It's not a matter of education, but indoctrination. Schools are changing from educating on things like reading, math, science and changing to indoctrinating kids into far-left ideology.
Shucks. We have been "indoctrinating" students since I was in elementary school and I sat behind Jesus in the 2nd grade.
Dude, back in the 60's and 70's, in Texas, the indoctrination was full on. It started with the pledge of allegiance, (which I still recite regularly.)
Seriously?!? Take a 6 year old, put his hand over his heart, teach them to memorize words obligating them to things they haven't the slightest clue, care or concern about???? smh. Really!?!? Shouldn't we at least wait until a person is old enough to understand what they are pledging to before we make them pledge to it???? The kid is still eating paste for crissakes. Don't get me wrong. Like I said, I still recite the pledge to this day. But this is a perfect example of indoctrination in our schools. I'm sure there are many others as times have changed.
The big thing when I was a kid was the commie scare. "Russia wanted to destroy America!!" "Commies bad! Commies bad!" We would regularly practice bomb raid drills. Go out in the hallway and hunker down next to the wall and cover the back of our heads with our hands. Jump under our desks. I remember it like yesterday. People were building bomb shelters in their back yard. I kid you not. I dislike Russians to this day.
Ha! I remember Coach Smith telling us, "The Russians brainwash their students to hate America. " He passed out some papers, (I can still smell the fresh mimeograph ink on them) that read, "Russians make use of deceptive propaganda to poison the minds of their citizens to get in lockstep with their communist ideology." <paraphrased> "In Russia, the government tells you what occupation you must work in." It listed several other reasons we should hate Russia. It was only in my late teens that it dawned on me that, those papers Coach Smith passed out, was also propaganda. That's when I knew that public school was part education and part indoctrination.
One other thing they told us that Russia would conquer America without firing a shot. They would make America implode by use of deceptive propaganda that will divide and conquer the nation internally. I always remember that when I watch FOXNews. Sometimes, I think we might should have listened harder. Russia seems to now have as much power over us as we do. Thanks Donald. Thanks Tucker. I just hope Biden can turn that big ship around.
Add on edit: I just remembered soemthing you guys may not believe. Did you know that in the 70;s, the 10th grade students (or was it 9th??) are
required to take a year of "Texas History." If I correctly recall, American and World history were electives. Did you know that Pecos Bill once roped a twister and saved a town?
