The evidence of a radical ideological assault on America’s education is overwhelming. This is not just a verbal attack. It involves oppressive government action and actual physical assaults on parents.
The latest example comes from Glendale, California. The local educational establishment sought to impose an LBGTQ+ curriculum and related “Pride” festivals. According to a Daily Signals report One assistant principal even told staff to teach children that every person is, by default, “queer” and “socialist.” Parents initially reacted by pulling up to 60% of students out of class. A further concern, notes the publication, was Glendale’s transgender policies, such as allowing students of the opposite sex to use the same bathrooms and locker rooms, putting their children at risk.”
Outside of the local school board meeting, parents held a protest. They were confronted, according to the local police department, by Antifa of Southern California protestors, which labelled the concerned parents as a “hate group.”
Antifa’s violence has largely been ignored by Justice Department. When President Trump sought to have the organization labelled a terrorist organization for their consistent violence, FBI Director Chris Wray stated that the group was an “ideology, not an organization.” This has been done despite Antifa’s abundant use of violence in arson, riots, and attacks on parents, journalists and other innocents.
In contrast, parents protesting radical education policies have been targeted and labelled as “domestic terrorists.” In 2022, House Judiciary Republicans led by U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) released a statement indicating they had sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland regarding his Oct. 2021 memorandum directing the targeting of parents by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). “This is about intimidation. This is about chilling free speech,” Jordan noted.
Examples of the radical ideological impact on education are significant. A National Review study reported that “high-school students near you may get to spend up to seven weeks of class time asking “How does white rage fuel the racial wealth gap… it’s all too easy for activists to slip this radical content into their lesson plans without parents’ knowledge.”
In January, Michael Brown wrote “In the academy, liberals now outnumber conservatives by roughly 5 to 1. Among the general public, on the other hand, conservatives are considerably more prevalent than liberals and have been for some time.” That’s why Jon A. Shields penned an article for National Affairs in 2018 titled, “The Disappearing Conservative Professor.” Shockingly, he wrote, ‘According to a recent [2018] study on faculty party affiliation by the National Association of Scholars, the ratio of Democrats to Republicans at Williams College is 132:1; at Swarthmore it is 120:1; and at Bryn Mawr it is 72:0. At many of America’s best research universities, the ratios are only moderately better.'”
The New York Post reported that a speaker at the City University of New York Law Law School May 12 commencement ceremony was cheered on by students and faculty as she attacked Jews…proudly flung around antisemitic tropes, accused Israel of carrying out “lynch mobs,” pushed the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement and labeled the NYPD “fascist.”
A Manhattan Institute study revealed that “Something peculiar is spreading throughout America’s schools. A public school system just outside the nation’s capital spent $20,000 to be lectured about making their schools less racist. At a tony New York City prep school, a teacher was publicly denounced by the administration for questioning the idea that students should identify themselves in terms of their racial identity. Educators in California are locked in pitched combat over a statewide model curriculum overflowing with terms like “hxrstories” and “cisheteropatriarchy.”
Tax dollars which should go to teaching reading, writing, math and other key subjects are being embezzled by leftist educational bureaucrats for the purpose of radicalizing students.
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