Posted on 03/10/2021 6:19:14 AM PST by Heartlander
I have been telling parents for decades that sending a child to almost any college is playing Russian roulette with his or her values.
But it is a different version of Russian roulette. In the traditional version, only one of the gun’s six chambers contains a bullet. In the college version of Russian roulette, five of the six chambers contain a bullet.
If your child attends almost any university in America (or Canada or anywhere else in the English-speaking world), the odds are that your child’s decency, intellectual acuity, faculty of reason, character, and moral compass will be damaged, perhaps permanently.
The worse news is that sending your child to almost any elementary school or high school—public or private—is fast becoming equally toxic. More and more schools are being taken over by left-wing ideologues and by nonideologues who lack the courage to confront the ideologues.
Once infected with leftism, these schools teach children to hate reason, tradition, America, Christianity, whites, excellence, freedom, and masculinity.
To cite one example, thanks to a million-dollar grant from Bill Gates through his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Oregon Education Department has announced that teaching there is “one right answer” in math—yes, in math—is an expression of white supremacy. Why, then, would an Oregon parent who cares about his or her child’s mind send that child to an Oregon school?
In addition to perverting education, teachers and their unions have exhibited a contempt for children that has taken even conservatives by surprise. Teachers’ unwillingness to show up in class for more than a year is as unscientific as it is unprecedented.
On Feb. 3, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told reporters during a White House news briefing that teachers do not need to get vaccinated against COVID-19 before schools can safely reopen:
There is increasing data to suggest that schools can safely reopen and that safe reopening does not suggest that teachers need to be vaccinated. Vaccinations of teachers is not a prerequisite for safely reopening schools.
Nevertheless, in the country’s major cities, these cowards and hypochondriacs—people who claim to care more than anything else about their students—have refused to return to school (while demanding to be paid).
They have refused to teach, despite the facts that child-to-teacher transmission of the COVID-19 virus is extremely rare and a teacher being hospitalized, let alone dying, as a result of interaction with students is rarer than a teacher dying in a traffic accident on the way to school.
Why, then, would you send your child to be “taught” by people for whom you have—or should have—so little respect?
Why would you send your young child to a school that sponsors a “Drag Queen Story Hour” or that dwells on “nonbinary” gender identity? Do you think such things do not damage your child’s innocence? Do you want your child to be challenged about his or her sexual identity?
Why would you send your child to any school that teaches The New York Times’ 1619 Project? This project holds that America was not founded in 1776 but in 1619, with the arrival of the first black slaves in North America, and that the Revolutionary War was fought not to gain independence from Britain but to preserve slavery.
Virtually every leading historian specializing in American history—most of whom are liberals and Democrats, and some of whom were anti-Trump activists—have labeled the 1619 Project a lie.
Whenever I meet adults who hold traditional American values, I ask them three questions:
The first is, “Do you have children?”
If they do, my second question is, “How many of them share your values?” It is not common to meet people all of whose children share their parents’ traditional values.
If they respond that any of their children do not share their values, my third question is, “What happened?”
In every instance, these parents attribute the alienation of their child(ren) from their (the parents’) values to the college and, increasingly, the high school their child attended.
Moreover, not only are these children alienated from their parents’ values, but they are often also alienated from the parent(s). One thing you learn when you become left-wing is to have contempt for those who hold other beliefs.
Had these parents known how their children would turn out, they would never have sent them to college—or even to the high school they attended.
It appears, however, that no matter how many people lose their children’s hearts and minds to left-wing indoctrination, and no matter how much information accumulates about the perversion of education in American schools, parents continue to take risks with their children they would never take in any other sphere.
I am well aware of the enormous obstacles. If your child wishes to study STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) or law, college remains a necessity. Otherwise, it isn’t.
As for elementary and high school, parents must either find a school that teaches reading, writing, and arithmetic rather than America-hatred, or they should homeschool their child.
This, understandably, sounds terribly daunting. However, it is becoming considerably easier to do so as homeschool groups and quality homeschool curricula proliferate around the country.
Whatever your decision, never say you weren’t warned.
Tile should drop the “Most”
Public schools, including the one your children to, and the one you work at, are child abuse.
“Most American Schools Are Damaging Your Child”
Actually, all American schools are damaging to our kids. Well, not quite all, the public schools where I send my kids to are simply WONDERFUL! and would NEVER, ever, damage my kids.
How do I know it? Easy, I wouldn’t send them to those facilities if I thought it put them at risk. I’m simply not that kind of a parent
(and no, sending them to the ‘free’ schools has absolutely nothing to do with freeing up the money I need to keep up with the Jones and buy that nice, new, gleaming, truck - nope, absolutely nothing, trust me on that...)
My niece is attending a state university as a psychology major. I told certain relatives that though She grew up in an Evangelical home and school, she will exit college as an atheist.
elementary school in the 60’s sure was different from today!
Parents who truly hate their children, send them to Public "Schools".
Right before he went looking for one, his parents remember home school parents, told him that less than two years he will be able to drive a car, sure you don't want to put that money toward a car, not a dirt bike? Sleep on it. The next morning he said, "I want to buy a pick up truck!" He found a $1100 1974 Ford, guy wouldn't come down, Titus said, I have 9 one hundred dollar bills in my pocket, they are yours right now if you say yes, of course he did.
