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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   120,568 views  844 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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810   stereotomy   2025 Feb 27, 3:45am  

Patrick says





"School" is nominally only 6 hours. In addition to not being able to spell due to steganographic obligations, apparently some faux meme lords can't add either.
811   HeadSet   2025 Feb 27, 6:56pm  

stereotomy says

"School" is nominally only 6 hours.

True, but "daycare" may be that extra 2 hours.
812   Patrick   2025 Feb 28, 12:43am  

stereotomy says

"School" is nominally only 6 hours.


Right, that's why I didn't include it in the memes. I think it might be even shorter for 6 year olds.
815   Patrick   2025 Mar 11, 9:56am  

https://www.wnd.com/2025/03/christian-jewish-and-muslim-parents-join-forces-to-fight-schools-secret-forced-lgbt-indoctrination/


There likely are few issues on which Jewish, Christian and Muslim parents – and a wide range of others interested in constitutional issues – are in alignment. But there is at least one.

That would be to fight a school’s scheme to force mandatory LGBT indoctrination lessons on children as young as three years old without even letting parents know.

The fight is over demands by officials in the Montgomery County, Maryland, Board of Education who adopted their mandatory secret indoctrination program for children, drawing opposition from Jewish, Christian and Muslim parents represented by Becket.

And now dozens of members of Congress, officials from 26 states and a wide array of legal scholars have joined the multi-faith coalition of parents.

Becket explains the school officials not only adopted a program to push a “one-sided ideology on gender and sexuality” on children as young as three, the board then “took away parental notice and opt-outs for storybooks that celebrate gender transitioning, pride parades, and pronoun preferences.”

That means the district will force children to sit through such indoctrinations, and it won’t even allow the parents to know about it.
818   Patrick   2025 Mar 21, 3:59pm  

Posted before I think but worth posting again:


823   PanicanDemoralizer   2025 Mar 21, 10:40pm  

The_Deplorable says






The problem with this cartoon is the 3 EduAdmins involved in the case it's referring to were all AWFLs. No Dudes involved.


824   Patrick   2025 Mar 24, 10:48am  

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/rethinking-daycare-for-dimwits




the whole idea of public schools needs to be ended. it was never about teaching. all the way back to bismark, it was about indoctrinating. and we just don’t need it anymore. it serves less than no purpose and does FAR more harm than good. the best case outcome is emergent incompetence and the worst is outright capture by those seeking to render ignorant and indoctrinate the kids of america. the wastes of time and treasure are astonishing and the whole of the system is an anachronism organized around kinds of scarcity than have not existed for decades.
826   Patrick   2025 Apr 14, 11:23am  

https://slaynews.com/news/high-school-student-american-flags-classrooms-woke-officials-call-police/


Woke officials in Maryland called the police when a Baltimore County high school student asked why there were no American flags on display in classrooms.

Parker Jensen, a senior at Towson High School and an aspiring U.S. Marine, was suspended for seven days over the “incident.”

Jensen and his family have now filed a lawsuit over the punishment, citing what he believes to be a violation of state education policy and his constitutional rights.

The teen came under fire after he visited the Baltimore County Board of Education to inquire about the lack of patriotic flags in school classrooms.

However, Jensen’s inquiries triggered outrage from the board’s woke officials.

Jensen’s visit resulted in the police being called to the scene, according to a report by WBFF-TV. ...

The video shows Muth informing Jensen that he is being suspended, effective immediately.

Jensen’s suspension stemmed from his attempt to speak with school officials about their compliance with the Maryland Education Code and Baltimore County Public Schools policy.

Both policies mandate that the United States flag be displayed in every classroom.

“I just wanted to know why the flag wasn’t in our classrooms,” Jensen told WBFF.
827   Patrick   2025 Apr 24, 12:25pm  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-crimean-conundrum-thursday-april


It’s not all bad news from the Supreme Court this week. On Tuesday, ScotusBlog published a story headlined, “Supreme Court likely to rule for parental opt-out on LGBTQ books in schools.” By likely, ScotusBlog meant they tore the school board’s drag queens a new lower access point.




The above shows two pages from one of the textbooks involved in the lawsuit. It teaches kindergartners, “My pronouns are like the weather; they change depending on how I feel.” That’s confusing enough, but when you add that they are telling kids they can also swap body parts depending on how they feel, things get really cuckoo.

A group of Maryland public school parents weren’t okay with that. So they sued for the right to opt out their elementary-school-aged children from any instruction including such baffling and revolting LGBTQ+ themes. The Washington, DC-area school board refused to let them opt out, of course, and the parents claimed it violated their religious beliefs.

