You are correct. 50 years ago, right before my high school graduation, our principal gathered us into a lecture hall to warn us about the communist professors we’d encounter at our prospective universities, lest we enter college eyes wide shut. I’ll be forever grateful. After college I taught for decades at several public schools - eyes …
You are correct. 50 years ago, right before my high school graduation, our principal gathered us into a lecture hall to warn us about the communist professors we’d encounter at our prospective universities, lest we enter college eyes wide shut. I’ll be forever grateful. After college I taught for decades at several public schools - eyes wide open - battling all the social ills of poverty, class and racial inequities born, not just of racism but of rotting cultural norms (like single parent households), physical disabilities (inordinately large percentage of black boys are “autistic”), over-crowded classes (30+ students), supply shortages (from poorly managed and corrupted budgets) and even union restrictions, i.e., no after school help sessions, no walking kids to the buses, no consulting teachers in the hallways, no bringing in your own supplies, and yes, woke curriculums, etc., etc., etc ad nauseam. And all of these problems came directly from the teacher training - a.k.a. Indoctrination - received from those “communist” infiltrated colleges but also from corrupt politicians and union leaders lining their pockets and positions with tax dollars ill-gotten from the very populations they are destroying. My religious mother-in-law (who also worked in public education) used to say, “When they took God out of the schools, the devil walked in.” Religious or not, evil did indeed walk in and that’s the over-arching problem we face.
You are correct. 50 years ago, right before my high school graduation, our principal gathered us into a lecture hall to warn us about the communist professors we’d encounter at our prospective universities, lest we enter college eyes wide shut. I’ll be forever grateful. After college I taught for decades at several public schools - eyes wide open - battling all the social ills of poverty, class and racial inequities born, not just of racism but of rotting cultural norms (like single parent households), physical disabilities (inordinately large percentage of black boys are “autistic”), over-crowded classes (30+ students), supply shortages (from poorly managed and corrupted budgets) and even union restrictions, i.e., no after school help sessions, no walking kids to the buses, no consulting teachers in the hallways, no bringing in your own supplies, and yes, woke curriculums, etc., etc., etc ad nauseam. And all of these problems came directly from the teacher training - a.k.a. Indoctrination - received from those “communist” infiltrated colleges but also from corrupt politicians and union leaders lining their pockets and positions with tax dollars ill-gotten from the very populations they are destroying. My religious mother-in-law (who also worked in public education) used to say, “When they took God out of the schools, the devil walked in.” Religious or not, evil did indeed walk in and that’s the over-arching problem we face.