As a person who studied history and sees America in a very positive light, along with knowing the more negative aspects of the story…I commend this study completely. I was taught at UCLA to see two sides of every story and this was how I taught my students history. We can only look at the elite university students today and can see they have been “brain washed” into disliking our country by their teachers and the rewritten history books and curriculum. It is very sad. We must speak up now to make the necessary changes needed for us to prosper again. Thank you!
Agree. All of tech seems to be Musk/Bezos, instead of the millions of diverse people in tech who destroying our culture while they live in palaces. Similarly, all of DEI/eduignorance is Yale and Harvard. They barely matter.
Its the four year state schools, the community colleges, the k-12, where I have decades of experience, where the roots of America's death are being sown, by very nice, mostly white, often bespectacled bleeding hearts who only ever wanted to teach, and a good dose of 'poc' who literally hate the country they teach in...they are lying more than any rightwing Christian dude teaching in the 50s ever did.
If I shared what I've seen and heard through my own career in a blue city, and my kids stories, both of whom are liberal, Trump would rule forever....scary.
This article brought me closer to tears of joy than anything has in the last 20 years. We hold its truth to be self-evident. But over that same era, I've struggled to remain optimistic and, in the end, lost that struggle. When 98% of college faculty identify as liberal and an entire generation, going on two generations, have already been indoctrinated in their hateful, thoughtless, destructive world view and nation view, I can no longer see a way forward. Hitchhiking on the words of Prime Minister Churchill, never have so many been psychologically murdered by so few.
Great ideas, but first we need to liberate educators from the stranglehold of cancel culture. In blue states, nobody dares stray from the Critical Social Justice party line for fear of public pillory. Remember Canadian educator Richard Bilkszto who committed suicide after being falsely accused of racism? We must promote ideological diversity and protect those who speak up, or this initiative will hit a wall of enforced silence.
I appreciate the effort and understand the point but I think it is overstated. Yes- equality of opportunity is different from equity and should be the goal, but as a parent of two high school kids in (low funded) public and wealthy private education in LA, their experience does not comport with your dire warnings. I think the oppressed/oppressor dichotomy, which I agree has been overemphasized and damaging- has sprung from the well of elite universities and post grad academia, not K-12.
If the Oppressor Dichotomy were the cause of the demise of education in america rather than a general, media-induced, fast-food fed, dumbing down of a population and cultural devaluation of intellectual expertise—- wouldn’t red states like Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas be doing better than NY, Cal where these ideas have arguably taken greater hold?
I support a k-12 FAIR curriculum , but I don’t think you need to sell it by by villainizing K-12 educators today in a way that I do not think the evidence supports. I think kids get the Oppressor message more from social media than school.
Those educators are educated somewhere, and more importantly the administrators are educated somewhere. It starts in the universities, and ends up in K-12. The same thing happened with the NSDAP...a large dose of lingering pan-German nationalism combined with the energy of the university students (many forget the SS, especially the RSHA, was on the whole younger than the majority of the Party and many of their leaders were university-educated and held advanced degrees in law, medicine, and the new discipline of sociology) bled quickly in the German primary education system. Thinking this thinking somehow stays in the universities is unwise. After all, the 1619 Project was aimed directly at this demographic and even though it's been discredited it lingers on. Social media plays a role, obviously, but it's not the only one at the table.
What the schools are educating student on about oppressed versus oppressor is a symptom, not the problem.
The question is why school boards, teachers and people in general are attracted to the oppressed v oppressor theme? What is the country not offering them that makes that belief attractive?
Not wanting to sound cynical or bitter, Diana, but it must be nice to be developing a career pointing out (at tiresome length) the obvious that I was pointing out over 40 years ago, which only positioned me with everyone as the bad guy boogeyman. Sincerely, David Scully, author of the limbaugh script.
I'm not developing a career. I have a day job as a neurologist who cares for Parkinson's Disease patients.
I wish I could just live my life, but my conscience compels me to speak up. I'm doing this because I'm a concerned mom who can't unsee what our kids are learning in school. That was the only silver lining to pandemic. So many of us woke up.
It's not hard to get cynical, but my Jewish Faith and spiritual connection to my ancestors give me strength to find hope. 🙏❤️🇺🇲
As a person who studied history and sees America in a very positive light, along with knowing the more negative aspects of the story…I commend this study completely. I was taught at UCLA to see two sides of every story and this was how I taught my students history. We can only look at the elite university students today and can see they have been “brain washed” into disliking our country by their teachers and the rewritten history books and curriculum. It is very sad. We must speak up now to make the necessary changes needed for us to prosper again. Thank you!
