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The best way to fight wokeness: Take your children out of government schools


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2021 Jun 9, 5:36pm   93,186 views  753 comments

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The most frequent question people pose to me is: What can I/we do to fight back against the nihilistic anti-American destruction of virtually all the country’s major institutions?

There is an answer.

The single best thing Americans can do to counter the left-wing attack on America—against its freedoms, its schools, its families, its children, its governmental institutions, its sports, its news and entertainment media, its medical establishment, the CIA, the FBI, the State Department, and the military—is to take their children out of America’s schools.

Other than in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), the vast majority of America’s elementary schools, high schools, colleges, and universities teach your child or grandchild almost nothing important; prematurely sexualize them, thereby robbing them of their innocence; and harm them intellectually and morally. They rarely teach them, for example, art or music because they are too busy teaching them race-centered hatred of whites, of America, and of America’s values.

Sending your children to most American schools is playing Russian roulette with their values—but unlike the gun in Russian roulette, which has a bullet in only one of its six chambers, the schools’ guns hold four or five bullets.

In many elementary schools, your child is taught that gender is chosen and that there is no difference between boys and girls (in a growing number of schools, the teachers are told not to call their students “boys and girls”); they are taught about masturbation; and many children from first grade on attend “Drag Queen Story Hour,” wherein an obvious man wearing women’s clothing, garish makeup, and a wig entertains them.

Given that all this is well-known, why do any non-left—meaning, liberal or conservative—parents send their children to American schools?

One reason is they are in denial. Many parents don’t want to know what their children are being taught and the consequent damage done to them. They don’t really believe schools will ruin their children, let alone their children’s relationship with them.

These parents should speak to any of the millions—yes, millions—of Americans whose children have contempt for America, for free speech, and for their parents as a result of attending an American college or even high school. I meet such people at every speech I give, and I speak to them regularly on my radio show. Ask these parents, if they could redo their lives, whether they would keep their child in school.

A second reason is they feel they have no choice. If they remove their child from the local public or private school (most private schools are just as committed to anti-American indoctrination over education as public schools), what will they do with their child? They often can’t find a local school that doesn’t harm their child. They can’t necessarily even rely on Christian or Jewish schools. Most of them are as “woke” as most secular schools. And if they do find a school that teaches rather than poisons, they may not be able to afford the tuition.

The only other option, then, is to homeschool one’s child. The problem is that many parents assume this is essentially impossible. For one thing, they assume that one of the parents would have to leave his or her work, which would mean a serious reduction in the family’s income. In addition, homeschooling strikes most people as simply too daunting a task, even if they could afford to take it on.

Neither fear is entirely justified. It’s true that, at least at the outset, a working parent may have to cut back from full-time work, and it’s true that no matter what the family’s financial condition, there are challenges to taking one’s children out of school and homeschooling them.

But given the low intellectual state of most American schools, the damage they do to young children’s innocence, and the anti-American, anti-white, anti-Western indoctrination in most schools, if you are a parent of school-age children, what is your choice?

Other than a) finding a good school that b) you can afford, you have no other choice. You are fooling yourself if you think the odds are that after attending American schools from kindergarten through college (not to mention through graduate school), your child will turn out well-educated, intellectually alive, rational, kind, happy, well-adjusted, grateful to be American, and respectful of you and your values.

While there are some wonderful young Americans who recently attended American schools, and there are some lost souls who were homeschooled, American schools are largely producing the following:

Poorly educated students. Ask your college son or daughter to diagram a sentence; identify Joseph Stalin, “The Gulag Archipelago,” or the Soviet Union; name the branches of the American government; identify—or just spell—Beethoven; date the Civil War; identify the Holocaust; and name which sentence is correct—“He gave the book to my friend and me” or “He gave the book to my friend and I.”

Angry young people. Why wouldn’t they be? First, they graduate college with a huge load of debt, having received almost nothing useful for their money. Second, if they are anything other than a white heterosexual Christian male, they have been taught to regard themselves as victims of oppression. Third, their future is so bleak they may not even have one: They are threatened with extinction by climate change.

