America’s education system is facing a growing list of challenges — from plummeting test scores and the lingering hangover from COVID-era remote classes to teacher shortages and mounting public frustration over gender ideology.

But take it from a former teacher: Another grave problem is haunting our classrooms. Climate extremists have infiltrated American schools, and they’re indoctrinating our children in radical ideology. It’s time the Department of Justice took action to stop it.

I worked for many years as a teacher and saw firsthand just how deeply rooted this climate ideology is in our classrooms.

Fortunately, they’ve taken the first step. In May, the Justice Department filed lawsuits against four states for allegedly funneling public funds into unconstitutional climate litigation. Attorney General Pam Bondi called the litigation “burdensome and ideologically motivated,” and she’s right. The troubling part is: It’s happening in our public school classrooms too.

If the Trump administration is serious about rooting out taxpayer-funded climate extremism, the next logical step is clear: Launch an investigation into the climate ideologues flooding our education system with fearmongering and pseudoscience.

Indoctrinated K-12 classrooms

Just look at what’s happening in New York City. In the summer of 2024, Columbia University partnered with NYC Public Schools to hold a four-day workshop for teachers called “Integrating Climate Education in N.Y.C. Public Schools.” The aim should be clear from the name: Teachers were guided on how to interweave climate hysteria into their lesson plans.

A reporter later visited a public school in the Bronx where a teacher was reading her students a book about flooding in Africa. “And what’s causing all these rains and storms and floods?” she asked. “Carbon,” an 8-year-old answered.

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This isn’t isolated to New York. In 2020, New Jersey became the first state in the nation to mandate that climate change be taught at all grade levels. It begins in kindergarten, where even the lighthearted activity of dancing is used to “examine global issues, including climate change as a topic for dance.” And it’s integrated into every other school subject — from computer science to physical education.

Other states are working to incorporate climate change into their curricula. California’s Assembly Bill 285, passed in 2023, requires science teachers to instruct students beginning in the first grade “on the causes and effects of climate change, and on the methods to mitigate and adapt to climate change.”

This isn’t science; it’s political conditioning masquerading as curriculum.

Take it from me: I worked for many years as a teacher and saw firsthand just how deeply rooted this climate ideology is in our classrooms — and that was before state governments began passing their mandates. What I witnessed wasn’t education but indoctrination, and it proved very successful.

Radicalized universities

Later, I left K-12 to teach as a college professor, and what I found was troubling. My freshman students widely believed the world was going to end within their lifetimes and were emotionally paralyzed by it. They didn’t want to debate other students or hear the other side of the argument. Instead, out of anger, they wanted to shame and cancel those who thought differently.

Even the most milquetoast of pushback was met by my students with confusion and contempt. This is what happens when children are indoctrinated from a very young age.

The effects of climate brainwashing are so widespread that psychologists even have a term for it: climate anxiety. The New York Times recently profiled the case of a woman paralyzed by mundane activities, like eating nuts.

They came wrapped in plastic, often in layers of it, that she imagined leaving her house and traveling to a landfill, where it would remain through her lifetime and the lifetime of her children.

In 2021, the first study on climate anxiety was released. It found that young children all over the world had been affected. Of those surveyed, more than half reported feeling sad, anxious, angry, and guilty over the climate, while a full 75% said the future looked frightening.

Leading academic institutions like Yale and Harvard have since accepted that climate anxiety is inevitable and sought to provide therapy to their students. But this is like an arsonist claiming fires are inevitable and investing in more garden hoses. Climate anxiety isn’t inevitable; it’s a direct result of convincing our children that a made-up apocalypse is inevitable.

Root out climate hysteria

Teaching kids how to care for the environment is not wrong. I was part of a generation taught to recycle, respect nature, and preserve the land for future use. But today’s curriculum isn’t about stewardship — it’s about shame. It’s not about science — it’s about fear.

It’s time for the Justice Department to broaden its investigation into the public education bureaucracies, state curriculum mandates, and activist organizations pushing climate panic in the classroom. Climate extremism shouldn’t be government policy, and it certainly shouldn’t be taught as gospel to our kids.

Let’s stop the fear, stop the brainwashing, and bring common sense back to the classroom.

America's largest teachers' union declares war on the Trump administration, will use kids as foot soldiers

Thousands of teachers gathered in Portland, Oregon, July 3-6 for the annual convention of the National Education Association.

