Sometimes I’m not sure if the education beat at the New York Times might not be worse than its foreign policy. And I’m not just talking about the paper’s prolonged antisemitic campaign against religious Jewish education.
Here’s a straightforward issue. Complaints by disabled students and their parents are high. So the New York Times blames Trump and the refusal by some schools to incorporate racist critical race theory texts and graphic sexual content for the problem.
Strife in the Schools: Education Dept. Logs Record Number of Discrimination Complaints – New York Times
The New York Times leads with claims of racism. It briefly concedes that, the “majority of complaints in the past year, as in previous years, allege discrimination against students with disabilities — a population whose plight became more visible during the pandemic when schools drew federal scrutiny for failing to serve such students during school closures.”
And then pivots right back to blaming racism.
“A number of civil rights groups blame former President Donald J. Trump for creating an atmosphere of intolerance in America’s schools. His promotion of what he called “patriotic education” — which sought to minimize the country’s history of slavery — spurred conservative policymakers to support a series of efforts, including banning books, revising curriculums and challenging diversity programs.”
The only programs that were challenged were those that…
1. Falsely described America as a racist country built on slavery, incorporating revisionist 1619 Project history.
2. Racially stereotyped students blamed white students for racism.
3. Employed critical race theory and other racist ideas.
None of this has anything to do with rising complaints by the disabled due to school lockdowns.
Nevertheless, the vast majority of the article continues to claim that racism against black students is the major problem Latino and Hispanic students, despite becoming a majority in many areas, are not mentioned at all. And only one incident involving Asian students is mentioned.
All of this is a convenient distraction from the fact that the complaints are part of the educational wreckage of Democrat pandemic lockdowns.
The education profession is increasingly past all sense of understanding. I once had considerable respect for its members, but I can hardy raise a moment of it for the field now. Little of ‘racism’ as issue has any actual place when education is the actual focus and purpose for education.
There are many who are increasingly not seeing that actual direction is not about ‘racism’ of black persons – or really any other racial group, but instead is the mau-mau attack on America as idea and condition with the now increasing level of full-on hatred for all things Western.
These minds ought to understand this. Many do and know the purpose is actual revolution, but many also are merely the useful idiot.
They’ve all been taught Paulo Freiere’s theories of “critical pedagogy” which are taught in all U.S. teaching colleges. In short, his theory is that teaching a standard academic curricula simply prepared students to replicate the existing oppressive society and, therefore, the purpose of Education should be to give students a “critical consciousness” to prepare them to be fire activists and revolutionaries to overthrow that system. And here we are.
And here we are.
The Left puts out the idea that the solution to all problems in every field, including education, is getting more people to embrace its ideas.
And so professionals become missionaries teaching the creed rather than what students need to know.
Amen brother! Pity is – go much past the narrative, and few actually understand this religion. Probably not a mistake as all evil things love a inner and outer party format to existence.
Many teachers in public ed are unthinkingly Democrat, concerned with climate change and hug themselves and their colleagues because they saved the earth by driving an electric car.
They bond with one another and feel justified in their hate for that horrid hurtful evil outsider. the Republican voter who is shockingly bad and immoral. The hate is vicious. I could tell you stories. .
Educational materials, in my time, proselytized Islam for kids (used pictures of little girls in burkas, etc) Signs in school hallways were in English, Spanish, and Arabic. These days I am sure its all far more sexualized.
I will point out that there are more female educators than males, especially in early ed.
Its a sensitive subject but… (as a female I feel free to opine) women are more influenced by emotional messages in leftist propaganda and have more of what was once called “need to affiliate” (the need to conform and have friends).
The college professor educators of educators are die hard leftists.
Its the brainwashed leading the brainwashed, leading our children.
With only a few exceptions.
Your use of the phrase “mau-mauing” brought to mind Tim Wolfe’s brilliant essay on the subject. It has some hilarious moments in which white people, feeling increasingly threatened by blacks who are messing with their heads, give them everything they want and more. Maybe it’s time to mau-mau them right back.
Sorry, meant Tom Wolfe. Typo.
Racist country?
My great grandfather marched off as a slicksleeved private, partly because he was a kid and this was exciting, but also, I choose to believe, because it was the right thing to do. He certainly didn’t do it for the money. E1s may be generously provided for now [ in his first month in uniform, in training camp,new recruits make more than I did in my first year of service in the sixties. ], but 1862? And he’d volunteered, of course. No draft.
Human slavery in the Western Hemisphere in 1800, none in 1900. Gone, at tremendous cost in treasure and blood, from a country one eleventh in population from today’s.
Show me an act more deliberate than war.
Was not the first to die from British musketry in Boston Commons a recent freedman from the Carolinas?
Racist country, my ass.
The New York Slimes covering up for the enemy since 1932 when they covered up for Stalin and later Hitler and Castro