally exist, flourish, regenerate, evolve; the rights of restoration, recovery, and preservation; the right to abundant, pure, clean, and unpolluted water; the right to natural groundwater recharge and surface water recharge; the right to a healthy natural environment and natural biodiversity; the right to natural water flow; the right to carry out natural ecosystem functions; the right to be free of activities or practices, as well as obstructions, that interfere with or infringe upon these rights.
Additionally, the tribal resolution declared the Menominee River as the literal “origin of life” for the Menominee people. The tribe <a href="https://www.menominee-nsn.gov/GovernmentPages/Initiatives/Back40Mine/SixtyIslands.aspx%23:~:text=The%2520river,%2520at%2520its%2520mouth,the%25201st%2520Menominee%2520human%2520being." target="_blank" rel="noopener">believes</a> that the first Menominee human was originally a bear, a creature which the tribe believes to be supernatural in its nature.
“It is there that the Creator transformed the bear, a supernatural being who came from below the ground, into the [first] Menominee human being,” states the tribal government’s website.

Nature

Milwaukee County Passes Resolution Granting Nature Equal Rights To Mankind

Climate Change

Environment

Milwaukee

A Missouri woman who planned her mother’s death after she was forced to live as an ill child is set to be released from prison in December, and is speaking out about her crime.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard, whose life and crime have been detailed in two documentaries, will again discuss her upbringing in an upcoming docuseries for Lifetime: “The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard.” In the docuseries, Gypsy says she is finally able to “share my story,” <a href="https://people.com/gypsy-rose-blanchard-speaks-prison-new-lifetime-docuseries-8351105" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to a trailer</a> exclusively shared with People.
&#8220;After a lifetime of silence, I finally get to use my voice to share my story and speak my truth,” Gypsy says in the trailer.
&#8220;As a survivor of relentless child abuse, this docuseries chronicles my quest for liberation and journey through self-discovery,” Gypsy continues. “I am unapologetically myself and unafraid to expose the hidden parts of my life that have never been revealed until now.”
Gypsy was also the subject of the popular documentary “Mommy Dead and Dearest,” which chronicled the abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother and her motives for the murder.
Gypsy was raised by her mother, Dee Dee, who forced her daughter to endure numerous medical treatments due to her own Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a mental disorder that causes a caregiver to fabricate or exaggerate medical conditions in another person. Dee Dee began making claims about her daughter’s health when Gypsy was about three months old, Gypsy’s father, Rod Blanchard, <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/michelledean/dee-dee-wanted-her-daughter-to-be-sick-gypsy-wanted-her-mom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Buzzfeed in 2016. At that time, Dee Dee was convinced Gypsy suffered from sleep apnea and began taking her to the local hospital. Rod said doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with her daughter despite numerous tests and a sleep monitor.
Yet Dee Dee persisted that her daughter was sick, coming up with new problems, including a chromosomal defect and muscular dystrophy. Dee Dee insisted Gypsy had the mind of a 7-year-old and regularly lied about Gypsy’s age to make her seem younger.
After a minor motorcycle accident that resulted in an abrasion to Gypsy’s knee, Dee Dee began claiming that doctors gave her daughter a wheelchair. From then on, Gypsy was largely confined to the chair if she appeared in public. Dee Dee would also bring an oxygen tank and feeding tube to complete the illusion that Gypsy was severely disabled.
