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  1. The Federalist recently posted a very good piece about the terrible situation in Illinois, written by Joy Pullmann and entitled “Your Kids Would Be Better Off Feral (In Their Backyards) Than Going To Schools That Make Them Anti-American Racists”, while, last month, Stanley Kurtz wrote an excellent (and very alarming) essay for National Review arguing that “Ultra-Woke Illinois Mandates are the Top Threat to U.S. Education.” The pernicious campaign of woke “anti-racist” indoctrination in K-12 across the country (as documented by Chris Rufo) is divisive and toxic, as well as predicated on falsehoods, nor is there the slightest chance of any improvement under the current illegitimate regime.

  2. In an Open Thread a couple of days ago, I wrote that [I]n “Math: The Latest Battleground in the War Against Truth” on AmericanThinker.com that “The [Bill and Melinda Gates] [F]oundation is providing more than $140 million to A ‘Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction,’ an organization of 25 educational institutions that contend that math is synonymous with white supremacy and upholds “capitalist, imperialistic and racist” views. Pathway offers a five-part toolkit and videoconferences to make educators “reflect on their own biases” and commit to advance math “equity” by understanding that students of color use math differently than do white students.”

    This is a serious endeavor by these people. According to the Pathway’s website, equitable math.org, the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley is on a list of “dedicated partners and collaborating organizations in this project”. . . . the Lawrence Hall at UC Berkeley . . . .

    Woke Mathematics.

    Yoke Mathematics. (No, that’s not a misprint of “Joke”)

  3. Diversity [dogma] and color judgments, not limited to racism, processed under the Rainbow of inclusion exclusive of black, brown, and featuring a gay pleasure in the shredded remains of white.

    Semantic games, conceptual corruption, conflation of logical domains. Once you go Pro-Choice, it’s a progressive path and grade.

  4. Minta. That assault on math and science started about 8 years ago. I think they just feel the time is ripe; just like all the other crazy left ideas. If I was a CCP member I can’t think of a better way to destroy the US technological dominance than by making its math and science useless. We are going to have a generation of math/science illiterates with PhDs.

  5. Even sadder, there are almost certainly three or fewer counties in Illinois where more than 25% of the citizens would vote for such malarkey in the curriculum, but because Cook County has the biggest population, by far, they pull the rest of the state under.

  6. Occasionally I catch a whiff of what’s going on in the local extremely expensive international school, the local moderately expensive international school, and the local just not too cheap Chinese-medium Anglican primary school.

    Full-on Woke Rainbow-hued Globohomo Poz in the former two K-12/13 IB Mills. Their Managerialist Bugmen Parents / Karen Wives are fully on-board with the program anyway — especially the Karens. As we know from other articles and threads, whether it’s Eton or Philips Exeter the Über-Bugpeople are more than OK with their own offspring getting this treatment. So why wouldn’t they want it given good and proper and with less lubricant to the kids of the Peasantry?

    What the Teachers think is another story. My guess is that well over half would positively get off on any drama and trouble it created for their colleagues and even themselves up to a point. News Flash: Women and Gays love Drama. Embolden and embiggen that Capital D a bit more if you can. Most of the remainder will grit their teeth, grin and bear it. It’s not as if most ‘Teachers’ in Current Year are employable in any other white collar ‘profession’ — Intellectual non-capacity of Education Students on campuses has been a standing joke for nearly two generations now.

    Oh… the funny little Chinky Episcopalian primary school? You know the *cheap* one where all those cute little clones in perfectly-pressed uniforms lugging big backpacks of books go…. In there they do wrote learning and chanting and learn to function in three spoken languages and two written languages – one not noted for its ease of acquisition. Sure the local branch of the Anglicans knows more about Gleichschaltung than Heidegger’s university common room and is part of the local United Front in the Current Year… but send your daughter there and she won’t come home with blue hair, tattoos and a penis. So there’s that.

    The teachers in those two International Schools are paid very well. Still it’s easy to spot them in a crowd of Upper-middle-management Bugmen and Karens – The former wear their wokeness with a certain level of deportment. Brave Educationalists look like unkempt degenerates, Angela Merkel on a bad day, pedos or eunuchs.

    It’s Sunday morning, so I’ve tried to be charitable in my descriptions.

  7. @Rufus:

    Chicago really is something.

    I guess that’s one constant in an ever-changing world.

  8. The little darlings actually imagine that the tsunami they are creating will not break upon their shores and sweep them to their richly deserved fate.

    Ideological fanaticism requires willfull blindness to reality.

    To the degree that an ideology rejects fundamental aspects of human nature and principles that govern the external reality within which humanity exists is the degree to which it embraces error.

    Error, writ large enough is indistinguishable from evil.

    What the left is imposing upon America… easily qualifies as evil.

  9. Nice comment Zaphod. I think you nailed it. X-boy went to international schools, having grown up abroad. I know the drill very well. Turned out to be a right good Citizen of the World.

  10. My HS senior at a suburban parochial school was just required to undergo a “critical rage theory” training session (they did not call it that but it’s an apt description of the product they rolled out). I had the benefit of participating since they conducted it via Zoom given the COVID restrictions in IL (the school has been operating a hybrid model since starting in August). There is no escape in IL any longer. My wife and I have said a number of times that, were we just starting the education journey rather than being at the tail end, we would likely be looking to homeschooling options these days. And we are strongly encouraging our kids to look at other states when seeking their first jobs as they begin planning their futures.

