In WA state, the Democrats are making their moves through the school system. They are removing any citizen oversight and recourse from the system, placing an appointed administrator above the superintendent of schools, turning all scholarships and grants over to a private foundation and putting the responsibility to raise college tuition on the college administrators, insulating the elected officials from the students and focusing the adversarial relationship on the school administrators, rather than on the elected legislators.
It gets worse, though. They plan to create a two tier education system, one for minorities and other under achievers and one for the rest of the students. They plan to essentially make 11 & 12 grades optional by putting the “at risk” students directly into union apprenticeships or other training programs (for SEIU jobs) at age 15 or 16, without any testing and without completing their high school education. If they complete the apprenticeship, they get a high school diploma and a union job.
Then for the rest of the students, those who actually graduate high school, there will be affirmative action scholarships given out by a private foundation because voters have banned the state from using affirmative action, and appropriate ethnic studies programs and on the job training instead of book work. They are already doing this in the UW law school.
What they are doing is creating a permanent underclass of young people who will be forever dependent on the government in one way or the other through their union jobs.
I know of several major urban school systems (K-12), that have ‘given’ ‘Islam’ classes for one full week, since at least 2002. Religious colleges (not to mention public) have hired profs to teach Islam. Can you imagine a Presbyterian or Lutheran college with such?
NEA & NEH gave out/are giving ‘Islamic’ or ‘cross-cultural’ understanding grants over this past year under specific outreach initiatives. There is a national debate at the collegiate level about what basic education, communications and history courses suffice for lower-level courses. At the end of last year, many colleges pulled their history ‘101’ and other such course plans. There were beaucoup history prof retirements. I get this from people inside executive collegiate governance committees.
That sounds truly terrible. My sympathies.