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The Reeducation of Educators, Part 2: Indoctrinating Students Through Social Justice

Jul 30, 2020
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The public school system is beyond repair, and amazingly, parents don’t seem to notice or care. It all needs to change – the awareness, the caring, and most of all, the system itself.

At the core of the problem, educational programs are guided by social justice theory and therefore reforms within classrooms and districts are guided by a revolutionary lens of racial reckoning and economic redistribution. As social justice cannot be reconciled with facts, science, or merit, this is ripping apart the very notion of traditional learning expectations. Part 1 of this series explored that conundrum vis-a-vis student management and the physical harm your child faces when they attend school. As it stands, actual student violence is tolerated at the same time as a traditional pedagogical, let alone conservative, philosophy is deemed dangerous. Up is now down.

In the second installment of this series, we dive into an overview of what a typical student can be expected to learn once they leave the confines of your America-loving, God-centered, and traditional values-focused home. Spoiler: It’s not good.

At its core, social justice theory has multiple targets. Racism is the most well known, with the concurrent threads of anti-racist work and conversations around white privilege, but capitalism is equally seen as poisonous to leftist tenets. The term “Marxist” might sound alarmatory and extreme, but it is 100% accurate. The work being done does not occur in isolation, and the “work” centers around the typical banners of race, class, and gender, with every so-called oppressed group, including blacks, women, the poor, the disabled, immigrants, whatever. They just need anyone and anything to fight the monolithic White Man. (You know, because all whites, and especially all white males, are just living their best lives at the expense of everyone else).

Just another white man, a veteran to boot, enjoying all of his privilege Just another white man, a veteran to boot, enjoying all of his privilege.



Just another white man, a veteran to boot, enjoying all of his privilege.

On the front to combat racism, the claim goes that American public schools are the by-product of white culture, a remnant of how white men needed a way to perpetuate their white power and dominance in society. Public schools, therefore, reinforce whiteness by exacting the characteristics of it. This includes hard work, adhering to the scientific model, merit-based success, and proper English. If it sounds silly, that’s because it is.

On the battleground for economic transformation, there is also the belief peddled that schools, as we know them, were established so that the selfish capitalists could ensure a steady flow of mind-numbed automatons. Insofar as the rise in factories coincided with the establishment of public schools, the claim is now made that greedy free marketers saw an opportunity to manipulate students to prepare for life at the helm of a monotonous machine by expecting obedience from them in school. Therefore, when students are expected to sit still in class or work quietly, what teachers are really asking is for compliance in preparation for their life as thoughtless worker bees.

Nowadays, any notion of compliance and “blindly” following simple teacher directions are expectations of this whiteness, both in their feature of allowing whites to remain unchallenged atop the hierarchy and in continuing the legacy of capitalist greed. Did you know that you were perpetuating all of your white economic privilege by demanding respect and politeness from your child?

What no one ever admits is the fact that many successful adults are successful precisely because they were productive students along the lines of working hard, taking responsibility for their schooling, and interacting appropriately with teachers and peers. Moreover, even leftist bumpkins’ actions indicate they want them when it benefits them. I don’t care what we call that – good traits are good traits. For any leftist that believes or promotes this bilge that only white culture values hard work and intelligence, the next time you’re on a plane or getting a medical consult unless you choose the drunk illiterate black woman to be your pilot or doctor, then you are completely full of it. I guarantee when you show up expecting a professional outcome, you are looking for all of those white traits to present themselves. Why do we pretend these are bad things in school?

Can you imagine if all white people, in whatever public role they fulfill professionally, just began acting in a manner opposite of all of those so-called white traits when they interacted with everyone else? Customer complaints would jam the system! And ironically, they’d be called racists. You can’t win. So, do they really want to abolish whiteness, or are they just making noise?

Many teachers also live in the communities they serve. When the social order devolved into lawlessness in American streets this past June, there was white staff in many schools who expressed justifiable concern for their own children, families, and homes in staff debriefings and check-ins. After all, they are caring people who want to be safe and secure. Isn’t that the complaint blacks have with police interactions? They don’t feel safe? Well, this was received by school leaders of color as a manifestation of their white privilege. Our black families don’t feel safe all the time, they said. Just like the examples in Part 1 about students punching adult staff, apparently being white and wanting to be safe are mutually exclusive, lest the woke crowd call you out for voicing your privilege.

