In parts one and two of this series, we’ve examined how Democrats and their poisoned ideology have declared war on America’s children. If anyone has any doubt as to the intention of the Progressive left to poison the minds of children and ruin their future, look no further than America’s teachers’ unions, especially Randi Weingarten’s American Federation of Teachers.
Historically working in tandem with the Democrat Party, teachers’ unions are intense advocates for curriculum that does not include basic knowledge to get ahead in life. Rather than actual education, its agenda includes social justice propaganda, racial division, climate change dogma, and promotion of sexual deviancy.
Why would public school teachers and their unions place such emphasis on what many people consider to be a radical agenda to confuse children too young to fully understand what they were being presented? Teachers in public schools are planting seeds in the minds of kids to accept that confusion, gray areas, uncertainties, anxiety, and panic are natural occurrences in life. This allows for kids to grow up into dysfunctional adults, unable to handle the realities of life and, therefore, ideal subjects for government control.
Democrats and their allies in the teachers’ unions are playing a long game here, banking on turning children into mindless adult followers who are easy to control and whose opinions are easy to sway. Stupid, anxious, poor people are much simpler to manage than smart, confident, affluent people. Democrats are the party of government that needs to cultivate compliant citizens for the future. What better place to start than with the young; a captive audience sitting in a schoolroom for eight hours a day, taught by ideologues who know of only one side—their side.
Children are regularly failing to learn anything of value in public schools, and the teachers’ unions know this. A big tell here is how teachers’ unions vehemently oppose standardized testing, claiming comically that “students aren’t standardized,” and therefore they must be evaluated on the basis of “critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, and application of knowledge.” Unions even oppose school rankings, claiming that “they tear communities apart.”
They absolutely want nothing to do with measuring actual performance, focusing instead on “equity,” or equal outcome. If a chain is as strong as its weakest link, a school system is as strong as its weakest school, and a class is as strong as its weakest student. Equity in action.
Are school vouchers the answer? It depends on how you choose to parent your child.
If you’re in favor of maintaining the status quo of teachers’ union-dominated control over government-regulated schooling and its rejection of any measurement of performance, you will be against school vouchers. You will consign your child to the public school that is assigned, accept your role as a passive parent that has no say in the education received by your child, and keep quiet about it less you find yourself on the receiving end of harassment by state authorities.
If, however, you take your role as a parent seriously and understand how impressionable your child is during these formative years, you will support school vouchers and your ability to choose which school your child attends based on quality, performance, and outcome. Alternatively, you will simply fund private education for your child out of your own pocket—don’t claim you can’t afford it. Get a second job if you have to.
It is widely known that public school officials and their union bosses don’t view your child or your money as things that belong to you. These people have no compulsion whatsoever to demand complete autonomy over what is taught to your child, and whatever cost per student is required will be taken without hesitation or accountability.
More and more mothers and fathers are aware of this corruption of the public school system and have taken matters into their own hands. The phenomenon of homeschooling has tripled in the past two decades, with over 3 million students currently being taught at home, up from around a million in 2000.
Of course, a surge in homeschooling took place during the COVID lockdowns. (It was during the lockdowns when concerned parents discovered how their children were taught and they clearly didn’t like what they saw.) However, the data shows a significant pre-lockdown trend of growth that was already in place. Public schools have become an option that more parents have been rejecting for years.
Many parents cite the rise of public school violence and “the intrusion of politics into public education” as key reasons for this change. We can confidently add that parents have seen the result of public education and the declining quality of learning, realizing they could do a better job of teaching their kids themselves.
As expected, the legacy media chooses state paternalism over parent’s rights, stating “the lack of oversight is an issue—and not an accidental one.” One child welfare “expert” claimed that home-schooled children are in danger of not “learning about the most basic democratic values of our society or getting the kind of exposure to alternative views to exercise meaningful choice,” meaning, of course, the values and choices of the state.
Democrats and the teachers’ unions believe every child should internalize state-approved narratives regarding history, politics, sex, democracy, economics, nutrition, social justice, emotional health, climate change, race relations… pretty much everything. They will stop at nothing to indoctrinate children, making them weak and easy to fool. Creating, well, the perfect Democrat.
My late, terminally ill, wife and I never had children, which in retrospect was a blessing as one’s own children - rarely - truly - if truth be known and accepted?
