Dumb and Dumber (Nos. 48 & 49)
Watching the Education Apocalypse in Slow Motion
***Update. The long-form essay will be returning to The Redneck Intellectual very soon.
DUMB AND DUMBER (NO. 48)
PRESCHOOL EDITION
WARNING TO PARENTS: Be careful what you wish for. It’s all fun and games until your children turn their activism on you. “EXCLUSIVE: Goodbye Moon! Bedtime goes woke as books like 'Antiracist Baby', 'Daddy & Dada' and 'A is for Activist' are dominating the shelves with transgender tales and scary stories of police brutality meant to 'indoctrinate' toddlers.”
The left ruins everything, including reading to your children:
In 'Woke Baby!' Mahogany L. Browne writes of a race struggle that starts in the crib. 'Woke Babies raise their fists in the air. Woke babies cry out for justice.'
The illustrations show a black baby wearing a onesie with a panther emblem on his chest.
The text alongside them reads, 'Look at your fists. Fingers curled into a panther's paw pointing up up up, reaching out for justice.'
And while un-woke babies presumably just learn to crawl, 'Woke Baby' takes a knee (or two) and rises, 'Up up up on each knee, bent like half-moons. Woke Baby, you are an awakened dream.'
Self-styled 'children's author' Browne is the Executive Director of JustMedia an organization that purports to push for 'Transformative Justice,' and leans heavily on the topic of police brutality.
K-12 EDITION
THIS IS GETTING BORING . . . BUT DANGEROUS: School proposes controversial curriculum that includes gender identity
WHAT KIND OF PARENT WOULD WANT THIS FOR THEIR CHILD? A person with a vulva': New sex-ed curriculum includes trans books for kindergartners
A new sexual education curriculum at Wauwatosa School District in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, features transgender books for kindergartners and teaches third-graders about “they/them” pronouns.
“A lot of parents just don’t even understand what’s happening. They just feel like they’re in the twilight zone. Then they’re afraid to offend the gay community, because the woke fixation on drag queens performing for children and the sudden increase in gender confusion among pre-teen girls has been aligned with gays and lesbians, which I think is wrong,” Stephanie Johnson, head of Ozaukee, Wisconsin’s Moms For Liberty chapter, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Educators of sixth grade students are advised to use inclusive language such as “person with a vulva.”
CURIOUS TO KNOW WHAT KIND OF PARENT WOULD NOT WANT TO PROTECT THEIR KIDS. Just Do It: Be a Hero and take your kids and #JustWalkAway: Parents fighting schools to protect their kids are heroes, not book-banners
FEMALE PEDOPHILE TEACHERS IN AMERICA’ S GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS HAVE BECOME A DISTURBING TREND OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST 25 YEARS OR SO. You will recall that it all started with Mary Kay LeTourneau circa 1997. There are a lot of serious questions that need to be asked: Teacher Gets 60 days For Sexual Abuse Of Student When He Was 13
IT’S HAPPENING, AND THE REDNECK INTELLECTUAL AND EDWATCHDAILY.COM ARE LEADING THE WAY: School choice is the free market solution to failing public schools
The government’s corner on the education market is a common enemy among liberty lovers. Throughout the country, government-funded public school systems are outdated and broken. They push values and ideologies that make parents uncomfortable, they systematically waste taxpayer dollars, and, worst of all, they fail to equip future generations with the tools they need to succeed in the wider world. Even basic literacy has been declining for decades, and children who are behind in reading by third grade may never catch up .
For these reasons, it’s easy to see why free marketeers such as Clemson professor C. Bradley Thompson , libertarian activist Jacob Hornberger , and Fox News’s Kennedy Montgomery have publicly embraced the idea that public schools should simply be abolished all at once.
AND THERE IS A GOOD REASON THAT I ALWAYS CALL THEM “GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS” (AND YOU SHOULD, TOO): Biden: No Lunch $$$ For Christian School That Doesn’t Hype LGBTQ
KERI D. INGRAHAM ON WHY YOU MUST #JustWalkAway: The Battle for the American Mind
“The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation becomes the philosophy of government in the next.” Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln, the statement captures a timely truth. Undeniably, progressive ideologies are dominating public education classrooms with the aim of producing young people beholden to the worldview of their schooling. Alarmingly, in many cases, the ideology is at odds with the values of the students’ parents.
While the majority of parents devote substantial time to raising their children, time is also a powerful force working against their efforts. The outsourcing of 16,000 hours of learning time to education establishments over the course of a child’s K-12 years has stacked the deck against parental influence. Couple this with the teacher’s recognized authority in the learning realm and the stage is set for schools to dominate the formation of children. As a result, there is a battle waging for the American mind.
GEE, I WONDER WHY? Back to School Blues: Droves of Americans Ditching Public School
HIGHER ED EDITION
GEE, I WONDER WHY? Americans increasingly dubious about college...
TRUE: “You Can't Fight Campus Illiberalism With More Illiberalism.”
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE HAVE A WINNER! THE MOST CONVOLUTED, MEANINGLESS, WORD SALAD OF A JOB TITLE: “Medical university hires ‘Vice President for Humanism, Equity, and Anti-Racism.’
Western University of Health Sciences helpfully clarifies the position:
“The establishment of this position and development of the Center for Humanism, Equity, and Anti-Racism are central to the continued evolution of Western U’s commitment to our humanistic mission,” the university’s president said in the news release. “Dr. Appavoo brings the depth of education and experience to help us realize to the fullest our values of humanism, diversity, inclusion, equity and anti-racism.”
APPARENTLY, USING WORDS ACCORDING TO THEIR DICTIONARY DEFINITION IS OFFENSIVE. Best to just say nothing, or, even better, use the techniques of samizdat resistance. “UNR’s new language guide warns against using ‘native Nevadan,’ offensive to indigenous people.’
WHAT IF I’M AMBIDEXTROUS? “Activist lectures U. North Carolina students about ‘right-handed privilege.’”
Parle asserted that right-handed privilege is yet another system, explaining that it has “made left-handed people invisible by setting the standard.” A slide explaining the advantages of being aligned with systems of power and another on the privileges of right-handedness emphasized how “this system supports, empowers, and advantages the right folks,” while it “disempowers, or sometimes harms, the left folks.” After a moment of consideration, the labels of “right-handedness” and “right-handed privilege” were replaced with “whiteness” and “white privilege.” Next, the words “able-bodied” and “ability privilege” were shown, drawing a direct conflation between the various culprits of systematic harm.
APARTHEID—AMERICAN STYLE! UC San Diego hosts segregated orientation: Families of white students have been prohibited from participating in numerous college welcome programs at UCSD during the Fall 2022 welcome week
AS THE NEW ACADEMIC YEAR BEGINS, LET US NOT FORGET . . .
