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Unionized Socialist Public Schoolteacher Overheard Indoctrinating Students About Racism

"Now how does that [current events item] fit in with racism?"

A crisis is developing in universal mandatory public schooling, unbeknownst to the establishment: Adults will get to overhear what actually goes on, through video conferencing. The naked face of conventional socialist indoctrination will be unmasked. Teachers are so sloppy, it doesn't even occur to them that their own indoctrination is obvious, so they will show their hand.

This child's "racism" teacher couldn't see that an adult was inadvertently off to the side listening. (Working from home, Covid19 telecommuting while the group "zoom" meeting was in progress.)

The child on a zoom call with its classmates, a child who is a relative but is not mine, goes to a Waldorf-style public school.

"When every child's an honored student, 'dumb ain't down, its all around' ". Teachers get to coat the poison pill of outlook averaging with a calm, soothing voice, no child allowed to any greater attainment than the lowest common denominator.

The assignment had been to get current events topics, presumably from "if it bleeds it leads" local t.v. news. The news topics were being discussed on camera. The teacher gently led the outcome-averaging session with, "now how does that fit in with racism?"

The conditioning works, just as intended. Conversation of these children, 12 and 13, is constantly peppered with the phrase "that's racist". That's Wrong. These children have never been exposed to racism to the slightest extent, they wouldn't know what it is if it chased them down the street and bit them.

Long ago I heard of this type of circular thinking, in an article I read in a 1964 Look Magazine about college students functionally paranoid, not about "racism", but about "Freudian slips", embarrassing or ungainly remarks made in casual conversation that had to be explained by "you want to go to bed with your mother" (Zorba the Greek), at a time when Behavioral Psychology's empirical research thrust had largely discredited Freudianism in upper academia, but a generation of Freud's thinking in popular culture was at its crest.

Socialist indoctrination a year ago would have been centered on the warmist terrorization of children, the bunker mentality that "we've only got 9 years left until the world ends", with Swedish energy sector-sponsored Greta Thornberg as the poster child of a generation of children stuck in a rut.

Before "institutionalized racism" became the most effective Marxist bomb for controlling the populace, 10 years ago it was possible for there to be a survey of African-American young men, about whether or not they suffered from racism. Twenty-two percent replied in the affirmative. That leaves 76% who had not experienced racism. Such a survey could not even be conducted today, much less could it be reported on, or anyone discussing it would need to wear a helmet so their heads wouldn't be bashed in. (I read of a young African-American woman at the time of the Trump Inauguration, carrying a 2x4 embedded with 4 large nails, in Portland, attacking an African-American man who was wrecking a traffic-light control. The left do eat their own. "The worm eateth its own tail." It's called Ourobouros.)

I have long opposed using computers in classrooms. I have seen, during my many years as a teacher, watched students in school libraries using the computers there. NONE of the students were using the computers for legitimate school work. No, they were scanning webpages of high-dollar SNEAKERS (a ghetto status symbol), watching sports games, or watching music videos (with headphones). They would have a window open with the work they were supposed to be doing, if the teacher or librarian happened to walk by, so they could minimize their sneaker or video page and appear to be doing their work. So all these school districts (most of them very liberal) who think that handing out laptops to students is any sort of “improvement” over actual teaching are just naive libtards. This is the new educational model, starting with Commie Core: read a few paragraphs by yourself, then click on some radio buttons A, B, C, or D to answer a few questions about the paragraphs you supposedly read. The typical student will first read the questions, see what information they seek, and then scan the reading material only for what they think is the answer. What happens reflects the TOTAL and ABSOLUTE lack of any honing of comprehension skills. Instead of reading the reading material first and getting an idea of what the topic is about, THEN going to the questions and seeing if they recall where in the reading material they saw the answer, only looking for what they think the answer is results in absolutely no reading comprehension or idea of what it’s about. And, instead of accurately answering the question, the students just cut and paste all the stuff around a word the question uses. Let’s say the reading material is about carriers of diseases. One of the paragraphs mentions mosquitoes as vectors of yellow fever, malaria, and night blindness. Another paragraph mentions that you should empty your birdbath regularly to prevent mosquitoes from breeding there. The question asks “What diseases are carried by mosquitoes?” And the students will cut and paste the entire paragraph about emptying the birdbath, because it contains the word “mosquito”. They will totally not learn anything about the diseases mosquitoes carry. That is what happens I’d say 90% of the time with computer “learning”. A live teacher can ask random students that question and they can’t fake it by reciting the whole paragraph about birdbaths, and so she knows they are not getting it or they are playing with their cellphones instead of listening. There is absolutely NO motivation these days for students to pay the slightest attention to lessons, be they Zoom or live, because they know that statistics-hungry administrators will come down hard on those teachers who grade honestly and fail those who actually deserve to fail. Thus, most teachers now aim to keep their jobs and the heat off their backs and pass virtually every student, even those who only sporadically attend class. MORE FRAUD. Is it any surprise election fraud and dishonesty of every sort has become so firmly entrenched as a means of getting what you want in our country instead of working for it? Students know they will graduate without doing a fraction of the required work, so why do the work? That’s for suckers.