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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   112,123 views  786 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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568   Patrick   2023 Jun 2, 9:00am  




I have a cousin in Olympia who is seriously ill with the woke disease.
569   AmericanKulak   2023 Jun 2, 2:18pm  

On May 17, the Oakland, California, teachers union ended a two-week strike—the union’s third strike in five years. The district offered a substantial salary increase for teachers before the strike even began, but negotiations remained deadlocked for days over the union’s other demands. The Oakland Education Association (OEA) put forward several “common good” proposals that included drought-resistant shrubs, a Climate Justice Day, reparations for Black students, and converting unused school and office buildings into housing for homeless kids and their families.

Most of these “common good” issues were outside the legal scope of teachers’ contracts, but as The Wall Street Journal editorial board pointed out, OEA is not a rogue branch of the teachers union. The National Education Association (NEA)—the largest labor union in the U.S. representing teachers and other school faculty—explicitly tells teachers to bargain for the “common good,” advising union branches that, “When we expand the continuum of bargaining, we build power, and go on the offense in order to fight for social and racial justice.”

What makes the NEA’s bargaining approach so remarkable is the fact that this union and its counterpart, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), have recently inflicted profound racial and social injustice on the country’s school children in the form of extended school closures.

As an Oakland public school teacher, I was a staunch supporter of the teachers union and was a union representative at my school for three years. In 2020, however, I began to disagree with the union when it prevented me from returning to my classroom long after studies proved that school reopening was safe, even without COVID-19 mitigation measures. In my experience, the union’s actions were not motivated by sincere fears, but rather by a desire to virtue-signal and maintain comfortable work-from-home conditions.

Although union bosses like Randi Weingarten continue to obfuscate their role in school closures, the historical record is clear: The union repeatedly pushed to keep schools closed, and areas with greater union influence kept schools closed longer. Politicians, public health officials, and the media certainly had a hand in this fiasco, but the union egged on dramatic news stories, framed school reopening as a partisan issue, and directly interfered in CDC recommendations. Teachers saw firsthand that virtual learning was a farce and that children were suffering. While there may be plenty of blame to go around, teachers’ abandonment of their own students was a special kind of betrayal.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-teachers-union-broke-public-education
571   Patrick   2023 Jun 3, 11:16pm  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/falling-down-friday-june-2-2023-c?publication_id=463409&post_id=125507039&isFreemail=true


Yesterday, Moms for Liberty retweeted a local report from El Dorado High School, where a student had published to YouTube a secret recording of their teacher giving her kids an explicit lesson on gay anal sex techniques, and how wonderful she thinks prostate stimulation feels, along with smart-shopper suggestions as to which stores — she mentioned Target (of course) — where students can discreetly purchase sex toys for, er, related uses. ...

It was pretty bad. In case you need to see and hear it for yourself to believe it, and I won’t blame you, here’s the link. Other folks may wish to just take my word for it and skip the experience altogether:

https://twitter.com/kellyske/status/1663691373139329027?ref_src=patrick.net

It was so bad, in fact, that even in Southern California, the teacher has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation.

Now, you might say, well Jeff, the system’s working, the teacher has been removed from the classroom. I would answer, we’ll see. And I would also say: we need cameras in classrooms. But both answers miss the point.

The point is, there is a wicked zeitgeist, a demonic spirit of the age, encouraging teachers like this El Dorado booty instructor to constantly push the boundaries of what can only be described as LGBTQIA++ indoctrination. It seems to be some kind of a transgressive achievement for white, virtue-signaling female teachers to tell their students all about atypical sexual matters.

Here’s the thing: Straight parents DO NOT WANT their kids being taught about gay sexual techniques. Period. They want their kids to experience normal, traditional human lives, earning the gratifying fulfillment of the joys of parenthood, and achieving the full complement of adult maturity than can only be fully realized through natural childrearing. ...
573   Patrick   2023 Jun 5, 9:12am  

https://twitter.com/JoelWBerry/status/1665702655958695936?ref_src=patrick.net


@JoelWBerry
Tell me more about that dangerous Christian homeschooling cult


576   Patrick   2023 Jun 7, 9:02am  


@ChristinaPushaw
Two groups of parents protesting left-wing indoctrination of their children in deep blue jurisdictions. One predominantly Muslim, one predominantly Christian. They don’t demand public schools teach their religion, they only demand the right to raise their kids without their values being directly undermined in schools they pay taxes for.

