The Political Hat

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.

     The focus this time: If you don’t eat your impossible meat, then you can’t have any soy pudding!

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     The schools want to know more about your own kids private lives than you do.

“Some parents were outraged by the ‘Youth Risk Behavior’ survey, which the school principal assured parents — via email — was written for the safety and best interests of students at the Eliot K-8 Innovation School.

“The allegedly anonymous survey also asks the pre-teens how much soda pop they drink, whether or not they are transgender, if they are taking diet pills, where they sleep, and whether or not they’ve considered suicide.

“It appears parents had no idea the survey was coming.

“‘To go on field trips the district has parents sign permission slips, but for the district to ask our children private explicit sexual questions they are able to do so without consent,’ a mother requesting anonymity told the Washington Free Beacon. ‘This makes no sense.’”

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