Posted on 08/06/2022 6:10:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Democrats are quickly losing their grip on the question.
It just doesn’t stop. In Portland, Oregon, the kindergarten curriculum includes an anatomy lesson featuring “graphic drawings of children’s genitalia.” The words “Boy” and “Girl” are eschewed in favor of “person with a penis” and “person with a vulva,” because, according to the curriculum, girls can have penises and boys can have vulvas.
In a West Chester, Pennsylvania middle school, boys were encouraged to wear dresses at the school’s Gay Pride Month celebrations. And in a New York City middle school, students are encouraged to keep a list of all the “microaggressions” they witnessed—both at school and at home.
And while kids are getting indoctrinated into the gender and critical race theory cults, their traditional learning has become an afterthought.
According to the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the “Nation’s Report Card,” only 37 percent of U.S. public high school seniors are proficient in reading and 24 percent have reached proficiency in math. Additionally, proficiency is at just 22 percent in science and a pathetic 12 percent in U.S. history. This is pre-COVID data, and we can only guess how horrific the scores will be after the prolonged union-orchestrated school shutdowns.
The good news is that Americans have finally awakened to the abuse. A May poll by the American Federation of Teachers revealed that 39 percent of voters reported that they have more confidence in Republicans on education matters, compared with 38 percent for Democrats. While the Republican edge is not exactly overwhelming, it is still important, as Democrats have always prevailed in public opinion because of the perception that they were the party of education.
As the American Enterprise Institute’s Rick Hess notes, the Democrats’ “broad support for more education spending, outspoken embrace of public education,
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They should. Right now parents are outraged. There is a group that will go full bore against the RATs.
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