Posted on 08/02/2022 3:05:12 PM PDT by T Ruth
Teachers’ unions are pushing a radical Marxist-inspired agenda that is destroying public education in America.
Over the past several years, the left has aggressively infected the minds of the youngest children with the tenets of critical race theory (CRT) and gender ideology, while academic excellence has been shoved to the back of the bus. As a result, public schools are hemorrhaging students.
In my home state of Minnesota, 2022 “marks the second consecutive year the state’s public school system has lost thousands of students,” the Center of the American Experiment, a Minnesota think tank, reported in February. Why should parents in Minnesota or any other state keep their children in public schools?
In 2021, the Minnesota Department of Education’s statewide test results showed another drop in the number of students meeting or exceeding grade-level criteria. Overall, reading scores fell 7 percent, math scores dropped 11 percent, and science scores shrank 8 percent.
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In 2021, Minnesota’s professional educator licensing and standards board proposed an addition to what proficiency standards for teachers to be licensed. Proposed requirements include:
Helping students develop social identities based upon their social grouping.
Understanding “systemic trauma,” including racism and micro and macro aggression.
Fully affirming and incorporating identity politics into the school including race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, economic status, and ethnicity.
Connecting students with local and global political activists.
Understanding that Minnesota’s laws were created to oppress by race, class, gender, sexual orientation, etc.
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Public schools are no longer the place to send your children to prepare them to succeed in life, or to learn critical thinking skills or high standards of excellence. ...
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(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
So true, so sad, so evil. Best to bring back basics and the bible pre 1962.
It’ll never happen tho
Totally true.
It isn’t just higher ed.
The woke curriculum has seeped into lower ed.
The two biggest expenditures of all 50 state governments are 1-12 & higher ed. So remember that the next time you hear:
“We aint spending nuffin on education.”
Public schools are child abuse.
Time for separation of school and state.
That is an exceedingly pessimistic view (title(
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After the election Congress needs to pass a Bill and put it on Biden’s desk stating that it’s ILLEGAL for any public teachers or public schools to teach CRT and any form of Marxist Socialist doctrine in our public schools.
If they want to open their own private schools for that then that’s fine. But if they’re EVER caught teaching this anti American HATE then they need to be prosecuted and barred from ever teaching kids in public schools for life.
That WILL end this.
Yes. The whole western world has gone woke.
“Public schools are child abuse.”
Hey, that’s my line!
Leave schools up to the communities and churches. And get Big Brother out of the picture.
likely for most districts and states. the only person who fought the public teachers unions and actually beat them was the great Gov. Scott Walker.
There are 97,568 public schools in the United States and 97,567 of them suck.
The 1 school that doesn’t suck is the one that I send my kids to. Talk about luck!
(otherwise I’d have to step up and protect my kids)
How to deal with child predators?
97,566
That line has occurred to many many of us over the last decade. I have been using it since the 90s as have a couple of others on FR.
> Teachers’ unions are pushing a radical Marxist-inspired agenda... <
I was an involuntary member of a teachers’ union for decades. We rank-and-file members pretty much mirror society as a whole. There are MAGA folks, BernieBots, and everything in between.
But the leadership, that’s another story. Marxists, every one of them. How they keep on getting elected, I could tell you election stories that would make Stalin blush.
Anyway, here’s a key point. Teachers’s unions have NOTHING to do with what is being taught in public schools. Trust me on this. Their opinions are neither asked for nor wanted. Everything is set by the local school boards (and sometimes the state).
These school boards hire Marxist / woke consultants. Then the school boards adopt what these consultants recommend. That’s where the rot is.
O resent my taxes going to support these schools. Don’t have kids, never had kids and yet I am helping pay for other peoples kids. Public schools need to go.
Children are smarter than adults in some ways.
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