The case was a political powderkeg. The surprising lack of media coverage speaks volumes to where the culture is headed. (Activists held a twisted drag show outside the Supreme Courthouse during the arguments, which persuaded nobody, but spiked sales of eye bleach.)

The plaintiff parents were religiously diverse. They included Muslims, Ukrainian Orthodox, and Roman Catholics. The lower courts all sided with the school board. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals sneered that “the parents had not demonstrated that exposing their children to the storybooks compelled the parents to violate their religion.”

This time though, we have good Supreme Court news. During nearly two-and-a-half hours of oral argument, a majority of the justices seemed clearly to agree with the parents, and several justices even wondered aloud: what’s the harm in simply letting parents excuse their children from the objectionble instruction?

Haha, the school board’s lawyer was hamstrung. He couldn’t afford to admit what the real harm was. The real harm the schools are afraid of is, in order to give parents an opt-out from the lessons, the schools will have to tell them the lessons are happening in the first place. I’ll bet $50 that 90% of Maryland parents have no idea what kind of gross stuff the teachers are spoon-feeding their kids. By “LGBTQ+ books,” they mean pornographic smut with erotic overtones.

Anyway, since the schools’ lawyer couldn’t say that an opt-out would force schools to give away their gross little sex secrets, he had to dissemble and obfuscate, leaving the judges wondering what the heck the argument was even about. If the parents simply want to have their children excused from instruction using these storybooks, Justice Alito asked, “what is the big deal about allowing them to opt out?”

Were I there, I would have added that we’ve already found it constitutional for parents to opt out of public schools entirely and become homeschoolers. Why should letting parents opt out of parts of public school not also be constitutional? The whole, after all, is just the sum of the parts, and so forth.

The conservative majority seemed intensely skeptical of the school board’s argument that mere exposure to school materials does not compel someone to violate their religious beliefs. Chief Justice Roberts disagreed with that logic, wondering whether giving unwanted and objectionable moral instruction to five-year-olds isn’t automatically coercive and immediately violates a family’s deeply held religious beliefs.

For their part, two of the liberal Justices wondered what the big deal was about making kids learn about legal alternative lifestyles, and fretted over creating ‘chaos’ by letting parents decide what materials their children can and can’t be exposed to. The notion, apparently, is that purple-haired, tattooed teachers are better equipped than parents to make those kinds of decisions.
831   Patrick   2025 Jun 6, 3:09pm  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/t-rex-wars-friday-june-6-2025-c-and


Yesterday, Fox ran a story headlined, “Texas private school’s use of new ‘AI tutor’ rockets student test scores to top 2% in the country.” It might say less about A.I. than it does about the woeful state of education in this country and hope for the kids.

And it says a lot that left-wing corporate media ignored the story.

This year, the Alpha School in Austin, Texas began experimenting with an all-AI curriculum. Students get two hours a day with an AI tutor, then spend the rest of the day practicing skills like public speaking, financial literacy, and teamwork. No teachers. The results so far have been spectacular.

Alpha School co-founder Mackenzie Price told Fox & Friends, "We use an AI tutor and adaptive apps to provide a completely personalized learning experience for all of our students, and our students are learning faster, they’re learning way better. In fact, our classes are in the top 2% in the country.”

One Alpha parent tweeted yesterday that his kids are newly excited to go to school. After their two hours of personalized AI instruction, they leave their desks and get to do all kinds of fun, social things with other students...

Imagine how furiously the teachers’ unions will likely react: litigate, agitate, and regulate— the holy trinity of institutional self-preservation. They’ll scream about equity, invent “AI isolation,” and demand emergency funding for “human-first pedagogy.” ...

It’s night and day. Parents who can review AI chat logs have much more transparency into what their kids are learning. The technology even exists for parents to monitor the session in real-time. Contrast that with teachers unions’ successful bans on cameras in classrooms.
832   Patrick   2025 Jun 10, 1:13pm  




From Jefferson's “Bill for the Establishment of Religious Freedom” in 1786.
833   WookieMan   2025 Jun 10, 2:29pm  

Patrick says

then spend the rest of the day practicing skills like public speaking, financial literacy, and teamwork.

Teamwork can eat shit, never rely on someone else. Focus on one thing and get it done yourself. Multi tasking is a load of bull shit. You're doing multiple things bad. Do what you know and hand it up the chain of command. If you don't understand what I did we can't be on a team.

The other two are extremely important. Finances mostly. Most people don't understand it. So many people I've asked if they know what amortization is. Crickets. Probably about 90%. White collar or blue collar doesn't matter. There's basic things you need to know that aren't taught.