The single best thing Americans can do to fight the left-wing destruction of the country is to withdraw from the “educational” system that is actively and deliberately miseducating them by the tens of millions. If millions of American parents did so, the country would turn around as fast as you could say “teachers unions.” If they don’t, their children will continue being used as guinea pigs in the left’s sick and dystopian experiment.


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240   Patrick   2022 Feb 17, 10:25am  

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/school-board-recalls-shook-san-francisco/?source=patrick.net


The school board recalls that shook San Francisco
The left is dealt a blow in its most supportive city as fed-up tiger moms target the woke

February 16, 2022

In a widely watched special election this week, angry San Francisco voters recalled three school board members in a landslide. The other four, more recently selected, would have been expelled had law permitted it.

San Francisco’s municipal government is an embarrassment, and Exhibit A is its antic board of education. Some three quarters of city voters wanted them gone, and good riddance.

The recall’s success also pitted what remains of the city’s pragmatic Democratic “establishment” against woke radicals, as elected officials including the mayor disavowed unpopular progressive policies and backed the removal. District attorney Chesa Boudin, facing his own recall election on June 7, might be the next to go.

San Francisco is 8 percent registered Republican, but the losers blame right-wing funders and Fox News for the outcome. In fact, the recall evidences a seismic upsurge in parent resentment over public school closings, one that has been toppling boards across the country. Parents rubbed raw by remote learning and mask-and-vax mandates have encountered dogmatism and negligence, but none more egregious than San Francisco’s.

The city’s rapid descent from sparkling preserve of technocrats and internet millionaires to incipient hellhole continues. Michael Shellenberger has recently documented the decline in San Fransicko, an excellent book stuck with an alienating title (Shellenberger recently contributed an essay to the Spectator World about the city’s decline). The public schools are only one facet of civic collapse. Open drug dealing, crime and carjacking are backdrops to the 2022 recalls. City Hall’s failure to police homelessness and major crime are going bust with shaken blue-city voters high and low, and the recalls are powerful evidence of the dismay.

Drenched in natural beauty and clement climate, Northern California has long suffered from precious self-regard. We-Are-the-Future tech triumphalism in the giddy post-2007 era and the anything-goes psychedelic spirit were arguably its undoing. San Francisco is a magnet for adventurers, malcontents, and sketchy people, and some would say has been since its beginnings. But it also attracts some of the smartest, most inventive, stylish and enterprising people on the planet. Regrettably, many affluent San Franciscans see themselves as citizens of the world with a pleasant view of the Golden Gate Bridge, not as locals. Having the money to wall themselves and their children off from urban decay, they leave municipal politics to the proles and crazies.

The public schools are a mess. The district faces a $125 million budget shortfall and threat of state takeover. Money is drying up in part because parents are withdrawing their children and moving elsewhere, or enrolling their children in private schools, that is, running away from academic collapse. A third of San Francisco’s children are already privately schooled.

From March 2020 to August 2021, the city’s public schools went remote, and stayed there in spite of parent opposition and student distress. Operations remain at best uneven. The anti-recall United Educators of San Francisco can be thanked, along with the school board, for this yet untallied cost in learning in a district bloated with make-work staff and “para-educators.”

During the disruptions, the board acted to “desegregate” highly selective Lowell High School, a local icon and one of nation’s top schools, boasting powerful, professional alumni who venerate the place. It cited “pervasive systemic racism” and lack of diversity, which meant 60 percent Asian and 15 percent white. This attack on opportunity and excellence enraged Asian parents, many of them ruthlessly performance-oriented. (San Francisco’s public schools are officially 31 percent Asian, a clumsy racial designation that includes Chinese and Indians but not Filipinos.)

Then the board proposed to erase Paul Revere, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, James Russell Lowell, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Dianne Feinstein’s names, among others, from local schools on account of vaguely framed racial and political sins.

The proposal drew universal scorn. Among other things, the contretemps revealed the board’s staggering ignorance. The move “was so poorly executed that it made a mockery of the broader push for historical reckoning in the United States,” the San Francisco Chronicle said in an editorial endorsing the board’s recall. “It alienated instead of educated, and invited national ridicule.”

