Ok, on point #1 you are probably right, but it is an awful lot to expect HO to take on the NEA. We shouldn?t allow the teachers to unionize if they teach at a public institution, period. If they teach at a private school that is another matter entirely. By allowing them collective bargaining we have allowed them total control, and they exercise it in pursuit of their goals all the time. You cannot expect the few teachers who don?t like them to rise up against the masses of them that push for a ?progressive? agenda. We have a responsibility to support teachers doing it right, fight against the NEA too (you get to this at the end).
On point #2, you missed my point. It was that with only five hours per week to teach the children you cannot waste time with indoctrination or anything that does not pertain to learning and the habits of learning. I was not suggesting that because of limited time that indoctrination was not occurring, just that learning is not taking place in the classrooms of those teachers who are more concerned with churning out little drones rather than capable free thinkers who are equipped to make up their own minds. We agree on this one.
On the third I?m not sure if we agree or disagree. I?m with you 5X5 that control of our schools is out of our hands and the moment, and it is of paramount importance to get them back. I disagree that the most zealous and activist teachers demonstrate and teach anything but their point of view to their students. They may be zealous, but they do not impart to their students anything but the final product of that fervor. They do not equip them with the tools to make decisions for themselves, and not only do they not teach civics, some of them teach anti-civics.
Some of them tell their students not to work within the system but to use their rights to agitate for change by screaming the loudest, which is the reason that politics is what it is today, and why the best and most logical arguments do not win in the halls of Congress.
I?m not disagreeing with your assessment, and not even necessarily with what needs to be done. I?m just saying that this took forty years to go this way. The situation we have today is not accidental (which speaks to how hard working and committed the leftists who wanted to take control of academia and our schools have been). We are not going to change it overnight, BUT as in the ?60 the radicals were on the outside railing against authority and the system, they are now the authority and control the system, and have lost any semblance of rebelliousness and authenticity they once had.
The inmates are running the asylum, and that can work for us if we are as astute as they were when they plotted to take control.
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