{"id":54185,"date":"2021-03-29T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=54185"},"modified":"2021-03-27T15:15:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T19:15:22","slug":"schools-to-replace-knowledge-with-ideology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2021\/03\/schools-to-replace-knowledge-with-ideology\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools to Replace Knowledge with Ideology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Our country has been torn apart by culture wars.\u00a0 Next up:\u00a0 education wars.<\/p>\n

So says Stanley Kurtz in\u00a0The Greatest Education Battle in Our Lifetimes.<\/a>\u00a0 He says that the benign-sounding\u00a0Civics Secures Democracy Act<\/a>, with its conservative co-sponsors currently being considered in Congress, is a trojan horse for mandating critical theory, gender ideology, and political indoctrination into the nation\u2019s public schools.<\/p>\n

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On the pretext of offering billions of dollars of grants to local schools to improve the teaching of history and civics, the bill will promote \u201cAction Civics\u201d\u2013which gives credit for making children participate in political protests\u2013revisionist history, and other politicized subjects favored by the current administration\u2019s Department of Education, which will dole out the grants.\u00a0 Kurtz believes that a provision in the bill that would require national achievement tests to cover topics would have the effect of establishing a national curriculum.<\/p>\n

This is only one example of a concerted effort by the educational establishment, both on the federal and the state level, to impose \u201cwoke\u201d ideology in public school classrooms.\u00a0 We looked at the \u201cmodel curriculum\u201d for Aztec studies being considered in California (here<\/a> and here<\/a>).\u00a0 For examples of how this indoctrination plays out in the teaching of mathematics, see this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An especially explicit and in-your-face initiative to turn schools into indoctrination camps is being implemented in Illinois, where the teacher certification process is requiring<\/em>\u00a0teachers to, in the words of the program,\u00a0\u201cembrace and encourage progressive viewpoints and perspectives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joy Pullman has written a searing critique of these new certification requirements in her Federalist article,\u00a0Your Kids Would Be Better Off Feral Than Going To Schools That Make Them Anti-American Racists<\/a>.\u00a0 Here she describes the new rules, by quoting from the actual text<\/a>:<\/p>\n