How Modern Education Breeds Good Little Marxists

[Anonymous]

This will be repealed under Biden.



Trump Signs Executive Order to Promote 'Patriotic Education' Day Before Election



Just a day before Election Day, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to push "patriotic education" by establishing the federal 1776 Commission.



According to details of the executive order published on the White House's website on Monday, the Trump administration noted "recent attacks on our founding have highlighted America's history related to race," adding that they are filled with "one-sided" and "divisive" rhetoric that "ignore or fail to properly honor and recollect the great legacy of the American national experience—our country's valiant and successful effort to shake off the curse of slavery and to use the lessons of that struggle to guide our work toward equal rights for all citizens in the present."



The federal commission will encourage a patriotic view of American history, but it noted that some local schools have control over what curriculum is taught to students. Some Democrats have said they would resist the federal initiative.



"The left has warped, distorted and defiled the American story with deceptions, falsehoods, and lies," Trump said in September. "There's no better example than the New York Times' totally discredited 1619 Project."



He added at the time: "Critical Race Theory, the 1619 Project, and the crusade against American history is toxic propaganda—an ideological poison that, if not removed, will dissolve the civic bonds that tie us together."



Critical race theory is an offshoot of the Karl Marx-influenced critical theory social philosophy that was promoted by the Frankfurt School of thought. Some on the right have said that critical theory and critical race theory are long-term attempts to subvert the American polity to bring about socialism or communism in the United States.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-signs-executive-order-to-promote-patriotic-education-day-before-election_3562445.html?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mb-2020-11-03

[Anonymous]

Do public schools find time to teach core subjects after wasting so much time indoctrinating children.

[cc]

True.



And most younger Canadians know may hear a bit about the nazi war, but nothing on Japan

I have met people that were unaware of all the countries and territories the Japanese Imperial Army conquered in Asia.

Yes, and the number / area was staggering. China alone was a massive  conquest, but that was just a starting point

[Renee]

Do public schools find time to teach core subjects after wasting so much time indoctrinating children.

Very little and what core subjects they do manage to teach are laced with nonsense...."Common Core" garbage, etc.

[Anonymous]

Do public schools find time to teach core subjects after wasting so much time indoctrinating children.

Very little and what core subjects they do manage to teach are laced with nonsense...."Common Core" garbage, etc.

I was thinking reading, writing, and arithmetic.

[Anonymous]

What American Schools Should Teach About Race, Racism, and Slavery

They should, of course, teach students about slavery and racism.



But, if truth and moral clarity are to matter, students must also learn that slavery was universal. They would therefore learn about Muslim-Arab slavery, slavery among Africans, slavery among Native Americans and Native South Americans, and slavery in Asia and India.



They would learn that it was the West, beginning with England and America, that abolished slavery. And they would learn that the abolitionists were overwhelmingly religious Christians, animated by the Bible and Judeo-Christian values.



They would learn that, unlike the slaves under Arab-Muslim rule, most black slaves in America were allowed to have children and form families. They would read Herbert Gutman's "The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750–1925," about which the NY Times wrote when it was published in 1976: "Gutman has performed an immense service in burying the idea that slavery destroyed the black family." For the record, Gutman was a professor of the left and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.



They would learn that the tens of millions of African slaves under Islamic-Arab rule were not allowed to form families (most males were castrated). They would learn that while about 340,000 African slaves were transported to America, 12 million were transported to Brazil. They would learn that far more blacks—about 3 million from Africa and the Caribbean—have come to America willingly than came as slaves.



They would learn about white slavery, too, from one of the greatest economists of the past half-century, Thomas Sowell, who wrote: "More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in the Ottoman Empire, decades after blacks were freed in the United States."



"While the mortality rate of the slaves being transported across the Atlantic was as high as 10 percent, the percentage of the slaves dying in transit in the trans-Saharan and East African slave market was a staggering 80 to 90 percent.



"While almost all the slaves shipped across the Atlantic were for agricultural work, most of the slaves destined for the Muslim Middle East were for sexual exploitation as concubines in harems and for military service.



"While many children were born to the slaves in the Americas, the millions of their descendants are citizens in Brazil and the United States today, very few descendants of the slaves who ended up in the Middle East survived.



"While most slaves who went to the Americas could marry and have families, most of the male slaves destined for the Middle East were castrated, and most of the children born to the women were killed at birth."