Becky Pringle, the Democratic NEA president who reportedly made over $500,000 while fighting to keep schools closed at kids' expense between September 2020 and August 2021, made abundantly clear in her keynote address on July 3 that America's largest teachers' union is little more than a radical political entity. She indicated that now, more than ever, the union seeks to undermine the American people's democratically elected president, his government, and those state governments that would dare depoliticize the classroom, spare children from leftist propaganda, dismantle DEI, and uphold parental rights.

"Our country is depending on us, on this community, to lead the way from dogmatism back to decency," Pringle said in her speech, which she mainly shouted at her audience.

Although the NEA resolutions passed at the convention were apparently kept private this year, Corey DeAngelis, a senior fellow at the American Culture Project and a visiting fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research, obtained a copy. The resolutions, referred to as business items, reveal precisely how the radical union intends to wield its power in the coming months.

"It looks like a declaration of war on the Trump administration," DeAngelis told Blaze News.

'You really can't make this stuff up.'

"We already knew that the NEA was basically an arm of the Democrat Party based on their campaign contributions. Nearly all of their political funding is funneled to Democrats' campaign coffers every single election cycle, and we knew that the NEA supported Kamala Harris in the presidential election," DeAngelis continued. "But these resolutions take it up a notch."

According to the images of the documents obtained by DeAngelis and corroborated in a report in Education Week, one of the business items adopted at the convention obligates the NEA to "defend against Trump's embrace of fascism by using the term facism [sic] in NEA materials to correctly characterize Donald Trump's program and actions."

The NEA indicated that the price tag on this initiative is an "additional $3,500."

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"You really can't make this stuff up," DeAngelis said. "You have the nation's largest teachers' union, in their attempt to call the president a 'fascist,' misspell the word. It's another bit of free advertising for school choice and homeschooling."

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Another business item adopted at the convention, according to the documents provided by DeAngelis, commits the union to using "existing media channels to oppose any move to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education as an illegal, anti-democratic, and racist attempt to destroy public education and privatize it in the interest of the billionaires."

"I don't know how in the world they can say getting rid of the Department of Education, which has failed at every academic metric for low-income and minority kids, is somehow racist," DeAngelis told Blaze News. "If anything, keeping that department around has more roots in racism than anything since it has failed to close achievement gaps and to get black kids, in particular, at proficiency levels in reading and math."

'They're trying to subvert the will of parents.'

The documents provided by DeAngelis indicate that the NEA, which equated states' rights with Jim Crow, also adopted a business item to support "affiliates in states where legislative bodies have taken or are taking actions that silence educators, restrict collective bargaining, remove fair dismissal protections, or other actions that negatively affect public education, educators, and potential voter suppression laws that seek to undermine public education."

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According to the language of this business item, which singles out Arkansas and South Carolina as states in "extreme need," the support could take various forms, including lobbying, providing legal assistance, and "mobilizing retired and current NEA members."

The teachers' union appears keen to continue turning American students against their government, in part by championing student protests against both law enforcement and Trump's policies.

"NEA opposes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) kidnapping of student leaders and supports students' right to organize against ICE raids and deportations," says business item 63, among those apparently adopted at the convention. "We will protect our students' right to free speech and defend their right to dissent and organize against Trump's policies, including attacks against LGBTQ+ students, and against racism."

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Such efforts might have to wait a year, as the NEA indicated that "this item cannot be accomplished with current staff and resources under the 2025-26 Modified Strategic Plan and Budget."

In addition to supporting student uprisings, the documents provided by DeAngelis indicate the NEA adopted another resolution declaring its support for mass movements against the government, including the "No Kings" protests and the anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in Los Angeles.

When asked about the relevance of the NEA's agenda to parents, DeAngelis said, "These resolutions are your wake-up call to homeschool your kids," and reiterated, "It's free advertising for school choice."

"Would you want these lunatics at the National Education Association like Becky Pringle teaching your kids? Do you want them to help you raise your children? Do you want them to push back against everything you're trying to do in the household?" said DeAngelis. "They're trying to subvert the will of parents."

DeAngelis underscored that teachers' unions don't regard schools as a place for kids to read, write, and learn math but rather as the means "to control the minds of other people's children" and "churn out more Democrat foot soldiers to push their progressive worldview on the rest of the country."

"We must use our power to take action that leads, action that liberates, action that lasts," Pringle said in her speech, adding that the NEA is going to "educate, communicate, organize, mobilize, litigate, legislate, elect."

