I’ve been warning for weeks now that Delaware’s Republicans — the party so stupid it loses to Delaware Democrats — intend to make the Department of Education’s transgendered student policy, known as Regulation 225, the centerpiece of next year’s elections.
That tub is being thumped especially hard in Sussex County, where, this Delmarva Now story tells us, parents turned out to protest at an Indian River school board meeting. All the usual fears were raised about the state taking power away from parents, but the story never says something the photograph makes clear: This outrage has fired up, oh, tens of parents.
That won’t lessen the media’s attempts to make this a hot-button issue, though. Expect vast overcoverage of this “controversy” for the next 12 months, despite the small number and towering ignorance of its critics. My favorite part was the woman who said that if the regulation does pass, she’ll pull their children out of public school and would home school instead them.
So let me get this straight — you’ll take your children out of the public schools, removing my need to pay tax dollars to educate them? That just proves you don’t understand how incentives work. I’m all in favor of you mouth-breathers taking your kids out of public schools, so now I’m even more in favor of Regulation 225.