Rod left Dee Dee and remarried, so Gypsy and her mother moved in with her grandfather and his wife. These two would later claim that Dee Dee poisoned her stepmother’s food with weed killer, but Dee Dee was never charged with anything relating to this.
Dee Dee and Gypsy eventually left the home, and the stepmother’s ongoing medical issues reportedly vanished. The mother and daughter lived in public housing with Rod’s child-support payments and assistance from the government for Gypsy’s alleged medical conditions.
While many doctors found nothing wrong with Gypsy, Dee Dee was able to convince others to provide treatments her daughter didn’t need, including anti-seizure medication and multiple surgeries. Dee Dee also shaved Gypsy’s head to make her appear as though she was undergoing chemotherapy. If Gypsy ever suggested in public that she was not sick, her mother would squeeze her hand hard, and in private, Gypsy has said her mother physically abused her.
At one point, Dee Dee had some of Gypsy’s saliva glands treated with botox and <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/young-wheelchair-bound-woman-treated-illnesses-ended-prison/story?id=52138979" target="_blank" rel="noopener">then removed</a> to control her drooling, which Gypsy said was the result of her mother using a numbing agent on her gums before doctor’s visits. This, along with the anti-seizure medication, caused Gypsy’s teeth to decay to the point that most of her front teeth were extracted and replaced by a bridge.
Rod attempted to visit Gypsy when she and Dee Dee moved to Missouri, but Dee Dee kept changing plans.
There were doctors, such as Bernardo Flasterstein in Springfield, Missouri, who suspected Dee Dee of medical abuse. He learned from Gypsy’s previous doctors that her test results for muscular dystrophy had actually come back negative, yet Dee Dee was claiming her daughter had the condition. Flasterstein didn’t report his suspicions, and said he was told by other doctors to treat them with “golden gloves.” He didn’t think he would be believed.
In 2009, an anonymous caller told police that Dee Dee often changed her and Gypsy’s names and birth dates when seeking treatment and that Gypsy was healthier than her mother claimed. Police conducted a wellness check, but accepted Dee Dee’s explanation that she changed their information to escape her abusive ex-husband. Without talking to Rod about Dee Dee’s claim, police closed the case.
Gypsy would go online to talk to people, since she wasn’t allowed to speak when out of the house with her mother. In 2012, when she was 21 years old, Gypsy met Nicholas Godejohn online in a Christian Singles group. Godejohn was around her age and had a history of mental illness, possibly dissociative identity disorder. He was also on the autism spectrum.
The two became close and, in 2014, Gypsy told a neighbor that she had discussed eloping with Godejohn. In 2015, Gypsy arranged and paid for Godejohn to travel from his home in Wisconsin to meet her and her mother out in public, as if by accident. They then began to plan Dee Dee’s murder.
Godejohn returned to Missouri in June 2015 and waited until Dee Dee was asleep before entering the home, let in by Gypsy. Gypsy also allegedly gave him duct tape, gloves, and a knife to kill her mother. Gypsy hid in the bathroom while Godejohn killed Dee Dee, covering her ears so she couldn’t hear her mother’s scream.
<a href="https://onelink.to/dwapp">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP</a>
The couple then fled to a motel outside Springfield and eventually took a bus back to Godejohn’s home in Wisconsin.
When Dee Dee was found dead in her home, friends and family feared that Gypsy had been abducted – still believing the girl was young and sickly. Police traced the IP address that was posting on Dee Dee’s Facebook account to Wisconsin, where they found Godejohn and Gypsy.
The two were taken into custody and charged with Dee Dee’s murder.
Gypsy was sentenced to 10 years in prison and is scheduled to be paroled in December. Godejohn, who actually conducted the killing but was doing so at Gypsy’s behest, received life in prison without the possibility of parole plus 25 years.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Nicholas Godejohn

