Posted on 02/05/2020 5:05:51 AM PST by Kaslin
With the exponential growth of leftist revisionist history curriculums now taught in both public and private elementary schools throughout the country, a growing number of parents are in a state of panic over how to correct their children's misconceptions about American history and culture. While complete re-education is not feasible for all children, most will benefit from home learning if you budget just 30 minutes a day, four days a week, as "Family Learning Time."
We are not with our children all day, and we will not know what exactly is being taught to them unless they bring home a story. What we do know is that various Pulitzer Center lessons and the 1619 Project are now being taught in more than 3,500 public school classrooms in all 50 states. We know that expensive NAIS-accredited private schools are falling victim to both Pollyanna and 1619 Project educational reconditioning. We also know that this type of social justice curriculum redesign was introduced about a decade ago and had been spreading uncontrollably ever since.
Increasingly, parents are left without options for traditional education in a group environment. For families residing in urban areas, the only two options for correcting the misinformation are homeschooling or supplemental home learning. For those who don't have the ability or desire to homeschool, home learning is the only option.
Set aside 30 minutes a day, four days a week, for Family Learning Time. Before you begin lessons with your child, you will need to prepare fun stories and videos. There are some free, trustworthy resources online. Khan Academy offers a phenomenal self-study outline on U.S. history, complete with videos that are fun for kids to watch. Hillsdale College offers full video lectures on American history, though some of the lectures are a bit too dry to keep an elementary school child's attention. You will need to review Hillsdale lessons on your own and craft more exciting ways to introduce the information to your child. Pre-screened YouTube videos can supplement concepts like the Declaration of Independence, and museum websites can supplement discussions of the Civil War. It would help to plan some family trips around educational American history sites and museums.
Every fourth Family Learning Time day should be a summary discussion of what your family learned at home. Ask your child if anything you learned together contradicts what was taught at school. This discussion will yield fascinating dichotomies for you to discuss with your child. You will need to decide when it is appropriate to teach your child that not everything taught as school is true. When you deem appropriate, you can begin discussing political motivations and movements with your child.
Once a few significant inconsistencies between home and school learning emerge, you can begin teaching your child the concept of propaganda at school. You can discuss Soviet school propaganda. Plenty of fascinating images from Soviet textbooks can be found online. Follow up with discussions of East German propaganda. Lead into the more modern Chinese Communist propaganda. After a few weeks, ask your children if they recognize any of the tactics used in these Socialist countries from their own experiences. Engage in discussions on how to reflect on everything being taught at school and how to remain open-minded to the fact that school might not be as trustworthy a source of information as your family would have ideally hoped. Let your children know that they can come to you to ask about anything they learn and that they should feel free to state their opinions at home - even if those opinions might be looked down upon by school teachers and administrators.
After a few months, your children will become aware of misinformation and tactics by school officials, and they will be more skeptical of their history lessons. Teach your children how to use secondary sources to verify what was taught to them. If the information taught was accurate, then wonderful, your child was able to use research to reinforce concepts. If the information taught was dubious, then your child can remain objectively critical of the ideas. Take time to be part of their research efforts and continue guiding your child throughout elementary school. Many sources on the internet dress themselves in sheep's clothing to deceive unsuspecting children to reinforce leftist propaganda.
This is just a suggestive guide on how to help your children. Tweak it any way you wish to suit the particular needs of your family. But come up with a plan and stick to it. The earlier you can get to your children, the more easily you can undo the liberal revisionist history that was shoved down their throats.
Get Communist Howard Zinns history text out of American schools.
Another resource - Larry Schweikarts books and web site.
https://www.wildworldofhistory.com/
Also Prager U.
NeoCommunism is as horrible as NeoNazism and far more prevalent.
Home school only.
Undo? Isn’t that double work?
My 15-year-old (California public school): "It's the Republicans who freed the slaves and passed the civil rights legislation."
My 12-year-old (public school) (when asked, "What is a social justice warrior?"): "A nut!" "A lunatic!"
My 12-year-old (public school) (when asked if it's cool to be a social justice warrior): "Actually it's kinda cool to trash on those kinds of people."
My other 12-year-old (when asked, "What is a social justice warrior?"): (in a shrill, high pitched voice) It's someone who's like 'I'm going to give my children aromatherapy instead of vaccines."
My 12-year-old: "Do you know what they're teaching us? That humans are killing the oceans and destroying the planet and we're all going to die from global warming!"
My other 12-year-old: "That health teacher is crazy! Do you know what she did? All of us--boys and girls together--she told us how girls masturbate! She's crazy! We were all embarrassed!"
My sons hs bio teacher asked what was the most effective form of birth control. He was the one who said abstinence .
My daughter got a writing prompt after reading a paragraph about borders. She felt it was biased toward open borders. She responded to the prompt with an essay about how good fences make good neighbors.
Rush wrote some books for kids about US history. Try that.
Bingo. A police firing squad for teachers of communism.
Trial. Then line em up.
Two hours per week may not do it. Kids now are under a continuous propaganda barrage 24/7/365.
Just ordered his 5 Rush Revere books for my grandkids. Amazon has some left.
A police firing squad for teachers of communism.
What about all the conservative patriots that have given no personal effort/money/time/risk to stop it over the decades?
Whens the last time any of us showed up at our local school board meeting, by the hundreds, to voice our displeasure and push them the other way?
Whens the last time a local newspaper office or TV station was protested by hundreds of us?
The last time occurred when they stopped listening and doing what they want anyway.
Build a library of American history books for kids written before 1990.
They are cheap, still accurate, and written at a level where you help their reading skills on top of getting them good information.
Socialism is infused into every aspect of public schooling
If one is sending one’s children there, there is about an 80% chance one’s child will graduate high school with a socialist worldview.
For every one child whose parents are able to un-teach the public school indoctrination, there are probably 20+ whose parents do nothing. Our mere presence in public schools is destructive to the Republic
I had the four book set and just ordered the 5th book.
Also watch for anti-white propaganda sugar-coated as "social justice."
School is not about School Boards or protests. Those are dysfunctional.
Once a bond passes,
that is coerced money stolen from children to harm them.
You can only war and rid institutions of communists.
Good luck.
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