  11. Burton M,

    That is truly sad, and, as always, those with the fewest resources will be damaged the most.

  12. As usual, good analysis but no action. A lot of very intelligent posters reduced to tut-tutting and saying how outrageous this is. What are you going to do about this outrage? Neo, how about a post on how to counter the indoctrination in schools? Websites like PragerU are doing a good job but the job is overwhelming. It is discouraging to see conservatives clamoring for the government schools to open and to send their children to receive this brainwashing. Another good topic for a post is why are so few people homeschooling? Instead people deliver their children to the Left through online Zoom indoctrination.

  13. Bob, I fought the good fight at the college level for 15 years. But when it’s 130 vs 3 you’re always going to lose. And that doesn’t count the administration. So add another 100 or so. I frankly have no idea of a solution.

  14. Sure the local branch of the Anglicans knows more about Gleichschaltung than Heidegger’s university common room and is part of the local United Front in the Current Year… but send your daughter there and she won’t come home with blue hair, tattoos and a penis. So there’s that.

    There might be outliers but the vast majority of orthodox Jewish parochial schools see their mission as educating the next generation of Jews so most of the progressive nonsense is ignored. Most of those schools regard their religious instruction to be more important than the secular subjects, which tend to be focused on fundamentals. When you’re running a dual curriculum school, you don’t have a lot of time to waste on BS. Some nonsense may seep in from the use of standardized text books, but for the most part those schools are as culturally conservative as you’ll find.

    FWIW, my grandsons’ yeshiva has been having in-class instruction since September.

  15. @JAM:

    I fully approve. And I hope that this state off affairs can continue for you and yours.

    In effect you are enjoying Freedom of Association. This is the sine qua non of Freedom.

    Now imagine a school system founded for the education of White Christian Children. Give it a dual curriculum. After much consideration, we’ll have to pass on two of the three main legs of yeshiva curriculum, so I’d vote for a boatload of Aquinas with a copious dusting of Newman. A more deplorable academy for Budding Bayou Billy Bathgates might go with Calvin’s Institutes, the A-Z of Baccy Chewing, and the Code Duello. Diversity is Our Strength, anyway. Plus of course, reading, writing, ‘rithmetic, graph theory, topology, and taxidermy.

    ^^^^—— I might be able to found one small school like this in some backwater and get away with it for some years. If very lucky. Plonk one down in Manhattan, Boston, Chicago (it is to laugh), and we both know what would happen. It would be steamrollered by a viral swarm of NGO — SPLC, anyone? — and state actor antibodies faster than either us could say Tomas de Torquemada three times with a mouth full of nothing. Try to SCALE OUT even the palest semi-pozzed shadow of what I’ve outlined above and all hell would break loose. The National Guard would be called out.

    In the longer run it would be good for groups of people who don’t necessarily agree on the finer points of how the Good Life is to be lived to support the rights of each other to enjoy Freedom of Association and do their own things in their own ways — subject of course to some basic common rules governing interactions. A bit, you know, like things used to be in some constitutional republic I’ve read about somewhere.

    (Puts on his ill-fitting Lampedusa Hat) Pity we have to always go forwards even if we want to go backwards.

  16. Zaphod,

    What you want already exists:

    https://thomasaquinas.edu/
    https://www.avemaria.edu/
    https://wyomingcatholic.edu/academics/the-great-books/
    https://shss.franciscan.edu/programs/honors-program/
    http://www.cslewiscollege.org/about-us/distinctives/great-books/
    https://gutenberg.edu/
    https://news.newmanu.edu/great-books/#:~:text=The%20Newman%20University%20School%20of%20Catholic%20Studies%20has,and%20graduate%20programs%20in%20theology,%20diaconate%20and

    I’m pretty sure there are a few others I’ve missed; including one or two in the northeast of the U.S.

    Also, although not Catholic, Hillsdale College in Michigan does a good job of educating in a Classical, Liberal mode with a strong emphasis on the U.S. Constitution.

  17. a counternarrative to dominant culture
    And the only possible reason to do that is to tear down the ‘dominant culture’. And what might that ‘dominant culture’ be? Judeo-Christian Western Civilization. And, for this, we’re supposed to be tolerant?

  18. @Rufus:

    No it does not exist. None of these institutions can refuse to hire homosexuals, lesbians, transsexuals, let alone restrict their student intake to (oh, the horror of it!) Straight Caucasian Males.

    Were any them to refuse admittance to Muslim or Wiccan students, all hell would break loose.

    My point was that Orthodox Schools and Yeshivas are a very niche example of getting by in an increasingly difficult world. Exception does not prove the rule.

    Without freedom of association (bluntly, freedom to discriminate) there is no freedom.

    This may seem reprehensible and just plain mean, but freedom isn’t a garden party with Fourth of July bunting and Sousa playing on the PA..

  19. I would imagine that the parochial schools will be the next target.

    The Jewish and Catholic ones at least.

    Quite possibly, the parochial schools on the liberal end of the spectrum may well self-flagellate themselves out of existence…

  20. “…why are so few people homeschooling?”

    Because so many mothers are working.

    It used to be that a woman expected to marry, have children and raise them. Now that is considered to be a demeaning life, so women have children and send them out to be taught by women who leave their children at home/school so they can work by teaching/caring for other women’s children.

  21. “…why are so few people homeschooling?”
    “Because so many mothers are working.” SueK

    That was part of the radfemlib plan all along, I suspect.

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