Time to pull education out of the cold grip of the elites

UPDATE: Teachers Compile List Of Parents Who Question Racial Curriculum, Plot War On Them

A group of current and former teachers and others in Loudoun County, Virginia, compiled a lengthy list of parents suspected of disagreeing with school system actions, including its teaching of controversial racial concepts — with a stated purpose in part to “infiltrate,” use “hackers” to silence parents’ communications, and “expose these people publicly.”

Members of a 624-member private Facebook group called “Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun County” named parents and plotted fundraising and other offline work. Some used pseudonyms, but The Daily Wire has identified them as a who’s who of the affluent jurisdiction outside D.C., including school staff and elected officials.

The sheriff’s criminal investigations division is reviewing the matter — but the group’s activities might be no surprise to top law enforcement because the county’s prosecutor, narrowly elected with the help of $845,000 in cash from George Soros, appears to be a member of the Facebook group.

Shot: City Journal describes the self-destructive (or should I say child-destructive) behavior of parents who know that their children's schools are occupied by functional Marxists but dare not do a thing about it: 

The Miseducation of America’s Elites: Affluent parents, terrified of running afoul of the new orthodoxy in their children’s private schools, organize in secret

Keep in mind that these institutions are not prison camps but schools the parents are paying $50,000 a year for.

Chaser: The Wall Street Journal carries this opinion piece: 

Dividing by Race Comes to Grade School

Students, ages 5 through 11, are urged to ‘check each other’s words and actions’ and become committed activists.

I hope you can access this article, which is behind a paywall. If not, here is a snippet:

My awakening to the new orthodoxy began during this past summer of discontent. In mid-June, a few weeks after the George Floyd protests began, the head of Riverdale Country School, the New York City private school my wife and I entrusted with the education of our two young children, sent a memo apologizing for unspecified past wrongs. “We have the responsibility to use our privilege to fight for change,” he explained. “We are also free to shift some aspects of our culture more quickly than other institutions and organizations.”

I will say that I find this account touchingly naive. My husband and I chose to homeschool (and when we sent our children to school, tried to find ones that showed some alertness to the dangers of progressive ideologies) because in the early 80s we knew that this was coming. How did we know? We had attended elite colleges. We knew what our classmates were up to. We saw them swallow cultural Marxism whole. We knew that they were going on to run our nation's educational system.

The WSJ article goes on:

While many of us have encountered this intolerant orthodoxy only recently, it debuted on college campuses more than 40 years ago. Sensible people thought it was a joke—or at least that it would remain on campus, since it could never survive contact with the “real world.” That was wrong. Masquerading as “antiracism,” this cynical worldview is being spread like a virus by an army of paid consultants and true believers. Few people have been willing to stand up against it. At Riverdale, many parents privately express concerns but aren’t willing to speak up. They fear being called racist—or, worse, losing their coveted spots.

The real story here isn’t about Riverdale. My kids’ school is one tiny data point. This backward belief system is capturing public and private schools across the country. City Journal’s Christopher Rufo reports that a public school in Cupertino, Calif., forced third-graders to rank themselves according to their “power and privilege,” and the San Diego Unified School District held a training in which white teachers were told that they “spirit murder” black children and should undergo “antiracist therapy.” There are hundreds of examples, and countless others that haven’t been reported. Millions of American children are being taught to see the world in this reductionist way.

Almost 70 years after Brown v. Board of Education, there is an urgent need to reaffirm and advance the core principles of the civil-rights movement. 

That people can still be discovering that children can be and are brainwashed on a regular basis even after undergoing the process themselves boggles my mind. But if you are thinking that your children are immune, please think again. We have to call a halt to this societal suicide at some point, and that point is now. 

If you need to know more about homeschooling and the education of children in general, please check out my blog Like Mother, Like Daughter!