The realization that California schools had become indoctrination centers stunned millions of parents
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The awakening of California parents during Gov. Gavin Newsom’s lockdowns of schools across the state can only be described as a revolution. The upheaval of the locked-down California family made many parents realize that the seemingly good, safe public schools they were sending their kids to in working and middle-class neighborhoods, were not that at all.
The realization that California schools had become indoctrination centers stunned millions of parents.
Recently released educational assessment data shows that California performed better than most other states and the nation from 2019-22 on the National Assessment of Educational Progress data, the Globe reported.
Fewer than half of California students met the state standard in English, and only one-third of students met statewide standards for mathematics.
“From 2020 to 2022, reading scores for nine-year-olds on the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP), often referred to as the nation’s report card, registered the largest decline since the 1990s, while math scores declined for the first time ever,” education scholars Lance Izumi and Wenyuan Wu recently reported. “These score comparisons were the first nationally representative snapshot of student learning during the pandemic.”
They know what they are talking about. Izumi is senior director of the Center for Education at the Pacific Research, and Wu is executive director of Californians for Equal Rights Foundation. They are co-authors of an upcoming book on critical race theory in K-12 schools.
The continue: “While school closures and ineffective distance-learning efforts were important reasons for the slide in test scores, former North Carolina governor Beverly Perdue, who chairs the board responsible for the NAEP, warned, ‘We can’t keep blaming COVID.’”
Indeed. This is where indoctrination enters the scene:
- Critical race theory
- Sexualized, pornographic indoctrination
- Using race to undermine teacher quality
In 2019, the California State Board of Education approved highly controversial changes to the state’s health and sex education framework including teaching children about bondage, anal sex, pederasty, sex trafficking, sexual orientation and transgender and non-conforming students, the Globe reported.
What is being taught as sex ed to California school children ironically cannot be spoken on television or radio without violating Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations.
Izumi and Wu further explain:
“The National Education Association (NEA), the largest teachers’ union in the country, pushes the critical race theory-inspired position that systemic racism permeates all American institutions and must be taught in our schools so that kids challenge “the systems of oppression that have harmed people of color.” In 2021, the NEA adopted a resolution that would mandate race-based ideological instruction in public schools across the country.”
Notably, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, a frequent target of Gov. Gavin Newsom, has eliminated “critical race theory” from curricula in its schools. “The Florida Department of Education has released examples of what it calls ‘problematic’ material that led it to ban dozens of math textbooks — including a lesson with an algebra graph measuring racial prejudice,” the NY Post reported. Gov. DeSantis took charge after parents were outraged at the indoctrination and even exposure to dangerous and divisive concepts under the guise of public education curricula. California students are being fed a steady diet of CRT, vile sex indoctrination, “unconscious bias,” while being deprived of U.S. History, English, Math, and real Science.
In California, the Democrat dominated Legislature killed a bill that would have made sexual education in public schools an ‘opt-in’ program. SB 673, authored by then-Senator Mike Morrell (R-Rancho Cucamonga), would have required permission slips filled out by parents to allow children to go to sex ed classes up through the sixth grade.
As Izumi noted in a recent op ed, “Whatever the results of the midterm elections, the new Congress will face many old problems, especially in education. Yet, despite the seemingly intractable nature of these problems, there are important actions that Congress can take to meet the needs and concerns of parents and their children.”
Izumi says two million students have un-enrolled from the public schools over the last couple years and why, for example, 50,000 students simply failed to show up on the first day of school in Los Angeles.
Parents are voting with their feet that they want more education options for their children, not just the one-size-fits-all often failing public school system.
He outlines how Congress can help increase the educational choices for families:
- Cut Biden Administration regulations to Charter schools, and better fund them. The federal Charter School Program, which sends federal dollars to charter schools, has had stagnant funding for years;
- Increase educational options by allowing parents to choose the education option that best suits the needs of children, and fund the child;
- Enact a tax credit that individuals can claim when they make donations to organizations that award scholarships to students for expenses related to attending their school of their choice.
- Improve accountability and transparency for federal education programs by requiring that federal databases explain the purpose and impact of federal education spending.
“When federal education programs are shown not to work, then they should be eliminated,” Izumi adds.
As for California students, they should be proficient in reading and math Izumi says, and they aren’t even close. Proficient merely means they should be able or competent at reading and math. Less than half of California students met the state standard in English, and only one-third of students met statewide standards for mathematics.
“This is a condemnation of the policies Gov. Newsom and his sycophants were foisting on parents and children,” Izumi said.
California politicians need to recognize the parent revolution and heed Izumi’s and Wu’s recommendations and warnings.
Parents remiss in teaching their kids the birds and the bees is one thing. Teachers with unknown proclivities toward aberrant sex practices required to teach sex to our kids is another. There should always be a curriculum that includes the basics in reproduction, which after all is the reason for sex and the continuation of mankind. The rest of it is the concern of less than one percent of the population. It should remain in the closet until a consenting ADULT wants to learn about it. Not a gross political play thing to confuse immature minds.
Clearly it is Political Malpractice.
As long as the the Demo base had the money through welfare and inflation causing minimum wages who cared.
There is only so much “free” society can absorb. The United States has reached that point.
It will be painful since there are massive sectors of society that are not equipped to exist through hard work, a sharp mind, and independence from the government.
It came from 1/2 a century of indoctrination by Democrats…….
You have to stop voting for the radical left called Democrats…this is the only hope for schools and society..
SPOT ON Really???
If you have school aged kids, move out of CA.
Yes! In my county, we have many new school board candidates, and they are walking their neighborhoods with materials for candidates all the way up to Congress, and many more people are getting their doors knocked. Big groups of parents/volunteers are helping these candidates, and the excitement is off the charts.
There WILL be a flip in many boards across the state, hopefully many majorities taken – to protect the minds of our precious children.