Teaching Progressive/Leftist Ideology in our Schools

From K-12 and schools of higher learning progressive courses and progressive ideology
is running rampant. The following are just a few of the courses being taught in our colleges
and universities, followed up by the progressive ideology of three schools of the younger
minds full of mush generation.

'Politicizing Beyonce'......Rutgers

'California Here We Come'--self aware culture of the 21st Century.....Duke University

'The Sociology of Miley Cyrus'.....Skidmore College

'Philosophy in the Twilight Zone'......Indiana State University

'GIF's, Selfies, Memes'......Northwestern University

'Star Trek & Religion'.......Bloomington University

'The American Vacation'......University of Iowa

'Learning From You Tube'......(Pitzer)

'Feminist Critique of Christianity'......University of Pennsylvania

'Blackness'.......(Occidental)

'Queer Musicology'.......(UCLA)


Would You Send Your Children Here?

"(Our) experience nurtures social consciousness and ethical awareness.....
Drawing on the rich legacy of the progressive tradition, we believe that
education is an organic, developmental and interactive process of growth
encompassing all aspects of the child's nature."
The Little Red School-house, Manhattan

Would You Send Your Children Here?

"Assessment is authentic and holistic. Children are well known by their
teachers and peers. There are no tests or letter grades. Instead, narrative
reports are written about children that cover all aspects of their development:
social, emotional, personal, physical, and intellectual."
Prairie Creek Community School, Northfield, Minnesota

Would You Send Your Children Here?

"Wingra parents have to develop confidence in a system that's different
from how they were taught. We don't give grades here. We don't give tests
and we deliberately de-emphasize assessments that compare one student's
progress with that of another."
--Wingra School Madison, Wisconsin

I find it awfully rich that this school Wingra that has an obvious progressive
agenda would say that they de-emphasize assessments that compare one
student's progressive accomplishments with that of another.

I didn't see much in the form of courses that teach the basics of math, English,
and a civics course highlighting our American history. I guess I'm just not 'WOKE'
enough to meet and accept the progressive agenda that is running through our school systems today.

 

I find this one interesting
"'Feminist Critique of Christianity'......University of Pennsylvania"
why is there no Feminist Critique of ISLAM?

 

Great point! But 'hypocrisy', avoiding facts, or avoiding debate on any political issue is par for the course for most if not all lefties.

 

So if I understand....one ELECTIVE course at each of those college's equals "progressive ideology
is running rampant."? There are approximately 5,300+ colleges in the US. Your list hardly constitutes "rampant"

There are approximately 89,000 elementary schools in the US. There are approximately 24,000 high school in the US. Your three examples hardly constitutes "rampant".

 

Where did this get copy/pasted from? If these are classes at universities, and blurbs from pre-K through high schools, I assume there are links to their origins. It would be nice to make a judgment based on fuller information. I hope this isn't just from some chain email.

 

There doesn't even seem to be a "Feminist Critique of Christianity" course there, according to their catalog and their advanced search:
https://catalog.upenn.edu/courses/
https://catalog.upenn.edu/course-search/

That's why I made the other post about wanting to see the original source. I suspect this is just some repeated idiocy that wound up in someone's inbox.

 

I didn't even get into the fact that most of our major universities are being taught by ultra leftist professors.
And their teaching agenda(s) are almost entirely based on the socialist progressive thought process. Do
you accept or do you love those types of progressive courses and or ideologies being taught here in America?
We've seen it for a long time now that the basics in our school system like math, English and civics are being
eliminated from even our elementary schools in lieu of teaching our children subjects that deny or revise our
American history by giving way to these social feel-good subjects that have little or no affect on the development
our a child.

 

I have a feeling all of those are made up. Anyone who tries to claim math and English aren't being taught in elementary schools in the US loses all credibility.

 

Do have actual evidence of any of this, or are you just ranting? I'd be very interested to see your methodology for identifying and quantifying the "ultra leftist professors" that you claim make up "most" of the teachers at "our major universities."

 

I'm sure he can find some. There are stories all over the news of incidents of crazy leftist professors.

 

Yeah, sure, "some." That's a far cry from "most" being "ultra leftist" as was claimed by the OP.