It wasn't running, they had to tow it home, Titus' Father warned him he did not have a lot of time to help him, not admitting he did not know alot about repairing cars because he did not pay attention when doing it with his Dad.
Titus diagnosed it had a bad starter, negotiated to get a rebuilt one for cheap, changed out the points and plugs and turned the key, vrooom it started! He is driving it all around the farm on the dirt roads and intends to fix it up even more till he gets to take it out on the open roads.
I agree. About 99.9% are. Our children have become fodder in the so called culture war.
Titus is quite the little entrepreneur. At 18 he’ll probably be a hedge fund manager.
https://www.carsforsale.com/1974-ford-f-100-for-sale-C1063207
All right well I’ll chime in as a parent of two boys that are in fifth grade and eighth grade going into sixth and ninth grade
Furthermore I’m in a pretty darn liberal area Marin County California and it’s also pretty white
There were some goofy crap in the Black Lives Matter thing last June ( But almost every young skull full of mush got caught up in that craploa )
they’ve tried to milk the coronavirus bull crap and work out at home which everybody’s doing
But in terms of virulent anti-American commie. Crap. ; trying to blur the lines between the sexes , and all that other stuff
We’ll. I haven’t seen any evidence of it at all at this point
So just leads me to wonder how many of the people that write his hand wriinging articles are actually parents
In the end if you are a parent you’re in charge of your own children and teaching them your values and that should be strong enough to be able to buttress against any of the nonsense that the Marxist Communist left try to indoctrinate them into
I went to public school and then on to public university. In California no less. Somehow I managed to survive with my conservative values intact. In fact the more radical leftists I met the less I thought of them.
The “education establishment” has been laying this rail for over 100 years. As Dewey said, “You can’t make a good socialist out of an individual”. It has been their purpose from the beginning, to destroy your kids’ ability to think critically, to dumb them down and make indoctrination easy, to assure chaos in the middle and high schools, and to make sure they could not compete globally.
We pay BILLIONS in tax money to our public schools and what do we get for it? A faulty product that rejects your values, can only barely be controlled by you, and is irredeemably stupid. I’m sorry to be so harsh, but we all need to face the damage that has been caused by the public school system.
How to fix it? Let’s consider some common sense ideas.
It’s OUR money, so parents and teachers need to take back control of the schools locally. Control what they are taught and take the elementary schools back to the basics. No more social engineering and no more “change agents”.
Kick the teachers’ unions OUT of your state and abolish the DOE- NOW. Pass legislation that forbids the fed or outside groups from interfering in the management of our schools.
Abolish Common Core and don’t let Critical Race Theory or the 1619 Project to infect your school with their racist lying poison.
Parents, make sure you see EVERY book they are using in your child’s classes and speak up when you don’t like what you see.
Re-introduce vocational and technical schools and get over the idea that everyone is going to college. Re-introduce tracking to make sure your kid is studying WHAT he/she WANTS to do. Someone who wants to be an electrician, a cop, a nurse, a hairstylist or a welder doesn’t care about social “justice”.
Withold public funds from “teachers’ colleges” who confer BAs in “education” instead of insisting that teachers have degrees in WHAT they TEACH. I have an MA in “education” and you know what it means? NOTHING! My undergrad degrees in science and history are far more valuable.
These are just some ideas...
But if we don’t take back our schools from the self-identified “experts”, they WILL destroy our kids- just look at the kids on college campuses NOW.
The “education establishment” has been laying this rail for over 100 years. As Dewey said, “You can’t make a good socialist out of an individual”. It has been their purpose from the beginning, to destroy your kids’ ability to think critically, to dumb them down and make indoctrination easy, to assure chaos in the middle and high schools, and to make sure they could not compete globally.
We pay BILLIONS in tax money to our public schools and what do we get for it? A faulty product that rejects your values, can only barely be controlled by you, and is irredeemably stupid. I’m sorry to be so harsh, but we all need to face the damage that has been caused by the public school system.
How to fix it? Let’s consider some common sense ideas.
It’s OUR money, so parents and teachers need to take back control of the schools locally. Control what they are taught and take the elementary schools back to the basics. No more social engineering and no more “change agents”.
Kick the teachers’ unions OUT of your state and abolish the DOE- NOW. Pass legislation that forbids the fed or outside groups from interfering in the management of our schools.
Abolish Common Core and don’t let Critical Race Theory or the 1619 Project to infect your school with their racist lying poison.
Parents, make sure you see EVERY book they are using in your child’s classes and speak up when you don’t like what you see.
Re-introduce vocational and technical schools and get over the idea that everyone is going to college. Re-introduce tracking to make sure your kid is studying WHAT he/she WANTS to do. Someone who wants to be an electrician, a cop, a nurse, a hairstylist or a welder doesn’t care about social “justice”.
Withold public funds from “teachers’ colleges” who confer BAs in “education” instead of insisting that teachers have degrees in WHAT they TEACH. I have an MA in “education” and you know what it means? NOTHING! My undergrad degrees in science and history are far more valuable.
These are just some ideas...
But if we don’t take back our schools from the self-identified “experts”, they WILL destroy our kids- just look at the kids on college campuses NOW.
Nice story; thanks for posting. And Titus isn’t on the verge of suicide because he can’t hang with his buddies during the pandemic!
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