They would read some of the left's favorite "America-is-racist" books, such as the national bestseller "White Fragility." But, unlike any school in America that assigns that book, they would also assign a black professor's review of it. In The Atlantic, John McWhorter, a Columbia University professor of linguistics, wrote that "White Fragility" "is actually a racist tract. ... the book diminishes Black people in the name of dignifying us. ... White guilt and politesse have apparently distracted many readers from the book's numerous obvious flaws. For one, DiAngelo's book is replete with claims that are either plain wrong or bizarrely disconnected from reality."

https://www.theepochtimes.com/what-american-schools-should-teach-about-race-racism-and-slavery_3582806.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=promotion&utm_campaign=EET1118&utm_term=1for4M-Premium-Election&utm_content=2

[Anonymous]

Education, not indoctrination.

[Anonymous]

Former NBC and Fox News host Megyn Kelly announced Monday that she plans to leave New York City, claiming that the "far-left" schools in the city "have gone off the deep end."



"The schools have always been far-left, which doesn't align with my own ideology, but I didn't really care, most of my friends are liberals, it's fine. I come from a Democrat family, I'm not offended at all by the ideology, and I lean center-left on some things."



"But they've gone around the bend," she continued. "I mean, they have gone off the deep end."



Kelly mentioned an article written by Orleans Public Education Network Executive Director Nahliah Webber that was reportedly circulated in her sons' school diversity group following the police-involved shooting of George Floyd.



The article, Kelly said, claimed "white school districts across the country [are] full of future killer cops," that "white kids are being indoctrinated in black death" and are "left unchecked and unbothered in their schools."

https://www.theepochtimes.com/megyn-kelly-says-shes-leaving-new-york-city-has-pulled-sons-out-of-far-left-schools_3585494.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2020-11-19-2



Nazi-esque brainwashing.

[cc]

And that's private school stuff  ....  public schools are worse 



What a future to look forward to  .. a bunch of ill programmed robots 

[Anonymous]

And that's private school stuff  .... most public schools are worse 



What a future to look forward to 

That is what I would not have expected. I thought parents with means put their kids in private school because the public schools emphasize indoctrination over reading writing and arithmetic. Perhaps some celebrities find the public school system not woke enough.

[Anonymous]

Former NBC and Fox News host Megyn Kelly announced Monday that she plans to leave New York City, claiming that the "far-left" schools in the city "have gone off the deep end."



"The schools have always been far-left, which doesn't align with my own ideology, but I didn't really care, most of my friends are liberals, it's fine. I come from a Democrat family, I'm not offended at all by the ideology, and I lean center-left on some things."



"But they've gone around the bend," she continued. "I mean, they have gone off the deep end."



Kelly mentioned an article written by Orleans Public Education Network Executive Director Nahliah Webber that was reportedly circulated in her sons' school diversity group following the police-involved shooting of George Floyd.



The article, Kelly said, claimed

That is child abuse.

[cc]

It is

[Anonymous]

Is it any wonder that American kids perform so poorly in math and science compared to other advanced countries, mostly in East Asia and Scandinavia.

[Anonymous]

Is it any wonder that American kids perform so poorly in math and science compared to other advanced countries, mostly in East Asia and Scandinavia.

They have no time for fundamentals after they've spent all day warping their minds.

[Anonymous]

Educating kids aint their number one priority.



America's Biggest Teachers Union Shakedowns

https://dailycaller.com/2020/11/26/teachers-union-social-justice-liberal-covid-19-coronavirus-closing-virtual-learning/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2360&pnespid=2fBgouUHBgqN96CqMnTSKfdZ_PqhfiMGa9cJVXhp



Teachers unions have been instrumental in keeping American schools online during the pandemic. But some have escalated their positions on reopening to include an array of social justice demands.



A set of demands from teachers unions in July, which addressed how to safely reopen schools amid a pandemic, was criticized by The Wall Street Journal editorial board as "political extortion." The board argued that unions were taking advantage of a health crisis to advance their own ideological agendas and to eliminate competition from charter schools.



"For most Americans the coronavirus is a scourge. But teachers unions seem to think it's also an opportunity—to squeeze more money from taxpayers and put their private and public charter school competition out of business," the board wrote. "Rather than work to open schools safely, the unions are issuing ultimatums and threatening strikes until they are granted their ideological wish list."



"If there's a silver lining here, it's that Americans are getting a closer look at the true, self-interested character of today's teachers unions," The Wall Street Journal editorial board added.



Studies suggest that schools are not the once-feared super spreaders and the positive COVID-19 tests there typically reflect outbreaks in the surrounding community. A survey conducted by Brown University economist Emily Oster in September analyzed data from schools across 47 states. Out of more than 200,000 students and 63,000 staff tested, the study found an infection rate among staff at 0.24% and 0.13% among students.



United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) made a list of demands in a July policy paper to safely reopen L.A. schools, The Daily Wire reported. The list included a plea for local help to defund police department as well as an effort to close charter schools — their competition.