Ideological Indoctrination
Mao's Cultural Revolution sent Red Guards into schools, closed universities, burned textbooks, and dispatched educated youth to the countryside for "reeducation through labor."
Some school boards are kicking back against the indoctrination. Temecula Valley Unified School District on Dec. 13 banned critical race theory, while also adopting a resolution condemning racism. But few districts do this.
In fact, from primary schools to universities, textbooks displaying Xi Jinping in an exceptionally positive light are very much the norm.
In the United States, a very different type of indoctrination is occurring.
This deeply troubles me and many others in our community as we believe that schools should be places of education and growth, not platforms for satanic indoctrination or controversial practices,” Olathe Northwest student Drew McDonald wrote in creating
I’m going to take this indoctrination and all this left-wing activism out of our schools.’
“I am actually going to hold schools accountable and let parents leave underperforming schools.
September 9, 2023By Efthymis Oraiopoulos, Jan Jekielek
In Florida, we will not let the far-left woke agenda take over our schools and workplaces. There is no place for indoctrination or discrimination in Florida."
In a news release issued earlier this year, DeSantis said the "book ban" narrative is false. “Exposing the ‘book ban’ hoax is important because it reveals that some are attempting to use our schools for indoctrination,” the release said.
Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 101, which mandates CRT indoctrinationin all California schools, including charters. But charters exist to avoid such bureaucratic, time-wasting nonsense.
Around the start of the school year, both Mr. Lecce and Mr. Ford spoke out about gender identity issues inschools as well. It's "not up to the school board to indoctrinate our kids," Mr. Ford said.
“Despite the small but vocal opponents that seek to rewrite history and indoctrinate students, I am very optimistic for our school district,” Mr. Komrosky said in a statement.
Stakes are high: School boards control billions in public spending, and can indoctrinate children with their chosen ideological perspective. The conflict is getting out of hand, but a recent innovation in British Columbia may offer a solution.
A.T., who did not want to be named for fear of facing consequences from the school, said the event "LDHSS Students for Change" was created in response to LGBTQ "indoctrination" being pushed on students.
New South Wales (NSW) Police Minister David Elliott called for the teacher to be sacked and said the posters were evidence of the political “indoctrinating and brainwashing” of left-wing ideologies inschools.
He said he'd like to see everyone own their own home, end bureaucracy standing in the way of progress, and “make 100 percent of our students meet state standards in math and English and … make our schools focus on education, not indoctrination.”
Commenting on the changes he has seen in the public school system, Zimmerman said, “Today, it seems like there's a lot more indoctrination versus allowing and teaching individuals how to learn."
“Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City” spurs parents to seize the reins from the overreach of schools. Or else a world of indoctrination will fill the void and steer kids into woke waters.
"In Florida, we will not let the far-left woke agenda take over our schools and workplaces," Gov. DeSantis said in an April 22, 2022, statement. "There is no place for indoctrination or discrimination in Florida."
"By focusing on core academic subjects and rejecting indoctrinationin the classroom, we have become a standard-bearer for educational excellence," Mr. DeSantis stated.
The delay in parents realizing this type of control and indoctrination has been happening in their children’s school is due to a complicit media environment, Dreher said.
"We have got to wake up now," he said.
"The shortsighted decisions during a pandemic, with so many students vulnerable, reflect the national crisis of school districts circumventing parents to indoctrinate students—in this case, with the help of corporate America."
Hegar praised Welsh for firing McCoul, saying the decision "shows insubordination and indoctrination have no place in on our campus or in our classrooms." He also ordered audits of courses across all 12 schoolsin the A&M system.