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For Austin Metcalf's sake as well as Karmelo Anthony's, the disciplinary double-standard must end so another senseless murder doesn’t happen.For Austin Metcalf's sake as well as Karmelo Anthony's, the disciplinary double-standard must end so another senseless murder doesn’t happen.TikTok video exposes America’s reading crisis: Why parents and schools are failing kids
A video has gone viral on TikTok for revealing a literacy crisis in America — showing high school students failing to read a very simple sentence: “She wore a silhouette of clothes that were extraordinary but somewhat gauche.”
And BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey believes that one of the reasons for this crisis is not only the method for teaching literacy in schools, but that the amount of parents reading to their children daily has dropped. And according to a study conducted by HarperCollins Publishers, the drop is significant.
“I saw this statistic that says only 41% of children aged 0 to 4 are read to daily as of 2025. That is a nine-point drop only since 2019. Only 55%, a little over half of children aged 0 to 5, are read to at least five days a week,” she continues.
“There are a lot of parents who are overstimulated. They’re tired. They’re distracted. It’s really not about these kids having their own lack of discipline. It starts with a lack of discipline and bad priorities for parents honestly,” she adds.
Stuckey believes that the difficulty parents face finding the time or energy to read to their kids is manifesting in "difficulty for them for the rest of their lives.”
And the reason this is creating so much difficulty for children is because “the comprehension of words is necessary for understanding the world.”
“It is very difficult to be a diligent student, an informed voter, a productive citizen, a helpful neighbor if you do not understand words,” Stuckey says.
But it’s not just the ability to participate in modern society that’s being threatened by the literacy crisis.
“Unlike Buddhism, Christianity does not place a premium on silence or the emptying of the mind. Christianity is a word-based faith. You go all the way back to the beginning. God spoke the universe into existence,” Stuckey explains.
“He dictated all of creation, including the creation of man and woman who were made in his image. He spoke to Noah. He spoke to and through Moses,” she continues.
This is why, Stuckey explains, Christians have historically been “the best communicators in the world.”
“Christians dominated academia in this country before giving it over to the liberals and the secularists over time. And now, I think we have the opportunity to take the lead again. We have to. I mean, look at where we are,” she says.
“We have schools that are not teaching kids to read. We have people going to college and becoming lawyers and doctors with barely a high school-reading level. We’re scared of objective standards here in the U.S., standards of excellence because of whom they might exclude,” she continues, adding, "And all of us are going to suffer for that.”
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Radicals train for massive May Day protests at public schools, thanks to America's largest teachers' union
Defending Education, an advocacy organization that combats leftist indoctrination in K-12 public schools, recently obtained documents outlining the talking points and marching orders being fed to radicals ahead of leftist May Day protests planned across the country.
Among the leftist outfits poised to train would-be protesters is the Midwest Academy, a liberal activist-grooming center that has reportedly received over $1.7 million in recent years from the National Education Association.
'Congress should revoke the NEA’s federal charter.'
The Midwest Academy, joined by the the NYU Metro Center and organizers from Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools member groups, is coordinating a four-week training series titled "Four Weeks of Power" with the purported aim of building "a broader, stronger base of parents, educators and students taking action to defend and transform public schools."
Although organized by the NEA-backed outfit, sessions will be provided by the leftist organization Free the Future, part of the NEA-aligned Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools network.
Free the Future will start off the sessions by providing "an introduction to community organizing in the context of the rising authoritarianism we’re seeing in real time." Free the Future will conclude the sessions by helping fellow travelers "better understand power mapping and targets, understanding which actions make sense for our team and community, and the logistics of planning a successful action."
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Free the Future is evidently keen to train up radicals with the NEA-backed group in time for mass protests on May 1. Free the Future has partnered with May Day Strong "to plan hundreds of actions in the streets" next month.
May Day Strong's tool kit reveals that radicals are reskinning their No Kings protests for May Day.
The tool kit recommends not only protesting outside lawmakers' offices and "one of the many corporate targets we need to take on," but that radicals stage "school walk-ins" and rally outside schools.
Hilton Hotels, Chevron, Citgo, and Enterprise Rent-A-Car are the corporations targeted by May Day Strong.
The organizers have furnished would-be protesters with a template press release that contains the following talking points:
- "Tax the rich so our families, not their fortunes, come first."
