Friends, I recommend to you this very interesting article which appeared on the FoxNews website. It claims that "democratic socialists" are targeting the teaching profession, because they believe that turning children into leftists will ultimately bear fruit for their movement. Of course, they're right, but in reality this is something of a non-story, because leftist radicals and Marxists have been infiltrating our public school system (to say nothing of higher ed) for decades. It's not a conspiracy, so much as it's a titanic cultural shift in education to the left. Already, conservatives are pointedly not welcome in many school districts, and the curriculum includes a strongly leftist bias. Many Christians and conservatives are choosing to home-school their kids, or send them to private schools, because the liberal indoctrination in the public schools has become so pervasive and severe. The examples are legion.
My advice? Don't send your kids to public school, if you can avoid it, and if you must send them to public school try to make sure that the local school administration is at least remotely commonsensical. In addition, get out there and serve on school boards, volunteer, and perhaps even enter the teaching profession yourself. We need more conservative patriots in our schools, even if they feel a bit besieged at first.
It's trite to say that "children are the future," but inevitably they are, so let's not abandon them to leftists!
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/08/25/young-democratic-socialists-america-releases-pamphlet-targeting-teachers-unions-michael
Dr. Waddy: From what I've seen in NY teacher's union publications and what I experienced in the library profession I expect this current open public debut of unalloyed socialism (in the presumptuous and counterintuitive guise of "Democratic Socialism", a cynical and disingenuous euphemism if there ever was one) at the highest political and media levels, will flourish in the education field. They've been in the teacher's colleges for decades now, thanx to the '60's, and are probably well into their second generation in the faculties and administrations. Even in our very rural and conservative district I had to confront a teacher of my fifth graders who had a very leftist axe to grind and no compunctions about doing it on our district's involuntary tax dollar. She was unreachable so I discussed taking it to the school board with the Principal and left it at that; don't know if I got results but I rather suspect that Principal had a talk with her. So I enthusiastically support your urging all concerned with this alarming trend to get involved in school policy making. Unopposed, this campaign will extend to secondary education the shameful transformation of the American collegiate academy into a swamp of leftist bigotry and totalitarianism.
ReplyDeleteThe left is so confident of restoration(with a firm resolve never to be waylaid again) in the next two years that it has rashly gainsaid Saul Alinsky's proven advice to them to be oh so circumspect about their true beliefs until they can be absolutely certain of dominance. They are true children of Marx in this presumptuous expectation of imminent and inexorable fundamental change and we must thank them for displaying their true colors.
Well said, Jack. The more honest the Left is, the less danger there is that they will ever prevail!
ReplyDeleteIt's to your credit that you fought that minor battle over public school indoctrination. The squeaky wheel may not ALWAYS get the grease, but the quiescent wheel never does. Conservatives better wise up and learn that truism quick!
Dr. Waddy: When I subbed for a year 10 years ago I was required to read to second graders a story about a planet with fuzzy green creatures enjoying an idyllic life until their Disney like habitat was invaded by humans and their smoky industrial abominations. There was no presentation of the conundrum presented by the probability that humans capable of interstellar travel (as it is improbable that fuzzy green creatures do not exist in our solar system; the best chances for life in our neighborhood are presented by worlds with dark subsurface oceans in which the color green, despite the politically incorrect outrage of this concept, would probably be irrelevant). Such advanced humans would probably have transcended the need for smoky technology and the disregard for indigenous populations manifested in mankind's smoky epoch. But to consider this possibility was not the purpose of the story I presented to these fecund minds. Its purpose was obviously political; it was to introduce doubt in their minds about the miraculous well being which they enjoy and to begin to prepare their minds to countenance action to dismantle it and return to Rousseau's paradise. This - in good old Allegany County. I don't think the teacher for whom I subbed had any fell intent; she might just have been doing her bidding or to have have no problem with its message. Its obvious that the left has penetrated very deeply into our elementary and secondary education regime and virtually every youngster is exposed to its poison.
ReplyDeleteJack, that's a great example of how political subtexts can be inserted into seemingly the most innocent circumstances... And who could OBJECT to a story about fuzzy green creatures, after all? If we tried to stamp out every manifestation of leftist indoctrination, why -- our stamping feet would fall off!
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy: Sorry for my double negative in my "it is improbable . . . "sentence. I trust my meaning was clear. Oh, does the left ever know how hard it is to gainsay them when they get warm and, well, fuzzy. They are practised and unscrupulous dissemblers. In Navy fire fighting training we were told to aim at the base of the combustion, rather than at the various offshoots. A general discrediting of the left at its serpentine head could result in their myriad fantasies being seen for just that, fantastic, in credible and critical settings like education. Do we teach flat earth or the divine right of Kings in our schools, other than as discredited concepts?
ReplyDeleteAn intriguing analysis, Jack. If we were to attack leftism at its base or foundation, where would we strike?
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy: I think the electoral setting is the place. Remember how ridiculous Harold Stassen, once a legitimate Presidential contender, became? The more we defeat them there the more frantic, unhinged and ludicrous they appear. Their imminent disenfranchisement in the federal judiciary and their increasingly desperate reaction to this, gives fair warning of what promises to be their Bachannalian (in the sense that the followers of that unstable deity were murderously vindictive when thwarted)response to continued defeat.
ReplyDeleteJack, I agree that elections are where the rubber meets the road, but I fear dealing a long series of defeats to the Left in that arena is unlikely. The political pendulum doesn't always swing predictably, but it does swing... 2018 is big, though. A Republican victory this year could really make them go bonkers -- dangerously, criminally bonkers -- and then perhaps we can begin to sort out the "loyal opposition" from the crazies...
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy: There is a spread of opinions in the real America healthy enough to support a beneficial democratic polity. Those who abandon the obviously increasingly extreme Dem party have a good place to which to repair.
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