THIS is what the government is doing to try to combat socialist indoctrination in our public schools:

DISCUSS. Is THIS enough? What ELSE can be done...LEGALLY?

"To accomplish this, the administration is focusing on several systemic and curricular shifts rather than a wholesale replacement of the existing teaching workforce:

Dismantling the Department of Education: Trump signed executive orders aimed at closing the federal Department of Education and returning full control to states and local communities.

Mandating Curricular Changes: The administration is pushing states to adopt rigorous stand-alone high school economics courses that teach the failures of communism and the successes of free-market capitalism.

Restricting Ideology: Federal funding is being used to pressure schools into restricting concepts related to critical race theory and gender ideology.

Credentialing and Vows: Proposals have included establishing new credentialing systems to ensure teachers align with patriotic values.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

Obvioysly they can't replace the teachers wholesale - where would they find so many replacements? - but it's bit self-contradictory, isn't it?

"full control to states and regional authorities", then "pressure schools into" governmentally-approved party-lines. So not really autonomous but controlled from Congress, or even just the White House.Full autonomy would risk some States teaching only the White House line, some teaching against it, and few being impartial.

Wouldn't they be better for your nation in the long run to teach pupils to understand all economic, political and social ideologies, to compare them, to understand why some succeeded or failed; why some are good or bad; hence decide for themselves what may be the preferable way to run a country, and why? They are the future electorate in a multi-Party democracy, after all, and education is supposed to benefit them, not the contemporary politicians.

Politics on that scale is not binary; either in only the USA or world-wide. There are good and bad in all ideologies and systems, and judging them requires understanding them - which does not necessarily mean agreeing with them.

Your country likes to boast to we foreigners how it is the cradle of freedom and democracy - it won't be if its government tells the nation's children and teachers what to think and how.

Is there a Communist Party of the United States of America?

That policy seems to imply a fear that there is at least in spirit, and as a major electoral force. As I understand it the present US goverment is quite hard-Right Wing; but the Democrat Party somewhere near the UK's Liberal Democrat Party, so a bit Left-wing but not enough to worry anyone with MacArthy-ite tendencies.

Though the USA's L-R spectrum generally seems quite well Right of most of its European nations' equivalent spectra despite a rise in the popularity among them, of far-Right "populism". As led by, e.g., Marine Le Pen in France, and Nigel Farage in Britain.

Incidentally I am no "Communist"... but neither am I particularly Right-Wing.

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Gibbon · 70-79, M

@4meAndyou This is also true. I think todays teachers are incapable of doing basic math themselves let alone know how to teach it.

4meAndyou · F

@Gibbon The ignorant teaching IGNORANCE to our young and impressionable children. What HOPE do they have?

Gibbon · 70-79, M

@4meAndyou Next to none. There are still those who question what they are being taught. Those are the hopeful ones.

FreddieUK · 70-79, M

Restricting Ideology:

Isn't that what China, N Korea and Russia do?

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FreddieUK · 70-79, M

@4meAndyou I'm so sorry that you believe that there is so much 'communism' surrounding you that it causes this level of worry. It was the Jesuits who said, 'Give me the boy until he is seven and I will give you the man.' Our schools teach a range of views. Ideology is simply an unquestioned belief. Educated people need to know the difference between indoctrination and information to be able to assess the ideology they are being fed. To deny a range of views to children is indeed, indoctrination.

4meAndyou · F

@FreddieUK THANK you. Indoctrination, is, indeed, what is happening inside our public schools.

If you are interested, here is a speech by Stacy Davis Gates, a Chicago representative of the TEACHERS Union. She is one of the ones in charge of SHAPING the history education our children are receiving.

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