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The best way to fight wokeness: Take your children out of government schools


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2021 Jun 9, 5:36pm   112,602 views  795 comments

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The most frequent question people pose to me is: What can I/we do to fight back against the nihilistic anti-American destruction of virtually all the country’s major institutions?

There is an answer.

The single best thing Americans can do to counter the left-wing attack on America—against its freedoms, its schools, its families, its children, its governmental institutions, its sports, its news and entertainment media, its medical establishment, the CIA, the FBI, the State Department, and the military—is to take their children out of America’s schools.

Other than in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), the vast majority of America’s elementary schools, high schools, colleges, and universities teach your child or grandchild almost nothing important; prematurely sexualize them, thereby robbing them of their innocence; and harm them intellectually and morally. They rarely teach them, for example, art or music because they are too busy teaching them race-centered hatred of whites, of America, and of America’s values.

Sending your children to most American schools is playing Russian roulette with their values—but unlike the gun in Russian roulette, which has a bullet in only one of its six chambers, the schools’ guns hold four or five bullets.

In many elementary schools, your child is taught that gender is chosen and that there is no difference between boys and girls (in a growing number of schools, the teachers are told not to call their students “boys and girls”); they are taught about masturbation; and many children from first grade on attend “Drag Queen Story Hour,” wherein an obvious man wearing women’s clothing, garish makeup, and a wig entertains them.

Given that all this is well-known, why do any non-left—meaning, liberal or conservative—parents send their children to American schools?

One reason is they are in denial. Many parents don’t want to know what their children are being taught and the consequent damage done to them. They don’t really believe schools will ruin their children, let alone their children’s relationship with them.

These parents should speak to any of the millions—yes, millions—of Americans whose children have contempt for America, for free speech, and for their parents as a result of attending an American college or even high school. I meet such people at every speech I give, and I speak to them regularly on my radio show. Ask these parents, if they could redo their lives, whether they would keep their child in school.

A second reason is they feel they have no choice. If they remove their child from the local public or private school (most private schools are just as committed to anti-American indoctrination over education as public schools), what will they do with their child? They often can’t find a local school that doesn’t harm their child. They can’t necessarily even rely on Christian or Jewish schools. Most of them are as “woke” as most secular schools. And if they do find a school that teaches rather than poisons, they may not be able to afford the tuition.

The only other option, then, is to homeschool one’s child. The problem is that many parents assume this is essentially impossible. For one thing, they assume that one of the parents would have to leave his or her work, which would mean a serious reduction in the family’s income. In addition, homeschooling strikes most people as simply too daunting a task, even if they could afford to take it on.

Neither fear is entirely justified. It’s true that, at least at the outset, a working parent may have to cut back from full-time work, and it’s true that no matter what the family’s financial condition, there are challenges to taking one’s children out of school and homeschooling them.

But given the low intellectual state of most American schools, the damage they do to young children’s innocence, and the anti-American, anti-white, anti-Western indoctrination in most schools, if you are a parent of school-age children, what is your choice?

Other than a) finding a good school that b) you can afford, you have no other choice. You are fooling yourself if you think the odds are that after attending American schools from kindergarten through college (not to mention through graduate school), your child will turn out well-educated, intellectually alive, rational, kind, happy, well-adjusted, grateful to be American, and respectful of you and your values.

While there are some wonderful young Americans who recently attended American schools, and there are some lost souls who were homeschooled, American schools are largely producing the following:

Poorly educated students. Ask your college son or daughter to diagram a sentence; identify Joseph Stalin, “The Gulag Archipelago,” or the Soviet Union; name the branches of the American government; identify—or just spell—Beethoven; date the Civil War; identify the Holocaust; and name which sentence is correct—“He gave the book to my friend and me” or “He gave the book to my friend and I.”

