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Via the Washington Free Beacon here is a review of a book ‘Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation’
A teacher testified before the Arizona state Senate education committee earlier this month and claimed that she and her colleagues knew better than parents what books belonged on school library shelves. “I have a master’s degree,” she said. “What do the parents have?” In the video, now widely circulated on Twitter, she continued, “The purpose of public education is not to teach only what parents want [students] to be taught. It is to teach them what society needs them to be taught.”
Parents were sidelined when, at the onset of the pandemic, they began raising concerns about the long-term impacts of school closures and mask mandates. After being branded as racist bigots for wanting schools to reopen—most infamously by the Chicago Teachers Union—we now know that half of American students are one grade level behind in at least one subject area because of school closures.
The silver lining of virtual learning was that it gave parents unprecedented access to their kids’ classrooms. Parents began seeing just how far divisive race ideology had permeated, through “antiracist” math lessons, discussions on “whiteness” and race-based privilege and oppression, and history teachers telling students that America was founded on racism. Parents sounded the alarm bells, and they were again mocked for doing so. Such concepts, according to “the experts,” are only taught in graduate school.
GO READ IT ALL!