 

Yup there are. But that doesn't mean they spend classroom time spewing their rants. Pretty sure they're held to teaching the actual course they were hired to teach. Pretty sure anyone teaching math is still teaching math. Anyone hired to teach science courses are still teaching science. What some lunatic says in a tweet or on youtube doesn't mean that is what they are going on about during every class.

 

Most of what you see on your favorite media is fake news from right wing bots or just lies.

 

Lol...go enroll in trump university if it makes you feel better.

 

I would have no trouble enrolling in Trump University so as to keep my mind fertile while continuing
the development of my lifelong dedication and love to America the beautiful.

But let me leave you with an opportunity to enroll in (if you haven't already) one of our higher institutes
of learning that currently teach almost a 100% progressive education agenda.

Progressives placed the following items on their pedagogic agenda:

* All learning in school is to come through playing.
* Children's social and emotional development and psychological attitudes (self-concept, self-esteem,
how well the child works with others) are to be given an overriding importance.
* A high-school-as-supermarket curriculum, an approach in which core subjects are crowed out,
should be adopted. In the words of critic Mortimer Smith: "hairdressing and embalming are just as
important , if not a little more so, than history and philosophy."
* Drudgery and hard work on the way to mastering a subject should be abolished.
* Competition among students should be eliminated.

Progressive education's basic idea is that people can only learn things and understand them when
they discover them for themselves.

Children have to learn multiplication tables or the long-division algorithm or the rigor of the scientific
method. Children have to learn them through explicit guidance and through drill and practice.
Disciplined study and books are needed to banish ignorance and instill knowledge. To ascertain
whether students have mastered the material, students need to take tests, do homework, and write
reports that are their own individual work. They likewise need to respond in class individually (and
not just as a representative of a cooperative learning group) to questions posed by the teacher.
https://www.hoover.org/research/how-progressive-education-gets-it-wrong

So it would be rather interesting to see if any of you progressives are on board with the progressive
teaching agenda that is running rampant throughout our schools, or if you have already been
indoctrinated into this leftist march toward a total socialistic society.

 

I speak often with a Jewish neighbor that is a college professor. He said the entire professorship is overrun with radicals at his university. Lots of cross dressing men and lots of Marxists. CRT is being forced down the throats of ALL students no matter the major, no exception. Grades ARE DEPENDENT ON ACCEPTING THE NARRATIVE. There is no ability to skip the CRT classes and there is no way to get decent marks in the class other than to accept the narrative or plausibly pretend to accept the narrative. My nephew who attends UWMadison engineering reported the same experience. You must take take classes in CRT and you have to pretend to accept the narrative or you will get bad marks. My nephew is a conservative and got good marks in all of his courses except the CRT classes.

The observation of what happened to his sister who went to MIAD turned him off of woke culture permanently. She drank the koolaid. She screams her white privilege while have nothing but white friends and living in white middle class conservative community. Typical lefty, screaming their virtue but denying it by their life choices. Start moving in the inner hood rats via HUD housing and I am sure she would be one of the first people to move.

 

Total BS

 

Once again, Progressives are NOT socialists. They may say they are, but socialism is a doing word. Most would die of shock if they had to live actual socialism.

 

One of those classes may have a redeeming quality:

 

My kids are all at university, all in STEM, and they say it's unbelievably bad. Yep, even in STEM. Granted it's not nearly as lost to 'religious mania' as Arts & Humanities, but it's still a problem. There is less and less intellectualism with every passing year. The shutting down of open enquiry and debate is actually anti-intellectual, so it's incredibly bad and sad for the ancient and noble institution of tertiary learning.

It could be that faculties for technical sciences (medicine, engineering, etc) will eventually have to break off and focus .. while the rest become nothing more than merchants of very expensive 'religious' indoctrination.

PS: Yes, there are none louder about the race thing, than white people who wouldn't dream of living amongst the culturally and ethnically diverse.

 

More MAGA math - where 1 = "rampant".
Whatever, dude.

 

No worries there. I think you can cut back on the Turf Builder.

 

Perhaps because it could only count as half a critique.

 

Each university offers 1000s of courses. Harvard, for example, offers 3,700. Of course, you cherry pick a few that are electives, not major requirements, that have a funky title.

I counter you this:

https://economics.gmu.edu/about-the-department/the-austrian-school-at-mason
https://www.hillsdale.edu/courses/austrian-economics-ii/

This must mean that universities are over-run with conservatives poisoning students' minds with RW economic theory? Yes or no?