Blaze News has reached out to the NEA for comment and to confirm the authenticity of the provided documents.

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Don’t let rural America become the next New York City

Elect strong conservative leaders in your state — or watch it go the way of New York City. That’s the unmistakable warning conservatives should take from New York voters nominating a Hamas sympathizer and self-proclaimed socialist for mayor.

How could this happen just one generation after 9/11? How does the city that suffered most from jihadist terrorism now embrace a foreign-born Islamist who wants to “globalize the intifada”?

When Trump calls for more farm labor from the third world — so long as the workers aren’t 'murderers' — he misses the deeper issue. Violent crime isn’t the only threat.

Several factors explain the city’s decline, but one stands out: immigration. Forty percent of New York City’s population now consists of foreign-born residents — not including the children of immigrants. Mass immigration on that scale, especially from Islamic and third world countries, doesn’t just change the labor market. It imports foreign values and embeds them in the culture.

Trump should think twice about demanding more foreign agricultural workers for red-state America. His arguments about labor shortages miss the larger picture. This isn’t just about harvesting crops — it’s about reshaping schools, neighborhoods, and eventually, the ballot box.

In 2022, the Center for Immigration Studies mapped 2,351 Census Bureau-defined Public Use Microdata Areas to show the percentage of schoolchildren from immigrant households. No surprise: Urban districts in places like New York and Los Angeles show overwhelming majorities of immigrant families.

But that trend now stretches deep into red states. Cities and even rural counties are seeing shockingly high proportions of students from immigrant families.

In southeast Nashville, 65% of public-school students come from immigrant families. Iraq ranks as the second-largest country of origin. In Dallas, all 20 school districts report at least one-third of students from immigrant households. In most of those districts, a majority of families are foreign-born.

This trend extends well beyond major cities. In southwest Oklahoma City, 43% of students come from immigrant families. Greenville, South Carolina, stands at 35%. Birmingham and Chattanooga each hover around 20%.

Red-state cities and midsize towns now reflect immigration levels once limited to coastal urban hubs. That leaves rural America as the last holdout — and even that is changing.

The so-called farm labor trade has transformed heartland communities. These public school districts report the following immigrant family enrollment rates:

Texas Panhandle (outside Potter and Randall Counties): 31%
Oklahoma Panhandle: 21%
Southwest Kansas (Dodge City, Garden City, Liberal City): 55%
Central Nebraska: 27%
Canyon and Owyhee Counties, Idaho (Caldwell and Nampa): 30%
Whitfield County, Georgia: 43%
Woodbury and Plymouth Counties, Iowa (Sioux City): 26%
Washington County, Arkansas: 26%
Fargo, North Dakota: 23%

Until recently, these areas were overwhelmingly native-born. They maintained a strong continuity of American culture and civic tradition.

What happens when the next generation of these children grows up, votes, and brings in more from similar backgrounds? These red counties may not stay red for long.

Mitt Romney won Washington County, Arkansas, by 16 points in 2012. Just 12 years later, Donald Trump carried it by only six — even as he expanded his statewide margin. What changed? More than a quarter of the local student body now comes from immigrant households.

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Trump won rural Sampson County, North Carolina, by a 2-to-1 margin. Yet, by the 2022–23 school year, Hispanic students made up 44.2% of public school enrollment. The district now runs extensive English as a Second Language programs to meet ongoing demand. Even if Hispanic voters shift modestly right, when has such rapid demographic upheaval ever worked to conservatives’ advantage?

The pace of change is impossible to ignore. Importing foreign labor into rural counties inevitably reshapes culture — and, soon after, voting patterns.

Greene County, Iowa, illustrates the point. In 2023, Hispanic residents accounted for just 3.3% of the total population. But that number underrepresents their influence. Iowa State University researchers found Latino populations in rural Iowa tend to skew young, meaning they disproportionately fill the schools even when their overall numbers look small. That imbalance compounds over time.

When Trump calls for more farm labor from the third world — so long as the workers aren’t “murderers” — he misses the deeper issue. Violent crime isn’t the only threat. The more serious loss lies in surrendering the very communities that naturally align with traditional American culture.

As Vice President JD Vance put it during his Republican National Convention acceptance speech: “America is not just an idea. It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future. It is, in short, a nation.”

That is the nation Trump must promise to defend — not just with words but with sound policy.

