A teacher's job is to educate , not indoctrinate. Parents send their children to school to learn reading, writing, and arithmetic, not to have their opinions and ideas about life shaped by an unbalanced person with an education degree. In real life, they aren't learning to read or do math, but they are being taught to identify themselves as one of 73 fictitious genders and alter their sexual identities.

This is what we call teacher privilege — it's threatening our country's youth and our education system.

The New York Times reported on a teacher from California who bragged about helping children hide their gender transitions from their parents. Olivia Garrison, who teaches ninth grade history, considered herself "nonbinary." Garrison considered it her job to smother her students in toxic, radical gender ideology because she is a teacher. This is indicative of the danger many public educators represent nowadays to children and families.

"My job, which is a public service, is to protect kids," Garrison said in an interview with the New York Times. "Sometimes, they need protection from their own parents."

This is not education. No matter how radical someone like Harrison may be, no matter how strongly she feels about gender identity — and if someone identifies as "nonbinary," it is probably pretty strong — Garrison has no right to do any of this to children. Her desire to brainwash students is immoral and represents everything wrong in our country's public education system.

Most importantly, consider the arrogance of her statement about protecting children from their parents. Unless there is genuine evidence of parental abuse — say, bruises indicative of beatings or malnutrition — she has no right to make such a claim about any parent. Garrison is doing irreparable harm to students' lives and doesn't suffer any accountability for her transgressions.

This country has a serious problem regarding its educators. Future generations are becoming innocent victims of extreme left-wing brainwashing by unhinged teachers who are looking to spread gender confusion and create activists instead of informed, productive members of society.

Teachers do not have any right to choose their students' genders or other private matters. However, some, not all, teachers see students as vulnerable subjects they can condition or groom to accept fringe belief structures. They view students as opportunities. It's borderline, if not outright, abusive, and their actions are extremely dangerous. Their fanaticism must be stopped, and all schools must be rid of such hazards.