Why the Classroom Activists Never Give Up

It is often said that when something controversial is being pounded into the public via media headlines, there is something else that is going on behind the scenes that the public is being distracted from. This is certainly the case with Americaâs education system. While the public has been hammered with a full-frontal assault by activists pushing Critical Race Theory and gender ideology in the schools overtly, there has also been a covert assault from the flank called Social-Emotional Learning or SEL.

Social-Emotional Learning supposedly arose out of the COVID-19 pandemic and a need to attend to the emotional psyches of fragile youth. It is a shift in the role of a teacher from an educator to a therapist and places a high value on a childâs emotional competency over academic performance. After locking kids in their homes, isolating them from their peers, muzzling them with ineffective face diapers, and pounding them with fear and doom for 2 years, activists have swooped in to provide emotional support in the classroom once they were permitted to return. In typical government fashion, it seems like a solution looking for a problem. They didnât create SEL to mend the fragile psyches of youth, they damaged the fragile psyches of youth to push SEL.

I heard Lady Gaga’s song “Born this way” on the radio, and it got me thinking.

On the one hand, I think homosexuals are big on the idea that “God made me this way”. And I think the thinking is extended a bit like this — “God made me like this / I’m proud of who I am / I’m a good person / Why did God do this to me? / I hate God / God does not exist”

The logical flow isn’t there at all. But I do believe that some people think like that. (Who expects logic from the Left?) And it’s all basically built on a lie, in my opinion, because I do not think that anyone is “Born that way”. I think they are manufactured. In schools, by psychologists, by molesters, by Disney.

As you say, they are unable to reproduce themselves, so they must use ideology to make their next generation. And then they cover the whole thing up by acting like it’s God’s fault. While making it clear that they don’t believe in God.

Gore Vidal was always very clear that he did not consider himself to “be” homosexual. He did not think that anyone “was” homosexual — or heterosexual. For him, sexuality was not an “identity”. (This is so very different from today’s ideology).

Vidal said that most people engage in heterosexual behavior — marriage, children, all that stuff. Vidal himself mostly engaged in homosexual behavior. But he wasn’t “homosexual”.

His thinking on the topic seems a lot healthier than what we have these days. And, as you say, behavior can be modified. If someone wanted a more normal life, they could take steps to move away from homosexual behavior, and instead engage in more heterosexual behavior, and just live that sort of life. Many people have done exactly that. But, today, it’s almost illegal to speak of such a possibility.

By “@CrownMaybe” on Twitter, with minor edits

Still trying to puzzle out how we are so concerned about the rights of government employees to act in their own discretion, in potential violation of the rights of the people whom they are theoretically serving.

It took the right decades to understand that policemen are government employees, but we’re still clearly not there on judges and teachers.

Teachers are civil servants, no matter how you dress it up
Teachers are our servants. If they don’t think so, we can keep firing their bosses until we find some who understand that we are in fact their masters, and they our servants.
Don’t let your warm feelings for Mrs. Martinez, who really was a great Honors Algebra teacher, render you incapable of critical thought in this area.
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* She really was.

Allegations that Florida’s law are too vague basically boil down to both a complaint about the broadness of the instruction we just gave our servants, and a tender concern for their feelings.

Don’t have those.

Does your heart break at the thought of giving employees of the department of motor vehicles broad instructions to obey civic norms and not to undermine your relationships with your children?

Do you worry that a rule preventing local code and ordinance inspectors from casually smashing light bulbs on your property may also keep them from smashing windows?

We, for good reasons and bad, delegate a limited amount of parental authority to these government employees. They are explicitly acting in our place. They have no right at all whatsoever to do more to our children than we allow; by definition, their power flows from us.

Oh no, they’ll have to err on the side of caution and not tell small children about their private lives, or about the sperm donor they got, or about how their partners or brothers or whatever are transitioning.

They have absolutely no right to do that in the first place. They act in loco parentis by our leave. If we make a rule forbidding discussing their private lives in the classroom, guess who gets to shut up about it.

We are a free people, not a bunch of serfs living at the whim of a bureaucratic elite. We have clearly allowed them too much security, for both they and we have lost track of who is in charge here. It is time to fix that.

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