Posted on 07/20/2020 8:40:10 AM PDT by Perseverando
Back in the 1980s, when I was a schoolchild in a different part of the Commonwealth of Virginia, we had a “social studies” curriculum. In first grade, we learned to respect certain famous forbears, especially Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Robert Edward Lee, Thomas Johnathan Jackson (”Stonewall”), and the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior. Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Abraham Lincoln, and Jefferson Davis followed. In fourth grade, we covered Virginia history from the Powhatan confederacy to the Confederate States of America and discussed slavery extensively and repeatedly.
In the other component of the curriculum, the intermittent “passport to the world” program, we learned about other countries. These countries with few exceptions were either allies of the United States of America or brutally repressed Communist nations. We also participated in “duck-and-cover” drills in case ostensibly of imminent nuclear attack from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Shortly after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, these drills ceased, but they instilled a sense of national solidarity and profound fear of the Communist menace. According to schoolteachers then, the Soviet Union and other Communist countries, ever stronger and smarter than the Americans, sought to exploit any weakness in America, and only American military might just barely preserved freedom for our allies around the world. If ever any individual sailor even briefly flinched from his duty, then the Soviets almost certainly would visit disaster upon America. And the schoolteachers envisioned that many of us boys in time would join the Navy or another branch of the military.
Even after the demise of the Soviet Union and the end of the Iron Curtain, the existing generation of schoolteachers continued to instill a fierce opposition to all forms of Communism for several years. But when I converse with my youngest sibling, I find that she either never learned or quickly forgot the genocidal horrors of Communist countries throughout the previous century.
Nowadays, American schoolchildren celebrate, emulate, and revere the Chinese Communist Party and its many accomplishments. I wish that we could teach our children something of the horrors of the previous century as some form of socialism lies behind the large majority of the worst episodes of mass death that this world experienced. But even last year, when schools existed and operated, few teenagers even recognized Mao Zedung as the most lethal dictator in the history of the world. Today, Americans largely embrace the Maoist revolution and insurrection unfolding in our streets. At this time next year, America will be a fully Communist country, allied firmly with the People’s Republic of China, our overlord, and Americans, especially young adults, will embrace and celebrate the end of human freedom here and almost everywhere else on this planet.
Or, if everything happens perfectly right again, then we might reelect very narrowly Donald Trump and thus save the lives of countless ungrateful Americans from the Communist hordes for another four years.
Ralph Northam will not serve as governor of Virginia eighteen months hence. The constitution of the Commonwealth provides that no elected governor can serve consecutive terms.
And it’s too late to amend the constitution.
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If enough people do that they will just make it illegal. Even if it’s not illegal, you will still have to teach their white-hating curriculum.
I enrolled my kids in private (Christian) from 1996 to 2010, then public until 2020, and now moving back to private. It was Ok in 2010 but deteriorated further.
But now my governor (CA) has closed the private schools too.
Ok, have them read Henry Hughes’, “Treatise on Sociology; Theoretical and Practical” and learn about Warranteeism. They should know the origin of the Dimocrat playbook.
I’ve been musing over you post.
One of the saddest outcomes of my daughter teaching in this Catholic school is that she now has a very perverted understanding of Catholicism. She has had no exposure to true believing Catholics.
Why isn’t the SPLC officially recognized as a subversive organization & cut off at the knees?
It sounds like they are tapped into bigtime federal and foundation money to rewrite history for public schools
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That's the whole point of introducing concepts to kids that young when they would NEVER conceive of them themselves.
Abuse
And they get up too early.
Tramping through the cold and snow.
With Corp.America going Stalin and Alinsky lately, it doesn’t surprise me that this will infect the school systems also.
We’re about a hair away from pulling our kids.
"The state Board of Education approves content standards and curriculum frameworks for history and social studies," a state education department spokesman said. "Local school boards are responsible for developing or adopting curriculum aligned with the state standards and framework." Loudoun County's school board did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Well, the statesmen of the Commonwealth have done a good thing with their Term Limits. Northam is a disaster.
The school systems have been infected decades ago.
What are you waiting for?
Covid-19 to shut everything down permanently I suppose.
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