Is Every School an Indoctrination Center?
Rather than force kids to home school, maybe we need to come up with a more practical solution to a real problem (if it's real).
There’s a libertarian account I like to follow on Instagram. But lately she’s been posting a lot of anti-school rhetoric. She’s pushing for parents to pull their kids out of school and to teach them at home.
But here’s my question: Is every school really a leftist/communist indoctrination center? And is every teacher pushing the identity politics agenda?
I’m 41. So I was in grade school and high school in the ‘80s and ‘90s. As I look back now, I have fond memories of my time in school. My teachers were wonderful. And I don’t ever remember anyone trying to push their personal or warped beliefs onto me.
In fact, I remember my school teachers being incredibly supportive. I came from a troubled home. I never talked about it, but I’m sure the teachers knew. Not a single one tried to exploit this vulnerability. Instead they fostered all of the things inside of me that made me strong and unique. They even tried to help me make smart choices and to get past that part of my life in one piece.
The same goes for college. Hell, the University of Delaware paid for me to go to Cuba and not a single one of my professors or the administrators advocated for Communism. We were there to learn about the history and culture of the country, and to see first-hand the devastating effects of Communism (and the American embargo) on the world.
I find it hard to believe that somewhere between 2005 (when I left school) and now that the entire school system became warped. Though maybe I’m being naive. A lot really has changed in this nation in just the last four years, so maybe schools are totally corrupted?
I just can’t help but feel so hope that they’re not.
I have a teacher friend back home in Delaware who is one of the greatest people I’ve ever known. And he’s not about that DEI, victim mentality, and all the other woke bullshit you hear about them pushing. If I ever had children, I’d want hundreds of him to teach them. He has a no-bullshit attitude and he really believes in pushing his students to work hard. He can’t be the only good one left. Right?
So what’s going on here? Are the news and social media over-exaggerating the threat of wokesters in the school system? Or am I just ignorant to what’s happening?
And let’s say it’s not an over-exaggeration. Let’s say there are morally corrupt individuals and administrators there. Have we really thought about what happens to less fortunate children who are encouraged or forced to learn from home?
I think of my own childhood and what would’ve happened to me if I’d been forced to home school. I wouldn’t be here today. I wouldn’t be on this planet today.
And what about the parents who can’t afford to keep their kids home and to teach them themselves?
And what about all the distractions and technologies in the home? How are parents (or home school teachers) going to keep kids focused on learning when it’s already so hard to do so in a classroom setting?
Or what about this: I know that many of these conservative and libertarian influencers cite misinformation and propaganda being taught in schools. What happens when some zealot parent is responsible for their child’s education and feeds them another form of misinformation? Is that okay because it’s the lesser of two evils?
Perhaps the real solution then isn’t to shut down schools or pull students out of them. Perhaps we need to encourage better people to become teachers. Rather than tear down an entire institution that once did a great job of caring for children, we restore the balance, get rid of the rot, and bring in educators with the right intentions and qualifications?
Yes I believe all schools are indoctrination centers but not in the way most people believe. They are set up to remove the thinking process from the masses brain. After study of Walter Russell's cosmology I have determined nearly everything taught in school at the fundamentals is false. For instance if opposites do not attract how does this fact change a chemistry education. If what people so casually call matter is motion and never rises to the physical what does this say about a quantum physics degree. What if germ theory is a fraud, what does this say about "doctors". And don't get me started on religion.
I’d say from my experience, in the blue metropolitan regions, the schools are corrupted by that and more. But I’ve taught in suburban areas of mixed political interests, and they aren’t nearly as politicized (however it’s there) but the lack of rigor and competency in teachers overall, especially in the humanities and especially in reading and writing English classes, is pretty bad. That’s a function of the techno-hegemony we have now more than ideology. But the two combined is a death blow.