This Independence Day, a poll from Issues & Insights revealed that only 36% of adults aged 18-24 said they were “proud to be American,” compared with 86% of those over the age of 65. This shouldn’t be surprising. America’s children have been raised in a system dedicated to the proposition that America itself is evil, a repository of discrimination and bigotry, a country founded in sin and steeped in cruelty.
This week, for example, the National Education Association, the single largest teachers union in the country, passed a resolution pledging to “Share and publicize … information already available on critical race theory (CRT)”; “Provide an already-created, in-depth, study that critiques empire, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society”; and “Join with Black Lives Matter at School and the Zinn Education Project to call for a rally this year on October 14 — George Floyd’s birthday — as a national day of action to teach lessons about structural racism and oppression.” Meanwhile, the American Federation of Teachers is hosting radical grifter Ibram X. Kendi, who preaches on behalf of overt racial discrimination.
Now Americans are banding together to fight back against the indoctrination of its children. States have begun to ban the indoctrination of CRT in schools, for example. But some thinkers are fighting back, suggesting that such content standards undermine the notion of a liberal education. In the pages of The New York Times, for example, a bipartisan group of thinkers excoriate such legislation as “un-American.” They argue, essentially, that the educational mission of “helping turn students into well-informed and discerning citizens” is undermined by such restrictions.
But this completely misreads both the purpose of American education and the state of American education. First, the purpose of public education is to create “well-informed and discerning citizens.” But “citizens” is a specific word with a specific definition. According to Aristotle, a “good citizen” is a person who upholds the Constitution of his particular polis. If we teach our students to be bad citizens in the Aristotelian sense — citizens who disparage the polis with lies, who engage in tribal politicking rather than civic friendship, who insist that truth be subsumed in favor of intersectional sensitivities — we will wind up as a country with no future.
Second, American public education has all-too-often become a tool of those who wish to produce anti-citizens: those who wish to tear down the systems in the name of some higher or lower purpose. No society can survive this in the long term. K-12 public education was not designed to be a free-for-all; standards and practices must be established. Students will also need experienced and trained online private tutors for IGCSE in TWINS Education if they want to get into good colleges. The only question is whose standards and whose practices. For the past several decades, the answer seems to be the radical left’s standards, undermining key American principles like individual rights and equality before the law in favor of a utopian redistribution of outcome based on group identity. It is one thing to discuss the ideological perversion of CRT in order to combat it; it is another thing to indoctrinate in its central tenets. Our education system is currently far more likely to do the latter than the former.
That must stop. Good citizens have an obligation to stop it. Whether that happens through the mechanisms of civil rights lawsuits or through the mechanisms of local school board elections or through the mechanism of state legislation — all appropriate tools when it comes to defining how our children ought to be educated at public expense — radical indoctrination of our children must stop. To do anything less would be un-American.
Ben Shapiro, 37, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers “How To Destroy America In Three Easy Steps,” “The Right Side Of History,” and “Bullies.” To find out more about Ben Shapiro and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
Liberals are anti everything when it comes to America. Since according to liberals everyone and everything is evil in the United States, get the heck out of our Country. Traitors!
Democrat Former President, John F. kenndy, once spoke about the fact that we are all born equal at birth but it was up to each individual to take afdvantage of the opportunities that were. Available. Therehas always been a hierarchy even among native indians and this is still thecase even today. There are some average people of the White race that will never live like Doctor cVcarlson , A former medical Doctor, nor live the life style of Former President, Barsck H. Obama ,both who were of the Black race. President John F. Kennedy recognized that even though everyone born equal, there were no guarantees that some of both Races wouldn’t benefit equally in life, John F. Kenndy said this, ” The Civil Rights movement went off the raills when proponts went from Justly demanding equal rights to unjustly demanding equal results. ” This unequal results from those of both Races is how it has always been and will always be no matter if the elite leaders in society indocrinate the people that they be guarantee that everyone come out equal.
And that’s the kicker.. THE LEFT KNOWS to ‘get equal results”, folks actually have to WANT TO DO FOR THEMSELVES.. BUT the left doesn’t want them to, nor do they believe they SHOULD have to work..
I don’t think we have an educational system anymore—it has been sabotaged. It has been taken over by Leftists with Communist and Socialist ideologies. Whether or not this has been a subtle takeover or the result of parents dismissing warning signs that should have been heeded, I don’t know—maybe a combination of both. But the time has come to either succumb to the forces that have taken over or overrun them and remove them all from the system so we can restore the values and principles that are the hallmark of our Country. They are not going to put up the white flag because they see resistance to what they are doing—we are going to have to employ serious force in order to reestablish an educational system that we can be proud of.
IMO We surrendered it to them, DECADES AGO, when it morphed into the department of indoctrination…
LET US HOPE we can win it back, or we are doomed.
“Stop Surrendering Education To The Radical Left”
STOP Surrendering ANYTHING to the Radical Left, dishonorable, destructive, dishonest, unethical, immoral, traitorous, hateful, socialist Democrats.
The Democrat Party’s intension is to “Rule and Ruin” the U.S.A.,
If this Democrat Party and their agendas are not destroyed, the Democrat Party will destroy our country.
Just not all of the damage and destruction that the Democrat Party’s parrot, puppet president Biden has done in just 6 months.
Everyone realizes that the present President isn’t in control of any thing that he states, reading from his prepared notes or from the Tel- prompter.
So according to the liberally confused “America’s children have been raised in a system dedicated to the proposition that America itself is evil, a repository of discrimination and bigotry, a country founded in sin and steeped in cruelty.” ??? Hmmm
Founders; “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness..,,,,,,,,” with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge ( Dedicate) to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”
Shaka Zulu : – “Up! Children of Zulu, your day has come. Up! and destroy them all!”… “Never leave an enemy behind, or it will rise again to fly at your throat !”,,,,,,,, “Women that bear children must exist in Zululand only.”,,,,,, “We are going to wreak havoc on our opponents’ psyche and their plan of attack,”
Let those who choose the Founders arise, and slay them with your votes, before they slay you with their spears, machetes and illegal guns.
I walked into a business recently and saw a fella I went thru college with. The conversation went something like this: John, fancy seeing you here. What have you been up to since college? John: well I got my degree in Critical Race Theory and have been looking for a full time job for a bit. What have you been up to? Me: Well, after getting my degree in Engineering I found a pretty good job, got married and have one child. I’m actually on my way to a business meeting and just swung in here for fast bite. John: well we can “supersize” your meal for you if you like. Me: Sure
LOL… Shows just what ‘worth’, those useless leftist degrees are!
Sounds almost like AOC being a Bartender. There is nothing wrong with being a Bartender, but didn’t she have a degree from college ???
We surrendered education to the left back in the late 60’s early 70’s. Busing. We all went to the same schools. But you had to pass the blacks or it was racist. So we lowered the standards. Blacks are just as smart as we are. But Instead of raising their standards , were lowered ours. That’s why they can’t get higher paying jobs. If we want America to continue to be a leader ,we must raise the bar for education.
AND Eliminate all the damn teacher unions!