Four Kansas school districts — Shawnee Mission, Olathe, Kansas City, Kansas, and Topeka — are now under federal investigation after a Washington dark money group filed a complaint.
On paper, they’ll say it’s about Title IX and student privacy. In reality, it’s D.C. bullies using federal muscle to micromanage local schools already stretched thin.
I read the entire complaint. It’s not a smoking gun.
It’s a binder of old policies about gender identity, training slides from almost a decade ago and cherry-picked quotes.
That’s not evidence of harm. It’s evidence of schools working overtime to keep kids safe.
None of these districts has reported receiving a parent or student complaint on these issues.
Yet the first anyone hears of it is when the feds arrive, threatening to pull all their funding.
Shawnee Mission says it’s the first investigation letter they’ve ever received that explicitly warns D.C. could sue them, shut them down, or cut every dollar of federal funding.
That’s not an investigation; it’s a shakedown.
Ask yourself: If a new law banned assault rifles, would any Kansan accept shutting down a gun range over a seven-year-old slideshow? Of course not.
New rules shouldn’t be weaponized retroactively when the facts on the ground have changed. This hysteria isn’t about pronouns. It’s about power and dollars.
Every time we yank money out of classrooms for private operators or state budget schemes, our kids lose.
Federal threats like this cut tutors, counselors, and special-ed supports first.
That’s the “defund the kids” movement, and children can’t vote to stop it.
Ironically, on the same day this investigation was announced, a Donald Trump-appointed judge struck down the Trump administration’s anti-diversity, equity and inclusion orders because they violated the law and trampled on educators’ rights.
That campaign also threatened to take every dollar of federal funding from schools that kept lawful diversity programs.
