I'm certain that you have heard about parents complaining about what is going on in their schools. The National organization of School Boards has has called the parents domestic terrorist and asked the FBI to investigate them using the Patriot Act Parents have begun to wake up to what the woke left is doing to their children, but this began more than 50 years ago. It started as a legitimate civil rights movement, though mostly aimed at the South, ignoring de facto segregation in the North. Civil rights suddenly took a back seat to the Viet Nam War suddenly escalating and President Lyndon Johnson's reinstitution the draft. Many college students panicked. Encouraged by left wing activists, a combination of movements arose, mostly initiated at UC Berkley on the west coast or at the University of Michigan in the rest of the country, and quickly spread nationwide. Besides an anti draft and anti war movement was a so-called free speech movement. Because of its leftists ties, it really wasn't free speech at all, but like today, only the leftists had the right to free speech. These movements were mostly peaceful, university administration building were occupied and there were marches mostly on campus. A loosely organized organization was formed on 300 university campuses called Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The American Communist Party supplied some money and support, but stayed in the background. The name was certainly a misnomer as many of the protestors were not students and they did not believe in democracy They did remain pretty much non violent. On May 4, 1970 at Kent sState University in northeastern Ohio, 4 students were killed and 9 wounded by the Ohio National Guard who were brought in to protect university property during a protest to an escalation of the Viet Nam War. In addition, in 1969 a group split from SDS, called the Weatherman or Weather Underground, because SDS was not violent. They basically were a bunch of anarchists and criminals and mimicked other far left groups of criminals called the Black Panthers and Black Liberation Army. The Weather Underground used home made bombs against government buildings and committed bank roberies to pay for their violence. With the end to the Viet Nam War these organization ran out of steam as many of their member had been arrested or killed in gun battles with authorities. A few like Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn went underground, only to emerge as in the case of Ayres as a college professor at the University of Chicago, where he could indoctrinate poisonous with his poisonous teachings. Likewise some of the student activists if the 60s and 70s realized that joining the university teaching core was a better and yet a more clandestine means of spreading leftist propaganda. By the turn of the century most college and university campuses were filled with left wing professors. Freedom of speech was quickly being eliminated and conservative speeakers banished or prevented from speaking on campus, violating the principles on which universities were established in the first place. Likewise conservative students were bullied and attempts were made to eliminate conservative clubs and organizations and expel conservative students from campus.
What happened to our primary schools? For over 100 years parents trusted what their children were being taught. Occasionally a parent would notice what seemed to be an inappropriate library book or part of a text book. I always examined my children's texts and complained when I saw something was incorrect or propaganda. In those days, parents were active in PTA organizations and parent teacher conferences were held on a regular basis. In addition, despite Brown v Topeka Schools Board, education for Black students continued to fail. Democrats in he South and misguided attempts by liberals to correct this in cities and school districts run by liberals that included bussing and the another form of discrimination called affirmative action were utter failures. School choice and vouchers were routinely denied in liberal Democrat run cities and states bowing to the teachers unions. Meanwhile future teachers were being taught by far left liberal professors at the university level. As life changed in America, both parents worked or in single parent families the only parent worked and with bussing schools were too far for parent teacher conferences or had little time. Most parents became complacent in their child's education.
