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Arthur's avatar

Mr. Drop,

I, too, am a beneficiary of a Catholic K-12 education in the classroom, but my best teacher was my mom. My siblings and I joke, constantly, about what our mom taught us.

Are you familiar with Charlotte Iserbyt (a convert to Catholicism)? She was a tireless warrior for a genuine education until her death on February 8, 2022. Her site is deliberatedumbingdown.com. While education was her primary focus, she was well versed in all of the issues we face today. She believed that as goes K-12 education, so goes our sovereign nation.

Charlotte campaigned for Reagan and was rewarded with a position in the Department of Education. This delighted her, because she wanted the DoEd eliminated, and she would be in a position to assist in this effort.

To her consternation, she learned that Soviet-style education was being introduced into the public school system. This wasn't the first time for this. The first time was while Eisenhower was the resident of what I call 'the puppet hut' a/k/a the White House.

Following this, a friend who knew of her concerns about K-12 education had obtained information about how technology would be used in the future that would further destroy K-12 education. She attempted to meet with Reagan, but one of his blockers made sure that the meeting never happened. Fortunately, before she became a whistleblower, she made copies of everything. Of course, she was shown the door and when she wrote and published "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America," along with input from a posse of other activists, leading "conservatives" and "conservative organizations" like The Heritage Foundation shunned her expose of what was happening inside the walls of K-12 public education.

The goal of destroying public education is to drive parents, especially non-Catholic parents to demand "school or educational choice." If one reviews every option pursued for "school or educational choice," hopefully, he/she will see that all are tied to some form of tax funding, be they in the form of tax-credits, vouchers, etc. The goal is to link federal funding, directly or indirectly, to non-public schools, thereby making these schools de facto public schools. The dirty secret of "school or educational choice" is to eliminate ALL choice.

Unfortunately, the schools I attended many moons ago have voluntarily introduced much of the curriculum that has infested the K-12 public school system.

The ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) pushed through by Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and SOH Paul Ryan (R-WI) was heralded as an opportunity for public school districts to exit the Common Core and Social and Emotional Learning curriculum, but what the bold print giveth, the fine print taketh away. A school district can implement a different curriculum, but at the cost of losing all federal funding, approximately 10% of educational funding. I don't know of any school district that has chosen to forego federal funding for a non-federal curriculum; 10% funding leads to 100% control of K-12 curriculums.

As long as the ESSA remains the law of the land, eliminating the DoEd will be of no beneficial consequence.

Much, if not most of the home schooling materials align with the federal curriculum, so parents need to vigilant in ensuring that they are using materials that are not introducing the federal curriculum in a surreptitious manner within their schools.

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Patti's avatar

I think it maybe too late! Young people who will eventually be in charge have already been indoctrinated.

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