MASSIVE VICTORY: SCOTUS sides with parents; Alito nukes LGBT indoctrination campaign

Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland's largest school district, approved over 20 works of LGBT propaganda for inclusion as instructional materials in its curriculum in late 2022.

The woke district was initially willing to let parents opt their kids out of lessons incorporating the non-straight agitprop and to provide notice when radical works celebrating sex changes, Pride parades, and reality-defying pronouns such as "Pride Puppy," "Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope," and "My Rainbow" were read.

However, the district determined that the opt-outs required by state law for sex education units of health classes did not apply, as the LGBT propaganda was introduced as part of the English curriculum.

'These books impose upon children a set of values and beliefs that are "hostile" to their parents' religious beliefs.'

Unwilling to surrender their children to cultural imperialists and confident that the district's policy violated their First Amendment right to freely exercise their religion, Christian and Muslim parents represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty took the MCPS to court — not seeking to ban the books but to reclaim the right to control their kids' exposure to them.

On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the parents are entitled to a preliminary injunction that would permit them to have their kids excused from instruction related to the LGBT propaganda while their lawsuit proceeds.

The high court reversed a lesser court's judgment and noted that the parents "are likely to succeed on their claim that the Board’s policies unconstitutionally burden their religious exercise."

"We hold that the Board’s introduction of the 'LGBTQ+-inclusive' storybooks — combined with its decision to withhold notice to parents and to forbid opt outs — substantially interferes with the religious development of their children and imposes the kind of burden on religious exercise that Yoder found unacceptable," Justice Samuel Alito noted in the opinion for the high court.

Alito emphasized in the majority opinion that storybooks targeting young children are "unmistakably normative" and "clearly designed to present certain values and beliefs as things to be celebrated and certain contrary values and beliefs as things to be rejected."

The conservative justice highlighted, for example, that one of the works of LGBT propaganda pushed in the district "does not simply refer to same-sex marriage as an existing practice. Instead, it presents acceptance of same-sex marriage as a perspective that should be celebrated."

"These books carry with them 'a very real threat of undermining' the religious beliefs that the parents wish to instill in their children," continued Alito. "Like the compulsory high school education considered in Yoder, these books impose upon children a set of values and beliefs that are 'hostile' to their parents' religious beliefs."

Alito suggested further that the three dissenting liberal justices' "blinkered view" that the LGBT propaganda was merely aimed at exposing students to the message that non-straight people exist and teaching them kindness "ignores the messages that the authors plainly intended to convey" as well as the school board's stated reasons for inserting the books into the curriculum.

Tiffany Justice, co-founder of Moms for Liberty, was among the many parental rights activists who celebrated the ruling.

"We owe immense gratitude to the courageous parents, like Tamer Mahmoud and Rosalind Hanson, who bravely stepped forward as plaintiffs in this landmark case," said Justice. "This decision protects family values and religious freedom from ideological overreach, sending a clear warning to every public school in America: Respect the sacred, fundamental rights of parents, or face the consequences."

Anticipating that the court would side with the parents, Corey DeAngelis, a senior fellow at the American Culture Project and a visiting fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research, told Blaze News previously that "a ruling in favor of families would be a landmark victory for parental rights in education" — one that would "reaffirm the Supreme Court precedent and the fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children."

The Supreme Court made abundantly clear a century ago in Pierce v. Society of Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary that "the child is not the mere creature of the state; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations."

'It's all about indoctrination.'

According to a poll of 1,000 American adults conducted in fall 2024 by the research company Heart+Mind Strategies, 69% of Americans agree that parents are the primary educators of their children and 77% agree that parents should be able to opt out their children from curriculum on "gender" and sexuality if they believe it is not age-appropriate or if it conflicts with their religious beliefs.

"A victory would put wind at the sails of the movement to secure parental rights in education. A win would embolden parents to raise the alarm when school districts trample on their rights and try to lay claim to their children's upbringing in the future," continued DeAngelis. "A win would put school districts on notice and send a nationwide signal that kids do not belong to the government."

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Alvin Lui, president of the parental rights advocacy group Courage Is a Habit, told Blaze News, "Schools have over the last 20 years, especially in the last 10, been very aggressive in cutting parents out and not allowing them to opt out."

"Parents have had enough," added Lui.

The parental rights advocate stressed that the content at issue "has nothing to do with academics. Obviously. It has nothing to do with reading proficiency. It has nothing to do with what schools are supposed to be or what parents think schools are supposed to be. It's all about indoctrination."