Yet the board’s follies continued undaunted. Last week, it approved a resolution in “Support of Equitable Representation and Services for Two-Spirit Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Intersex Asexual (2SLGBTQIA+) Parents and Families and Creation of a Queer Transgender Parent Advisory Council (QTPAC),” claiming to affirm student rights.

The initiative is set to cost the district $480,000, which will include salary and benefits for a full-time liaison, a project manager, and signage for more than 1,000 single-stall restrooms throughout the district. QTPAC will try to ensure that all things Krafft-Ebing are included in courses and school activities and will report on its oversight periodically. No one in the city establishment has yet repudiated this “equity” effort, one that degrades and replaces instruction at a time of fiscal crisis.

Up from the projects and billing herself as the city’s first black woman mayor, London Breed has spent her life as a public client and operative. One San Francisco observer calls Breed “a windsock,” just like her ally and fellow pragmatist, Governor Gavin Newsom. No one blows with the political wind better than the suave Newsom.

Breed does have a super-acute survival instinct, and she knows she’s in electoral trouble. Trying to make hay out of the recall, and by law able to fill the board vacancies, she cannot ignore what a city and its people need to function: sewers and water, hospitals and schools, firefighters and police, tax and sales revenues. While caught up in far-left suppositions about drugs, vagrancy and homelessness, Breed is now wondering to the press whether Boudin’s policies are protecting San Franciscans, saying his office should focus attention on crime victims, not accused criminals.

Breed and Newsom — Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi too — channel the collective will of Northern California’s semi-visible power brokers and donors, a small world that includes congenial federal judges and activist billionaires. Woke is no longer a fringe in high-end California politics or the Democratic Party.

Between pragmatic elected Democrats and the void stand ambitious progressives, also elected, who seek to transform US society from a commercial, constitutional republic into something else, what, no one can quite be sure. State senator Scott Weiner, a gay climate and gender activist, hopes to take Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat upon her retirement. Weiner himself supported the school board recall.

The more belligerent district attorney Chesa Boudin is one of several George Soros-supported progressive prosecutors nationwide who seek to reduce “tough on crime” prosecutions and jail sentences, hold police accountable for misconduct, and open jails. The mayor and Boudin have recently clashed over crime control and management of the drug addicts that haunt downtown. Facing pressure from his force, police chief Bill Scott has joined Breed, signaling support for Boudin’s recall.

The left is in a jam. The board of education’s frivolous initiatives and tiger parents’ unyielding academic demands cannot be reconciled. One frame of mind or the other will eventually dominate educational and social policies far and wide. Woke considers itself ascendant and indestructible — inevitable — and nowhere more so than in San Francisco. Whether or not this is destined to be is the political question of the decade.
242   AmericanKulak   2022 Feb 17, 12:43pm  

School Choice passes in Arizona and Utah today.

Useless RINO Gov of Utah vows to veto. His big reason: "not the time"
244   AmericanKulak   2022 Feb 19, 11:02am  

RINOs to the Teacher Union Rescue:


Chad Alexander
Fmr. Oklahoma GOP State Chairman, consultant, lobbyist, Husband and Dad, Talk Radio Host Kokc Radio 1520 AM and 95.3 FM 4-6. Trustee, Oklahoma County CJA.



Please let this RINO turncoat, former GOP Chair, who is consulting with anti-School Choice candidates and groups, know what you think.
https://twitter.com/ChadAlexander2/status/1494508878595248135?s=20&t=6lCktE4pqAJdo9S8umCCAg

Also write the GOP Speaker of the House, McCall:
https://twitter.com/charles_mccall3
246   Patrick   2022 Feb 21, 6:42pm  

https://californiaglobe.com/articles/paso-robles-high-school-teachers-grading-students-based-on-face-mask-obedience/?source=patrick.net







50 maskless Paso Robles High School students. (Photo: Hunter Breese)
Paso Robles High School Teachers Grading Students Based On Face Mask Obedience
California students fighting for ‘mask choice’

By Allan Stevo, February 18, 2022 10:43 am

After a recent face mask protest at Paso Robles High School, some students started talking with each other about how they have been graded by teachers on face mask obedience at the school. Students have collected and verified the following teachers at Paso Robles High School have graded and evaluated students based on the level of obedience they showed in their mask use: Jennifer Fuller, Deborah McPherson, Amanda Logan, Geoffrey Land, Joshua Gwiazda, and Alexander Engle.

