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