Key Points
- Merrick Garland has ordered the FBI to crack down on anti-CRT parents.
- Garland has a conflict of interest – his son-in-law works as an education consultant at Panorama.
- Panorama promotes ‘Social-Emotional’ learning and other ‘CRT-lite’ initiatives.
This week, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced he would weaponize the DOJ, tapping the FBI, to investigate a “spike in harassment…against school administrators.”
“In recent months, there has been a disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff who participate in the vital work of running our nation’s public schools. While spirited debate about policy matters is protected under our Constitution, that protection does not extend to threats of violence or efforts to intimidate individuals based on their views,” Garland said in a memo.
“The Department takes these incidents seriously and is committed to using its authority and resources to discourage these threats, identify them when they occur, and prosecute them when appropriate,” Garland added.
But Attorney General Merrick Garland has a problem: his daughter is married to Xan Tanner, co-founder of Panorama, an education consultancy firm with ties to Mark Zuckerberg.
“Panorama, which focuses on ‘social-emotional learning’ and surveys that gauge the feelings of parents, students, and staff, has among the broadest tentacles of any educational consultant,” the Daily Wire reports. “[Panorama] issues surveys to students asking if they are feeling ‘genderfluid,’ and asks, ‘How confident are you that students at your school can have honest conversations with each other about race?’”
“At least 22 of the nation’s largest 100 school districts have paid Panorama a combined $12 million in recent years, with a 23rd set to pay it millions more.”
So, Merrick Garland’s son-in-law specializes in “CRT-lite” education that does millions of dollars in business. Garland’s crack down on anti-CRT parents presents a huge conflict of interest.
Panorama also shares student data – without parent consent – circumventing many privacy laws.
According to the Daily Wire, “one district’s contract says all of the personal student data is sent to the company — which is funded by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg — under a loophole that circumvents a requirement for parental consent by counting the for-profit company as a ‘school official,’ not an outside vendor.”
Attorney General Merrick Garland is using the powers of his office to investigate PTA parents who don’t want critical race theory taught in school. All the while, the AG has ties to CRT-lite, education consultancy firms with questionable privacy practices?
Who really needs to be investigated here?
