Longtime teachers' union boss Randi Weingarten attacked parents who seek an increased role in their children’s education by citing a widely discredited far-left group that listed a parental rights group with the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). “I was talking to the Southern Poverty Law Center, and they showed me the same words, ‘choice,’ ‘parental rights,’ and an attempt to divide parents versus teachers,” Weingarten said. “[At] that point, it was white parents versus other parents.”
A K-12 education consultant and public speaker recently exposed numerous resources provided for teachers to groom their students into the LGBTQ+ agenda. In an interview with CatholicVote, Deb Fillman said that the problem goes deeper than just one company providing resources to schools—the issue also lies in the school system.
Corey DeAngelis is a prominent advocate for expanding educational freedom in the United States and a self-described “school choice evangelist.” He has been a popular target of teachers’ unions, particularly the American Federation of Teachers, which is led by Randi Weingarten. Weingarten and her allies have attacked DeAngelis on multiple occasions. Here are some of their accusations, and DeAngelis’ responses. https://catholicvote.org/teachers-unions-react-to-corey-deangelis/
A House investigative panel wants to hear from Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, about her role in COVID policies that kept schools closed for a long period of time. Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-OH, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, invited Weingarten on Tuesday to testify at a hearing scheduled for April 26, 2023. https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/04/06/house-seeks-testimony-from-teachers-union-chief-weingarten-on-school-closures-during-covid-19/
During a legislative debate on education, an Arizona teacher said: “We all have advanced degrees. What do the parents have? Are we vetting the backgrounds of our parents? Are we allowing the parents to choose the curriculum and the books our children are going to read? I think it’s a mistake." https://twitter.com/1776ProjectPac/status/1628131523625947145
An official with the National Education Association (NEA), America’s largest teachers union, said kids should start learning about “gender identity” and “preferred pronouns” in pre-kindergarten. “When you look at elementary school students, many people think they are too young to talk about pronouns,” said the NEA's Matthew Powell during a webinar last summer. But “by asking students their [preferred] pronouns at a young age,” operatives “can make room for students who may be exploring gender identity….” https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/01/31/exclusive-lessons-in-preferred-pronouns-should-start-in-pre-k-largest-teachers-union-says/
Hundreds of teachers in the third-largest school district in the country reportedly sexually groomed, assaulted, and raped students over a period of decades. According to a new report from the Chicago School District’s Office of the Inspector General, over 600 “adult-on-student” misconduct allegations were filed with its office, and the office has substantiated more than half of them. https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-details-decades-of-teacher-student-sexual-abuse-allegations-in-chicago-school-district
Star Parker has written a cutting analysis of what she calls the “outrageous reality being perpetrated against America’s parents and children by public school bureaucracies and teachers unions,” who have become “an unapologetic megaphone for America’s Left” while students fare worse and worse. “Education should be freed from the diabolical control of bureaucrats and unions. We need a free market in education with power given to parents to choose where to send their child to school.” https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/12/28/for-teachers-unions-parents-and-children-come-last/
Dec 14, 2022·edited Dec 14, 2022Liked by Frederick R Smith
"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality." ~ H. L. Mencken .... For context - from the end of WW I until the Great Depression, Mencken reached an audience unmatched by any other political or cultural figure in American history. Today he is largely forgotten.
Yes, Yes, Yes and YES. There is no "edjakashun" system in the USA. All there is is an indoctrination system. I am reminded of two quotes. One from George Carlin and one from the movie "Rid With The Devil" an accurate depiction for a Civil War movie. I post them both here:
But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education SUCKS, and it’s the same reason it will never, ever, EVER be fixed.
It’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it, be happy with what you’ve got.
Because the owners, the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the BIG owners! The Wealthy… the REAL owners! The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions.
Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice! You have OWNERS! They OWN YOU. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls.
They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don’t want:
They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. that's against their interests.
That's right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting f&$#%d by a system that threw them overboard 30 f&@&@%$g years ago. They don’t want that!
You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shitty jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this f@&@%g place! It's a big club, and you ain’t in it! You, and I, are not in the big club.
By the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care! Good honest hard-working people; white collar, blue collar it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means, continue to elect these rich cock suckers who don’t give a f%@k about you….they don’t give a f@%k about you… they don’t give a F@&K about you.
They don’t care about you at all… at all… AT ALL. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. that's what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue d@&k that's being jammed up their a%@$#*s everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth.
It's called the American Dream,because you have to be asleep to believe it. ~ George Carlin
"Ride With The Devil" Staring Toby McGuire and Skeet Ulrich...
A scene at the dinner table of Mr. Evans:
Ride With The Devil 1999
Mr. Evans: Have you ever been to Lawrence, Kansas, young man?
Chiles: No, I reckon not, Mr. Evans.
I don't believe I'd be too welcome in Lawrence.
Mr. Evans: I didn't think so. Before this war began,
my business took me there often.
As I saw those Northerners build that town,
I witnessed the seeds of our destruction being sown.
