Political Indoctrination at my Public School

FrontPageMagazine ^ | June 14, 2002 | Steve Miller

[Boxsford]

A long, but interesting read.

[Mo1]

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[Boxsford]

A friend of ours got wind of a teacher at our local high school teaching the horrors of gun ownership. This friend approached the teacher and requested time to address the class and give another point of view. He had to take time away from his job to do this.
It's a rare parent that will do what this one did. Parents are being indoctrinated themselves and they don't know it!!

[WillaJohns]

Powerful read. Can the schools be freeped?

[Black Agnes]

Ping! to the 'The North American Invasion' that stole the SW from the Mexicans. Being taught in a nice American school, NOW!

[dyed_in_the_wool]

If he thinks this is bad, wait until he gets to college. This is just the warm up act. The nonsense that's being spread in high school is then accepted as fact. And once they get out of college...

[dawn53]

They can be freeped by pulling your kids out of them.

They get $$$ for every student enrolled.

If conservatives pull their kids from public education, something will have to give because their revenues will go down.

You know what they say, "Money Talks."

At least 10 years ago I read an article by Cal Thomas, and he said if we really wanted reform in the education system, we'd do just this, every conservative would pull their kids from the system and something would have to happen, they'd have to change in order to attract kids back into the system, because they need the $$$$.

[Cacique]

This is nothing new. It has been going on for the last forty years. The vast majority of teachers colleges are an indoctrination center for "progressive" politics. They turn out mostly leftist teachers who have gone on to indoctrinate the little ones to hate america and capitalism and all it stands for.

The nihilistic goals of the comintern were to long ago destroy western society from within to make it succeptible to a take over by communist parties. What the left has failed to realize is that they have become historically irrelevant. It is not the communists that will take over, but the barbarian hordes at the gates that are eating away at the corrosion from within in our societies.

The only way to reverse the process is a massive purge of all leftists from our government, unions and educational bureaucracies. Unfortunately it may be too late and I fear only a revolution will achieve the necesssary catharsis to achieve the necessary changes.

[Black Agnes]

Hmmm. This is why, should I be blessed with offspring, I will homeschool said offspring! I didn't encounter anything like this till I went to college and I didn't graduate HS all THAT long ago. How did I miss it? Course, at college, I had an allergic reaction to commies and got thrown out of a LOT of liberal arts classes because I dared question the tripe that was being taught. Good thing I was a science major!

[Mr. Bungle]

This student should record all his teachers' offensive, unbalanced or otherwise inappropriate lectures, and post them online. Teachers are public servants, and as such the content of their labors should be fully open to public scrutiny.

[mafree]

If conservatives pull their kids from public education, something will have to give because their revenues will go down.

Nice idea, but too many conservatives live in areas where not as much of this rot is going on. These folks may not think much of public schools as a whole, but they feel their kids' public school is OK.

[homeschool mama]

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[ClearCase_guy]

At least 10 years ago I read an article by Cal Thomas, and he said if we really wanted reform in the education system, we'd do just this, every conservative would pull their kids from the system and something would have to happen, they'd have to change in order to attract kids back into the system, because they need the $$$$.

I agree with this. In Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shrugged all of the productive people of society just up and quit and this eventually forced society to change. A great book -- but unrealistic. The productive people are not going to just up and quit and the world isn't going to suddenly wise up.

However, I truly believe that if a large number of conservative parents walked away from the Public Schools then those schools would have to change -- and quickly! I truly believe this is possible.

[thucydides]

Admittedly, this is in the over-the-top PC People's Republic of Santa Monica, but there is an enormous amount of leftist indoctrination elsewhere. Logically, one would expect the public monopoly education system to become an indoctrination system for big government. The answer is to give every parent a voucher representing the tax dollars spent on his child's education which can be taken to any school that will accept it.

[dead]

Excellent essay.

My public high school was actually pretty balanced. I really wasn't aware of it at the time, but looking back on what they taught, at least two of my four history teachers were conservative.

And my advanced placement English teacher, who I always assumed was gay, was a real traditionalist about literature. The curriculum was Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Flaubert, Tolstoy, etc. Not Angelou, Morrison, Chief Biglittlefoot, and Manny the Cabdriver.

[Cacique]

I am afraid you are wrong on that count. Having taught high school I can tell you that indoctrination takes place at one level or another in all schools public or private. The teachers after all go to the same teachers colleges.

The indoctrination does not distinguish between class race or religion. All are equaly corruptible. Indeed the indoctrination of the children of the upper classes is even more dangerous as they go on to become our future leaders.

Since my graduate degree was in the social sciences rather than teaching I was not as succeptible to the indoctrination.

In the end it all comes down to whether your family has a greater influence in the end than your peers and teachers.

[galt-jw]

it is high time for us to realize the very evil threat these individuals represent. what they are doing is mind rape and brainwashing, for evil. period. bullets are fitting for scum who seek the destruction knowingly of our society and nation. and if thats too strong for you, dont worry, YOUR children will be subjugated under this satanic rule because we would not stand and fight. it is much easier to turn on the tv, recite the turn the other cheek parable, and feel virtuous in our inaction.

if you have a kid in public school, you are feeding the system that will ravage minds and souls of millions, and you are partly responsible. there is no way that i would send anyone i loved into a public school such as these.

[Is2C]

Wow. Very scary.

[dawn53]

Nice idea, but too many conservatives live in areas where not as much of this rot is going on. These folks may not think much of public schools as a whole, but they feel their kids' public school is OK

I homeschool, as do 2 of my sisters, but my third sister lives in rural Georgia and was sure that her public school was immune from the infiltration of liberal philosophy.

Now that her child is in 5th grade, she is learning that no school is immune, no matter how rural, no matter how conservative the teacher.

The philosophy has been "smuggled in" through the curriculum. It's in the textbooks, so even if the teachers aren't blatantly teaching it, the kids are reading it.

So next year, she'll be homeschooling too. Kids minds are too precious to pollute with the garbage that is being spewed out in textbooks and schools.

[mondonico]

However, I truly believe that if a large number of conservative parents walked away from the Public Schools then those schools would have to change -- and quickly! I truly believe this is possible.

The problem is that even if all conservative parents pulled their children from the public school system, they'd still have to pay school taxes. Thus, by reducing the cost and leaving the income stream intact, they'd actually benefit the brainwashers.

I'm afraid there is no way to avoid the problem: we either have to abolish the socialistic system of public education (an impossibility, I submit), or reform it. To reform it, we have to shine the light of publicity and ridicule on the dirty little brainwashing secrets of these schools, as the posted article has done. We need more articles like this, and we need to make our views known.