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'Children Belong to the Parents': Texas Education Board Member Julie Pickren 69%
6/14/2026, 7:57:48 PM
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have a background in education. I want to just kind of ask you, how did your experience as a parent and educator help you shape your your approach to education policy?
>> Oh my goodness. Uh first of all, David,
thank you so much. Huge fan of the Epoch Times and NTD and what y'all are doing around the world to promote freedom and to promote uh self-governance. So, thank you so much for your courage and what y'all are doing. So as a parent um
that's a very big question because you know as a parent we know that children are a gift from God. Psalm 127 says that God blesses us with our children and children are a blessing from him. God was not talking to government. God was talking to families and to parents. So that is um what we see right now in policy.
What we see happening at the state, local, national and international level.
There are two schools of thought that are that are shaping policy and shaping beliefs in many nations uh not just America but the core belief of who who does a child belong to.
Does the child belong to the parent or does the child belong to the government?
And that is shaping a lot of policy and a lot of beliefs at the local, state and national level.
Because if you believe that the child belongs to the parent, then that means that the parent determines the direction of that child's education. The parent determines that child's religious views and religious beliefs. The the parent, the God-given right is to the parent of the child of how they are brought up.
If you believe that the child belongs to the government, then that's the foundation of communism because then the government gets to determine the rights that that parent has towards that child. Then the government gets to determine that child's education. The government determines that child's gender. The government determines that child what they're going to be in life, whether
they're going to be in life, whether they're going to join the workforce or
go to college. We see this in communist countries all around the world. So at the foundation right now, what we're seeing is is parental rights. That is
seeing is is parental rights. That is
the issue.
And it was my honor for the great state of Texas to chair the parental rights committee for the state of Texas where we just wrote incredible parental rights rules that actually are codified into law in the state of Texas.
They become part of our administrative law that firmly teach. It's like a it's like a 75page document that firmly teaches elected officials in Texas that parents children belong to the parents.
Children do not belong to the government. The parents determine uh medical care. The parents determine vaccinations. The parents determine the education future of their child. The parents determine the political beliefs and the religious beliefs of the child.
We just finished writing and passing a beautiful 7576 page document that firmly
puts the parents in charge of their children's lives and not the government.
Trump administration is trying to dismantle the Department of Education, try to send responsibility to to the state level. Do you do you support that?
And if so, why? And
>> yes, sir. I am so thankful for President Trump and his education agenda. It really is the great reset in education.
It's the great reset that we need in education because what most Americans don't understand, there's a few points
that that Americans they've just they haven't been taught and they just don't understand that number one, the United States Department of Education was started out of a campaign promise by President Jimmy Carter to the AFL CIO.
It was started out of a promise to the unions to unionize education. Okay. So
it's one of the it's one of the youngest agencies in America because it was started in 1980 you know campaign promise in 79 to 80. So that's the first thing.
The second thing is the United States Department of Education has never educated one child ever. What the United States Department of Education is is it's a bank. It's an education bank.
And what they do is the funding that Congress appropriates to go to certain things in education like um like uh title one funding or uh funding for dis for disabled children for education or um you know any of the any of the vehicles that they fund that Congress funds for education.
>> It flows through the United States Department of Education which they are just a funding mechanism. But how the president is dismantling it and how my how secretary McMahon is dismantling it is really a brilliant plan because what they're doing is they're placing the things that uh that pertain to certain agencies in the hands of those agencies.
I'll give you an example. Health and Human Services is what $1.3 trillion budget. I mean Health and Human Services, they service millions of disabled Americans every day. they can serve, they can provide services for our children who are disabled way better than the US Department of Education ever could. So, putting special education and putting uh disabilities, the funding for disabilities for education in HHS, that that is what common sense is, that's wisdom and common sense because they're serving millions of Americans, disabled Americans already every day. Then when you talk about civil rights violations, when you talk about title nine um or title one and we talk about civil rights violations, well, we have this this
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