The Indoctrination of our School Children
By Larry E. Holtz, Esq.
Were it not for COVID-19, parents across the Nation would have never found out that their school children were being brainwashed, indoctrinated into a ridiculous political and “woke” culture that sought nothing else but to teach harmful philosophies and hatred toward the United States.
In March 2020, virtually all public school districts in the U.S. shut their doors. For the next 18 months, homes became makeshift classrooms; parents became de facto teachers. And, when parents watched what their children were being taught, they were horrified. As a result, school enrollment declined; the pandemic has been a wake-up call for many families. In this regard, “COVID-19 gave parents and guardians a window into what was happening in their kids’ classrooms and forced them to explore alternative learning arrangements, which included teaching their children at home,” said Sofoklis Goulas and Isabelle Pula in their Hamilton Project article of May 16, 2024.
In one situation, a Texas mother pulled her children out of public school after she heard gender identity discussions. “Classroom politicization and bias were top reasons why a Texas parent decided to home-
school her kids this school year, the mother of four told Fox News.” According to the mother,
“I definitely chose home-schooling for my children because I feel like I’m able to control what they learn, control the speed of which they learn so they learn at a much faster rate, and control outside influences as far as peer pressure, bullying, [and] political agendas.”
According to another parent, her children “were learning wildly inappropriate sexual things, gender-related things and preferences, and they were coming home and stating things about that.” Said this mom: “I was blown away that kindergartners were speaking like that.”
It is interesting to note that more than two-thirds of registered voters opposed gender identity and sexual orientation being taught in elementary school, according to a recent New York Times/Siena poll. But among Democratic voters, 53% supported including gender identity in elementary school curricula. The topic has become a flashpoint at school board meetings across the country. Said former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos: “Union-run schools [are] prioritizing ‘political agendas’ while failing ‘millions’ of American children.”
The schools have been indoctrinating, not educating our children. What’s the difference? Ernest Zarra explains the difference between indoctrination and education in his exceptional article on this topic by comparing these issues.
“Indoctrination” can be defined in a three-part fashion. “First, indoctrination imbues students with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle. Second, indoctrination teaches students to fully accept only the ideas, opinions, and beliefs of a particular group. Third, indoctrination teaches students to accept these ideas, opinions, and beliefs uncritically. All three parts of this definition add up to indoctrination, not education.”