Who could forget when the chairperson of the Minneapolis city council appeared on CNN earlier this summer and said her expectation of safety during the height of protests was her white privilege? These people are insane, and also hypocritical. When her own home was vandalized a month later, she immediately called the police (whom she voted to dismantle) and expressed disappointment that people would engage in such nefarious behavior. The same goes for Chicago’s sanctimonious mayor, Lori Lightfoot, who won’t allow the protests on her streets even though the rest of the city burns. Cognitive dissonance doesn’t even begin to explain how these people wrestle with such pathology.

As insane as it seems, these philosophies play out exactly this way in front of children. The messages of racial consciousness, white privilege, and the rest of the insipid platitudes toward people of color ultimately mean that your child cannot learn math, literacy, grammar, and history without a complete infusion of social justice. Math is just a reflection of the whiteness spoken about earlier; since there is only one “right” answer, it is just an exercise in limiting one’s critical thinking. The attempt to change the elemental understanding of mathematical properties is downright Orwellian. Proper grammar is inherently racist (apparently it is not racist to suggest that black people are incapable of speaking like everyone else).

English class, once full of Alighieri, Goethe, Hugo, Dickens, Shakespeare, Twain, is being overcorrected to make sure that the race and sex of the author are given more weight than the historical or cultural weight of the content. Are students more equipped to analyze literature and understand the human condition now that they removed Shakespeare in favor of contemporary black lesbian women? Reasonable minds would concur with a resounding “no.”

Social science classes as a whole have devolved into community conversations about social justice issues. In and of itself, conversation, and by extension debate, is a fantastic exercise. Most readers will probably recall an experience during school-age years where a room was split into two, with opposing viewpoints sat across from one another and taking turns defending their position. The debate is not only healthy (see: cancel culture), it helps to develop a more mature and nuanced opinion on matters. It might even change open minds, and isn’t that the point? Shouldn’t we accept the best answer?

Alas, such openness is no longer tolerated. Where once a back-and-forth existed, now only one-sidedness does. For starters, all topics are introduced as problems. Policing, particularly in black communities? The criminal justice system? America’s COVID response? Gender wage gap? Abortion? Trump as president? Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, apocalyptic. There is no such thing as competing ideas nor the concept of searching for the best possible solution in a world with no perfect answers. Now, as any thinking person sees regularly in the media or political sphere, there are immaculate leftist articulations and then there are Fascist Trumpian Tweets.

As devout leftists, why would school leaders and teachers waste their time on the intellectual tug-of-war when they are so clearly right, and we are so clearly wrong?

While teachers may introduce this filth, students are equally given a space to lead with their voice. What that means is that even if a teacher does want to review Chapter Ten from the autobiography of Fredrick Douglass and discuss its implications in its historical context and how those words might resound today, a student can easily hijack the conversation and stress that discussing the current social ills of society is more pressing than the words of Douglass, who despite overcoming bondage and illiteracy, nevertheless exuded whiteness because he advocated for working within the system outlined by the Constitution.

As there is no recourse for countering leftism – only with further leftism – at this point the teacher is powerless and needs to submit to the greater leftist need. To silence the student is to be an oppressor and thus perpetuating whiteness in schools. Gasp! Never mind that the student could be white because then the intersectional demands would still find a way to be aggrieved. Is the student a female? Consider it an example of the patriarchy showing up in schools. Is the student an English Language Learner? Just one more example of American bigotry and intolerance. Is the student gay, lesbian, or trans? Chalk it up to a violent cis heteronormative school culture.

That railroaded conversation would only end if a second student voice took it a step further by demanding a die-in that lasted eight minutes and forty-six seconds.

Timmy, what did you do in school today? We laid on the floor for almost nine minutes. Can you read yet? No, but I was told America is bad and that I somehow made it just a little bit better today. Oh, maybe we’ll find you a different school for 2nd grade.




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