The high court's ruling is a major upset for non-straight activists and their fellow travelers, including PEN America, which claimed in an amicus brief that if the petitioners prevailed, LGBT propagandists might suffer losses in sales and Montgomery County teachers might ultimately "steer clear of any lessons that include LGBTQ individuals and content rather than risk violating a court order."

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Lui noted that this case serves as a "reminder of how important it is for parents to stick on offense" and to make good use of tools like opt-outs to keep ideologues in the education system on the back foot.

While evidently happy about the outcome, DeAngelis indicated there is another form of opt-out that parents should seek.

"Families should be able to opt their children out of content that conflicts with their values regardless of whether the reason has anything to do with religion. And we shouldn't stop there," said DeAngelis. "Families shouldn't only be able to opt out of specific content — they should have the power to opt out of any government school that is in fundamental misalignment with their values."

"And when they opt out, parents should be able to take their children's education tax dollars to the school that best meets their needs," added DeAngelis.

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School board tells teachers 'family' is a white supremacist term

A school board distributed the teachings of a faculty member who was hired through a race-based initiative to tell staff that families are a product of white supremacy.

The faculty member, Dr. Laura Mae Lindo, focuses her research on "addressing social justice" and was hired at a local university through what is known as a "black hiring cluster." The "equity-based" hiring initiative was for black and "Indigenous" people only, with Lindo being one of 10 ethnicity-based hires.

Given Dr. Lindo's past discourses on "race in comedy" and the "whiteness" of philosophy, her teachings on families should come as no surprise.

'The erasure of the family structure has objectively been a net negative for society.'

Internal training documents obtained by True North reporter Melanie Bennet showed that not only were staff at the Waterloo Region District School Board in Ontario, Canada, given materials that said "family" is a white supremacist term but also that ideas like "objectivity" and a "sense of urgency" are part of a white supremacist culture, as well.

The Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation distributed slides to district employees containing Lindo's curious wisdom, which said:

"Biases are the socialized teachings of the white culture," and "we use key words and phrases to promote the dominant culture."

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The word "family" puts males in an authority position, the document said, while a "nuclear family structure" is not the same for everyone, and therefore the term should not be used.

According to the report, another slide asserts that if one is to ask for evidence for claims of racism, this is simply a "characteristic of whiteness" that must be dismantled, as is acknowledging that racism against white people exists.

A slide titled "unpacking whiteness" listed a series of terms as "characteristics of white supremacy culture."

Those terms included: individualism, the right to comfort, worship of the written word, defensiveness, paternalism, and the fear of open conflict.

The source who provided the indoctrination materials chose to remain anonymous but provided a quote to Juno News about the staff's reaction.

"Teachers just want to get on with their job of teaching," the source said. "Ideology — if you will — is just something many teachers acknowledge as being present. They just want to get on with their jobs."

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Reporter Natasha Biase, who lives near the region where the materials were distributed, called it "mind boggling" that educators are pushing such detrimental materials on children.

Biase told Blaze News, "The erasure of the family structure has objectively been a net negative for society, and we haven't even seen its full impact yet. Parents need to step in and stand up for their children by pushing back against this nonsense."

According to the insider who provided the documents, staff members have to "be careful" about who they share their training information with. They also said it was unclear how many staff members agreed or disagreed with the material.

"Whether [anyone within the administration] believes it or not is anyone's guess," the source added.

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'No b* j for you': State House silences Republican for reading smut Democrats fought to keep in elementary schools

The Democratic deputy speaker of the Connecticut House silenced a Republican colleague during debate over the state budget on Monday, thereby proving her point: Some of the content in the Constitution State's public schools is far too obscene to be read even before a crowd of adults.

While important, Republican state Rep. Anne Dauphinais' concerns about pornographic content in elementary school libraries would normally be irrelevant to a state budget.

However, in an apparent effort to limit public scrutiny, Democratic lawmakers Trojan-horsed legislation into the Connecticut budget that would greatly restrict concerned parents' ability to have sexually graphic content, LGBT propaganda, and other inappropriate materials removed from school libraries.

'Parents are going to really have to pay attention to their own school libraries.'