Pushing gender ideology in public schools is a blatant violation of religious liberty. Think of it this way:
The assertion that a child can be “born in the wrong body” isn’t empirical reality, it is a pseudo-religious belief of the progressive alphabet cult. It also contradicts the teachings of actual religions. It violates parents’ rights to raise their children in their faith tradition.

Public schools must respect religious freedom and serve their communities, not teach progressive state “religion” nor inject ideology that is antithetical to the values of the communities they serve.






Pantyfa thought they could intimidate the Armenians because Armenians are Christian. Nope, the LA Armenians in particular are pretty tough people.
577   Patrick   2023 Jun 7, 9:14am  

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1666256989331107848?ref_src=patrick.net


@MrAndyNgo
Breaking: Glendale (CA) Police beat back the Armenian-American men who want to fight #Antifa outside the school board meeting. The immigrant families oppose pride celebrations in schools. Antifa, communists & far-left protesters gathered to support that.


I am very proud of these based Armenian men. Masked violent leftists promoting sodomy to children must not be allowed to intimidate parents.

My wife is half Armenian. She said that they probably feel that what the schools are teaching their children conflicts with their Orthodox Christian beliefs. That's a mild way to put it, but she's less confrontational than I am.
579   fdhfoiehfeoi   2023 Jun 7, 9:22am  

Just want to point the obvious here that Andy Ngo is GAY, and he doesn't support this bullshit. That speaks volumes.
586   Patrick   2023 Jun 9, 10:41am  

https://ladyliberty1885.com/2021/06/25/pennsylvania-man-blasts-school-board-for-censoring-public-comments-in-opposition-to-critical-race-theory/


Campbell wrote that as of June 18, 2021, the school board has posted video of its March 18, 2021, and May 20, 2021, school board meetings on its website, but that the tapes state that they have been “edited due to content” and cites the website and the minute markers.

“What has been cut from the posted tapes is public comment by citizens opposed to critical race theory,” writes Campell.

In his remarks below, Campbell then holds a clinic in Constitutional law over a new attempt by the board to limit public comment.

After relating a past story where a union member during public comment called Campbell a “bastard child of Margaret Thatcher” and how he had kept that tape from being edited, he then lit into the board over their violations of the Constitution.

“Now, you snowflakes apparently have a bigger problem with public comment. It seems to me that you think you can supersede the United States Constitution,” Campbell said to enormous applause and cheers from those in attendance.


https://twitter.com/unhealthytruth/status/1666983953855815680?ref_src=patrick.net

588   HeadSet   2023 Jun 9, 5:45pm  

Patrick says

https://twitter.com/unhealthytruth/status/1666983953855815680

Where is he from? He sounds like and uses the vernacular of a King's subject.
589   AmericanKulak   2023 Jun 9, 6:03pm  

Patrick says





It's the gay version of Cherry Pop Tart, but unlike that old comic, it'll be carried in Public Schools.
590   Patrick   2023 Jun 9, 9:29pm  

Patrick says







https://thepostmillennial.com/revealed-childless-antifa-member-arrested-following-violent-clash-with-parents-outside-los-angeles-school-board-meeting


Following the publication of this story, The Post Millennial can report that So Cal Antifa member Erik James Boyd had a prior arrest related to felony child sex crimes. In 2008, Boyd was arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of two felony charges of engaging in sexual contact with a child under 14 years old. He was also charged with assault with a deadly weapon. The child sex crime allegations were ultimately dismissed or not prosecuted after he pleaded not guilty. However, Boyd was convicted for the assault with a deadly weapon charge after pleading no contest. After three years of probation, Boyd had the assault conviction expunged.

