I'm one of the few teachers in a TEXAS school that would probably be labeled right wing even though my economic philosophy aligns with the French philosopher Proudhon and the American heterodox economist Henry George.
Nearly half my district moved to devote an entire week to teaching Black Lives Matter. I had to go to the district meeting and point out that their proposed curriculum violated civil rights law to get the idea scrapped & I suspect I only succeeded because the state recently put my superintendent on alert for telling people to vote for politicians who oppose school choice.
You need to make sure your child's English & Social Studies teachers know at the start of the semester you will go ham on them if they try to be partisan. I teach science - physics - so I'm mostly immune from ever having to deal with controversial topics but I've had students try to get me to talk about politics and I refuse. I want to say I'm not the exception to the rule but that's increasingly not the case.
Seriously contemplating homeschooling my kids when they’re older because this worries me. My relatives came home from second grade during the last election “upset” that Hillary didn’t win. Second grade 😳
We leaned towards homeschooling before we even had kids, but we put our first in day care when he was 4 because we wanted him to interact with other kids more.
One day we picked him up and he started asking us about how a boy can become a girl and vice versa. We asked him where he heard this idea and he said his teacher told him.
We immediately pulled him out. And this was in a pretty red part of a pretty red state.
Definitely homeschool.
Yikes!
The alternative is hiring like minded teachers with a group of people. That is what we are doing next year with our kids. Even our Christian school is failing us in a lot of ways.
Yes this idea is viable and worthy of exploration. Think a bit of Little House on the Praire scenario, one or a few teachers with small class that is not age based.
Maybe not fully articulated by me but throwing an idea out there.
I had my children tutored in Latin, World History for older retired professors.
Yeah, when I had to start homeschooling my children last year (because of "covid shutdowns") I was absolutely APPALLED at some of the suggested curriculum. The textbooks themselves were meh, but the "suggested online resources" and stuff was ridiculous indoctrination.
Sure, you can homeschool your kids and it will benefit them greatly (if you do it correctly)... until the next phase of life.
After schooling, your kids will interact with a population largely funneled from government schools. Your kids' votes, opinions, beliefs, etc. will largely be ignored, overwhelmed, or violated by this larger populace.
This is why it is so vital that conservative, libertarian, and traditionalist women become teachers, administrators, and guidance counselors to turn the general public tide so their children will not be overwhelmed by brainwashed idiots for the vast majority of their lives.
It is just as viable to get conservative traditional MEN to be teachers, guidance counselors, admins.
It's not enough to just live and let live anymore. We have to lead a counterpush to take control of our culture again.
The left have had their long march through the institutions for the last 60 years. We need to cancel them out of everything that matters and abolish government control of education, or we will be fighting our children for our own freedom forever.
Oh yeah they start in kindergarten
We had a n online meeting scheduled for upcoming freshmen students in the fall.
They used Google meet and all the parents were in the meeting and able to speak etc.
Sadly, I missed it, as there were two meetings scheduled, and I had signed up for the second one, but we got an automated phone call saying that all online meetings were cancelled going forward "due to the inappropriate conduct of some of the parents that were in attendance".
I am trying to find out exactly what went down, but I have a good guess, I imagine the administrators got an earful of MAGA and anti Covid lock down backlash and ran for the hills.
Just FYI, our county is roughly 80% red and very conservative.
This is probably a ridiculous question, but is there any way to affect such changes anonymously? I have complained about things at school in person before, and gotten results... but it can strain relationships with staff and I wonder sometimes if it can have a negative affect for my kids.
Some schools have anonymous tip lines.
I've suggested to conservative parents that they schedule a meeting under the pretense of academic concerns. Then you can bring up the questionable lessons. If you have a GT or 504 student an AP should be present which would definitely make the teacher sweat.
What is a GT or 504 student and AP mean?
Please don't use the term "public <thing>" when it is ran by the government. Fight back against the dilution of the language. It is "government school", "government transportation", "government housing", and so on.
Good point.
Yes, demand curriculum and look over your children's homework
Schools are this cucked now huh?
Always have been
In Texas.
