Dom Giordano, WPHT host and former teacher, has dedicated much of his daily show toward parents who are taking it into their own hands to push back against school boards that have a negative impact on their children. This has culminated in a weekly podcast on education, Readin', Writin', and Reason, which has allowed wonderful relationships to develop between Giordano, educators, and parents throughout the country who are speaking out against overbearing school boards.
First, Dom welcomes Danielle Vitale, who serves on the Haverford School District Board of School Directors, to the podcast after she spoke out about the decision to pull To Kill a Mockingbird from district curricula. Vitale as just a member of the PTO when she found out that the book was removed during the pandemic, ran and won a seat on the school board and found that the American classic was removed after meetings with an outside consulting agency. Vitale explains that the district called in Sage Wellness after a handful of student complaints about content inside the book, claiming that it made them feel ‘uncomfortable,’ which led to lessons for teachers about the book’s racism and an eventual ban from the schools. Vitale takes us inside conversations shared with teachers who revealed that comments made by the district and the organization were inaccurate, taking listeners behind the shadowy curtain behind the books withdrawal from lesson plans.
Then, After hearing her group mentioned on the Dom Giordano Program, co-founder of the New Jersey Project, Nikki Stouffer, dials in to explain what her organization hopes to do to bring transparency to parents with students in New Jersey schools. Stouffer elaborates on a state decision that would allow schools to hide gender transitions from parents, explaining why transparency is an absolute must from our public schools. Then, Stouffer, who’s an expert in social trends, explains why she believes the new popularity of transgenderism is a trend, relating it to other past trends that took over teenage minds.