In response, this week 50 Paso Robles High students walked into the high school unmasked in violation of the recommendation and policies of the high school, county, and state. The students continued onward unmasked into the classroom. Soon, another 50-75 students joined them. (Photo above)
249   AmericanKulak   2022 Feb 23, 10:26am  

Patrick says
https://californiaglobe.com/articles/paso-robles-high-school-teachers-grading-students-based-on-face-mask-obedience/?source=patrick.net







50 maskless Paso Robles High School students. (Photo: Hunter Breese)
Paso Robles High School Teachers Grading Students Based On Face Mask Obedience
California students fighting for ‘mask choice’

By Allan Stevo, February 18, 2022 10:43 am

After a recent face mask protest at Paso Robles High School, some students started talking with each other about how they have been graded by teachers on face mask obedience at the school. Students have collected and verified...


Zoomers kick Millie ass.
251   AmericanKulak   2022 Feb 23, 10:33am  

The Left is really upset today and quite coordinated.
252   HeadSet   2022 Feb 23, 10:59am  

Do the Dems expect to gain voters by going against "parental rights?" I think such a strategy would appeal only to the overgrown adolescents that already vote Dem.
253   Patrick   2022 Feb 23, 8:35pm  

https://patriotpost.us/articles/86444?source=patrick.net


A recent study released from the National Centers for Education Statistics revealed that public schools have been experiencing a decrease in enrollment. Almost 4% of students were pulled out of public schools in the 2020-2021 school year. This was especially evident in the younger grades. According to the report, “Preschool enrollment dropped by 22 percent, and enrollment of kindergarteners fell by 9 percent.”

In Oakland, California, the enrollment drop has been so devastating that public schools in the area have been forced to close their doors or merge with other area schools to keep the city budget balanced. There are simply not enough students to fill the seats. Oakland is a bellwether for other urban school districts around the country. As Marguerite Roza, director of Georgetown University’s Edunomics Lab, emphasized: “Normally, we would think a school district that lost 1% of its kids a year would be a seismic shift. This is so much greater than that in many urban areas.”

The City of Oakland acknowledges lower birth rates, lack of affordable housing, and the pandemic as reasons for the enrollment decline. But that’s only part of the story.

Yes, there has been a decline in birth rates. But what should you expect of a generation that’s been brainwashed to believe an animal’s life is more valuable than a child’s?

Yes, the pandemic has been a defining issue for parents who have seen firsthand what teachers have been filling their children’s heads with. It’s not merely Critical Race Theory, though that’s bad enough. It’s not just gender ideology, either. It is a pervasive, incessant attack on parents and family values.

Then you add in the academics (or lack thereof).

Children were suffered to learn virtually. For a very small number, this was a good route for their academic success. For the vast majority, though, it encouraged every sort of poor student behavior and, as a result, grades plummeted.




255   Patrick   2022 Feb 24, 9:02am  

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/why-a-post-covid-world-might-not-be-so-bad/?source=patrick.net


Another post-Covid preference that promises major social change is the desire of parents to have more control over their children’s schooling. For some, creating alternatives to closed local schools — joining with neighbors to collaboratively homeschool in so-called “learning pods” or “micro-schools,” for example — turned out to be a surprisingly rewarding challenge. A poll taken by EdChoice during the first year of Covid found that many parents became far more comfortable with educating their own children than they had ever thought possible.

And for those parents whose children continued to take public school classes online, seeing how far woke pedagogy had penetrated the curriculum — even into math and science courses — proved deeply disturbing. Along with parents who were angry simply because many teacher unions had dragged out the resumption of in-person learning, they have become vocal advocates for government funding of private and parochial schools, private tutoring, and other K-12 alternatives.
256   Patrick   2022 Feb 25, 1:21pm  

https://reclaimthenet.org/school-superintendent-admits-to-snooping-on-parents-social-media-posts/?source=patrick.net


February 24, 2022
Michigan school superintendent admits to snooping on parents’ social media posts, contacting employers
The admission came during a First Amendment lawsuit against the district.
By Ben Squires

The superintendent admitted, in a court deposition, to monitoring social media and reporting parents.

