Under Democrat rule, parents who speak out against leftist education policy must fear the FBI. In New York, parent leaders who join school boards and stray from woke ideology will be brought to heel by the Equity Compliance Officer.

Mayor Bill de Blasio is pushing through a rule that will allow Department of Education educrats to remove parents from Community Education Councils (i.e., school boards) if they voice criticism.

The New York Post reports:

The Panel for Education Policy will vote on this Orwellian proposal Dec. 21 — not a historically high parent-participation date.

Chancellor’s Regulation D-210 would skirt the democratic process and give the DOE sweeping power to silence parents. It relies on vague language to determine “violations of conduct” and, more disturbing, establishes yet another administrative position to monitor parents: the equity-compliance officer. This (no doubt expensive) bureaucrat would be charged with deciding who to target for removal for violating the newly expanded “code of conduct.”

Too bad Lavrenty Beria or Felix Dzerzhinsky didn’t live in New York City in 2021. They would have made great Equity Compliance Officers.

One section says council members cannot engage in “frequent verbal abuse and unnecessary aggressive speech” with others.

Of course not. That would constitute a terrorist threat.

School board members are to be removed on an arbitrary basis on the claim that their conduct is “contrary to the best interest of the New York City school district” or “creates or would foreseeably create a risk of disruption within the district or school community.” This is not limited to conduct at CEC meetings.

The dystopian science fiction novel New Yorkers are living in does not strive for subtlety:

[A]n Equity Council, a team of DOE-appointed apparatchiks, would be tasked with providing recommendations on the resolutions of complaints — in other words who to remove and silence. The regulation ominously says that “in the event of a disagreement between the Equity Compliance Officer and the Equity Council, the recommendation of the Equity Compliance Officer shall govern.”

For now, it does not appear that the Equity Compliance Officer will be vested with authority to perform summary executions.

Here’s why the new rule is necessary:

Tellingly, it is being proposed right after parents were finally able to vote directly for CEC members and “flipped” some councils by electing several members critical of DOE policies who are very vocal about holding their districts accountable.

Parents have beefs about racist indoctrination, the abolition of academic standards and advanced programs in the name of equity, and sadistic Covid muzzle policies. Rather than debate these issues, Democrats characteristically aim to silence the troublemakers.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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