Two incidents of appalling distortions of the truth occurred over the past few days – providing more evidence that the only way the voting public will ever here the truth is if we set up a series of community news websites all across Washington state.
The most recent incident occurred last Saturday when a group of Christians held a pro-family rally in Seattle. They had wanted to hold the event at a park near the Pike Place Market. But the Seattle Parks Department forced them to move the event to a park on Capital Hill. A bunch of counter protesters showed up and 30 of the counter protesters were arrested for committing acts of truly disgusting violence. The good news is that none of the Christians responded with violence and not a single Christian was arrested. Instead, they just keep singing. Those are the FACTS about what happened. But if you read the lying legacy media headlines, you would think that the Christians were a bunch of Jack Booted Nazi Thugs attacking and assaulting a crowd of innocent gay people.
Here are some of the misleading headlines:
Here are some more legacy media misleading headlines:
Look closely. Do you see any mention of the fact that all 30 of those arrested were counter protesters – and that none of the Christians were arrested? Neither did I. Did you see any mention that the Christians have a 1st Amendment right to Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion? Neither did I.
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As blatantly misleading as the above headlines are, an even worse incident of misleading the voters occurred on TVW, during a May 22, 2025 program called Inside Olympia, featuring complusive liar Chris Reykdal. Ironically, the epsode was called “Public Education Never Under More Attack.” What is ironic is that the person doing the attacking against kids and their parents is none other than Chris Reykdal. Here is a link to this interview if you want to watch it yourself:
https://tvw.org/video/inside-olympia-wa-superintendent-of-schools-chris-reykdal-2025051147/
The reason I include the above link is that I am going to send this article to Pam Bondi and the DOJ as further evidence of Reykdal’s ongoing violations of federal law including Title IX, Title VI and FERPA, all of which Reykdal managed to violate during his 55 minute interview.
I downloaded the MP3 audio file and used a Transcriber to turn it into a Text file so that I could accurately quote Reykdal. His quotes are shown below in italics. My comments about the truth follow each of his lies. Reykdal starts off with a real doozey:
First Reykdal Lie: “I'd say 90% of Washingtonians and almost 90% of people around the country went to public ed, and I've never seen it more under attack by a federal administration. They're trying to use executive orders now to dismantle and privatize the system, and we all have to be ready for that.”
Here is the truth: The Trump executive orders are about enforcing federal civil laws passed 50 years ago and enforcing US Supreme Court rulings on those laws issued in the past 3 years (but not enforced by the Biden Administration). There federal laws include Title IX, Title VI and FERPA and the US Supreme Court rulings are the 2023 ruling in Students v Harvard and the 2024 ruling in Tennessee v Cardona. None of these laws or Supreme Court rulings have anything to do with dismantling or privatizing public schools. They are all about protecting the federal civil rights of all Americans. The claim that the Trump Executive orders are about privatizing public schools is simply Reykdal making up a “strawman” argument in order to mislead the voters.
Next Reykdal Lie: “The second thing they want to do is use executive orders to force cuts, or what they call Dear Colleague letters, where they don't have authority.”
Here is the truth: The Trump administration Dear Collegue letters are required by federal law to give states like Washington an official warning that they are going to start enforcing federal laws such as Title IX, Title VI and FERPA. The letters quote the law and the US Supreme Court rulings. None of the letters are about cutting school funding. Instead, they note that federal law requires the Department of Education to withhold funding if needed to bring states into compliance with federal laws. The “authority” comes from Article VI, Section 2 of the US Constitution which requires that federal laws such as Title IX, have priority over any state laws that conflict with federal laws. So if there are any federal funding cuts, the cuts will be caused by Reykdal refusing to comply with mandatory federal laws.
Question: “Sticking with the Trump administration and the federal government, you have publicly challenged the administration's threats to cut education funding over diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. You've affirmed what you say is Washington's constitutional right to shape its own education system, saying Washington will not suppress its core values. What is your legal and what's your moral case for defying this Trump order around DEI? And maybe more importantly, how far are you willing to go with this? “
Next Reykdal Lie: “I'm willing to go the distance. We have an amazing attorney general who will make decisions along the way on how to push and where to push. The legal case is pretty simple. You start with the 10th Amendment. If it isn't explicitly enumerated for Congress or the federal government, it's the states… So there's no doubt that legally they're overstepping their boundaries at this point.
Here is the truth: Title VI, Title IX and FERPA are all based on the “Spending Clause” in Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution. This clause allows the federal government to enter into “certification contracts” with states whereby each state education leader (aka Reykdal) is required to sign a contract each year certifying that the state is in compliance with the federal laws in order to get billions of dollars in federal funding. Reykdal has been committing fraud for the past 8 years by claiming he was in compliance with these federal laws when he was not. Reykdal is playing a high stakes game of chicken which could cost tax payers billions of dollars due to his filing false Title IX and Title VI and FERPA federal certification contracts during the past 8 years.
Question: “The state is under investigation for its gender inclusion guidance having to do with transgender participation in sports. What is the status of, first up, why don't you explain sort of the position you've taken here as well, and then we'll sort of talk about what, again, the status is with the federal government.”