One of the Antifa members involved in a violent clash with parents outside a school board meeting in Glendale, California on June 6 has been identified as Erik James Boyd. The childless 35-year-old was arrested for his involvement in the incident and charged with a misdemeanor, however, his $10,000 bail was quickly posted.

The crowd of parents, mostly Armenian, Hispanic, and Christian, were protesting the school board's Pride celebrations and the indoctrination of their children into radical gender ideology when far-left agitators showed up, many in full riot gear. Chaos ensued, and numerous arrests were made. ...

"Basically there's some so-called Antifa, or hoodlums, anti-social folks who were here, 20-30 folks, who segregated themselves with LGBTQ protesters then they moved away and went to a parking lot, they met a group of Armenian men," a father on the scene told The Post Millennial. "One of the Antifa attacked an Armenian man and the men fought back."




592   Patrick   2023 Jun 11, 9:59am  

https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1667760341357297665


@robbystarbuck
Parents of kids at Edison High School in Huntington Beach, California say this video was played to their kids in math class. The kids clearly didn’t want to watch this pride video so the teacher threatened them with Saturday school to get them to watch it.


593   stereotomy   2023 Jun 11, 10:10am  

Patrick says

https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1667760341357297665



robbystarbuck
Parents of kids at Edison High School in Huntington Beach, California say this video was played to their kids in math class. The kids clearly didn’t want to watch this pride video so the teacher threatened them with Saturday school to get them to watch it.




They should all stand up one by one - "I am Spartacus." Then when they get Saturday suspension, shout the entire time some appropriately infuriating anti-globohomo slogan.
594   stereotomy   2023 Jun 11, 10:13am  

Weird - every time I try to quote a post, the quoted post is the one BEFORE the post I meant to quote. I delete the post, then redo, and it works. @Patrick - this seems like a recent (~ 1 week) bug.
596   Patrick   2023 Jun 11, 2:50pm  

stereotomy says


Weird - every time I try to quote a post, the quoted post is the one BEFORE the post I meant to quote. I delete the post, then redo, and it works. Patrick - this seems like a recent (~ 1 week) bug.


@stereotomy I did just try to fix a different bug in quoting, where I would abbreviate it if the quote is more than 1000 chars. But that was fucking up the html too frequently, so now I just pop up an alert that the attempted quote is too long and ask for a smaller selection.

I haven't seen the new bug you mentioned, but I totally could have introduced it somehow. You can see how quoting works if you do "view source" in the browser and can read javascript. If anyone sees how this new bug works, please let me know.
597   fdhfoiehfeoi   2023 Jun 12, 9:40am  

I've seen the quote feature having issues as well. Has been going on for a few weeks now. Happens after making a comment with a quote, then any follow up comment with a quote will have issues, while on the same thread, without reloading the page.
598   stereotomy   2023 Jun 12, 9:54am  

Patrick says


stereotomy says

Weird - every time I try to quote a post, the quoted post is the one BEFORE the post I meant to quote. I delete the post, then redo, and it works. Patrick - this seems like a recent (~ 1 week) bug.

stereotomy I did just try to fix a different bug in quoting, where I would abbreviate it if the quote is more than 1000 chars. But that was fucking up the html too frequently, so now I just pop up an alert that the attempted quote is too long and ask for a smaller selection.

I haven't seen the new bug you mentioned, but I totally could have introduced it somehow. You can see how quoting works if you do "view source" in the browser and can read javascript. If anyone sees how this new bug works, please let me know.

@Patrick - I noticed the alert, so I just selected the full text of the post, excluding the header. It seems to work now in that the proper post is quoted. Thanks!
599   Patrick   2023 Jun 12, 3:18pm  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/dad-energy-monday-june-12-2023-c?publication_id=463409&post_id=127755449&isFreemail=true


The Post Millennial ran an intriguing story this weekend headlined, “BREAKING: Children stomp on Pride flags as Christian and Muslim parents protest LGBTQ indoctrination in Ottawa schools.”