Angry young people. Why wouldn’t they be? First, they graduate college with a huge load of debt, having received almost nothing useful for their money. Second, if they are anything other than a white heterosexual Christian male, they have been taught to regard themselves as victims of oppression. Third, their future is so bleak they may not even have one: They are threatened with extinction by climate change.

The single best thing Americans can do to fight the left-wing destruction of the country is to withdraw from the “educational” system that is actively and deliberately miseducating them by the tens of millions. If millions of American parents did so, the country would turn around as fast as you could say “teachers unions.” If they don’t, their children will continue being used as guinea pigs in the left’s sick and dystopian experiment.


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110   Eric Holder   2021 Oct 6, 1:18pm  

BoomAndBustCycle says
Unless you send your kid to a Catholic school…


There are Christian schools besides Catholic. But Catholic are the most affordable.
111   HeadSet   2021 Oct 6, 4:34pm  

BoomAndBustCycle says
Unless you send your kid to a Catholic school… which comes with its own set of self-loathing religious related problems and irrational fear of hell bullshit.

Not really. I went to a Catholic school for 3rd-4th grade. The religious aspect is a small part of the curriculum and the non-Catholic kids were excused from religious activity. And there were quite a few non-Catholics, as a Catholic school is a great place to send a kid who is a discipline problem in public school.
112   Bd6r   2021 Oct 6, 4:36pm  

HeadSet says
Catholic school is a great place to send a kid who is a discipline problem in public school.


so you were a discipline problem kid? :)
113   BoomAndBustCycle   2021 Oct 6, 5:07pm  

Private school teachers usually make way less than public school teachers…. Sometimes as little as $36k a year. I can’t even fathom raising a family on that income in any major or middle sized city jn 2021. You would never own a home unless you had a wealthy spouse. Usually people teach private school because it’s easier… maybe less difficult students and less bureaucracy. But long term, talented people usually seek higher pay.

I don’t think private schools offer much in the way of a pension either.
114   AmericanKulak   2021 Oct 6, 5:11pm  

Most wealthy people don't send their kids to Public School.

The Kennedy Clan certainly didn't, neither did Obama, himself a Private School graduate.
115   Patrick   2021 Oct 9, 4:52pm  

Ran across an interesting argument in The Wealth of Nations (section "Education of Youth") that teachers should not be paid by endowments or by schools, but directly by the students themselves.

When teachers are very much concerned with what the students thinks of their abilities, they necessarily work hard to maintain the esteem of those students.

When teachers get paid the same by an institution regardless of what students think, they do not teach well.

I think this strongly argues for teachers being directly employed by parents, and not by a school district or school board at all. Teachers would then be motivated to teach well, and to teach what the parents want them to teach.

Hopefully this is happening right now as parents pull their children out to save them from CRT and the vaxx mandates. Some parents are organizing Private Member Associations (PMAs) for teaching, where the parents directly employ the teachers and are free from CRT, vaxx mandates, and masks as long as they are very careful not to call themselves "schools" but something else, like an "educational association".

http://nature-cures.org/what-is-a-private-membership-association
116   Shaman   2021 Oct 9, 5:06pm  

@patrick
I have evidence that your theory is true. My youngest goes to private school and this year has this Indian teacher who wasn’t doing a good job at all. We complained, got others in her class to have their parents complain, and now she is on serious notice. Things are better, but we can stop paying any time we want and send our daughter to public school. So the school is highly motivated to ensure that their teachers don’t fuck around and do a good job.
117   Patrick   2021 Oct 9, 6:37pm  

Yes, Charlie Munger is right:

Incentives determine outcomes.

We have a lot of very bad incentives right now.
118   BoomAndBustCycle   2021 Oct 12, 3:38pm  

Shaman says
@patrick
I have evidence that your theory is true. My youngest goes to private school and this year has this Indian teacher who wasn’t doing a good job at all. We complained, got others in her class to have their parents complain, and now she is on serious notice. Things are better, but we can stop paying any time we want and send our daughter to public school. So the school is highly motivated to ensure that their teachers don’t fuck around and do a good job.