The deposition was part of a lawsuit that was filed by a parent who was fired after the district reported her posts to her employer.

During the deposition, Superintendent Robert Shaner admitted that he called one parents’ employer and the Detroit Police because he was “scared” of a social media post the parent made calling for people to protest outside the homes of the school district’s officials.

The parents wanted schools to reopen.
260   AmericanKulak   2022 Mar 5, 12:55pm  

Texas School District's Gender Equality Board bans Parents from attending meetings as soon as they start attending.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/03/04/fort-worth-independent-school-district-racial-equity-committee/?source=patrick.net
261   Bd6r   2022 Mar 5, 1:06pm  

AmericanKulak says
Texas School District's Gender Equality Board bans Parents from attending meetings as soon as they start attending.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/03/04/fort-worth-independent-school-district-racial-equity-committee/?source=patrick.net

Fort Worth has R leadership.
265   AmericanKulak   2022 Mar 9, 8:58pm  

Disney upset with DeSantis over anti-grooming bill.

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-disney-ceo-attacks-anti-grooming-law-desantis-position-has-not-changed?source=patrick.net

"Oh, it's just culture war stuff, drop it."

Ever notice that it's never the push for grooming and transgender that needs to be dropped, only the reaction to it, whenever Companies or RINOs or Libertarians complain about the Culture War? If there was no push to groom Elementary Kids with LGBTQ123CIA+, there wouldn't be any laws passed to prohibit it.

Also, fuck Disney, yes a lot of LGBTQCIA123s go to Disney, but they're outnumbered handily by actual normal parents and their kids by a massive ratio.

Disney, say fuck the Globohomo Agenda and cater to the largest segment of the customer base (the fact they DONT want to do this means that the "Free Market" ideology is broken).
266   Patrick   2022 Mar 11, 7:59pm  

https://cbradleythompson.substack.com/p/why-government-schooling-came-to?s=r&source=patrick.net


For almost 250 years, the education of children, first in England’s North American colonies and then in the United States of America up until the Civil War, was almost an entirely private affair. Parents had the freedom to choose the education, ideas, and values that they wanted for their children. The government was not involved in educating children. This is the great forgotten story of American history.

During this quarter millennium, children were typically educated in one of four ways. They were either homeschooled or they attended one of three different kinds of schools: 1) tuition-charging private schools; 2) charitable or “free” private schools established by philanthropists and religious societies; or 3) semi-public “district” schools (later known in the nineteenth century as “common schools”).

The so-called “district” schools of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries are held up today by proponents of government schooling to suggest that government-run education has existed in America since the seventeenth century. But this is not true.

Existing mostly in New England, these “district” schools were what we might call “neighborhood” schools that were built and monitored by the parents of the children who attended them, and they were financed by a combination of tuition charges, local taxes, and mutual-aid societies. These neighborhood schools were controlled entirely by parents, who chose and supplied the textbooks and who hired and fired teachers. Though partially funded by local taxes, these neighborhood schools were not government schools in any meaningful way. The government did not determine who was hired, nor did it determine what was taught. ...

The primary objectives of America’s new Prussianized education system were fivefold: first, to replace parents with the State as the primary influence on the education of children; second, to elevate and promote the interests of the State; third, to substitute America’s highly individualistic and laissez-faire social-political system with one that was collectivistic and statist in nature; fourth, to create a new kind of citizen, whose primary virtues would be self-sacrifice, compliance, obeisance, and conformity; and, fifth, to Americanize and Protestantize the teeming hordes of Irish-Catholics who were coming to the United States (and then the waves of immigrants coming to the U.S. after the Civil War from southern and eastern Europe).


I know the part about erasing Irish-Catholic identity via the schools is true.
267   HeadSet   2022 Mar 11, 8:27pm  

Patrick says
I know the part about erasing Irish-Catholic identity via the schools is true.

