Public schools are the most powerful influence in directing our culture — even more influential than the media — is the arm of government known as the public schools. The public schools are guiding the morals, attitudes, knowledge and decision-making of 89% of American children. The public schools are financed by $500 billion a year of our money, forcibly taken from us in federal, state and local taxes, which the public school establishment spends under a thin veneer of accountability to school board members elected in government-run elections.
Prior to the 1960s, public schools and teachers clearly accepted their role in defining the culture of the youngsters under their supervision. The public schools, using a McGuffey-Reader-style curriculum, were the mechanism through which American kids learned not only the basics, but also values such as honesty and patriotism, and immigrant kids assimilated by learning our language, laws and customs.
For example, The American Citizens Handbook, published for teachers by the National Education Association in 1951, proclaimed: “It is important that people who are to live and work together shall have a common mind — a like heritage of purpose, religious ideals, love of country, beauty, and wisdom to guide and inspire them.” This message was fortified in this Handbook by selections suitable for memorization, such as Old and New Testament passages, the Ten Commandments, the Lord’s Prayer, the Golden Rule, the Boy Scout oath, and patriotic songs. Read More…
Chronological History of Public Schools
A former California state senator whose proposal to mandate coronavirus vaccines for school children was too radical for the progressive state legislature is now consulting with the American Medical Association. Dr. Richard Pan will join the AMA's Medical Education Group, where he will consult on the organization's standards for universities' medical training programs. Pan, a pediatrician, made waves this year with a proposal to vaccinate all ...
A father’s coaching duties with the Vermont school soccer team were terminated after he defended his 14-year-old daughter’s discomfort with a biological male using the locker room while she was changing, the Daily Signal reported. In a statement released Tuesday, Orange Southwest School District Superintendent Layne Millington announced that Travis Allen, the girls’ soccer coach at Randolph Union Middle School, had been suspended without pay. Allen ...
Voters overwhelmingly oppose sexually explicit books in public school libraries, and believe schools have an obligation to inform parents what their children are being taught. A new national telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports and the Capitol Resource Institute finds that 89% of Likely U.S. voters think it is important that public schools fully inform parents about what is being taught to their children in ...
The official narrative via Wikipedia: On May 24, 2022, 18-year-old Salvador Rolando Ramos fatally shot nineteen students and two teachers and wounded seventeen other people at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, United States. Earlier in the day, he shot his grandmother in the forehead at home, severely wounding her. Outside the school, he fired shots for approximately five minutes, before entering with an AR-15 style rifle through an ...
Tony Kinnett, an Indianapolis-based educator who went viral on social media for exposing how critical race theory (CRT) is being implemented at his school district, says he has now been placed on leave and denied access to school email and buildings. In a Twitter thread, the award-winning science coach revealed that he has been locked out of his school email and Google Drive by Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS), Indiana’s largest ...
An FBI SWAT team raided the home of an activist mother of three in Colorado on Tuesday, Nov. 16, knocking down her door, bursting into the house with guns and handcuffing her while she was homeschooling her children. This is the first known case of the federal government making good on its promise to not only intimidate but actually carry out a raid on a mom ...
Attorney General Merrick Garland called on the FBI to “use its authority” against parents who threaten or use violence against public school officials in a Monday memorandum. Garland said there has been a “disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff.” He said he is directing the FBI to work with each U.S. attorney and leaders “in each federal ...
Ohio – Hudson Mayor Craig Shubert told the Hudson Board of Education during a meeting this week: ‘Resign or face criminal charges for distributing child pornography.’ Parents were infuriated after a book called “642 Things to Write About” was distributed to high school students along with an assignment to “write a sex scene you wouldn’t show your mom,” and “rewrite the sex scene from above into ...
The U.S. Senate has voted to pass an amendment in the $3.5 billion budget reconciliation passage that prohibits federal funds from being used to teach Critical Race Theory (CRT) in schools. The resolution was approved nearly along party lines early Wednesday, setting the stage for the Democrats to craft an economic package in the coming weeks. Senator Tom Cotton’s (R-Ark.) amendment dubbed the Stop CRT Act was part of the resolution. The ...
‘Hungarian freedom means not only … freedom of speech … but also the right to defend our families and educate our children as we see fit.’ BUDAPEST, Hungary, June 17, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Prime Minister Viktor Orban promised to “protect our children” with the recently passed legislation which includes forbidding the showing of pornographic material or content portraying homosexuality or transgenderism to minors under the age of 18 ...
