From May 6, 2021
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If public education were a car, would you buy it?
But that’s a silly question, because they force you to buy it whether you want it or not, whether you use it or not.
We are getting a raw deal. Our country is “educating” itself to death. I don’t mean that as a figure of speech.
Look at our government. We Americans must be the biggest suckers ever to walk the earth.
Go get ’em, Glenn! From January 20,2022
Virginia’s new Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, has asked all the personnel of the state’s “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” office… to resign (https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/glenn-youngkin-just-gutted-virginias-state-crt-office/).
His new Chief DEI Officer, Angela Sailor, has already replaced “Equity”–a word that leftids have rendered totally meaningless–with “Opportunity.” She has also called Critical Race Theory, beloved of Far Left “educators,” a “dangerous philosophical poisoning in the blood stream.”
The question is, why is there still a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion office? How is this anything but a relic of crazed left-wing social engineering? It was created to activate Critical Race Theory as the doctrine behind the teaching that all white people are born evil and all non-whites are hopeless victims of “oppression,” etc., etc.
Well, cleaning out the Augean Stables of Virginia’s Dept. of Education will not be accomplished in a day: there is an immense quantity of muck to muck out. We should all be grateful to Gov. Youngkin for getting the work off to a good start. He is showing American that it can be done: we do not have to bow before the teachers’ unions.
Some of us would prefer to see “public education” scrapped altogether, and all the children removed from the schools. We expect it will be necessary to do this.
But meanwhile, Gov. Youngkin is trying to do his state and our nation good service; may God bless his efforts.
From July 7, 2021
By now it’s become obvious to all but the looniest leftids that “Defund the Police” is an idea whose time has not come. So Democrats are trying to convince us that they never said it! They’re trying to shift this load of failure onto the Republicans. It’s not going to work, but at least they understand they’ve got to toss this clunker overboard and sail away from it as fast as they can.
This was hard for them, because, as leftids, they simply can’t admit that any of their ideas is hopelessly, disastrously wrong. If they could do that, they wouldn’t be liberals. Even as they try to walk away from “Defund the Police,” they’re battening down the hatches to defend Critical Race Theory–a Democrat project even more unpopular than defunding the police.
Sometimes the only thing you can do with failure is to walk away from it. You don’t double down on the Edsel–and CRT is an Edsel. (Note: If you’re too young to remember the Edsel, just think of it as “Windows 8.”) Practically everybody hates it. But because liberals can never be wrong, they will defend CRT. They will defend the indefensible.
What earthly good does it do to “teach” anyone that white people are born evil, everything they do is bad, no matter what they say or do, they’re racists–while black people are born without the sense God gave a pincushion, they can’t achieve a blessed thing without liberals handing it to them on a silver platter…
Can you imagine basing a whole culture on this crap? Everybody would be angry all the time! Or depressed. Who in his right mind wants to live that way?
But because it’s their pet project, the Far Left Crazy is doomed to defend it.
Let’s make this their Waterloo.
Hats off to Louisiana’s governor, Jeff Landry
Some good news for a change! Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry has signed an executive order banning the teaching of “Critical Race Theory” in Louisiana’s public schools (https://amgreatness.com/2024/08/30/louisiana-governor-signs-executive-order-banning-critical-race-theory/).
It would be a very good thing for America if other governors followed suit.
The catalyst for this was, in 2021, the shutting down of schools in the COVID panic. Children had to stay home and endure “remote learning” via their computers. And so for the first time parents got to hear what their kids were being taught–and they didn’t like it.
CRT proposes a state of perpetual enmity between white Americans–“the oppressors!”–and everybody else–“the oppressed.” Honk if you think this is a good thing for racial harmony and societal cohesion. Normal people think it’s evil, stupid, and just plain wrong.
Expect the Far Left Crazy teachers’ unions to fight this, tooth and nail. Again, those who actually do promote racism accuse the rest of us of doing it: hypocrisy on steroids.
He knows how to beat the super-villains!
See, this is why we need Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis where he is. He’s accomplishing things in Florida, winning key victories against the Far Left, which other governors in other states can emulate.
His latest: going head-to-head against “education” behemoth College Board, DeSantis has forced them to delete almost all “Critical Race Theory” horse**** from its Advanced Placement African-American Studies curriculum (https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/big-win-for-desantis-in-battle-over-ap-african-american-studies/). Big chunks of Far Left crapola have been removed from the tests and the curriculum.
They’ve even deleted the section on Queer Black Studies!
Yes, the teachers’ unions will “teach” all that garbage anyway; but they’ll be under the gun for test scores. The kids still have to pass the tests to get into college… and of course Everybody Goes To College! If too many kids can’t pass, their school district will lose aid money… and maybe, hopefully, some of those weirdo teachers will lose their jobs.