Well, notice how that turned out. Protestant colonies like US and Canada, Aus, and NZ are very prosperous. Catholic colonies like anything south of the Rio Grande are basket cases. Mexico, with its population and resources, should be as rich as France. Lots to be said for a protestant work ethic, versus the Catholic "lilies of the field" mentality. I am not anti-Catholic either, as I was raised Catholic and was an alter boy as a kid.
268   Patrick   2022 Mar 11, 11:37pm  

Ireland is quite prosperous now, more than Britain.

France is also not doing bad, nor Austria, nor Italy.

So I don't think it's just the religion.
269   AmericanKulak   2022 Mar 11, 11:46pm  

Patrick says
Ireland is quite prosperous now, more than Britain.

From Wikipeida:

Ireland's situation is attributed to § Political compromises arising from the historical U.S. "worldwide" corporate tax system, which has made U.S. multinationals the largest users of tax havens, and BEPS tools, in the world.[f] The U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 ("TCJA"), and move to a hybrid "territorial" tax system,[g] removed the need for some of these compromises. In 2018, IP–heavy S&P500 multinationals guided similar post-TCJA effective tax rates, whether they are legally based in the U.S. (e.g. Pfizer[h]), or Ireland (e.g. Medtronic[h]). While TCJA neutralised some Irish BEPS tools, it enhanced others (e.g. Apple's "CAIA"[i]).[19] A reliance on U.S. corporates (80% of Irish corporation tax, 25% of Irish labour, 25 of top 50 Irish firms, and 57% of Irish value-add), is a concern in Ireland.[j]

Ireland's weakness in attracting corporates from "territorial" tax systems (Table 1),[k] was apparent in its failure to attract material financial services jobs moving due to Brexit (e.g. no US investment banks or material financial services franchise). Ireland's diversification into full tax haven tools[l] (e.g. QIAIF, L–QIAIF, and ICAV), has seen tax-law firms, and offshore magic circle firms, set up Irish offices to handle Brexit–driven tax restructuring. These tools made Ireland the world's 3rd largest Shadow Banking OFC,[24] and 5th largest Conduit OFC.[25][26]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland_as_a_tax_haven
270   HeadSet   2022 Mar 12, 8:18am  

Patrick says
Ireland is quite prosperous now, more than Britain.

Ireland only has a population of about 4 million people. And that prosperity you mention comes from being a tax haven laundromat. Britain is a world power nation with an advanced military, and advanced aerospace industry, advanced auto industry (McClaren, Lotus, Rolls Royce, Jaguar, Aston Martin, to name a few) and has a world class banking and financial sector. There is no real comparison between the achievements of Ireland and Britain. Next you probably tell us that stout beer is better than bitters.
271   Patrick   2022 Mar 14, 12:38am  

Yet it remains true that Ireland is richer per person that Britain now.

I don't care how they did it. No one would ever even have believed it possible 100 years ago.
272   Patrick   2022 Mar 14, 10:28am  

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/los-angeles-teachers-union-forcing-students-keep-wearing-masks-even-though-mandate/?source=patrick.net


Los Angeles Teachers Union Forcing Students to Keep Wearing Masks, Even Though the Mandate is Over
By Cassandra Fairbanks
Published March 13, 2022
273   Patrick   2022 Mar 21, 5:13pm  

https://nitter.net/pmarca/status/1505753904016859143?source=patrick.net#m

Marc Andreessen
@pmarca
20h
Overheard in Silicon Valley: "The modern university is a political madrassa married to a trade school married to a hedge fund married to a sports team married to an adult day care center married to a visa law firm."
Mar 21, 2022
275   AmericanKulak   2022 Mar 27, 11:44am  

The "Tuttle Twins" for young readers:
https://tuttletwins.com/product/the-tuttle-twins-choose-your-consequence-combo-pack/?source=patrick.net

Has Grade 3-6 illustrated reader versions of

- Bastiat's The Law
- The Road to "Surf"-dom
- The Creature from Jekyll Island
- The Story of the Pencil
etc.

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