Education + Propaganda = Tyranny
Since our Federal government began educating our children, a power not enumerated in the Constitution, we have discovered that, Education + Propaganda = Tyranny
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Virginia’s History and Social Sciences Choice
Virginia’s periodic review of K-12 History and Social Sciences Standards of Learning (SOLs) produced a politically correct 402 page monstrosity in August. It was revised to a much improved 53 page piece in October. The Left, including the NAACP, is pushing back with inflammatory rhetoric absent any or all facts. History and Social Sciences aren’t …
Education Indoctrination in Virginia: Continued
Education Indoctrination in Virginia: Continued. The Virginia Board of Education posted the History and Social Studies Standards of Learning (SOLs) for comment. The 402 page document establishes what will be taught K-12 in Virginia Public Schools. The subject matter is covered well, but skewed with a focus on race, class, and gender. Significant omissions and …
Of, By and For the People – Chapter 8
A free society cannot survive as a republic without a broad program of general education.
Education Indoctrination in Virginia: One Example
Education Indoctrination in Virginia: One Example, Part 1 of 2. The Virginia Board of Education posted the History and Social Studies Standards of Learning for comment. The 402 page document establishes what will be taught K-12 in Virginia Public Schools. The subject matter is covered well, but skewed with a focus on race, class, and gender. …
Thinking for Ourselves: Have We Forgotten How?
“Judge a man by his questions, rather than his answers.” — Voltaire on, thinking for ourselves, as opposed to allowing others to do so.
Our Failing Education System
Over the last century American education has continued to decline, both in academic achievement and moral quality.
Free Speech and Academic Freedom under Attack in Colleges & Universities
Having spent thirteen years as an administrator (department head & dean) at the University of Illinois, I learned early on how heavy-handed academia can be when it comes to practicing political correctness on campus. The First Amendment right of free speech is too often denied to students and faculty who don’t support or adhere to …
Classical Christian Education: A Path Forward to American Renewal
I anticipate that many readers of this article would agree that the quality of education in America has been in a steady state of decline for decades. The causes of this downslope categorically range between political, cultural, anthropological and economic, and the case could be made that none of these are mutually exclusive. In blazing …
The Looming NCO Crisis, Part 1: Introduction
The Looming NCO Crisis: Introduction This blog is about a looming crisis that could happen in the US military’s Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) corps. But the same factors that affect the military can and probably will affect almost any organization. Today, there is a great deal of concern over recruiting. I am concerned about what happens …
Independence Day, the Beginning of the Most Powerful Country on Earth
The British treatment of the colonies over the first few months of the American Revolutionary War, which had treated them as manifestly rebellious and enemies, gave force to arguments for independence.
Racism: Is Systemic Racism In Schools? (3 of 4)
We have had a discussion concerning equity and federal benefits. Any program that mandates that we will be the same, that there is equity, while it may not be racist, it is definitely restrictive to the God-given right of pursuit of happiness. We have also noted that systemic racism is an illusion used as an …
How Are We Going To Fix Schools? By Citizen Writer, David Hispaña
Our educational system is broken. There is evil within it. There are those that partake in the evil and those that allow it all to happen.
High School Senior Prank Shows Genius
The reaction to a senior prank by students from two rival Alabama high schools has been prolific and laughable. It also demonstrates
The Ultimate Revolution
Make no mistake, we are amid a social revolution that will fundamentally reshape American society and government. While social justice warriors use the term “woke” to discuss the organizations that enact their principals, concerned citizens need to wake up and understand what is happening and the long-term consequences to sustainable liberty and prosperity for all Americans.
So, What is the Education Institution’s Strategy?
Education is at the heart of a web of influence and control that goes beyond the warning President Eisenhower gave in his Military Industrial speech. The education strategy is to control narrative and diaglog.
Education Strategy Gone Amok?
Education Strategy Gone Amok? Education, we have a problem. The response to an education crisis is to lower standards and implement social justice programs? History since the inception of the Great Society shows these programs do not work. The current education strategy will continue to lower US competitiveness and overall prosperity. It is crazy. Unless …
Teachers’ Unions and Critical Theories
The teachers; unions, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA) did not always support Critical Race Theory (CRT). It took several punctured equilibriums to make that happen. But they do now with a vengeance. 2015 had several key events that led to a punctured equilibrium that broke their path dependency.
The “Critical” in Critical Theories
This piece looks at the various “critical” theories. The theory making the biggest splash lately is Critical Race Theory, but it is descended from a group of theories. There is also a Critical Pedagogy/Education Theory that shows how education fits into this systemic approach to question change western society. The “critical” in these theories are not the same as the “critical” in critical thinking.
Re-constructing History, Part 8: First, Do no Harm
Part 8 looks at the charge in the Hippocratic Oath, “first, do no harm”.
1619 seeks to re-write American history to show slavery is at the root of every institution in the US. CRT aims to show this as well as with the concepts of institutional racism, white supremacy, white privilege, and white fragility. Part 4 of the Maskirovka series covers these issues. The question is whether the Social Justice Warriors (SJW) employ these concepts to excise a cancer or to kill the current social structures and institutions. If they argue racism is permanently rooted in every social structure and institution in America, then they argue for a wholesale restructuring of American society and new institutions that are not tainted with slavery and racism.
This path does harm on several dimensions. Harm that may be far worse than the disease. There are many sites that provide arguments against CRT and 1619, so I will focus on the harm they cause, regardless of any merit they may possess.