Woman Who Orchestrated The Murder Of Abusive Mother Speaks Out: ‘Survivor Of Relentless Child Abuse’

Woman Who Murdered Abusive Mother Speaks Out: 'Survivor Of Relentless Child Abuse'

Medical

Missouri

Murder

A court ruled against a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wisconsin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wisconsin</a> school district policy that allowed teachers and officials to address students by new names and pronouns without parental consent.
Waukesha Circuit County Court sided with two sets of parents in a Tuesday ruling against a Kettle Moraine School District policy that allowed school officials to refer to students by new names and pronouns without parental consent. The court ruled that the policy violated parental rights, saying parents should know about any changes.
“The School District could not administer medicine to a student without parental consent. The School District could not require or allow a student to participate in a sport without parental consent. Likewise, the School District cannot change the pronoun of a student without parental consent without impinging on a fundamental liberty interest of the parents,” <a href="https://adfmedialegalfiles.blob.core.windows.net/files/TF-Decision.pdf">wrote</a> Circuit Court Judge Michael Maxwell.
The case began after two sets of parents, represented by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty and the Alliance Defending Freedom, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wisconsin-parents-sue-school-district-saying-that-educators-referred-to-their-daughter-with-male-pronouns-and-name-without-their-knowledge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued the school district</a> in November 2021 over the policy. 
One of the sets of parents said they took their 12-year-old daughter out of the Kettle Moraine school system after finding out that her teachers were referring to their daughter by a male name and using male pronouns without their knowledge. The girl ended up deciding to stop identifying as a boy. 
After protesting the matter, the parents say that the school cited its policy that said educators did not need parental consent to use a different pronoun or name than those given by the parents. 
<a href="https://onelink.to/dwapp">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP</a>
“The School District abrogated the parental rights of [the parents] on how to medically treat [their child] when the district decided to socially affirm [the child] at school despite [the parents] requesting it does not. Through its policy of disregarding parental wishes on a medical or health related decision and with how fast questioning one&#8217;s gender can arise, [the parents] are at real risk of being harmed,” the court decision said. 
Lawyers for ADF and WILL celebrated the decision, saying it was a &#8220;major win for parental rights.&#8221; 
&#8220;The court confirmed that parents, not educators or school faculty, have the right to decide whether a social transition is in their own child’s best interests. The decision should be a warning to the many districts across the country with similar policies to exclude parents from gender transitions at school,” WILL deputy counsel Luke Berg <a href="https://will-law.org/will-adf-secure-groundbreaking-legal-victory-in-parental-rights-case/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.

Photo of a blue metal lockers along a nondescript hallway in a typical US High School. No identifiable information included and nobody in the hall.

Parents Win Ruling Against Wisconsin School District Over Pronoun, Name Change Policy

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF)

