How is that advancing the successful advancement of the education of children? It isn't. It's destroying children. As I said in my opening statement before we started the testimonies and questioning time, I said I would see this with what these superintendents are doing as child abuse and neglect. And that's what it is. In a common sense world, we would take a child and say, listen, that's how you feel now, but let me affirm you for who you are. (04:22–04:30)
CLAIM
Asserts that certain educational policies equate to child abuse and neglect.
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