They are straight up indoctrination camps. They were absolutely horrendous when I was in high school and that was a decade ago. I can only imagine what they are like now
I'm pretty sure the social justice movement, full of sassy emotionalist teenagers and early 20's, is a direct result of a movement in schools to get children more emotional by teaching and training them to communicate using emotionally charged language.
When I have kids one day, they will all be homeschooled. I will never send them to be indoctrinated by the psychopaths running our institutions. My children will not grow up to hate themselves for being white, being male, being straight, or just existing. They will not grow up to think everyone else hates them and that they are a perpetual victim. They will not grow up to hate their own country when it’s the only free one left (at least as of this moment). They will not grow up thinking the government owes them everything and they don’t need to work for it. They will not grow up thinking about what sexuality they are when they’re not even done going through puberty. I hope every other millennial wakes up and takes a stand too. We need to raise new generations of people who are smart and intelligent, not brainwashed and weak sheep.
Teacher here too. I work at my kids' school. There's a good reason for that. I drop tiny red pills because I teach young ones. Mostly it's when they parrot their parents' opinions - I ask why they feel that way, and what have they seen to back it up.
I teach English and History in Cali. Youve gotta have your kid dialed in to report any nonsense to you and you have to be willing to go ballistic in the principal's office.
Now that teaching is happening mostly online, peint out any evidence of insane lib bias and bring it with you.
MAKE NOISE.
Your trump card is a willingness to place your child in an online charter or other school.
If your kid's in high school and even semi-competent academically, say fuck it and put them in community College. You don't need a diploma to go there and what happens in terms of learning in high schools is minimal anyway.
Khan Academy and paper.co for support.
DM me any additional questions. The more families I can help free from government schools, the better.
Whoever has the youth has the future. Run to get on school boards. At the very least monitor what your kids are being taught.
An easy way to solve this is to kick the government out of the education business. Have the separation of education and state similar to the way we have church and state. Vouchers is a good start in that direction. Once you put parents back in charge, the problem will solve itself.
The most powerful political lobby in too many states is the teachers union. I agree with you that this is necessary, but this will take a concerted, coordinated effort.
That is another thing that needs to stop. Nobody has a right to unionize against the tax payers. Can I go on strike for paying taxes?
home school or you hate your kids!
Agree 100%
Homeschooling is difficult - you will have to make sacrifices, and the payoffs are looooonnnng into the future, but the payoffs are amazing! Homeschooled our 3 children and I couldn't be more proud of them.
One teenager and two in their 20s. We love them and they love us. So based, smart, hard-working, independent, socially adjusted, God-fearing, kind, generous. Their home-schooled friends are the same way.
Find a way to homeschool your kids. -this message brought to you by a public school (government) teacher
People should be home-schooling their kids. It's better from a controlling the propaganda perspective and it's also better from a family perspective. Better bonds development between parent and child as well as husband and wife.
Our society needs to get away from the dual-wage slave, daycare, school mould of raising children. It's significantly hurting the nuclear family and only turning out new children who're primed for corporate wage slave life.
When I was in high school it was always the English and social studies teachers pushing their communist ideology and the math and science teachers that had a very very slim chance of leaning right. You could tell the teachers that leaned right because they refused to talk about politics. The most you’d get was the rare eye roll or a scoff. You could tell the left wing teachers because they loved pushing their narrative often subtly but sometimes overtly. Our public school is garbage.
You need to run for school boards as well, get involved
My sons band teacher used to be female. His older brothers both had her as a band teacher 5+ years ago. Now that my son is entering jr high, she is using a male name now. I should have seen it coming from the last time the jr high band teamed up with the high school band. She introduced herself as her last name only.
We are thinking about private/home school.
Fellow Texas teacher here. I teach music so I occasionally get to talk about the history of some of the pieces including the abject suppression of Christianity in communist Russia. Talking about the evils of socialism and communism when discussing those pieces is one of my joys. I also enjoy gently red pilling my students when they ask me about politics after school and lunch is also pretty fun. I enjoy using rhe socratic method, especially on economic and gun topics.