Courts

Gender Pronouns

A Wisconsin woman convicted of murdering her boyfriend during drug-fueled sex has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Taylor Schabusiness, 25, arrived late to her sentencing with her hands and feet shackled in chains and a spit hood around her neck, Inside Edition <a href="https://www.insideedition.com/taylor-schabusiness-meth-murder-spit-hood-court-sentence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Spit hoods are placed on individuals who might spit or bite those around them. In February, Schabusiness <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-woman-charged-with-murder-corpse-mutilation-attacks-attorney-in-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attacked</a> her former public defender in court.
Schabusiness <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-found-guilty-of-murder-after-bodycam-footage-shows-gruesome-moment-officers-found-mans-severed-head-genitals-in-basement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was convicted</a> in July of murdering and dismembering her boyfriend, Shad Thyrion, after the couple engaged in BDSM sex. She choked Thyrion to death during sex and then sexually abused him before mutilating his body.
Some who knew Schabusiness, including her grandmother, spoke on her behalf during sentencing. Schabusiness reportedly became emotional as her grandmother spoke about how close the two had once been, and how she is raising Schabusiness’ 2-year-old son.
Thyrion’s uncle also spoke at the sentencing hearing, Inside Edition reported, saying he hoped Schabusiness would meet the same fate in prison as her idol Jeffrey Dahmer, who was murdered by a fellow inmate.
In a video played during Schabusiness’ trial, police officers can be heard saying “Oh my f***ing God,” when some of Thyrion’s body parts were found in the basement of his mother’s house, <a href="https://people.com/taylor-schabusiness-trial-bodycam-footage-officers-disturbing-discovery-7565865" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to People Magazine.
It was Officer Alex Wanish’s bodycam that captured the terrifying discovery. On the witness stand, he told the court that he walked down the basement stairs after speaking to homeowner Tara Pakanich and her boyfriend, who told police they found something in a bucket. Wanish removed the towel to find Thyrion’s severed head.
Wanish and his partner called for backup, telling the dispatcher, “We’ve got quite a bit of blood down here.”
<a href="https://onelink.to/dwapp" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-9096" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://onelink.to/dwapp&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1695555140623000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0xBK667lR5szRaVJDs_DZW">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP</a>
Additional bodycam footage taken later, during Schabusiness’ arrest, shows her with what appeared to be blood on her left hand. Police searched her car and found a crock pot box that contained “additional human body parts including legs,” according to a criminal complaint obtained by People.
Police searching Pakanich’s basement found Thyrion’s upper torso in a storage tote.
Pakanich told police that her son and Schabusiness had been in the basement earlier that day while the mother and her boyfriend were out of the house. The mother further told police she woke up between 2:30 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. on the day of the incident after she heard a storm door slamming. She assumed Schabusiness left. She then went down into the basement, where she found her son’s severed head in a bucket.
Schabusiness allegedly told police she went “crazy” while having sex with the victim, who she said put a chain around his neck as part of a sex act. Schabusiness claimed she didn’t intend to kill the man but enjoyed choking him and kept doing it until he died, according to police. The police complaint <a href="https://lawandcrime.com/crime/methed-up-wisconsin-woman-accused-of-murdering-and-dismembering-lover-argues-sexual-assault-cant-be-proven-because-victims-penis-was-chopped-off/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>:
<blockquote>Schabusiness stated she then began to choke the Victim, and she described it as the Victim lying face down on the bed with her on top of him pulling on the end of the chain. The Victim coughed up blood and she was just waiting for him to die while she was watching his face. Schabusiness made the comment that she was “already this far” so she just kept on, referring to choking the Victim. Schabusiness said in a lower tone of voice, “Ya I liked it,” and Detective Graf believed her to be referring to when she was choking the Victim. Schabusiness stated she thought it took 3-5 minutes for the Victim to die. Detective Kempf clarified with Schabusiness that when the Victim began to cough up blood she just did keep on choking the Victim because she wanted to see what happens. Schabusiness made comments that she blacked out while choking the Victim but when she woke up that the Victim was already purple, so she kept on going. Schabusiness stated she enjoyed choking him and made comments to detectives asking if they knew what it was like to love something so much that you kill it.</blockquote>
Schabusiness also allegedly told police she engaged in sexual activity with the victim’s corpse for two to three hours before dismembering his body with a bread knife.
“Schabusiness responded that the police were going to have fun trying to find all of the organs,” prosecutors wrote, <a href="https://lawandcrime.com/crime/wisconsin-woman-competent-to-stand-trial-in-meth-fueled-murder-that-ended-with-lovers-severed-head-in-bucket-judge-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Law &amp; Crime. “Schabusiness stated all of the body parts should be in the basement. Schabusiness stated there should be a foot or a leg in the minivan. Detective Graf asked Schabusiness what she did with the head, and Schabusiness stated she had put the Victim’s head in a black bucket and put a blanket over it.”
Schabusiness allegedly told police that the knives she used to dismember the victim’s body would be in a black bag in the basement along with the man’s body parts.
“Schabusiness indicated that she would use whatever bags she found in the basement to place the body parts into. Schabusiness made the comment that at one point, she did get paranoid and lazy and that she thought it was the ‘dope that was making her paranoid,” prosecutors wrote.
Schabusiness also allegedly told police she planned to take all the body parts with her but got “lazy” and only managed to take a “leg/foot.” She allegedly told police she forgot his head.

Taylor Schabusiness Mug Shots

Convicted Murderer Who Cut Off Boyfriend’s Head, Genitals, Gets Life In Prison Without Parole