Agree. All of tech seems to be Musk/Bezos, instead of the millions of diverse people in tech who destroying our culture while they live in palaces. Similarly, all of DEI/eduignorance is Yale and Harvard. They barely matter.
Its the four year state schools, the community colleges, the k-12, where I have decades of experience, where the roots of America's death are being sown, by very nice, mostly white, often bespectacled bleeding hearts who only ever wanted to teach, and a good dose of 'poc' who literally hate the country they teach in...they are lying more than any rightwing Christian dude teaching in the 50s ever did.
If I shared what I've seen and heard through my own career in a blue city, and my kids stories, both of whom are liberal, Trump would rule forever....scary.
Please write a follow-up on the experience of the school systems that have adopted the FAIR curriculum, good or bad.
The Teachers' colleges are where the radicalization happens. Those are mostly publicly funded.
Good place to focus on.
This article brought me closer to tears of joy than anything has in the last 20 years. We hold its truth to be self-evident. But over that same era, I've struggled to remain optimistic and, in the end, lost that struggle. When 98% of college faculty identify as liberal and an entire generation, going on two generations, have already been indoctrinated in their hateful, thoughtless, destructive world view and nation view, I can no longer see a way forward. Hitchhiking on the words of Prime Minister Churchill, never have so many been psychologically murdered by so few.
Great ideas, but first we need to liberate educators from the stranglehold of cancel culture. In blue states, nobody dares stray from the Critical Social Justice party line for fear of public pillory. Remember Canadian educator Richard Bilkszto who committed suicide after being falsely accused of racism? We must promote ideological diversity and protect those who speak up, or this initiative will hit a wall of enforced silence.
Thank you. This is the way forward. Could yet save the country. No pressure. :-)
Thank you. I learned a great deal from your article. Thank you for outlining this problem so clearly.
I appreciate the effort and understand the point but I think it is overstated. Yes- equality of opportunity is different from equity and should be the goal, but as a parent of two high school kids in (low funded) public and wealthy private education in LA, their experience does not comport with your dire warnings. I think the oppressed/oppressor dichotomy, which I agree has been overemphasized and damaging- has sprung from the well of elite universities and post grad academia, not K-12.
If the Oppressor Dichotomy were the cause of the demise of education in america rather than a general, media-induced, fast-food fed, dumbing down of a population and cultural devaluation of intellectual expertise—- wouldn’t red states like Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas be doing better than NY, Cal where these ideas have arguably taken greater hold?
I support a k-12 FAIR curriculum , but I don’t think you need to sell it by by villainizing K-12 educators today in a way that I do not think the evidence supports. I think kids get the Oppressor message more from social media than school.
Those Red states are doing better. Mississippi is outperforming California despite a fraction of the resources. https://edsource.org/2024/california-should-follow-mississippis-lead-on-reading-instruction/706540
Those educators are educated somewhere, and more importantly the administrators are educated somewhere. It starts in the universities, and ends up in K-12. The same thing happened with the NSDAP...a large dose of lingering pan-German nationalism combined with the energy of the university students (many forget the SS, especially the RSHA, was on the whole younger than the majority of the Party and many of their leaders were university-educated and held advanced degrees in law, medicine, and the new discipline of sociology) bled quickly in the German primary education system. Thinking this thinking somehow stays in the universities is unwise. After all, the 1619 Project was aimed directly at this demographic and even though it's been discredited it lingers on. Social media plays a role, obviously, but it's not the only one at the table.
What the schools are educating student on about oppressed versus oppressor is a symptom, not the problem.
The question is why school boards, teachers and people in general are attracted to the oppressed v oppressor theme? What is the country not offering them that makes that belief attractive?
Many still don't see it like this unfortunately
Not wanting to sound cynical or bitter, Diana, but it must be nice to be developing a career pointing out (at tiresome length) the obvious that I was pointing out over 40 years ago, which only positioned me with everyone as the bad guy boogeyman. Sincerely, David Scully, author of the limbaugh script.
I'm not developing a career. I have a day job as a neurologist who cares for Parkinson's Disease patients.
I wish I could just live my life, but my conscience compels me to speak up. I'm doing this because I'm a concerned mom who can't unsee what our kids are learning in school. That was the only silver lining to pandemic. So many of us woke up.
It's not hard to get cynical, but my Jewish Faith and spiritual connection to my ancestors give me strength to find hope. 🙏❤️🇺🇲
I agree. Do you post links on Facebook?
Thank you, I'm not much of a a social media consumer but I do post my thoughts regularly on LinkedIn.