In New York City, The Left Tells Parents Yet Again: Your Kids Belong To Us By Joy Pullmann for The Federalist
It is clear that Democrats believe there is nothing they can do that would get most American parents to take their kids out of public schools where leftists flagrantly hurt children.
As if the striver types who keep New York City’s lights on need any more reasons to flee, outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio announced he’s canceling gifted education for “equality.” The New York Times claims in its “report” on the announcement Friday that “the highly selective program” “has become a glaring symbol of segregation in New York City public schools.”
The change — which is up to de Blasio’s successor to carry out — is another glaring indication that Democrats now feel comfortable openly flexing their complete dominance over U.S. public education and their use of it, not to educate, but to fuel their political machine. Leftists’ displays of complete power over public schooling have fired like artillery shelling in the past two years.
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Just take stock of what we’ve only recently witnessed: The Biden administration’s announcement that parents upset with systemic racist indoctrination could be investigated by the FBI as “domestic terrorists”; going on three school years of anti-science school COVID rules that benefit teachers unions at the expense of America’s future; the false and destructive 1619 Project assisting schools nationwide in teaching anti-Americanism; California Gov. Gavin Newsom announcing COVID shots are required for kids to attend school; the almost instant saturation of transgender ideology in public schools, to the point teachers who cannot make themselves use reality-falsifying pronouns are summarily fired.
Why would the government do this? Because government schools now exist to indoctrinate, not educate. Education is a direct threat to indoctrination, so the woke madrassas must eliminate it. https://t.co/ib0Bh1NPfm
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 8, 2021
The past several years of obviously incompetent and abusive leadership wielded by the leaders of U.S. government education have put many parents into a confusing state of cognitive dissonance.
Many can see the problems with things like urging prepubescent children to self-sterilize, or to define people by skin colors arranged into hierarchies of value, or to deny children an education suited to their abilities simply because other children are not capable of the same work. But many people who realize these are bad things don’t yet know how to square this with their deep desire to believe that public schools are still good, or salvageable.