Good idea. I'm going to do just that next school year. Have a call with the teacher. Kindly introduce myself and let them know I will be pursing them with the full extent of the rules and law if they present a single political idea, or a political idea void of the other side.
I'm a California teacher and I agree 100%!!! It's disgusting as hell that they are getting away with this
My Spanish teacher in high school literally tried to brainwash us all that open borders were best for “Hispanics” because they all need to come here and get free stuff. He had an Obama sticker on his car and he was not shy about being a huge piece of shit. And what’s worse my CIVICS teacher in high school was a huge leftist and Reagan hater and now in current times (we are FB friends) he’s a Bernie bro lol
I'm lucky. Where I live in SC, all the teachers are mostly conservative mama bears.
My wife (strongly conservative herself) is friends with several. Each new semester, I check the backgrounds of kids teachers but havent had any issues.
Public schools are the way to have children send their parents to work camps until their organs are harvested.
I 100% agree. It was never my place in a classroom to present opinions. School districts current agendas are EXACTLY why I’m no longer in this field. And it’s sad. Keep fighting for the kids- no one else will.
Id scrub floors naked to afford to NOT send my kids to corrupt government run schools! 98% of public school teachers are lazy commies!
We are not banning political speech, black libes matter is.
We are generally fine with saying "let's have a debate about this." They are the ones that are afraid of debate and want to beat it with a stick
Teaching communism as anything but historical backdrop has got to be grounds for expulsion and being run out of town.
My friend is a teacher, she is a moderate Democrat but very into BLM and open borders. I've been sending her links of teachers using their platform to brainwash kids with their politics and it really opened her eyes. She says she now tries to introduce both sides to an issue and get kids to question the media narrative. So if you have teacher friends try to get them to at least be bipartisan.
I went to a teaching college, started off trying to get a teaching degree, and now know dozens of teachers.
Without a doubt, they're the weakest group of people I have ever met. 2 or 3 out of dozens are capable of actually stringing a coherent thought together. They have no character, no convictions, no opinions.
Dropping out of that clown college was the best thing I ever did.
When our schools didt go back in due to covid i put them in a private Christian school. I have discovered more and more about the ridiculous curriculum and have made the commitment that they will never see the inside of a public school. Private school will cost me a mint, but I feel I have no choice if I want to keep working and I have to. Quality private education is the best option for me. Its worth it if it inoculated them from the idiocy coming out of our schools.
I hope things improve by the time my kids are in high school
Can you post your argument that you used so we too can use it?
Any retards that want to talk politics in physics should not be in physics.
No serious physics teacher would make this statement. I would rather you tell me the huge impact of politics on physics. If you are a physics teacher - you ARE without doubt another diversity hire retard who No Child Left Behind made you think you were smart and college accepted your retard weighted SAT scores, then pushed you through so there could be peace and quiet for the actual academics, and then some shithole urban district hired you to fill a quota. You will never be a real teacher or a real man. You are also 4 hour old account.
You are purposely evading the post in context because you felt the need to 'flex' being a physics teacher - which means you are one of those teachers who think you are greater than the subject. Nope - this would be a studies on the impacts of politics on physics course (and your examples provide great valid subjects for such an extension) - but not the science of physics, as a serious student would be introduced to from a serious teacher. If you got kids circle jerking questions to BLM or Biden or this election in your physics class instead of learning - you know - physics, you are a just paler fucking NCLB buffoon pushing more retards into 'Bill Nye Degrasse Tyson science politics' as your comments from a 4 hour account suggest.
If you are worried about your unseen work email... then maybe not use your name or worse, put a bunch of personal info in a public thread just to prove something I don't care about. My insults were not necessary, but my point stands - here is the OP - If you're a parent who has to use public schools, we need to normalize scaring teachers from making political statements. I say this as a teacher. So one more time... if you are entertaining or circle jerking politics into a high school physics class at the expense of the science - you are part of the problem. Too bad you want to keep flexing, your points on how politics affects physics are valid and interesting. Our institutions have no room for more NDT or Bill Nye bullshit or the people who create them.