By: Grace Reilly
“Teachers in Charlotte, North Carolina, have been advised to stop calling the children ‘boys and girls,’ according to a training presentation on transgender issues. Instead, the progressives who control Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools want teachers to identify the youngsters as either ‘students’ or ‘scholars.’”
“The day after the election [of Donald J. Trump] I was texting my mom to pick me up from school and she almost had to!! Every teacher was crying in class, one even told the whole class ‘Trump winning is worse than 9/11 and the Columbine shooting.’” - an anonymous student
-John Hinderaker | Left-wing Indoctrination in the Schools: It's Worse Than You Think | Powerline Blog
Beginning in the elementary school years, teachers push a liberal agenda onto young unassuming students. Teachers reflect their biases covertly by the emphasis they place on certain topics, how they choose to present them, and even in what they neglect to cover. Their more obvious biases are seen in their open expressions of political beliefs and in the types of political rants noted in one of the quotations above. This type of indoctrination continues throughout the high school years and gets even worse in college.
A middle school student from Connecticut shared a personal example of covert bias. In her history class, she was given the assignment to write a paper on the gun debate. The class was given only one pro-gun source and several anti-gun sources. The same teacher required that the students watch and take notes on a 10-minute CNN video five days a week. Although CNN has a well-known liberal point of view, no other news source was acceptable which prevented students from exposure to other perspectives.
In my own personal experience, I have encountered a variety of types of bias ranging from anti-Trump rants by teachers to what I call hidden agendas within the curriculum itself. An example of the latter that I found particularly annoying occurred in my Spanish class this past year. Specifically, one entire semester was devoted to units on all types of discrimination and climate change. While I learned how to discuss these liberal talking points in Spanish, I’m not likely to do so in the future.
The inclination toward the Left is not confined to the curriculum, it also occurs in many other aspects of school life. For example, following the tragic Parkland, Florida school shootings, there were National School Walkouts across the country, my school included. The walkouts were organized by the ultra-liberal Women’s March group that organized protests against President Trump immediately following his inauguration, a fact not widely known but indicative of the liberal bias behind the event. Misleadingly, the walkouts were advertised as student-initiated. Clearly, they were not.
Another deceptive aspect of the event was its announced purpose: to express solidarity with the Parkland students. Those of us who knew about the liberal group behind the event were fearful that the real agenda was gun control. Although I repeatedly told the student leaders and administrators that they needed to inform the student body that there was a left-leaning agenda behind the event, they insisted that the walkout was bipartisan--simply to show support for the Parkland students. This was a lie likely intended to ensure a massive turnout. The truth was soon revealed at our event, as immediately following the few moments of silence for the Parkland students who lost their lives, the one and only invited speaker, a liberal, spoke passionately about gun control. And, as predicted, the mainstream media portrayed the walkouts across America as a student-led, anti-gun movement!
It should be obvious that liberal bias is becoming more and more prevalent in American education and also that the lack of exposure to different viewpoints leads students to view the world from a liberal perspective. The effects of this can be seen on college campuses today and in millennials whose generation is famous for being “snowflakes” who are easily offended by so-called microaggressions. While many people are aware of the obvious bias in education, covert indoctrination is largely unnoticed. That said, what you don’t know can hurt you nonetheless.
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