In the last couple of years, parents’ involvement in their children’s education has increased dramatically. Parents were involved in the past, but they have become hypervigilant out of necessity. There is a greater focus on the curriculum and a much higher level of participation in school board meetings. Parents have run for school board positions, sometimes successfully.
It is likely too late for public education to be saved in the United States. Not all education but just the taxpayer-funded indoctrination program that is run by the Department of Education.
It is impossible to cover all the problems with our public schools in one column. The majority of objective observers in the United States would agree that public education is in a mess at this time. Leftists and teachers’ union members are usually the ones who make this claim.
The mess in public education is not something that happened suddenly or recently. It’s more like a mess that a hoarder sociopathic would make in a home over a period of years. A cleaning service will not be able to clean up the mess. You should probably hire a hazmat team and then, after they’ve fled in horror, use a flamethrower to attack the mountain of debris.
In the 1980s or even 1990s, the flamethrower method may have been helpful in addressing the problem of public education. Now we’re sort of in a “nuke from orbit” phase.
Even before the Department of Education existed, the radicals in the 1960s began to take over our education system. The Department of Education was not even created until the 1960s. My defense mechanism is humor. You can either have liver damage or jokes.
The teachers’ unions in America are the cancer that is destroying public education. The pandemic forced the unions to remove their masks. They used to fool a large portion of the nation. They were so bad back then, they found themselves in conflict with leaders on the far left like Lori Lightfoot, former Chicago mayor.
As long as teachers’ unions exist and are able to gain power through their unholy alliances with Democrats, the public schools will focus more on indoctrination rather than education. It is the easiest way for them to hold onto their immense power to continue to produce generation after generation who are 99% leftists before they get to university, where commie profs can finish off the job.
Teachers’ unions will not disappear. Their influence can only be reduced by increasing the number of school choices. In recent years, several Republican governors signed into law excellent school choice legislation. The red-blue divide is the most obvious here. The teachers’ unions are in full control of blue states. California Teachers Association is by far the most powerful and wealthiest political lobby in California.
Few national candidates discuss school choice, despite it being a popular issue among Republicans. It’s clear that the nation’s Republican governors and legislators understand this, and it’s high time GOP candidates for president, Senate, and House of Representatives learned from them.
We cannot keep sending our children to indoctrination centers.