Interesting concept … although a classroom full of entitled shit for brains parents could quickly turn that teacher into an indentured servant to entitled morons.

Would definitely need some checks and balances. Right now the system is broken because a small vocal minority can suck up far more resources for their “special” children just by threatening litigation or raising a fuss.
119   Patrick   2021 Oct 12, 4:52pm  

https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/10/state-universities-in-pennsylvania-see-largest-drop-in-enrollment-in-decades/


Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities lost another 5,000-plus students this fall, dropping total head count enrollment below 89,000 — a level not seen in three-plus decades, dating nearly to the system’s founding — according to just released data Monday.

The 5.4% downturn and anticipated loss of more than $36 million in tuition revenue is likely to further complicate efforts to redesign the State System of Higher Education and merge six of its universities — California, Clarion and Edinboro in the west, plus Bloomsburg, Lock Haven and Mansfield in the northeast — into two institutions.
120   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2021 Oct 12, 4:56pm  

It’s a necessity at this point. Time for all families to move to low cost places…Omaha seems to be one of the best for low cost of living/decent wages as does many parts of Texas and Florida and go back to simple living with only one parent working.
121   HeadSet   2021 Oct 12, 6:26pm  

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says
Omaha seems to be one of the best for low cost of living/decent wages

True, but very high real estate taxes, plus a state income tax. Still beats California, though. Omaha does have pretty good night life, for all ages and genres. Opera, "Bagels and Bach" in a major park, Shakespeare on the Green, horse races, nearby casinos, museums, a good zoo, good AAA Pro baseball, outdoor dining with trendy local band, lots of ethnic eateries, dance halls for everyone from the young and hip to the granny grab polka places, and an easy airport to fly out of. Nothing if you like to sail, motorboat, or kayak though.
122   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2021 Oct 13, 11:19am  

HeadSet says
FuckTheMainstreamMedia says
Omaha seems to be one of the best for low cost of living/decent wages

True, but very high real estate taxes, plus a state income tax. Still beats California, though. Omaha does have pretty good night life, for all ages and genres. Opera, "Bagels and Bach" in a major park, Shakespeare on the Green, horse races, nearby casinos, museums, a good zoo, good AAA Pro baseball, outdoor dining with trendy local band, lots of ethnic eateries, dance halls for everyone from the young and hip to the granny grab polka places, and an easy airport to fly out of. Nothing if you like to sail, motorboat, or kayak though.


I hear the same argument regarding property taxes in Texas(though no state tax). The fact is, a $270k home in Texas has about $3600 in property taxes a year. The same home costs a million plus in Los Angeles and id wager property taxes on that home are double what they are in Texas, not to mention 3-4x the cost.

I’m guessing a $150k home in Omaha doesn’t carry a high tax bill, regardless of high property tax rates.
123   HeadSet   2021 Oct 13, 12:33pm  

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says
I’m guessing a $150k home in Omaha doesn’t carry a high tax bill, regardless of high property tax rates.


This is a $150k home in Omaha:



This has $2,000 yearly taxes, was built in 1917, and is not in the best area.
124   HeadSet   2021 Oct 13, 12:38pm  

This $300k home in Omaha has a yearly real estate tax of $4300. Taxes do not include trash service, and school district taxes can be added.


https://www.remax.com/ne/omaha/home-details/9607-florence-heights-blvd-omaha-ne-68112/9349920132082042110/M00000441/22123769
125   Patrick   2021 Oct 16, 12:42pm  

https://dossier.substack.com/p/tales-from-americas-covid-college

Looks like universities are committing mass suicide with insane Wuhan Virus restrictions for students that literally have a greater risk of dying in a car accident than from the virus.