Let’s face it - when playing the hit-and-miss genetic lottery, of rolling the dice and hoping for exceptional progeny as consequently likely happening?
Just because one got randy one night and did “it” - had an “accident” or even consummated successfully a deliberately orchestrated result; the odds against it resulting in someone “special” - are astronomically against exceptionality emerging 9 months later standing on the stage of life who will later in life garner fanfare! LOL
In any event, her death after 22 years, 3 months and 17 days due to MS - was, by that point from a quadriplegic body, mentally incompetent mind - more merciful release than tragedy - even though - I can tell you, even though you expect it - even intellectually tell yourself you will welcome it - still is horrible.
But - what doesn’t “destroy us” (which is the correct translation from Nietzsche’s original German; NOT “kill us”, incidentally) makes us stronger and afforded me the next best (if not the best thing?) imaginable
took me in the direction of mentoring - and picking the “picks of the litter”, so to speak, among the best young men around - mostly immigrants from points hither and yon from the backs of beyond; finding American yoots interested in “being all they can be” nye on near to impossible - even after 20 years of doing the “mentoring thing”.
Yes, I know some will ask - what about American young men? The term “scarce as hens’ teeth” springs unbidden immediately to mind - what with them being mostly guided by, dedicated to following resolutely, with indefatigable determination?
The direction their nether region’s equipment points them in.
Which informs them, makes them know that dey don’t needs no guidin’ - sure of themselves that, they don’t needs no ones tellin dem whats de oughts to do.
Ah huh? “The check is in the mail, I love you; I won’t c_m in your mouth!” (Great line from the not given enough credit movie, “To Live and Die in LA”)
Unlike when an intelligent and conscientious as can be young man from say - Nigeria, the Gambia, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso - even the Middle East - I know - who would have thought? (Talk about young men with “Sand”; think Bruce Dern speaking to Jamie Fox as Django in the movie Django).
The types of man who has an innate to desire to understand and know - figure out without being told - what there is to know about life and then commits to doing whatever it takes to find out the answers to the questions all such as they have had since time began - had to have answers to that were based on truth. and
who could have, would have been operating at the top of their respective homelands and cultures, if they gave up, stayed and accepted, decided not to leave?
Didn’t face the fact that there’s no real hope in the foreseeable future that their - stuck in the mud, intractable, hidebound homeland’s culture’s desire to lock up any who questions
"what everyone already knows is all anyone needs to know - don’t ya know - as taught by their never to be questioned cultures? That those countries - likely at least for the next 100 years - will happily qualify as lost causes and if they stayed there? Would be equivalent to them committing intellectual suicide.
But, I digress, getting back to the point of this article - if I had had children - the last thing on earth I would have allowed is for them to attend a public school - might as well turn them over to the intellectual equivalents of child molesters.
Nope - either it would be homeschooling or find - if they exist - a private school that actually teaches kids to think and use their minds rather than embrace the insanity of the communism being force-fed now.
I suppose articles of this nature may serve some purpose but…
given they are pointing out what should be as obvious as the nose on one’s own face?
that the entire “educational” system in America is now beyond corrupt and perverted.
It does bode the question of who could be stupid enough, in this day and age, to doubt the evidence of their eyes - and realize their eyes “ain’t lying” to them?
Daniel Patrick Moynihan was a Democrat who also stated that the matriarchal family would eventual create generations of sociopaths. I am a conservative and stayed close to Moynihan and listened to much of what he said despite my differences on Constitutional policy issues. LBJ was reinventing the plantation only if it would be government run with voters Democrats could rely upon. I used to argue with my Jewish friends regarding the compassion they expressed which I argued was a form of soft bigotry. Black people were hard working and Christian and had an illegitimacy rate equal to or less than that of white people until the “War on Poverty” was implemented. Now, how has government handouts and dependency worked for both black, brown and white people? It has created a criminal class!
Despite the aforementioned and a dwindling white middle class Democrats still need to import 3rd world voters who represent a huge burden to the taxpayers since they cannot support themselves. In the process they are actively seeking to enlist enemies of America which are contributing to a crime spree that LBJ never considered. His Party, the Democratic Party, which has now morphed into the fascist/socialist party, will destroy America, both culturally, economically and militarily, as long it guarantees that their managerial class, the 4th branch of government, the Administrative State, remains in charge. That is why they despise Donald Trump. He despises what they are doing.