> 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.
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.
Disagree!
The unions are the biggest defenders of maintaining the “status quo” over who can teach & who can’t. They are part of maintaining the “fiction” of the need for “education degree” as the entrance requirement for teaching. They defend and use college departments of education to give “pseudo-intellectual” justification for maintaining an education career as a medieval-style guild! Most “college of education” teaching theories are the modern equivalent of using the “bumps on one’s head” to determine IQ, personality and destiny. Mankind has been “teaching” since the beginning, its not a “deep dark secret”! The latest whiz-bang idea, electronic toy & “psycho-babble” excuse for bad behavior doesn’t improve things.
Pre-Nixon days NEA/AFT (Unions) campaigned relentlessly for a federal department of education. Knowing full well that this would be their siphon into a continuous money flow bypassing all those annoying things like parents, school boards **, state legislatures, etc.
School boards ** - Later the unions captured them by making sure that their well-funded “candidates” ran.
Always remember the famous 1970s-1980s quote from the AFT Prez head - paraphrasing “If students paid union dues we would be worried about students”!