OK, let them kill themselves.
126   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2021 Oct 16, 1:04pm  

HeadSet says
This $300k home in Omaha has a yearly real estate tax of $4300. Taxes do not include trash service, and school district taxes can be added.


https://www.remax.com/ne/omaha/home-details/9607-florence-heights-blvd-omaha-ne-68112/9349920132082042110/M00000441/22123769


Number of homes available in all of city of Los Angeles under $500k(population 4 million). All are literally war zone. Many are literally falling apart. Property taxes are $3300 a year on $450k though that’s not at all realistic as even in the exurbs you are likely to be paying over $600k for any home.



Number of homes available in Omaha under $175k. Population ~350k. Some are not in war zone. Not to mention that the suburbs in LA are MORE expensive in LA while many Omaha suburbs are around the same.



127   HeadSet   2021 Oct 16, 4:43pm  

I was not comparing Omaha to California. I was comparing it to Texas.
128   Patrick   2021 Oct 18, 11:14am  


Yes it's likely to help! (keeping kids home)

Schools get paid around $25 per student per day. If they are missing by an unexcused absence, the school loses that money per student per day. It makes a HUGE difference because it hurts them where they can least tolerate it.

Cheers!


From employeemandates@unite.standupcalifornia.com
129   AmericanKulak   2021 Oct 19, 5:08pm  

6th Grade Teacher teaches Critical Race in Franklin Woods Intermediate School, Columbus, Ohio. Despite Superintendent Claims no such thing is happening:

Not much video, just the audio. The Teacher is basically summarizing Kendi's Book.



https://nitter.net/MythinformedMKE/status/1450222253078102016#m
131   Tenpoundbass   2021 Oct 27, 9:44am  

The Best way to fight "COMMUNISM".

Woke sounds cute, and the right thing to do. That's why they picked that as a code word. When you use Woke, you're intentionally using the word they suggested you use, so it will be harder to convince people that real evil is afoot.
132   Patrick   2021 Oct 27, 9:52am  

OK, I'll try to stop using "woke" but "communism" isn't going to help as a replacement imho. They people doing all this do not think they are being communist.

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/loudoun-county-virginia-school-board-meeting-october/


At Tuesday’s meeting, 120 Loudoun residents signed up to speak in-person. An additional 13 did so virtually. Residents were allowed just one minute of speaking time. Several speakers referenced the fact that most of them had to wait outside in the cold weather — Dominion Energy reported thousands of homes lost power due to heavy winds in the DC area — because of the speaking restrictions and accused the school board of trying to discourage them from showing up to speak.

The vast majority blasted the school board over its alleged cover up of a sexual assault in order to advance a transgender bathroom policy, vaccine mandates for student athletes and the teaching of critical race theory in classrooms. Many parents came armed with signs featuring an email sent by Superintendent Scott Ziegler indicating that he had knowledge of a sexual assault by a gender-fluid student in a girl’s bathroom, despite claiming in a board meeting over the summer that he had no record of assaults on file.

“You’re all busted for lying and orchestrating a cover-up,” one female parent said early on in the public comment portion of the meeting. “You’re digging yourselves deeper and deeper with each day that goes by. Do the taxpayers and families of Loudoun a favor and resign today.”


The answer is definitely to pull all kids out of public schools. They will get less funding.
133   Tenpoundbass   2021 Oct 27, 9:57am  

You don't have to stop using it, I just like taking the opportunity to point it out when I see it. For the edification of those that might not know.
134   AmericanKulak   2021 Oct 27, 9:58am  

We had a thread on words - so many good threads @Patrick that should be remembered/stickied for reference information!!!