Convicted Murderer Taylor Schabusiness Gets Life In Prison Without Parole

A ship that sank into the depths of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lake Michigan</a> in 1881 has been discovered by shipwreck hunters, who described the ship as being like “a time capsule” into the past because of how well it has survived over the years. 
The Trinidad, a schooner that transported grain between Wisconsin, Illinois, and New York, was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-shipwreck-trinidad-discovered-lake-michigan-687b68a5a1572dcb9089d8cf2b3d438b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> in July by Brendon Baillod and Robert Jaeck. The remains of the ship were found roughly 10 miles off the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wisconsin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wisconsin</a> coastline two years after the two maritime historians began their mission. 
“We were stunned to see that not only was the deckhouse still on her, but it still had all the cabinets with all the dishes stacked in them and all the crew’s effects,” Baillod <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/02/us/lake-michigan-trinidad-shipwreck.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the New York Times. “It’s really like a ship in a bottle. It’s a time capsule.”
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
Shipwreck hunters have discovered the intact remains of a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan in 1881 and is so well-preserved it still contains the crew&#39;s long-ago possessions in its final resting spot miles from Wisconsin&#39;s coastline. <a href="https://t.co/XSTPmIYqId">https://t.co/XSTPmIYqId</a>
&mdash; The Associated Press (@AP) <a href="https://twitter.com/AP/status/1697719844991324179?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
There were eight men aboard the ship who escaped in a lifeboat and made it to Algoma, Wisconsin, in May 1881. The ship&#8217;s dog went down with the wreck. 
&#8220;The captain and the crew immediately escaped in the ship’s yawl and after battling waves, the cold crew made it in to Algoma (then Ahnapee). The only loss aboard the TRINIDAD was the ship’s mascot, a large Newfoundland dog who was asleep next to the stove when the ship began to sink,&#8221; the Wisconsin Historical Society <a href="https://www.facebook.com/wisconsinhistoricalsociety/posts/pfbid033JSvKSQN4TfYVQCTSvpZiTxJpr7BajL7Vhw5kDy6EbdMnB5qgPXV3hsiMGuexWaVl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Baillod and Jaeck used the account written by John Higgins, the ship’s captain, to help them locate areas to search for the wreck. 
“The wreck is among the best-preserved shipwrecks in Wisconsin waters with her deck-house still intact, containing the crew’s possessions and her anchors and deck gear still present,” a press release on the ship’s finding said. 
The Wisconsin Historical Society helped to charter an underwater craft to survey the wreckage of the Trinidad and confirm its location. 
<a href="https://onelink.to/dwapp" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-9096" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://onelink.to/dwapp&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1693504018745000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1RMMjCvCBOBYdpkw5O_njE">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP</a>
The ship was originally constructed in 1867 and used to facilitate grain trade between the upper Midwest, Pennsylvania, and New York. The 140-foot long schooner went down with a load of coal after it sprung a leak going through the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal in Door County Wisconsin, according to the Associated Press. The ship was reportedly not well kept, which contributed to its demise. 
“If you lived in Philadelphia, Boston or New York in the 1860s and ’70s and you’re eating a sandwich, the bread in that sandwich was almost certainly grown in Wisconsin and brought on a schooner,” Baillod told the Times. 
Baillod said that he hopes that the wrecked ship could be made visible to the public. 
“These are resources that are held in public stewardship, owned by the public,” he said. “They should be visible by the public.”
A 3D model of the ship, <a href="https://www.shipwreckworld.com/articles/discovery-of-the-historic-great-lakes-schooner-trinidad?fbclid=IwAR3PqKSRq03g7cliA1vLl-rpPZDQK7d3MJAw82Mw5ngCLaoZUXeqcfYjRbc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> by Ship Wreck World can be viewed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8xESmKJQ6g" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>. 
WATCH:
<iframe loading="lazy" title="Schooner Trinidad (1867-1881) 3D Model" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o8xESmKJQ6g?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Breaking wave on a rough sea against overcast sky

‘Like A Ship In A Bottle’: Ship From 1881 Lake Michigan Wreck Found In Remarkable Condition