In addition to painting resident "school library media specialists" as the experts on what content American children should consume, the legislation:

prohibits the removal, exclusion, or censoring of any book on the basis that "a person with a vested interest finds such book offensive";
prohibits the removal of content or the cancellation of library programs on the basis of "the origin, background or viewpoints expressed" therein;
demands that library materials and programs be excluded only for "pedagogical purposes or for professionally accepted standards of collection maintenance practices";
bars challengers of offensive content from favoring or disfavoring "any group based on protected characteristics";
requires challengers to file their grievances with a school principal and provide their name, address, and telephone number;
requires a review committee, weighed heavy with educational personnel, including a librarian and a teacher, to make the determination; and
requires the offensive material to remain available in the school library until a final decision is made.

In the wake of the controversial budget's passage on party-line votes and Gov. Ned Lamont's (D) subsequent indication that he plans to sign it, Dauphinais told Blaze News that "if it should pass, parents are going to really have to pay attention to their own school libraries."

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D). Photographer: Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Some of the books at issue made an appearance during a February press conference where Dauphinais, state Sen. Henri Martin, and other Connecticut Republicans underscored the need for greater parental control. Among the books cited for their sexually graphic content were "Let's Talk About It: The Teen's Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human (A Graphic Novel)" by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan, and Cory Silverberg's "You Know, Sex: Bodies, Gender, Puberty and Other Things."

'Let's try to keep some decorum.'

During the budget debate in the state House, Dauphinais, the ranking member of the Children's Committee, provided a better sense of the kinds of obscenities to which state schools are exposing Connecticut children.

After warning onlookers with children to remove them, Dauphinais read an excerpt from Lauren Myracle's book "l8r, g8r," saying, "Have you ever given Logan a blow job? No blow job for you, missy? What about plain old sex?"

The material appeared to make some of Dauphinais' colleagues across the aisle uneasy, even though they were effectively fighting to protect kids' access to it.

Dauphinais, among the Republican lawmakers who stressed that parents should have a say in whether obscene content remains in school libraries, also read from the book, "Me and Early and the Dying Girl," quoting a character as saying, "'Are you gonna eat her p***y?' 'Yeah, Earl, I'm going to eat her p***y.'"

Democratic Deputy Speaker Juan Candelaria interrupted the conservative Republican, banging his gavel and saying, "Madam, I would ask that if we not try to use that type of language in the chamber. Let's try to keep some decorum."

Candelaria asked Dauphinais to refrain from uttering such words out of respect for children and for "others that might get offended."

Dauphinais, who previously suggested that an adult reading such books to kids outside of school would justifiably be accused of "grooming," responded to Candelaria, "This is in elementary school libraries, approved by the very individuals that are supposed to be the experts."

The CT Mirror reported that Democratic state Rep. Larry Butler expressed outrage — not with the fact that such books are in Connecticut school libraries but that Dauphinais read from them.

'It's a game and a gimmick to get what [Democrats] want in there.'

"I will tell you that in my 18 years here, I have never seen the demonstration of such vulgarity tonight, reaching the lowest level that I've ever seen in this chamber," said Butler. "When we're talking about books in libraries, that's one thing. You could just mention a book."

State House Majority Leader Jason Rojas said, "I think it just threw people off quite a bit to hear that kind of language being used on the floor."

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Republican state Sen. Rob Sampson told Blaze News, "If Democrats thought this policy was defensible, they wouldn’t have buried it in a 700-page budget. They're shielding graphic, sexually explicit content in school libraries — and they know parents wouldn't stand for it if they saw it in the light of day."

"The irony?" continued Sampson. "When my colleague read a passage from one of these books aloud, they ruled it out of order. If it's too obscene for the House floor, it's too obscene for a school. This isn't about banning books — it's about protecting kids."

"Democrats claim these books are fine for kids in schools, but too explicit for adults in the House Chamber," said Dauphinais. "They’re choosing pornography over parents — and then call us crazy for speaking out. I am appalled but not surprised."

When asked whether this is the end of the story now that the budget has passed, Sampson told Blaze News, "There's still a chance to strip this garbage out of the budget, but it'll take a spine from the governor and a spotlight from the press."

Dauphinais told Blaze News that there is presently uncertainty over whether Lamont can veto the legislation as it is not a budget item.

"It's a game and a gimmick to get what [Democrats] want in there," said the Republican. "The maneuver was putting it in a budget where it didn't belong."

"Because it doesn't have dollars attached to it, we're told that that's not something that he's able to veto," added Dauphinais.

To undo the legislation, a new bill may be needed.

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