Posted on 03/04/2021 5:06:23 AM PST by Kaslin
For the past year, parents and students across the county, mostly in Democrat-run municipalities, have been experiencing excessive levels of stress due to unending school closures. Red states like Florida, Texas, and South Dakota have been open for months. Meanwhile, the teacher’s unions have a stranglehold on the public schools in Democrat states, refusing to open for a litany of absurd reasons.
Part of me sympathizes with the conservative parents who are struggling to cope with working from home and the online curriculum management of their children. (Though that sympathy does not extend to liberal parents who knowingly voted for this lunacy.) But I am struggling to understand why conservative parents are insistent to return their children to these wretched institutions that are delivering a subpar education and indoctrinating their children with Marxist theory.
Public schools throughout the nation have adopted wholesale the insidious Marxist curriculum of race agitators like Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi, along with Nicole Hannah Jones’s fictional work that is the "1619 Project." In Buffalo, New York, teachers and administrators have introduced “anti-racism” lessons that instruct kindergarteners -- yes, kindergarteners -- that ‘all white people perpetuate systematic racism’ and forces children to watch videos of dead black children. In Oregon, the ‘Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction’ claims that obtaining the ‘right’ answer to a math problem is somehow rooted in white supremacy.
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I think ALL public schools need to be permanently closed, other than the ‘wonderful’ (and free) public schools that my kids attend. Why they’re the only decent schools in the country and if the public schools do get closed, I’ll be forced to figure out how to get my kids educated...which is the LAST THING that I want to have to do.
Public schools in Texas has been open, but attendance is only about half of what it was pre-covid.
No teacher not physically present in the classroom should get a paycheck.
My memorized position for over a decade (since getting steeped in Khanacademy.org):
Public schools are a 19th century paradigm that outlived its usefulness in the early 21st century. It’s primary purpose is twofold: First, to supply jobs to overeducated college fodder and; second, to supply free daycare to parents that have sold themselves into indentured slavery.
Of course, abolishing them also ends the Marxist indoctrination. So we have that. Which is nice. :)
I don’t understand putting your kids into these communist indoctrination camps. The other day there was a zoom meeting with teachers and they said parents want their babysitters back. They have a point even though I despise the unionistic teacher. If I were younger living this American dystopia I would absolutely homeschool my kids.
No teacher not physically present in the classroom should get a paycheck.
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Once the mask (face shields and gloves) PPE mandate disappears, teachers have no problem going back into the classroom.
Other than medical personnel (they knew what they were getting into), humans should not be subjected to wearing a face diaper 6 to 8 hours at a time.
Let’s see, I’m teaching 4 online classes a semester over 2 colleges. So I guess all distance education and online classes need to cease to exist, as we don’t deserve a paycheck.
Let’s also not forget about the property taxes that go to pay for these deadbeat teacher’s “vacation”.
Good luck with that
Parents want their babysitters back. How sad that in one sense it is true, and in another sense, they view their jobs that way.
I agree, and view the current Marxist and Leftist programming as dangerous, but the reality is...there are too many people who, even if they made the commitment to wish to home school, are simply not suited to it.
And that is not a small number, either. I simply don’t think most parents could effectively homeschool math or chemistry. Obviously, some can, but I think it would be beyond most parents.
We need another answer, IMO.
Bottom line:
Public schools throughout the nation have adopted wholesale the insidious Marxist curriculum of race agitators
Sit back parents and watch your children be ashamed of themselves while you pay school taxes to promote this sh##
All public schools except for the very poor should be closed forever and Bob, I hope your post was an expression of sarcasm.
Education is not the business of the state but of the parents. Let them see to the task either themselves of through tutors and the churches. Eliminate property taxes. The unemployed teachers will find positions as tutors, private school teachers or they and the useless administrators can learn to code.
“...Public schools throughout the nation have adopted wholesale the insidious Marxist curriculum...”
Right-and that’s not a current development. For decades communities have been caving in to the NEA agenda.
That, along with the (also long-standing) voter fraud, created and assured continuance of this ghastly ‘system’ we have now
A lot of people have been asleep for a long time
Public schools are a failure anyway. Defund the schools.
A consortium of teachers who specialize and travel locally. Good education demands interest on the part of all concerned.
A clear understanding and dedicated practice of the Ten Commandments is the most basic starting point for good education and civil society. We ignore them to our peril, as is amply demonstrated in our midst these days.
Right. Something. I don’t think universal home schooling will work, and sending them back to the Marxist indoctrination mills works either.
I have always been a fan of getting rid of the top heavy bureaucratic and unionized teaching millstone, completely eliminating the Department of Education, which is the epitome of a worthless, useless, bloated, heavy-handed government agency which should not exist.
Take Education down to the state and local levels. Allow states and localities to hire their own people with their own standards, requirements, and rules without Federal interference.
It’s called trade or tech schools.
I myself went through an inner city public school system during the 1970s. Think Welcome Back Kotter, that's what it was actually like. It's a good thing I developed a love for reading at an early age so that I was able to get myself a good education nonetheless.
Some here might laugh, but when I was in high school, I used to skip school a lot and I'd typically spend the day at the Boston Public Library. Chances of running into a truant officer there was close to zero.
Yeah. If we all followed the golden rule we’d be better off. But the commies hate Christianity. The ten commandments and the golden rule are pathways to peace. The only way we’ll achieve that is in the second coming of Christ.
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