Live from Music Row Tuesday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed Capitol Resource Institute’s Executive Director Karen England in-studio to discuss the sexually inappropriate material in Clarksville, Tennessee’s public schools.
Leahy: Right now we are delighted to welcome to our microphones Karen England with the Capital Resource Institute. Good morning, Karen.
England: Hey, good morning.
Leahy: You are one of a number of people that have left California, all the crazy progressive stuff going on there, and moved to Tennessee. You moved to Clarksville, Tennessee two years ago.
England: Yes, I did. That’s where our kids are. I don’t know why I never considered the South sooner, but I’m loving Tennessee. And I just want you to know I’m not here to bring the California politics. I’m here to stop California politics from entering this state.
Leahy: That’s a relief. You hear that giant sigh of relief from our listeners right now. It seems that a lot of new people come to town. Many of them are refugees from California, Illinois, New York, and Connecticut. Yesterday, we had a refugee from Seattle.
Our producer is a refugee from Seattle. And so people see the light and move here to get away from progressive policies. What happened when you got here? What did you find in Clarksville, Tennessee public schools?
England: Oh, what I found in Clarksville, Tennessee public schools – and this isn’t just Clarksville, but you should be shocked: the graphic sexual education and the graphic transgender. Two years ago, they were asking students their preferred pronoun.
Some of the worst or most-challenged books in the nation for graphic sexual scenes are in the Clarksville public school libraries. It’s just shocking to me how much California is on the ground here in Tennessee. And it didn’t come from me.
Leahy: It’s not your fault! It was here, and it looks like it’s the teachers’ unions and the left-wing groups that have kind of permeated public education.
England: Oh, absolutely. As a matter of fact, there was a military school where all the military families leave elementary school, last year, and did the Pledge and they left “under God” out and they filmed it and put it up on YouTube. I mean, they were proud of it!
Leahy: You found out about the graphic pornography in public schools in Clarksville. What did you do about it?
England: I filed a complaint. Our organization tries to help parents, equip them to kind of reclaim their parental rights.
Leahy: Capitol Resource Institute. On the web at capitolresource.org.
England: Capitolresource.org. And we’ve got a lot of stuff up there on the books in Tennessee from one that promotes Grinder, which is a dating app for 18-and-over LGBTQ kids. It promotes Craigslist. It is very graphic. I don’t even know if I can say the words on the radio.
Leahy: Don’t say that, because, you know, the FCC might have something to say about that.
England: Exactly. But our kids can have it. Our 13-year-old kids can have it. And then the most recent one we found is a really graphic one where they’ve got QR codes so that parents kind of don’t know what’s going on.
Leahy: You put up the QR code. Boom, there it is. Now, so you file a complaint. Where did you file a complaint?
England: We filed a complaint, per the school district policy, with the school principal that we were in. However, unless you have a child at that school, they’re not going to accept it.
And so we had to find a parent willing to go up against the administration – because keep in mind, when you file this, they then put a committee together totally stacked against the parent by the principal and the librarian.
Leahy: The educrats.
England: Yes. So parents are going to be hesitant to do that.
Leahy: Did a parent file a complaint?
England: A parent filed a complaint.
Leahy: When did they file a complaint?
England: After we notified them.
Leahy: When was that?
England: Two weeks ago.
Leahy:Â Just two weeks ago?
England: Yes.
Leahy: This is all just in process right now.
England: This one they removed, but before they did, they removed the one with the Grinder app. Every other book they have not responded to.
Leahy: How surprised were you, leaving left-wing lunatic California, coming into Clarksville, Tennessee, and suddenly finding elements of California progressive lunacy in K-12 public schools in Clarksville, Tennessee?
England: I was shocked because I will tell you, the books that we’ve been revealing, as I’m calling people in California, two of the school districts that we looked for these books in California, neither one of them Northern or Southern, had these books in their libraries. And so it’s in Clarksville and it’s in Chattanooga.
Leahy: So the educrats here are sneaking these books in, probably an organized effort to bring these left-wing philosophies into K-12 public schools.
England: Absolutely. And parents have no idea.
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Photo “Teacher and Student” by Tima Miroshnichenko.
What is our governor doing about this? We need to hear from his office.
While many Teachers are well intended and simply want to teach children how to read, write, add and subtract. Administrators, Union Leaders and looney leftists make their jobs so much harder. There are some Teachers that are fully engulfed in the destruction of the American way of life. Brainwashed by academic tyrants seeking more and more of the public’s money to feather their nests. The public has to put their collective foot down and stop funding failure.