Public speaking I'd change to networking. Does require public speaking, but you aren't making money if you're not talking to people. Could be 1 on 1 or 1 on 500.

Not sure how you teach it, but charisma. Not sure if it's teachable but it's huge. If I don't like you I'm done listening. Comedy I think would be good training. You'll know immediately if people like you or not. You don't have to be funny, you have to learn to read an audience. You need to figure out an audience to make it fun and relatable.
834   Patrick   2025 Jun 27, 9:08am  

More winning today:

https://ground.news/article/supreme-court-allows-parents-to-opt-their-kids-out-of-lgbtq-lessons-in-schools


On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that parents in Maryland have the right to exempt their elementary school children from lessons featuring LGBTQ-inclusive storybooks in Montgomery County schools.

The case arose after the Montgomery County Board initially required LGBTQ-inclusive storybooks in 2022, then rescinded a policy allowing opt-outs, prompting parents to sue on religious grounds in 2023.

The justices held a lengthy oral argument in April, with a conservative majority expressing that failing to provide opt-outs imposed an unconstitutional burden on religious exercise.

Justice Alito argued that without court intervention, the parents' ability to practice their religion would face ongoing unconstitutional restrictions, while the dissent opposed allowing exemptions.

The court ordered Montgomery County to notify parents when LGBTQ books are used and allow excused absences during lessons, indicating potential wider effects on similar policies nationwide.
835   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2025 Jun 27, 9:11am  

^^^^^

On both constitutional grounds and moral grounds, I cannot for the life of me how anyone would be opposed to such a policy. Makes no sense at all.
836   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2025 Jun 27, 9:17am  

Patrick says






This soooo much. In my senior year in high school I had an economics course and every Friday we’d have a discussion on current events and you could get extra credit for participating. This would have been 1990 and I already was going to register Republican when I turned 18. Most of the kids in the class had no clue but it was basically me against the entire class. Only one other kid had any clue at all. Anyway, to this day I have no idea what that teachers political leanings were. She facilitated the discussion but never chimed in other than to make factual corrections if needed. And that’s what a good teacher should do.
837   Patrick   2025 Jun 28, 2:21pm  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/template-saturday-june-28-2025-c


The Supreme Court held that a group of Maryland parents (Muslim, Catholic, and Ukrainian Orthodox) may opt-out their elementary-school-aged children from any instruction that includes LGBTQ+ themes. The majority agreed with parents that the Montgomery County school board’s refusal to provide them with an opt-out violated their free exercise of religion.

Montgomery County lies in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, and is one of the largest school districts in the country.

Astonishingly, the decision went far beyond gross, pornographic artwork in library books. One book, Uncle Bobby’s Wedding, describes a little girl’s reaction to her uncle’s same-sex wedding; another book, Pride Puppy, describes a young dog that gets lost during a Pride parade and meets a variety of ‘colorful’ characters. Yet another, Born Ready, is about a character named Penelope who is initially treated as a girl but says, “inside, I’m a boy.”

The majority squared off —not just against inappropriate images— but against LGBT indoctrination itself.

The school board, Justice Alito wrote, “requires teachers to instruct young children using storybooks that explicitly contradict their parents’ religious views, and it encourages the teachers to correct the children and accuse them of being ‘hurtful’ when they express a degree of religious confusion.”




The holding was clear and stark: schools cannot ‘indoctrinate’ kids in socially experimental ideologies inconsistent with parents’ religious beliefs. Period. They must provide notice and opt-outs.

An overwrought Justice Sotomayor complained the majority’s decision will soon lead to banning books on evolution (!) or interfaith marriages — “and history may be next,” she warned darkly. History itself!

A nation slowly regained its sanity.
841   Patrick   2025 Jul 16, 5:30pm  




America used to build really beautiful high schools.

But then the administration took most of the money for their own salaries.
843   The_Deplorable   2025 Jul 16, 5:44pm  

Patrick says
"What Went Wrong?"

The Globalist Nazis took over.
844   stereotomy   2025 Jul 16, 6:46pm  

Patrick says




America used to build really beautiful high schools.

But then the administration took most of the money for their own salaries.

When I went to college in the PRNY back in the day, we had the same furniture and food as the state prisoners; needless to say it was awful and anyone with a lick of sense would take their chances and live off-campus in the student slums, because at least there, you had our own furniture and could cook your own nutritious meals.

We paid for the privilege of campus housing that was provided to the basest criminals for free.

True stories of a Gen-X survivor.

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