- "No ICE, NO War. No private army serving authoritarian power."
- "Expand democracy, not corporate rule. Defend free and fair elections."
NEA's official May Day 2026 "Solidarity Toolkit," which is greatly similar to the May Day Strong tool kit right down to the advocacy for school walk-ins, states, "This May Day will be a day of rallies, marches, teach-ins, labor actions, and a refusal of business as usual — because when those at the top rig the system, collective action is how we set it right."
According to NEA's tool kit, "walk-ins" seem to involve a school invasion:
During school walk-ins, parents, educators, and students, along with neighbors and community leaders, gather in front of their school 30-45 minutes before the school day begins. We rally and listen to a few speakers discuss what they want for the school, and then we all walk into the school together. Walk-ins can be used to celebrate your school, collaborate with school officials, or protest harmful school conditions and policies.
Rhyen Staley, director of research at Defending Education, said in a statement obtained by Blaze News, "This is yet another example of how activists and teachers' unions view schools as a tool to advance their political agenda."
"It should be deeply concerning that one of the suggested tactics is to enter schools to protest against policies they don’t like," continued Staley. "Putting children's education and safety at risk for political gain is unethical and immoral."
Corey DeAngelis, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation's Center for Education Policy, told Blaze News, "Congress should revoke the NEA’s federal charter or at least bar them from engaging in political activity altogether."
DeAngelis noted further, "These radicals are providing free advertising for homeschooling, showing us exactly who they are, and parents need to pull their kids out of these institutions."
Becky Pringle, the Democrat NEA president who reportedly made over $500,000 while fighting to keep schools closed at kids' expense between September 2020 and August 2021, made clear in her keynote address at last year's National Education Association convention that her union is committed to undermining the Trump administration.
"We must use our power to take action that leads, action that liberates, action that lasts," Pringle said in her speech.
At the convention, the NEA adopted a resolution declaring its support for mass movements against the government, including No Kings protests and anti-ICE rallies.
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Movie star and father of five Hugh Grant says he’s fed up with seeing his children glued to screens — and insists he’s speaking not as a celebrity activist but as “just another angry parent.”
Grant has campaigned on digital privacy issues since accusing journalists at the now-defunct News of the World of hacking his phone in 2011, later securing settlements with publishers, including Mirror Group Newspapers and News Group Newspapers (the Sun), most recently in 2024.
'And you think, "What is this? What happened with you and Google Classroom or whatever it might be?"'
But a recently resurfaced clip shows the "Bridget Jones" star venting about something far more familiar to parents: schools pushing screens, Chromebooks, and app-based learning on children who already spend much of their lives online.
Screen idol
In the clip — recorded last June during a panel discussion on rolling back “phone-based childhood and screen-based school days" — Grant complained of an “eternal, exhausting, and depressing battle” with children who only want to be on screens.
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“And the final straw was when the schools started saying, with some smugness, ‘We give every child a Chromebook, and they do a lot of lessons on their Chromebook, and they do all their homework on their Chromebook,’” Grant said. “And you just thought, that is the last f**king thing they need — and the last thing we need.”
Pwning parents
Grant also criticized the defensive posture schools and politicians adopt when parents raise concerns about classroom technology.
“Suddenly you get letters in a kind of semi-legalese,” he said. “And you think, ‘What is this? What happened with you and Google Classroom or whatever it might be?’”
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The actor said his skepticism has been shaped by years of experience confronting powerful institutions. Grant is a board member of Hacked Off, the media-reform group founded after the phone-hacking scandal to campaign against illegal surveillance and press abuses.
Game over
While Hacked Off does not focus on school technology, Grant suggested the same instinct to close ranks now appears when parents question the role of screens in education.
“I don’t think politicians ever do anything because it’s the right thing to do,” Grant said. “Even if it’s the right thing to do to protect children. They’ll only do what gets them votes.”
According to Grant, meaningful change will come only when enough parents push back — not just against smartphones but against what he sees as the normalization of screens throughout childhood.
“I think that once you get a critical mass of parents who are outraged by ed-tech as well as all the other issues — the phones, etcetera — that is when politicians listen,” he said.
“And it’s when schools start to listen because they’re scared of people leaving their schools and losing business.”
Grant is the father of five children between the ages of 7 and 14.
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