Did the author of this piece ever pick up a textbook from their children's schools? Did they ever have conversations with these kids about what they were learning in school?
I suspect the answer is "No."
You can easily see how this works in my neck of the woods. There was a lot of debate when the governor shut down the schools during the COVID-19 fiasco last spring. That continued through the summer when they began making plans for partial in-classroom and partial web-based classes in the fall of 2020.
But the parents here were absolutely adamant about one thing, come hell or high water: high school SPORTS would not be disrupted in any way.
That's pretty much all you need to know about how easy it is to run roughshod over dim-witted people.
My wife and I were very involved in our kid’s education. Talking around the dinner table, helping with homework, my wife volunteering at the school (3x a week or more).
So we were able to counter a lot of the stuff they were taught, and they were able to counter a lot of the stuff they were being taught.
As 20-somethings they are all very conservative in their thinking in most aspects of life. Although I have to admit I don’t agree with all of their choices!
“But the parents here were absolutely adamant about one thing, come hell or high water: high school SPORTS would not be disrupted in any way.”
I agree, the battle has been long lost. After reading up on what our schools were doing even DECADES AGO, I vowed to never send my kids to those institutions, and never did. Needless to say my kids came out fine, loving the country and loving Trump. But, although unconfirmed, there are rumors that even some FReepers STILL send their kids to public schools, while most other people who think they are conservative, even voting for Trump, still send their kids to a bunch of America-hating Leftists to get ‘educated’...and then can’t understand why their kids hate the country so much.
Hopeless, sadly. It’s time to look to other countries - at least for my (now-adult) kids. Conservatives had at least 50 years to take some control over the schools, or at least protect their kids from those schools - they chose not to. Now the country pays the price.
One of my nieces "made" the field hockey team last year for her high school - which was virtual most of the year due to the "pandemic" nonsense.
They did not play any games. They did not attend any practices. They had a few ZOOM meetings to discuss who knows what. Strategies for games that would never be played?
At then end of the virtual season, they all got trophies and certificates. I kid you not.
Apparently the reason for all of this phony-baloney was so that they could have this extra-curricular activity on their high school record to help them get into a good college. Also, I'm sure the field hockey coaches wanted to get paid too.