Education insanity

This is what's taking place in our educational institutions. Here are 20 stories highlighting the indoctrination our kids are going through and no one seems to be fighting back. While we're arguing about the gender of a plastic potato or how a skunk cartoon encourages rape, China, Iran and North Korea sense weakness and all they have to do is read the headlines and think about how screwed up future generations of Americans will be. While they're building themselves up, we're dragging ourselves down because of feelings.

10. University of Washington Launches ‘Center For Anti-Racism In Nursing

9. Students At Georgetown, A Catholic School, Feel ‘Unsafe’ By Optional, Pro-Life Event

8. Claremont McKenna College Will Offer Racially Segregated Mental Health Resources

7. University of Wisconsin Campus Asks Students To Take 21-Week ‘Equity Challenge’

6. U.C. Berkeley Advised Chinese Government On Economic Decisions

5. Elite San Francisco School Nixes Merit-Based Admission

4. Biden Administration Quietly Drops Trump Proposal To Track Chinese Influence In U.S. Schools

3. Illinois Might Mandate Teachers To ‘Embrace’ Progressive Viewpoints

2. Elon University Hosts ‘Urgent’ Whites-Only Caucus To ‘Process Complicity’ In Racism

1. San Francisco School Board Spends Hours Debating Whether Gay Father Of Mixed-Race Daughter Is Diverse Enough For All-Female Volunteer Group

https://www.dailywire.com/news/education-insanity-top-10-stories-of-the-week-vol-2


But wait, there's more:


10. Yale University Requires Students to Quarantine Three Times Longer Than CDC Recommends

9. North Carolina Approves New Radical History Curriculum for K-12 Students

8. Schools Hire Classroom Monitors to Fulfill Void Created by Fully Vaccinated Teachers

7. Students at Elite New York School Launch Anonymous Social Media Campaign Denouncing Teachers as ‘Racist,’ ‘Oppressors’

6. Washington University Professor Wants COVID Relief Plan ‘Specifically for Racial Minorities’

5. Maryland School District Announces Policy to Push ‘Anti-Racist Thinking’ In Preschool

4. Tufts University Urges Rooting Out Racism Training for White, Christian Students

3. D.C. Public Schools Use Black Lives Matter Curriculum to Teach Black History Month

2. San Francisco Sues Its Own School District over Reopening Plan

1. San Francisco Teacher: Bernie Sanders’ Mitten Oozed ‘White Privilege, Male Privilege, and Class Privilege’

https://www.dailywire.com/news/education-insanity-top-10-stories-of-the-week-vol-1

 

When my son and my daughter went to school, they faced similar courses like the OP is listing, and similar attempts at brainwashing. They laughed it all off. They came out of school unscathed, ideologically - their political views didn't change much, before and after school (they did learn a lot, regarding the fields they picked).

So, I think the fear is a bit exaggerated. Kids who have a good foundation at home and are raised to be strong, are not so easily brainwashed. I think it is more important that parents infuse that good foundation, than some extremist courses and initiatives in some schools. Most people just shrug this all off.

 

Yah, damnit! Why can't we be more like North Korea! Or Iran! They don't let "feelz" get in the way!

After 200 years of white people blithely walking through life, they suddenly might have to take a class on
racism. The horror! The horror! This is the chance that the Russians have been waiting for!

*sigh*

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It's always about race, isn't it Danny. Man, the DNC has their hooks into you.

Like I said yesterday, liberal white Americans are probably the only people on the planet who hate their own country and race.

 

Look at the bright side!
No mention of Ebonics

There was serious consideration of
Ebonics at some Bay Area district.
Oakland, I think.

Also objectionable is the wasted time on
ethnic considerations.
Support the 3 R's! Plus history


Moi

ethnic & language studies
eh​

 

The irony is, there is liberal bias in academia, and it's best ally is dishonest conservative accusations of liberal bias in academia that give the impression that anyone concerned about liberal bias is crying wolf.

If you want a serious critique of liberal bias in academia, check out Heterodox Academy.

If you want a lot of dishonesty, hysterical bulldust about liberal bias in academia, read partisan political conservative websites.

Conservatives largely ceded academia to liberals when the GOP stopped being the party of science and became the party of science denial. For as long as the GOP is the party of science denial, you aren't going to get many conservative scientists, and without them, liberals are going to hold academia.

 

One of the things that strikes me as being ironic, if not outright hypocritical, is being called a science denier by the people who believe men can get pregnant.

 

You really don't know very much in that case, do you?
Everything you seem to have learned has been from click-bait web site stories.
Sad.

Do you hate your kid when you tell them they can do better at something?
When I say my country can do better than it has in the past, I feel EXACTLY the same way.

 

It’s not going to happen overnight. It’s little bites. A law here, a school there, the media everywhere, and before you know it , if we just bend over and accept it, your kids and grandkids, especially the men will wonder why they have to be ashamed to be white.

 

Huh? If under "men" you are including biological females, then of course they can. If you aren't, then of course they can't and nobody thinks otherwise.

