NBC News has a piece on the culture wars taking place in public schools, animated by former President Trump’s base and advanced by conservative activists.
Schools have become a political 'battlefield' for culture war fights that animated fmr. President Trump's base, and advanced by conservative activists and influencers since he left office. https://t.co/xEbvAmZYtM
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 7, 2021
So to whom does NBC News go for comment? AFT President Randi Weingarten, who says that normally “our” kids have been off-limits. Whose kids?
Allan Smith writes:
Conservative grassroots activists have zeroed in on local education policy with a tea party-esque fervor for months — spanning debates about reopening, how to teach U.S. history and required masking. Now, conservative personalities are urging followers to run for school board seats that have rarely generated much interest, while dozens of activist groups focused on schools have sprouted to advance the fights.
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Longtime operators in the education world say they’ve never seen anything like it.
“Normally, our kids have been off-limits,” said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, one of the country’s largest unions. “We had tension over Common Core. There was tension over other issues. But in modern history, since the huge desegregation battles, kids have been off-limits. Now, they are the battlefield.”
Here’s a great thread by Ian McKelvey breaking down the piece:
This morning, and article written by @akarl_smith caught my eye. It’s about a supposed “political battlefield” that Trump and his supporters have “cultivated.” pic.twitter.com/J6d1LcAtNC
— Ian McKelvey (@ian_mckelvey) September 7, 2021
According to @akarl_smith , “Schools have become the focal point for culture war fights that animated former President Donald Trump's base and have been advanced by conservative activists and influencers since he left office.”
— Ian McKelvey (@ian_mckelvey) September 7, 2021
I will summarize the piece here: Leftists are very upset that their efforts to indoctrinate children are now being opposed after decades of inaction by anyone on the political right.
— Ian McKelvey (@ian_mckelvey) September 7, 2021
Reality is, leftists have turned schools into conveyor belts for Marxist thought. They even admit it. Routinely. Here, Gabriel Gipe says he only has “180 days to turn them [children] into revolutionaries. pic.twitter.com/vUe8WMsU8H
— Ian McKelvey (@ian_mckelvey) September 7, 2021
Here’s our piece about Gabriel Gipe, who has an Antifa flag on his classroom wall and thinks it’s your problem if it makes you uncomfortable.
Many former school teachers have also come forward, after leaving the professional, to say that schools are openly and routinely indoctrinating school children. pic.twitter.com/MoqMLakFqT
— Ian McKelvey (@ian_mckelvey) September 7, 2021
Schools are openly filling their hallways with communist symbols. pic.twitter.com/Y3K1WitUGV
— Ian McKelvey (@ian_mckelvey) September 7, 2021
How about Black Lives Matter? The organization is spoken about as a matter of routine in public schools. But who are the founders of BLM? They are a collective of “trained Marxists.” pic.twitter.com/pCJAUCSFKi
— Ian McKelvey (@ian_mckelvey) September 7, 2021
How about “Reds in Ed”? Ever heard of them? They are a Marxist collective that focuses on indoctrinating school children. They are teachers, and their agenda is for everyone to see. pic.twitter.com/HofjYmWDyY
— Ian McKelvey (@ian_mckelvey) September 7, 2021
Bill Ayers, a terrorist and retired professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, once said
“Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.”
An “educator” said that.
— Ian McKelvey (@ian_mckelvey) September 7, 2021
I could go on forever with this. In fact, I didn’t even touch on Critical Race Theory. But what I find interesting is that @akarl_smith doesn’t really discuss the leftist agenda that overflows in public schools. Never mentions groups that openly indoctrinate.
— Ian McKelvey (@ian_mckelvey) September 7, 2021
Instead, he lowers his sights on Trump and his supporters. Almost as if they are evil for pushing back against Marxist ideology. Well, Allan, Trump and his supporters didn’t turn schools into a “battlefield.” Leftists did that when they set out to indoctrinate our children.
— Ian McKelvey (@ian_mckelvey) September 7, 2021
Finally, Allan, I really don’t care if leftists are upset about that their decades long efforts to indoctrinate school children are finally being forcefully opposed. This is the “new norm.” Get used to it. pic.twitter.com/Ihod1ygf1t
— Ian McKelvey (@ian_mckelvey) September 7, 2021
Bravo.
Conservatives by nature want to be left alone. Regardless, leftists fail to understand that they can't keep poking the bear for decades and not suffer the backlash.
— Jimmy Smith (@JimmySmithstorm) September 7, 2021
That is exactly right.
— Ian McKelvey (@ian_mckelvey) September 7, 2021
If anything “good” came out of the last 18 months, it is the exposure on this topic. No, it’s not just Trump and his base, because I know some democrat parents in my neighborhood who are at complete odds with the school board and some teachers. Parents are fed up.
— Kristi (@Kristi_Weaver4) September 7, 2021
Exactly. The days of complacency are over. Education in this country have been mismanaged for decades, and an education rooted in social justice is worthless.
— Ian McKelvey (@ian_mckelvey) September 7, 2021
Weingarten is trash
— Dr. Judgmental Shoelace, PhD. 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇭🇰 🇹🇼 (@DocKilmer) September 7, 2021
She’s filth, and she sucks at hiding her agenda.
— Ian McKelvey (@ian_mckelvey) September 7, 2021
It is about damn time conservatives wake up to the war that is happening with their children. They've ignored it for way to long.
— Mark (@AsSeenOnTv55) September 7, 2021
Well we are to blame- we refuse to march to their commie demands.
— Not buying any of it (@GratefulmumNC) September 7, 2021
Cultivated is the new pounced.
— Your Disapproving Dad (@disapprover69) September 7, 2021
Of course, Weingarten gets the last word:
Ultimately, Weingarten said the focus on schools is part of the right’s broader search for wedge issues ahead of the midterm elections next year.
“It’s about constant destabilization, creating anger, exploiting the anxiety that people have right now,” she said. “It is also kind of rooted in the destabilization of the institutions in America that have, you know, long been used to unify the country. Like great neighborhood public schools.”
Great neighborhood public schools where more than 40 percent of high schoolers earned a grade point average of less than 1.0. Maybe focus on the basics and leave the social justice indoctrination outside the classroom.
Related:
‘Reds in Ed’: Teacher says student made uncomfortable by Antifa flag in his classroom should think about why it makes him uncomfortable https://t.co/C6EEDzMleJ
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 3, 2021
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