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2019-01-28 Home Front: Culture Wars

America's Public Schools Have Become Socialist Indoctrination Factories

[Townhall] Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, wants to insert government into every aspect of your life, from education and health care to the kind of car you drive‐and she’s not alone. Millions of other Millennials agree that the world would be a better place if government were empowered to dramatically increase taxes and regulations and create massive new federal programs that could take care of Americans from the womb to the tomb. In fact, a 2018 Gallup poll found more than half of Americans aged 18 to 29 now view socialism positively. Only 45 percent said they have a positive view of capitalism.

The real question isn’t whether these socialist tendencies exist, but rather why they exist. How is it that the same generation that has benefited more from capitalism than any other in human history is also the generation most willing to destroy it?

One of the most commonly expressed answers to these questions is that America’s higher education system has turned into a bastion for leftist thought. A 2018 study of more than 8,600 tenure-track professors by Brooklyn College professor Mitchell Langbert found registered Democrats outnumber Republicans at 51 of America’s leading liberal arts colleges by a ratio of 10.4 to one.

As important as bias on college campuses is, it’s only one piece of the puzzle. Much of the problem goes back much further, to K‐12 schools, where only 27 percent of teachers identify as Republicans, according to a national survey by the Education Week Research Center. Not only are K‐12 teachers more likely to vote for Democrats and favor left-wing causes, socialist ideas permeate nearly every aspect of government-run schools.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-28 06:05|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ] Top

#1 Subsidised things become socialist propaganda outlets and cease to do what they are supposed to.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-01-28 06:08|| 2019-01-28 06:08|| Front Page Top

#2 If the kids are coming out understanding socialism as well as they understand reading, writing and math, no problem...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-01-28 06:15|| 2019-01-28 06:15|| Front Page Top

#3 MM, they come out understanding that socialism works.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-01-28 06:25|| 2019-01-28 06:25|| Front Page Top

#4 When did you just notice?

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-01-28 08:04|| 2019-01-28 08:04|| Front Page Top

#5 At least ten years too late on that fucking hot take, Townhall...

Posted by Raj 2019-01-28 08:13|| 2019-01-28 08:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Re #3: Yes, they have been told that. They have also been taught so much identity politics that when the time comes to "make the omelet," there will be such arcane rules for what eggs are allowed to be broken that there will be total paralysis. Yes, I know eeeeevil white males will be fair game, but after we're all gone, then what?

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-01-28 08:18|| 2019-01-28 08:18|| Front Page Top

#7 And, from a philosophical perspective, how much success can be expected from "understanding (believing, actually) that which is not so?"

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-01-28 08:20|| 2019-01-28 08:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Yes, I know eeeeevil white males will be fair game, but after we're all gone, then what?

US cities and towns to be re-named after cities and villages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ?

Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-28 08:21|| 2019-01-28 08:21|| Front Page Top

#9 I see isolation in their futures. They cluster among their own kind. They have protective filters that will only allow ideas that they accept. Many on Facebook are deleted because of their condescension. Look at news media and their presentations. Look at all media they control or city states. They fail. Many of the youth I see know their games. I see a strong and many times self-educated youth. They endure and survive. Stronger in many ways. The easy road has no future. Theirs is the pathway to drugs, suicide and crime. They will always be unhappy.

Posted by Dale 2019-01-28 11:45|| 2019-01-28 11:45|| Front Page Top

#10 Theirs is the pathway to drugs, suicide and crime. They will always be unhappy.

Democrats!

Posted by Bobby 2019-01-28 13:12|| 2019-01-28 13:12|| Front Page Top

#11 MM, they come out understanding that socialism works.

They come out believing that socialism works, they don’t understand squat. They’ve been indoctrination centers for a long time.

Posted by Tyranysaurus Clavith3514 2019-01-28 15:03|| 2019-01-28 15:03|| Front Page Top

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