Parents have the right to be vocal

American Thinker ^ | 22 Aug, 2021 | Helen Louise Herndon

[MtnClimber]

The left wants to deprive parents of a voice in their children’s education, even as they deprive those same children of useful skills and actual knowledge.

Around the country, parents are vocally challenging curricula related to race issues in the K-12 schools of their children and on their school boards. Not a few of these curricula contain elements taken from Critical Race Theory, which separates at least two races into two categories: “oppressed” and “oppressors.”

My local newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, ran an op-ed article, “Why St. Louis-area classrooms need more open discussions about race.” The authors are two St. Louis-based women: Sienna Ruiz, a research coordinator at the Washington University School of Medicine, and Akilah Collins-Anderson, working on her doctoral degree in public health sciences at Washington University. The article ended with this sentence: “Schools should provide critical thinking tools about race because it shapes everyone’s lives, whether parents accept it or not”—an exceptionally bold statement. The obvious question it raises is, “Are the ‘critical thinking tools’ that parents must accept unbiased and fair?”

First, it needs to be firmly stated that the public schools’ main purpose is to teach basic subjects as thoroughly as possible to prepare students for their futures. Traditionally, this has meant giving them the knowledge and skills to serve them well for either a vocation or higher education’s demands as well as to enhance citizenship.

[MtnClimber]

Playing groups against groups and rubbing raw perceived injustices is a tactic of communists. Honest discussions are not.

[GingisK]

Once upon a time I actually thought that public school was a good option for educating our children. Then some strange rot began spreading through the system. No parent should send their children to be humiliated and indoctrinated by what has become the most dangerous propaganda arm of insanity. The children are not being educated, they are being socially corrupted.