Genderfluid/Genderqueer = Autogynephiliac
Woke = Authoritarian
Restricting Misleading Information = Chilling Effects on Speech
Restricting Misleading Political Claims = Censoring the MOST PROTECTED Speech.
Equity = Forcing Similar Outcomes regardless of effort
136   AmericanKulak   2021 Oct 27, 10:41am  

Patrick says
This thread?

https://patrick.net/post/1342098?0#comment-1794425


No, @Patrick. It was from last month I believe, and covered a wider range of subjects than Autogynephilic Paraphiliacs

I believe YOU were the author of the thread, if memory serves.
139   AmericanKulak   2021 Oct 30, 11:38am  

Re: 138

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddHBmQ9ztU8&t=73s

"Stop being PARANOID Right Wingers! There is no GAY AGENDA!"
141   Patrick   2021 Nov 2, 3:31pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/loudoun-county-mom--my-six-year-old-somberly-came-to-me-and-asked-if-she-was-born-evil-because-she-was-a-white-person


Loudoun County mom: “My 6-year-old somberly came to me and asked if she was born evil because she was a white person”
142   Robber Baron Elite Scum   2021 Nov 2, 9:15pm  

take your children out of America all together...

Fuck this country....
143   Patrick   2021 Nov 8, 9:49am  

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/nationwide-school-revolt-on-youngkin/


Most Americans want schools to promote knowledge and champion principles of human decency. They want schools to be safe. They do not want children race-shamed, or exposed to the anomic and depraved. A fourteen-year-old boy wandering around campus — any campus — wearing a floor-length dress doesn’t sound wholesome to them.

What’s going on in “our” schools, some ask, and not in a sunny way. Too many know from experience, at least in metro and blue-liberal districts, that any parent who avows the Ten Commandments or praises the Boy Scout Law might get the fish-eye from the principal. If dad objects to critical race theory or transgender bathrooms, heads explode. A frosty diversity lecture might not suffice. Should we call security or 911? Educators for their part tend to think of parent-dissidents as mentally unstable and possibly dangerous. So apparently do shadowy figures inside the Biden administration.
144   Booger   2021 Nov 10, 2:15pm  

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/loudoun-county-parents-show-school-board-meeting-enough-signatures-remove-board-chair/

Loudoun County Parents Show Up at School Board Meeting with More Than Enough Signatures to Remove Board Chair
146   Patrick   2021 Nov 18, 5:26pm  

https://www.ntd.com/gop-introduce-parents-bill-of-rights-act-to-counter-officials-who-dictate-school-curriculum_703233.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net


GOP Introduce ‘Parents Bill of Rights Act’ to Counter Officials Who ‘Dictate’ School Curriculum
POLITICSIsabel van Brugen Nov 17, 2021
147   Patrick   2021 Nov 19, 12:11am  

https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/how-activist-teachers-recruit-kids


How Activist Teachers Recruit Kids
Leaked Documents and Audio from the California Teachers Association Conference Reveal Efforts to Subvert Parents on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation

Abigail Shrier
14 hr ago




148   Patrick   2021 Nov 19, 12:20am  

https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/18/leaked-teachers-reveal-how-they-stalk-kids-sideline-parents-to-pull-middle-schoolers-into-lgbt-groups/


LEAKED: Teachers Reveal How They ‘Stalk’ Kids, Sideline Parents To Pull Middle Schoolers Into LGBT Groups
NOVEMBER 18, 2021 By Elle Reynolds
Members of California’s biggest teachers union plotted how to push LGBT politics on children and undermine concerns about their tactics from parents, principals, and communities, reveals leaked audio from an October conference of the California Teachers Association (CTA).

“Speakers went so far as to tout their surveillance of students’ Google searches, internet activity, and hallway conversations in order to target sixth graders for personal invitations to LGBTQ clubs, while actively concealing these clubs’ membership rolls from participants’ parents,” Abigail Shrier reported on Thursday.
149   richwicks   2021 Nov 19, 5:17am  

Patrick says
Members of California’s biggest teachers union plotted how to push LGBT politics on children and undermine concerns about their tactics from parents, principals, and communities, reveals leaked audio from an October conference of the California Teachers Association (CTA).


Where's the audio and who are the people involved? Journalists commonly lie. I want to see the original evidence, or hear it. That wasn't available - so, I'm ignoring it.

You shouldn't send your kids to government skools anyhow.

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