Public education is as bad as, if not worse than, you’ve heard

American Thinker ^ | 21 Jul, 2022 | Andrea Widburg

[MtnClimber]

An anonymous teacher has written an article describing in shocking detail some of the madness that has infected public education.

At Wesley Yang’s Year Zero substack site, a left-leaning public teacher in a leftist school district published an article describing just how crazy things really are in such schools. While your children may be behind in reading, writing, and arithmetic, it’s clear they’re getting an extra-large dose of hard-left racism (and probably gender theory and America hatred, although the essay doesn’t touch on those things). If you have children or grandchildren in public schools, or you simply care about America’s future, you should read that essay and then pay close attention to your next school board election.

The essay, entitled Yes, Things Are Really As Bad As You've Heard, sounds like one of the more outlandish Babylon Bee parodies. However, Yang vouches for the essay, saying that he’s spoken with the author and reviewed correspondence that confirms the statements and events that the teacher describes.

The teacher identifies himself (or herself?) very clearly as a leftist:

This is where I have to stop and make one thing very clear: I’m a leftist. Like, a big one. I hate capitalism, I support abortion on demand, and I unironically use phrases like “systems of oppression” and “the dominant culture.” The last big paper I put together for my undergraduate degree was on critical race theory, for the love of God! I’m not the sort of person who can be easily dismissed as a conservative crank.

This identification matters because his point is that, if things have gotten too extreme for him, the education system in this blue school in a blue state has tilted so far to the left that it is no longer anything approaching a functional educational entity.

[1Old Pro]

I wish somebody with clear thinking would declare a K-12 public school crisis.

[achilles2000]

As someone actively working against the government school system, your comment is spot on. Government schools are Americans’, including a majority of “conservatives”, favorite welfare program. The sad thing is that all those conservative welfare queens really don’t care what’s happening in their schools. They simply repeat “our schools are different” like so many chanting Hari Krishnas bouncing around on the streets.

[georgiarat]

My daughter and son-in-law are homeschooling their children. She is a stay at home mom ((Biology degree) and we help (I have a history BA, Computer science (BS) and an MBA plus 35 years of work experience. My wife has a computer science degree an work experience. It is amazing how fast they are learning with plenty of time for field trips and practical life learning and experience. Parents are really organizing within neighborhoods in an amazing way to have their children escape public schools.

[drwoof]

“Where Policies Become People!” Jill Biden.

[EinNYC]

I recently read some posts of a certain teacher blog in NYC. The comments were nothing but frightening. They slapped on and on about “systemic racism”, “whiteness”, “LBGTABCEYZ being discriminated against”, “Need to tone down Holocaust education because after all, it was only one brief period vs. all the years of black oppression”, and a whole lotta other 100% pure classic libtard nonsense. It was both disgusting and frightening that this miscreant is in a position to influence kids with their maniacal crap.