American History

Archaeology

Michigan

House Republicans announced an investigation on Friday into gain-of-function research at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-wisconsin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Wisconsin-Madison</a> that they said could be “dangerous.”
The <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/2023.09.01-BRW-Letter-to-UW.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> was sent by Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) to UW Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin requesting information on the university’s gain-of-function research and any information on if the university had worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology or on any coronavirus projects. 
The letter pointed to previous problems identified with gain-of-function research at the university, but the university has said that the controversial research is “needed and highly regulated.” 
Wenstrup said that he disagreed with the university’s assertion that there was enough regulation on gain-of-function research, saying that previous use of gain-of-function research at the university proved otherwise. 
“UW has already shown it has the capabilities to modify pathogens and make them more dangerous. In 2011, Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka revealed to the world that he had modified the deadly avian H5N1 influenza virus so it could spread between ferrets. This experiment enabled the bird virus to spread more easily among mammals, particularly ferrets which most closely mimic human response to the flu. The H5N1 virus is considered a ‘potential pandemic pathogen,’ which through modification or handling could cause another global pandemic,” Wenstrup wrote. 
The letter also referenced several instances where gain-of-function research was being conducted at the university and scientists working on the projects ended up in quarantine. In one instance, a researcher pricked their finger with a needle that had engineered high pathogenic avian influenza on it and had to have their family stay at a hotel while quarantining at home. 
In response to these reports, some Republican lawmakers in the state have moved to ban gain-of-function research. Rep. Elijah Behnke, Rep. Ty Bodden, and Sen. André Jacque are working on a <a href="https://wisconsinhealthnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/23-2947_1.pdf">bill</a> that would ban “institutions of higher education from conducting gain of function research on potentially pandemic pathogens, requiring reporting of the intention to conduct research on potentially pandemic pathogens, and providing a penalty.”
<a href="https://onelink.to/dwapp">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP</a>
The university has pushed back on the notion that the research is problematic, saying that it instead important for the public&#8217;s safety.
“The ability to safely study harmful viruses, bacteria and other pathogens is critically important for protecting public health and the food supply,” UW spokeswoman Kelly Tyrrell <a href="https://wisconsinhealthnews.com/2023/08/08/gop-lawmakers-seek-to-ban-gain-of-function-research-in-wisconsin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Wisconsin Health News. “UW-Madison is committed to ensuring that its researchers who work with high-risk pathogens have safe and secure laboratories and receive training and certification to ensure their investigations are conducted safely.”
Several federal government agencies believe that COVID likely escaped from a lab in China, potentially as they were conducting gain-of-function research on the coronavirus.

Northwestern Wildcats v Wisconsin Badgers

University Of Wisconsin Investigated By House Republicans Over ‘Dangerous Gain-Of-Function’ Research

Coronavirus

COVID-19

The chief justice of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wisconsin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wisconsin</a> Supreme Court has said its liberal justices are staging &#8220;an unprecedented coup” and destroying the state’s constitution ahead of a key term that could deliver decisions on voter integrity measures and abortion. 
Chief Justice Annette Ziegler <a href="https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-liberals-conservative-chief-justice-81d040f7a59c210c8ba2a4c8007834b5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slammed</a> the actions of the new liberal 4-3 court majority, taking aim at them for terminating a longstanding court director. The liberal justices fired Randy Koschnick as soon as the court official flipped earlier this month. The court director is the top non-judicial officer in the state court system. 
“You are making a mess of the judiciary, the court and the institution for years to come,” Ziegler said in an email obtained by the Associated Press. “This must stop. &#8230; I have no confidence in the recent hostile takeover and the chaotic effect it has had on the court, staff, and the overall stable functioning of the courts.”
The emails from Ziegler were sent to the other six justices and interim state court director Audrey Skwierawsk, whom the liberal judges handpicked. According to <a href="https://www.wicourts.gov/sc/rules/chap70.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wisconsin law</a>, the court director is supposed to &#8220;be hired by and serve at the pleasure of the supreme court, under the direction of the chief justice.&#8221;
In the emails, Ziegler said that Skwierawsk was signing court orders in Ziegler’s name without authorization.
“It has come to my attention that you have been signing my reserve judge orders without my knowledge or approval,” Ziegler said. “You never asked me for permission. You do not have my permission. Stop. These orders are in my name. You have no lawful authority to sign them. If you have signed anything else under my name, please advise immediately.”
The liberal judges also moved to shift judicial work from Ziegler to a committee. Ziegler said they were undermining the court. 
<a class="c-link c-link--focus-visible" href="https://onelink.to/dwapp" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://onelink.to/dwapp" data-sk="tooltip_parent" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-23947">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP</a>
“Again, I will not condone such lawless destruction of the constitution, the judiciary, or the court,” Ziegler wrote. “This is nothing short of an unprecedented coup. For 40 years, the role of the Chief Justice has been understood and respected. Your short term goals will cause long term, irreparable damage to the judiciary. What a historical disgrace.”
Judge Rebecca Dallet said that liberals on the court were acting within their constitutional duties. 
“We are simply creating process so that a majority of the court can effectively work in the face of an intransigent and uncollegial chief who apparently insists on a public debate about issues for political purposes, rather than allow a court majority to function as it always has,” Dallet said. 
The disagreements on the court come after liberal Judge Janet Protasiewicz <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/liberal-wisconsin-judge-wins-supreme-court-race-flips-balance-of-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">soundly defeated</a> conservative-backed candidate Dan Kelly in April, flipping the control of the court to liberal judges for the first time in 15 years. 
Protasiewicz was <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/03/28/soros-pritzker-and-uihleins-pour-millions-into-supreme-court-race/70055900007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">backed</a> by leftwing billionaire George Soros, Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker, and many celebrities, including actor Mark Ruffalo and director Steven Spielberg. Total spending in the race exceeded $40 million, an astronomical amount compared to previous years when total spending was only around $10 million.