The foundin' of that town was truly the beginnin' of the Yankee invasion.
I'm not speakin' of numbers,
nor even abolitionist trouble-makin'.
It was the schoolhouse.
Before they built their church, even, they built that schoolhouse.
And they let in every tailor's son...
and every farmer's daughter in that country.
Spellin' won't help you hold a plow any firmer.
Or a gun either.
No, it won't, Mr. Chiles. But my point is merely...
that they rounded every pup up into that schoolhouse...
because they fancied that everyone should think...
and talk the same free-thinkin' way they do...
with no regard to station, custom,
propriety.
And that is why they will win.
Because they believe everyone should live and think just like them.
And we shall lose because we don't care one way or another...
how they live.
We just worry about ourselves.
Chiles: Are you sayin', sir, that we fight for nothin'?
Well Done and very informative. I taught for 46 years in NJ as a Social Studies educator and 40 of those years as an American History Teacher. I retired because of the bigotry,, bias and bad history that was shoved down the throats of the teachers during the 2020-2021 school year. Thanks again for the review and looking forward to more excellent articles.
It's the easy way out and allows both of the parents to work so that they can buy the new BMW, that I buy 6 years old from them for $45,000 less! LOL!. My wife HOME SCHOOLED My four sons. I was fortunate enough to make enough to allow her to leave behind ONE MILLION in salary over a 20 year period. (At 50K a year! Today they make way more.) She's a registered nurse. The way I manage is by NOT having a new house and fancy new cars. My 2006 BMW 530XI wagon was purchased in 2012, six years old with 89K on the clock for $20,000. The guy who bought it new paid $65,000. I now have 210,000 on the clock and it still runs and drives fine. My home is a 1960's older home that I remodeled as I could afford it. ALL of my sons were home schooled and NONE of them were EVER vaccinated until the second youngest was taken in by his cougar girlfriends BS way of thinking. ALL of them were home birthed. Yes, I don't fit the "cookie cutter mold" that the 10th plank communist manifesto school system pooped out. So yes, the parents let it happen.
Longtime teachers' union boss Randi Weingarten attacked parents who seek an increased role in their children’s education by citing a widely discredited far-left group that listed a parental rights group with the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). “I was talking to the Southern Poverty Law Center, and they showed me the same words, ‘choice,’ ‘parental rights,’ and an attempt to divide parents versus teachers,” Weingarten said. “[At] that point, it was white parents versus other parents.”
https://catholicvote.org/teachers-union-boss-weingarten-compares-parents-segregationists/
A K-12 education consultant and public speaker recently exposed numerous resources provided for teachers to groom their students into the LGBTQ+ agenda. In an interview with CatholicVote, Deb Fillman said that the problem goes deeper than just one company providing resources to schools—the issue also lies in the school system.
https://catholicvote.org/lgbtq-orgs-training-teachers-groom-kids-exposed/
Excellent essay! I will link the short post I'm working on for today.
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, fielded lawmakers’ questions on 4/27/23 about her powerful union’s role in COVID school closures. Weingarten testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on why the AFT colluded with Biden administration officials to prolong school lockdowns. https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/04/26/4-highlights-from-teachers-union-head-randi-weingartens-testimony-on-school-lockdowns/
Corey DeAngelis is a prominent advocate for expanding educational freedom in the United States and a self-described “school choice evangelist.” He has been a popular target of teachers’ unions, particularly the American Federation of Teachers, which is led by Randi Weingarten. Weingarten and her allies have attacked DeAngelis on multiple occasions. Here are some of their accusations, and DeAngelis’ responses. https://catholicvote.org/teachers-unions-react-to-corey-deangelis/
A House investigative panel wants to hear from Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, about her role in COVID policies that kept schools closed for a long period of time. Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-OH, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, invited Weingarten on Tuesday to testify at a hearing scheduled for April 26, 2023. https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/04/06/house-seeks-testimony-from-teachers-union-chief-weingarten-on-school-closures-during-covid-19/
During a legislative debate on education, an Arizona teacher said: “We all have advanced degrees. What do the parents have? Are we vetting the backgrounds of our parents? Are we allowing the parents to choose the curriculum and the books our children are going to read? I think it’s a mistake." https://twitter.com/1776ProjectPac/status/1628131523625947145
An official with the National Education Association (NEA), America’s largest teachers union, said kids should start learning about “gender identity” and “preferred pronouns” in pre-kindergarten. “When you look at elementary school students, many people think they are too young to talk about pronouns,” said the NEA's Matthew Powell during a webinar last summer. But “by asking students their [preferred] pronouns at a young age,” operatives “can make room for students who may be exploring gender identity….” https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/01/31/exclusive-lessons-in-preferred-pronouns-should-start-in-pre-k-largest-teachers-union-says/
Hundreds of teachers in the third-largest school district in the country reportedly sexually groomed, assaulted, and raped students over a period of decades. According to a new report from the Chicago School District’s Office of the Inspector General, over 600 “adult-on-student” misconduct allegations were filed with its office, and the office has substantiated more than half of them. https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-details-decades-of-teacher-student-sexual-abuse-allegations-in-chicago-school-district
Star Parker has written a cutting analysis of what she calls the “outrageous reality being perpetrated against America’s parents and children by public school bureaucracies and teachers unions,” who have become “an unapologetic megaphone for America’s Left” while students fare worse and worse. “Education should be freed from the diabolical control of bureaucrats and unions. We need a free market in education with power given to parents to choose where to send their child to school.” https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/12/28/for-teachers-unions-parents-and-children-come-last/
"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality." ~ H. L. Mencken .... For context - from the end of WW I until the Great Depression, Mencken reached an audience unmatched by any other political or cultural figure in American history. Today he is largely forgotten.
