A Hidden Benefit of the COVID-19 Virus Can Be Seen In America's Classrooms

Townhall.com ^ | March 15, 2020 | Lloyd Pettegrew

[Kaslin]

COVID-19 is wreaking havoc on the U.S. economy. Airline travel has slowed to a crawl and every major music concert like Coachella and South by Southwest have been canceled. Athletic events have been brutalized. All NHL games, the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball finals will be held, but in empty arenas, save for the families of team players. NASCAR races have been rescheduled or canceled.

There is a hidden benefit to the COVID-19 disruption unknown to most. This is an amelioration of the progressive brainwashing in most colleges and universities that may offer students and their parents a reprieve from these educational indoctrination factories.

For conservatives who have friends or loved ones, or are themselves attending college, COVID-19 carries with it a respite from the ongoing indoctrination. With the coronavirus scare and the arrival of spring break, nearly every university, save Falwell’s Liberty University, are now suspending face-to-face classes, and professors have been instructed to adopt the online mode of delivery for at least several weeks after students return, if not for the remainder of the term.

Since many professors still deliver their classes face-to-face, this mandate forces them to reformat their instruction into a more nuanced and less spontaneous style. Being able to use the most recent progressive proclamations from MSNBC, CNN, the Washington Post or New York Times will no longer be doable. There is already much pushback from the professorate because they are being forced to reformat their courses. Their yellowed lecture notes will have to be converted to online learning systems like Blackboard, Canvas, etc. Online lectures and projects must be developed and recorded in advance, and making changes is both difficult and time-consuming. This fact leaves little opportunity for liberal professors to inculcate students with more fake news and ideology.

This is not to say that progressive concepts are impossible to infuse into online classes, only that issues can’t be added on the fly which until now have enabled liberal professors to incorporate the latest outrage against President Trump and conservative thought or action into their world truth and against a fair and balanced presentation of events, ideas and theories.

At play is also the fact that online delivery of course content allow students to have time to contemplate the indoctrination they are receiving: mull it over, re-review it and talk to others about it. As important is the fact that these articles of indoctrination are now open publicly for students to show others what they are receiving for their or their or their parents’ educational dollar. This alone may force many professors to rethink putting their radical ideology on a medium that can be saved and passed around to non-believers including parents, conservative media and politicians.

It’s one thing for your child to call you up from college and say: “You wouldn’t believe what my professor just said about conservatives!” But when they return home for spring break and are able to actually show parents recorded lectures on the evils of conservativism and capitalism or the wisdom of social justice or socialism, it is quite another. It’s as if parents can now sit beside their college students in class and actually see the progressive indoctrination permeating American universities.

I suspect this situation will lead to a number of positive outcomes for college students and their parents. First, many academic majors in the behavioral sciences, philosophy, social justice and women’s studies may now be viewed in naked relief and receive the informed derision they truly deserve. Second, with newly informed parents, students are also more likely to change their major to something less progressive and more oriented to a well-paying career that will enable them to pay off their student loan debt. Third, a few may even change what college they attend, say from Progressive State University to a better, less progressively ideological place of higher learning like Hillsdale College, Pepperdine University, Chapman University, BYU or the like.

Many progressive American universities have held an ideological monopoly on students for decades. The good news is that the COVID-19 virus may temporarily loosen this educational stranglehold and offer new insight into how dysfunctional it actually is these days.

[CheshireTheCat]

Now that many K-12 schools are closed for weeks, and, I presume, many kids sent home with lots of homework and directions for accessing some types of lessons online, and many parents are working from home, parents will get a good lesson in the crap their children are taught because they have more opportunity to check their children’s homework.

To some degree this will also happen with parents of college students who were living on or near campus and are now home.

There has been much speculation on the threads here that there will be a baby boom in nine months due to more couples being homebound.

I think there might also be a Rush baby boom coming insofar as more kids of parents who are working from home and free to listen to Rush (and his protegy- Gallagher, Chris Plant, etc.) will hear him and rethink their opinion of him as they try to make sense of what this coronavirus crisis is all about.

[Carriage Hill]

So far, the Australian and Chinese F1 Grads Prix have been canceled/postponed. and it’s possible the whole F1 Race Season will be canceled.

[Carriage Hill]

NOTE TO SELF: Spell check before you post, moron.

So far, the Australian and Chinese F1 Grands Prix have been canceled/postponed. And it’s possible the whole F1 Race Season will be canceled.