The final pillar of the plot to indoctrinate our children, was to take over the local school boards. School boards are responsible for hiring the superintendent, administrators, teachers, and establishing a curriculum. Though important, on the political scale, school board elections were the easiest to control as it is one of those offices that requires quite a bit of work with very few accolades. In those days school board members were often pillars of the community with their own children in school unlike now, where it turns out many member are, in fact, pariahs of the community. Unfortunately it is the one that can cause real harm. It is very hard to learn where candidates stand on various issues, their web pages are filled with very generic goals, and only recently has that dirty word 'equity"found its way to these web sites. In many cases current board members run unopposed. Parent were caught napping and allowed far left ideologues to take over. This began in earnest in 2009 after Obama was elected. He did away with vouchers and limited school choice. As a typical liberal hypocrite, he cancelled the vouchers for two Black girls at the same school his privileged daughters attended. In Chicago, for new school superintendent Robert Runcie reduced reporting of school crimes and so the arrest and school crime rate dropped. This was heralded by politicians in the Democrat run city, though the number of real crimes actually increased. Aware of this, Broward County, Florida, one of the most liberal in the state, hired Runcie, who adopted the same policy and as a result the Stoneman-Douglas massacre occurred. It could have been averted. Ignoring crime, doesn't make it go away, in fact, it encourages it. The Democrat run city of Baltimore is one of the worst school districts in the country. Despite spending tons of money, not a single graduating senior was proficient in math of English One of the reasons, though its spending per student is one of the highest in the country, the money does not really go toward students education, but instead over 100 individuals have a salary of at least $100K per year. For the school board to permit this abomination is obscene. They should all resign. Some states have begun doing away with standardized tests claiming they are racist as the results do not reflect equity or the other dirty word diversity. Of course, the is ridiculous as 1+1=2 no matter what is race or ethnicity. Poor test scores are the result of bad or lazy teachers and poor choice of curriculum. Telling Black students that they are expected to fail due to white supremacy is wrong, but instead tells Black students its not your fault if you fail and so don't bother to even make an effort. In Oregon, the governor and left wing state legislators have done away with high school grades. This takes equity to an extreme as it encourages no student, White or Black to make much of an effort. What are universities supposed to base their admissions on? As expected Donna Harris-Aikens an alleged educator who believes that words like be nice and work hard are racist, was appointed to the Biden DOE. School Board were meant to represent the community vs the teachers unions, but now many school board members are former teachers and union members, so school boards have mimicked union demands on masks, and vaccinations, The National School Board Association has deemed parents who show up a school board meeting domestic terorists and have asked the politicized Biden DOJ to sick the FBI on parents who want accountability. Stooge Merrick Garland and President (in name only) Biden were allot willing to comply. In this sprogressive blizzard world, a parent complaining that his daughter was sexually assaulted, was arrested, handcuffed and dragged off to jail. Like wise school board are making up rules that limit free speech and putting parents at risk.
Fortunately the far left in an effort to change America for the worse before the next elections, slipped up and thought that this was the time to introduce the most radical of their unAmerican and uneducational policies. This awoke the sleeping giant. Parents who had been trusting, disinterested, and somewhat apathetic took notice and suddenly began showing up at school board meetings, concerned about how their children were being treated and what they were learning. Despite the narrowest of margins in the US Congress, the far left Democrats have decided it is now or never to step up indoctrination on all Americans including our children. One policy that has caused parents both Black and White to speak out is Critical Race Theory. CRT is Marxism based on race and is part of the cancel culture, an ideology to change American history to one critical of America. It encourages Americans of all races to hate each other. Sadly statues and many schools named after our founding fathers have become part of this insane ideology. Ironically, while these statues are being destroyed, one was erected to George Floyd, a career criminal who died of a narcotics overdose.. The Pledge of Allegiance and the American flags in our schools are being replaced with Marxist Black Lies Matter flags in classrooms. Children were wrongly kept out of schools due to fake science and now are being forced to wear diapers on their faces and get vaccinated even though the vaccine is more dangerous to them than the disease. Some of this may serve as a diversion from an even more serious lie that has been taught for more than a decade and which has also in many cases already brainwashed parents. I am referring to another Marxist ideology apocalyptic anthropogenic climate change. This hoax has become embedded in the curriculum nationwide and the leftwing MSM has indoctrinated parents with its lies about the world coming to an end. I won't go into why this is a hoax, for if you follow my blog, i have written about it on numerous occasions and suggest you go back and read my first articles to get an idea of what I'm talking about.
What can be done to end this indoctrination and instead properly educate our children? The solution has already begun. Parents need to take back their school boards and school systems and run for office with a pro student and pro parent platform. It could be difficult, as America haters who want to destroy our country like George Soros may have and could financially back these far left school boards as he backed district attorneys who do not support the rule of law. Beginning at the grass roots level, this is the way to take back our country and schools from those that want to change them. Parents should start immediately organizing their effort, no matter how far away the next school board election is, backing a strong parental candidate(s). In addition school choice, charter schools, and vouchers need to become part of every school district. This is too important to ignore. At the university level, parents need to convince their state legislatures to withhold funding from state and community colleges and universities who don't enforce freedom of speech or hire more centrists and right thinking professors. (This is the type of equity that I could believe in.) Unfortunately private universities cannot be forced to follow a reasonable policy, but cutting government funding may have an effect especially if the US DOE sets up a committee to follow campus free speech and recommends denying funding to those schools that restrict it. Those preventing free speech are the real domestic terrorists