Before you accuse anyone of science denial, have a quick read of what the scientists actually say. Biologists don't deal with gender as a social role at all.

 

Ding Ding Ding! Spot on. People like the OP seem to think the millions of college students have no mind of their own and are somehow being brainwashed by the relatively few times a professor goes on a rant or some of the relatively few stories in the OP. The funny thing is the majority of students never even experience this so called “indoctrination”.

 

Exactly. My two children are very opinionated. My son, more than my daughter, but even her; while more timid and less assertive, she is very sure of what she thinks. My son is more likely to convince others of his viewpoint than the other way around, given that he is highly verbally articulate, and debating a point against him is generally a losing proposition unless the opponent is as skillful and well-informed as he is, which is not easily found. My daughter is very well-informed too; she is just quieter and calmer. She will listen to what others are saying and mildly and politely say some "hm hm" and move on, but she knows very well what she feels and wants.

Just today, a point I had been discussing with my daughter a few weeks back came up again, in the sense that armed with newer information, I ended up acknowledging that she was right and I was wrong. Her answer "I knew it at the time, Dad, but I let go because I didn't want to hurt your feelings. I'm glad that now you came to realize it." I said, "daughter, you don't need to hold back, I can take it, you don't need to fear that you'll hurt my feelings; I love you and respect you even when you disagree with me." She: "I know, dad, but I just prefer to see you happy than to engage in a huge argument with you." So she is mild and non-confrontational but that doesn't mean you'll get to change her mind.

 

I am in academia. My university does bombard my mail box with some "woke" initiatives from time to time. I simply delete all the messages and ignore them completely. I believe that most of my residents, fellows, and students, do exactly the same, given that the issues hardly ever come up.

Like I said and ECA above agreed with, students are much more resilient than people realize. Yes, they are minds in development, but these days, especially with the polarization we see in America, they come to school already with their political opinions quite well-established.

 

The Elon event was organized by students but cancelled by the University for violating its anti-discrimination policy.

 

The indoctrination isn't targetting kids fortunate enough to have a good intellectual and emotional foundation provided by competent parents. Its targetting the vulnerability of the less fortunate ones. Which is far more sinister, as it basically robs them of their last, best hope to pull themselves up into success and happiness and break the cycle and instead uses them to perpetuate and expand it.

 

Of course. The difference between today and before the internet is the grasping ideologues have access to email.

Most of the bias students have comes from the home. Good K-12 schools prepare students to accept new ideas they encounter with intellectual objectivity, not the sense of personal grievance ideologues wish to nurture and exploit.

 

I've never met such vindictive people until I came to college. When the next generation of college-educated adults can barely function, I will blame the educators and academics who are smart-enough to know better.

By my view, the only formal education worth your money and time is in STEM or Law. The rest have become "spaces" where people get manipulated.

 

Most of the bias students possess comes from home, not from K-12 schools, colleges, and universities.

Exactly what Trump and his ilk on the right are hoping to exploit. "The left" aren't the only ones nurturing a sense of grievance.

 

The indoctrination that conservatives are complaining about is the doctrine of inclusion that public schools have adopted. The idea that all students, regardless, should be treated with dignity and respect. That all students should be included. In those schools where the races and religions freely mix, people from different backgrounds freely mix and become friends, and bigotry is less of a problem. That is the bias that they are railing against. They don’t like they idea of junior coming home from school thinking dear old pa pa is a bigot, because of something junior learned in school.

 

Absurd. People are better educated today than ever before.

As far as making money is concerned, I agree except that smart business students are also doing well. Some of my computer science grads in particular are making boatloads of money.

 

Most of my biases came from actually meeting black people.

 

Boy I'd love to show you what goes on in Texas, because as the grades plummet, as the attendance plumments, as the rust of lockdowns continues to disintegrate society, the educators are in a position to do a lot, but they won't and they know they won't, because hey, as long as you're paying tuition, just shut up and either pass or fail.

 

Pray tell how you think Trump fits into this...

 

Liberalism is an intellectual pursuit. It began, it grew out of the Scottish Enlightenment, which itself was a movement among intellectuals. Its tenets worked out in conversations at and about the University of Edinburgh. Including Benjamin Franklin. James Watts was around as were those involved in the then new and evolving scientific view of medicine and well being. It began as a moral philosophy, that we, the people, when the people are sufficiently inspired in the spirit of community betterment, are better suited to rule ourselves, rather than be forced to follow a ruler we had no voice in choosing. But it also included the scientific world view. That we can improve our lives, through scientific understanding and technological advancements. It all requires the education of the masses, the Enlightenment of the masses. It came to America via American colleges were Scottish intellectuals went to teach. Colleges that the founding fathers had attended.

Across America, to this day, the more educated a population is, the higher the concentration of individuals in the pursuit of intellectual endeavors in a particular locale, the more liberal that locale is likely to be. And the more secular the local culture is likely to be.