The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on Tuesday added two prominent parental rights in educational institutions to its 2022 Hate and Extremist list.

group list 1,225 groups or organizations deemed hateful and against the government by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Moms for Liberty and Parents Defending Education (PDE), a coalition of parents fighting for transparency in education, were noted as hateful and/or extremist.

“These groups were spurred in part by a right-wing backlash against COVID-19 public safety measures in schools,” the SPLC said. report said. “But they have grown into an anti-student inclusion movement that targets any inclusive curriculum, including discussions of race, discrimination and LGBTQ identity.”

Moms For Liberty has chapters across the country and advocates for transparency in children’s education.organization approved In November 2022, more than 270 school board candidates ran for office, winning stateswide, including Indiana, South Carolina, and North Carolina.

“Reactionary groups that oppose anti-student inclusion, such as Moms for Liberty, Moms for America, and Parents Defending Education, which the SPLC lists as extremist groups, are by their nature disliked and We are reacting to social progress that is out of our control,” said the SPLC. Said.

Ahead of the election, Moms for Liberty encouraged voters to “vote like a mother” and consider which candidate would give them the most say in their children’s education. (Related: Public Schools Activists Compare Mothers to KKK)

“At the forefront of this mobilization is Moms for Liberty, a Florida-based group with extensive Republican ties, which the SPLC designated as an extremist group earlier this year,” the SPLC report said. says. “At school board meetings across the country, they can be seen wearing shirts and holding placards declaring, ‘We do not co-parent our children with the government.

PDE is a national grassroots organization that advocates for parental rights and exposes gender identity and racial justice curricula in the classroom. In May, the group filed a civil rights complaint with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, accusing a Missouri school district of hosting a race- and gender-based affiliation group. That same month, the PDE filed a lawsuit against an Ohio school district over its policy of punishing students who intentionally “gendered” their peers.

“From segregated ‘affinity groups’ and ‘healing spaces’ to speech-chilling prejudice response programs and parental exclusion policies, the PDE’s efforts to combat discrimination programs in schools are an integral part of it. It speaks for itself,” PDE President Nikki Naley told the Daily. Caller News Foundation. “It’s sad that the SPLC’s ever-expanding definition of ‘hate’ no longer means anything more than ‘opinions we dislike’. because it undermines justice for

Across the country, parents are opposing gender identity and social justice curricula taught in schools. In Maryland, parents protested the school board’s refusal to opt children out of classes on gender identity and sexual orientation.

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