As a former teacher with a career spanning nearly 20 years, I am a huge proponent of educating the next generation. This includes essential blue-collar workers, industrial captains, medical professionals, politicians, and stay-at-home moms and dads. .
But an alarming number of primary and secondary school teachers are increasingly focused on indoctrinating awakened ideologies rooted in critical race theory (CRT) instead of teaching the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic.
Indeed, there are many quality teachers, including my two nieces, who challenge their students daily for academic excellence in the classroom.
But as we all know, one bad apple ruins all apples.
When I was in grade school, my biggest concern was whether I would be picked last at the Wiffle Ball game at recess, or whether I would trade tuna for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich when I sat down to eat lunch. in the cafeteria.
However, today’s children use correct pronouns that have nothing to do with the English curriculum to put them in boxes labeled “oppressor” and “repressed” that often cause emotional and psychological damage. are forced to enter, participate in self-awareness programs, etc. .
Which is the priority: teaching the basics of education, or turning our schools into social justice bootcamps that teach racial literacy, equity, and anti-racism?
Talk about pushing our country backwards.
During the civil rights movement, people like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fought for equality for all people, judging each other based on character content rather than skin color.
This malignant cancer in our educational system is dividing us rather than uniting us. And it needs to be torn by the root.
According to Department of Education statistics, the vast majority of 4th and 8th graders in America cannot read or do math at grade level. This assessment was conducted in 2019, before the loss of learning due to school closures due to the pandemic exacerbated the problem.
Lockdowns have been detrimental to our youngest generation’s educational achievements, and that will undoubtedly be felt for a long time to come. what was taught in the classroom.
The reaction from parents and other family members was swift and decisive.
Many of the school board meetings I attended as a reporter for the Sampson Independent were usually long-running, low-attendance, and a thing of the past. Parents of these children began to show up in droves simply to demand accountability from educators for what is being promulgated as core curriculum ideals.
My parents met resistance and basically said they had no business turning their noses where they didn’t belong. And some even went so far as to say that students are “the wards of the state” and that these disgruntled individuals have no say in the matter.
To make matters worse, the federal government threw itself into the debate over curriculum issues when U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland declared domestic terrorists an irate parent who dared to show up at a school board meeting and cause a ruckus. rice field.
Despite denying CRTs invading elementary and middle school classrooms across Virginia, voters in the 2019 gubernatorial election have awakened the left by electing Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin to the governor’s mansion. I made their voices clear and clear when I rejected the agenda.
Not only that, but Walt Disney World, under pressure from a small minority of employees, has turned educational politics on its head by opposing the so-called “Don’t Say Gay Building,” which bans lessons on sexual orientation. participated in the discussion. From kindergarten to third grade.
Attending a sex education seminar in 10th grade health class was so uncomfortable. So I can’t imagine anyone trying to teach a 5-year-old child about human sexuality.
Such sensitive matters should be the prerogative of parents. The school system has no business of imposing their awakened ideologies on impressionable kindergarteners.
School board administrators and their minions need to sort out their priorities.
Some school systems are starting distance learning for the third year since the pandemic began, when “science” already showed that children were at the lowest risk of contracting and spreading horrific diseases. is showing. So there’s no reason these kids shouldn’t be back in the classroom.
Students are forced to sit in front of computer screens, but their mandate is less focused on educating young reps than on renaming schools to conform to a twisted and awakening agenda. is placed.
Randi Weingarten and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) have been given billions of dollars to update and fix schools across the country so students can safely resume in-person learning. However, only a small portion of the funds were used.
where did that money go? Why didn’t the federal government ask for their return?
But the better question is how school administrators are fighting to keep students at home after all the taxpayer money is spent.
And now, the president of America’s second largest teachers’ union has stopped “fighting Vladimir Putin directly” in Ukraine, and our schools are suffering the worst academic performance in 30 years.
When AFT leaders prioritize union politics and other issues over children’s education, public schools have restricted education for too long, so it’s time to seriously consider school choice as a viable alternative. is here.
Mark S. Price is a former City/County Education Reporter for The Sampson Independent. He currently lives in Clinton.
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