Posted on 01/28/2023 5:15:09 AM PST by MtnClimber
Public education has taken a dangerous turn. Parents hoping to take back their schools must start by studying the leftist school playbook.
Several years ago, my husband and I learned a valuable lesson when we visited San Diego: Ignorance is not an excuse. After returning to our car from a beach trip, we noticed that we’d been ticketed. We drove to the police station and discovered that we’d parked in a red curb zone.
We hadn’t seen any No Parking signs, and the curbs weren’t red. However, there doesn’t have to be red paint to signify a restricted area; people are expected to know the rules. We weren’t excused from that ticket, and we were chided for not knowing the law, even as vacationers.
Twenty years later, American parents are suffering from what I call the Red Curb Syndrome. We do our best to stay informed, but we don’t always read school policy manuals or attend every board meeting. There are times when we may miss a new rule. Using taxpayer dollars nefariously and covertly to implement changes, public school officials have taken full advantage of parents’ busyness.
It’s no surprise, therefore, that parents all over the country find ourselves battling Critical Race Theory and transgender bathroom policies that we didn’t even know existed. Parental ignorance is no excuse. Public education has taken a dangerous turn. Parents hoping to take back their schools must start by studying the leftist school playbook.
Step One: Secretly Use Taxpayer Dollars to Subvert School Employees. School officials throughout the country have been caught on camera acknowledging efforts to train staff and to trick parents. My teenagers attend Olentangy Local School District, Ohio’s fourth largest public school system. With four high schools and 23,000 students, the district has become more like a government-run indoctrination station.
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Many parents have no idea what is going on in their children’s schools.
It isn’t coming back to normal without violence. It also isn’t even slightly possible that conservatives will resort to such. Just sit back and watch the collapse of civilization.
Colleen’s kids are **still** in those schools.
Hm?.....She has time to write essays for American Thinker but no time to homeschool her own children?
“Many parents have no idea what is going on in their children’s schools.”
I have asked many parents about their kid’s school. Everyone says, “oh, our school is fine”. I don’t know if it’s ignorance or if that’s what they want to believe so that they don’t have to deal with it ( like paying for a private school or fighting for improvement in their current school).
You think he can make any affect given all that is arrayed against him? I don’t. This is not a one man effort. This is one that requires the full attention of everyone. First, half of that “everyone” wants the corruption to happen. Second, the other half won’t do any more than they did while it was all degrading. Third, conservatives will not work together. Each and every one must be the boss.
Using taxpayer dollars nefariously and covertly to implement changes, public school officials have taken full advantage of parents’ busyness.
School Boards are elected.
I’m just saying.
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There is only one way these people will curtail their behavior, and we know what that is. Things are going to have to get ugly before any change will occur. No one is going to “nudge” the left out of power or change their minds about their insanity.
“It isn’t coming back to normal without violence. It also isn’t even slightly possible that conservatives will resort to such. Just sit back and watch the collapse of civilization.”
Yep.
Conservatives by nature are much more individualistic than collectivistic, so they’re not prone to organize and fight back. Even individually they are not activists - don’t want to rock the boat.
Things have got to get really, really bad before they’re stirred into action, and by then it may be too late.
Homeschooling can be expensive. We’ve done it for years. Perhaps she can’t afford to homeschool her kids.
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