The left-leaning media was shocked to hear President Trump’s remarks about the indoctrination of our children. Here are my observations and opinions on what’s happening in our schools today:
“Our children are taught in school to hate their own country and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes, but that they were villains.
“We have a radical left destructive ideology and its being taught in our schools.”
Those words were no sooner out of President Trump’s mouth during his Fox News Sunday interview, when he noted the look on Chris Wallace’s face. “Don’t act like you’re surprised to hear this – there are books written about it, and we can’t let it go on,” he told Wallace.
“Now they want to change 1492, Columbus discovered America. That’s what we learned. Now they want to make it the 1619 project. They just want to make a change … the cancel culture,” Trump stated.
“You said our children are taught to hate in school, to hate our country,” a seemingly perplexed Wallace said, “Where do you see that?”
“Look at the professors,” the president said, “Look at what’s going on in the colleges. We have a radical left destructive ideology and it’s being taught in our schools.
“We can’t let them change the true meaning of what we’re all about and that’s what they’re trying to do and I want it to happen. Not on my watch.”
THAT INTERVIEW was the impetus for this piece, a follow-on to my July 8, 2020 “SPECIAL: The left’s effort to destroy our way of life,” in which I opened with a poignant quote from President Trump’s Mount Rushmore speech:
“Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children.”
I knew I was on the right track when I received a call from a close friend and reader of this blog, who happens to be a retired teacher, who recalled for me the days she faced pressure to join the teachers’ union, or else.
As I began writing this chapter, three stories came to light.
Sadly, Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden speaking at Engage Action’s virtual “Million Muslim Votes Summit,” told its membership, “I wish we were taught more in our schools about the Islamic faith.”
“It’s one of the great confessional faiths,” he said as he related that “people don’t realize that one of my avocations is theology.” Really, Joe?
Responding to Engage Action’s endorsement of his presidency, Biden said, “I just want to thank you for giving me the opportunity, for being engaged, for committing to action this November.”
Biden was referring to the group’s commitment to register and turn out more than a million Muslim voters. “Your vote is your voice,” said Biden.
“We anticipate that a Biden administration would provide Muslim American communities platforms to speak to issues affecting us, represent us with the administration and in policy-making discourses,” said Wa’el Alzayhat, Engage Action CEO
The second story is local one recounted in the Washington Free Beacon. It concerns a popular high school social studies teacher and baseball coach, Justin Kucera, in the Walled Lake School District of Michigan, who was given an ultimatum: be fired or resign, because he tweeted @CoachKWLW: “I’m done being silent. Donald Trump is our president.”
“I know a lot of people are just rooting for Trump to fail, and I don’t think that anybody should do that,” Kucera said. “Agree with him or not, you should want the president to do well.”
“Prior to Mr. Kucera’s tweet, I cannot recall an instance where he shared his political affiliations while teaching or coaching,” said Bryant Hixson, a recent graduate.
Kucera was fired, according to Chrissy Clark of the Beacon.
The third story was about two Syracuse University students who were harassed and threatened on social media for their conservative views in the publication Campus Reform. Another publication, The College Fix, has reported similar threats on conservative thinking.
Over the years, I have provided you with statistics showing the domination of liberal thinking in high schools and our institutions of higher learning, with the ratio of Democrats to Republicans professors at 10.4-1 last year. Democrat candidates receive approximately 90 percent of faculty campaign contributions.
In a recent Harvard study, just 35 percent of Republicans felt comfortable stating political views on American campuses.
In his interview with Wallace, President Trump alluded to the books written on the subject of today’s classroom, where liberal instructors are rewriting history, teaching class warfare and entitlement, racial equality, and promoting left wing political causes.
The internet, too, includes such enlightening papers and articles as “America’s Public Schools Have Become Socialist Indoctrination Factories,” in Townhall and “Liberal Brainwashing in Public Schools: School Indoctrination the Obama Years,” at enigmose.com, just to name two.
Space will not allow me to provide you with the numerous examples of liberal manipulation taking place in our schools.
You may recall how Rush Limbaugh often says, “liberal teachers believe that they can take their students’ skulls full of mush and educate them into becoming liberal thinkers and Democrats.” He borrowed the phrase from the TV series, Paper Chase, in which actor John Houseman, as a law school professor, tells law students, “You come in here with a skull full of mush and leave here thinking like a lawyer.”
Since it has been seven decades since I studied history in high school, I recently acquired, “A People’s History of the United States,” a text I understand has been widely used in our nation’s schools. I wanted to learn what is being taught in some of our schools.
In scanning the book to see how certain subjects were covered, I have learned that the author is often as critical of Democrats as he is of Republicans. It appears to me to be more of a guide for radical thinking.
“(President) Clinton claimed to be moderating his policies to match public opinion,” the author wrote. “But opinion surveys in the eighties and early nineties indicated that Americans favored bold policies that neither Democrats nor Republicans were willing to put forward; universal health care, guaranteed employment, government help for the poor and homeless, with taxes on the rich and cuts in the military budget to pay for social programs.”
With the current protests by Black Lives Matter and Antifa we are now experiencing, I found the text covering the 1999 demonstrations of the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle an eye-opener:
“Would the various strands of protest and resistance, in politics, in the workplace, in the culture, come together in the next century, the next millennium to fulfill the promise of the Declaration of Independence, of equal rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
“If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would not come – if history were any guide – from the top. It would come through citizens’ movements, educating, organizing, agitating, striking, boycotting, demonstrating, threatening those in power and disruption of the stability they needed.”
THE FLAG IN THE CLASSROOM tips one off that Richard Cahow, who recently retired after 32 years of teaching advance placement history at Kalamazoo Central High School, taught true to history. His students didn’t look at history from the outside, they were in the middle of it. (MLive)
Our students have been subject to this radical thinking for some time. Many of them can be found among the protestors we now see destroying some of our major cities.
Fortunately, most students from conservative parents, have not bought into the teaching. However, while stifling their personal political views to ensure a passing grade, fellow classmates were unable to benefit from learning by discussion.
Watch Kramerontheright for further radical excerpts from the book.
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
