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Public schools are feeling the fallout from the COVID lockdowns
American Thinker.com ^ | May 19, 2022 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 05/19/2022 5:37:02 PM PDT by Kaslin

Vladimir Lenin allegedly said, "Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I have sown shall never be uprooted." America's leftists have taken those words to heart and, since the 1930s, have assiduously winnowed their way into America's education system. The COVID lockdown, for all its destruction, may have ended up performing a huge service by exposing to parents just how bad the leftist toxin has grown in the last ten to fifteen years. The sea change in parental attitudes toward education is shown in the fact that, across America, public school enrollment is collapsing.

In the years after WWII, leftists began to infiltrate the American education system. They started with the colleges, but, for decades now, as generations of college graduates become teachers themselves, and write the textbooks, their ideas have been drifting steadily down to the lower grades. We've gone from a public school system intended to create useful, patriotic American citizens to a public school system intended to create Democrat party die-hards who hate America, embrace Critical Race Theory, despise free speech, dream of overthrowing the Constitution, demand unlimited abortion, and believe that biological sex is an artificial construct.

As late as 2018, most suburban parents thought well of their kids' schools, praising supporting teachers who really seemed to care about the kids. All that changed with the lockdowns, which the Democrats desperately wanted as a vehicle to destroy Donald Trump.

Suddenly, parents saw what was really going on in their children's classrooms: the divisive Critical Race Theory; the hostility to the Bill of Rights, especially free speech; and most disturbing of all, the endless indoctrination into transgender ideology, all of it premised on that "gender unicorn." (Remember: that unicorn is a "tell."

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TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: childabuse; covid; education; lockdowns; publicschool

1 posted on 05/19/2022 5:37:02 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Public schools should not even exist.


2 posted on 05/19/2022 5:51:31 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: No name given

All government indoctrination centers need to be close.


3 posted on 05/19/2022 5:57:25 PM PDT by 2001convSVT (Medicare for All = Medical Care for None!)
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To: Kaslin

MARK MY WORDS! They will make home schooling illegal.


4 posted on 05/19/2022 6:07:44 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Miss you Rush!)
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To: Kaslin

Thomas Jefferson was home schooled and one room schools in the 1900’s produced a generation that used their slide rules to put a man on the moon.


5 posted on 05/19/2022 6:27:51 PM PDT by IAGeezer912 (One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
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To: Kaslin

Public schools are child abuse. Start prosecuting the groomers.


6 posted on 05/19/2022 6:43:39 PM PDT by TigersEye (I await the return of The Great MAGA King)
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To: Kaslin

PUBLIC SCHOOL EXIT
https://www.publicschoolexit.com/

The mission of Public School Exit is to facilitate an exodus of American children and families from government-controlled education by educating the public and helping families. We are more than an organization, we are a movement


7 posted on 05/19/2022 8:20:02 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed the nation whose GOD is the LORD. ~ Psalm 33:12)
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