Is this enough? Of course not. As long as children are put in classrooms with unionized “teachers,” the students are at risk. Any definition of “enough” would have to entail a total dismantling of “public education” and a restoration of the community’s authority over its schools. And that mostly means parental authority. Let the unions go pound salt.
As for Gov. DeSantis–keep it up, man, keep it up! We need more like you!
Let’s face it, the Far Left teachers’ unions and Far Left teachers’ colleges aren’t going to change their tune. Leaving our children in their hands, five days a week, is cultural suicide. I think it comes down to this: either they go, or the public schools go.
To this end, I propose (doesn’t that sound grand!) a nationwide Public Education Walk-Out–ten million kids, and more if we can get them, to be kept home from school for one day to demonstrate America’s total rejection of what has been done to our education system.
If you like race-baiting, dirty books in the school library, “teachers” bragging to first-graders about their aberrant lifestyles, and that big, big push for Transgender–well, then, just keep on sending ’em to public schools. But if you don’t like what they’re selling, please stop buying it!
We have to show them we mean business, and a massive walk-out is a good start. We have to convince our, ahem, “educators” that if they keep on serving up their garbage, they’re going to have to serve it to an empty classroom.
If they win, we lose.
And we can’t afford to lose.
Lutheran Republicans pretending to be Islamic terrorists prepare to murder another batch of victims.
Back in 2016, Democrats were all saying there was no such thing as “Islamic terrorism,” never mind the massacres.
Now they say all tens of millions of us who voted for Donald Trump–well, we are now “domestic terrorists.” The Democrat “president” says so!
This is the crew that has the FBI spy on parents at local school board meetings. They still deny there’s any such thing as Islamic terrorism… but parents who don’t like their children being force-fed Critical Race Theory and transgender propaganda in the public schools that they flaming well pay for…Oooh! Now that’s terrorism!
We are governed by idiots who hate us.
You’d think we wouldn’t tolerate people who purposely stir up strife, who want us at each other’s throats. But we do… We do.
No one does more harm to America than our teachers’ unions. And yet we don’t remove our kids from union-dominated schools. We really hate Critical Race Theory, we demand they stop “teaching” it… and all they do is change the label, and all we do is let them get away with it.
If it’s left up to the teachers’ unions, America is finished.
No, we don’t like it!
The Maryland State Education Assn. (MSEA), a state teachers’ union that’s part of the National Education Assn. and has 75,000 members, has offered grants of $1,000 each to teachers who continue to teach “Critical Race Theory”–the doctrine that all white people are born racists and all non-whites born victims (https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2022/10/11/race-baiting_crt_still_high_on_teachers_unions_to-do_list_858228.html).
But because almost everybody in America detests CRT, they’re giving it new names. “Restorative justice” heads the list. And then there’s the Biden administration’s $468 million “community schools” program, chock-full of euphemisms for Far Left race-baiting.
Many teachers have left the union rather than engage in campaigns to foment racial animosity; and parents have staged protests, too, despite the Biden Justice Dept. branding them “domestic terrorists” and ordering the FBI to spy on local school board meetings.
Teachers’ unions are solidly locked in to CRT and rather than give it up, they simply invent new names for it. Obviously they think the American people are way too stupid to see through that.
They’re not going to stop. They’re not going to change. And so we are forced to say again: the only meaningful way to oppose this is for parents to remove their children from the public schools and wrest them out of the hands of the teachers’ unions. There is no reason to believe that anything else will work.
We won’t be able to save our country if we don’t do this.
Exodus Mandate has been a leading critic of Common Core and other “educational” malpractice.
You don’t have to have children or grandchildren in school to be distressed by what the public schools are doing. Racial paranoia, racial strife, transgender propaganda, grooming kids for sex–the news makes your flesh crawl… but what can you do?
There are many things that can be done, and here’s one of them.
Contribute to the Exodus Mandate (exodusmandate.org). Or contact them to see if there’s a Christian school project in your area that could use your help.
Exodus is celebrating its 25th year in ministry. They’re currently helping the Illinois Family Institute and Public School Exit start up Christian schools across the state of Illinois. Exodus Mandate lends a hand to such projects throughout the country.
Actually, there really is a nationwide movement to get kids out of the teachers’ unions’ Far Left Crazy public schools–“Broken beyond repair,” as Exodus Mandate says. But that’s no exaggeration, and Exodus does important work liaising with and encouraging local grassroots efforts.
Exodus President E. Ray Moore had been working very hard, making the rounds of Christian media, fielding phone calls and emails from all over the country. I’ve interviewed him several times, over the years. This man doesn’t give up easily.
For more information, phone the Exodus Mandate at 803-714-1744. You might find out there’s a Christian school project in your own neighborhood–and maybe you can help.
One thing I’m sure of:
Put an end to public schooling, and the Far Left dies.