Yes, Yes, Yes and YES. There is no "edjakashun" system in the USA. All there is is an indoctrination system. I am reminded of two quotes. One from George Carlin and one from the movie "Rid With The Devil" an accurate depiction for a Civil War movie. I post them both here:
But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education SUCKS, and it’s the same reason it will never, ever, EVER be fixed.
It’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it, be happy with what you’ve got.
Because the owners, the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the BIG owners! The Wealthy… the REAL owners! The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions.
Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice! You have OWNERS! They OWN YOU. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls.
They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don’t want:
They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. that's against their interests.
That's right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting f&$#%d by a system that threw them overboard 30 f&@&@%$g years ago. They don’t want that!
You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shitty jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this f@&@%g place! It's a big club, and you ain’t in it! You, and I, are not in the big club.
By the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care! Good honest hard-working people; white collar, blue collar it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means, continue to elect these rich cock suckers who don’t give a f%@k about you….they don’t give a f@%k about you… they don’t give a F@&K about you.
They don’t care about you at all… at all… AT ALL. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. that's what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue d@&k that's being jammed up their a%@$#*s everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth.
It's called the American Dream,because you have to be asleep to believe it. ~ George Carlin
"Ride With The Devil" Staring Toby McGuire and Skeet Ulrich...
A scene at the dinner table of Mr. Evans:
Ride With The Devil 1999
Mr. Evans: Have you ever been to Lawrence, Kansas, young man?
Chiles: No, I reckon not, Mr. Evans.
I don't believe I'd be too welcome in Lawrence.
Mr. Evans: I didn't think so. Before this war began,
my business took me there often.
As I saw those Northerners build that town,
I witnessed the seeds of our destruction being sown.
The foundin' of that town was truly the beginnin' of the Yankee invasion.
I'm not speakin' of numbers,
nor even abolitionist trouble-makin'.
It was the schoolhouse.
Before they built their church, even, they built that schoolhouse.
And they let in every tailor's son...
and every farmer's daughter in that country.
Spellin' won't help you hold a plow any firmer.
Or a gun either.
No, it won't, Mr. Chiles. But my point is merely...
that they rounded every pup up into that schoolhouse...
because they fancied that everyone should think...
and talk the same free-thinkin' way they do...
with no regard to station, custom,
propriety.
And that is why they will win.
Because they believe everyone should live and think just like them.
And we shall lose because we don't care one way or another...
how they live.
We just worry about ourselves.
Chiles: Are you sayin', sir, that we fight for nothin'?
Mr. Evans: Far from it, Mr. Chiles.
You fight for everything that we ever had.
As did my son.
NEA is about porno https://twitter.com/i/status/1600495832100380673
Well Done and very informative. I taught for 46 years in NJ as a Social Studies educator and 40 of those years as an American History Teacher. I retired because of the bigotry,, bias and bad history that was shoved down the throats of the teachers during the 2020-2021 school year. Thanks again for the review and looking forward to more excellent articles.
Thank you!
And the parents let it happen...
It's the easy way out and allows both of the parents to work so that they can buy the new BMW, that I buy 6 years old from them for $45,000 less! LOL!. My wife HOME SCHOOLED My four sons. I was fortunate enough to make enough to allow her to leave behind ONE MILLION in salary over a 20 year period. (At 50K a year! Today they make way more.) She's a registered nurse. The way I manage is by NOT having a new house and fancy new cars. My 2006 BMW 530XI wagon was purchased in 2012, six years old with 89K on the clock for $20,000. The guy who bought it new paid $65,000. I now have 210,000 on the clock and it still runs and drives fine. My home is a 1960's older home that I remodeled as I could afford it. ALL of my sons were home schooled and NONE of them were EVER vaccinated until the second youngest was taken in by his cougar girlfriends BS way of thinking. ALL of them were home birthed. Yes, I don't fit the "cookie cutter mold" that the 10th plank communist manifesto school system pooped out. So yes, the parents let it happen.
And the ones who do speak out get placed on domestic list!
"The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America", an excellent timeline of these events, is available in PDF format here: http://deliberatedumbingdown.com/ddd/deliberate-dumbing-down/
Dumb people make for good slaves. Just look at how many people let themselves get jabbed by a deadly toxic "vaccine".
Top shelf book!