Posted on 10/14/2019 6:54:15 AM PDT by Enlightened1
"The fact that socialists are openly running for public office in America — that socialists actually hold public office in Congress — should serve as enough wakeup call that the nation’s moral and political compasses are skewed, in dire need of correcting."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Not hard to take it back from them.
I believe that Confederate guerrilla leader William Quantrill said almost the same thing during the Civil War about the liberal indoctrination in public schools.
Agreed.
Absolutely correct.
> The only way that will happen is to outlaw teachers unions. <
Teachers unions have absolutely nothing to do with what’s being taught in the schools. Absolutely nothing. Their input is neither asked for nor accepted.
I taught for many years in a large urban school district. In the old days (before around the year 2000), all new curriculums were piloted first. A teacher committee would be formed. That committee would include all sorts of viewpoints (including conservative viewpoints). And a consensus would be reached on what should be taught, and how.
That’s all gone now. All decisions are made centrally, at the school board level. You teach exactly as you are told to.
The only thing I haven’t figured out is how the school board makes their (usually awful) curriculum decisions. Those folks are usually not radicals. Someone is influencing things behind the scenes. I suspect it’s the paid consultants. The board uses paid consultants now instead of the old teacher committees.
The fact that socialists are openly running for public office in America.
California is a prime example of it educated idiots.
It is too late to take back the schools. They are a dead corps.
We need to abolish public schools, banish about 7/8’s of the professors of education and start completely over.
Schoolboards (theoretically) exist to represent the taxpayers.
Most people are ignorant of this and either don't vote or vote for a "professional educator".
We can turn this around ourselves, but our neighbors need to be "educated".
To take back the schools in the long term, one must get rid of the communists in universities and colleges who are indoctrinating teachers.
There aren’t enough required helicopters on the planet to take back the schools.
On the federal level, yes. Generally, the Constitution is aimed at the feds, not the states. The Constitution is the only legitimate source of authority of the feds and it does not give the feds any power to enforce unions.
However, in our Free Constitutional Republic, the people of each state are generally the only legitimate source of power and authority for the states. The Constitution does not forbid states to enforce unions. That is up to the people of each state.
Freedom is only as good as those willing to fight for it and maintain it.
However, what this means is that while you can try to pack the School Board or PTA with Deplorables etc., the fact remains that the school remains in control of your kids and what they learn while in school (and in some cases, out of school depending upon the State). Therefore, while you may have some temporal wins, e.g., removing pro-Antifa propaganda from Social Studies, re-instituting learning the Constitution, the rot of governmental involvement funded by taxes remains. This is akin to addressing a terminal disease by eating healthy.
I'm not arguing against being involved in your local district. But what I AM saying is that as long as Johnny and Mary are going to public school, they won't get what YOU want. Homeschooling is the only option that gets you where you want to go.
On the conservative movement level, I don't think that conservatives should be surrendering the school system to the liberal establishment. The progressives were more strategic than us a couple of generations ago and began to infiltrate the public school system. Conservatives need to retake the public schools, not cede them forever to the progressives. It's going to take conservatives a long time to do so because once ensconced, the progressives are not going to passively abandon their position.
On an individual level, how you school your children is a personal decision that each family needs to make considering their own situation. My three children graduated from a private, Christian school. However, that doesn't mean that we should surrender the public school system. Several of the graduates of that Christian school have strategically taken jobs in public education (or are planning to) to fight the social war on the front-lines. Such actions are exactly what are needed to re-take the public schools but it is going to take a generation or two to see major successes.
I have a friend whose Millenial daughter home schools her four children.
It is a labor of love, and a very demanding task.
I estimate that she represents around 0.4% of women in her age bracket who want to do that.
You’ll have to kick out the invaders and stop immigration too.
I remember once, in about 1964, one of the kids did bring enough for everyone (1-cent bubble gum). Didn’t help, he went to the principal’s office anyway, probably for showing up the teacher.
Step one is to back charter and private schools. Change rules dealing with who can and can’t ‘teach’... Pull up standards at Colleges and Universities so ‘education’ isn’t the bottom of the barrel where kids go who have flunked out of every other major.
Change laws so teachers and take back control of the classroom so better quality people will go into the profession. Or just to safeguard the many good teachers who face threats in their classrooms every day.
She is absolutely WRONG in her assertions.
The first order of business is not the school board. While that is important, it misses the goal.
The first and MOST IMPORTANT thing to recover is the accreditation associations that are going to have to be taken over to prevent that institution from revoking the accreditation of these recreated schools of education. The accreditation of those who teach the teachers how to teach. It is the methods that they are taught to use, the caliber of the candidates who enter, and thus graduated into the ranks of teachers who are those most in need to recreated.
But we never had to worry about, say, the kids learning that the Founders were awful men, that nuking Japan was unnecessary and all about racism, and that the free market is evil.
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