[BobL]

“There is a hidden benefit to the COVID-19 disruption unknown to most. This is an amelioration of the progressive brainwashing in most colleges and universities that may offer students and their parents a reprieve from these educational indoctrination factories.”

I’ve pointed this out too. It’s AMAZING how many people here are just blind to it and go blasting the Ohio governor for saying that schools may be closed through June (end of school year).

We’re on the cusp of FINALLY breaking the stranglehold of the Left on our kids, but many here are just mad because they may lose their ‘free’ daycare.

[Uncle Sham]

I think the biggest change in education will be the push to mainstream online classes and get rid of brick and mortar teaching once and for all. This will result in huge savings for everyone and will allow a transition from your child being taught at the level of the slowest learner in his class to his being able to learn at his own individual ability. The best teachers will be used to create the online presentations and those teachers left out will have to find new jobs, most of them transitioning into private tutors to families that need their help.

A total revamp of subject delivery might result in video games designed such that a minimum score is required to unlock the next lesson, etc. Imagine your child playing a video game that teaches him everything he currently has to catch a bus and sit in a classroom all day for! Online education is already here and it will only gain more and more of a foothold now that the education establishment has admitted it's capacity to be utilized.

[Parmy]

"Now that many K-12 schools are closed for weeks, and, I presume, many kids sent home with lots of homework and directions for accessing some types of lessons online, and many parents are working from home, parents will get a good lesson in the crap their children are taught because they have more opportunity to check their children’s homework."

This is certainly possible. But, in school districts that are not that astute I sincerely doubt this will be the case.

The parent of students in these districts will be frothing at the bit to get their progeny back to school for the baby sitting service schools provide and the free breakfasts and lunches.

This is reality where I am from.

[tbw2]

No. Public colleges near us will resume online classes in 7 days.

[Chode]

wondweful...

[Kaslin]

Here in Montgomery County, TN the schools are closed from tomorrow, March 16 to the end of the week and then is Spring Break from March 23-March 27

[Kaslin]

Coronavirus: Austin Peay State University cancels classes, going online only

Now for the elementary, middle and Highschools here in Montgomery County TN they have no school from March 17 to March 20, because of shutdown and have spring break from March 23-March 27. Last day of school is May 21st (Unless things change of course.

[tbw2]

Our school district is doing the same.

[Pocketdoor]

My school district is giving a sack lunch and a breakfast something or other for any kid from 11am - 1pm

[Elsie]

I would image there were VERY few teachers that opposed this shutdown...

[Elsie]

Have they no PARENTS to provide for them?

[kearnyirish2]

“The parent of students in these districts will be frothing at the bit to get their progeny back to school for the baby sitting service schools provide and the free breakfasts and lunches.”

I agree; hearing presidential candidates push full-day pre-K for three- and four year-olds makes it clear that public schools have simply become daycare centers (all the way to adulthood). The current hue and cry about the children needing the free breakfast AND lunch programs in the NYC metro area (including northeastern NJ) should be very disturbing to American taxpayers; we are perpetuating a permanent socialist underclass with no recognizable familial bonds whatsoever.

[Elsie]

Useful idiots and cannon fodder

[Elsie]

“And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden alter which is before God,

Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year,

for to slay the third part of men. And the number of the army of the horsemen were

two hundred thousand thousand (200 million): and I heard the number of them.”

 

Revelation 9:13-16

 

 

Horesmen move swiftly.  Could this be describing the advancing CV plague?

[redpoll]

>>>I would image there were VERY few teachers that opposed this shutdown...<<<<

None of the 30 or so teachers I work with want the shutdown. Even the uberliberals, of which we have several, want the shutdown. Most of us understand the need to reduce the spread of infection by limiting contact with others and hunkering down if you’re at risk for complications, but all of us would rather be working than sitting around... although, just speaking for myself, in my first day in self-isolation I’ve managed to fix a broken window latch and lifted and repaired the roof to the chicken coop that collapsed under the recent snows (I’m in Alaska). We need a new bellows (gasket) for the washing machine, since the one we have got torn, so I’ll have to do that, too, soon. That’ll be tomorrow. And we need to plant starts for the garden, since spring will eventually arrive in these parts. So I’ve got stuff to do. I saw several young men across the street set loose from the confines of the high school revving up their snowmachines to go check the traplines, and they’re happy to see something other than four walls.

There’s a lot more conservatives in the teaching ranks than you might know. Overall, it sucks not to work.