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Mar 2023
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Why Are Schools Hiding Information From ...

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Full Hour | In today’s second hour, Dom welcomes in Caroline Moore, Vice President of Parents Defending Education, onto the Dom Giordano Program to discuss her organization’s effort to uncover school districts throughout the country who are hiding student’s gender preferences from parents. Moore explains why the organization has taken this upon themselves, stressing the importance of parental involvement in education, and tells why she worries that this is a continued trend of removing power from parents. Moore tells that their website, DefendingEd.org, now features what they call an ‘IndoctriNation’ map, which visually lays out which districts have incidents of schools hiding this type of information from parents.

Then, Dom welcomes Michael J. Donohue, a Former NJ Superior Court Judge who’s now serving as a special counsel to Cape May County on windmill issues, to the Dom Giordano Program. Dom and Donohue discuss a Philadelphia Inquirer story that suggests that questions surrounding the relationship between windmill construction and dead whales on the Jersey Shore are ‘conspiracy theories,’ essentially dampening any discussion as ‘politically charged.’ Donohue tells about a meeting tonight to address potential causes behind the unprecedented spike in whale deaths, explaining the importance of keeping an open mind as we pursue an investigation into the environmental issue. (Photo by Getty Images)

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