Next Reykdal Lie: “It isn't until this administration came and made it a national issue that suddenly people think there's a crisis and, you know, they have this false sense that kids are in the wrong locker rooms, which just does not happen… and now suddenly it's a big issue, so they're after us as a state, they're after my office for enforcing the law.”
Here is the truth: We parents here in Washington state have been outraged about boys in girls sports and boys in girls locker rooms for years. What we lacked as a federal government willing to enforce Title IX. Here is an image from 2024 of a boy winning our Washington state girls state championship:
Here is a picture from 2024 of another boy winning a girls track regional championship:
Both of these crimes were well before Trump took office. In fact, one of the reasons Trump defeated Harris was his pledge to enforce the Title IX rights of girls to fair sports opportunities.
Question: “One of the arguments, recurring arguments, about transgender girls in girls sports is that it is a Title IX violation, that it's unfair to the biological females on those teams. What is your position in view of this?”
Next Reykdal Lie: “Our position is that the federal law doesn't describe Title IX beyond the words that are there, sex. They don't say biological sex or sex at birth, and so the states for decades have had a chance to interpret that the way that it fits each state. So we've said that your gender identity, how you identify, is the way to proceed because there are, you know, legitimately transgender youth by identity… There are transgender folks by biology. We have intersex births. There's a percentage of our population where you are not born one way or the other.”
Here is the truth: Virtually every federal court that has interpreted the word “sex” in Title IX – including the US Supreme Court in August 2024 has ruled that the word sex means “biological sex.” On January 9, 2025, in the case of Tennessee v Cardona, a federal court ordered all 50 states, including Washington, to comply with the plain meaning of the word sex in Title IX. The court stated that interpreting the word sex to include students of the opposite sex would render Title IX to be “meaningless.”
As for gender confusion being related to “intersex births,” a 2021 genetic analysis of more than one thousand transgender males found that only 1% of them had an “intersex” genetic condition – the same rate as the general population.So there is no relationship between being “intersex” and Transgenderism – which is a mental health problem and not a physical problem. Reykdal is not only ignoring federal civil rights laws, he is ignoring science and just making stuff up to fool the voters. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35394664/
Question: “Let's go back to the La Center district, which your agency is now investigating because they, from your point of view, did not adhere to Washington civil rights law, specifically around whether to identify transgender students by their preferred pronouns and also having to do with, I guess, notifying parents… Why not let La Center do what La Center is going to do and Tumwater do what it's going to do and sort of go the local control route? “
Next Reykdal Lie: “State education agencies get to determine that. Some states give all of that control then away to locals and say, do what you kind of want to do… So we hear this from folks, like it's local control, we get to do what we want… You got to do it within the law, though, and in this case, the controlling legislation is state law, which allows for gender identity. Local districts have to follow state law, and the federal government should follow the law. They have no jurisdiction in this. The president's executive orders are political ambitions most of the time. He doesn't get to change federal law, he doesn't get to change federal code, he doesn't get to do that. Everybody follow the law, and when you do that, you realize that locals have to follow state law, and the federal government has to defer to the state on most issues. “
Here is the truth: Actually, just the opposite is true. School districts must comply with federal laws just as state educational agencies must comply with federal laws. If they don’t they risk losing federal funds. In the case of the La Center School District, they recognized that they needed to comply with FERPA by telling parents the truth about their kids. Reykdal by contrast, wants to enforce a state law that requires schools and teachers to lie to parents. Again, Reykdal is risking losing billions of dollars in federal funds by refusing to honor the US Constitution and federal laws. In addition, he is violating his oath of office.
Other misleading Reykdal lies
Reykdal ended the interview with a series of ridiculous claims about Washington students being near the tops in the nation in national test scores. In fact, Reykdal getting tens of thousands of kids here in Washington state addicted to toxic trans drugs like puberty blockers and cross sex hormones while at the same time lying to their parents has been a disaster. According to a 2024 National Mental Health Study, Washington is now near worst in the nation in kids suffering from Depression and Suicidal thoughts. Here is a link to this report: https://mhanational.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/2024-State-of-Mental-Health-in-America-Report.pdf
Also over the past 8 years since Reykdal took office, the chronic absentee rate of Washington students skipping school has skyrocketed from 17% in 2017 to 30% in 2023:
With so many kids missing so much school, it is no wonder that over two thirds of our kids can not pass our 8th grade math test. In 2023, 68% of Washington students failed to pass our 8th Grade Math test:
During the past 8 years, our student scores on the national 8th Grade Math test declined more here in Washington than in any other state in the nation. Washington students used to be a among the top five states in the nation on this test. Currently, we are in about 30th place. No other state has seen such a huge decline in student test scores. This is a red flag that something very harmful is happening to our kids here in Washington state.
Washington has also seen a record drop in Enrollment. Since Reykdal took office, parents have pulled a total of 91,000 kids out of our public schools.
In short, thanks to the lying legacy media, all of us are literally swimming in an ocean of lies where the real truth is often the exact opposite of what we are told in the papers and on TVW.
The only way voters will ever learn the truth about either Reykdal or Ferguson is if we set up a statewide series of Common Sense Community News websites. I built one of the world’s first online stores in 1994 and trained many of the people who built Microsoft dot come and Amazon dot com. Thanks to free modern web building tools, you do not need to be an expert to run a News website. If you can bake a cake, you can run a secure news website.
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Regards,
David Spring M. Ed.