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Debates about education policy and the proper way to teach race and gender have intensified across the country. In February, the Manhattan Institute released a study finding that a large majority of 18- to 20-year-olds said that they had heard about “at least one of eight Critical Social Justice (CSJ) concepts from a teacher or other adult at school.”
The statistic is deeply troubling to some, like Straight Arrow News contributor Star Parker, who argues that with CSJ concepts from the Left embedded so deeply in our education system, teachers and students alike are in danger.
I have to wonder why so many teachers are personally against these very subjects being taught, but they’re too afraid to speak out due to the very real likelihood that they could lose their job. These subjects continue to promote the lie that American history is about dominant, oppressive white class, rather than the ongoing struggle that we each have to take our lot in life and build it out; take personal responsibility to prevail under freedom.
These are our kids and if 93% are being taught all these contrary views to what we consider just normal civil society, then what does our future really look like? Because of course, students learn what their teachers are teaching them.
Most of us, we share facts, when we spent 13 years in our educational systems. Oh, you learn the same concepts of geometry and spent nights studying biology and memorizing vocabulary words, and those that didn’t do it, people like myself, we were the outcast, we were the outliers. And 93%, they also all share now in learning that your gender is not your biology.
The people promoting the opposition to that worldview are the same ones that say whites are oppressors. They’re learning about what others do, rather than what they themselves choose. The best response to all of this is what we as parents choose to do with our children. And I’m telling you far too many parents are choosing to send their children to these schools and hope for the best.