Stomping on the Pride flag; ouch

The fracas, which is growing into something resembling a movement, has united Christian and Muslim parents against the so-called “Pride” phenomenon. Muslim outrage seems to have initially sprouted from a recent viral classroom audio clip, which features an Edmonton high school teacher. In the leaked recording, the harpy-like instructor can be heard berating innocent Muslim students for not being sufficiently enthusiastic about Pride and atypical sexual behaviors that they believe earn you a front-row, reclining seat in the hot place.

The Londonberry School class was discussing Uganda’s new super-strict anti-homosexuality laws. Recently, lawmakers in that African country passed a law criminally prohibiting even identifying as LGBTQ+, upon a wildly lopsided vote of 398 to 2. Ironically, over here in the U.S., if you agree Satanic Pride merchandise should be quietly moved out of the kids’s section to the back of the Target, you’re told you are literally erasing gay people.

Well, how about a law requiring jail time for just SAYING you’re gay? What would that be? Isn’t that more like ‘erasing?’

Anyway, the irate teacher noticed some students expressing sympathy for the Ugandans, and for their right to have their own African culture without it being appropriated by meddlesome, white, female Canadians. Their teacher didn’t like that kind of sympathy for African culture, not one single bit, and it fired her off into a rageful tizzy.

“If you believe that kind of thing, you don’t belong here,” the teacher said shrilly. She continued scolding the students, her voice rising, explaining “That is not what Canada believes; we believe in freedom; we believe people can marry whoever they want. That is in law, and if you don’t think that should be the law, then you can’t be Canadian. You don’t belong here, and I mean it.”

FYI, her saying “you don’t belong here” was a veiled deportation threat, in case that wasn’t obvious.

Here’s the link, listen for yourself. https://twitter.com/therealhebrahim/status/1666046992911351808

The sanctimonious teacher also informed the students that, if they wished to be free to worship their Muslim faith without discrimination, they also must effusively participate in Pride events. “That’s how it works,” she said, teaching the students that religious liberties are earned by works of public support for atypical same-sex lifestyles.

The Edmonton parents who listened to the teacher berating kids for not being gay enough felt sort of negative about it. They sort of felt like the teacher was being manipulative, emotionally abusive, and pushing a gay agenda using unjustified threats to deport Muslim families. The parents also questioned the teacher’s understanding of basic civics, since in democratic systems, citizens who don’t agree with laws are supposed to try to effect change, not move out.

Parents were further angered when an Ottawa school board sent out a notice telling staff that, when the new school year began, teachers should use “they/them” pronouns for ALL students, by default, to avoid accidentally “misgendering.”

Of course, calling someone THEY when their pronouns are he/him IS misgendering. The mentally-handicapped school board came up with a daft rule guaranteeing that every student would be misgendered. Parents are objecting.

It’s not just happening in Canada, either.
600   AmericanKulak   2023 Jun 15, 9:49am  

Idaho Valedictorian prevented from graduating when he says "Boys are boys, girls are girls" in his speech. His post-graduation Forest Service job is immediately cancelled. Both the Female Sheriff and the local Forest Service District Super are married to Kellogg School District Public School Teachers.

https://patrick.net/post/1379569/2023-06-15-teachers-are-woke-fascist-idaho


The appointed, not elected, Sheriff of Shoshone County is on the right; the Teacher on the Left


601   fdhfoiehfeoi   2023 Jun 15, 10:31am  

Those people are NOT from Idaho. I have two aunts that have lived up there forever. No way either of them would ever go for shit like this.
602   AmericanKulak   2023 Jun 15, 10:51am  

NuttBoxer says


Those people are NOT from Idaho. I have two aunts that have lived up there forever. No way either of them would ever go for shit like this.

From Idaho or bringing the Stench of Kali with them, they're changing the landscape.
603   Patrick   2023 Jun 16, 12:58pm  

https://www.rebelnews.com/tags/stop_classroom_grooming


Stop Classroom Grooming
Young children in elementary school are being asked to disclose their sexual orientation or gender identity for a school survey in Ontario. ...

Some school boards in Ontario are soliciting sexually explicit data on young, school-aged children under the guise of being required by the Ministry of Education.

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