Justice Janet Protasiewicz’s election to Wisconsin’s Supreme Court gives liberals a 4-3 majority on the court.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Says Liberal Justices Staging ‘Coup,’ Destroying Constitution

George Soros

Politics

Tech entrepreneur <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/vivek-ramaswamy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vivek Ramaswamy</a> called for shutting down the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Education</a> and moving that funding &#8220;in the hands of parents&#8221; so they could have the opportunity to decide where to educate their children. 
Ramaswamy made the comments Wednesday during the first 2024 Republican <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/2024-gop-presidential-debate-live-updates-as-eight-republicans-face-off-in-milwaukee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">presidential primary debate</a> in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/milwaukee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Milwaukee</a>, Wisconsin. More than $79 billion was allocated to the Department of Education in fiscal year 2023. Ramaswamy also advocated the end of local teachers unions, which have been a barrier to school choice and charter school initiatives. 
“We have a crisis of achievement. Let&#8217;s shut down the head of the snake, the Department of Education. Take that $80 billion and put it in the hands of parents across this country. This is the civil rights issue of our time,” he said. “Allow any parent to choose where they send their kids to school. End the teachers unions at the local level to allow public schools to compete, and then revive our national identity.”
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
True “privilege” is not based on the color of your skin. It’s being raised in a stable family with two parents with a focus on education and a faith in God. That’s the ultimate “privilege.” As President, it’ll be my job to make sure we help every kid in this country be able to… <a href="https://t.co/1XFaFe6eao">pic.twitter.com/1XFaFe6eao</a>
&mdash; Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) <a href="https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1694541273015668815?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Additionally, Ramaswamy said that high school seniors should be required to take the same civics test that immigrants must pass to become citizens. He said that the crisis in American education, as kids have seen declining scores in key subjects like math and reading, is partly linked to fatherlessness. 
“Part of the problem is we also have a federal government that pays single women more not to have a man in the house than to have a man in the house, contributing to an epidemic of fatherlessness, and I think that goes hand in glove with the education crisis as well, because we have to remember: Education starts with the family; and, the nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to mankind,” Ramaswamy said. 
Other candidates had similar answers on the topic of education. South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott also went after teachers unions. 
<a class="c-link c-link--focus-visible" href="https://onelink.to/dwapp" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://onelink.to/dwapp" data-sk="tooltip_parent" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-7976">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP</a>
“The only way we can change education in this country is to break the backs of the teachers&#8217; unions. They are standing in the door-house of our kids, locking them into failing schools, locking them out of the greatest future they can have,” Scott said. 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
TIM SCOTT says &quot;the only way we change education in this nation is to BREAK THE BACKS OF THE TEACHERS UNIONS&quot; <a href="https://t.co/9Jzw8axHjD">pic.twitter.com/9Jzw8axHjD</a>
&mdash; Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1694544388905464129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said that Left-leaning politics were hampering education nationwide. &#8220;We need education in this country, not indoctrination in this country,” he said. 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
RON DESANTIS: &quot;We need education in this country, not indoctrination in this country.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/PDNs167lh1">pic.twitter.com/PDNs167lh1</a>
&mdash; Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1694540603948765611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
The debate took place at the Fiserv Forum and featured eight Republican candidates. Notably absent was former President Donald Trump, who opted to do a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-tucker-interview-racks-up-massive-views-addresses-debate-skip-indictments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one-on-one interview</a> with Tucker Carlson that was released on X minutes before the debate began.

2024 Presidential Candidates Participate In Republican Primary Debate

Ramaswamy: Shut Down Dept Of Education, Move Funding To Parents To Allow School Choice

Menu

Streaming Now