North Carolina – I am a product of the public education system. My children are, in part, products of the public education establishment. I say these facts to say this: If I had a school-age child today, I would be fearful of sending them to public schools.
I believe the public education establishment is no longer working in the best interest of America’s youth. Instead, it’s become a government indoctrination center for leftist and communistic ideologies mixed with sexual grooming.
Before I lay out my case, I want to preface my position with the fact that there are good teachers who are looking to teach and not indoctrinate students. Teachers like high school teacher and coach Joe Bell, who recently passed away, and his family visitation was attended by hundreds of friends, former students, and players whose lives were touched by Bell. The schools are still full of them, and I, for one, applaud them and their efforts to continue to teach and touch young lives.
However, they are fighting to do this in an education structure that has been fixed against their efforts. Changes in the curriculum, which no longer teaches but brainwashes those “young skulls full of mush” looking to be formed, are succumbing to the wolves who have infiltrated the system and look to imbue the student with their own ideology rather than teaching them to think for themselves.
My case is not a blanket indictment of every school system or school, but a majority of the administrations that seeks to undermine the parents and the American way of life.
Now, my case against the current system
First, you have school boards that now see parents not as allies but as enemies, to the extent that they call on law enforcement to remove parents when they say things in public that they don’t like. It got to the point where the national teachers’ union asked the FBI to investigate these parents as “domestic terrorists.”
A Virginia dad was dragged from a school board meeting after confronting the board about his daughter being ‘allegedly’ (and I say ‘allegedly’ in case the male student has not been convicted ) raped by a skirt-wearing male student. Even a man was removed from a New York school board meeting for not wearing a mask. This brings me to another point. Public schools allow biological males to use female bathrooms and facilities.
I can’t understand the illogical thinking that allows such things to go on. Look, it’s not hard to figure out what sex you are, as the answer for more than 99% of us is staring at you from between your legs. Restroom and shower facilities should be based on facts, not how you feel.
From using Critical Race Theory (CRT) materials to eastern religious practices to sex-ed for kindergarteners, schools are bypassing reading, writing, and arithmetic for a woke curriculum for the nation’s students. Even here in Buncombe County, at Erwin High, a teacher was fostering his leftist political views on his class.
Where once students were taught not to see skin color, now skin color is all they are taught to see. Where once they were taught to look for facts, now they are taught to search for their feelings. Where they were taught history, now they are taught ‘1619 Project’ propaganda.
My wife and I home-schooled and used private tutors until our kids were at least in high school to give them a fighting chance against the system they were put into and the world they would face. And before you say something about homeschooling stunting a child’s socialization, well, that’s bullcrap.
Anyone who knows my children, all in their 20s now, can tell you they are well-rounded adults who have productive lives and contribute to society. Well, except for my youngest, who has more than 2.1 million TikTok followers. I’m not sure if what he’s doing is contributing to society or contributing to society’s downfall (expressed with humor).
Two of my children were out meeting the public and making money as preteens selling newspapers, under my and my wife’s supervision, of course. The third had the same opportunity, but she didn’t like the newspaper, but she still turned out ok as I had her writing a movie review column at an early age—no ‘welfare’ allowance at our house. You were allowed to keep what you killed.
What we did was make sure we instilled what we believed was important: God, family, and country. We made sure they knew how to read, write, and do arithmetic, along with thinking for themselves. What it may have also done is keep them from encountering bullying in the younger grades.
I am encouraging parents to sacrifice for their child’s education, at least their early education. Don’t let the government indoctrinate your children. What does a kindergartener need to learn about sex or sexual identity at that age, unless they are being groomed?
For these reasons, I encourage our state leaders to give parents control over their children’s education by giving North Carolinians a system where the money follows the students and not the schools.